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Homeopathic Medicines and Remedies

Abies Canadensis

(hemlock spruce)

• Mucous membranes are affected by Abies Canadensis and gastric symptoms are most marked; and a catarrhal condition of the stomach is produced
• There are peculiar cravings and chilly sensations that are very characteristic; especially for women with uterine displacement, probably due to defective nutrition with debility
• Respiration and heart action labored
• Wants to lie down all the time; skin cold and clammy, hands cold; very faint
• Right lung and liver feel small and hard
• Gleet

Head

• Feels light-headed, tipsy
• Irritable

Stomach

• Canine hunger with torpid liver
• Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium
• Great appetite, craving for meat, pickles, radishes, turnips, artichokes, coarse food
• Tendency to eat far beyond capacity for digestion
• Burning and distention of stomach and abdomen with palpitation
• Flatulence disturbs the heart’s action
• Pain in right shoulder-blade, and constipation, with burning in rectum

Female

• Uterine displacements
• Sore feeling at fundus of uterus, relieved by pressure
• Prostration; wants to lie down all the time
• Thinks womb is soft and feeble

Fever

• Cold shivering, as if blood were ice-water. [Acon.]
• Chills run down back
• Cold water feeling between shoulders. [Ammon. mur.]
• Skin clammy and sticky
• Night-sweat. [China.]

Dose

First to third potency

Abies Nigra

(black spruce)

• A powerful and long-acting remedy, in various forms of disease, whenever the characteristic stomach symptoms are present
• Most of the symptoms are associated with the gastric disturbances
• In dyspeptic troubles of the aged, with functional heart symptoms; also after tea or tobacco
• Constipation
• Pain in external meatus

Head

• Hot, with flushed cheeks
• Low-spirited
• Dull during the day, wakeful at night
• Unable to think

Stomach

• Pain in stomach always comes on after eating
• Sensation of a lump that hurts, as if a hard-boiled egg had lodged in cardiac end of stomach; continual distressing constriction just above the pit of the stomach, as if everything were knotted up
• Total loss of appetite in morning, but great craving for food at noon and night
• Offensive breath
• Eructations

Chest

• Painful sensation, as if something were lodged in the chest and had to be coughed up; lungs feel compressed
• Cannot be fully expand
• Worse coughing; waterbrash succeeds cough
• Choking sensation in throat
• Dyspnoea; worse lying down; sharp, cutting pain in heart; heart’s action heavy and slow; tachycardia, bradycardia

Back

• Pain in small of back
• Rheumatic pains and aching in bones

Sleep

• Wakeful and restless at night, with hunger
• Bad dreams

Fever

• Alternate heat and cold; chronic intermittent fever, with pain in stomach

Modalities

• Worse after eating

Relationship

Compare : (Lump in stomach – China, Bryon. Pulsat.) also other Conifers – Thuja, Sabina, Cupressus (painful indigestion) also Nux vom, Kali carb

Dose

First to thirtieth potency

Abrotanum

(southernwood)

• A very useful remedy in marasmus, especially of lower extremities only, yet with good appetite
• Metastasis
• Rheumatism following checked diarrhea
• Ill effects of suppressed conditions especially in gouty subjects
• Tuberculous peritonitis
• Exudative pleurisy and other exudative processes
• After operation upon the chest for hydrothorax or empyaemia, a pressing sensation remains
• Aggravation of haemorrhoids when rheumatism improves
• Nosebleed and hydrocele in boys
• Great weakness after influenza. [Kali phos.]

Mind

• Cross, irritable, anxious, depressed

Face

• Wrinkled, cold, dry, pale
• Blue rings around dull-looking eyes
• Comedones, with emaciation

Nosebleed

Angioma of the face

Stomach

• Slimy taste
• Appetite good, but emaciation progresses
• Food passes undigested
• Pain in stomach; worse at night; cutting, gnawing pain
• Stomach feels as if swimming in water; feels cold
• Gnawing hunger and whining
• Indigestion, with vomiting of large quantities of offensive fluid

Abdomen

• Hard lumps in abdomen
• Distended
• Alternate diarrhea and constipation
• Haemorrhoids; frequent urging; bloody stools; worse as rheumatic pains abate
• Ascarides
• Oozing from umbilicus
• Sensation as if bowels were sinking down

Respiratory

• Raw feeling
• Impeded respiration
• Dry cough following diarrhea
• Pain across chest; severe in region of heart

Back

• Neck so weak cannot hold head up
• Back lame, weak, and painful
• Pain in lumbar region extending along spermatic cord
• Pain in sacrum, with hemorrhoids

Extremities

• Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists, and ankles
• Pricking and coldness in fingers and feet
• Legs greatly emaciated
• Joints stiff and lame
• Painful contraction of limbs. [Amm. mur.]

Skin

• Eruptions come out on face; are suppressed, and the skin becomes purplish
• Skin flabby and loose
• Furuncles
• Falling out of hair
• Itching chilblains

Modalities

• Worse, cold air, checked secretions
• Better, motion

Relationship

Compare : Scrophularia; Bryonia; Stellaria; Benzoic acid, in gout

Iodine, Natr. mur. in marasmus

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency

Absinthium

(common wormwood)

• A perfect picture of epileptiform seizure is produced by this drug
• Nervous tremors precede attacks
• Sudden and severe giddiness, delirium with hallucinations and loss of consciousness
• Nervous excitement and sleeplessness
• Cerebral irritation, hysterical and infantile spasms come within range of this remedy
• Poisoning by mushrooms
• Chorea
• Tremor
• Nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness in children

Mind

• Hallucinations
• Frightful visions
• Kleptomania
• Loss of memory
• Forgets what has recently happened
• Wants nothing to do with anybody
• Brutal

Head

• Vertigo, with tendency to fall backward
• General confusion
• Wants head low
• Pupils dilated unequally
• Face blue
• Spasmodic facial twitching
• Dull occipital headache. [Gelsem. Picric ac]

Mouth

• Jaws fixed
• Bites tongue; trembles; feels as if swollen and too large; protruding

Throat

• Scalded sensation; as of a lump

Stomach

• Nausea; retching; eructation
• Bloated around waist and abdomen
• Wind colic

Urine

• Constant desire
• Very strong odor; deep yellow color.[Kali phos.]

Sexual

• Darting pain in right ovary
• Spermatorrhea, with relaxed, enfeebled parts
• Premature menopause

Chest

• Sensation of weight on chest
• Irregular, tumultuous action of heart can be heard in back

Extremities

• Pain in limbs
• Paralytic symptoms

Relationship

Compare : Alcohol; Artemisia; Hydrocy. acid; Cina; Cicuta

Dose

• First to sixth potency

Acalypha Indica

(indian nettle)

• A drug having a marked action on the alimentary canal and respiratory organs
• It is indicated in incipient phthisis, with hard, racking cough, bloody expectoration, arterial haemorrhage, but no febrile disturbance
• Very weak in the morning, gains strength during day
• Progressive emaciation
• All pathological hemorrhages having notably a morning aggravation

Chest

• Cough dry, hard, followed by hoemoptysis; worse in morning and at night
• Constant and severe pain in chest
• Blood bright red and not profuse in morning; dark and clotted in afternoon
• Pulse soft and compressible
• Burning in pharynx, esophagus, and stomach

Abdomen

• Burning in intestines
• Spluttering diarrhea with forcible expulsion of noisy flatus, bearing down pains and tenesmus
• Rumbling distention, and griping pain in abdomen
• Rectal hemorrhage; worse in morning

Skin

• Jaundice
• Itching and circumscribed furuncle-like swellings

Modalities

• Worse in morning

Relationship

Compare : Millefol.; Phosphor.; Acetic acid; Kali nit.

Dose

Third to sixth potency

Acetanilidum

(antifebrinum)

• Depresses heart, respiration and blood pressure, lowers temperature
• Cyanosis and collapse
• Increased susceptibility to cold
• Destroys red blood corpuscles; pallor

Head

• Enlarged sensation
• Fainting
• Moral depravity

Eyes

• Pallor of optic discs, contracted visual field and shrinking retinal vessel; mydriasis

Heart

• Weak, irregular, with blue mucous membranes, albuminuria, oedema of feet and ankles

Relationship

Compare : Antipyrin

Dose

Used as a sedative and antipyretic for various forms of headache and neuralgia in doses of one to three grains.

For the homoeopathic indications use the third potency.

Aceticum Acidum

(glacial acetic acid)

• This drug produces a condition of profound anemia, with some dropsical symptoms, great debility, frequent fainting, dyspnoea, weak heart, vomiting, profuse urination and sweat
• Hemorrhage from any part
• Especially indicated in pale, lean persons, with lax, flabby muscles
• Wasting and debility
• Acetic acid has the power to liquify albuminous and fibrinous deposits
• Epithelial cancer, internally and locally (W. Owens)
• Sycosis with nodules and formations in the joints
• Hard chancre
• The 1x solution will soften and cause formation of pus

Mind

• Irritable, worried about business affairs

Head

• Nervous headache, from abuse of narcotics
• Blood rushes to head with delirium
• Temporal vessels distended
• Pain across root of tongue

Face

• Pale, waxen, emaciated
• Eyes sunken, surrounded by dark rings
• Bright red
• Sweaty
• Epithelioma of lip
• Cheeks hot and flushed
• Aching in left jaw-point

Stomach

• Salivation
• Fermentation in stomach
• Intense burning thirst
• Cold drinks distress
• Vomits after every kind of food
• Epigastric tenderness
• Burning pain as of an ulcer
• Cancer of stomach
• Sour belching and vomiting
• Burning waterbrash and profuse salivation
• Hyperchlorhydria and gastralgia
• Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin and cold sweat on forehead
• Stomach feels as if it has taken a lot of vinegar

Abdomen

• Feels as if abdomen was sinking in
• Frequent watery stools, worse in morning
• Tympanitic
• Ascites
• Hemorrhage from bowels

Urine

• Large quantities of pale urine
• Diabetes, with great thirst and debility. [Phos. ac.]

Female

• Excessive catamenia
• Hemorrhages after labor
• Nausea of pregnancy
• Breasts painfully enlarged, distended with milk
• Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, sour
• Anemia of nursing mothers

Respiratory

• Hoarse, hissing respiration; difficult breathing; cough when inhaling
• Membranous croup
• Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes
• False membrane in throat
• Profuse bronchorrhaea
• Putrid sore throat (gargle)

Back

• Pain in back, relieved only by lying on abdomen

Extremities

• Emaciation
• Edema of feet and legs

Skin

• Pale, waxen, edematous
• Burning, dry, hot skin, or bathed in profuse sweat
• Diminished sensibility of the surface of body
• Useful after stings, bites, etc
• Varicose swellings
• Scurvy; anasarca
• Bruises; sprains

Fever

• Hectic, with drenching night-sweats. Red spot on left cheek
• No thirst in fever
• Ebullitions
• Sweat profuse, cold

Relationship

Acetic acid is antidotal to all anesthetic vapors.

Counteracts sausage poisoning.

Compare : Ammon. acet. (Profuse saccharine urine, patient is bathed in sweat.) Benzoin oderiferum – Spice-wood (night sweats.) Ars.; China; Digitalis; Liatris. (General anasarca in heart and kidney disease, dropsy, and chronic diarrhea.)

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency

Not to be repeated too often, except in croup

Aconitum Napellus (Aconite)

(monkshood)

• A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body
• Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is the most characteristic manifestation of Aconite
• Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever, call for it
• Does not want to be touched
• Sudden and great sinking of strength
• Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold weather, draught of cold air, checked perspiration, also complaints from very hot weather, especially gastro-intestinal disturbances, etc
• First remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers
• Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly
• Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness, numbness and Influenza
• Tension of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms
• When prescribing Aconite remember Aconite causes only functional disturbance, no evidence that it can produce tissue change – its action is brief and shows no periodicity
• Its sphere is in the beginning of an acute disease and not to be continued after pathological change comes
• In Hyperemia, congestion not after exudation has set in
• Influenza

Mind

• Great fear, anxiety, and worry accompany every ailment, however trivial
• Delirium is characterized by unhappiness worry, fear, raving, rarely unconsciousness
• Forebodings and fears. Fears death but believes that he will soon die; predicts the day
• Fears the future, a crowd, crossing the street
• Restlessness, tossing about
• Tendency to start
• Imagination acute, clairvoyance
• Pains are intolerable; they drive him crazy
• Music is unbearable; makes her sad. [Ambra.]
• Thinks his thoughts come from the stomach – that parts of his body are abnormally thick
• Feels as if what had just been done was a dream

Head

• Fullness; heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning undulating sensation
• Intercranial pressure. (Hedera Helix.)
• Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water [Indigo.]
• Vertigo; worse on rising [Nux. Opium] and shaking head
• Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end
• Nocturnal furious delirium

Eyes

• Red, inflamed
• Feel dry and hot, as if sand in them
• Lids swollen, hard and red
• Aversion to light
• Profuse watering after exposure to dry, cold winds, reflection from snow, after extraction of cinders and other foreign bodies

Ears

• Very sensitive to noises; music is unbearable
• External ear hot, red, painful, swollen
• Earache. [Cham.]
• Sensation as of drop of water in left ear

Nose

• Smell acutely sensitive
• Pain at root of nose
• Coryza much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils
• Hemorrhage of bright red blood
• Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but scanty watery coryza

Face

• Red, hot, flushed, swollen
• One cheek red, the other pale (Cham., Ipec.)
• On rising the red face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes dizzy
• Tingling in cheeks and numbness
• Neuralgia, especially of left side, with restlessness, tingling, and numbness
• Pain in jaws

Mouth

• Numb, dry, and tingling
• Tongue swollen; tip tingles
• Teeth sensitive to cold
• Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing
• Gums hot and inflamed
• Tongue coated white. [Antim. crud.]

Throat

• Red, dry, constricted, numb, prickling, burning, stinging
• Tonsils swollen and dry

Stomach

• Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination
• Thirst for cold water
• Bitter taste of everything except water
• Intense thirst
• Drinks, vomits, and declares he will die
• Vomiting, bilious mucous and bloody, greenish
• Pressure in stomach with dyspnoea
• Haematemesis
• Burning from stomach to esophagus

Abdomen

• Hot, tense, tympanitic
• Sensitive to touch
• Colic, no position relieves
• Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup
• Burning in umbilical region

Rectum

• Pain with nightly itching and stitching in anus
• Frequent, small stool with tenesmus; green, like chopped herbs
• White with red urine
• Choleraic discharge with collapse, anxiety, and restlessness
• Bleeding haemorrhoids. [Hamam.]
• Watery diarrhea in children
• They cry and complain much, are sleepless and restless

Urine

• Scanty, red, hot, painful
• Tenesmus and burning at neck of bladder
• Burning in urethra
• Urine suppressed, bloody
• Anxiety always on beginning to urinate
• Retention, with screaming and restlessness, and handling of genitals
• Renal region sensitive
• Profuse urination, with profuse perspiration and diarrhea

Male

• Crawling and stinging in glans
• Bruised pain in testicles, swollen, hard
• Frequent erections and emissions
• Painful erections

Female

• Vagina dry, hot, sensitive
• Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late
• Frenzy on appearance of menses
• Suppressed from fright, cold, in plethoric subjects
• Ovaries congested and painful
• Sharp shooting pains in womb
• After-pains, with fear and restlessness

Respiratory

• Constant pressure in left chest; oppressed breathing on least motion
• Hoarse, dry, croupy cough; loud, labored breathing
• Child grasps at throat every time he coughs
• Very sensitive to inspired air
• Shortness of breath
• Larynx sensitive
• Stitches through chest
• Cough, dry, short, hacking; worse at night and after midnight
• Hot feeling in lungs
• Blood comes up with hawking
• Tingling in chest after cough

Heart

• Tachycardia
• Affections of the heart with pain in left shoulder
• Stitching pain in chest
• Palpitation, with anxiety, fainting, and tingling in fingers
• Pulse full, hard; tense and bounding; sometimes intermits
• Temporal and carotid arteries felt when sitting

Back

• Numb, stiff, painful
• Crawling and tingling, as if bruised
• Stiffness in nape of neck
• Bruised pain between scapulae

Extremities

• Numbness and tingling; shooting pains; icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet
• Arms feel lame, bruised, heavy, numb
• Pain down left arm [Cact., Crotal., Kalmia, Tabac.]
• Hot hands and cold feet
• Rheumatic inflammation of joints; worse at night; red shining swelling, very sensitive
• Hip-joint and thigh feel lame, especially after lying down
• Knees unsteady; disposition of foot to turn. [Aescul.]
• Weak and lax ligaments of all joints
• Painless cracking of all joints
• Bright red hypothenar eminences on both hands
• Sensation as if drops of water trickled down the thigh

Sleep

• Nightmare
• Nightly ravings
• Anxious dreams
• Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about [Use thirtieth potency]
• Starts up in sleep
• Long dreams, with anxiety in chest
• Insomnia of the aged

Skin

• Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning
• Purpura miliaris
• Rash like measles
• Gooseflesh
• Formication and numbness
• Chilliness and formication down back
• Pruritus relieved by stimulants

Fever

• Cold stage most marked
• Cold sweat and icy coldness of face
• Coldness and heat alternate
• Evening chilliness soon after going to bed
• Cold waves pass through him
• Thirst and restlessness always present
• Chilly if uncovered or touched
• Dry heat, red face
• Most valuable febrifuge with mental anguish, restlessness, etc
• Sweat drenching, on parts lain on; relieving all symptoms

Modalities

• Better in open air; worse in warm room, in evening and night; worse lying on affected side, from music, from tobacco-smoke, dry, cold winds
• Vinegar in large doses is antidotal to poisonous effects

Relationship

Acids, wine and coffee, lemonade, and acid fruits modify its action.

Not indicated in malarial and low fevers or hectic and pyaemic conditions, and in inflammations when they localize themselves.

Sulphur often follows it.

Compare Cham and Coffea in intense pain and sleeplessness

Agrostis acts like Acon in fever and inflammations, also Spiranthes

Complementary : Coffea; Sulph

Sulphur may be considered a chronic Aconite.

Often completes a cure begun with Aconite.

Compare ; Bellad.; Cham.; Coffea; Ferr., phos.

Aconitine.

-(Heavy feeling as of lead; pains in supraorbital nerve; ice-cold sensations creep up; hydrophobia symptoms. Tinnitus aurium 3x.) Tingling sensation.

Aconitum Lycotonum

(Great yellow wolfsbane)

• Swelling of glands; Hodgkin’s disease
• Diarrhea after eating pork
• Itching of nose, eyes, anus and vulva
• Skin of nose cracked; taste of blood

Aconitum Cammarum

• Headache with vertigo and tinnitus
• Cataleptic symptoms
• Formication of tongue, lips and face

Aconitum Ferox

(Indian Aconite)

• Rather more violent in its actions than A. napellus
• It is more diuretic and less antipyretic
• It has proved valuable in cardiac dyspnoea, neuralgia, and acute gout
• Dyspnoea
• Must sit up
• Rapid respiration
• Anxiety, with suffocation from feeling of paralysis in respiratory muscles
• Cheynes-Stokes breathing
• Quebracho (cardiac dyspnoea)
• (Achyranthes.-A Mexican drug – very similar to Aconite in fevers, but of larger range, being also adapted to typhoidal states and intermittents
• Muscular rheumatism
• A great diaphoretic

Dose

Sixth potency for sensory affections; first to third for congestive conditions.

Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases.

Acon is a rapid worker.

In Neuralgias tincture of the root often preferable, one drop doses (poisonous), or again, the 30th according to susceptibility of patient.

Actaea Spicata

(baneberry)

• Is a rheumatic remedy, especially of the small joints; tearing, tingling pains characterize it
• Wrist-rheumatism
• Pulsations over whole body, especially liver and renal region
• Cardiovascular spasm
• Pains worse from touch and motion

Head

• Fearful, starts easily; confused
• Ebullition of blood to head excited by drinking coffee
• Vertigo, tearing headache, better in open air, throbbing in brain, pain from crown to between eyebrows; heat in forehead, pain in left frontal eminence as if bone were crushed
• Itching of scalp alternating with heat; nose red at tip, fluent coryza

Face

• Violent pain in upper jaw, running from teeth through malar bones to temples
• Perspiration on face and head

Stomach

• Tearing, darting pains in epigastric region, with vomiting
• Cramp-like pains in stomach and epigastrium, with difficult breathing; sense of suffocation
• Sudden lassitude after eating

Abdomen

• Spasmodic retraction
• Sticking pain and distension of hypogastrium

Respiratory

• Short, irregular breathing at night, while lying
• Great oppression
• Shortness of breath on exposure to cold air

Extremities

• Tearing pains in loins
• Rheumatic pains in small joints, wrist, [Ulmus] fingers, ankles, toes
• Swelling of joints from slight fatigue. Wrist swollen, red, worse any motion
• Paralytic weakness in the hands
• Lame feeling in arms
• Pain in knee
• Sudden lassitude after talking or eating

Relationship

Compare : Cimicif.; Cauloph.; Led.

Dose

Third potency

Adonis Vernalis

(pheasant’s eye)

• A heart medicine, after rheumatism or influenza, or Bright’s disease, where the muscles of the heart are in stage of fatty degeneration, regulating the pulse and increasing the power of contractions of heart, with increased urinary secretions
• Most valuable in cardiac dropsy
• Low vitality, with weak heart and slow, weak pulse
• Hydrothorax, ascites
• Anasarca

Head

• Feels light; aches across front, from occiput around temples to eyes
• Vertigo on rising, turning head quickly or lying down
• Tinnitus
• Scalp feels tight
• Eyes dilated

Mouth

• Slimy
• Tongue dirty yellow, sore, feels scalded

Heart

• Mitral and aortic regurgitation
• Chronic aortitis, Fatty heart pericarditis
• Rheumatic Endocarditis. [Kalmia]
• Praecordial pain, palpitation, and dyspnoea
• Marked venous engorgement
• Cardiac asthma. [Quebracho.]
• Fatty heart
• Myocarditis, irregular cardiac action, constriction and vertigo
• Pulse rapid, irregular

Stomach

• Heavy weight
• Gnawing hunger
• Faint feeling in epigastrium
• Better out of doors

Urine

• Oily pellicle on urine
• Scanty, albuminous

Respiratory

• Frequent desire to take a long breath
• Feeling of weight on chest

Sleep

• Restlessness, with horrible dreams

Extremities

• Aching in nape
• Spine stiff and aching
• Edema

Relationship

Adonidin is a cardiac tonic and diuretic.

