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| Asthma |
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Aconitum Napellus |
A state of fear, anxiety;
anguish of mind and body
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
No periodicity
In the beginning of an acute disease and not to
be continued after pathological change comes
Constant pressure in left chest; oppressed
breathing on least motion
Hoarse, dry, croupy cough; loud, labored
breathing
Very sensitive to inspired air
Shortness of breath
Stitches through chest
Cough, dry, short, hacking; worse at night and
after midnight
Hot feeling in lungs
Blood comes up with hawking
Tingling in chest after cough
Thirst for cold water
Bitter taste of everything except water
Intense thirst
Frequent, small stool with tenesmus; green,
like chopped herbs
Urine scanty, red, hot, painful
Frequent erections and emissions
Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too
protracted, late
Nightmare
Anxious dreams
Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing
about
Starts up in sleep
Long dreams, with anxiety in chest
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In warm room
In evening and night
Lying on affected side
From music
From tobacco-smoke
Dry, cold winds
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In open air |
| Alumen |
Adapted to old people,
especially bronchial catarrhs
Sensation of dryness and constriction
Hæmoptysis
Great weakness of chest
Difficult to expel mucus
Copious, ropy morning expectoration in old people
No desire for stool for days
Violent ineffectual urging to stool
No ability to expel stool
Marble-like masses pass, but rectum still
feels full
Menses watery
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cold except headache, which
is relieved by cold |
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| Ambrosia |
Respiratory tract in its
entire length stopped up
Lachrymation
and intolerable itching of the eye-lids
Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes, with
asthmatic attacks
Wheezy cough
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| Amyl Nitrosum |
Flushings of face, heat, and
throbbing in the head
Palpitation of the heart
Hiccough and yawning
Dyspnœa and asthmatic feelings
Great oppression and fullness of chest
spasmodic, suffocative cough
Præcordial anxiety
Tumultuous action of heart
Pain and constriction around heart
Fluttering at slightest excitement
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| Antimonium Arsenicosum |
Excessive dyspnœa
Cough, much mucous secretion
Sense of weakness; cardiac weakness.
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On eating
Lying down.
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| Antimonium Tartaricum |
Rattling of mucus with
little expectoration
Drowsiness, debility and sweat
Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels.
Chills and contractures and pain in
muscles
Trembling of whole body, great prostration and
faintness
Velvety feeling in chest
Burning sensation in chest, which ascends to
throat
Rapid, short, difficult breathing; seems as if he
would suffocate; must sit up
Coughing and gaping consecutively
Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus
Cough excited by eating, with pain in chest and
larynx
Œdema and impending paralysis of lungs
Much palpitation, with uncomfortable hot feeling
Pulse rapid, weak, trembling
Dizziness, with cough
Dyspnœa relieved by eructation
Cough and dyspnœa better lying on right side
Thirst for cold water, little and often
Desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally
Great drowsiness
On falling asleep electric-like shocks
Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all
complaints
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In
evening
From lying down at night
From warmth
In damp cold weather
From all sour things and milk
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From sitting erect
From eructation and expectoration
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| Apis |
Swelling or puffing up of
various parts
Edema
Red rosy hue
Stinging pains
Soreness
Intolerance of heat, and slightest touch
Constricted sensations
Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn
off in the interior of the body
Much prostration
Hoarseness
Dyspnœa, breathing hurried and difficult
Œdema of larynx
Feels as if he could not draw another breath
Suffocation; short, dry cough, suprasternal
Thirstless
Vomiting of food
Craving for milk
Involuntary stools on every motion; anus seems
open; bloody, painless.
