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.
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Do we have different medicines for different complaints?
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.
What do we need to tell you in a follow-up?
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.
What do we do if the complaints recur after stopping homeopathic treatment and can it be cured?
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.
Can homeopathy aggravate your problems?
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.
Why should there be a gap before and after the intake of Homeopathic medicine?
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.
Do homeopathic medicines have side effects?
Our medicines are energy. They are prepared by serial dilutions and contain no material substance in them. Hence, no side effects.
Why does Homoeopathy take a long time?
It is a myth that homeopathy is slow acting. Most of the time what happens is the patient comes to us with a long history of chronic illness. Therefore the treatment takes time. Homeopathy is in fact fast acting in acute conditions such as fever, diarrhea, vomiting, etc.
Can we use homeopathy for infants?
Homeopathy can produce excellent results in infants, even those only a few days or months old. Infant colic, fevers, colds etc. can be taken care of effectively with homeopathy.
How long can I store the Homeopathic medicine?
Homeopathic medicines can retain their potency for a very long time if they are kept in dry conditions and away from sunlight in a cool, dark place. They must be discarded if they get moist or change color for example if they go yellow. We prescribe medication for patients who will be out of postal contract for six months at a stretch, for example, because they are traveling abroad or are planning to spend extended periods at sea. Please remember that the medication must be kept away from strong-smelling substances like camphor, mint, menthol, strong oils, and perfumes.
Can my problem recur after the Homeopathic treatment?
The problem per se does not recur after the treatment. A mild episode of a chronic problem can recur sporadically due to undue physical or mental stress. However, these episodes will be very rare and their intensity will be minimal. This is because the medication makes you capable of handling situations better and fighting your stress better.
What if I develop a viral infection or any acute problem during the course of Homeopathic treatment?
We can help in every acute situation very effectively and you will not need to resort to any other form of treatment. The medicines given at this time are fast-acting and can relieve you of any discomfort, pain, etc. Sometimes these episodes are very characteristic of the individual and help in understanding the long-standing complaint better. This enables us to help more effectively with the long-standing problem and the frequency of such acute episodes also reduces. We refer you to a specialist if there is a crisis situation that calls for this.
What should I expect from the Homeopathic treatment?
You should find an improvement in all spheres:
• The intensity and frequency of your chief complaint.
• Your general wellness: appetite, sleep, dreams, energy levels.
• Your moods, temperaments
• Your capacity to deal with stress, sensitive issues, and your overall mental state.
Is it true that my problems will increase before settling down completely? Why do some people develop a skin rash during treatment?
In some cases, we see what is known as homeopathic aggravation. This is a good sign in the course of your treatment. At such times the symptoms intensify to a certain degree before the problem settles down completely. An old complaint that has been not taken care of might recur for a certain period of time during the course of the treatment. This is an important part of the healing process. Do not panic but inform your homeopath immediately. These symptoms will settle down completely. Sometimes a skin rash may appear during the course of the treatment. This is because as the treatment progress, the disease is thrown from a more important internal organ to a less important outer part like the skin. Patients may have recurrences of old skin problems like ringworm, eczema, boils, etc. depending on their susceptibility. These are an indication that the internal problem has been resolved and the general level of well-being is restored. The skin rash will also resolve in a short period of time.
Do I take Homeopathic medicine on an empty stomach?
Our medication can be taken on an empty stomach, after breakfast, after lunch, or at any time of the day. The only precaution is to keep the mouth clean for 15-20 minutes before and after the dose. This is necessary to allow proper absorption of the medication through the tongue.
What should I avoid during Homeopathic treatment?
Avoid the use of any balms, ointments, and suchlike which contain camphor or menthol. These are known to antidote the effect of the remedy and help only by causing counter irritation and diversion from the pain. Avoid strong perfumes. You can continue drinking your regular tea and coffee if you already do so, but don’t take them up during the course of the treatment. Do not stop taking any allopathic medication on your own. These medications have to be tapered down under medical supervision.
Do Homeopathic medicines have any side effects?
Any medicine that works has the potential for side effects. Homeopathic medication, if taken without the supervision of a qualified homeopath, can have adverse effects.