Quarter grain daily, or two to five grains of first decimal trit increases arterial pressure and prolongs the diastole, favoring emptying engorged veins. Is an excellent substitute for Digitalis and is not cumulative in action.

Compare : Digit.; Cratoeg.; Conval.; Strophanthus.

Dose

Five to ten drops of the tincture

Aesculus Hippocastanum

(horse chestnut)

• The action of this drug is most marked on the lower bowel, producing engorged hemorrhoidal veins, with characteristic backache, with absence of actual constipation
• Much pain but little bleeding
• Venous stasis general, varicose veins of purple color; everything is slowed down, digestion, heart, bowels, etc
• Torpor and congestion of the liver and portal system, with constipation
• The back aches and gives out and unfits the patient for business
• Flying pains all over
• Fullness in various parts, dry, swollen mucous membranes
• Throat with hemorrhoidal conditions

Head

• Depressed and irritable
• Head dull, confused, aching as from a cold
• Pressure in forehead, with nausea, followed by stitches in right hypochondrium
• Pain from occiput to frontal region, with bruised sensation of the scalp; worse in the morning
• Neuralgic stitches from right to left through forehead, followed by flying pains in epigastrium
• Vertigo when sitting and walking

Eyes

• Heavy and hot, with lachrymation, with enlarged blood vessels
• Eyeballs sore

Nose

• Dry; inspired air feels cold, nasal passages sensitive to it
• Coryza, sneezing
• Pressure at root of nose
• Membrane over turbinate bones distended and boggy, dependent upon hepatic disorders

Mouth

• Scalded feeling
• Metallic taste
• Salivation
• Tongue thickly coated, feels as if scalded

Throat

• Hot, dry, raw, stitching pain into ears when swallowing
• Follicular pharyngitis connected with hepatic congestion
• Veins in pharynx distended and tortuous
• Throat sensitive to inspired air; feels excoriated and constricted, burns like fire on swallowing, in afternoon
• Early stages of atrophic pharyngitis in dried-up, bilious subjects
• Hawking of ropy mucus of sweetish taste

Stomach

• Weight of a stone, with gnawing, aching pain; most manifest about three hours after meals
• Tenderness and fullness in region of liver

Abdomen

• Dull aching in liver and epigastrium
• Pain at umbilicus
• Jaundice; throbbing in hypogastrium and pelvis

Rectum

Dry, aching

• Feels full of small sticks
• Anus raw, sore
• Much pain after stool, with prolapse
• Hemorrhoids, with sharp shooting pains up the back; blind and bleeding; worse during climacteric
• Large, hard, dry stools
• Mucous membrane seems swollen and obstructs the passage
• Irritation caused by ascarides and aids their expulsion
• Burning in anus with chills up and down back

Urinary

• Frequent, scant, dark, muddy, hot urine
• Pain in kidneys, especially left and ureter

Male

• Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool

Female

• Constant throbbing behind symphysis pubis
• Leucorrhoea, with lameness of back across the sacro-iliac articulation; dark yellow, sticky corroding; worse after menses

Chest

• Feels constricted
• Heart’s action full and heavy, can feel pulsations all over
• Laryngitis; coughs depending on hepatic disorders; hot feeling in chest; pain around heart in hemorrhoidal subjects

Extremities

• Aching and soreness in limbs, in left acromion process with shooting down arms; finger tips numb

Back

• Lameness in neck; aching between shoulder blades; region of spine feels weak; back and legs give out
• Backache affecting sacrum and hips; worse walking or stooping
• When walking feet turn under
• Soles feel sore, tired, and swell
• Hands and feet swell, and become red after washing, feel full

Fever

• Chill at 4 p.m
• Chilliness up and down back
• Fever 7 to 12 p.m
• Evening fever, skin hot and dry
• Sweat profuse and hot with the fever

Modalities

• Worse, in morning on awaking, and from any motion, walking; from moving bowels; after eating, afternoon, standing
• Better, cool open air

Relationship

Aesculus glabra – Ohio-Buckeye Proctitis.

Very painful, dark purple, external hemorrhoids, with constipation and vertigo and portal congestion.

Speech thick, tickling in throat, impaired vision, paresis.

Phytolacca (throat dry, more often in acute cases.) Negundium Americanum – Box-elder  (Engorgements of rectum and piles with great pain, ten-drop doses of tincture every two hours.) Compare also : Aloe, Collinson. Nux. Sulphur.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency

Aethiops Mineralis

(sulph. and quicksilver, or black sulphide mercury)

• This preparation is of use in scrofulous affections, ophthalmia, otorrhoea, painful, irritating, scabby eruptions, hereditary syphilis

Skin

• Eruptions
• Favus-like, scrofulous, herpetic and eczematous

Dose

The lower triturations, especially the second decimal

Relationship

Aethiops antimonialis – (Hydrargyrum stibiato sulfuratum.) – (often more effective than the above in scrofulous eruptions, glandular swellings, otorrhoea and scrofulous eye affections, corneal ulcers. Third trituration.) Compare : Calc.; Sil.; Psorin.

Aethusa Cynapium

(fool’s parsley)

• The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbance
• Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children, during dentition, summer complaint, when, with the diarrhea, there is marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation
• Symptoms set in with violence

Mind

• Restless, anxious, crying
• Sees rats, cats, dogs, etc
• Unconscious, delirious
• Inability to think, to fix the attention
• Brain fag
• Idiocy may alternate with furor and irritability

Head

• Feels bound up, or in a vise
• Occipital pain extending down spine; better lying down and by pressure
• Head symptoms relieved by expelling flatus [Sanguin.] and by stool
• Hair feels pulled
• Vertigo with drowsiness, with palpitation; head hot after vertigo ceases

Eyes

• Photophobia; swelling of Meibomian glands
• Rolling of eyes on falling asleep
• Eyes drawn downward; pupils dilated

Ears

• Feel obstructed
• Sense of something hot from ears
• Hissing sound

Nose

• Stopped up with much thick mucus
• Herpetic eruption on tip of nose
• Frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze

Face

• Puffed, red-spotted, collapsed
• Expression anxious, full of pain; linea nasalis marked

Mouth

• Dry
• Aphthae
• Tongue seems too long
• Burning and pustules in throat, with difficulty swallowing

Stomach

• Intolerance of milk; vomiting as soon as swallowed or in large curds
• Hungry after vomiting
• Regurgitation of food about an hour after eating
• Violent vomiting of a white frothy matter
• Nausea at sight of food
• Painful contraction of stomach
• Vomiting, with sweat and great weakness, accompanied by anguish and distress, followed by sleepiness
• Stomach feels turned upside down, with burning feeling up to the chest
• Tearing pains in the stomach extending to esophagus

Abdomen

• Cold, internal and external, with aching pain in bowels
• Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness
• Tense, inflated, and sensitive
• Bubbling sensation around navel

Stool

• Undigested, thin, greenish, preceded by colic, with tenesmus, and followed by exhaustion and drowsiness
• Cholera infantum; child cold, clammy, stupid, with staring eyes and dilated pupils
• Obstinate constipation; feels as if all bowel action is lost
• Choleraic affections in old age

Urinary

• Cutting pain in bladder, with frequent urging
• Pain in kidneys

Female

• Lancinating pains in sexual organs
• Pimples; itching when warm
• Menses watery
• Swelling of mammary glands, with lancinating pains

Respiratory

• Difficult, oppressed, anxious respiration; crampy constriction
• Sufferings render patient speechless

Heart

• Violent palpitation, with vertigo, headache and restlessness
• Pulse rapid, hard and small

Back and extremities

• Want of power to stand up or hold head up
• Back feels as if in a vise
• Aching in small of back
• Weakness of lower extremities
• Fingers and thumbs clenched
• Numbness of hands and feet
• Violent spasms
• Squinting of eyes downward

Skin

• Excoriation of thighs in walking
• Easy perspiration
• Surface of body cold and covered with clammy sweat. Lymphatic glands swollen
• Itching eruption around joints
• Skin of hands dry and shrunken
• Ecchymosis
• Anasarca

Fever

• Great heat; no thirst
• Profuse, cold sweat
• Must be covered during sweat

Sleep

• Disturbed by violent startings; cold perspiration
• Dozing after vomiting or stool
• Child is so exhausted, it falls asleep at once

Modalities

Worse , 3 to 4 a.m. , and evenings; warmth, summer.

Better in open air and company.

Compare : Athamantha (confused head, vertigo better lying down, bitter taste and saliva. Hands and feet icy cold); Antimon.; Calc.; Ars.; Cicuta.

Complementary : Calc.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency

Agaricus Muscarius

(toad stool-bug agaric)

• This fungus contains several toxic compounds, the best known of which is Muscarin
• The symptoms of poisoning do not develop at once, usually twelve to fourteen hours elapse before the initial attack
• There is no antidote, treatment, entirely symptomatic (Schneider)
• Agaricus acts as an intoxicant to the brain, producing more vertigo and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes
• Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications
• Incipient phthisis; is related to the tubercular diathesis, anemia, chorea, twitching ceases during sleep
• Various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles are pictured in the symptomatology of this remedy
• It corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion
• Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice
• Thus, in delirium of fevers, alcoholism, etc
• General paralysis
• Sensitive to pressure and cold air
• Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg
• Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling

Mind

• Sings, talks, but does not answer
• Loquacity
• Aversion to work
• Indifference
• Fearlessness
• Delirium characterized by singing, shouting, and muttering; rhymes and prophesies
• Begins with paroxysm of yawning
• The provings bring out four phases of cerebral excitement

1. Slight stimulation – shown by increased cheerfulness, courage, loquacity, exalted fancy.
2. More decided intoxication – great mental excitement and incoherent talking, immoderate gaity alternates with melancholy. Perception of relative size of objects is lost, takes long steps and jumps over small objects as if they were trunks of trees – a small hole appears as a frightful chasm, a spoonful of water an immense lake. Physical strength is increased, can lift heavy loads. With it much twitching.
3. Third stage produces a condition of furious or raging delirium, screaming, raving, wants to injure himself, etc.
4. Fourth stage – mental depression, languor, indifference, confusion, disinclination to work, etc. We do not get the active cerebral congestion of Belladonna, but a general nervous excitement such as is found in delirium tremens, delirium of fevers, etc.

Head

• Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking
• Head in constant motion
• Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput
• Lateral headache, as if from a nail. [Coff.; Ignat.]
• Dull headache from prolonged desk-work
• Icy coldness, like icy needles, or splinters
• Neuralgia with icy cold head
• Desire to cover head warmly. [Silica.]
• Headache with nose-bleed or thick mucous discharge

Eyes

• Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim
• Vibrating specters
• Double vision [Gels.], dim and flickering
• Asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation
• Twitching of lids and eyeballs. [Codein.] Margins of lids red; itch and burn and agglutinate
• Inner angles very red

Ears

• Burn and itch, as if frozen
• Twitching of muscles about the ear and noises

Nose

• Nervous nasal disturbances
• Itching internally and externally
• Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sensitiveness; watery non-inflammatory discharge
• Inner angles very red
• Fetid, dark, bloody discharge
• Nosebleed in old people
• Sensation of soreness in nose and mouth

Face

• Facial muscles feel stiff; twitch; face itches and burns
• Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters
• Neuralgia, as if cold needles ran through nerves or sharp ice touched them

Mouth

• Burning and smarting on lips
• Herpes on lips
• Twitching
• Taste sweet
• Aphthae on roof of mouth
• Splinter like pains in tongue
• Thirsty all the time
• Tremulous tongue. [Lach.]
• Tongue white

Throat

• Stitches along Eustachian tube to ear
• Feels contracted
• Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up
• Dryness of pharynx, swallowing difficult
• Scratching in throat; cannot sing a note

Stomach

• Empty eructation’s, tasting of apples
• Nervous disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hiccough
• Unnatural hunger
• Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen
• Profuse inodorous flatus
• Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure
• Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region

Abdomen

• Stitching pains in liver, spleen [Ceanothus] and abdomen
• Stitches under short ribs, left side
• Diarrhoea with much fetid flatus
• Fetid stools

Urinary

• Stitches in urethra
• Sudden and violent urging to urinate
• Frequent urination

Female

• Menses, increased, earlier
• Itching and tearing, pressive pains of genitals and back
• Spasmodic dysmenorrhaea
• Severe bearing-down pains, especially after menopause
• Sexual excitement
• Nipples itch, burn
• Complaints following parturition and coitus
• Leucorrhoea, with much itching

Respiratory organs

• Violent attacks of coughing that can be suppressed by effort of will, worse eating, pain in head while cough lasts
• Spasmodic cough at night after falling asleep, with expectoration of little balls of mucus
• Labored, oppressed breathing
• Cough ends in a sneeze

Heart

• Irregular, tumultuous palpitation, after tobacco
• Pulse intermittent and irregular
• Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax were narrowed
• Palpitation with redness of face

Back

• Pain, with sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in dorsal region
• Lumbago; worse in open air
• Crick in back
• Twitching of cervical muscles

Extremities

• Stiff all over
• Pain over hips
• Rheumatism better motion
• Weakness in loins
• Uncertain gait
• Trembling
• Itching of toes and feet as if frozen
• Cramp in soles of feet
• Pain in shin-bone
• Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia
• Paralysis of lower limbs, with spasmodic condition of arms
• Numbness of legs on crossing them
• Paralytic pain in left arm followed by palpitation
• Tearing painful contractions in the calves

Skin

• Burning, itching, redness, and swelling, as from frostbites
• Pimples, hard, like flea-bites
• Miliary eruption, with intolerable itching and burning
• Chilblains
• Angioneurotic edema; rosacea
• Swollen veins with cold skin
• Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustular and oedematous lesions

Sleep

• Paroxysms of yawning
• Restless from violent itching and burning
• On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often
• Vivid dreams
• Drowsy in daytime
• Yawning, followed by involuntary laughter

Fever

• Very sensitive to cool air
• Violent attacks of heat in evening
• Copious sweat
• Burning spots

Modalities

• Worse, open cold air, after eating, after coitus
• In cold weather, before a thunder-storm
• Worse, pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter
• Better, moving about slowly

Relationship

Compare : Muscarine, the alkaloid of Agaricus (has much power over secretions, increasing lachrymal, salivary, hepatic, etc., but diminishing renal; probably neurotic in origin, stimulating the terminal fibres of the secretory nerves of all these structures, hence salivation, lachrymation and excessive perspiration. Atropin exactly opposes Muscarine. Resembles Pilocarpin in action).

Amanita vernus-spring mushroom – a variety of Agar Phalloides – Death cup – active principle is Phallin, active like Muscarine.

Amanita phalloides (Death Cup – Deadly Agaric.) The poison is a toxalbumin, resembling the poison in the rattle snake and the poison excreted by the cholera and diphtheria germs.

It acts on the red blood corpuscles, dissolving them so that blood escapes into the alimentary canal and the whole system is drained.

The amount of this toxic principle is small, even handling of specimens and breathing of spores affects some people unpleasantly.

The poison is slow in development.

Even 12 to 20 hours after taking it the patient feels all right, but vertigo violent choleraic symptoms with rapid loss of strength with death the second or third day, preceded by stupor and spasms.

Fatty degeneration of liver, heart and kidneys, hemorrhages in lungs, pleura and skin (Dr.J.Schier).

Vomiting and purging.

Continuous urging to stool, but no gastric, abdominal or rectal pain.

Intense thirst for cold water, dry skin.

Lethargic but mentally clear.

Sharp changes from rapid to slow and from slow to rapid breathing, extreme collapse,

suppressed urine, but no cold extremities or cramps.

Agaric. emet. (severe vertigo; all symptoms better, cold water; longing for ice-water;

gastritis cold sweat, vomiting sensation as if stomach was suspended on a string).

Tamus.(chilblains and freckles).

Cimicif.; Cann. ind.; Hyos.; Tarantula.

Antidote : Absinth.; Coffea; Camphor.

Dose

Third to thirtieth and two hundredth potency.

In skin affections and brain exhaustions give the lower attenuations.

Agave Americana

(Century plant)

• Indicated in stomachache, and painful erections in gonorrhea
• Strangury
• Hydrophobia
• Scurvy; countenance pale, gums swollen and bleeding, legs covered with dark purple blotches, swollen, painful and hard
• Appetite poor; bowels constipated

Relationship

Compare : Anhalonium; Lyssin; Lach.

Dose

Tincture

Agnus Castus

(The chaste tree)

• The most effective point of attack of Agnus upon the organism is the sexual organism
• It lowers sexual vitality, with corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy
• It shows this distinctive influence in both sexes, but is more pronounced in men
• Premature old age from abuse of sexual power
• History of repeated gonorrhea
• A prominent remedy for sprains and strains
• Gnawing itching in all parts, especially eyes
• Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men

Mind

Sexual melancholy

Fear of death

• Sadness with impression of speedy death
• Absentminded, forgetful, lack of courage
• Illusion of smell – herrings, musk
• Nervous depression and mental forebodings

Eyes

• Pupils dilated [Bell.]
• Itching about eyes; photophobia

Nose

• Odor of herring or musk
• Aching in dorsum better pressure

Abdomen

• Spleen swollen, sore
• Stools soft, recede, difficult
• Deep fissures in anus
• Nausea with sensation as if intestines were pressed downwards; wants to support  bowels

Male

• Yellow discharge from urethra
• No erections
• Impotence
• Parts cold, relaxed
• Desire gone [Selen.; Con.; Sabal.]
• Scanty emission without ejaculation
• Loss of prostatic fluid on straining
• Gleety discharge
• Testicles, cold, swollen, hard, and painful

Female

• Scanty menses
• Abhorrence of sexual intercourse
• Relaxation of genitals, with leucorrhoea
• Agalactia; with sadness
• Sterility
• Leucorrhoea staining yellow; transparent
• Hysterical palpitation with nose bleed

Relationship

Compare :Selenium; Phosph. ac.; Camphor; Lycop.

Dose

First to sixth potency.

Agraphis Nutans

(Bluebell)

• A relaxed condition of the system generally and a proneness to take cold on exposure to cold winds
• Catarrhal conditions; obstruction of nostrils
• Mucous diarrhea from cold
• Chill from cold winds
• Throat and ear troubles with tendency to free discharge from mucous membranes
• Mutinism of childhood unconnected with deafness

Relationship

Compare : Hydrast.; Cepa; Calc. phos.; Sulph. jod.; Calc. jod.

Dose

Third potency

Single doses of tincture. (Dr. Cooper).

Ailanthus Glandulosa

(chinese sumach)

• This remedy shows by its peculiar skin symptoms its pronounced power of disorganizing the blood, causing conditions we meet with in low fevers, low types of eruptive diseases, diphtheria, follicular tonsillitis, Streptococcus infection, Hemorrhagic diathesis, etc
• The skin appears livid or purplish; face dark as mahogany, hot; sordes; throat swollen, purple, livid; semi-conscious, delirious; weak pulse, general torpor and prostration
• Symptoms remarkably alike to malignant scarlatina
• Diarrhea, dysentery and great weakness are very marked
• Adynamia characterizes all its conditions
• Lividity, stupor and malignancy
• Mucous membranes hemorrhagic and ulcerative [Lach. Ars.]

Head

• General stupor, with sighing
• Confused mind, mental depression
• Headache, frontal, with drowsiness
• Passive congestion headaches
• Suffused, dilated eyes; photophobia
• Face dusky
• Thin, copious, ichorous, bloody nasal discharge

Throat

• Inflamed, edematous, dusky red
• Much swelling, internal and external
• Dry, rough, scraping, choking feeling
• Neck tender and swollen
• Hoarse, croupy voice
• Tongue dry and brown
• Teeth covered with sordes
• Pain in swallowing extends to the ears

Respiratory

• Hurried breathing; irregular
• Dry, hacking cough
• Lungs sore and tired

Sleep

• Drowsy, restless
• Heavy, disturbed, unrefreshing

Skin

• Miliary, livid rash, returns annually
• Large blisters filled with dark serum
• Irregular, patchy, livid eruption, disappearing on pressure

Cold

• Reynaud’s disease

Relationship

Antidotes : Rhus; Nux.

Compare : Ammon. carb.; Bapt.; Arn.; Mur. ac.; Lach.; Rhus.

Dose

First to sixth potency

Aletris Farinosa

(stargrass)

• An anaemic, relaxed condition, especially of the female organism, is portrayed by this remedy
• The patient is tired all the time, and suffers from prolapsus, leucorrhoea, rectal distress, etc
• Marked anemia
• Chlorotic girls and pregnant women

Mind

• Power and energy weakened
• Confused feelings
• Cannot concentrate mind
• Fainting, with vertigo

Mouth

• Much frothy saliva

Stomach

• Disgust for food
• Least food causes distress
• Fainting spells, with vertigo
• Vomiting during pregnancy
• Nervous dyspepsia
• Flatulent colic

Rectum

• Loads up with faeces – paretic condition
• Stool large, hard, difficult, great pain

Female

• Premature and profuse menses, with labor-like pains.[Bell.; Cham.; Kali c.; Plat.]
• Retarded and scanty flow (Senecio.)
• Uterus seems heavy
• Prolapse, with pain in right inguinal region
• Leucorrhoea due to weakness and anemia
• Habitual tendency to abortion
• Muscular pains during pregnancy

Relationship

Compare : Helonias.; Hydrastis.; Tanacet.; China.

