Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Abdomen swollen and painful

Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing

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.

Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco

All-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation

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

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

Urine scanty, burning, involuntary

Menses too profuse and too soon

Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin

Must have head raised by pillows during sleep; 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

Cutting pain across; stitches in left side of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching it; extreme sensitiveness to touch, bed-clothes, etc

Loss of appetite

Averse to meat and milk

Nausea and vomiting; uncontrollable vomiting

Furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain

Associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperæsthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly

Heat, redness, throbbing and burning

No thirst, anxiety or fear

Violence of attack and suddenness of onset

Sexual desire diminished

Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse; very offensive and hot

Screams out in sleep

Sleeplessness, with drowsiness

Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep

Sleeps with hands under head

Jar

Noise

Draught

After noon

Lying down

Nausea and faintness when rising up

Abnormal hunger, loss of taste

Thirst for large draughts

Vomiting of bile and water immediately after eating

The pain here produced is a stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest

Mucous membranes are all dry

Stools large, dry, hard

Especially the constitution of a robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability

Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy

Complaints apt to develop slowly

Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick

Urine red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot

Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion, with tearing pains in legs

Drowsy; starting when falling asleep

Any motion

Morning

Eating

Hot weather

Exertion

Touch

Warm drinks, which are vomited

Right side

Evening

Open air

Warm weather after cold days

Pressure

Rest

Cold things

Intestines feel as if bruised

Each paroxysm is attended with general agitation and a chill over the cheeks, ascending from the hypogastrium

Often indicated in the transition season when the air is cold, but the sun is still powerful enough to heat the blood

Especially suitable for irritable persons easily angered

Becomes angry when questioned

Women with copious menstruation, and of sedentary habits

Persons with a tendency to corpulency

The neuralgic pains are nearly always relieved by pressure

Urinous odor of perspiration

Sensations; cutting, twisting, grinding, contracting and bruised; as if clamped with iron bands

Canine hunger

Hard pressure

Warmth

Lying with head bent forward

Persons of feeble digestive powers; tea-drinkers, with much flatulence

Pains suddenly shift to different parts; appear in remote localities, as fingers and toes

Griping, cutting in hypogastric region, with intermittent cutting in stomach and small intestines

Colic; better walking about; pains radiate from abdomen, to back, chest, arms; worse, bending forwards and while lying

Sharp pains from liver, shooting upward to right nipple

Hurried desire for stool

Calls things by the wrong name

No thirst

Lying down

Doubling up

Motion in open air

Pressure

Acts on vermiform appendix thus has been used for appendicitis, but remember it promotes suppuration and a neglected appendicitis with pus formation would probably rupture sooner under its use.

Foul discharges with emaciation and great debility

Confused, depressed

Sour belching and heartburn. Nausea; better lying down

Urine albuminous, scanty, frequent, and involuntary

Great loquacity

Amative

Sad in the morning; no desire to mix with the world

Restless and uneasy; does not wish to attend to business; wants to be off somewhere all the time

Jealous

Mental labor best performed at night

Derangement of the time sense

Liver region sensitive, cannot bear anything around waist

Abdomen tympanitic, sensitive, painful

Craving for alcohol, oysters

Any food causes distress

Hungry, cannot wait for food

Empty swallowing more painful than swallowing solids

Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow

Intense excitement of sexual organs

Breathing almost stops on falling asleep

Left side

In the spring

Warm bath

Pressure or constriction

Hot drinks

Closing eyes

Warm applications

Abdomen bloated; very painful to least touch

Salivation

Taste salty and bitter

Incessant, green, bilious vomiting

Stool hot, bloody, slimy, offensive, with cutting pains and shreds of mucous membrane

Perspiration after urinating

Night

Acids

Is pre-eminently a male remedy

Irritable, nervous system, hypersensitive and over-impressionable

Zealous fiery temperament

Easily chilled, avoid open air, etc

Always seems to be out of tune; inharmonious spasmodic action

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

Bruised soreness of abdominal walls; flatulent distension, with spasmodic colic

Colic, with upward pressure, causing short breath, and desire for stool

Weakness of abdominal ring region

Sour taste, and nausea in the morning, after eating

Sour, bitter eructations

 Nausea and vomiting, with much retching.