Cannot urinate without a stool; dark, fetid,
worse after eating
Burning and soreness when urinating
Suppressed urine, loaded with casts; frequent and
involuntary; stinging pain and strangury; scanty, high colored
Last drops of urine burn and smart
Very drowsy
Dreams full of care and toil
Screams and sudden starting during sleep
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Heat
in any form
Touch
Pressure
Late in afternoon
After sleeping
In closed and heated rooms
Right side
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In open air
Uncovering
Cold bathing
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| Aralia Racemosa |
Asthmatic
conditions, with cough aggravated on lying down
Drenching sweat during sleep
Extreme sensitiveness to draughts
Dry cough coming on after first sleep,
about middle of night
Asthma on lying down at night with
spasmodic cough; worse after first sleep, with tickling in throat
Constriction of chest; feels as if a foreign
body were in throat
Obstruction worse in spring
The least current of air causes sneezing, with copious
watery, excoriating nasal discharge, of salty acrid taste
Leucorrhœa foul-smelling, acrid, with
pressing-down air
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About 11 pm |
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| Arsenicum Album |
All-prevailing
debility, exhaustion, and restlessness
Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion
Irritable weakness
Burning pains
Burning relieved by heat.
Fear fright and worry
Green discharges
Odor of discharges is putrid
Complaints that return annually
Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition
Maintains the system under the stress of
malignancy regardless of location
Septic infections and low vitality
Unable to lie down; fears suffocation
Air-passages constricted
Asthma worse midnight
Burning in chest
Suffocative catarrh
Cough worse after midnight; worse lying on back
Expectoration scanty, frothy
Darting pain through upper third of right lung
Wheezing respiration
Hæmoptysis with pain between shoulders; burning
heat all over
Cough dry, as from Sulphur fumes; after
drinking
Cannot bear the sight or smell of food
Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a
time
Craves milk, acids and coffee
Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter
substances which seem to excoriate the throat
Long-lasting eructations
Stool small, offensive, dark, with much
prostration
Urine scanty, burning, involuntary, albuminous
Menses too profuse and too soon
Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin
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
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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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| Arsenicum Iodatum |
Profound prostration
Rapid, irritable pulse
Recurring fever and sweats
Emaciation
Tendency to diarrhœa
Hoarse, racking cough and profuse expectoration of a purulent nature
Cardiac weakness
Slight hacking cough, with dry and stopped-up nostrils
Cough dry, with little difficult expectoration
Intense thirst; water is immediately ejected
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| Atropinum |
Great dryness of throat,
almost impossible to swallow
All kind of illusions of sight
Everything appears large
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| Bacillinum |
Especially
indicated for lungs of old people, with chronic catarrhal condition and
enfeebled pulmonary circulation
Attacks of suffocation at night with difficult
cough
Suffocative catarrh
Constant disposition to take cold
Oppression in chest
Catarrhal dyspnœa
Humid asthma
Bubbling rales and muco-purulent expectoration
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Night
and early morning
Cold air
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| Belladonna |
Hot, red skin, flushed face,
glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperæsthesia of
all senses
Heat, redness, throbbing and burning
Great children's remedy
No thirst, anxiety or fear
Violence of attack and suddenness
of onset
Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea
Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night
Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal
Cough with pain in left hip
Barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in
stomach before attack, with expectoration of blood
Stitches in chest when coughing
High, piping voice
Moaning at every breath
Loss of appetite
Averse to meat and milk
Great thirst for cold water
Dread of drinking
Sexual desire
diminished
Menses increased; bright red, too early, too
profuse; very offensive and hot
Sleep restless, crying out, gritting of teeth
Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels
Screams out in sleep
Sleeplessness, with drowsiness
Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep
Sleeps with hands under head
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Touch
Jar
Noise
Draught
After noon
Lying down
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Semi-erect |
| Blatta Orientalis |
Asthma; especially when
associated with bronchitis
Cough with dyspnœa
Acts best in stout and corpulent patients.