Dose

Tincture to third potency

Alfalfa

(medicago sativa. california clover or lucerne)

• From its action on the sympathetic, Alfalfa favorably influences nutrition, evidenced in “toning up” the appetite and digestion resulting in greatly improved mental and physical vigor, with gain in weight
• Disorders characterized by malnutrition are mainly within its therapeutic range, for example, neurasthenia, splanchnic blues, nervousness, insomnia, nervous indigestion, etc
• Acts as a fat producer, corrects tissue waste
• Deficient lactation
• Increases quality and quantity of milk in nursing mothers
• Its pronounced urinary action suggests it clinically in diabetes insipidus and phosphaturia; and it is claimed to allay vesical irritability of prostatic hypertrophy
• The rheumatic diathesis seems especially amenable to its action

Mind

• It induces mental exhilaration of buoyancy, i.e. , a general feeling of well being; clear and bright, so that all blues are dissipated
• Dull, drowsy, stupid [Gels.]; gloomy and irritable, worse during evening

Head

• Dull, heavy feeling in occiput, in and above the eyes, worse toward evening
• Pain in left side of head
• Violent headache

Ears

• Stuffed feeling in eustachian tubes [Kali mur.] at night; patulous in morning

Stomach

• Increased thirst
• Appetite impaired, but chiefly increased even to bulimia
• He must eat frequently, so that he cannot wait for regular meals; hungry in forenoon [Sul.]
• Much nibbling of food and craving for sweets

Abdomen

• Flatulence with distention
• Shifting, flatulent pain along colon several hours after meals
• Frequent, loose, yellow, painful stools, with burning of flatulence
• Chronic appendicitis

Urine

• Kidneys inactive; frequent urging to urinate
• Polyuria [Phos. ac.]
• Increased elimination of urea, indican and phosphates

Sleep

• Slept better than usual, especially in early morning; it induces quiet, reposeful and refreshing sleep

Relationship

Compare : Avena sat.; Dipodium punct.; Gels.; Hydr.; Kali phos.; Phos. ac.; Zinc.

Dose

The best results are elicited with material doses (5-10) drops of tincture, several times daily.

Continue its use until tonic effects ensue.

Allium Cepa

(red onion)

• A picture of coryza, with acrid nasal discharge and laryngeal symptoms, eye secretion bland; singers’ cold, worse in warm room and toward evening; better in open air is presented by this remedy
• Specially adapted to phlegmatic patients; colds in damp cold weather
• Neuralgic pains, like a fine thread, following amputations or injuries to nerves
• Traumatic chronic neuritis
• Burning in nose, mouth, throat, bladder and skin
• Sensation of glowing heat on different parts of the body

Head

• Catarrhal headache, mostly in forehead; worse in warm room towards evening
• Thread-like pains in face
• Headache ceases during menses; returns when flow disappears

Eyes

• Red
• Much burning and smarting lachrymation
• Sensitive to light
• Eyes suffused and watery; profuse, bland lachrymation, better in open air
• Burning in eyelids

Ears

Earache, shooting in Eustachian tube

Nose

• Sneezing, especially when entering a warm room
• Copious, watery and extremely acrid discharge
• Feeling of a lump at root of nose
• Hay-fever. [Sabad.; Sil.; Psor.]
• Fluent coryza with headache, cough, and hoarseness
• Polypus

Stomach

• Canine hunger
• Pain in pyloric region
• Thirst
• Belching
• Nausea

Abdomen

• Rumbling, offensive flatus
• Pains in left hypogastrium
• Colic sitting, moving about

Rectum

• Diarrhea with very offensive flatus
• Stitches in rectum; itching and rhagades in anus
• Glowing heat in rectum

Urinary

• Sensation of weakness in bladder and urethra
• Increased secretion of urine with coryza
• Urine red with much pressure and burning in urethra

Respiratory

• Hoarseness
• Hacking cough on inspiring cold air
• Tickling in larynx
• Sensation as if larynx is split or torn
• Oppressed breathing from pressure in middle of chest
• Constricted feeling in region of epiglottis
• Pain extending to ear

Extremities

• Lame joints
• Ulcers on heel
• Painful affections of fingers about nails
• Neuralgia of stump
• Bad effects from getting feet wet
• Limbs, especially arms, feel sore and tired

Sleep

• Yawning with headache and drowsiness
• Gaping in deep sleep
• Dreams
• Wakes at 2 a.m

Modalities

• Worse, in the evening, in warm room
• Better, in open air, and in cold room

Relationship

Compare : Gels.; Euph.; Kali hyd.; Aconite; Ipecac.

Complementary : Phosphor.; Thuja; Puls.

Antidotes : Arn.; Cham.; Verat.

Dose

Third potency.

Allium Sativum

(garlic)

• Acts directly on intestinal mucous membrane increasing peristalsis
• Colitis, with pathological flora
• Has vaso-dilatory properties
• Arterial hypotension begins usually in 30 to 45 minutes after twenty to forty drop doses of the tincture
• Adapted to fleshy subjects with dyspepsia and catarrhal affections
• Patients who eat a great deal more, especially meat, than they drink
• Cough and expectoration diminishes, temperature becomes normal, weight is gained, and sleep becomes regular

Head

• Heavy; pulsation in temples; catarrhal deafness

Mouth

• Much sweetish saliva after meals and at night
• Sensation of a hair on tongue or throat

Stomach

• Voracious appetite
• Burning eructation’s
• Least change in diet causes trouble
• Constipation, with constant dull pains in bowels
• Tongue pale, red papillae

Respiratory

• Constant rattling of mucus in bronchi
• Cough in the morning after leaving bedroom, with mucous expectoration, which is tenacious and difficult to raise
• Sensitive to cold air
• Dilated bronchi, with fetid expectoration
• Darting pain in chest

Female

• Pain in swelling of breasts
• Eruption in vagina and on breasts and vulva during menses

Relationship

Allium Sat. according to Dr. Teste, belongs to the Bryonia group, including Lycopod.

Nux.

Colocy, Digital and Ignatia which affect deeply all flesh eating animals and hardly at all vegetarians.

Hence their special applicability to meat eaters rather than to exclusive vegetarians.

Compare : Capsicum; Arsenic; Senega; Kali nit.

Complementary : Arsenic.

Antidote : Lycopod.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

In tuberculosis, dose, four to six grams in moderate state of desiccation daily, in divided doses.

Alnus Rubra

(red alder)

• Has some reputation as a remedy for skin affections, glandular enlargements, and indigestion from imperfect secretion of gastric juice
• It stimulates nutrition, and thus acts favorably upon strumous disorders, enlarged glands, etc
• Ulcerated mucous membranes of mouth and throat
• Fingers covered by crust caused by pustules, disagreeable odor
• Indigestion from imperfect secretion of gastric juice

Female

• Leucorrhea, with erosions of cervix, bleeding easily
• Amenorrhea, with burning pains from back to pubis

Skin

• Chronic herpes
• Enlarged sub-maxillary glands
• Eczema, prurigo
• Purpura hemorrhagica
• Poison-oak
• Use locally

Dose

Tincture to third potency

Aloe Socotrina

(socotrine aloes)

• An excellent remedy to aid in re-establishing physiological equilibrium after much dosing, where disease and drug symptoms are much mixed
• There is no remedy richer in symptoms of portal congestion and none that has given better clinical results, both for the primary pathological condition and secondary phenomena
• Bad effects from sedentary life or habits
• Especially suitable to lymphatic and hypochondriacal patients
• The rectal symptoms usually determine the choice
• Adapted to weary people, the aged, and phlegmatic, old beer-drinkers
• Dissatisfied and angry about himself, alternating with lumbago
• Heat internally and externally
• Has been used successfully in the treatment of consumption by giving the pure juice

Head

• Headache alternates with lumbago, with intestinal and uterine affections
• Disinclination to mental labor
• Aches above forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them
• Headache after stool
• Dull, pressive pain; worse from heat

Eyes

• Compelled to make small during pain in forehead
• Flickering before eyes
• Redness of eyes with yellow vision
• Pain deep in orbits

Face

• Marked redness of lips

Ears

• Cracking when chewing
• Sudden explosion and clashing in left ear
• Tinkling as of some thin, shivered, metallic globe in head

Nose

• Coldness of tip
• Bleeding in morning on awakening
• Full of crusts

Mouth

• Taste bitter and sour
• Tasteless eructation’s
• Lips cracked and dry

Throat

• Thick lumps of tough mucus
• Varicose condition of veins in pharynx
• Dry, scrappy feeling

Stomach

• Aversion to meat
• Longing for juicy things
• After eating, flatulence, pulsation in rectum. and sexual irritation
• Nausea, with headache
• Pain in pit when making false step

Abdomen

• Pain around navel, worse pressure
• Fullness in region of liver, pain under right ribs
• Abdomen feels full, heavy, hot, bloated
• Pulsating pain around navel
• Weak feeling, as if diarrhea would come on
• Great accumulation of flatus, pressing downwards, causing distress in lower bowels
• Sensation of plug between symphysis pubis and os coccygis. with urging to stool
• Colic before and during stool
• Burning, copious flatus

Rectum

• Constant bearing down in rectum; bleeding, sore, and hot; relieved by cold water
• Feeling of weakness and loss of power of sphincter ani
• Sense of insecurity in rectum when passing flatus
• Uncertain whether gas or stool will come
• Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed
• Lumpy, watery stool
• Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum after stool
• A lot of mucus, with pain in rectum after stool
• Hemorrhoids protrude like grapes; very sore and tender; better cold water application
• Burning in anus and rectum
• Constipation, with heavy pressure in lower part of abdomen
• Diarrhea from beer

Urinary

• Incontinence in aged, bearing-down sensation and enlarged prostate
• Scanty and high colored

Female

• Bearing down in rectum, worse standing and during menses
• Uterus feels heavy, cannot walk much on that account
• Labor-like pains in loins; extend down legs
• Climacteric hemorrhage
• Menses too early and too profuse

Respiratory

• Winter coughs, with itching
• Difficult respiration, with stitches from liver to chest

Back

• Pain in small of back; worse moving
• Stitches through sacrum
• Lumbago alternating with headache and piles

Extremities

• Lameness in all limbs
• Drawing pains in joints
• Soles pain when walking

Modalities

• Worse early morning; summer; heat; in hot, dry weather; after eating or drinking
• Better from cold, open air

Relationship

Complementary : Sulphur. compare : Kali bich.; Lycop.; Allium sat.

Antidotes : Opium; Sulph.

Dose

Sixth potency and higher.

In rectal conditions, a few doses of the third, then wait.

Alstonia Scholaris

(dita bark)

• Malarial diseases, with diarrhoea, dysentery, anemia, feeble digestion, are the general conditions suggesting this remedy
• Characteristics are the gone sensation in stomach and sinking in abdomen, with ebility
• A tonic after exhausting fevers

Abdomen

• Violent purging and cramp in bowels
• Heat and irritation in lower bowels
• Camp diarrhea, bloody stool, dysentery; diarrhoea from bad water and malaria
• Painless watery stools [Phosph. ac.]
• Diarrhea immediately after eating

Relationship

Compare : Similar in action to Alstonia constricta, the bitter bark or native quinine of Australia.

Ditain (active principle, is anti-periodic, like quinine, but without unpleasant effects).

Cinchona(similar in diarrhoea, chronic dyspepsia and debility).

Hydrastis; Fer. cit. et chin.

Dose

Tincture to third potency.

Locally, for ulcers and rheumatic pains.

Alumen

(common potash alum)

• The clinical application of this remedy points to its bowel symptoms, both in obstinate constipation and in hemorrhage from bowels in the course of typhoid – one phase of the paralytic weakness of the muscles in all parts of the body
• Tendency to induration is also marked, a low form of tissue-making is favored
• Hardening of tissues of tongue, rectum, uterus, etc.; ulcers with indurated base
• Adapted to old people, especially bronchial catarrhs
• Sensation of dryness and constriction
• Mental paresis; dysphagia especially to liquids
• Tendency to induration, Scirrhus of the tongue

Head

• Burning pain as of weight on top of lead better by pressure of hand
• Vertigo, with weakness in pit of stomach
• Alopecia

Throat

• Throat relaxed
• Mucous membrane red and swollen
• Cough
• Tickling in throat
• Tendency to throat colds
• Enlarged and indurated tonsils
• Burning pain down the esophagus
• Complete aphonia
• Every cold settles in throat
• Constriction of esophagus

Heart

Palpitation, from lying down on right side

Rectum

• Constipation of the most aggravated kind
• No desire for stool for days
• Violent ineffectual urging to stool
• No ability to expel stool
• Marble-like masses pass, but rectum still feels full
• Itching after stool
• Itching in anus
• Long lasting pain and smarting in rectum after stool; also hemorrhoids
• Yellow, like an infant’s
• Hemorrhage from bowels

Female

• Tendency to induration of neck of uterus and mammary glands. [Carb. an.; Con.]
• Chronic yellow vaginal discharge
• Chronic gonorrhea, yellow, with little lumps along urethra
• Aphthous patches in vagina. [Caul.]
• Menses watery

Respiratory

• Haemoptysis, great weakness of chest; difficult to expel mucus
• Copious, ropy morning expectoration in old people
• Asthma

Skin

• Ulcers, with indurated base
• To be thought of in indurated glands, epithelioma, etc.; veins become varicose and bleed
• Indurations resulting from long-continued inflammatory irritations
• Glands inflame and harden
• Alopecia, Scrotal eczema and on back of penis

Extremities

• Weakness of all muscles, especially arms and legs
• Constricted feeling around limbs

Modalities

• Worse, cold except headache, which is relieved by cold

Dose

First to thirtieth potency.

The very highest potencies have proved efficacious.

Powdered alum, 10 grains, placed on tongue, said to arrest an attack of asthma.

Alumina

(oxide et aluminum-argilla)

• A very general condition corresponding to this drug is dryness of mucous membranes and skin, and tendency to paretic muscular states
• Old people, with lack of vital heat, or prematurely old, with debility
• Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and staggering, and the characteristic constipation find an excellent remedy in Alumina
• Disposition to colds in the head, and eructation’s in spare, dry, thin subjects
• Delicate children, products of artificial baby foods

Mind

• Low-spirited; fears loss of reason
• Confused as to personal identity
• Hasty, hurried
• Time passes slowly
• Variable mood
• Better as day advances
• Suicidal tendency when seeing knife or blood

Head

Stitching, burning pain in head, with vertigo, worse in morning, but relieved by food

Pressure in forehead as from a tight hat

Inability to walk except with eyes open

Throbbing headache, with constipation

Vertigo, with nausea; better after breakfast

Falling out of hair; scalp itches and is numb

Eyes

• Objects look yellow
• Eyes feel cold
• Lids dry, burn, smart, thickened, aggravated in morning; chronic conjunctivitis
• Ptosis
• Strabismus

Ears

• Humming; roaring
• Eustachian tube feels plugged

Nose

• Pain at root of nose
• Sense of smell diminished
• Fluent coryza
• Point of nose cracked, nostrils sore, red; worse touch
• Scabs with thick yellow mucus
• Tettery redness
• Ozoena atrophica sicca
• Membranes distended and boggy

Face

• Feels as if albuminous substance had dried on it
• Blood-boils and pimples
• Twitching of lower jaw
• Rush of blood to face after eating

Mouth

• Sore
• Bad odor from it
• Teeth covered with sordes
• Gums sore, bleeding
• Tensive pain in articulation of jaw when opening mouth or chewing

Throat

• Dry, sore; food cannot pass, esophagus contracted
• Feels as if splinter or plug were in throat
• Irritable, and relaxed throat
• Looks parched and glazed
• Clergyman’s sore throat in thin subjects
• Thick, tenacious mucus drops from posterior nares
• Constant inclination to clear the throat

Stomach

• Abnormal cravings – chalk, charcoal, dry food, tea-grounds
• Heartburn; feels constricted
• Aversion to meat. [Graph.; Arn.; Puls.]
• Potatoes disagree
• No desire to eat
• Can swallow but small morsels at a time
• Constriction of esophagus

Abdomen

• Colic, like painter’s colic
• Pressing in both groins toward sexual organs
• Left-sided abdominal complaints

Stool

• Hard dry, knotty; no desire
• Rectum sore, dry, inflamed, bleeding
• Itching and burning at anus
• Even a soft stool is passed with difficulty
• Great straining
• Constipation of infants [Collins.; Psor.; Paraf.] and old people from inactive rectum, and in women of very sedentary habit
• Diarrhea on urinating
• Evacuation preceded by painful urging long before stool, and then straining at stool

Urine

• Muscles of bladder paretic, must strain at stool in order to urinate
• Pain in kidneys, with mental confusion
• Frequent desire to urinate in old people
• Difficult starting

Male

• Excessive desire
• Involuntary emissions when straining at stool
• Prostatic discharge

Female

• Menses too early, short, scanty, pale, followed by great exhaustion. [Carb. an.; Coccul.] Leucorrhoea acrid, profuse transparent, ropy, with burning; worse during daytime, and after menses
• Relieved by washing with cold water

Respiratory

• Cough soon after waking in the morning
• Hoarse, aphonia, tickling in larynx; wheezing, rattling respiration
• Cough on talking or singing, in the morning
• Chest feels constricted
• Condiments produce cough
• Talking aggravates soreness of chest

Back

• Stitches
• Gnawing pain, as if from hot iron
• Pain along cord, with paralytic weakness

Extremities

• Pain in arm and fingers, as if hot iron penetrated
• Arms feel paralyzed
• Legs feel asleep, especially when sitting with legs crossed
• Staggers on walking
• Heels feel numb
• Soles tender; on stepping, feel soft and swollen
• Pain in shoulder and upper arm
• Gnawing beneath finger nails
• Brittle nails
• Inability to walk, except when eyes are open or in daytime
• Spinal degenerations and paralysis of lower limbs

Sleep

• Restless; anxious and confused dreams
• Sleepy in morning

Skin

• Chapped and dry tettery
• Brittle nails
• Intolerable itching when getting warm in bed
• Must scratch until it bleeds; then becomes painful
• Brittle skin on fingers

Modalities

• Worse, periodically; in afternoon; from potatoes
• Worse, in morning on awaking; warm room
• Better, in open air; from cold washing; in evening and on alternate days
• Better damp weather

Relationship

Compare : Aluminum chloridum (Pains of loco-motor ataxia. Lower trits in water).

Slag Silico – Sulphocalcite of Alumina 3x (anal itching, piles, constipation, flatulent distention); Secale; Lathyr.; Plumb. Aluminum acetate solution.

Externally a lotion for putrid wounds and skin infections.

Arrests hemorrhage from inertia of uterus.

Parenchymatous haemorrhage from various organs – 23 % solution.

Haemorrhage following tonsillectomy is controlled by rinsing out nasopharynx with a 10 % sol.

Complementary : Bryonia.

Antidotes : Ipecac.; Chamom.

Dose

Sixth to thirtieth and higher.

Action slow in developing.

Alumina Silicata

(andalusite rock – alumina 63, silica 37 parts)

• Deep acting remedy for chronic complaints of brain, spine and nerves
• Constriction is a marked general symptom, also constriction of orifices
• Venous distention
• Weakness, especially spinal
• Aching and burning in spine
• Formication, numbness, pain in all limbs
• Epileptiform convulsion
• Coldness during pains

Head

• Congestion of brain
• Constriction of scalp
• Pain in head, better heat, perspires
• Pain in eyes, flickering
• Frequent coryzas
• Swelling and ulceration of nose

Respiratory

• Catarrh of chest, pain, raw feeling
• Feeling of great weakness in chest
• Stitching pains
• Spasmodic cough with purulent viscid expectoration

Extremities

• Heaviness, jerking, numbness, aching and pains

Skin

• Formication along course of nerves, veins feel full and distended
• Sore to touch and pressure

Modalities

• Worse, cold air, after eating, standing
• Better, warmth, fasting, resting in bed

Dose

Higher potencies

Ambra Grisea

(ambergis – a morbid secretion of the whale)

• Suitable to excitable, nervous children and thin, nervous patients
• Extreme nervous hypersensitiveness
• External numbness of whole body in the morning and weakness
• Nervous bilious temperament
• Thin, scrawny women
• Adapted to hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with convulsive cough, eructation, etc
• Also for patients weakened by age or overwork, who are anemic and sleepless
• Great remedy for the aged, with impairment of all functions, weakness, coldness and numbness, usually of single parts, fingers, arms, etc
• One-sided complaints call for it
• Music aggravates symptoms
• Ebullitions and pulsations after walking in open air
• One-sided complaints

Mind

• Dread of people, and desire to be alone
• Cannot do anything in presence of others
• Intensely shy, blushes easily
• Music causes weeping
• Despair, loathing of life
• Fantastic illusions
• Bashful
• Loss of love of life
• Restless, excited, very loquacious
• Time passes slowly
• Thinking, difficult in the morning with old people
• Dwells upon unpleasant things

Head

• Slow comprehension
• Vertigo, with weakness in head and stomach
• Pressure on front part of head with mental depression
• Tearing pain in upper half of brain
• Senile dizziness
• Rush of blood to head, when listening to music
• Hearing impaired
• Epistaxis, especially in the morning
• Profuse bleeding from teeth
• Hair falls out

Stomach

• Eructations, with violent, convulsive cough
• Acid eructations, like heartburn
• Distention of stomach and abdomen after midnight
• Sensation of coldness in abdomen

Urinary

• Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time
• Burning in orifice of urethra and anus
• Feeling in urethra as if a few drops passed out
• Burning and itching in urethra while urinating
• Urine turbid, even during emission forming a brown sediment

Female

• Nymphomania, Itching of pudendum, with soreness and swelling
• Menses too early
• Profuse, bluish leucorrhoea
• Worse at night
• Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident

Male

• Voluptuous itching of scrotum
• Parts externally numb; burn internally
• Violent erections without voluptuous sensations

Respiratory

• Asthmatic breathing with eructation of gas
• Nervous, spasmodic cough, with hoarseness and eructation, on waking in morning; worse in presence of people
• Tickling in throat, larynx and trachea, chest oppressed, gets out of breath when coughing
• Hollow, spasmodic, barking cough, coming from deep in chest
• Choking when hawking up phlegm

Heart

• Palpitation, with pressure in chest as from a lump lodged there, or as if chest was obstructed
• Conscious of the pulse
• Palpitation in open air with pale face

Sleep

• Cannot sleep from worry; must get up
• Anxious dreams
• Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during sleep

Skin

• Itching and soreness, especially around genitals
• Numbness of skin
• Arms “go to sleep”

Extremities

• Cramps in hands and fingers, worse grasping anything
• Cramps in legs

Modalities

• Worse, music; presence of strangers; from any unusual thing; morning, warm room
• Better, slow motion in open air; lying on painful part; cold drinks

Relationship

Do not confound with Amber – Succinum.q. v.

