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| Anxiety- Panic Disorders |
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Sepia |
Weakness, yellow complexion,
bearing-down sensation, especially in women, upon whose organism it has
most pronounced effect
Tendency to abortion
Hot flashes at menopause with weakness and
perspiration
Easy fainting
"Ball" sensation in inner parts
Acts best on brunettes.
Feels cold even in warm room
Indifferent to those loved best
Averse to occupation, to family
Irritable; easily offended
Dreads to be alone
Very sad
Weeps when telling symptoms
Miserly
Anxious toward evening; indolent
Feeling of goneness; not relieved by eating
Nausea at smell or sight of food. Nausea worse
lying on side
Everything tastes too salty
Nausea in morning before eating
Disposition to vomit after eating
Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles
Loathes fat
Red, adhesive, sand in urine
Involuntary urination, during first sleep
Bearing-down sensation as if everything would
escape through vulva; must cross limbs to prevent protrusion, or press
against vulva
Leucorrhœa yellow, greenish; with much itching
Menses Too late and scanty, irregular; early
and profuse; sharp clutching pains
Violent, intermittent palpitation
Beating in all arteries
Tremulous feeling with flushes
Sweat on feet, worse on toes; intolerable odor
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Forenoons
and evenings
Washing
Laundry-work
Dampness
Left side
After sweat
Cold air
Before thunder-storm
After milk,
especially when boiled
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By
exercise
Pressure
Warmth of bed
Hot applications
Drawing limbs up
Cold bathing
After sleep
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| Sulphur |
Ebullitions of heat
Dislike of water
Dry and hard hair and skin
Red orifices
Sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am
Cat-nap sleep
Prone to skin affections
Aversion to being washed
Complaints that relapse
General offensive character of discharge and
exhalations
Very red lips and face, flushing easily
Very forgetful
Difficult thinking
Busy all the time
Childish peevishness in grown people. Irritable
Affections vitiated; very selfish, no
regard for others
Religious melancholy
Averse to business; loafs-too lazy to arouse
himself
Nearly always irritable, depressed, thin and
weak, even with good appetite
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
Frequent urination, especially at night
Must hurry, sudden call to urinate
Great quantities of colorless urine
Much offensive perspiration
Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult;
thick, black, acrid, making parts sore
Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating
Pulse more rapid in morning
than in evening
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
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At
rest
When standing
Warmth in bed
Washing
Bathing
In morning
11 am
Night
From alcoholic stimulants
Periodically
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Dry, warm weather
Lying on right side
From drawing up affected limbs
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| Natrum Muriaticum |
Great debility; most weakness
felt in the morning in bed
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
Psychic causes of disease; ill effects of grief,
fright, anger, etc
Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases
Irritable; gets into a passion about trifles
Awkward, hasty
Wants to be alone to cry
Tears with laughter
Hungry, yet loose flesh
Heartburn, with palpitation
Unquenchable thirst
Sweats while eating
Craving for salt
Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like
oysters, fats
Urination increased, involuntary when walking,
coughing, etc
Has to wait a long time for it to pass urine if
others are present
Emission, even after coitus
Impotence with retarded emission.
Menses irregular; usually profuse
Leucorrhœa acrid, watery
Tachycardia
Sensation of coldness of heart
Heart and chest feel constricted
Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse
Heart's pulsations shake body
Pulse intermits on lying down
Sleepy in forenoon
Nervous jerking during sleep
Dreams of robbers
Sleepless from grief.
Skin greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts |
Noise
Music
Warm room
Lying down
About 10 a m
At seashore
Mental exertion
Consolation
Heat
Talking
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Open air
Cold bathing
Going without regular meals
Lying on right side
Pressure against back
Tight clothing
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| Nux Vomica |
Pre-eminently
the remedy for many of the conditions incident to modern life
Patient is rather thin, spare, quick, active,
nervous, and irritable
Does a good deal of mental work; has mental
strains and leads a sedentary life, found in prolonged office work, over
study, and close application to business, with its cares and anxieties.
Seeks stimulants, coffee, wine, possibly in
excess
Takes preferably rich and stimulating food
Pre-eminently a male remedy
Zealous fiery temperament
Easily chilled, avoid open air, etc
Very irritable
Sensitive to all impressions
Ugly, malicious
Cannot bear noises, odors, light, etc
Does not want to be touched
Time passes too slowly
Even the least ailment affects her greatly
Disposed to reproach others
Sullen, fault-finding
Sour taste, and nausea in the morning, after
eating.