Much pus-like mucus
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| Bromum |
Blond type
Tendency to spasmodic attacks
Sense of suffocation; excoriating discharges,
profuse sweats and great weakness
Complaints from being over-heated
Dry cough, with hoarseness and burning
pain behind sternum
Spasmodic cough, with rattling of mucus in
the larynx; suffocative
Difficult and painful breathing
Violent cramping of chest
Chest pains run upward
Cold sensation when inspiring
Every inspiration provokes cough
Spasmodic constriction
Asthma; difficulty in getting air into
lung
Bronchial tubes feel filled with smoke
Menses too early; too profuse, with membranous
shreds
Sleep full of dreams and anguish
Jerking and starting during sleep
Sleep full of fantasy and illusions
Difficult to go to sleep at night
Cannot sleep enough in morning; trembling and
weak on awaking
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From
evening, until midnight
When sitting in warm room
warm damp weather
When at rest
Lying left side
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From
any motion
Exercise
At sea
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| Bryonia |
Aching in every muscle
Pains stitching,
tearing; worse by motion, better rest
These characteristic stitching pains, greatly
aggravated by any motion, are found everywhere, but especially in the
chest; worse pressure
Mucous membranes are all dry
Irritable
Has vertigo from raising the head
Pressive headache
Dry, parched lips, mouth
Bitter taste
Sensitive epigastrium, and
feeling of a stone in the stomach
Stools large, dry, hard
Especially the constitution of a robust, firm fiber
and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability
Children dislike to be carried or raised
Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy
Complaints apt to develop slowly
Cough, dry, at night; must sit up; worse after
eating or drinking, with vomiting, with stitches in chest, and
expectoration of rust-colored sputa
Frequent desire to take a long breath; must
expand lungs
Difficult, quick respiration; worse every
movement; caused by stitches in chest
Cough, with feeling as if chest would fly to
pieces; presses his head on sternum; must support chest
Expectoration brick shade, tough, and falls like
lumps of jelly
Coming into warm room excites cough
Heaviness beneath the sternum extending towards
the right shoulder
Abnormal hunger, loss of taste
Thirst for large draughts
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
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Warmth
Any motion
Morning
Eating
Hot weather
Exertion
Touch
Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick
Right side
Evening
Open air
Warm weather after cold days
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Lying
on painful side
Pressure
Rest
Cold things
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| China |
Nervous
erethism,
Periodicity is most marked
Sensitive to draughts
Seldom indicated in the earlier stages of acute
disease
Cannot breathe with head low
Labored, slow respiration; constant choking
Suffocative catarrh; rattling in chest;
violent, hacking cough after every meal
Hæmorrhage from lungs
Dyspnœa, sharp pain in left lung
Asthma; worse damp weather
Slow digestion
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
Stools very weakening, with much flatulence
Stools difficult
even when soft
Excited lascivious fancy
Frequent seminal 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
Drowsiness
Sleep unrefreshing 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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| Coffea Cruda |
Great nervous agitation and
restlessness
Neuralgia in various parts; always with great
nervous excitability and intolerance of pain, driving to despair
Unusual activity of mind and body
Bad effects of sudden emotions, surprises, joy,
etc
Nervous palpitation
Especially suited to tall, lean, stooping persons
with dark complexions, temperament choleric and sanguine
Skin hypersensitive
Short, dry cough of measles in nervous, delicate
children
Excessive hunger
Intolerance of tight clothing
Menses too early and long lasting
Wakeful; on a constant move
Sleeps till 3 am, after which only dozing
Wakes with a start, sleep disturbed by dreams
Sleepless, on account mental activity;
flow of ideas, with nervous excitability
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Excessive
emotions (joy)
Narcotics
Strong odors
Noise
Open air
Cold
Night
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Warmth
From lying down
Holding ice in mouth
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| Carbo Vegetabilis |
Typical
Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity
in his complaints
Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries,
causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis
Body becomes blue, icy-cold
A lowered vital power from loss of fluids, after
drugging; after other diseases; in old people with venous congestions