Moschus frequently follows advantageously.

Compare : Oleum succinum (hiccough).

Sumbul; Castor.; Asaf.; Crocus.; Lilium.

Dose

Second and third potencies; may be repeated with advantage.

Ambrosia Artemisiaefolia

(rag-weed)

• A remedy for hay-fever, lachrymation and intolerable itching of the eye-lids
• Some forms of whooping-cough
• Respiratory tract in its entire length stopped up
• Many forms of diarrhea, especially during summer months, also dysentery

Nose

• Watery coryza; sneezing; watery discharge
• Nosebleed
• Stuffed up feeling of nose and head
• Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes, with asthmatic attacks. [Aral.; Eucalypt.]
• Wheezy cough

Eyes

• Smart and burn
• Lachrymation

Relationship

Compare in hay-fever : Sabadilla, Wyethia; Succin. ac.; Ars. jod.; Arundo

Dose

Tincture, to third potency; 10 drops in water during and after attack of epistaxis.

In hay-fever high potencies.

Ammoniacum Gummi

(gum ammoniac)

• A remedy for the aged and feeble, especially in chronic bronchitis
• Ill humor
• Sensitive to cold
• Sensation of burning and scratching in neck and esophagus

Head

• Catarrhal headache due to closure of frontal sinuses

Eyes

• Dim sight
• Stars and fiery points float before eyes
• Easily fatigued from reading

Throat

• Throat dry; worse inhaling fresh air
• Full feeling, burning and scraping sensation
• Immediately after eating, sensation as if something stuck in esophagus, causing swallowing

Respiratory

• Difficult breathing
• Chronic bronchial catarrh
• Large accumulation of purulent matter and feeble expectoration; worse cold weather
• Mucus tough and hard
• Heart beats stronger, extends to pit of stomach
• Coarse rattling of chest in old people

Relationship

Antidotes : Bry.; Arnica.

Compare : Senega; Tart. emet.; Balsam Peru.

Dose

Third trituration.

Ammonium Benzoicum

(benzoate of ammonia)

• One of the remedies for albuminuria, especially in the gouty
• Gout, with deposits in joints
• Urinary incontinence in the aged

Head

• Heavy, stupid

Face

• Bloated, swollen eyelids
• Swelling under tongue like ranula

Urine

• Smoky, scanty
• Albuminous and thick deposits

Back

• Pain across sacrum, with urgency to stool
• Soreness in region of right kidney

Relationship

Compare : Terebinth.; Benz. ac.; Ammonia salts.; Caust.

In albuminuria compare : Kalmia; Helon; Merc. cor.; Berb.; Canth.

Dose

Second trituration.

Ammonium Bromatum

(bromide of ammonia)

• Indicated in chronic laryngeal and pharyngeal catarrh, neuralgic headaches, and obesity
• Constrictive pain in head, chest, legs, etc
• Irritable feeling under finger nails; relieved only by biting them

Head

• Cerebral congestion
• Feeling of a band above ears
• Sneezing; thick nasal discharge

Eyes

• Edges of lids red and swollen, also Meibomian glands
• Eyeballs feel large and pain around eyes into head

Throat

• Smarting in mouth
• Tickling in throat, with inclination to dry, spasmodic cough, especially at night
• Burning in fauces
• White, sticky, mucus
• Chronic speakers’ catarrh

Respiratory

• Sudden, short cough, strangling
• Tickling in trachea and bronchial tubes
• Wakes at 3 a.m. with cough
• Feels suffocated; continuous cough, when lying down at night; sharp pain in lungs
• Whooping Cough
• Dry, spasmodic cough on lying down

Relationship

Hyos.; Con.; Arg. nit.; Kali bich.

Dose

First potency.

Ammonium Carbonicum

(carbonate of ammonia)

• The diseased conditions met by this remedy are such as we find often in rather stout women who are always tired and weary, take cold easily, suffer from cholera-like symptoms before menses, lead a sedentary life, have a slow reaction generally, and are disposed to frequent use of the smelling-bottle
• Too frequent and profuse menses
• Mucous membranes of the respiratory organs are especially affected
• Fat patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel suffocated
• Very sensitive to cold air
• Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it
• Malignant scarlatina, with somnolence, swollen glands, dark red sore throat, faintly developed eruption
• Uraemia
• Heaviness in all organs
• Uncleanness in bodily habits
• Swelling of parts, glands, etc
• Acid secretions
• Prostration from trifles

Mind

• Forgetful, ill-humored, gloomy during stormy weather
• Uncleanliness
• Talking and hearing others talk affects greatly
• Sad, weepy, unreasonable

Head

• Pulsating forehead; better, pressure and in warm room
• Shocks through head

Eyes

• Burning of eyes with aversion to light
• Eye-strain [Nat. mur.]
• Asthenopia
• Sore canthi

Ears

• Hardness of hearing
• Shocks through ears, eyes, and nose, when gnashing teeth

Nose

• Discharge of sharp, burning water
• Stoppage at night, with long-continued coryza.K Cannot breathe through nose
• Snuffles of children
• Epistaxis after washing and after eating
• Ozaena, blows bloody mucus from nose
• Tip of nose congested

Face

• Tetters around mouth
• Boils and pustules, during menses
• Corners of mouth sore, cracked, and burn

Mouth

• Great dryness of mouth and throat
• Toothache
• Pressing teeth together sends shocks through head, eyes, and ears
• Vesicles on tongue
• Taste sour; metallic
• Cracking of jaw on chewing

Throat

• Enlarged tonsils and glands of neck
• Burning pain all down throat
• Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils
• Diphtheria when nose is stopped up

Stomach

• Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, water brash, and chilliness
• Great appetite, but easily satisfied
• Flatulent dyspepsia

Abdomen

• Noise and pain in abdomen
• Flatulent hernia
• Stools difficult, hard, and knotty
• Bleeding piles; worse during menses
• Itching at anus
• Protruding piles, worse after stool, better lying down

Urine

• Frequent desire; involuntary at night
• Tenesmus of bladder
• Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and fetid

Male

• Itching and pain of scrotum and spermatic cords
• Erection without desire
• Seminal emissions

Female

• Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum
• Leucorrhoea burning, acrid, watery
• Aversion to the other sex
• Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard, difficult stool, with fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness

Respiratory

• Hoarseness
• Cough every morning about three o’clock, with dyspnoea, palpitation, burning in chest; worse ascending
• Chest feels tired
• Emphysema
• Much oppression in breathing; worse after any effort, and entering warm room, or ascending even a few steps
• Asthenic Pneumonia
• Slow labored, stertorous breathing; bubbling sound
• Winter catarrh, with slimy sputum and specks of blood
• Pulmonary edema

Heart

• Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat, lachrymation, inability to speak, loud breathing and trembling hands
• Heart weak, wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation

Extremities

• Tearing in joints relieved by heat of bed; inclination to stretch limbs
• Hands cold and blue; distended veins
• Fingers swell when arm is hanging down
• Panaritium, deep-seated periosteal pain
• Cramps in calves and soles
• Big toe painful and swollen
• Felons in the beginning
• Heel painful on standing
• Tearing in ankle and bones of feet, better when warm in bed

Sleep

• Sleepiness during the day
• Starts from sleep strangling

Skin

• Violent itching and burning blisters
• Scarlet rash
• Miliary rash
• Malignant scarlatina
• Faintly developed eruptions from defective vitality
• Erysipelas in the aged, with brain symptoms
• Eczema in the bends of extremities, between legs, about anus and genitals

Modalities

• Worse, evenings, from cold, wet weather, wet applications, washing, and during 3 to 4 a.m., during menses
• Better, lying on painful side and on stomach; in dry weather

Relationship

Inimical to Lachesis.

Similar in action.

Antidotes : Arnica; Camphor.

Compare : Rhus; Muriatic acid; Tartar emet.

Of use in poisoning by charcoal fumes.

Dose

Lower potencies deteriorate with age.

Sixth potency best for general use.

Ammonium Causticum

(hydrate of ammonia – ammonia water)

• This is a powerful cardiac stimulant
• As such in syncope, thrombosis, hemorrhage, snake-bites, chloroform narcosis, may be given by inhalation
• The edema and ulceration of mucous membranes produced by this powerful drug have been utilized as guiding symptoms for its use; hence in membranous croup with burning in esophagus
• Aphonia See Causticum

Respiratory

• Difficult respiration
• Accumulation of mucus with incessant coughing
• Loss of voice
• Burning rawness in throat
• Spasm of the glottis with suffocation; patient gasps for breath
• Pain in esophagus on breathing deeply
• Scraping and burning in throat and esophagus
• Uvula covered with white mucus
• Nasal diphtheria, with burning excoriating discharge

Extremities

• Excessive exhaustion and muscular debility
• Rheumatism of shoulders
• Skin hot and dry

Dose

First to third potency; also five to ten minims, well diluted with water.

Ammonium Iodatum

(iodide of ammonia)

• Indicated when iodine has but partially relieved its cases of laryngitis and bronchitis, catarrhal pneumonia, edema of lungs

Head

• Dull headache, especially in young people, face stupid, heavy; vertigo, Meniere’s disease

Dose

Second and third trit.

Compare : Ammonium tartaricum (Dry hacking cough after every cold).

Ammonium Muriaticum

(sal ammoniac)

• A state of prostration bordering on a typhoid state is produced by this remedy
• All mucous secretions are increased and retained
• It is especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles
• Coughs associated with catarrhs and affections of liver
• A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seems to be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc
• Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough, profuse glairy secretions
• Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings
• “Boiling” sensation

Mind

• Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief
• Desire to cry, but cannot
• Consequences of grief

Head

• Hair falls out, with itchings and dandruff
• Feels full, compressed; worse mornings

Eyes

• Mist before eyes, optical illusions in incipient cataract; capsular cataract

Nose

• Free acrid, hot watery discharge corroding the lip
• Sneezing
• Nose sore to touch; ulcerative pain in nostrils
• Loss of smell
• Obstructed, stuffy feeling; constant and unavailing efforts to blow it out
• Itching

Face

• Inflammatory face-ache
• Mouth and lips sore and excoriated

Throat

• Throbbing in, and swelling of tonsils, can scarcely swallow
• Sore spot behind uvula, relieved by eating
• Internal and external swelling of throat with viscid phlegm
• So touch, it cannot be hawked up
• Tonsillitis
• Stricture of esophagus

Stomach

• Thirst for lemonade, regurgitation of food, bitter water brash
• Nausea
• Gnawing in stomach
• Epigastric pain immediately after eating
• Cancer of stomach

Abdomen

• Splenic stitches, especially in the morning, with difficult breathing
• Pain around navel
• Abdominal symptoms appear during pregnancy
• Chronic congestion of liver
• Excessive fatty deposit around abdomen
• Much flatus
• Strained feeling in groin

Rectum

• Itching and hemorrhoids, soreness with pustules
• Hard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus
• Stinging in perineum
• Green mucus stools alternate with constipation
• During and after stool, burning and smarting in rectum
• Hemorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhoea

Female

• Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; flow more at night
• Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during pregnancy
• Diarrhea, greenish mucous stools, and navel pain during menses
• Leucorrhoea, like white of an egg [Alum.; Bor.; Calc.p. ]; with pain about the navel; brown, slimy after every urination

Respiratory

• Hoarseness and burning in larynx
• Dry, hacking, scraping cough; worse lying on back or right side
• Stitches in chest
• Cough loose in afternoon, with profuse expectoration and rattling of mucus
• Oppression of chest
• Burning at small spots in chest
• Scanty secretion
• Cough with profuse salivation

Back

• Icy coldness between shoulders; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching
• Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting
• Backache, as if in a vise when sitting

Extremities

• Pain as from ulceration in finger tips
• Shooting and tearing in tips of finger and toes
• Ulcerative pain in heels
• Contraction of hamstring tendons
• Sciatica, worse sitting, better lying
• Neuralgic pain in amputated limbs
• Offensive sweaty feet
• Pain in feet during menses

Skin

• Itching, generally evenings
• Blisters on various parts
• Intense burning better cold applications

Fever

• Chilliness evenings after lying down and on awakening, without thirst
• Heat in palms and soles
• Sub acute, low fevers due to unhealthy climate
• Lowest potencies

Modalities

• Better, open air
• Worse, head and chest symptoms in the morning; abdominal symptoms in the afternoon

Relationship

Antidotes : Coffea; Nux; Caust.

Compare : Calcarea; Senega; Caustic.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

Ammonium Phosphoricum

(phosphate of ammonia)

• A remedy for chronic gouty patients uric acid diathesis, indicated in bronchitis and nodosities of the joints of the fingers and backs of the hands
• Facial paralysis
• Pain in shoulder-joint
• Tightness around chest
• Heaviness of limbs, unsteady, tottering gait
• Coldness from least draft of air

Head

• Sneezing with excessive running from nose and eyes, only in morning

Respiratory

• Deep rough cough with greenish expectoration

Urine

• Rose-colored sediment

Dose

Third decimal trituration.

Ammonium Picricum

(pictrate of ammonia)

• A remedy for malarial fever and neuralgias and so-called, bilious headaches
• Pain in occiput and mastoid region
• Whooping cough

Head

• Periodical neuralgia in right side of occiput; boring extends to ear, orbit, and jaw
• Vertigo on rising
• Periodic bilious headaches [Sanguin.]

Dose

Third trituration.

Ammonium Valerianicum

(valerianate of ammonia)

• A remedy for nervous, hysterical people, suffering with neuralgia headaches and insomnia
• Great nervous erethism is always present

Heart

• Pains in cardiac region
• Functional disturbances, tachycardia

Dose

Lower triturations.

Ampelopsis Quinquefolia

(virginia creeper)

• Renal dropsies, hydrocele, and chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients have been benefited by this drug
• Choleric symptoms
• Generally worse about 6 p.m
• Dilated pupils
• Left costal region sore and sensitive
• Elbow joints pain, back sore
• Soreness of all limbs
• Vomiting, purging with tenesmus
• Rumbling in abdomen

Dose

Second to third potency.

Amygdalus Persica

(peach tree)

• A most valuable remedy in vomiting of various kinds; morning sickness
• Irritation of eyes
• Ischuria and haematuria
• Hemorrhage from the bladder
• Gastric irritation of children; no form of food tolerated
• Loss of smell and taste
• Gastric and intestinal irritation when the tongue is elongated and pointed, tip and edges red
• Constant nausea and vomiting

Relationship

Compare : Amygd. amara – Bitter Almond. (Pains through tonsils, throat dark, difficult swallowing, vomiting, cough with sore chest.)

Dose

Fresh infusion or mother tincture.

Amylenum Nitrosum

(amyl nitrite)

• On inhaling this drug, it rapidly dilates all arterioles and capillaries, producing flushings of face, heat, and throbbing in the head
• Superficial arterial hyperemia
• Palpitation of the heart and similar conditions are readily cured by it, especially the Flushing’s and other discomforts at climacteric
• Hiccups and yawning
• Often relieves temporarily epileptic convulsions
• Seasickness

Head

• Anxiety, as if something might happen; must have fresh air
• Surging of blood to head and face
• Sensation as if blood would start through skin, with heat and redness
• Flushings, followed by sweat at climacteric
• Ears hyperemic
• Throbbing

Throat

• Constriction; collar seems too tight

Chest

• Dyspnoea and asthmatic feelings
• Great oppression and fullness of chest; spasmodic, suffocative cough
• Praecordial anxiety
• Tumultuous action of heart
• Pain and constriction around heart
• Fluttering at slightest excitement

Female

• After-pains; hemorrhage associated with facial flushing
• Climacteric headache and flushes of heat, with anxiety and palpitation

Fever

• Much flushing of heat; sometimes followed by cold and clammy skin and profuse sweat
• Throbbing throughout whole body
• Abnormal sweat after influenza

Extremities

• Constant stretching for hours
• Veins of hands dilated; pulsations felt in tips of fingers

Relationship

Compare : Glonoine; Lachesis.

Antidotes : Cactus; Strychn.; Ergot.

Dose

Third potency.

For palliations.

In all conditions where the blood-vessels are spasmodically contracted, as in angina

pectoris, epileptic seizure, megrim, accompanied by cold, pallor, etc., also in paroxysms of asthma, chloroform asphyxia, inhalation of the Amyl. nit. will give immediate relief.

For this non-homoeopathic application, two to five minims (put up in pearls) dropped on a handkerchief and inhaled may be required.

Anacardium Orientale

(marking nut)

• The Anacardium patient is found mostly among the neurasthenics; such have a type of nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food; impaired memory, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing)
• Syphilitic patients often suffer with these conditions
• Intermittency of symptoms
• Fear of examination in students
• Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc
• Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse
• Sensation of a plug in various parts – eyes, rectum, bladder, etc.; also of a band
• Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort
• This is a sure indication, often verified
• Its skin symptoms are similar to Rhus, and it has proved a valuable antidote to Poison-Oak

Mind

• Fixed ideas
• Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills
• Anxiety when walking, as if pursued
• Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language
• Brain fag
• Impaired memory
• Absent mindedness
• Very easily offended
• Malicious; seems bent on wickedness
• Lack of confidence in himself or others
• Suspicious [Hyos.]
• Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead
• Senile dementia
• Absence of all moral restraint

Head

• Vertigo
• Pressing pain, as from a plug; worse after mental exertion – in forehead; occiput, temples, vertex; better during a meal
• Itching and little boils on scalp

Eyes

• Pressure like a plug on upper orbit
• Indistinct vision
• Objects appear too far off

Ears

• Pressing in the ears as from a plug
• Hard of hearing

Nose

• Frequent sneezing
• Sense of smell perverted
• Coryza with palpitation, especially in the aged

Face

• Blue rings around eyes
• Face pale

Mouth

• Painful vesicles; fetid odor
• Tongue feels swollen, impending speech and motion, with saliva in mouth
• Burning around lips as from pepper

Stomach

• Weak digestion, with fullness and distention
• Empty feeling in stomach
• Eructation, nausea, vomiting
• Eating relieves the Anacardium dyspepsia
• Apt to choke when eating or drinking
• Swallows food and drinks hastily

Abdomen

• Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines
• Rumbling, pinching, and griping

Rectum

• Bowels inactive
• Ineffectual desire; rectum seems powerless, as if plugged up; spasmodic constriction of sphincter ani; even soft stool passes with difficulty
• Itching at anus; moisture from rectum
• Hemorrhage during stool
• Painful hemorrhoids

Male

• Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams
• Prostatic discharge during stool

Female

• Leucorrhoea, with soreness and itching
• Menses scanty

Respiratory

• Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug
• Oppression of chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air
• Cough excited by talking, in children, after fit of temper
• Cough after eating with vomiting of food and pain in occiput

Heart

• Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the aged; stitches in heart region
• Rheumatic pericarditis with double stitches

Back

• Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight
• Stiffness at nape of neck

Extremities

• Neuralgia in thumb
• Paralytic weakness
• Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged
• Cramps in calves
• Pressure as from a plug in the glutei
• Warts on palms of hands
• Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption

Sleep

• Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights
• Anxious dreams

Skin

• Intense itching, eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular eruption; swelling, urticaria; eruption like that of Poison-Oak [Xerophyl.; Grindel.; Croton.]
• Lichen planus; neurotic eczema
• Warts on hands
• Ulcer formation on forearm

Modalities

• Worse, on application of hot water
• Better, from eating
• When lying on side, from rubbing

Relationship

Antidote : Grindeleia; Coffea; Juglans; Rhus; Eucalyptus.

Compare : Anacard. occidentale (cashew nut) (erysipelas, vesicular facial eruptions),

(anaesthetic variety of leprosy; warts, corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet).

Rhus; Cypriped.; Chelidon.; Xerophyl.

Platina follows well.

Cereux serpentina (swearing).

Dose

Sixth to two hundredth potency.

Anagallis Arvensis

(scarlet pimpernel)

• Marked action on skin, characterized by great itching and tingling everywhere
• Favors expulsion of splinters
• An old medicine for hydrophobia and dropsy
• Possesses power of softening flesh and destroying warts

Head

• Great hilarity; headache over supra-orbital ridges, with rumbling in bowels and eructation’s; better from coffee
• Sick headache
• Pain in facial muscles

Extremities

• Rheumatic and gouty pains
• Pain in shoulder and arm
• Cramp in ball of thumbs and fingers

Urine

• More or less irritation in urethra, inclining to coition
• Burning pain on urinating, with agglutination of orifice
• Urine passes in several streams; must press before it passes

Skin

• Itching dry, bran-like eruption, especially on hands and fingers
• Palms especially affected
• Vesicles in groups
• Ulcers and swellings on joints

Relationship

Anagallis contains Saponin, q.v.

Compare : Cyclamen; Primula obcon.

Dose

First to third potency.

Anantherum Muricatum

(cuscus – an east indian grass)

• A skin remedy of high order
• Painful swelling of various parts, going on to suppuration
• Glandular inflammation

Head

• Pains pierce brain like pointed arrows; worse in afternoon
• Herpes, ulcers, and tumors on scalp
• Wartlike growth on eyebrows
• Boils and tumors on tip of nose
• Tongue fissured, as if cut on edges; copious salivation

Urine

• Turbid, thick, full of mucus
• Constant urging
• Bladder cannot hold smallest quantity
• Involuntary
• Cystitis

Sexual

• Chancre-like sores
• Scirrhus-like swelling of cervix
• Breasts swollen, indurated, nipples excoriated

Skin

• Diseased and deformed nails
• Offensive foot-sweat
• Abscesses. boils, ulcers
• Erysipelas
• Pruritus, herpes

Relationship

Compare : Staphisag.; Mercur.; Thuja.