Loves fats and tolerates them well

Dyspepsia from drinking strong coffee

Difficult belching of gas

Wants to vomit, but cannot

Frequent ineffectual desire, or passing but small quantities at each attempt

Frequent calls to urinate; little and often

Easily excited desire

Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular, blood black with faint spells

Cannot sleep after 3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly; drowsy after meals, and in early evening

Dreams full of bustle and hurry

Mental exertion

After eating

Touch

Spices

Stimulants

Narcotics

Dry weather

Cold

In evening

While at rest

In damp, wet weather

Strong pressure

Motion always "limbers up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a change of position

Septic conditions

Listless, sad

Thoughts of suicide

Extreme restlessness, with continued change of position

Sensorium becomes cloudy

Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed

Violent pains, relieved by lying on abdomen

Pain in region of ascending colon

Colic, compelling to walk bent

Excessive distention after eating

Rumbling of flatus on first rising, but disappears with continued motion

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

Bitter taste

Nausea, vertigo, and bloated abdomen after eating

Pressure as from a stone in stomach

Drowsy after eating

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

Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid

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

Physical and mental restlessness, fright

Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever

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,

Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and numbness

Tension of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms

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

Great fear, anxiety, and worry accompany every ailment, however trivial

Forebodings and fears; fears death but believes that he will soon die; predicts the day; fears the future, a crowd, crossing the street

Tendency to start

Music is unbearable; makes her sad

Abdomen hot, tense, tympanitic; sensitive to touch

Abdominal colic, no position relieves; better after warm soup

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

Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late

Nightmare; nightly ravings; anxious dreams

Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about; starts up in sleep

Long dreams, with anxiety in chest

From music

From tobacco-smoke

Dry, cold winds

In warm room

In evening and night

Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with impoverished blood, cardiac dropsy with dyspnœa

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

Sore, lame, bruised feeling

Neuralgias originating in disturbances of pneumo-gastric

Aversion to tobacco

Fears touch, or the approach of anyone

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

Stitches under false ribs

Abdomen distended; offensive flatus

Sharp thrusts through abdomen

Longing for vinegar

Distaste for milk and meat

Canine hunger

Vomiting of blood

Oppressive gases pass upward and downward

Fetid vomiting

Dark brick-red sediment in urine

Dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible

Horrors in the night

Involuntary stools during sleep

Motion

Rest

Wine

Damp cold

Great muscular soreness and putrid phenomena always are present

All the secretions are offensive-breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc

Wild, wandering feeling

Inability to think

Mental confusion; ideas confused

Illusion of divided personality; thinks he is broken or double, and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together

Right side of abdomen markedly affected; distended and rumbling; soreness over region of gall-bladder, with diarrhœa

Stools very offensive, thin, dark, bloody

Soreness of abdomen, in region of liver

Can swallow only liquids, vomiting due to spasm of œsophagus

No appetite

Constant desire for water

Menses too early, too profuse.

Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and sense of suffocation

Sleepless and restless; nightmare and frightful dreams

Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed

Falls asleep while answering a question

Fog

Indoors

From Beer

Irritation

Raw, burning pains

Intolerable, constant urging to urinate

Abdominal complaints that are aggravated by drinking coffee

Anxious restlessness, ending in rage; crying, barking; worse touching larynx or drinking water

Constantly attempts to do something, but accomplishes nothing

Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking

Disgust for everything-drink, food, tobacco

 Burning thirst, with aversion to all fluids; thirst unquenchable

Vomiting of blood-streaked membrane and violent retching

Great difficulty in swallowing liquids

Strong sexual desire

Menses too early and too profuse

Urinating

Drinking cold water or coffee

Taste bitter

Aversion to salt meat

Appetite small; tongue furred; nausea; retching; vomiting of green, acid fluid

Stitching pains in lower right ribs and front; worse, moving, walking, etc

Pain in region of liver; left lobe very sensitive

Fullness and soreness in abdomen, with moist skin

Constipation; stools hard, difficult, knotty; alternates with diarrhœa

Stools bright yellow

Urine cloudy; golden-colored

There is always great prostration, internal coldness, and tendency to collapse

Shocks as from electricity through one half of body

Dreams of mice

Thirst

Flatulence

The smell of food causes nausea even to fainting, especially fish

Profuse salivary secretion

Vomiting of mucus, bile and food; worse, any motion; great coldness in stomach

Craving for various things, but is averse to then when smelling them, seized them with nausea