The patient may be almost lifeless, but the head
is hot; coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and
quickened respiration, and must have air, must be fanned hard, must have
all the windows open
Faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh
air
Hæmorrhage from any mucous surface
Very debilitated; seems to be too weak to hold
out
Persons who have never fully recovered from
the effects of some previous illness
Sense of weight, as in the head (occiput), eyes
and eyelids, before the ears, in the stomach, and elsewhere in the body
Putrid (septic) condition of all its affections,
coupled with a burning sensation
General venous stasis, bluish skin, limbs cold
Cough with itching in larynx; spasmodic with gagging
and vomiting of mucus
Whooping cough, especially in beginning
Deep, rough voice, failing on slight exertion
Hoarseness; worse, evenings, talking;
evening oppression of breathing, sore and raw chest
Wheezing and rattling of mucus in chest
Occasional spells of long coughing attacks
Cough, with burning in chest; worse in
evening, in open air, after eating and talking
Spasmodic cough, bluish face, offensive
expectoration, neglected pneumonia
Breath cold; must be fanned
Hæmorrhage from lungs
Asthma in aged with blue skin
Eructations, heaviness, fullness, and
sleepiness; tense from flatulence, with
pain; worse lying down
Eructations after eating and drinking
Temporary relief from belching
Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations
Waterbrash, asthmatic breathing from flatulence
Distress comes on a half-hour after eating
Digestion slow; food putrefies before it
digests
Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things
The simplest food distresses
Premature and too copious menses; pale blood
Leucorrhœa before menses, thick, greenish,
milky, excoriating
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Evening
Night
Open air
Cold
From fat food
Butter
Coffee
Milk
Warm damp weather
Wine
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From
eructation
From fanning
Cold
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| Chininum Arsenicosum |
General
weariness and prostration
Asthmatic attacks which recur periodically, with
great prostration
Icy skin
Suffocative attacks, occurring in periodical
paroxysms
Must have open air
Short of breath on ascending; cardiac dyspnœa
Thirst for water, yet it disturbs
Eggs produce diarrhœa
Sleeplessness due to nervous causes
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| Chlorum |
Asthma to relieve the spasm
of glottis
Constriction, with suffocation
Spasm of the glottis
Irritation of epiglottis, larynx, and bronchi
Loss of voice from damp air
Sudden dyspnœa from spasm of the vocal cords,
with staring protruding eyes, blue face, cold sweat, pulse small
Inspiration free, with obstructed expiration
Livid face
Prolonged, loud, whistling rales
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| Cicuta Virosa |
Spasmodic
affections, viz, hiccough, trismus, tetanus, and convulsions
Bending of
the head, neck, and spine backwards
General action of the patient is violent,
with frightful distortions
Violent, strange desires
Sensation of internal chill
Moaning and howling
Does absurd things
Chest feels tight; can hardly breathe
Tonic spasm in pectoral muscles
Heat in chest
Thirst; burning pressure; hiccough
Desire for unnatural things, like coal
Indigestion, with insensibility, frothing at
mouth
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From touch
Draughts
Concussion
Tobacco smoke
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| Coca |
Palpitation
Dyspnœa
Anxiety and insomnia
Exhausted nervous system from physical and mental
strain
Loss of voice
Hawking of small, transparent pieces of mucus
Weak vocal cords
Hoarseness; worse after talking
Want of breath, short breath, especially
in aged athletes, and alcoholic users
Asthma, spasmodic variety
Peppery sensation in mouth
Longing for alcoholic liquors and tobacco
Great satiety for a long time
Incarcerated flatus; rises with noise and
violence, as if it would split the œsophagus
No appetite but for sweets
Can find no rest anywhere, but sleepy
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Ascending
High altitudes
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From wine
Riding
Quick motion in open air
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| Cocainum |
Sensation as if small
foreign bodies or worms were under the skin
Loss of appetite for solid food
Likes sweets
Restless, cannot sleep for hours after retiring
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| Croton Tiglium |
Feels tight all over
Drawing-pain through the left chest into the
back
Asthma, with
cough; cannot expand the chest
Cough; as soon as he touches the pillow must get
up
Sensitive to deep breathing
Copious watery stools, with much urging; always
forcibly shot out, with gurgling in intestines; worse, drinking the
least quantity, or even while eating
Constant urging to stool, followed by sudden
evacuation