Dose

Third potency.

Anhalonium Lewinii

(mescal button)

• Mescal is a strong intoxicating spirit distilled from Pulque fuerte
• Pulque is made from the Agave Americana of Mexico, locally known as Maguey and is the national beverage of Mexico
• Indians call it Peyote
• It weakens the heart, produces insanity
• Its most striking effects appear in the auditory nerve for it makes each note upon the piano a center of melody which seems to be surrounded by a halo of color pulsating to the rhythm of the music”. (Hom. World.)
• Causes a form of intoxication accompanied by wonderful visions, remarkably beautiful and varied kaleidoscopic changes, and a sensation of increased physical ability
• Also visions of monsters and various gruesome forms
• A cardiac tonic and respiratory stimulant
• Hysteria and insomnia
• A remedy for brainfag, delirium, megrim, hallucinations, with colored brilliant visions
• Motor inco-ordination
• Extreme muscular depression; increased patellar reflex
• Paraplegia

Mind

• Loss of conception of time
• Difficult enunciation
• Distrust and resentment
• Lazy contentment

Head

• Aches, with disturbed vision
• Fantastic, brilliant, moving colored objects
• Affected by beating time
• Pupils dilated, vertigo, brain tired
• Polychrome spectra
• Exaggerated reverberation of ordinary sounds

Dose

Tincture.

Relationship

Compare Agave.

The intoxication of Anhalonium is similar to that of Cannabis Indica and Oenanthe.

Anemopsis Californica

(yerba mansa – household herb)

• A mucous membrane medicine
• Chronic forms of inflammation of the Schneiderian membrane with considerable relaxation and profuse discharge
• Chief value in catarrhal states, with full stuffy sensation in head and throat
• Useful in cuts, bruises and sprains; and as a diuretic and in malaria
• Not yet proven, but found useful in profuse mucous or serous discharges; in nasal and pharyngeal catarrh, diarrhoea and urethritis
• Recommended in heart disease, as a quieting agent when unduly excited
• Flatulence; promotes digestion

Relationship

Compare Piper meth.

Dose

The tincture internally and locally as a spray.

Angustura Vera

(bark of galipea cusparia)

• Rheumatic and paralytic complaints – great difficulty in walking
• Crackling in all joints
• The greatest craving for coffee is a characteristic symptom
• Caries of long bones
• Paralysis
• Tetanus
• Stiffness of muscles and joints
• Principal action on spinal motor nerves and mucous membranes

Head

• Oversensitive
• Headache, with heat of face
• Acute pain in cheeks
• Drawing in facial muscles
• Pain in temporal muscles, when opening the jaws
• Pain in articulation of jaw, in masseter muscles, as if fatigued by chewing too much
• Cramp-pain on the zygomatic arch

Stomach

• Bitter taste
• Irresistible desire for coffee
• Pain from navel into sternum
• Atonic dyspepsia
• Belching, with cough. [Ambra.]

Abdomen

• Diarrhea and colic
• Tenesmus with soft stool; chronic diarrhoea, with debility and loss of flesh
• Burning in anus

Back

• Itching along back
• Pain in cervical vertebrae
• Drawing in the neck
• Pain in spine, at nape of neck and sacrum, worse on pressure
• Twitching and jerking along back
• Bends backward

Extremities

• Stiffness and tension of muscles and joints
• Pain in limbs on walking
• Arms tired and heavy
• Caries of long bones
• Coldness of fingers
• Pain in knees
• Cracking in joints

Skin

• Caries, very painful ulcers which affect the bone

Relationship

Compare : Nux; Ruta; Mercur.; Brucea.

-Bark of Nux vomica or angustura falsa. (Tetanic spasms with undisturbed consciousness,

worse noise, liquids, paralyzed lower extremities, worse least touch, cries for fear of being

touched. Painful jerking of legs; cramp-like pain in knees; rigid and lame limbs of paralytics.

For pain in the passing of calculus.)

Dose

Sixth potency.

Anilinum

(coal tar product – amidobenzene)

• Marked giddiness and pain in head; face has a purple hue
• Pain in penis and scrotum with swelling
• Tumors of the urinary passages
• Profound anemia with discoloration of skin, blue lips, anorexia, gastric disturbances
• Swelling of skin

Relationship

Compare : Arsenic; Antipyrin.

Anthracinum

(anthrax poison)

• This nosode has proven a great remedy in epidemic spleen diseases of domestic animals, and in septic inflammation, carbuncles and malignant ulcers
• In boils and boil-like eruptions, acne
• Terrible burning
• Induration of cellular tissue, abscess, bubo, and all inflammation of connective tissue in which there exists a purulent focus

Tissues

• Hemorrhages, black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing, from any orifice
• Glands swollen, cellular tissues oedematous and indurated
• Septicemia
• Ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning
• Erysipelas
• Black and blue blisters
• Dissecting wounds
• Insect stings
• Bad effects from inhaling foul odors
• Gangrenous parotitis
• Succession of boils
• Gangrene
• Foul secretions

Relationship

Similar to Arsenic, which it often follows.

Compare : Pyrogen; Lachesis; Crotalus; hippozaen; Echinac.; Silica. follows well.

In the treatment of carbuncles, remember the prescription of the prophet Isaiah for King Hezekiah’s carbuncle – i.e. . the pulp of a fig placed on a poultice and apply.

Dose

Thirtieth potency.

Tarant. Cubensis.

Anthracokali

(anthracite coal dissolved in boiling caustic potash)

• Useful in skin affections, scabies, prurigo, chronic herpes, cracks and ulcerations
• Papular-like eruption with a vesicular tendency, especially on scrotum, also on hands, tibia, shoulders and dorsum of feet
• Intense thirst
• Chronic rheumatism
• Bilious attacks, vomiting of bile, tympanic distention of abdomen

Dose

Low triturations.

Antimonium Arsenicosum

(arsenite of antimony)

• Found useful in emphysema with excessive dyspnoea and cough, much mucous secretion
• Worse on eating and lying down
• Catarrhal pneumonia associated with influenza
• Myocarditis and cardiac weakness
• Pleurisy, especially of left side, with exudation and pericarditis, with effusion
• Sense of weakness
• Inflammation of eyes and edema of face

Dose

Third trituration.

Antimonium Crudum

(black sulphide of antimony)

• For homoeopathic employment, the mental symptoms and those of the gastric sphere, determine its choice
• Excessive irritability and fretfulness, together with a thickly-coated white tongue, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy
• All the conditions are aggravated by heat and cold bathing
• Cannot bear heat of sun
• Tendency to grow fat
• An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable
• Gout with gastric symptoms

Mind

• Much concerned about his fate
• Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction
• Sulky; does not wish to speak
• Peevish; vexed without cause
• Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at
• Angry at every little attention
• Sentimental mood

Head

• Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing, from disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wines
• Suppressed eruptions
• Heaviness in forehead with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed
• Headache with great loss of hair

Eyes

• Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated
• Canthi raw and fissured
• Chronic blepharitis
• Pustules on cornea and lids

Ears

• Redness; swelling; pain in Eustachian tube
• Ringing and deafness
• Moist eruption around ear

Nose

• Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts
• Eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy

Face

• Pimples, pustules, and boils on face
• Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin
• Sallow and haggard

Mouth

• Cracks in corners of mouth
• Dry lips
• Saltish saliva
• Much slimy mucus
• Tongue coated thick white, as if whitewashed
• Gums detach from teeth; bleed easily
• Toothache in hollow teeth
• Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus
• Canker sores
• Pappy taste
• No thirst
• Sub acute eczema about mouth

Throat

• Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares
• Hawking in open air
• Laryngitis
• Rough voice from overuse

Stomach

• Loss of appetite. Desire for acids, pickles
• Thirst in evening and night
• Eructation tasting of the ingesta
• Heartburn, nausea, vomiting
• After nursing, the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross
• Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather
• Constant belching
• Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels
• Sweetish water brash
• Bloating after eating

Stool

• Anal itching [Sulpho-calc. Alum.]
• Diarrhea alternates with constipation, especially in old people
• Diarrhea after acids, sour wine, baths, overeating; slimy, flatulent stools
• Mucous piles, continued oozing of mucus. Hard lumps mixed with watery discharge
• Catarrhal proctitis
• Stools composed entirely of mucus

Urine

• Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul odor

Male

• Eruption on scrotum and about genitals
• Impotence
• Atrophy of penis and testicles

Female

• Excited; parts itch
• Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse
• Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian region
• Leucorrhoea watery; acrid, lumpy

Respiratory

• Cough worse coming into warm room, with burning sensation in chest, itching of chest, oppression
• Loss of voice from becoming overheated
• Voice harsh and badly pitched

Back

• Itching and pain of neck and back

Extremities

• Twitching of muscles
• Jerks in arms
• Arthritic pain in fingers
• Nails brittle; grow out of shape
• Horny warts on hands and soles
• Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence
• Feet very tender; covered with large horny places
• Inflamed corns
• Pain in heels

Skin

• Eczema with gastric derangements
• Pimples, vesicles, and pustules
• Sensitive to cold bathing
• Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs
• Urticaria; measles-like eruption
• Itching when warm in bed
• Dry skin
• Warts [Thuja; Sabina; Caust.]
• Dry gangrene
• Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night

Sleep

Continual drowsiness in old people

Fever

• Chilly even in warm room
• Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhea
• Hot sweat

Modalities

• Worse, in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing
• Wet poultices
• Better, in open air, during rest
• Moist warmth

Relationship

Compare : Antimonium Chloridum.

Butter of Antimony. (A remedy for cancer. Mucous membranes destroyed. Abrasions. Skin cold and clammy. Great prostration of strength. Dose – third trituration.)

Antimon. iodat. (Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia and bronchitis; loss of strength, and appetite, yellowish skin, sweaty, dull and drowsy.)

In sub-acute and chronic colds in chest which have extended downwards from head and have fastened themselves upon the bronchial tubes in the form of hard, croupy cough with a decided wheeze and inability to raise the sputum, especially in the aged and weak patients (Bacmeister).

Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow and delayed.

Compare : Kermes mineral – Stibiat sulph. rub.(Bronchitis.)

Also Puls, Ipecac, Sulph.

Complementary : Sulph.

Antidote : Hepar.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

Antimonium Sulphuratum Auratum

(golden sulphuret of antimony)

• A remarkable remedy for many forms of chronic nasal and bronchial catarrh
• Acne
• Amaurosis

Nose and throat

• Nosebleed on washing
• Increased secretion in nose and throat
• Rough and scrapy feeling
• Loss of smell
• Metallic styptic taste

Respiratory

• Tickling in larynx
• Increased mucus with fullness in bronchi
• Respiration difficult, pressure in bronchi, with constriction
• Tough mucus in bronchi and larynx
• Dry hard cough
• Congestion of upper lobe of left lung
• Winter coughs patient is sore all over
• Pneumonia, when hepatization occurred and resolution failed to take place

Skin

• Acne(pustular variety)
• Itching on hands and feet

Dose

Second or third trituration.

Antimonium Tartaricum

(tartar emetic. tartrate of antimony and potash)

• Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium Crudum but also many peculiar to itself
• Clinically, its therapeutic application has been confined largely to the treatment of respiratory diseases, rattling of mucus with little expectoration has been a guiding symptom
• There is much drowsiness, debility and sweat characteristic of the drug, which group should always be more or less present, when the drug is prescribed
• Gastric affections of drunkards and gouty subjects
• Cholera morbus
• Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels
• Bilharziasis
• Antimonium tart is homoeopathic to dysuria, strangury, haematuria, albuminuria, catarrh of bladder and urethra, burning in rectum, bloody mucous stools, etc
• Antimon. tart. acts indirectly on the parasites by stimulating the oxidizing action of the protective substance
• By-effects following injection for Bilharziasis
• Chills and contractures and pain in muscles
• Trembling of whole body, great prostration and faintness
• Lumbago
• Chills, contractures and muscular pains
• Warts on glans penis

Mind and head

• Vertigo alternates with drowsiness
• Great despondency
• Fear of being alone
• Muttering, delirium, and stupor
• Vertigo, with dullness and confusion
• Band-like feeling over forehead
• Face pale and sunken
• Child will not be touched without whining
• Headache as from a band compressing [Nit. ac.]

Tongue

• Coated, pasty, thick white, with red edges
• Red and dry, especially in the center
• Brown

Face

Cold, blue, pale; covered with cold sweat. Incessant quivering of chin and lower jaw [Gelsem.]

Stomach

• Difficult deglutition of liquids
• Vomiting in any position, excepting lying on right side
• Nausea, retching, and vomiting, especially after food, with deathly faintness and prostration
• Thirst for cold water, little and often, and desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally
• Nausea produces fear; with pressure in praecordial region, followed by headache with yawning and lachrymation and vomiting

Abdomen

• Spasmodic colic, much flatus
• Pressure in abdomen, especially on stooping forward
• Cholera morbus
• Diarrhea in eruptive diseases

Urinary

• Burning in urethra during and after urinating
• Last drops bloody with pain in bladder
• Urging increased
• Catarrh of bladder and urethra
• Stricture
• Orchitis

Respiratory organs

• Hoarseness
• Great rattling of mucus, but very little is expectorated
• Velvety feeling in chest
• Burning sensation in chest, which ascends to throat
• Rapid, short, difficult breathing; seems as if he would suffocate; must sit up
• Emphysema of the aged
• Coughing and gaping consecutively
• Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus
• Cough excited by eating, with pain in chest and larynx
• Oedema and impending paralysis of lungs
• Much palpitation, with uncomfortable hot feeling
• Pulse rapid, weak, trembling
• Dizziness, with cough
• Dyspnoea relieved by eructation
• Cough and dyspnoea better lying on right side – (opposite Badiaga)

Back

• Violent pain in sacro-lumbar region
• Slightest effort to move may cause retching and cold, clammy sweat
• Sensation of heavy weight at the coccyx, dragging downward all the time
• Twitching of muscles; limbs tremulous

Skin

• Pustular eruption, leaving a bluish-red mark
• Small-pox
• Warts

Fever

• Coldness, trembling, and chilliness
• Intense heat
• Copious perspiration
• Cold, clammy sweat, with great faintness
• Intermittent fever with lethargic condition

Sleep

• Great drowsiness
• On falling asleep electric-like shocks
• Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all complaints

Modalities

• Worse, in evening; from lying down at night; from warmth; in damp cold weather; from all sour things and milk
• Better, from sitting erect; from eructation and expectoration

Relationship

Antidotes : Puls.; Sepia.

Compare : Kali sulph.; Ipecac.

Dose

Second and sixth trituration.

The lower potencies sometimes aggravate.

Antipyrinum

(phenazone – a coal-tar derivative)

• Antipyrine is one of the drugs that induce leucocytosis, similar to ergotin, salicylates and tuberculin
• Acts especially on the vaso-motor centers, causing dilation of capillaries of skin and consequent circumscribed patches of hyperaemia and swelling
• In large doses causes profuse perspiration, dizziness, cyanosis, and somnolence, albumen and blood in urine
• Acute erythema multiforme

Mind

• Fear of becoming insane; nervous anxiety; hallucinations of sight and hearing

Head

• Throbbing headache; sensation of constriction
• Flashes of heat
• Headache under ears with earache

Eyes

• Puffiness of lids
• Conjunctiva red and oedematous, with lachrymation
• Red spots [Apis.]

Ears

• Pains and buzzing
• Tinnitus

Face

• Edema and puffiness
• Red and swollen

Mouth

• Swelling of lips
• Burning of mouth and gums
• Ulceration of lips and tongue; vesicles and bullae
• Small lump in cheek
• Tongue swollen
• Bloody saliva
• Toothache along lower jaw

Throat

• Pain on swallowing
• Expectoration of fetid pus
• Abscess, white false membrane
• Sensation of burning

Stomach

• Nausea and vomiting; burning and pain

Urine

• Diminished
• Penis black

Female

• Itching and burning in vagina
• Menses suppressed
• Watery leucorrhoea

Respiratory

• Fluent coryza
• Nasal mucous membrane swollen
• Dull pains in frontal sinus
• Aphonia
• Oppression and dyspnoea
• Cheyne-Stokes respiration

Heart

• Faintness, with sensation of stoppage of heart
• Throbbing throughout the body
• Rapid, weak, irregular pulse

Nerves

• Epileptiform seizures
• Contractures
• Trembling and cramps
• Crawling and numbness
• General prostration

Skin

• Erythema, eczema, pemphigus
• Intense pruritus
• Urticaria, appearing and disappearing suddenly, with internal coldness
• Angioneurotic-edema
• Dark blotches on skin of penis, sometimes with edema

Dose

Second decimal potency.

Apis Mellifica

(the honey-bee)

• Acts on cellular tissues causing edema of skin and mucous membranes
• The very characteristic effects of the sting of the bee furnish unerring indications for its employment in disease
• Swelling or puffing up of various parts, edema, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat, and slightest touch, and afternoon aggravation are some of the general guiding symptoms
• Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acute, inflammation of kidneys, and other parenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis
• Apis acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, serous membranes
• It produces serous inflammation with effusion, membranes of brain, heart, pleuritic effusion, etc
• Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general soreness is marked
• Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off in the interior of the body
• Much prostration

Mind

• Apathy, indifference, and unconsciousness
• Awkward; drops things readily
• Stupor, with sudden sharp cries and startings
• Stupor alternating with erotic mania
• Sensation of dying
• Listless; cannot think clearly
• Jealous, fidgety, hard to please
• Sudden shrill, piercing screams
• Whining
• Tearfulness
• Jealously, fright, rage, vexation, grief
• Cannot concentrate mind when attempting to read or study

Head

• Whole brain feels very tired
• Vertigo with sneezing, worse on lying or closing eyes
• Heat, throbbing, distensive pains, better on pressure, and worse on motion
• Sudden stabbing pains
• Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as from a blow, extending to neck (better on pressure), accompanied with sexual excitement
• Bores head into pillow and screams out

Eyes

• Lids swollen, red, edematous, everted, inflamed; burn and sting
• Conjunctiva bright red, puffy
• Lachrymation hot
• Photophobia
• Sudden piercing pains
• Pain around orbits
• Serous exudation, edema, and sharp pains. Suppurative inflammation of eyes
• Keratitis with intense chemosis of ocular conjunctiva
• Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation
• Styes, also prevents their recurrence

Ears

External ear red, inflamed, sore; stinging pains

Nose

Coldness of tips of nose

Red, swollen, inflamed, with sharp pains

Face

• Swollen, red, with piercing pain
• Waxy, pale, edematous
• Erysipelas with stinging burning edema
• Extends from right to left

Mouth

• Tongue fiery red, swollen, sore, and raw, with vesicles
• Scalding in mouth and throat
• Tongue feels scalded, red hot, trembling
• Gums swollen
• Lips swollen, especially upper
• Membrane of mouth and throat glossy, as if varnished
• Red, shining, and puffy, like erysipelas
• Cancer of the tongue

Throat

• Constricted, stinging pains
• Uvula swollen, sac-like
• Throat swollen, inside and out; tonsils swollen, puffy, fiery red
• Ulcers on tonsils
• Fiery red margin around leathery membrane
• Sensation of fishbone in throat

Stomach

• Sore feeling
• Thirst less
• Vomiting of food
• Craving for milk [Rhus.]

Abdomen

• Sore, bruised on pressure, when sneezing
• Extremely tender
• Dropsy of abdomen
• Peritonitis
• Swelling in right groin

Stool

• Involuntary on every motion; anus seems open
• Bloody, painless
• Anus feels raw
• Hemorrhoids, with stinging pain, after confinement
• Diarrhea watery, yellow; cholera infantum type
• Cannot urinate without a stool
• Dark, fetid, worse after eating
• Constipation; feels as if something would break on straining

Urine

• Burning and soreness when urinating
• Suppressed, loaded with casts; frequent and involuntary; stinging pain and strangury; scanty, high colored
• Incontinence
• Last drops burn and smart

Female

• Edema of labia; relieved by cold water
• Soreness and stinging pains; ovaritis; worse in right ovary
• Menses suppressed, with cerebral and head symptoms, especially in young girls
• Dysmenorrhoea, with severe ovarian pains
• Metrorrhagia profuse, with heavy abdomen, faintness , stinging pain
• Sense of tightness
• Bearing-down, as if menses were to appear
• Ovarian tumors, metritis with stinging pains
• Great tenderness over abdomen and uterine region

Respiratory

• Hoarseness; dyspnoea, breathing hurried and difficult
• Edema of larynx
• Feels as if he could not draw another breath
• Suffocation; short, dry cough, suprasternal
• Hydrothorax

Extremities

• Edematous
• Synovitis
• Felon in beginning
• Knee swollen, shiny, sensitive, sore, with stinging pain
• Feet swollen and stiff
• Feel too large
• Rheumatic pain in back and limbs; Tired, bruised feeling
• Numbness of hands and tips of fingers
• Hives with intolerable itching
• Edematous swellings

Skin

• Swellings after bites; sore, sensitive
• Stinging
• Erysipelas, with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue
• Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pain. [Ars.; Anthrac.]
• Sudden puffing up of whole body

Sleep

• Very drowsy
• Dreams full of care and toil
• Screams and sudden starting during sleep

Fever

• Afternoon chill, with thirst; worse on motion and heat
• External heat, with smothering feeling
• Sweat slight, with sleepiness
• Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently
• Sleeps after the fever paroxysm
• After perspiration, nettle rash, also with shuddering

Modalities

• Worse, heat in any form; touch; pressure; late in afternoon; after sleeping; in closed and heated rooms
• Right side
• Better, in open air, uncovering, and cold bathing

Relationship

Complementary.

: Nat. mur.

The “chronic”, Apis.; also Baryta carb., if lymphatics are involved.

Inimical. Rhus. Compare : Apium virus (auto-toxaemia, with pus products);Zinc.; Canth.; Vespa; Lachesis.

Dose

Tincture to thirtieth potency.

In edematous conditions the lower potencies.

Sometimes action is slow; so several days elapse before it is seen to act, and then urine is increased.