The reasons why what we prescribe for you will not have any no side-effects are as follows:
• The quantity is minimum.
• The remedy is prepared by serial dilutions to liberate its healing properties, a process known as potentisation. Potentisation reduces the physical quantity while enhancing its potential.
• The homeopath goes through a lengthy and painstaking process to find the remedy most suited to your entire personality. It is this intricate detailed Similarity between the patient and the prescription that removes the risk of side effects.
Is Homeopathy always a slow-acting medicine that I will have to take for the rest of my life?
This is not true!
Homeopathy can give quick effective results within 5 to 10 minutes in severe cases of gallstones, and renal and abdominal colic. It can bring down your temperature in just 10 minutes in case of high fever and works effectively for chronic conditions such as arthritis, skin allergies, or asthma which have affected the patient for 15 or 20 years. The remedy will need to be given for six months to a year to treat the problem effectively.
Why does a patient interview for homeopathic treatment take so long?
The homeopath does not focus on the disease but rather on raising your immune response. To do this, they need to get to know their entire being: physical, intellectual, emotional as well as subconscious. Assessing all these together help in the selection of the medicine. The extensive case-taking you participate in helps us to put all these aspects together.
What is the principle of Homeopathy?
There are two ways of treating the sick individual. One is by the law of opposites and the other is by the law of similars. Homeopathy works on the law of similars. Simply put, this means that a medicine, which can produce sleeplessness in a healthy individual can cure the complaint of sleeplessness in a sick individual. And a medicine that can produce diarrhea in a healthy individual can cure a person suffering from diarrhea. Taking the medicine stimulates and enhances the body’s own mechanism to fight the disease. It corrects the body’s immunity, which in turn fights the disease.
Nux vomica Homeopathic medicine
NUX VOMICA
Generalities
• Nux-v. is an every day remedy.
• It corresponds to many diseased conditions to which a modern man is prone to.
• It is useful to those persons who lead a sedentary life, doing much mental work; or to those who remain under stress and strain of prolonged office work, business cares and worries.
• Such persons in order to forget their worries are apt to indulge in wine, women, rich stimulan t food and sedative drugs; and ill effects from which they are apt to suffer.
• The typical Nux. patient is rather thin, spare, quick, active, nervous and irritable.
• It affects the nerves, causing hyper-sensitiveness, and over-impressionability, mentally and physically.
• Produces Digestive Disturbances; partial congestion and hypochondriacal states.
• Dyspeptic persons who always select their food for experimenting, that is digested little.
• He is subject to spasms, convulsions, and fainting.
• The patient seems to be always out of tune; The Action is Violent, often irregularly fitful or inefficient.
• Twisting, and jerks.
• Spasms, tetanic, with consciousness; agg. by slightest touch, but amel. by grasping tightly, or when elbow was stretched.
• Tense contracted felling.
• Lightning-like pains.
• Neuralgia; prodromal.
• Sensation as of a rough body internally.
• Sensation of heaviness and lightness alternately.
• Bruised soreness; Of Abdomen, brain etc.
• Internal scrapy sensation or Rawness; in throat, larynx.
– Takes cold.
– Faintings, after stools, vomiting; after labour pains etc.
• Biliousness.
• Haemorrhages.
• Debauches; much drugged patients.
• Trembling.
• Epilepsy during stool.
• Paralysis from apoplexy, in high livers; partial, with vertigo and nausea; with sticking pains.
• Reflexes increased.
• Firm fibered brunettes.
• Reversed peristalsis.
• Ill effects; of masturbation, sexual excess.
• Varicose veins, without tortuosity, black hard cords; from much standing, or from sedentary habits.
Worse
• Early Morning.
• Gold; Open Air (dry); drafts; seats; wind.
• Uncovering.
• High Living; coffee; condiments, liquor, drugs, purgatives, over eating.
• Sedentary habits.
• Debauchery.
• Mental; exertion; fatigue vexation.
• Disturbed sleep.
• Slight causes; anger; noise; odours; touch; Pressure; of clothes at waist.