Flatulence
Sour, bitter eructations
Nausea and vomiting, with much retching
Desire for stimulants
Loves fats and tolerates them well
Difficult belching of gas
Wants to vomit, but cannot
Frequent calls to urinate; little and often
Frequent small evacuations
Scanty stool, with much urging
Easily excited desire
Emissions from high living
Menses too early, lasts too long; always
irregular, blood black with faint spells
Sexual desire too strong
Cannot sleep after
3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly
Drowsy after meals, and in early evening
Dreams full of bustle and hurry
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Morning
Mental exertion
After eating
Touch
Spices
Stimulants
Narcotics
Dry weather
Cold
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From a nap, if allowed to
finish it
In evening
While at rest
In damp, wet weather
Strong pressure
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| Pulsatilla |
Weeps easily
Timid, irresolute
Fears in evening to be alone, dark, ghost
Likes sympathy
Easily discouraged
Morbid dread of the opposite sex
Religious melancholy
Given to extremes of pleasure and pain
Highly emotional
Mentally, an April day
Pre-eminently a
female remedy, especially for mild, gentle, yielding disposition
Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable,
contradictory
Seeks the open air; always feels better there,
even though he is chilly
Symptoms ever changing
Thirstless, peevish, and chilly
First serious impairment of health is referred to
age of puberty
Great sensitiveness
Wants the head high
Feels uncomfortable with only one pillow
Lies with hands above head
Averse to fat food, warm food, and drink
Eructations; taste of food remains a long time;
after ices, fruits, pasty
Bitter taste, diminished taste of all food
Flatulence
Dislikes butter
No two stools alike
Two or three normal stools daily
Increased desire to urinate; worse when lying
down
Involuntary micturition at night, while coughing
or passing flatus
Tardy menses; too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted,
changeable, intermittent
Leucorrhœa acrid, burning, creamy
Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when lying
on left side
Smothering sensation on lying down
Wide awake in the evening;
first sleep restless
Wakes languid, unrefreshed
Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon
Sleeps with hands over head
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From
heat
Rich fat food
After eating
Towards evening
Warm room
Lying on left or on painless side
When allowing feet to hang down
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Open air
Motion
Cold applications
Cold food and drinks, though not thirsty
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| Arsenicum Album |
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
Despair drives him from place to place
Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage
General sensibility increased
Sensitive to disorder and confusion
All-prevailing
debility, exhaustion, and restlessness
Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion.
Irritable weakness
Burning relieved by heat
Fear fright and worry
Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition
Cannot bear the sight or smell of food
Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a
time
Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or
drinking
Craves milk, 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
Stool small, offensive, dark, with much
prostration
Urine scanty, burning, involuntary, albuminous
Menses too profuse and too soon
Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin
Palpitation, pain, dyspnœa, faintness
Pulse more rapid in morning
Disturbed, anxious, restless sleep
Must have head raised by pillows during sleep
Suffocative fits during sleep
Sleeps with hands over head
Dreams are full of care and fear
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Wet weather
After midnight
From cold, cold drinks, or food
Seashore
Right side
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From heat
From head elevated
Warm drinks
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| Silicea |
Yielding, faint-hearted,
anxious
Nervous and excitable
Sensitive to all impressions
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 (Calc; Puls; Sep), 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
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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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| Natrum Carbonica |
Unable to think; difficult,
slow comprehension
Mental weakness and depression
Worries
Very sensitive to noise; colds, change of weather
Anxious and restless during thunderstorm
Marked gayety
Sensitive to presence of certain individuals
Water-brash
Hungry at 5 am
Very weak digestion, caused by slightest
error of diet
Averse to milk
Depressed after eating. Bitter taste
Sudden call to stool
Escapes with haste and noise
Yellow substance like pulp of orange in
discharge
Diarrhœa from milk
Menses late, scanty like meat-washings
Leucorrhœal discharge, offensive, irritating
preceded by colic
Wakes too early in morning
Amorous dreams
Drowsy during day |
Sitting
From music
Summer heat
Mental exertion
Thunderstorm
Least draught
Changes of weather
Sun
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By moving
By boring in ears and nose
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| Kali Carbonica |
Despondent
Alternating moods
Very irritable
Full of fear and imaginations
Anxiety felt in stomach
Sensation as if bed were sinking
Never wants to be left alone
Never quiet or contented
Obstinate and hypersensitive to pain,
noise, touch
Soft pulse
Coldness
General depression
Sensitive to every atmospheric change, and intolerance
of cold weather
Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic
tendencies
Sweat, backache, and weakness
Flatulence
Desire for sweets
Sour eructations
Nausea; better lying down
Constant feeling as if stomach were full of
water
Sour vomiting; throbbing and cutting in stomach
Disgust for food
Obliged to rise several times at night to
urinate.
Involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing,
etc
Deficient sexual instinct in males
Excessive seminal emissions, followed by
weakness
Menses early, profuse or too late, pale
and scanty, with soreness about genitals; pains from back pass down
through gluteal muscles, with cutting in abdomen
Sensation as if heart were suspended
Palpitation and burning in heart region
Weak, rapid pulse; intermits, due to
digestive disturbance
Drowsy after eating
Wakes about two o'clock and cannot sleep again
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After coition
In cold weather
From soup and coffee
In morning about three o'clock
Lying on left and painful side
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In warm weather, though moist
During day
While moving about
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| Zincum Metallicum |
Weak memory
Very sensitive to noise
Averse to work, to talk
Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime
Melancholia
Lethargic, stupid
Defective vitality
Twitchings
Trembling, convulsive twitching and fidgety feet
Hiccough, nausea, vomiting of bitter mucus
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
Nymphomania of lying-in women
Menses too late, suppressed
Menses flow more at night
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
Appearance of eruptions
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| Causticum |
Sad, hopeless
Intensely sympathetic
Ailments from long-lasting grief, sudden emotions
Emaciation due to disease, worry, etc, and of
long standing
Burning, rawness, and soreness
Greasy taste
Aversion to sweets
Feels as if lime were burned in stomach
Stools soft and small, size of goose-quill or
hard, tough, covered with mucus; shines like grease; small-shaped;
expelled with much straining, or only on standing up
Urine involuntary when coughing, sneezing;
expelled very slowly, and sometimes retained
Involuntary urination during first sleep at
night; also from slightest excitement
Loss of sensibility on passing urine
Menses cease at night; flow only during day
Leucorrhœa at night, with great weakness
Menses delayed, late
Very drowsy; can hardly keep awake
Nocturnal sleeplessness, with dry heat,
inquietude
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Dry, cold winds
In clear fine weather
Cold air
From motion of carriage
After eating fresh
meat; smoked meat agrees
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In
damp, wet weather
Warmth
Heat of bed
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| Nitricum Acidum |
Irritable,
hateful, vindictive, headstrong
Hopeless despair
Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar
Fear of death
Acts best on the dark complexioned and past
middle life
All discharges very offensive, especially urine,
feces, and perspiration
Takes cold easily and disposed to diarrhœa
Excessive physical irritability
Great hunger, with sweetish taste
Longing for indigestible things-chalk, earth, etc
Loves fat and salt
Urine scanty, dark, offensive; smells like
horse's urine; cold on passing
Urine bloody and albuminous
Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, watery, or
stringy, offensive
Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with
pain in back, hips and thighs
Short breath on going upstairs
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Evening and night
Cold climate, and also hot weather
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While riding in carriage |
| Phosphorus |
Great lowness of spirits
Easily vexed
Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of
every corne
Great tendency to start
Over-sensitive to external impressions
Loss of memory
Ecstasy
Dread of death when alone
Excitable, produces heat all over
Restless, fidgety
Hypo-sensitive, indifferent
Tall, slender persons, narrow chested, with thin,
transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous
debility
Emaciation
Amative tendencies
Great susceptibility to external impressions, to
light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms
Suddenness of symptoms, sudden
prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains, etc
Hunger soon after eating
Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal
Belching large quantities of wind, after eating
Throws up ingesta by the mouthfuls
Vomiting; water is thrown up as soon as it
gets warm in the stomach
Stool very fetid stools and flatus; long,
narrow, hard, like a dog's; difficult to expel
Desire for stool on lying on, left side
Great weakness after stool
Urine turbid, brown,
with red sediment.
