Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Coldness

Emaciation most notable in neck

Great liability to take cold

Dry mucous membranes

Constrictive sensation throughout the body

Great weakness and weariness

Oversensitive to all sorts of influences

Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases

Consolation aggravates

Irritable; gets into a passion about trifles

Wants to be alone to cry

Eruptions around mouth and vesicles like pearls on lips

Loss of taste

Large vesicle on lower lip, which is swollen and burns

Immoderate thirst; unquenchable.

Hungry, yet loose flesh

Heartburn, with palpitation

Sweats while eating

Craving for salt

Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats

Has to wait a long time for it to pass urine if others are present

Emission, even after coitus

Menses irregular; usually profuse

Leucorrhœa acrid, watery

Sleepy in forenoon

Nervous jerking during sleep

Dreams of robbers

Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints

Crusty eruptions in bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears

Music

Warm room

Lying down about 10 a m

At seashore

Mental exertion

Consolation

Heat

Talking

Cold bathing

Going without regular meals

Lying on right side

Pressure against back

Tight clothing

Lack of vital heat

Prostration of mind and body

Great sensitiveness to taking cold

Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants

Ailments attended with pus formation

Want of grit, moral or physical

Nervous and excitable

Sensitive to all impressions

Disgust for meat and warm food

Want of appetite; thirst excessive

Sour eructations after eating

Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled, recedes again

A milky, acrid leucorrhœa, during urination

Discharge of blood between menstrual periods

Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body

Frequent starts in sleep

Anxious dreams

Excessive gaping during sleep

Affections of finger nails, especially if white spots on nails

Rose-colored blotches

In morning

From washing

During menses

Uncovering

Lying down

Damp

Lying on

Left side

Cold

In winter

Wrapping up head

Summer

In wet or humid weather

Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion

Irritable weakness

Burning pains; burning relieved by heat

Fear fright and worry

Septic infections and low vitality

Great anguish and restlessness; changes place continually

Fears, of death, of being left alone; great fear, with cold sweat

General sensibility increased ; sensitive to disorder and confusion

Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time.

Craves milk, acids and coffee

Long-lasting eructations

Small, offensive, dark, with much prostration

Skin excoriated about anus

Urine scanty, burning, involuntary; albuminous

Menses too profuse and too soon

Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin

Itching, burning, swellings; œdema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching

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

After midnight

From cold, cold drinks, or food

Seashore

Right side

From head elevated

Warm drinks

Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion

A human "thermometer"; sensitive to heat and cold

Breath, excretions and body smell foul

Sweetish metallic taste

Salivary secretions greatly increased; bloody and viscid

Saliva fetid, coppery

Great thirst, with moist mouth

Putrid eructations

 Intense thirst for cold drinks

Weak digestion, with continuous hunger

Menses profuse, with abdominal pains

Leucorrhœa excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts

Excessive odorous viscid perspiration; worse, night; general tendency to free perspiration, but patient is not relieved thereby

Wet, damp weather

Lying on right side

Perspiring

Warm room

Warm bed

Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms

Suddenness of symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains, etc

Great lowness of spirits

Easily vexed

Over-sensitive to external impressions

Excitable, produces heat all over

Restless, fidgety

Thirst for very cold water

Hunger soon after eating

Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal

Belching large quantities of wind, after eating

Stool very fetid stools and flatus; long, narrow, hard, like a dog's; difficult to expel

Lack of power; irresistible desire; involuntary emissions, with lascivious dreams

Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long

Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses

Great drowsiness, especially after meals

Vivid dreams of fire; of hæmorrhage

Lascivious dreams

Goes to sleep late and awakens weak

Short naps and frequent wakings

Physical or mental exertion

Twilight

Warm food or drink

Change of weather

From getting wet in hot weather

Evening

Lying on left or painful side

During a thunder-storm

Ascending stairs

Lying on right side

Cold food

Cold

Open air

Washing with cold water

Sleep

Septic conditions

Listless, sad

Thoughts of suicide

Extreme restlessness, with continued change of position

Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed

Corners of mouth ulcerated; fever-blisters around mouth and chin

Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst

Bitter taste

Desire for milk

Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat.