Apium virus, sixth trituration.

Apium Graveolens

(common celery)

• Contains a soporific active principle
• Obstinate retention of urine, throbbing headaches and heartburn, have been produced by celery
• Swelling of throat, face, and hands
• Rheumatic pain in muscles of neck also in sacrum
• Growing pains
• Hungry for apples
• Dysmenorrhoea, with sharp, short pains, better flexing legs

Head

• Depressed; energetic; feeling of fidgets; cannot sleep from thinking
• Headache; better eating
• Eyeballs feel sunken
• Itching in eyes
• Itching and smarting in inner canthus of left eye

Abdomen

• Sore; sharp sticking pain as if stool was coming on; diarrhoea, sharp pain in left iliac region going over to right
• Nausea increases with pains

Female

• Sharp sticking pains in both ovarian regions, left, better bending over, by lying on left side, with legs flexed; nipples tender

Respiratory

• Tickling, dry cough
• Intense constriction over sternum, with drawing feeling through to back on lying down
• Throat swollen, dyspnoea

Skin

• Itching blotches; burning, creeping sensation
• Profuse discharge from granulating ulcers
• Urticaria with shuddering

Sleep

• Unrefreshed; sleepless
• Wakes from 1 to 3 a.m
• Eating does not help sleep
• Not fatigued from loss of sleep

Dose

First to thirtieth potency

Apocynum Androsaemifolium

(dogbane)

• The rheumatic symptoms of this remedy promise most curative results
• Its pains are of a wandering nature, with much stiffness and drawing
• Everything smells and tastes like honey
• Worms
• Trembling and prostration
• Swollen sensations

Extremities

• Pain in all joints
• Pain in toes and soles
• Swelling of hands and feet
• Profuse sweat, with much heat in soles
• Tingling pain in toes
• Cramps in soles
• Violent heat in soles [Sulph.]

Dose

Tincture and first potency.

Apocynum Cannabinum

(indian hemp)

• Increases secretions of mucous and serous membranes and acts on cellular tissue, producing edema and dropsy and on skin causing diaphoresis
• Acute hydrocephalus
• A diminished frequency of the pulse is a prime indication
• This is one of our most efficient remedies, in dropsies, ascites, anasarca and hydrothorax, and urinary troubles, especially suppression and strangury
• In the digestive complaints of Bright’s disease, with the nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, difficult breathing, it will be found of frequent service
• The dropsy is characterized by great thirst and gastric irritability
• Arrhythmia
• Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation
• Acute alcoholism
• Relaxation of sphincters

Mind

• Bewildered
• Low spirited

Nose

• Long-continued sneezing
• Snuffles of children [Sambucus.]
• Chronic nasal catarrh with tendency to acute stuffiness with dull, sluggish memory
• Dull headache
• Takes cold easily, nostrils become congested and blocked up easily

Stomach

• Nausea, with drowsiness
• Thirst on walking
• Excessive vomiting
• Food or water is immediately ejected
• Dull, heavy, sick feeling
• Oppression in epigastrium and chest, impeding breathing [Lobelia infl.]
• Sensation of sinking in stomach
• Abdomen bloated
• Ascites

Stool

• Watery, flatulent, with soreness in anus; worse after eating
• Feeling as if sphincter were open and stools ran right out

Urine

• Bladder much distended
• Turbid, hot urine, with thick mucus and burning in urethra, after urinating
• Little expulsive power
• Dribbling
• Strangury
• Renal Dropsy

Female

• Amenorrhoea, with bloating; metrorrhagia with nausea; fainting, vital depression
• Hemorrhages at change of life
• Blood expelled in large clots

Respiratory

• Short, dry cough
• Respiratory short and unsatisfactory
• Sighing
• Oppression about epigastrium and chest

Heart

• Tricuspid regurgitation; rapid and feeble, irregular cardiac action, low arterial tension, pulsating jugulars, general cyanosis and general dropsy

Sleep

• Great restlessness and little sleep

Modalities

• Worse, cold weather; cold drinks; uncovering

Relationship

Cymarin is the active principle of Apocyn., lowers pulse rate and increases blood-pressure.

Strophanthus (extreme cardiac depression with intense gastric disturbance; dropsy).

Aralia hispida – Wild Elder – a valuable diuretic, useful in dropsy of the cavities, either due to hepatic or renal disease with constipation.

Urinary disorders, especially with dropsy.

Scudder advises doses of five to thirty drops in sweetened cream of tartar, (Solution).

Apis., Arsenic, Digital.; Helleb.

Dose

Tincture (ten drops three times daily) and in acute alcoholism 1 dram of decoction in 4 oz. water.

Apomorphinum Hydrochloricum

(alkaloid from decomposition of morphine by hydrochloric acid)

• The chief power of this drug lies in the speedy and effective vomiting that it produces, which becomes a strong guiding symptom to its homoeopathic use
• The vomiting is preceded by nausea, lassitude and increased secretion of sweat, saliva, mucus and tears
• Pneumonia with vomiting
• Combined alcoholism, with constant nausea, constipation, insomnia

Head and stomach

• Vertigo
• Dilated pupils
• Nausea and vomiting
• Violent inclination to vomit
• Hot feeling all over body, especially head
• Empty retching and headache; heartburn; pain between shoulder-blades
• Reflex vomiting – pregnancy
• Seasickness

Non-homoeopathic uses

• The hypodermic injection of one-sixteenth of a grain will cause full emesis within five to fifteen minutes in an adult without developing any other direct action apparently
• Do not use in opium poisoning
• Apomorph hypodermically, one-thirtieth grain or less, acts as a safe and sure hypnotic
• Acts well even in delirium
• Sleep comes on in half an hour

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

Aquilegia Vulgaris

(columbine)

• A remedy for hysteria
• Globus and clayus hystericus
• Women at climaxis, with vomiting of green substance, especially in the morning
• Sleeplessness
• Nervous trembling of body; sensitive to light and noise
• Dysmenorrhoea of young girls

Female

• Menses scanty, with dull, painful, nightly increasing pressure in the right lumbar region

Dose

First potency.

Aragallus Lamberti

(white loco weed – rattle weed)

• Acts principally on nervous system, producing a bewildered, confused state
• Symptoms of incoordination and paralysis
• Locomotor ataxia
• Tired in the morning

Mind

• Great depression; worse in morning or evening
• Cannot study
• Cross, irritable, restless
• Bewildered
• Mental confusion and apathy
• Desires to be alone
• Difficulty in concentrating mind, absent-minded
• Lack of ambition
• Defective expression in writing
• Restlessness and aimless wandering
• Must concentrate his mind on walking

Head

• Diplopia
• Burning in eyes
• Cracking of lower lip

Throat

• Aches
• Feels dull
• Sore with nausea
• Pharynx dark, swollen, glazed

Respiratory

• Weight on chest in region of ensiform cartilage
• Constriction as of a wide band
• Soreness of chest under sternum
• Oppression

Extremities

• Weakness of limbs
• Pain in left sciatic nerve
• Cramps of muscles on front of leg while walking

Relationship

Compare : Astragallus and Oxytropis, two varieties of Loco Weed; also Baryta.

Dose

Sixth and two hundredth potencies.

Aralia Racemosa

(american spikenard)

• This is a remedy for asthmatic conditions, with cough aggravated on lying down
• Drenching sweat during sleep
• Extreme sensitiveness to draughts
• Diarrhea, prolapse of rectum
• Aching in rectum extending upwards; worse lying on side lain upon

Respiratory

• Dry cough coming on after first sleep, about middle of night
• Asthma on lying down at night with spasmodic cough; worse after first sleep, with tickling in throat
• Constriction of chest; feels as if a foreign body were in throat
• Obstruction worse in spring
• Hay-fever; frequent sneezing
• Rawness and burning behind sternum
• The least current of air causes sneezing, with copious watery, excoriating nasal  discharge, of salty acrid taste

Female

• Menses suppressed; leucorrhoea foul-smelling, acrid, with pressing-down air
• Lochia suppressed, with tympanites

Modalities

Worse about 11 p.m. (cough).

Relationship

Compare : Pecten-Scallop (humid asthma. Quick, labored breathing. Constriction of chest, especially right side. Asthma preceded by coryza and burning in throat and chest. Attacks ends with copious expectoration of tough, frothy mucus. Worse at night.) Ars. iod.; Naphthaline; Cepa; Rosa; Sabad.; Sinapis.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

Aranea Diadema

(papal-cross spider)

• All spider poisons powerfully affect the nervous system (See tarentula, Mygale, etc.)
• All symptoms of Aranea are characterized by periodicity, and coldness, and great susceptibility to dampness
• It is the remedy for the constitution favorable to malarial poisoning, where every damp day or place favors chilliness
• Patient feels cold to the very bones
• Coldness not relieved by anything
• Wake up at night with hands feeling twice their natural size
• Spleen swollen

Head

• Pain in right trifacial nerve from periphery inwards
• Confusion; better by smoking in open air
• Heat and flickering in eyes; worse in damp weather
• Sudden violent pain in teeth at night immediately after lying down

Female

• Menses too early, too copious
• Distention of abdomen
• Lumbo-abdominal neuralgia

Chest

• Pain in intercostal nerve from nerve endings to spine
• Bright red hemorrhage from lungs [Millefol.; Ferr. phos.]

Stomach

• Cramps after eating a little; epigastrium painful to pressure

Abdomen

• Enlarged spleen
• Colic returns same hours
• Heaviness in lower abdomen, as of a stone
• Diarrhea
• Arms and legs feel as if asleep

Extremities

• Bone-pains in extremities
• Pain in os calcis
• Sensation of swelling, and of parts going to sleep

Sleep

• Restless and waking, as if hands and forearms were swollen and heavy

Fever

• Coldness, with pain in long bones, and feeling of stone in abdomen at the same hour daily
• Chilly day and night; always worse during rain

Modalities

• Worse, damp weather; late in afternoon, and at midnight
• Better, smoking tobacco

Relationship

Tela araneae – Spider’s web.

Cardiac sleeplessness, increased muscular energy.

Excitement and nervous agitation in febrile states.

Dry asthma, harassing coughs; periodic headaches with extreme nervous erethism.

Obstinate intermittents.

Acts immediately on arterial system, pulse full, strong, compressible.

Lowers pulse rate frequency.

Masked periodical diseases, hectic, broken down patients.

Symptoms come on suddenly with cool, clammy skin.

Numbness of hands and legs when at rest.

Continued chilliness.

Aranea Scinencia – Grey Spider – (constant twitching of under eyelids. Sleepiness. Worse in warm room.)

Heloderma; Cedron; Arsenic.

Dose

Tincture to thirtieth potency.

Arbutus Andrachne

(strawberry tree)

• A remedy for eczema associated with gouty and rheumatic symptoms
• Arthritis; especially larger joints
• Urine rendered more clear
• Lumbago
• Symptoms shift from skin to joints
• Vesical symptoms

Relationship

Arbutin; Ledum; Bryonia; Kalmia.

Dose

Tincture, to third potency.

Areca Catechu

(betel nut)

• Of use in Helminthiasis
• Its alkaloid, Areolin Hydrobrom contracts the pupil, acting more promptly and energetically but of shorter duration than Eserine
• Serviceable in glaucoma
• Acts also as a salivatory like Pilocarpin
• Also increases the amplitude of pulsations of the heart and promotes the contractibility of the intestines

Argemone Mexicana

(prickly poppy)

• Colicky cramp and spasm of bowels
• Painful neuro-muscular conditions, preventing sleep
• Rheumatic disease associated with Bright’s disease (D. MacFarlan)

Head

• Throbbing headache in eyes and temples
• Head hot
• Throat very dry, pain on swallowing

Stomach

• Feels sick, like vomiting
• Griping in pit of stomach
• No appetite
• Belching and passing gas

Urinary

• Passes less urine
• Changing color

Female

• Menses suppressed
• Diminished sexual desire with weakness

Extremities

• Left knee stiff and painful
• Feet swollen

Modalities

• Worse at noon(weakness)

Dose

Sixth potency.

Fresh juice is applied to ulcers and warts.

Argentum Metallicum

(silver)

• Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnoea, sensation of expansion and left-sided pains are characteristic
• The chief action is centered on the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartilages, and ligaments
• Here the small blood vessels become closed up or withered and carious affections result
• They come on insidiously, lingering, but progress
• The larynx is also a special center for this drug

Mental

• Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy

Head

• Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually increasing and ceasing suddenly
• Scalp very tender to touch
• Vertigo, with intoxicated feeling, on looking at running water
• Head feels empty, hollow
• Eyelids red and thick
• Exhausting coryza, with sneezing
• Pain in facial bones
• Pain between left eye and frontal eminence

Throat

• Raw, hawking, gray, jelly-like mucus, and throat sore on coughing
• Profuse and easy morning expectoration

Respiratory

• Hoarseness Aphonia
• Raw, sore feeling when coughing
• Total loss of voice of professional singers
• Larynx feels sore and raw
• Easy expectoration, looking like boiled starch. Feeling of raw spot near supra sternal fossa
• Worse from use of voice
• Cough from laughing
• Hectic fever at noon
• On reading aloud, must hem and hawk
• Great weakness of chest; worse left side
• Alteration in timbre of voice
• Pain in left lower ribs

Back

• Severe backache; must walk bent, with oppression of chest

Urine

• Diuresis
• Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor
• Frequent urination
• Polyuria

Extremities

• Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow and knee
• Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs
• Involuntary contractions of fingers, partial paralysis of forearm; writer’s cramp
• Swelling of ankles

Male

• Crushed pain in testicles
• Seminal emissions, without sexual excitement
• Frequent micturation with burning

Female

• Ovaries feel too large
• Bearing-down pain
• Prolapse of womb
• Eroded spongy cervix
• Leucorrhoea foul, excoriating
• Palliative in scirrhus of uterus
• Pain in left ovary
• Climateric hemorrhage
• Sore feeling; throughout abdomen; worse by jarring
• Uterine disease with pain in joints and limbs

Modalities

• Worse from touch, toward noon
• Better in open air; cough at night when lying down (opposite Hyoscy)

Relationship

Antidotes : Mercur.; Puls.

Compare : Selen.; Alum.; Platina.; Stannum; Ampelopsis. (Chronic hoarseness in

scrofulous patients).

Dose

Sixth trituration and higher.

Not too frequent repetition.

Argentum Nitricum

(nitrate of silver)

• In this drug the neurotic effects are very marked, many brain and spinal symptoms presenting; themselves which give certain indications for its homoeopathic employment
• Symptoms of inco-ordination, loss of control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically; trembling in affected parts
• Is an irritant of mucous membranes, producing violent inflammation of the throat, and a marked gastro-enteritis
• Very characteristic is the great desire for sweets, the splinter-like pains, and free mucopurulent discharge in the inflamed and ulcerated mucous membranes
• Sensation as if a part were expanding and other errors of perception are characteristic
• Withered up and dried constitutions present a favorable field for its action, especially when associated with unusual or long continued mental exertion
• Head symptoms often determine the choice of this remedy
• Pains increase and decrease gradually
• Flatulent state and prematurely aged look
• Explosive belching especially in neurotics
• Upper abdominal affections brought on by undue mental exertion
• Paraplegia Myelitis and disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord
• Intolerance of heat
• Sensation of a sudden pinch. (Dudgeon)
• Destroys red blood corpuscles, producing anemia

Mind

• Thinks his understanding will and must fail
• Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window
• Faintish and tremulous
• Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease
• Time passes slowly [Cann. ind.]
• Memory weak
• Errors of perception
• Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry [Lilium.]
• Peculiar mental impulses
• Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational motives for actions

Head

• Headache with coldness and trembling
• Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemi-cranial attacks
• Sense of expansion
• Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling
• Headache from mental exertion, from dancing
• Vertigo, with buzzing in ears and with nervous affections
• Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye
• Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure
• Itching of scalp
• Hemi-crania; bones of head feel as if separated

Eyes

• Inner canthi swollen and red
• Spots before the vision
• Blurred vision
• Photophobia in warm room
• Purulent ophthalmia
• Great swelling of conjunctiva; discharge abundant and purulent
• Chronic ulceration of margin of lids; sore, thick, swollen
• Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily
• Eye-strain from sewing; worse in warm room
• Aching, tired feeling in eyes, better closing or pressing upon them
• Useful in restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscles
• Paretic condition of ciliary muscle
• Acute granular conjunctivitis
• Cornea opaque
• Ulcer in cornea

Nose

• Loss of smell
• Itching
• Ulcers in septum
• Coryza, with chilliness, lachrymation, and headache

Face

• Sunken, old, pale, and bluish
• Old man’s look; tight drawing of skin over bones

Mouth

• Gums tender and bleed easily
• Tongue has prominent papillae; tip is red and painful
• Pain in sound teeth
• Taste coppery, like ink
• Canker sores

Throat

• Much thick mucus in throat and mouth causes hawking
• Raw, rough and sore
• Sensation of a splinter in throat on swallowing
• Dark redness of throat
• Catarrh of smokers, with tickling as of hair in throat
• Strangulated feeling

Stomach

• Belching accompanies most gastric ailments
• Nausea, retching, vomiting of glairy mucus
• Flatulence; painful swelling of pit
• Painful spot over stomach that radiates to all parts of the abdomen
• Gnawing ulcerating pain; burning and constriction
• Ineffectual effort at eructation
• Great craving for sweets
• Gastritis of drunkards
• Ulcerative pain in left side under ribs
• Trembling and throbbing in stomach
• Enormous distention
• Ulceration of stomach, with radiating pain
• Desire for cheese and salt

Abdomen

• Colic, with much flatulent distention
• Stitchy ulcerative pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs

Stool

• Watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like chopped spinach, with shreddy mucus and enormous distention of abdomen; very offensive
• Diarrhea immediately after eating or drinking
• Fluids go right through him; after sweets
• After any emotion with flatulence
• Itching of anus

Urine

• Urine passes unconsciously, day and night
• Urethra inflamed, with pain, burning, itching; pain as from a splinter
• Urine scanty and dark
• Emission of a few drops after having finished
• Divided stream
• Early stage of gonorrhea; profuse discharge and terrible cutting pains; bloody urine

Male

• Impotence
• Erection fails when coition is attempted
• Cancer-like ulcers
• Desire wanting
• Genitals shrivel
• Coition painful

Female

• Gastralgia at beginning of menses
• Intense spasm of chest muscles
• Orgasms at night
• Nervous erethism at change of life
• Leucorrhoea profuse, with erosion of cervix
• Bleeding easily
• Uterine hemorrhage, two weeks after menses; Painful affections of left ovary

Respiratory

• High notes cause cough
• Chronic hoarseness
• Suffocative cough, as if from a hair in throat
• Dyspnoea
• Chest feels as if a bar were around it
• Palpitation, pulse irregular and intermittent; worse lying on right side; [Alumen.]
• Painful spots in chest
• Angina pectoris, nightly aggravation
• Many people in a room seem to take away his breath

Back

• Much pain
• Spine sensitive with nocturnal pains, [Oxal. acid.] paraplegia; posterior spinal sclerosis

Extremities

• Cannot walk with eyes closed
• Trembling, with general debility
• Paralysis, with mental and abdominal symptoms
• Rigidity of calves
• Debility in calves especially
• Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when unobserved
• Numbness of arms
• Post-diphtheritic paralysis (after Gelsem.)

Skin

• Brown, tense, and hard
• Drawing in skin, as from a spider-web, or dried albuminous substance, withered and dried up
• Irregular blotches

Sleep

• Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination; horrible dreams of snakes, and of sexual gratification
• Drowsy stupor

Fever

• Chills with nausea
• Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up

Modalities

• Worse, warmth in any form; at night; from cold food; sweets; after eating; at menstrual period; from emotions, left side
• Better, from eructation; fresh air; cold; pressure

Relationship

Antidote : Nat. mur.

Compare : Ars.; Merc.; Phos.; Pulsat. Argent. cyanatum (angina pectoris, asthma, spasm of oesophagus) Argent. iodat. (throat disorders, hoarseness, gland affected.)

Protargol (gonorrhoea after acute stage 2 per cent. solution; syphilitic mucous patches, chancres and chancroids, 10 per cent. solution applied twice a day; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2 drops of 10 per cent. solution).

Argent. phosph. (An excellent diuretic in dropsy.)

Argent. oxyd. (Chlorosis with menorrhagia and diarrhoea.)

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Best form an aqueous solution 1 to 9, 2 or 3 drops doses.

This solution in water preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh, these readily decompose into the oxide.

Aristolochia Milhomens

(brazilian snake root)

• Stitching pains in various parts
• Pain in heels, burning in anus and frequent irritation
• Flatulence in stomach and abdomen
• Pain in back and extremities
• Stiffness of legs
• Pain in tendo-Achillis
• Itching and swelling around the malleoli

Relationship

Compare : Aristolochia Serpentaria – Virginia Snake Root – (Symptoms of intestinal tract; colliquative diarrhoea, meteorism. Flatulent dyspepsia. Brain congestion. Distention and cutting pains in abdomen. Symptoms like those of Poison-Oak).

Dose

Lower potencies.