Swashing sensation in intestines
Night urine foaming; dark orange color; turbid on
standing; greasy particles floating on top
Day urine is pale, with white sediment
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Least
food or drink
During summer
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Night
Morning
Washing
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| Cuprum Aceticum |
Burning
excoriation
Paroxysmal cough
Tough, tenacious mucus
Fear of suffocation
Violent spasmodic cough
Short, difficult respiration
Spasmodic constriction of chest
Dyspnœa
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Mental
emotions
Touch
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Chewing
Pressure
Night
Lying on affected side
Warmth
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| Cuprum Arsenicosum |
Bronchial asthma and with
emphysema
Garlicky odor
of urine
Urine of high specific gravity; increased,
acetones and diacetic acid
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| Drosera |
Spasmodic, dry irritative
cough, like whooping-cough, the paroxysms following each other very
rapidly; can scarcely breathe; chokes
Cough very deep and hoarse; worse, after
midnight; yellow expectoration, with bleeding from nose and mouth; retching
Deep, hoarse voice; hoarseness; laryngitis
Rough, scraping sensation deep in the fauces and
soft palate
Sensation as if crumbs were in the throat, of
feather in larynx
Laryngeal phthisis, with rapid emaciation
Harassing and titillating cough in children-not
at all through the day, but commences as soon as the head touches the
pillow at night
Clergyman's sore throat, with rough, scraping,
dry sensation deep in the fauces; voice hoarse, deep, toneless, cracked,
requires exertion to speak
Asthma when talking, with contraction of
the throat at every word uttered
Aversion to and bad effects from acids
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after midnight, lying down,
on getting warm in bed, drinking, singing, laughing |
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| Dulcamara |
Results from sitting on cold,
damp ground
Icy coldness
One-sided spasms with speechlessness
Patients living or working in damp, cold
basements
Cough worse cold, wet weather, with free
expectoration, tickling in larynx
Cough, hoarse, spasmodic
Whooping-cough, with excessive secretion of mucus
Winter coughs, dry, teasing
Asthma with dyspnœa
Loose, rattling cough; worse wet weather
Must cough a long time to expel phlegm
Cough after physical exertion
Aversion to food
Burning thirst for cold drinks
Heartburn
Must urinate when getting chilled
Urine has thick, mucous, purulent sediment
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At
night
From cold in general
Damp, rainy weather
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From moving about
External warmth
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| Egg Vaccine |
Asthma due to susceptibility of the proteid
substance in eggs |
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| Glonoinum |
Great lassitude
No inclination to work
Extreme irritability
Easily excited by the slightest opposition
Children get sick when sitting before an open
fire
Surging of blood to head and heart
Tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of
the circulation
Sensation of pulsation throughout body
Palpitation with dyspnœa
Cannot go uphill
Any exertion brings on rush of blood to heart and
fainting spells
Throbbing in the whole body to finger-tips
Menses delayed, or sudden cessation with
congestion to head
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In
sun
Exposure to sun-rays, gas, open fire
Jar
Stooping
Having hair cut
Peaches
Stimulants
Lying down
From 6 am to noon
Left side
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Brandy |
| Grindelia |
Smothering after falling
asleep
Asthmatic conditions, chronic bronchitis
Bronchorrhœa with tough mucus, difficult to
detach
Raised blood pressure
Sugar in urine
Wheezing and oppression in bronchitic patients
Sibilant rales are disseminated with foamy mucus,
very difficult to detach
Asthma, with profuse tenacious expectoration,
which relieves
Stops breathing when falling asleep; wakes
with a start, and gasps for breath
Must sit up to breathe
Cannot breathe when lying down
Bronchorrhœa, with tough, whitish, mucous
expectoration
Sibilant rales
Weak heart and respiration
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| Hepar Sulph |
Blondes with sluggish
character and weak muscles
Great sensitiveness to all impressions
Sweating patient pulling blanket around him
Croupous catarrhal inflammation, profuse
secretion; also easy perspiration
Infected sinus with pus forming
The tendency to suppuration is most
marked,
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
Loses voice and coughs when exposed to dry, cold
wind
Hoarseness, with loss of voice
Cough troublesome when walking
Dry, hoarse cough
Cough excited whenever any part of the body
gets cold or uncovered, or from eating anything cold
