Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

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Lycopodium

Is adapted more especially to ailments gradually developing, functional power weakening
Atony
Older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis
Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm
Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power
Emaciation
Debility in morning
Pre-senility. Ascites, in liver disease
Is thin, withered, full of gas and dry
Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities
Pains come and go suddenly
Sensitive to noise and odors
Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food, cabbage, beans, etc
Excessive hunger
Aversion to bread, etc
Desire for sweet things
Food tastes sour
Sour eructations
Great weakness of digestion
Eating ever so little creates fullness
Cannot eat oysters
Rolling of flatulence
Wakes at night feeling hungry
Incomplete burning eructations rise only to pharynx there burn for hours
Likes to take food and drink hot
Sinking sensation; worse night
No erectile power; impotence; premature emission
Menses too late; last too long, too profuse
Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina
Drowsy during day; starting in sleep
Dreams of accidents

Right side
From right to left
From above downward
4 to 8 pm
From heat or warm room, hot air, bed
Warm applications, except throat and stomach which are better from warm drinks

By motion
After midnight
From warm food and drink
On getting cold
From being uncovered

Veratrum Album

A perfect picture of collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness
Cold perspiration on the forehead
Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities
Profuse, violent retching and vomiting
Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces
Voracious appetite
Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed
Averse to warm food. Hiccough
Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion
Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt
Anguish in pit of stomach
Great weakness after vomiting
Gastric irritability with chronic vomiting of food
Pulse irregular, feeble
Menses too early; profuse and exhausting

At night
Wet, cold weather

Walking
Warmth

Lachesis

Profound prostration
During the climacteric and for patients of a melancholic disposition
Sensation of tension in various parts
Cannot bear anything tight anywhere
Craving for alcohol, oysters
Any food causes distress
Pit of stomach painful to touch
Hungry, cannot wait for food
Gnawing pressure made better by eating, but returning in a few hours
Intense excitement of sexual organs
Irregular beats
Sudden starting when falling asleep
Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep
Wide-awake in evening

After sleep
Sleeps intoaggravation
Left side
In the spring
Warm bath
Pressure or constriction
Hot drinks
Closing eyes

Appearance of discharges
Warm applications

Cactus Grandilflorus

Constrictions;  constrictions as of an iron band; this sensation is found in various places, œsophagus, bladder, etc
Sadness, and melancholy
Hæmorrhage, constrictions, periodicity, and spasmodic pains
Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter
Congestions; irregular distribution of blood
Favors formation of clots speedily
Great periodicity.
Pulse less, panting and prostrated
Constriction, pulsation, or heaviness in stomach
Vomiting of blood
Menses early, dark, pitch-like; cease on lying down, with heart symptoms.
Pulse feeble, irregular, quick, without strength
Low blood pressure
Sleepless on account of pulsation in different parts of body
Frightful dreams

About noon
Lying on left side
Walking
Going upstairs
11 am and 11 pm

Open air

Agaricus

Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching
Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice
Sensitive to pressure and cold air
Violent bearing-down pains
Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg
Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling
Empty eructations, tasting of apples
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
Menses, increased, earlier
Sexual excitement
Leucorrhœa, with much itching
Pulse intermittent and irregular
Paroxysms of yawning
On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often
Vivid dreams
Drowsy in daytime

Open cold air
After eating
After coitus
In cold weather
Before a thunder-storm
Pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter

Moving about slowly