• Yawning.
• Tobacco.
• Music.
• Disappointment of ambition.
• Wounded honour.
• Mental shock.
Better
• Free Discharges.
• Naps.
• Wrapping head.
– Resting.
• Hot drinks.
• Milk.
• Fats.
• Moist air.
• Lying on sides.
Mind
• Active.
• Angry and Impatient; can not stand pain; so mad, he cries.
• Zealous; fiery temperament.
• Nervous and excitable.
• Aversion to work.
• Fears poverty.
• Sullen.
• Spiteful.
• Nagging.
• Violent.
• Ugly; suicidal, homicidal impulses.
• Fear of knives, lest she should kill herself or others.
• Fault finding.
• Reproaches others.
• Frightfully apprehensive about getting married, (girls).
• Time passes too slowly.
• Talks about one’s condition.
• Even the least ailment affects her greatly.
• Hypochondriasis.
• Melancholia.
• Delirium tremens.
• Can not bear noise, light, odour, touch, music, etc.
• Can not bear conversation or reading.
• Angry when consoled.
• Head-strong, self-willed.
Head
• Vertigo; brain and other objects turn in circle; with momentary loss of consciousness; with black spell; on empty stomach.
• Bruised sensation of the brain.
• Dizzy and faint in a crowd or where many lights are burning.
• Headache in the sunshine.
• Sensitive scalp.
• Swelled forehead.
• Head seems larger than body.
• Takes cold amel. wrapping head warmly.
• Migraine.
• Frontal head ache with desire to lean it on something.
Eyes
• Bloodshot.
• Lachrymation from affected side.
• Atrophy of the optic nerve.
• Photophobia.
• Paresis of ocular muscles.
• Lower eyeballs yellow.
• Loss of vision due to alcohol and tobacco.
• Exudation of blood from eyes.
• Spring conjunctivitis.
Ears
• Itching in ear through Eustachian tubes.
• External meatus dry and sensitive.
• Pain; stitching when swallowing.
• Loud sounds are painful.
Nose
• Oversensitive to strong odours; even fainting.
• Nose stopped, but runs water; on one side.
• Snuffles; of the new born.
• Nose bleed during sleep; from suppressed flow of piles, from coughing.
• Sneezing violent, abortive; from intense crawling in nostrils (left).
– Coryza, fluent by day, and in open air, dry at night.
• Smell before nose, like old cheese, burning sulphur.
• Smell acute.
• Nose looks sharp and pointed.
Face
• Red, turgid or yellowish agg. about nose and mouth.
• Left angle of the mouth drops.
• Infra-orbital neuralgia; with swelling of cheek, intermittent; amel. when lying in bed.
– Jaws, snap shut; stiff.
• Acne from eating cheese.
• Pimples from excessive use of liquors.
• Child passes its hand constantly over face (brain disease).
Mouth
• Teeth chatter.
• Toothache amel. warm drinks.
• Foetor oris; sour.
• Small aphthous ulcers in the mouth.
• TASTE; BITTER; sour, bad in a.m. low down in throat.
• Itching palate; eustachian tube.
• Gums; swollen white, and bleeding.
• Needles at edges of tongue agg. after eating; washing face in cold water.
Throat
• Rough, raw; as if scraped.
• Putrid taste in; on coughing.
• Small ulcers in the throat; pain agg. during empty swallowing.
• Stitches into ears.
Stomach
• Craves piquant food; beer; fat food, chalk; stimulants.
• Hiccough: From over eating; from cold or hot drinks.
• Violent retching agg. hawking.
• Eructations, sour.
• Heart burn.
• Water brash.
• Nausea; amel. if he can only vomit.
• Violent Vomiting; bilious, sour, wants to vomit but can not.
• Food lies like a heavy knot in stomach.
– Gastralgia; pain go into back and chest; amel. vomiting and hot drinks, agg. from food.
• Indigestion.
• Hunger; yet aversion to food.
• Eructations; difficult; sour; bitter.
• Severe pain in stomach from injury, agg. least food.
Abdomen
• As of a hand about waist, clothes oppress it.