Burning or icy coldness in stomach and abdomen

Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages

Pain in transverse colon

Distention of abdomen, with gas, inability to stretch out legs

Cæcum and ascending colon much distended

Fullness and continuous rumbling in abdomen

Urine dark, scanty or suppressed; bloody, brown, black, inky; contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar

Motion

Loss of sleep

Smell of food in evening

Mental exertion

Bitter taste

Aching in anus and hypogastrium

Alternate constipation and diarrhœa, and great flatulence

Dry feces

Cold

Sleeps into his symptoms

More right-sided in its action

Weeping mood; clouded perception and memory; impatient

Loquacious, with desire to escape

Sadness

Delusions of cerebral decay

Intolerance of clothing around stomach

Unable to retain anything; violent vomiting of food; bilious vomiting, vomiting of blood

Constant nausea and vomiting every month, after menstruation

Cannot lie on right side, without vomiting dark-green matter

Black or coffee-grounds vomiting

Intolerance of clothing about epigastrium

Hungry, craves stimulants, sugar; averse to meat

Abdomen distended, hot, and tender. Pain in region of liver

Stool black, thin, offensive, like coffee-grounds

Prolonged menses

Urine albuminous, dark, bloody, scanty

Dreams of the dead

Starting in sleep

Smothering sensation when awaking

Open air

Evening and morning

In spring

Coming on of warm weather

Yearly

On awaking

Damp and wet

Jar

Prostration marked

Pulse soft and flowing; no anxious restlessness

First stage of all febrile disturbances and inflammations before exudation sets in

Aversion to meat and milk

Desire for stimulants

Vomiting of undigested food

Vomiting of bright red blood

Sour eructations

Menses every three weeks, with bearing-down sensation and pain on top of head

Restless and sleepless. Anxious dreams

4 to 6 pm

Touch

Jar

Motion

Right side

Abdomen tense, painful, rumbling; pain in right side

Loud gurgling in ileo-cæcal region

Sexual excitement

Great sensitiveness to all impressions

Sweating patient pulling blanket around him

Tendency to suppuration

Chilliness, hypersensitiveness, splinter-like pains, craving for sour and strong things

Feeling as if wind were blowing on some part

The side of the body on which he lies at night becomes gradually insufferably painful; he must turn

Anguish in the evening and night, with thoughts of suicide

The slightest cause irritates him

Dejected and sad

Ferocious

Hasty speech

Longing for acids, wine, and strong-tasting food

Aversion to fat food

Frequent eructations, without taste or smell

Stitching in region of liver when walking, coughing, breathing, or touching it

Stool clay-colored and soft, sour, white, undigested, fetid

Loss of power to expel even a soft stool

Urine voided slowly, without force-drops vertically, bladder weak; seems as if some always remained

Greasy pellicle on urine

Menses late and scanty

Extremely offensive leucorrhœa; smells like old cheese

Cool air

Slightest draught

From Mercury

Touch

Lying on painful side

From wrapping head up

From warmth

After eating

Deathly sensation at point of stomach

Pain in ileo-cæcal region

White or gray coating of base of tongue, and expectoration of thick, white phlegm, seem to be special guiding symptoms

Imagines he must starve

Fatty or rich food causes indigestion

Vomiting of white, opaque mucus; water gathers in the mouth

Abdominal tenderness and swelling

Flatulence

Leucorrhœa; discharge of milky-white mucus, thick, non-irritating, bland

Fats

Motion

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

Pre-senility

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

Melancholy; afraid to be alone

Little things annoy, extremely sensitive

Averse to undertaking new things

Head strong and haughty when sick

Loss of self-confidence

Hurried when eating

Constant fear of breaking down under stress; apprehensive

Weak memory, confused thoughts; spells or writes wrong words and syllables

Failing brain-power

Cannot bear to see anything new

Cannot read what he writes

Sadness in morning on awaking

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

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

Immediately after a light meal, abdomen is bloated, full

Constant sense of fermentation in abdomen, like yeast working; upper left side

Brown spots on abdomen

Pain shooting across lower abdomen from right to left

Polyuria during the night; heavy red sediment

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

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

After midnight

From warm food and drink

On getting cold

From being uncovered

Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion.

