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| Acromesomelic Dysplasia |
Acromesomelic Dysplasia is an extremely rare inherited progressive disorder characterized by premature fusion of the regions (metaphyses) where the shafts (diaphyses) of certain long bones (i.e., bones of the arms and legs) meet their growing ends (epiphyses). As a result, affected individuals exhibit unusually short forearms, abnormal shortening of bones of the lower (distal) legs, and short stature (short-limbed dwarfism), findings that typically become apparent during the first years of life. Abnormal cartilage and bone development may also affect other bones of the body, particularly those of the hands and feet (i.e., metacarpals, phalanges, metatarsals). At birth, the hands and feet may appear abnormally short and broad. Over time, the apparent disproportion becomes even more obvious, especially during the first years of life. The fingernails and toenails may also appear unusually short and wide.
Affected individuals may have additional abnormalities resulting from abnormal cartilage and bone development, including limited extension of the elbows and arms and/or progressive abnormal curvature of the spine. Other characteristic abnormalities include a relatively enlarged head (macrocephaly), slightly flattened midface, and/or small, pug nose. Acromesomelic Dysplasia is inherited as an autosomal recessive genetic trait.
Relatively recent clinical studies have demonstrated that there are at least two forms that are distinguishable by X-ray and at the molecular level. The Maroteaux Type has been traced to chromosome 9 (Gene Map Locus 9p13-p12). The Hunter-Thompson Type has been mapped to chromosome 20 (20q11.2). |
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Baryta Carbonicum |
Specially indicated in infancy and old age
This remedy brings aid to scrofulous children, especially if they are
backward mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do not grow and develop,
have scrofulous ophthalmia, swollen abdomen, take cold easily, and then
always have swollen tonsils
Diseases of old men when degenerative changes begin;-cardiac vascular and
cerebral
Very sensitive to cold
Offensive foot-sweats
Very weak and weary, must sit or lie down or lean on something
Very averse to meeting strangers
Hungry, but refuses food
Constipation, with hard, knotty stools
Diminished desire and premature impotence
Menses scanty
Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot
Twitching during sleep |
While thinking of symptoms From washing
Lying on painful side
After warm food |
Walking in open air |
| Calcarea Phosphoricum |
Anæmic children who are peevish, flabby, have
cold extremities and feeble digestion. Has a special affinity where
bones form sutures or symphyses
Numbness and crawling
Tendency to perspiration
Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats
Much flatulence
Great hunger with thirst flatulence temporarily relieved by sour
eructations
Heartburn
Leucorrhœa, like white of egg
Weary when going upstairs |
Exposure to damp, cold weather Melting snow
From any change of weather. |
In summer Warm, dry atmosphere |
| Sulphur |
Ebullitions of heat, dislike of water, dry and
hard hair and skin, red orifices, sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am,
and cat-nap sleep; Aversion to being washed
When carefully-selected remedies fail to act, especially in acute
disease
Complaints that relapse
General offensive character of discharge and exhalations
Very red lips and face, flushing easily
Often great use in beginning the treatment of chronic cases and in
finishing acute ones
Complete loss of, or excessive appetite
Putrid eructation
Food tastes too salty
Drinks much, eats little
Milk disagrees
Great desire for sweets
Great acidity, sour eructation.
Water fills the patient up
Must hurry, sudden call to urinate
Great quantities of colorless urine.
Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid,
making parts sore
Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating
Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep
Vivid dreams
Wakes up singing
Wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly
Catnaps; slightest noise awakens
Cannot sleep between 2 an 5 am |
At rest When standing
Warmth in bed
Washing
Bathing
In morning
11 am
Night
From alcoholic stimulants
Periodically |
Dry, warm weather Lying on right side
From drawing up affected limbs |
| Baryta Muriaticum |
Called for in
organic lesions of the aged and dwarfish, both mentally and physically
Acts on lower alimentary canal, especially
rectum; on muscles and joints, giving stiffness and weakness as from over
walking
Increased tension of pulse
General feeling of lassitude in the morning,
especially weakness of the legs, with muscular stiffness
Children who go around with their mouth open and
who talk through the nose; stupid-appearing, hard of hearing
Great increase in uric acid,
diminution of chlorides in the urine
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| Calcarea Carbonica |
Increased local
and general perspiration, swelling of glands, scrofulous and rachitic
conditions
Gets out of breath easily
A jaded state, mental or physical, due to
overwork
Pituitary and thyroid dysfunction
Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence
Persons of scrofulous type, who take cold easily,
with increased mucous secretions, children who grow fat, are
large-bellied, with large head, pale skin, chalky look, the so-called
leuco-phlegmatic temperament; affections caused by working in water
Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats
Children crave eggs and eat dirt and other
indigestible things; are prone to diarrhœa
Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and
perspiring and cold, damp and sour
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
Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting
Dislike of fat
Loss of appetite when overworked
Heartburn and loud belching
Ravenous hunger
Repugnance to hot food
Thirst; longing for cold drinks
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
Increased sexual desire; easy conception
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
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From
exertion mental or physical
Ascending
Cold in every form
Water
Washing
Moist air
Wet weather
During full moon
Standing
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Dry climate and
weather
Lying on painful side
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| Carboneum Sulphuratum |
Patients broken
down by abuse of alcohol
Sensitive patients worse cold, wasted muscles,
and skin and mucous membranes anæsthetic
Lack of vital heat
Sensory difficulties in limbs
Diminished sensibility
of arms, hands and feet
Frequent profuse emissions
Gait unsteady, tottering; worse in dark; feet
insensible
Deep morning sleep with anxious, vexatious dreams
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After breakfast
Bathing
Warm, damp, weather
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In open air |
| Medorrhinum |
Great
disturbance and irritability of nervous system
Pains intolerable; tensive; nerves quiver and
tingle
Children dwarfed and stunted
State of collapse and trembling all over
Intensity of all sensations
Coppery taste and eructations of sulphuretted
hydrogen
Ravenous hunger soon after eating
Very thirsty
Cravings for liquor, salt, sweets, etc, warm
drinks