Croup with loose, rattling cough; worse in
morning
Choking cough
Rattling, croaking cough; suffocative attacks;
has to rise up and bend head backwards
Anxious, wheezing, moist breathing, asthma worse
in dry cold air; better in damp
Longing for acids, wine, and strong-tasting food
Aversion to fat food
Frequent eructations, without taste or smell
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
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From dry cold winds
Cool air
Slightest draught
From Mercury
Touch
Lying on painful side
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In damp weather
From wrapping head up
From warmth
After eating
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| Hydrocyanicum Acidum |
Spasmodic constriction in
larynx, feeling of suffocation, pain and tightness in chest, palpitation;
pulse weak, irregular
Sinking sensation at the epigastrium
Collapse, due to some pulmonary condition not a
cardiac collapse
Coldness
Noisy and agitated breathing
Dry, spasmodic, suffocative cough
Asthma, with contraction of throat
Whooping-cough
Paralysis of lungs
Marked cyanosis; venously congested lung
Yawning with shivering
Irresistible drowsiness
Vivid, incoherent dreams
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| Illicium |
Pain in region of third rib, about an inch
or two from the sternum, generally on the right side, but occasionally on
left; frequent cough with this pain
Purulent tracheal and gastric of old drunkards
Old asthmatics
Difficult respiration
Cough with pus like phlegm |
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| Iodum |
Rapid metabolism: loss of
flesh great appetite
Hungry with much thirst
Great debility, the slightest effort induces
perspiration
Is exceedingly thin,
dark complexioned
Tremor
Craves cold air
Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many of
its aspects
Acute catarrh of all mucous membranes
Rapid emaciation, notwithstanding good appetite
Acute affections of the respiratory organs
Is warm, and wants cool surroundings
Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs
Hoarse
Raw and tickling feeling provoking a dry
cough
Pain in larynx
Child grasps throat when coughing
Difficult expansion of chest, blood-streaked
sputum; internal dry heat, external coldness
Violent heart action
Hepatization spreads rapidly with persistent high
temperature; absence of pain in spite of great involvement, worse warmth;
craves cool air
Croup in scrofulous children with dark hair and
eyes
Inspiration difficult
Dry, morning cough, from tickling in larynx
Croupy cough, with difficult respiration;
wheezy
Cold extends downwards from head to throat
and bronchi
Great weakness about chest
Palpitation from least exertion
Tickling all over chest
Cough is worse
indoors, in warm, wet weather, and when lying on back
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
Urine frequent and copious, dark yellow-green,
thick, acrid with cuticle on surface
Menstruation irregular
Acrid leucorrhœa, thick, slimy, corroding the
linen
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When
quiet
In warm room
Right side
|
Walking
about
In open air
Better after eating.
|
| Ipecacuanha |
Spasmodic irritation in chest
and stomach
Persistent nausea and vomiting,
Indicated after indigestible food, raisins,
cakes, etc
Especially indicated in fat children and adults
Feeble and catch cold in relaxing atmosphere;
warm, moist weather
Spasmodic affections
Hæmorrhages bright-red and profuse
Dyspnœa; constant constriction in chest
Asthma
Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of
breathing
Continued sneezing; coryza; wheezing cough
Cough incessant and violent, with every breath
Chest seems full of phlegm, but does not yield to
coughing
Bubbling rales
Suffocative cough; child becomes stiff, and blue
in the face
Whooping-cough, with nosebleed, and from mouth
Bleeding from lungs, with nausea; feeling
of constriction; rattling cough
Hæmoptysis from slightest exertion
Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold
Menses too early and too profuse
Sleeps with eyes half open
Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep
|
Periodically
From veal
Moist warm wind
Lying down
|
|
| Kali Bichromicum |
Anæmia
Absence of fever are characteristic
General weakness bordering on paralysis
Especially indicated for fleshy, fat, light
complexioned persons subject to catarrhs or with syphilitic or scrofulous
history
Pains migrate quickly
More adapted to sub acute rather than the violent
acute stage
Mucous membranes everywhere are affected
Catarrh of pharynx, larynx, bronchi and nose, and
a tough, stringy, viscid secretion
Voice hoarse; worse, evening
Metallic, hacking cough
Profuse, yellow expectoration, very glutinous
and sticky, coming out in long, stringy, and very tenacious mass
Tickling in larynx
Cough, with pain in sternum, extending to
shoulders; worse when undressing
Pain at bifurcation of trachea on coughing; from
mid-sternum to back
Load immediately after eating
Feels as if digestion had stopped.