All associated with a great deal of weariness, prostration, and trembling

Sensitive to heat and cold

Parts are much swollen, with raw, sore feeling; the profuse, oily perspiration does not relieve

Breath, excretions and body smell foul

Slow in answering questions

Memory weakened, and loss of will-power

Weary of life

Mistrustful

Thinks he is losing his reason

Great thirst, with moist mouth

Putrid eructations

Intense thirst for cold drinks

Weak digestion, with continuous hunger

Stabbing pain in abdomen, with chilliness

Boring pain in right groin

Menses profuse, with abdominal pains

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

Wet, damp weather

Lying on right side

Perspiring

Warm room and warm bed

Cold, rainy weather

Sopor

Painless

Heavy, stupid sleep, stertorous breathing

Sweaty skin

Dark, mahogany-brown face

Patient wants nothing

Complete loss of consciousness; apoplectic state

Frightful fancies, daring, gay, bright

Unable to understand or appreciate his sufferings

Thinks he is not at home

Vomiting, with colic and convulsions

Fecal vomiting

Hungry; no desire to eat

Intense thirst

Abdomen hard, bloated, tympanitic

Great drowsiness

Falls into a heavy stupid sleep

Profound coma

Loss of breath on falling asleep

Pleasant, fantastic, amorous dreams

During and after sleep

Constant walking

Contractions and boring pain

Mental depression

Fear of being assassinated

Slow perception; loss of memory

Intellectual apathy

Memory impaired

Constant vomiting

Solids cannot be swallowed

Excessive abdominal colic, radiating to all parts of body

Abdominal wall feels drawn by a string to spine

Pain causes desire to stretch

Abdomen retracted

Obstructed flatus, with intense colic

Colic alternates with delirium and pain in atrophied limbs

Urine scanty, albuminous; low specific gravity

Loss of sexual power

Motion

Hard pressure

Physical exertion

Lassitude; mentally dull and dazed; unable to concentrate mind on studies

Profuse sweat

Constipation with some flatus. Tenesmus and dry stool

Sexual desire increased

Lack of vital heat

Prostration of mind and body

Great sensitiveness to taking cold

Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants

Want of grit, moral or physical

Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious

Nervous and excitable

Sensitive to all impressions

Disgust for meat and warm food

Want of appetite; thirst excessive

Sour eructations after eating

Vomiting after drinking

Pain or painful cold feeling in abdomen, better external heat

Hard, bloated abdomen; colic; cutting pain, with constipation; yellow hands and blue nails

Much rumbling in bowels

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

Night-walking; gets up while asleep

Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head

Frequent starts in sleep

Anxious dreams

Excessive gaping

In morning

From washing

During menses

Uncovering

Lying down

Damp

Lying on, left side

Cold

Wrapping up head

Summer

In wet or humid weather

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

Averse to business; loafs-too lazy to arouse himself

Sulphur subjects are nearly always irritable, depressed, thin and weak, even with good appetite

Putrid eructation

Food tastes too salty

Drinks much, eats little

Milk disagrees

Great desire for sweets

 Great acidity, sour eructation

Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have something to eat

Water fills the patient up

Abdomen very sensitive to pressure; internal feeling of rawness and soreness; movements as of something alive

Pain and soreness over liver

Colic after drinking

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 frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly

Catnaps; slightest noise awakens

Cannot sleep between 2 an 5 am

When standing

Warmth in bed

Washing

Bathing

In morning

11 am

Night

From alcoholic stimulants

Periodically

Lying on right side

From drawing up affected limbs

Cold perspiration on the forehead

Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities

Profuse, violent retching and vomiting is

Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces

Voracious appetite

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

Averse to warm food

Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion

Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt

Abdomen sinking and empty feeling

Cold feeling in stomach and abdomen

Pain in abdomen preceding stool

Cramps, knotting abdomen and legs

Abdomen sensitive to pressure, swollen with terrible colic

Menses too early; profuse and exhausting

Wet, cold weather

Warmth