Arnica Montana

(leopard’s bane)

• Produces conditions upon the system quite similar to those resulting from injuries, falls, blows, contusions
• Tinnitus aurium
• Putrid phenomena
• Septic conditions; prophylactic of pus infection
• Apoplexy, red, full face
• It is especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems to have caused the present trouble
• Arnica is disposed to cerebral congestion
• Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with impoverished blood, cardiac dropsy with dyspnoea
• A muscular tonic
• Traumatism of grief, remorse or sudden realization of financial loss
• Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained
• Bed feels too hard
• Marked effect on the blood
• Affects the venous system inducing stasis
• Echymosis and hemorrhages
• Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots
• Tendency to hemorrhage and low-fever states
• Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not mature
• Neuralgias originating in disturbances of pneumo-gastric
• Rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders
• Aversion to tobacco
• Thrombosis
• Haematocele

Mind

• Fears touch, or the approach of anyone
• Unconscious; when spoken to answers correctly, but relapses
• Indifference; inability to perform continuous active work; morose, delirious
• Nervous; cannot bear pain; whole body oversensitive
• Says there is nothing the matter with him
• Wants to be let alone
• Agoraphobia (fear of space)
• After mental strain or shock

Head

• Hot, with cold body; confused; sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching pains
• Scalp feels contracted
• Cold spot on forehead
• Chronic vertigo; objects whirl about especially when walking

Eyes

• Diplopia from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal hemorrhage
• Bruised, sore feeling in eyes after close work
• Must keep eyes open
• Dizzy on closing them
• Feel tired and weary after sight-seeing, moving pictures, etc

Ears

• Noises in ear caused by rush of blood to the head
• Shooting in and around ears
• Blood from ears
• Dullness of hearing after concussion
• Pain in cartilages of ears as if bruised

Nose

• Bleeding after every fit of coughing, dark fluid blood
• Nose feels sore; cold

Mouth

• Fetid breath
• Dry and thirsty
• Bitter taste [Colocy.]
• Taste as from bad eggs
• Soreness of gums after teeth extraction [Sepia.]
• Empyema of maxillary sinus

Face

• Sunken; very red
• Heat in lips
• Herpes in face

Stomach

• Longing for vinegar
• Distaste for milk and meat
• Canine hunger
• Vomiting of blood
• Pain in stomach during eating
• Repletion with loathing
• Oppressive gases pass upward and downward
• Pressure as from a stone
• Feeling as if stomach were pressing against spine
• Fetid vomiting

Abdomen

• Stitches under false ribs
• Distended; offensive flatus
• Sharp thrusts through abdomen

Stool

• Straining of tenesmus in diarrhoea. Offensive, brown, bloody, putrid, involuntary
• Looks like brown yeast
• Must lie down after every stool
• Diarrhoea of consumption; worse lying on left side
• Dysenteric stools with muscular pains

Urine

• Retained from over-exertion
• Dark brick-red sediment
• Vesical tenesmus with very painful micturition

Female

• Bruised parts after labor
• Violent after-pains
• Uterine hemorrhage from mechanical injury after coition
• Sore nipples
• Mastitis from injury
• Feeling as if foetus were lying crosswise

Respiratory

• Coughs depending on cardiac lesion, paroxysmal, at night, during sleep, worse exercise
• Acute tonsillitis, swelling of soft palate and uvula
• Pneumonia; approaching paralysis
• Hoarseness from overuse of voice
• Raw, sore feeling in morning
• Cough produced by weeping and lamenting
• Dry, from tickling low down in trachea
• Bloody expectoration
• Dyspnoea with haemoptysis
• All bones and cartilages of chest painful
• Violent spasmodic cough, with facial herpes
• Whooping cough, child cries before coughing
• Pleurodynia [Ranunc.; Cimicif.]

Heart

• Angina pectoris; pain especially severe in elbow of left arm
• Stitches in heart
• Pulse feeble and irregular
• Cardiac dropsy with distressing dyspnoea
• Extremities distended, feel bruised and sore
• Fatty heart and hypertrophy

Extremities

• Gout
• Great fear of being touched or approached
• Pain in back and limbs, as if bruised or beaten
• Sprained and dislocated feeling
• Soreness after overexertion
• Everything on which he lies seems too hard
• Deathly coldness of forearm
• Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain in pelvic region
• Rheumatism begins low down and works up [Ledum.]

Skin

• Black and blue
• Itching, burning, eruption of small pimples
• Crops of small boils [Ichthyol; Silica.]
• Ecchymosis
• Bed sores [Bovinine locally.]
• Acne indurata, characterized by symmetry in distribution

Sleep

• Sleepless and restless when overtired
• Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible
• Horrors in the night
• Involuntary stools during sleep

Fever

• Febrile symptoms closely related to typhoid
• Shivering over whole body
• Heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest of body
• Internal heat; feet and hands cold
• Nightly sour sweats

Modalities

• Worse, least touch; motion; rest; wine; damp cold
• Better, lying down, or with head low

Relationship

Antidotes : Camph.

Vitex trifolia.

– Indian Arnica. (Sprains and pains, headache in temples, pain in joints; pain in abdomen; pain in testicles.)

Complementary : Acon.; Ipec.

Compare : Acon.; Bapt.; Bellis; Hamam; Rhus.; Hyperic.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Locally, the tincture, but should never be applied hot or at all when abrasions or cuts are

present.

Arsenicum Album

(arsenious acid) – arsenic trioxide

• A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue
• Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease make its homoeopathic employment constant and certain
• Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful application
• Among these the all-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation, are most important
• Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion
• This, with the peculiar irritability of fibre, gives the characteristic irritable weakness
• Burning pains
• Unquenchable thirst
• Burning relieved by heat
• Seaside complaints [Nat. mur.; Aqua Marina]
• Injurious effects of fruits, especially more watery ones
• Gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency
• Fear fright and worry
• Green discharges
• Infantile Kala-azar. (Dr. Neatby)
• Anemia and chlorosis
• Degenerative changes
• Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition
• Reduces the refractive index of blood serum (also China and Ferr. phos.)
• Maintains the system under the stress of malignancy regardless of location
• Malarial cachexia

Mind

• Great anguish and restlessness. Changes place continually. Fears, of death, of being left alone
• Great fear, with cold sweat
• Thinks it useless to take medicine
• Suicidal
• Hallucinations of smell and sight
• Despair drives him from place to place
• Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage
• General sensibility increased [Hep.]
• Sensitive to disorder and confusion

Head

• Headaches relieves by cold, other symptoms worse
• Periodical burning pains, with restlessness; with cold skin
• Hemicrania, with icy feeling of scalp and great weakness
• Sensitive head in open air
• Delirium tremens; cursing and raving; vicious
• Head is in constant motion
• Scalp itches intolerably; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and covered with dry scales; nightly burning and itching; dandruff
• Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair

Eyes

• Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrymation
• Lids red, ulcerated, scabby, scaly, granulated
• Oedema around eyes
• External inflammation, with extreme painfulness; burning, hot, and excoriating lachrymation
• Corneal ulceration
• Intense photophobia; better external warmth
• Ciliary neuralgia, with fine burning pain

Ears

• Skin within, raw and burning
• Thin, excoriating, offensive otorrhoea
• Roaring in ears, during a paroxysm of pain

Nose

• Thin, watery, excoriating discharge
• Nose feels stopped up
• Sneezing without relief
• Hay-fever and coryza; worse in open air; better indoors
• Burning and bleeding
• Acne of nose
• Lupus

Face

• Swollen, pale, yellow, cachectic, sunken, cold, and covered with sweat. [Acetic acid.]
• Expression of agony
• Tearing needle-like pains; burning
• Lips black, livid
• Angry, circumscribed flush of cheeks

Mouth

• Unhealthy, easily-bleeding gums
• Ulceration of mouth with dryness and burning heat
• Epithelioma of lips
• Tongue dry, clean, and red; stitching and burning pain in tongue, ulcerated with blue color
• Bloody saliva
• Neuralgia of teeth; feel long and very sore; worse after midnight; better warmth
• Metallic taste
• Gulping up of burning water

Throat

Swollen, oedematous, constricted, burning, unable to swallow

Diphtheritic membrane, looks dry and wrinkled

Stomach

• Cannot bear the sight or smell of food. Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time
• Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or drinking
• Anxiety in pit of stomach
• Burning pain
• Craves acids and coffee
• Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat
• Long-lasting eructations
• Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or brown-black mixed with blood
• Stomach extremely irritable; seems raw, as if torn
• Gastralgia from slightest food or drink
• Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco
• Terrible fear and dyspnoea, with gastralgia; also faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion
• Malignant symptoms
• Everything swallowed seems to lodge in the esophagus, which seems as if closed and nothing would pass
• Ill effects of vegetable diet, melons, and watery fruits generally
• Craves milk

Abdomen

• Gnawing, burning pains like coals of fire; relieved by heat
• Liver and spleen enlarged and painful
• Ascites and anasarca
• Abdomen swollen and painful
• Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing

Rectum

• Painful, spasmodic protrusion of rectum
• Tenesmus
• Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus

Stool

• Small, offensive, dark, with much prostration. Worse at night, and after eating and drinking; from chilling stomach, alcoholic abuse, spoiled meat
• Dysentery dark, bloody, very offensive
• Cholera, with intense agony, prostration, and burning thirst
• Body cold as ice. [Verat.]
• Hemorrhoids burn like fire; relieved by heat
• Skin excoriated about anus

Urine

• Scanty, burning, involuntary
• Bladder as if paralyzed
• Albuminous
• Epithelial cells; cylindrical clots of fibrin and globules of pus and blood
• After urinating, feeling of weakness in abdomen
• Bright’s disease
• Diabetes

Female

• Menses too profuse and too soon
• Burning in ovarian region
• Leucorrhoea, acrid, burning, offensive, thin
• Pain as from red-hot wires; worse least exertion; causes great fatigue; better in warm room
• Menorrhagia
• Stitching pain in pelvis extending down the thigh

Respiratory

• Unable to lie down; fears suffocation
• Air-passages constricted
• Asthma worse midnight
• Burning in chest
• Suffocative catarrh
• Cough worse after midnight; worse lying on back
• Expectoration scanty, frothy
• Darting pain through upper third of right lung
• Wheezing respiration
• Haemoptysis with pain between shoulders; burning heat all over
• Cough dry, as from sulphur fumes; after drinking

Heart

• Palpitation, pain, dyspnoea, faintness
• Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers
• Pulse more rapid in morning. [Sulph.]
• Dilatation
• Cyanosis
• Fatty degeneration
• Angina pectoris, with pain in neck and occiput

Back

• Weakness in small of back
• Drawing in of shoulders
• Pain and burning in back. [Oxal. ac.]

Extremities

• Trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness
• Cramps in calves
• Swelling of feet
• Sciatica
• Burning pains
• Peripheral neuritis
• Diabetic gangrene
• Ulcers on heel [Cepa; Lamium]
• Paralysis of lower limbs with atrophy

Skin

• Itching, burning, swellings; oedema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching
• Malignant pustules
• Ulcers with offensive discharge
• Anthrax
• Poisoned wounds
• Urticaria, with burning and restlessness
• Psoriasis
• Scirrhus
• Icy coldness of body
• Epithelioma of the skin
• Gangrenous inflammations

Sleep

• Disturbed, anxious, restless
• Must have head raised by pillows
• Suffocative fits during sleep
• Sleeps with hands over head
• Dreams are full of care and fear
• Drowsy, sleeping sickness

Fever

• High temperature
• Periodicity marked with adynamia
• Septic fevers
• Intermittent
• Paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion
• Hay-fever
• Cold sweats
• Typhoid, not too early; often after Rhus
• Complete exhaustion
• Delirium; worse after midnight
• Great restlessness
• Great heat about 3 a.m
• Sordes

Modalities

• Worse, wet weather, after midnight; from cold, cold drinks, or food
• Seashore
• Right side
• Better from heat; from head elevated; warm drinks
• Complementary : Rhus; Carbo; Phos. Thuja; Secale
• Antidotal to lead poison
• Antidotes : Opium; Carbo; China; Hepar; Nux
• Chemical Antidotes : Charcoal; Hydrated Peroxide of Iron; Lime Water
• Compare : Arsenic. stibatum 3x (Chest inflammations of children, restlessness with thirst and prostration, loose mucous cough, oppression, hurried respiration, crepitant rales)
• Cenchris contortrix; Iod.; Phosph.; China; Verat. alb.; Carbo; Kali phos. Epilobium (intractable diarrhoea of typhoid)
• Hoang Nan. Atoxyl.
• Sodium arseniate 3x, sleeping sickness; commencing optic atrophy
• Levico Water – (containing Ars., Iron and Copper of South Tyrol)
• Chronic and dyscratic skin diseases, chorea minor and spasms in scrofulous and anemic children
• Favors assimilation and increases nutrition
• Debility and skin diseases, especially after the use of higher potencies where progress seems suspended

Dose

• Ten drops in wine glass of warm water 3 times a day after meals (Burnett)
• Sarcolatic acid (influenza with violent vomiting)

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

The very highest potencies often yield brilliant results.

Low attenuations in gastric, intestinal, and kidney diseases; higher in neuralgias, nervous diseases, and skin.

But if only surface conditions call for it, give the lowest potencies, 2x to 3x trit.

Repeated doses advisable.

Arsenicum Bromatum

(bromide of arsenic)

• Has proven a great anti-psoric and anti-syphilitic remedy
• Herpetic eruptions, syphilitic excrescences, glandular tumors and indurations, carcinoma, locomotor ataxia, and obstinate intermittents, and diabetes are all greatly influenced by this preparation

Face

• Acne rosacea, with violet papules on nose; worse in the spring
• Acne in young people

Dose

Tincture, two to four drops daily in water.

In diabetes, three drops three times a day in a glass of water.

Arsenicum Hydrogenisatum

(arseniuretted hydrogen)

The general action of Arsenic more accentuated

Anaemia

Anxiety; despair

• Haematuria, with general blood disorganization
• Haemorrhages from mucous membranes
• Urine suppressed, followed by vomiting
• Prepuce and glans covered with pustules and round superficial ulcers
• Collapse
• Coldness; prostration
• Sudden weakness and nausea
• Skin becomes dark brown

Head

• Violent vertigo on going upstairs
• Eyes sunken; broad, blue circles around
• Violent sneezing
• Nose cold
• Must be wrapped up with warm cloths

Mouth

• Tongue enlarged; deep, irregular ulcer; nodular swelling
• Mouth hot and dry; little thirst

Dose

Third potency.

Arsenicum Iodatum

(iodide of arsenic)

• Is to be preferred for persistently irritating, corrosive discharges
• The discharge irritates the membrane from which it flows and over which it flows
• The discharge may be fetid, watery, and the mucous membrane is always red, angry, swollen; itches and burns
• Influenza, hay-fever, old nasal catarrhs, and catarrh of middle ear
• Swelling of tissues within the nose
• Hypertrophied condition of eustachian tube and deafness
• Senile heart, myocarditis and fatty degeneration
• Pulse shotty
• Chronic aortitis
• Epithelioma of the lip
• Cancer of breast after ulceration has set in
• It seems probable that in Arsenic iod., we have a remedy most closely allied to manifestations of tuberculosis
• In the early stages of tuberculosis, even though there is an afternoon rise in temperature, Ars. jod. is very effective
• It will be indicated by a profound prostration, rapid, irritable pulse, recurring fever and sweats, emaciation; tendency to diarrhea
• Chronic pneumonia, with abscess in lung
• Hectic; debility; night sweats
• This remedy is also to be remembered in phthisis with hoarse, racking cough and profuse expectoration of a purulent nature, and attended with cardiac weakness, emaciation and general debility
• For chronic, watery diarrhea
• Used  in cases of emaciation with good appetite; in amenorrhoea, with anaemic palpitation and dyspnoea
• In chronic pneumonia, when abscess is about to form
• Great emaciation
• Arteriosclerosis, myocardial degeneration and senile heart
• Threatened pyaemia. [Pyrog.; Methyl. blue.]

Head

• Vertigo, with tremulous feeling, especially in aged

Nose

• Thin, watery, irritating, excoriating discharge from anterior and posterior nares; sneezing
• Hay-fever
• Irritation and tingling of nose constant desire to sneeze. [Pollanin.]
• Chronic nasal catarrh; swollen nose; profuse, thick, yellow discharge; ulcers; membrane sore and excoriated
• Aggravation by sneezing

Throat

• Burning in pharynx
• Tonsils swollen
• Thick membrane from fauces to lips
• Breath fetid, glandular involvement
• Diphtheria
• Chronic follicular pharyngitis

Eyes and ears

• Scrofulous ophthalmia
• Otitis, with fetid, corrosive discharge
• Thickening of tympanum
• Burning, acrid coryza

Stomach

• Pain and pyrosis
• Vomiting an hour after food
• Nausea distressing
• Pain in epigastrium
• Intense thirst; water is immediately ejected

Respiratory

• Slight hacking cough, with dry and stopped-up nostrils
• Pleuritis exudativa
• Chronic bronchitis
• Pulmonary tuberculosis
• Pneumonia that fails to clear up
• Broncho-pneumonia after grippe
• Cough dry, with little difficult expectoration
• Aphonia

Fever

• Recurrent fever and sweats
• Drenching night-sweats
• Pulse rapid, feeble, weak, irregular
• Chilly, cannot endure cold

Skin

• Dry, scaly, itching
• Marked exfoliation of skin in large scales, leaving a raw exuding surface beneath
• Ichthyosis
• Enlarged scrofulous glands
• Venereal bubo
• Debilitating night-sweats
• Eczema of the beard; watery, oozing, itching; worse, washing
• Emaciation
• Psoriasis
• Acne hard, shotty, indurated base with pustule at apex

Relationship

Compare : Tuberculinum; Antimon. iod.

In hay-fever, compare : Aralia; Naphthalin; Rosa; Sang. nit.

Dose

Second and third trituration.

Ought to be prepared fresh and protected from light.

Continued for some time.

Clinically, it has been found advisable in tuberculosis to begin with about the 4x and gradually go lower to the second x trit., 5 grains 3 times a day.

Arsenicum Metallicum

(metallic arsenic)

• Arouses latent syphilis
• Periodicity very marked; symptoms recur every two and three weeks
• Weakness
• Swollen feeling of parts

Head

• Low spirited, memory weak
• Desire to be alone
• Annoyed by visions, causing her to cry
• Head feels too large
• Left-sided headache up to eyes and into ears
• Headache worse stooping and lying down
• Oedematous swelling of forehead

Face

• Red, itching, burning and bloated
• Eyes swelled and watery, burn with coryza
• Eyes weak, day and gas light unpleasant

Mouth

• The tongue coated white, and shows imprint of the teeth
• Mouth sore and ulcerated

Abdomen

• Sore pain in liver goes through to shoulders and spine
• Pain in spleen down to groin
• Pain in breast extends to hip and spleen.
• Diarrhea, burning watery stools with relief of pain

Dose

Sixth potency.

Arsenicum Sulphuratum Flavum

(yellow sulphuret of arsenic. orpiment)

• Needle pricks from within outwards in chest; also on forehead, right side
• Sticking behind ear
• Difficult respiration
• Skin chafed about genitals
• Leucoderma and squamous syphilides
• Sciatica and pain around the knee

Relationship

Arsenic sulph. rub. (influenza with intense catarrhal symptoms, great prostration and high temperature, purulent discharges, psoriasis, acne, and sciatica. Chilly even before a fire.

Itching in various parts. Pellagra.)

Dose

Third trituration.

Artemisia Vulgaris

(mugwort)

• Has some reputation as a remedy for epileptic conditions, and convulsive diseases of childhood and girls at puberty
• Locally and internally is injurious to eyes
• Epilepsy without aura; after fright and other violent emotions and after masturbation
• Several convulsions close together
• Somnambulism
• Gets up at night and works, remembers nothing in the morning [Kali phos.]

Head

• Drawn back by spasmodic twitchings
• Mouth drawn to left
• Congestion of brain

Eyes

• Colored light produces dizziness
• Pain and blurring of vision; better; rubbing; worse, using eyes

Female

• Profuse menses
• Violent uterine contractions
• Spasms during menses

Fever

• Profuse sweat, smelling like garlic

Relationship

Compare : Absinth.; Cina; Cicuta.

Dose

First to third potency.

Said to act better when given with wine.

Arum Dracontium

(green dragon)

• A remedy for Pharyngitis with sore, raw and tender throat

Head

• Heavy; shooting pain in ears, aching pain behind right ear

Throat

• Dry, sore, worse swallowing
• Raw and tender
• Continued disposition to clear throat
• Croupy, hoarse cough with sore throat

Urinary

• Irresistible desire to pass urine, burns and smarts

Respiratory

• Hoarseness; excess of mucus in larynx
• Asthmatic at night
• Expectoration thick, heavy

Relationship

Arum Italicum. (Brain-fag, with headache in occipital region.)

Arum maculatum (inflammation and ulceration of mucous membranes. Nasal irritation with

polypus).

Dose

First potency.

Arum Triphyllum

(jack-in-the-pulpit)

• Arum maculatum, Italicum, Dracontium, have the same action as the Triphyllum
• They all contain an irritant poison, causing inflammation of mucous surfaces and destruction of tissue
• Acridity is the keynote of the kind of action characteristic of Arum

Head

• Bores head in pillow
• Headache from too warm clothing, from hot coffee

Eyes

• Quivering of upper eyelids, especially left

Nose

• Soreness of nostrils
• Acrid, excoriating discharge, producing raw sores
• Nose obstructed; must breathe through mouth
• Boring in the nose
• Coryza; discharge blood-streaked, watery
• Nose completely stopped, with fluent, acrid discharge
• Hay-fever, with pain over root of nose
• Large scabs high up on right side of nose
• Face feels chapped, as if from cold wind; feels hot
• Constant picking at nose until it bleeds

Mouth

• Raw feeling at roof and palate
• Lips and soft palate sore and burning
• Lips chapped and burning
• Corners of mouth sore and cracked
• Tongue red, sore; whole mouth raw
• Picking lips until they bleed
• Saliva profuse, acrid, corroding

Throat

• Swelling of sub-maxillary glands
• Constricted and swollen; burns; raw
• Constant hawking
• Hoarseness
• Expectoration of much mucus
• Lungs feel sore
• Clergyman’s sore throat
• Voice uncertain, uncontrollable
• Worse, talking, singing

Skin

• Scarlet rash; raw, bloody surfaces anywhere
• Impetigo contagiosa

Modalities

• Worse, northwest wind; lying down

Relationship

Compare : Ammon. carb.; Ailanthus; Cepa.