– Bruised soreness of abdominal wall.
• Liver sore, enlarged; sticking pain.
• Gall stone colic.
• Jaundice; from anger. agg.
• Bowels gripe here and there.
• Sore Bowels, agg. Coughing and Stepping.
• Hernia; infantile; from constipation or crying; umbilical. amel.
• Flatulent colic.
• Uneasy fitful and Fruitless Urging for Boswels to Act; amel. Stools.
• Obstipation.
• Inactive peristalsis.
• Strains hard at stools; feeling as if part remained unexpelled; passes small quantity at each attempt.
• Rectum; spasms of; flatus retained in; constant uneasiness in.
– Piles itching, blind, bleeding, amel. cool bathing.
• Dysentery; stools amel. pains for a time.
• Diarrhoea; with jaundice; after debauch during fevers.
• Colic in nursing infants from stimulating food taken by the mother.
• Colic from suppressed haemorrhoidal flow.
• First part of stool soft, last hard.
• Prolapse of rectum from diarrhoea.
• Dragging in anus when not at stool.
• Sense of goneness in the groins.
Urinary
• Renal colic (right), extending to genitals and legs; with dribbling urine; amel. lying on back.
• Painful ineffectual urging to urinate.
• Spasmodic strangury.
• Haematuria from suppressed haemorrhoidal flow or menses.
• Spasmodic urethral stricture.
• Paralysis of bladder; urine dribble; in old men, with enlarged prostate or gonorrhoea.
• Involuntary urination when laughing, coughing, sneezing.
Male
• Desire easily excited.
• Penis becomes relaxed during an embrace.
• Bad effects of onanism; sexual excess.
• Premature ejaculation.
• Can not be in female society without having emission.
• Increase of smegma.
Female
• Desire too strong; with burning in vulva.
– Menses; profuse, early and prolonged; intermittent; of dark lumpy bloody; irregular; with fainting spells.
• Dysmenorrhoea; cramps extend to the whole body; with constant urging to stool.
• Leucorrhoea; foetid; staining yellow.
• Inefficient labour pains; faints at every labour pain.
• Profuse bleeding after abortion.
• Prolapse of uterus; from straining or lifting.
• All the old symptoms are agg. after menses.
• Lochia scanty, offensive.
• Nipples; sore; white spot in centre.
• Tensive pain when nursing.
• Painless gathering of milk in breast from not nursing the child.
Respiratory
– Cough; violent; throwing the patient down; paroxysmal; whooping; with splitting headache; has to hold his head.
• Shallow respiration.
• Oppressed breathing.
• Asthma: from disordered stomach; with fulness of stomach.
• Hoarseness, with painful roughness in larynx and chest.
• Cough; with sensation as if something torn loose in the chest.
• Intercostal neuralgia agg. lying on painful side.
• Asthma; with feeling as if clothing were too tight, amel. belching.
• Desire to eat during cough.
Heart
• Palpitation on lying down.
• Heart feels tired.
• Angina pectoris; patient lies on knee with body leant backwards.
Neck and back
• Cervico-brachial neuralgia; painfully stiff neck; pains down shoulder (right) agg. touch.
• Wry neck from cold or nervous shock.
• Lumbar ache, as if breaking; must sit up in order to turn in bed.
• Crawling along spine.
• Acute lumbago.
• Sacral region as if lame; after parturition.
Extremities
• Arms go to sleep, numb, stiff feeling.
• Tense cramp in calves and soles, must stretch feet; or stand still while walking.
• Feet feel clubby and raw.
• Shooting from toes to thighs; agg. after stool.
• Drags his feet while walking, (chorea); legs tremble; unsteady gait.
• Knee joints as if dry; cracking during motion.
• Paralysis of lower limbs from over exertion or from being soaked.
• Automatic motions of hand (R) towards mouth (Apoplexy).
• Legs stiff.
Skin
• Goose skin.
• Skin red and blotchy.
• Urticaria with gastric derangement.
• Bluish spots.
Sleep
– Yawning.
• Sleepy in the evening or sleepless from rush of ideas.