Can pass stool only by leaning very far back
Urine flows very slowly
Menses offensive, profuse, dark, clotted;
stains difficult to wash out, urinates frequently at that time
Leucorrhœa thin, acrid, excoriating, fishy odor
Dreams she is drinking
Sleeps in knee-chest position
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When
thinking of ailment
From daylight to sunset
Heat
Inland
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At the seashore
Lying on stomach
Damp weather
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| Oleum Jecoris
Aselli |
Emaciation,
lassitude, scrofulous diseases, rheumatic affections
Atrophy of infants; emaciation with hot
hands and head; restless and feverish at night
Palpitation,
accompanies other symptoms
Yellowness
Children who cannot take milk
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| Silicea |
Imperfect
assimilation and consequent defective nutrition; it goes further and
produces neurasthenic states in consequence, and increased susceptibility
to nervous stimuli and exaggerated reflexes
Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis
Scrofulous, rachitic children, with large head
open fontanelles and sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking
Patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants
plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter
Lack of vital heat
Prostration of mind and body
Great sensitiveness to taking cold
Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants
Want of grit, moral or physical
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
Night-walking;
gets up while asleep
Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and
heat in head
Frequent starts in sleep
Anxious dreams
Excessive gaping
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New moon
In morning
From washing
During menses
Uncovering
Lying down
Damp
Lying on left side
Cold.
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Warmth
Wrapping up head
Summer
In wet or humid weather
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| Iodatum |
Rapid metabolism:
Loss of flesh great appetite
Hungry with much thirst
Great debility, the slightest effort induces
perspiration
Iodatum individual is exceedingly thin, dark
complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but
gets thin
All glandular structures, respiratory organs,
circulatory system are especially affected; they atrophy.
Tremor
Craves cold air
Is warm, and wants cool surroundings
Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs
Offensive odor from mouth
Ravenous hunger
and much thirst
Empty eructations, as if every particle of food
were turned into gas
Anxious and worried if he does not eat
Loss flesh, yet hungry and eating well
Urine frequent and copious, dark yellow-green,
thick, acrid with cuticle on surface
Great weakness during menses
Menstruation irregular
Dwindling of mammary glands
Acrid leucorrhœa, thick, slimy, corroding the
linen
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When quiet
In warm room
Right side
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Walking about
In open air
After eating |
| Lycopodium |
Is adapted more
especially to ailments gradually developing, functional power weakening,
with failures of the digestive powers, where the function of the liver is
seriously disturbed
Atony
Malnutrition
Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with
catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots,
earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; also precocious, weakly
children.
Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything
warm
Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but
of weak, muscular power
Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases
Emaciation
Debility in morning
Patient 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
Bad odor from mouth
Dryness of throat, without thirst
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
Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete
Polyuria during the night; heavy red sediment
Child cries before urinating
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
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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
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| Mercurius |
Decrepit,
inflamed and necrotic wrecks
Tremors
everywhere
Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from
least exertion
Complaints increase with the sweat and rest; all
associated with a great deal of weariness, prostration, and trembling
A human "thermometer"
Sensitive to heat and cold.
Breath, excretions and body smell foul
Tendency to formation of pus, which is thin,
greenish, putrid; streaked with thin blood
Sweetish metallic taste
Salivary secretions greatly increased;
bloody and viscid
Saliva fetid, coppery
Speech difficult on account of trembling tongue.
Great thirst, with moist mouth
Constant desire to swallow
Putrid eructations
Intense thirst for cold drinks
Weak digestion, with continuous hunger
Urine dark, scanty, bloody, albuminous
Menses profuse, with abdominal pains
Leucorrhœa excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation
of rawness in parts.
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At night
Wet, damp weather
Lying on right side
Perspiring
Warm room and warm bed
Damp, cold, rainy
weather,
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| Secale |
Contraction of
the unstriped muscular fibers; hence a constringent feeling throughout the
whole body
For old people with shriveled skin-thin, scrawny
old women
All the Secale conditions are better from cold;
the whole body is pervaded by a sense of great heat.
Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite
and thirst may be excessive
Unnatural ravenous appetite; craves
acids
Thirst unquenchable
Eructations of bad odor
Involuntary stools;
no sensation of passing feces, anus wide open
Brownish, offensive leucorrhœa
Menses irregular, copious, dark; continuous
oozing of watery blood until next period
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Heat
Warm covering
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Cold
Uncovering,
Rubbing
Stretching out limbs
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| Zincum Metallicum |
Tissues are worn
out faster than they are repaired
Poisoning from suppressed eruptions or discharges
Defective vitality
Great relief from discharges
In chronic diseases with brain and spinal
symptoms, trembling, convulsive twitching and fidgety feet
Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine
Ravenous hunger
about 11 am
Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast
enough
Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards
Involuntary urination when walking, coughing or
sneezing
Erections violent
Falling off of hair (pubic).
Menses flow more at night
Complaints all better during menstrual flow
All the female symptoms are associated with
restlessness, depression, coldness spinal tenderness and restless feet
Cries out during sleep; body jerks; wakes
frightened, stared
Nervous motion of feet when asleep
Loud screaming out at night in sleep without
being aware of it
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At menstrual period
From touch
Between 5 to 7 pm
After dinner
From wine
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While eating
Discharges
And appearance of eruptions
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