Lack of sexual power in males
Irresistible desire; involuntary
emissions, with lascivious dreams
Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but
last too long
Weeps before menses
Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead
of menses
Violent palpitation with anxiety, while lying on
left side
Pulse rapid, small, and soft
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Touch
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
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In dark
Lying on right side
Cold food
Cold
Open air
Washing with cold water
Sleep
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| Staphysagria |
Impetuous, violent
outbursts of passion, hypochondriacal, sad
Very sensitive as to what others say about
her
Dwells on sexual matters; prefers solitude
Peevish
Nervous affections with marked irritability
Ill effects of anger and insults
Sexual sins and excesses
Very sensitive
Desire for stimulants
Craving for tobacco
Canine hunger, even when stomach is full
Persistent dwelling on sexual subjects
Sensation as if a drop of urine were rolling
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Anger, indignation, grief,
mortification
Loss of fluids
Onanism
Sexual excesses
Tobacco
Least touch on affected parts
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After breakfast
Warmth
Rest at night
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| China |
Apathetic, indifferent,
disobedient, taciturn, despondent
Ideas crowd in mind; prevent sleep
Disposition to hurt other people's feelings
Sudden crying and tossing about
Debility from exhausting discharges, from loss of
vital fluids, together with a nervous erethism
Periodicity is most marked
Sensitive to draughts
Seldom indicated in the earlier stages of acute
disease
Vomiting of undigested food
Slow digestion
Weight after eating
Hungry without appetite
Flat taste
Milk disagrees
Hungry longing for food, which lies undigested
Flatulence; belching of bitter fluid or
regurgitation of food gives no relief; worse eating fruit
Stool undigested, frothy, yellow; painless;
worse at night, after meals, during hot weather, from fruit, milk,
beer
Very weakening stools, with much flatulence;
difficult even when soft
Excited lascivious fancy
Frequent emissions, followed by great weakness
Menses too early; dark clots and abdominal
distention
Profuse menses with pain
Desire too strong
Bloody leucorrhœa; seems to take the place of
the usual menstrual discharge
Irregular with weak rapid beats followed by
strong, hard beats
Drowsiness
Unrefreshing sleep or constant stupor
Wakens early
Protracted sleeplessness
Anxious, frightful dreams with confused
consciousness on waking, so that the dream cannot be rid of and fear of
dream remains
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Slightest
touch
Draught of air
Every other day
Loss of vital fluids
At night
After eating
Bending over
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Bending double
Hard pressure
Open air
Warmth
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| Cantharis |
Anxious restlessness, ending
in rage
Crying, barking; worse touching larynx or
drinking water
Constantly attempts to do something, but
accomplishes nothing
Amorous frenzy; fiery sexual desire
Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking
Oversensitiveness of all parts
Irritation
Intolerable, constant urging to urinate
Disgust for everything-drink, food, tobacco
Burning thirst, with aversion to all fluids
Very sensitive, violent burning
Vomiting of blood-streaked membrane and violent
retching
Aggravation from drinking coffee; drinking
the smallest quantity increases pain in bladder, and is vomited
Thirst unquenchable
Bloody urine, by drops
Urine scalds him, and is passed drop by drop
Constant desire to urinate
Urine jelly-like, shreddy
Strong sexdual desire; painful erections
Menses too early and too profuse; black swelling
of vulva with irritation
Palpitation; pulse feeble, irregular; tendency to
syncope
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From touch, or approach
Urinating
Drinking cold water or coffee
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Rubbing |
| Ammonium Carbonica |
Forgetful, ill-humored,
gloomy during stormy weather
Uncleanliness
Talking and hearing others talk affects greatly
Sad, weepy, unreasonable
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
Fat patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel
suffocated
Very sensitive to cold air
Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it
Heaviness in all organs
Acid secretions
Prostration from trifles
Great appetite, but easily satisfied
Stools difficult, hard, and knotty
Frequent desire to urinate; involuntary at night
Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and
fetid
Erection without desire
Seminal emissions.
Leucorrhœa burning, acrid, watery
Aversion to the other sex
Menses too frequent, profuse, early,
copious, clotted, black
Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat,
lachrymation, inability to speak, loud breathing and trembling hands
Sleepiness during the day
Starts from sleep strangling
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Evenings
From cold, wet weather
Wet applications
Washing
During 3 to 4 am
During menses
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Lying on painful side and on stomach
In dry weather
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