– Awakes too early, can not go to sleep again; finally sleeps but on waking feels wretched.
• Better after a short sleep, unless aroused.
• Nightmares.
• Dreams; anxious; pursued by animals, dogs and cats; amorous.
• Weeping and talking during sleep.
Fever
• Chill with thirst, and heat without thirst.
• Easily Chilled, Can Not Uncover, agg. motion; drinking even during the heat.
• Body burning hot esp. face, but unable to move or uncover without feeling chilly.
• Excessive rigor with blue finger nails.
• Sweat sour; one sided; warm, on upper most side, en lying down.
Complementary
• Kali-c; Phos; Sulph.
Related
• Ign; Lyc.
Source : Phatak materia medica
Pulsatilla Homeopathic medicine
PULSATILLA PRATENSIS
Pulsatilla pratensis
Generalities
• On account of its Changing; Shifting Symptoms this remedy is known as a weather cock remedy.
• It affects the Mind; Veins; Mucous membranes; respiration and one side.
• Symptoms rise to a certain pitch, then suddenly cease.
• It is a remedy for females, of mild, gentle, plethoric yielding disposition, who cry readily and weep when talking.
• Symptoms appear on one side or go to side lain on.
• Thirstlessness; Chilliness and Shortness of Breath; with digestive or menstrual disorders.
• Chilliness; with pains but burning, with stitching pains; with numbness.
• Mucous Discharges are Profuse; Bland, Thick; Yellowish-Green.
• Changing and contradictory symptoms having no head or tail to them.
• Alternations.
– Metastasis.
• Haemorrhages; passive; vicarious; blood dark, easily coagulating.
• Venocity, varicose veins.
• Heaviness.
• Scraping, jerking, tearing, ulcerative pains; wandering pains.
– Numbness; partial; hands, feet etc.; of the part lain on; of suffering parts.
• Ill effects of Suppressions, otorrhoea, menses, lochia, milk etc.
• Eating ice-cream; pork, fats; pastry; mixed diet.
• Chilly but craves for open air.
• Pale chilly blondes.
• Anaemia.
• Never well since puberty.
• Chorea; from amenorrhoea or dysmenorrhoea.
• The longer he lies in the morning the longer he wishes to lie.
• Can not lie with head low.
– Child wants to be carried slowly.
• Symptoms in distant parts of the body cause dyspnoea.
• Sensation of distension in size, as if one part or every part were growing too large; during pain.
• Bandaged sensation.
• Wearing of flannels or woolen clothes cause itching and eruptions.
• Prophylactic for measles.
• Epilepsy with absent or irregular menses.
• Emaciation of suffering parts.
• Pulsation through whole body.
Worse
• Warmth, of Air; of Room; Clothes; Bed.
• Getting feet wet.
– EVENING.
• REST.
• BEGINNING MOTION.
• LYING, on one side (left).
– EATING; long after; RICH FOODS, fats, ices, eggs.
• PUBERTY.
• PREGNANCY.
• Before menses.
– Iron.
• Quinine.
• Hanging down limbs.
• Tea.
• Thunderstorms.
• Sun.
• Twilight.
Better
• Cold; Fresh, Open Air; food, drinks.
• Uncovering.
• Gentle motion.
– Erect Posture.
• Continued motion.
• After a good cry.
– Changing sides.
• Pressure.
• Rubbing.
• Lying with head high.
Mind
• MILD, TIMID, EMOTIONAL, AND TEARFUL.
• Disgusted at everything.
• Discouraged.
• Easily offended.
• Whining.
• Craves sympathy.
• Children like fuss and caresses.
• Morbid dread of the opposite sex; marriage; thinks that sexual intercourse is a sinful act.
• Given to extremes of pleasure and pain.
• Easily moved to tears and laughter; after eating.
• Religious melancholy.
• Fear; to be alone, of dark, of ghosts in the evening; therefore wants to hide or run.
• Capricious.
• Miserly.
• Suspicious.
• Very irritable, touchy; feels slighted or fears slight.
• Answers, yes or no, by nodding her head.
• Imagines that certain articles of food are not good for the human race.
• Sad from disagreeable news.