Drowsy after eating

Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment

Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid

Skin red, swollen; itching intense

Dreams of great exertion

Heavy sleep, as from stupor

Sleepless before midnight

Cold, wet rainy weather and after rain

At night

During rest

Drenching

When lying on back or right side

Motion

Walking

Change of position

Rubbing

Warm applications

From stretching out limbs

Gets out of breath easily

A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork

Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence

Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats

Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour

Forgetful, confused, low-spirited

Anxiety with palpitation

Itching of eye lids, swollen, scurfy

Takes cold at every change of weather

Swelling of upper lip

Itching of pimples in whiskers

Persistent sour taste; mouth fills with sour water

Offensive smell from mouth

Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets

 Milk disagrees

Dislike of fat

Loss of appetite when overworked

Heartburn and loud belching

Ravenous hunger

Repugnance to hot food

Thirst; longing for cold drinks

Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist

Frequent emissions; increased desire; semen emitted too soon

Coition followed by weakness and irritability

Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return

Leucorrhœa, milky

Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep

Horrid visions when opening eyes

Starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy

Drowsy in early part of evening

Frequent waking at night

Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light slumber

Night terrors

Dreams of the dead

Skin unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flaccid

Ascending

Cold in every form

Water

Washing

Moist air

Wet weather

During full moon

Standing

While eating

Lying on painful side

Seems to choose preferably dark-complexioned and rigid-fibered persons

Restlessness at night, with tearing pains in joints and bones, and faint-like sinking of strength

The skin of a Causticum person is of a dirty white sallow

Emaciation due to disease, worry, etc, and of long standing

Burning, rawness, and soreness

Sad, hopeless

Intensely sympathetic

Inflammation of eyelids; ulceration

Greasy taste

Aversion to sweets

Feels as if lime were burned in stomach

Worse after eating fresh meat; smoked meat agrees

Menses cease at night; flow only during day; menses delay, late

Leucorrhœa at night, with great weakness

Soreness in folds of skin, back of ears, between thighs

Very drowsy; can hardly keep awake

Nocturnal sleeplessness, with dry heat, inquietude

In clear fine weather

Cold air

From motion of carriage

Warmth

Heat of bed

Chronic effects of sunstroke

Exhaustion

Anæmic

Milky, watery skin

Unable to think; difficult, slow comprehension

Mental weakness and depression; worries; very sensitive to noise; colds, change of weather

Anxious and restless during thunderstorm; worse from music

Sensitive to presence of certain individual

Hungry at 5 am

Very weak digestion, caused by slightest error of diet

Averse to milk

Depressed after eating

Bitter taste

Menses late, scanty like meat-washings

Leucorrhœal discharge, offensive, irritating preceded by colic

Wakes too early in morning

Amorous dreams

Drowsy during day

Inclination to perspire easily, or dry, rough, cracked skin

Eruption on finger-tips, knuckles and toes

Vesicular eruption in patches and circles

From music

Summer heat

Mental exertion

Thunderstorm

Least draught

Changes of weather

Sun

By boring in ears and nose

Cold perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all complaints

Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces

Voracious appetite

Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed

Averse to warm food

Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt

Menses too early; profuse and exhausting

Skin blue, cold, clammy, inelastic, cold as death

Cold sweat

Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet

Wet, cold weather

Warmth

Hæmorrhages, ulcerations, cancerous affections.

Overgrown, poorly developed children

Post-climacteric diseases

Tumefaction, puffiness, gangrene

Music causes weeping and palpitation

Vanishing of thought; stupid, forgetful, peevish, irritable

Child wants everything but throws it away when given

Lips red, bleeding

Putrid odor and bitter taste

Urine offensive

Can urinate only when lying; cannot get out of bed quick enough during first sleep

Dreams of urinating

Must hurry when desire comes to urinate

Leucorrhœa, yellow, acrid; odor of green corn; worse between periods

Menses too early, prolonged; menstrual flow intermits; ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on lying down

Sleep disturbed with tossing; paralytic sensation in limbs on waking

Anxious dreams of pursuit, fire, erections, etc

Cold rest

When lying

After menstruation

Motion

Warm diet