Antidotes : Buttermilk; Acet. ac.; Puls.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Arundo Mauritanica

(reed)

• A remedy for catarrhal states
• Hay-fever

Head

• Itching; falling off of hair; roots of hair painful
• Pustules
• Pain in occiput, extends to right ciliary region
• Deep seated pain in sides of head

Ears

• Burning and itching in auditory canals
• Eczema behind ears

Nose

• Hay-fever begins with burning and itching of palate and conjunctiva
• Annoying itching in the nostrils and roof of the mouth [Wyethia.] Coryza; loss of smell [Nat. mur.]
• Sneezing, itching of nostrils

Mouth

• Burning and itching; bleeding of gums
• Ulcers and exfoliations in the commissures
• Fissures in tongue

Stomach

• Coldness in stomach
• Longing for acids

Abdomen

• Movement as from something alive
• Flatulence pain at pubic region

Stool

• Greenish
• Burning at anus
• Diarrhea of nursing children. [Cham.; Calc. phos.]

Urine

• Burning
• Red sediment. [Lyc.]

Male

• Pain in spermatic cord after embrace

Female

• Menses too early and profuse
• Neuralgic pains from face to shoulders and pubis
• Desire with vaginal pruritus

Respiratory

• Dyspnoea; cough; bluish expectoration
• Burning and pain in nipples

Extremities

• Itching, burning; edema of hands and feet
• Burning and swelling of soles
• Copious and offensive sweat of feet

Skin

• Eczema; itching and crawling, especially of chest, upper extremities
• Fissures in fingers and heels

Relationship

Compare : anthoxanthum – sweet vernal grass (a popular medicine for hay-fever and coryza)

Lolium; Cepa; Sabad.; Silica.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

Asa Foetida

(gum of the stinkasand)

• The flatulence and spasmodic contraction of stomach and esophagus with reverse peristalsis are the most marked symptoms
• In its selection, its relation to the hysterical and hypochondriacal patients, must be borne in mind
• Besides these superficial symptoms, it has been found to affect favorably deep ulcerations, caries of bones, especially in the syphilitic organism; here the extreme sensitiveness and terrible throbbing, nightly pains, guiding to its use

Head

• Irritable; complains of her troubles; sensitive
• Boring above eyebrows
• Pressive pain from within outward

Eyes

• Orbital neuralgia; better, pressure and rest
• Iritis and intraocular inflammations, with boring, throbbing pains at night
• Stitches under left frontal eminences
• Boring pains in and around eyes
• Syphilitic iritis
• Superficial corneal ulcer with digging pains; worse at night

Ears

• Offensive otorrhoea, with boring pains in mastoid bone
• Mastoid disease with pain in temporal region with pushing out sensation
• Offensive, purulent discharge

Nose

• Syphilitic ozaena, with very offensive purulent discharge
• Caries of nasal bones. [Aurum.]

Throat

• Globus hystericus
• Ball rises in throat
• Sensation as if peristaltic motion were reversed, and esophagus were driven from stomach to throat

Stomach

• Great difficulty in bringing up wind
• Flatulence and regurgitation of liquid
• Hysterical flatulence
• Great distention
• Sensation of emptiness and weakness, with distention and beating in stomach and abdomen
• Forcible eructation of gas
• Pulsation in pit of stomach
• Violent gastralgia; cutting and burning in stomach and region of diaphragm
• Gurgling and rolling of wind, which escapes afterwards with loud and difficult eructation

Female

• Mammae turgid with milk in the unimpregnated
• Deficient milk, with over sensitiveness

Rectum

• Distended, griping, with hunger
• Obstinate constipation
• Pain in perineum, as if something dull pressed out
• Diarrhea, extremely offensive, with meteorism, and regurgitation of food

Chest

• Spasmodic tightness, as if lungs could not be fully expanded
• Palpitation more like a tremor

Bones

• Darting pain and caries in bones
• Periosteum painful, swollen, enlarged
• Ulcers affecting bones; thin, ichorous pus

Skin

• Itching, better scratching; ulcers painful on edges
• Suppressed skin symptoms produce nervous disorders

Modalities

• Worse, at night; from tough; left side, during rest, warm applications
• Better, open air; from motion, pressure

Relationship

Antidotes : China; Mercur.

Compare : Moschus; China; Mercur; Aurum.

Dose

Second to sixth potency.

Asarum Europaeum

(european snake-root)

• A remedy for nervous affections, loss of energy, with excessive erethism
• Scratching on silk or linen or paper unbearable
• Pains and spasmodic muscular actions
• Nervous deafness and asthenopia
• Cold shivers from any emotion
• Feels as if parts were pressed together
• Tension and contractive sensations
• Always feels cold

Mind

• Thoughts vanish, with drawing pressure in forehead
• Sensibility increased, even from mere imagination

Head

• Compressive pain
• Tension of scalp; hair painful. [China.]
• Coryza, with sneezing

Eyes

• Feel stiff; burn; feel cold
• Better, in cold air or water; worse, sunlight and wind
• Darting pains in eyes after operations
• Asthenopia

Ears

• Sensation as if plugged up
• Catarrh with deafness
• Heat of external ear
• Noises

Stomach

• Loss of appetite, flatulence, eructation, and vomiting
• Desire for alcoholic drinks
• Smoking tobacco tastes bitter
• Nausea; worse after eating
• Clean tongue
• Great faintness
• Accumulation of cold, watery saliva

Rectum

• Strings of odorless, yellow mucus pass from bowels
• Diarrhea of tough mucus
• Undigested stools
• Prolapse

Female

• Menses too early, long lasting, black
• Violent pain in small of back
• Tenacious, yellow leucorrhoea

Respiratory

• Nervous, hacking cough
• Short respiration

Back

• Paralytic pain in muscles of nape of neck
• Weakness, with staggering

Fever

• Chilliness, single parts get icy cold
• Easily excited perspiration

Modalities

• Worse, in cold dry weather; penetrating sounds
• Better, from washing; in damp and wet weather

Relationship

Asarum Canadensa – Wild Ginger. (Colds, followed by amenorrhoea and gastro-enteritis.

Suppressed colds.)

Compare : Ipecac., especially in diarrhoea; Silica; Nux; China.

Dose

Third to sixth potency.

Asclepias Cornuti

(silk-weed)

• Seems to act especially on nervous system and urinary organs
• A remedy for dropsy, hepatic, renal or cardiac and post-scarlatinal; causes diaphoresis and augments the urinary secretion
• Acute rheumatic inflammation of large joints
• Intermittent, pressing-down uterine pains

Head

• Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple
• Constriction across forehead
• Nervous headache, after suppressed perspiration, followed by increased urine, with increase of specific gravity
• Headache from retention of effete matters in system

Relationship

Compare : Asclepias Vincetoxicum.

Swallow-wart.

Cynanchum – (A gastro-intestinal irritant, producing vomiting and purgation).

(Useful in dropsy, diabetes, great thirst, profuse urination).

Dose

Tincture form

Asclepias Tuberosa

(pleurisy-root)

• Its action on the chest muscles is most marked and has been verified
• Sick headache, with flatulence in stomach and bowels
• Dyspepsia
• Bronchitis and pleurisy come within its range
• Catarrhal states from cold and damp weather
• Irritation of larynx with huskiness; grip, with pleuritic pain

Respiratory

• Respiration painful, especially at base of left lung
• Dry cough; throat constricted; causes pain in head and abdomen
• Pain in chest; shooting downward from left nipple
• A general eliminative remedy, acting specially on the sudoriparous glands
• Chest pains are relieved by bending forward
• Spaces between ribs close to sternum tender
• Lancinating pain between shoulders
• Catarrh, with frontal headache, and sticky yellow discharge

Stomach

• Fullness, pressure, weight
• Flatulence after meals
• Sensitive to tobacco

Rectum

• Catarrhal dysentery, with rheumatic pains all over
• Stools smell like rotten eggs

Extremities

• Rheumatic joints give sensation as if adhesions being broken up on bending

Relationship

Compare : Asclepias Incarnata – Swamp Milk Weed. (Chronic gastric Catarrh and leucorrhoea. Dropsy with dyspnoea)

Periploca groeca – One of the Asclepiades – (Cardiac tonic, acts on circulation and respiratory centre, accelerating respiration in a ratio disproportionate to pulse.) Bryonia; Dulc.

Dose

Tincture and first potency.

Asimina Triloba

(american papaw)

• Produces a series of symptoms much like scarlet fever; sore throat, fever, vomiting, scarlet eruption; tonsils and submaxillary glands enlarged, with diarrhea
• Fauces red and swollen, face swollen
• Desire for ice-cold things
• Hoarseness
• Languid, drowsy irritable
• Acne
• Itching in evening on undressing

Relationship

Compare : Capsic.; Bellad.

Asparagus Officinalis

(common garden asparagus)

• Its marked and immediate action on the urinary secretion is well known
• It causes weakness and cardiac depression with dropsy
• Rheumatic pains
• Especially about left shoulder and heart

Head

• Confused
• Coryza, with profuse, thin fluid
• Aching in forehead and root of nose
• Migrainious morning headache with scotoma
• Throat feels rough, with hawking copious tenacious mucus throat

Urine

• Frequent, with fine stitches in orifice of urethra; burning; of peculiar odor
• Cystitis, with pus, mucus and tenesmus
• Lithiasis

Heart

• Palpitation, with oppression of chest
• Pulse intermits, weak, pain about left shoulder and heart, associated with bladder disturbances
• Great oppression in breathing
• Hydrothorax

Extremities

• Rheumatic pain in back, especially near shoulder and limbs
• Pain at acromion process of left scapula under clavicle and down arm, with feeble pulse

Relationship

Antidote : Acon.; Apis.

Compare : althea – Marshmallow – (contains asparagin; irritable bladder, throat and bronchi.) Physalis Alkekengi. Digital.; Sarsap.; Spigelia.

Dose

Sixth potency.

Quebracho

(quebracho)

• The digitalis of the lungs (Hale.)
• Removes temporary obstruction to the oxidation of the blood by stimulating respiratory centers, increasing oxidation and excretion of carbonic acid
• Pulmonary stenosis
• Thrombosis of pulmonary artery
• Uraemic dyspnoea
• An effective remedy in many cases of asthma
• It stimulates the respiratory centers and increases the oxygen in the blood
• “Want of breath” during exertion is the guiding symptom
• Cardiac asthma

Relationship

Compare : Coca; Arsenic; Coffea – Catalpa (difficult respiration).

Dose

First trituration of tincture, or Aspidospermin hydrochlorid 1 grain of 1x trit.

Every hour for a few doses.

Astacus Fluviatilis

(crawfish)

• Skin symptoms most important
• Urticaria

Skin

• Nettle-rash over whole body
• Itching
• Crusta lactea, with enlarged lymphatic glands
• Erysipelas, and liver affections with nettle-rash
• Swelling of cervical glands
• Jaundice

Fever

• Inward chilliness; very sensitive to air, worse uncovering; violent fever, with headache

Relationship

Compare : Bombyx – Caterpillar – Itching of whole body. (Urticaria.)

Apis; Rhus; Nat. m; Homar.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Asterias Rubens

(red starfish)

• A remedy for the sycotic diathesis; flabby, lymphatic constitution, flabby with red face
• Lancinating pains
• Nervous disturbances, neuralgia, chorea, and hysteria come within the range of this remedy
• Has been used for cancer of the breast, and has an unquestioned influence over cancer disease
• Excitement in both sexes

Head

• Cannot bear contradiction
• Shocks in brain; throbbing; heat in head, as if surrounded by hot air

Face

• Red
• Pimples on side of nose, chin and mouth
• Disposition to pimples at adolescence

Female

• Colic and other sufferings cease with appearance of flow
• Breasts swell and pain in breasts; worse left
• Ulceration with sharp pains, piercing to scapulae
• Pains down left arm to fingers, worse motion
• Excitement of sexual instinct with nervous agitation
• Nodes and indurations of mammary gland, dull aching, neuralgic pain in this region [Conium.]

Chest

• Breasts swollen, indurated
• Neuralgia of left breast and arm. [Brom.]
• Pain under sternum and in muscles of praecordial region
• Left breast feels as if pulled inward, and pain extends over inner arm to end of little finger
• Numbness of hand and fingers of left side
• Cancer mammae even in ulcerative stage
• Acute, lancinating pain
• Axillary glands swollen hard and knotted

Nervous system

• Gait unsteady; muscles refuse to obey the will
• Epilepsy; preceded by twitching over whole body

Stool

• Constipation
• Ineffectual desire
• Stool like olives
• Diarrhea, watery brown, gushing out in jet

Skin

• Destitute of pliability and elasticity
• Itching spots
• Ulcers, with fetid ichor
• Acne
• Psoriasis and herpes zoster worse left arm and chest
• Enlarged axillary glands, worse, at night and in damp weather

Relationship

Antidotes : Plumb.; Zinc.

Compare : Conium; Carbo; Ars.; Condurango.

Incompatible : Nux; Coffea.

Modalities

• Worse, coffee, night; cold damp weather, left side

Dose

Sixth potency

Astragalus Menziesii

(purple or woolly loco-weed)

• Affects animals like effects of alcohol, tobacco and morphine in man
• First stage, period of hallucination or mania with defective eye sight during which the animal performs all sorts of antics
• After acquiring a taste for the plant it refuses every other kind of food
• Second stage brings emaciation, sunken eyeballs, lusterless hair and feeble  movements – after a few months dies as from starvation. (U.S. Dept. Agriculture.)
• Irregularities in gait – paralytic affections
• Loss of muscular co-ordination

Head

• Fullness in right temple and upper jaw
• Pain over left eyebrow
• Painful facial bones
• Dizzy
• Pressive pain in temples
• Pain and pressure in maxillae

Stomach

• Weakness and emptiness
• Burning in esophagus and stomach

Extremities

• Purring sensation in right foot outer side from heel to toe
• Icy coldness of left calf

Relationship

Compare : Aragallus Lamberti – White Loco-Weed – Rattleweed; Baryta; Oxytropis.

Dose

Sixth potency.

Aurum Metallicum

(metallic gold)

• Given full play, Aurum develops in the organism, by attacking the blood, glands, and bone, conditions bearing striking resemblance to mercurial and syphilitic infections; and it is just for such deteriorations of the bodily fluids and alterations in the tissues, that Aurum assumes great importance as a remedy
• Like the victim of syphilis, mental states of great depression are produced by it
• Hopeless, despondent, and great desire to commit suicide
• Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction
• Exostosis, caries, nightly bone-pains, especially cranial, nasal, and palatine
• Glands swollen in scrofulous subjects
• Palpitation and congestions
• Ascites often in conjunction with heart affections
• Frequently indicated in secondary syphilis and effects of mercury
• This use of gold as an anti-venereal and anti-scrofulous remedy is very old, but has been well-nigh forgotten by the old school until rediscovered and placed on its scientific basis by homoeopathy, and now it can never be lost again
• When syphilis is implanted on the scrofulous constitution, we have one of the most intractable morbid conditions, and gold seems to be especially suited to the vile combination
• Ozaena; sexual hyperaesthesia
• Arterio-sclerosis, high blood pressure; nightly paroxysms of pain behind sternum
• Sclerosis of liver, arterial system, brain
• Pining boys; low spirited, lifeless, weak memory

Mind

• Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness
• Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide
• Talks of committing suicide
• Great fear of death
• Peevish and vehement at least contradiction
• Anthropophobia
• Mental derangements
• Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply
• Cannot do things fast enough
• Oversensitiveness; [Staph.] to noise, excitement, confusion

Head

• Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward pressure
• Roaring in head
• Vertigo
• Tearing through brain to forehead
• Pain in bones extending to face
• Congestion to head
• Boils on scalp

Eyes

• Extreme photophobia
• Great soreness all about the eyes and into eyeballs
• Double vision; upper half of objects invisible
• Feel tense
• Sees fiery objects
• Violent pains in bones around eye. [Asaf.]
• Interstitial keratitis
• Vascular cornea
• Pains from without inward
• Sticking pains inward
• Trachoma with pannus

Ears

• Caries of ossicula and of mastoid
• Obstinate fetid otorrhoea after scarlatina
• External meatus bathed in pus
• Chronic nerve deafness; Labyrinthine disease due to syphilis

Nose

• Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed
• Inflammation of nose; caries; fetid discharge, purulent, bloody
• Boring pains in nose; worse at night
• Putrid smell from nose
• Sensitive smell [Carbol. ac.]
• Horrible odor from nose and mouth
• Knobby tip of nose

Mouth

• Foul breath in girls at puberty
• Taste putrid or bitter
• Ulceration of gums

Face

• Tearing in zygoma
• Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed

Throat

• Stitches when swallowing; pain in glands
• Caries of the palate

Stomach

• Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness
• Swelling of epigastrium
• Burning at stomach and hot eructations

Abdomen

• Right hypochondrium hot and painful
• Incarcerated flatus
• Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands

Urine

• Turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment
• Painful retention

Rectum

• Constipation, stools hard and knotty
• Nocturnal diarrhea, with burning in rectum

Male

• Pain and swelling of testicles
• Chronic induration of testicles
• Violent erections
• Atrophy of testicles in boys
• Hydrocele

Female

• Great sensitiveness of vagina
• Uterus enlarged and prolapsed
• Sterility; vaginismus

Heart

• Sensation as if the heart stopped beating for two or three seconds, immediately followed by a tumultuous rebound, with sinking at the epigastrium
• Palpitation
• Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular
• Hypertrophy
• High Blood Pressure – Valvular lesions of arterio-sclerotic nature (Aurum 30)

Respiratory

• Dyspnoea at night
• Frequent, deep breathing; stitches in sternum

Bones

• Destruction of bones, like secondary syphilis
• Pain in bones of head, lumps under scalp, exostosis with nightly pains in bones
• Caries of nasal, palatine and mastoid bones
• Soreness of affected bones, better in open air, worse at night

Extremities

• All the blood seems to rush from head to lower limbs
• Dropsy of lower limbs
• Orgasm, as if blood were boiling in all veins
• Paralytic, tearing pains in joints
• Knees weak

Sleep

• Sleepless
• Sobs aloud in sleep
• Frightful dreams

Modalities

• Worse, in cold weather when getting cold
• Many complaints come on only in winter; from sunset to sunrise

Relationship

Compare : Aur. ars. (chronic aortitis; lupus, phthisis in syphilitic headaches; also in anemia and chlorosis. It causes rapid increase of appetite.)

Aur. brom. (in headaches with neurasthenia, megrim, night terrors, valvular diseases).

Aur. mur. (Burning, yellow, acrid leucorrhoea; heart symptoms, glandular affections; warts on tongue and genitals; sclerotic and exudative degeneration of the nervous system. Multiple sclerosis. Morvan’s disease. Second trituration. Aur. mur. is a sycotic remedy, causing suppressed discharges to reappear. Valuable in climacteric haemorrhages from the womb.

Diseases of frontal sinus. Stitching pain in left side of forehead. Weariness, aversion to all work. Drawing feeling in stomach. Cancer, tongue as hard as leather; induration after glossitis).

Aur. mur. kali.

Double chloride of Potassium and gold. (In uterine induration and hemorrhage.)

Aur. iod.(Chronic pericarditis, valvular diseases, arterio-sclerosis ozaena, lupus, osteitis,

ovarian cysts, myomata uteri, are pathological lesions, that offer favorable ground for the action of this powerful drug. Senile paresis.)

Aur. sulph. (Paralysis agitans; constant nodding of the head; affections of mammae;

swelling, pain, cracked nipples with lancinating pains.)

Also, Asafaet. (in caries of bones of ears and nose).

Syphilin : Kali iod.; Hep.; Merc.; Mez.; Nit. ac.; Phosph.

Antidotes : Bell.; Cinch.; Cupr.; Merc.

Dose

Third to thirtieth potency.

Latter potency especially for increased blood pressure.

Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum

(sodium chloroaurate)

• This remedy has a most pronounced effect on the female organs, and most of its clinical application has been based thereon
• Has more power over uterine tumors than any other remedy (Burnett)
• Psoriasis syphilitica
• Periosteal swelling on lower jaw
• Swelling of testicle
• High blood pressure due to disturbed function of nervous mechanism
• Arterio-sclerosis Syphilitic ataxia

Tongue

• Burning; stitches, and induration
• Old cases of rheumatism and gouty pains
• Hepatic cirrhosis
• Interstitial nephritis

Female

• Indurated cervix
• Palpitation of young girls
• Coldness in abdomen
• Chronic metritis and prolapsus
• Uterus fills up whole pelvis
• Ulceration of neck of womb and vagina
• Leucorrhoea, with spasmodic contraction of vagina
• Ovaries indurated
• Ovarian dropsy
• Sub-involution
• Ossified uterus

Dose

Second and third trituration.

Avena Sativa

(common oat)

• Has a selective action on brain and nervous system, favorably influencing their nutritive function
• Nervous exhaustion, sexual debility, and the morphine habit call for this remedy in rather material dosage
• Best tonic for debility after exhausting diseases
• Nerve tremors of the aged; chorea, paralysis agitans, epilepsy
• Post-diphtheritic paralysis
• Rheumatism of heart
• Acute coryza (20 drop doses in hot water hourly for a few doses)
• Alcoholism
• Sleeplessness, especially of alcoholics
• Bad effects of Morphine habit
• Nervous states of many female troubles

Mind

• Inability to keep mind on any one subject

Head

• Nervous headache at menstrual period, with burning at top of head
• Occipital headache, with phosphatic urine

Female

• Amenorrhoea and dysmenorrhoea, with weak circulation

Male

• Spermatorrhoea; impotency; after too much indulgence

Extremities

• Numbness of limbs, as if paralyzed
• Strength of hand diminished

Relationship

Compare : Alfalfa. (General tonic similar to avena – also in scanty and suppressed urine.)

Dose

Tincture ten to twenty drop doses, preferably in hot water.

Azadirachta indica

(margosa bark)

• An afternoon fever and rheumatic pains in various parts are caused by this remedy
• Pain in sternum and ribs, in back and shoulders and extremities; heat, pricking and aching in hands, especially palms, fingers, also toes

Head

• Forgetful; giddy on rising; head aches, scalp sensitive; eyes burn, pain in right eyeball

Fever

• Slight chill, afternoon fever, glowing heat in face, hands, and feet, copious sweat on upper part of body

Relationship

Compare : Cedron; Natr. mur.; Arsenic.