• Mania from suppressed menses.
Head
• Aches; from overwork; suppressed sexual excitement; indigestion; starts in vertex.
• Occipital ache agg. coughing.
• Semilateral headaches, pulsating, bursting; with scalding lachrymation of the affected side.
• Vertigo; agg. sitting looking up; with nausea and gastric or menstrual disturbances; before, during after or suppressed menses.
• Profuse sweat on scalp.
• Headache of school girls at the time of puberty.
• Headache amel. walking in open air.
• Head seems heavy.
• Can not hold upright, can not raise it.
Eyes
• Dimness of vision, with a sensation as though there were something covering the eyes which the patient wishes to rub or wipe; agg. wind.
• Thick, yellow, profuse bland discharge.
• Ophthalmia; neonatorum; gonorrhoeal; from amenorrhoea.
• Fistula lachrymalis discharging pus on pressure.
• Acrid lachrymation.
• Styes; recurrent.
• Blepharitis.
• Conjunctivitis from cold.
• Blind attacks, before menses.
• Amaurosis, paralysis of the optic nerve.
• Itching, burning in eyes, causing rubbing.
• Weeping eyes.
Ears
• Ache agg. night.
• Deafness as if ears were stopped up; can hear better in car; and in a warm room.
• Otorrhoea; discharge of pus, of blood; thick yellow humour, offensive; after exanthemata.
• External ear red and swollen and feels as if something pushed out from the ear.
• Mumps, esp. metastatic to the breast or testes.
• Lobes or ear swollen.
Nose
• Loss of smell, with catarrh.
• Foul discharge or odour before the nose.
• Coryza; obstruction of nose agg. lying down or in a room; amel. going out in the open air.
• Green; orange coloured, foetid, urinous, nasal discharge; chronic bland yellow discharge.
• Nose bleed, before, during and from suppressed menses.
Face
• Pale.
• Neuralgia, with profuse lachrymation, agg. chewing, talking, or with hot or cold things in the mouth.
• Lips cracked; peeling; swollen.
• Licks lips.
• Crack in centre of lower lip.
– Acne in young girls.
Mouth
• Breath offensive.
• Dry or slimy; without thirst.
– Drawing toothache amel. cold.
• Taste; bad in a.m. ; loss of; from coryza; greasy, bloody; sweet; alternating.
• Tongue; yellow white; feels scalded.
• Much sweet saliva.
• Food; leaves an after taste.
• Taste bitter esp. for bread.
• Diminished taste to all food.
• Saliva; tenacious; frothy cotton like.
Throat
• Food lodges in.
– Dry; sore with sense of dysphagia.
• Sensation of worm wriggling up.
• As of a sulphur vapour when coughing.
Stomach
• Aversion; to water, fats, pork, bread, milk, smoking, warm food and drink.
• Craves; acids or what disagrees; refreshing things, pungent things, herring, cheese.
• Food taste too salty.
• Onions disagree.
• Sudden loathing; agg. eating.
• Eructations, taste of food, remain a long time.
• Nausea.
• heartburn.
• Thirstlessness; with nearly all complaints.
• Vomiting of food eaten long before.
• Visible pulsations in the pit of stomach.
• Stitching pain agg. walking or misstep.
• Weight as from a stone.
– Stomach DERANGED; FEELS HEAVY.
• Hiccough when smoking tobacco.
• Hunger; but does not know for what.
Abdomen
• Cutting; pulsation; in epigastrium.
• Painful, distended; loud rumbling.
• Pressure as from a stone.
• Feeling of numbness.
• Pains extend into groins.
• Stools; changeable, not two stools alike; green, bilious; agg. after midnight.
• Two or three normal stools daily.
• Hard painful lumps in both groins.
• Blind piles, agg. menses, lying down.
• Diarrhoea in jaundice, with sensation of heat.
• Discharge of blood from rectum even when not at stool.
• Diarrhoea after fright.
Urinary
• Urination; involuntary of lying down, laughing, coughing; sneezing; hearing sudden noise; after pleasurable surprise; shock; passing flatus; during sleep esp. in little girls.
• Haematuria after urination.
• Heavy pressure or cramp in bladder, after urination.
• Sensation as of a stone rolling in the bladder.
• Urine dribbles when angry.
• Urging to urinate when lying on back.
• Stricture of urethra, urine comes in drops or stops and starts.
Male
• Burning down left spermatic cord.
• Acute prostatitis; enlarged prostate.
• Orchitis; gonorrhoeal; or from sitting on cold stones.
• Epididymitis.
• Testicles hang low down.
• Bloody emissions.
• Thick yellow discharge, late stage of gonorrhoea.
Female
• Amenorrhoea; from wet feet; nervous debility or anaemia.
• Feels like menstruating.
• Menses; dark thick; Too Late Scanty; after bathing; clotted, changeable, intermittent, irregular, vicarious; Delayed at puberty.
• Dysmenorrhoea.
• Leucorrhoea; milky, thick like cream, with pain in the back and exhaustion, acrid.
• Weak labour pains.
• Bearing down agg. lying.
• After pains; too long and too violent.
• Mammae; sore aching; lumps in; in girls before puberty.
• Thin milky fluid escapes from mammae in virgins; before puberty;.
• Milk; suppressed, scanty.
– Post-partum secondary haemorrhages from retained placenta.
• Weeps every time, the child is put to breast.
• Swelling of breasts after weaning.
• Galactorrhoea.
• Secretion of milk during menses.
• Maldisposion of foetus.
Respiratory
• Short Breath agg. lying on left side; smothering sensation on lying down; agg. if heated, open air.
– Cough; loose in the morning, dry in the evening and at night; must sit up in bed to get relief.
– Expectoration thick, purulent, slimy; sweet, saltish, bitter as it loosens up.
• Cough dry, hacking from tickling in epigastrium.
• Chest oppressed; as by a load.
• Soreness, or stitch beneath clavicles.
• Hoarseness comes and goes.
• Asthma from suppressions.
• Cough after measles.
Heart
• Palpitation; agg. lying on left side, anxious; with amenorrhoea; from emotions; after dinner.
• Catching pain, with short breath amel. by pressure of a hand and walking.
Back
• As if cold water was poured down the back.
• Pain in back land small of back as from prolonged stooping.
• Curvature of the upper part of the spine.
• Shooting pain in the nape and back.
• Backache agg. lying on back, amel. lying on sides or changes of position, esp. so during pregnancy.
• Back feels bandaged.
• Pain in sacrum on sitting.
Extremities
• Rapidly shifting pains in limbs.
• Arms feel broken and dislocated.
• Elbows numb.
• Joints; swollen; red.
• Dorsum of foot swollen, oedematous.
• Pains down lower limbs, alternating sides.
• Legs heavy.
• Sticking in tibia agg. lying amel. cool air and walking.
• Cold sweat on legs.
• Foul foot sweat.
• Veins full, varicose, painful.
• Milk leg.
• Periostitis.
• White swelling of knee.
• Inclination to stretch the feet.
• Numbness in legs when remaining long standing.
Skin
• Glands swollen.
• Ulcers; with hard, red glistening areolae.
• Varicose.
• Itches on being heated.
• Urticaria; after rich food; with diarrhoea; from delayed menses; after undressing.
• Measles.
Sleep
• Great sleepiness during day, wakes confused; languid, unrefreshed.
• Lies; with hands over head or crossed on abdomen, and feet drawn up.
• Dreams; frightful, disgusting, voluptuous, confused of cats, etc.
• Chattering in sleep.
• Talks, whines or screams during sleep.
Fever
• Chilly; yet averse to heat; in Warm Room; with pain; on lying down at night.
• One sided coldness with numbness.
• Pains during sweat.
• One hand cold.
• Partial sweat.
• Feverish, hot, body temperature normal.
• Erratic temperature in fevers.
Complementary
– Ars; Kali-bi; Sep; Sil; Zinc.
Related
• Apis; Cimic; Graph; Ham; Kali-bi; Kali-s; Nat-s.
Source: Phatak materia medica
Dr Riffat Nawab Musab 