Dislikes water
Cannot digest meat
Desire for beer and acids
After urinating a drop seems to remain which
cannot be expelled
Ropy mucus in urine
|
Beer
Morning
Hot weather
Undressing
|
From heat |
| Kali Carbonicum |
Soft
pulse
Coldness
General depression
Very characteristic stitches, which may be
felt in any part of the body, or in connection with any affection; all
pains are sharp and cutting; nearly all better by motion
Sensitive to every atmospheric change, and intolerance
of cold weather
Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic
tendencies
Sweat, backache, and weakness
Throbbing pains
Pains from within out, and of stinging character
"Giving-out" sensation
Cutting pain in chest; worse lying on right side
Hoarseness and loss of voice
Dry, hard cough about 3 am, with stitching
pains and dryness of pharynx
Bronchitis, whole chest is very sensitive;
expectoration scanty and tenacious, but increasing in morning
and after eating; aggravated right lower chest and lying on painful side
Leaning forward relieves chest symptoms
Expectoration must be swallowed; cheesy taste;
copious, offensive, lump
Coldness of chest
Wheezing
Cough with relaxed uvula
Flatulence
Desire for sweet
Sour eructations. Nausea; better lying
down
Constant feeling as if stomach were full of
water
Disgust for food
Anxiety felt in stomach
Easy choking when eating
Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate
Involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing,
etc
Deficient sexual instinct
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
Drowsy after eating
Wakes about two o'clock and cannot sleep again
|
After
coition
In cold weather
From soup and coffee
In morning about three o'clock
Lying on left and painful side
|
In warm weather, though moist
During day
While moving about
|
| Kali Chloricum |
Profuse secretion of acid saliva
Flatulence
Urine albuminous, scanty, suppressed
Urine contains nucleo-albumin and bile, high Phosphoric acid, with low
total solids |
|
|
| Kali Iodatum |
Loss
of weight
Spitting of blood
Violent cough; worse in morning
Awakes choking
Expectoration like soap-suds, greenish
Stitching pains through lungs to back
Asthma
Dyspnœa on ascending, with pain in heart
Cold travels downward to chest
Saliva increased
Much thirst
Flatulence
Menses late, profuse
Corrosive leucorrhœa, with sub-acute
inflammatory conditions of the womb in young married women
|
Warm
clothing
Warm room
At night
Damp weather
Cold food and drink, especially milk
|
Motion
Open air
|
| Kali Nitricum |
Hoarseness
Dry, morning cough, with pain in chest and bloody
expectoration
Bronchitis, with sharp, short, dry, hacking cough
Asthma, with excessive dyspnœa, nausea,
dull stitches, and burning in chest
Also cardiac asthma
Dyspnœa so great that breath cannot be held long
enough to drink, though thirsty
Chest feels constricted; oppression worse in
morning
Sour-smelling expectoration
Expectoration of clotted blood, after hawking
mucus
Menses too early, profuse, black; preceded
and with violent backache
Leucorrhœa
|
Eating
veal
Towards morning
In afternoon
|
Drinking sips of water |
| Kali Phosphoricum |
Prostration
Weak and tired
Especially adapted to the young
Marked disturbance of the sympathetic nervous
system
Conditions arising from want of nerve power,
Corresponds to states of adynamia and decay,
gangrenous conditions
Asthma; least food aggravates
Short breath on going upstairs
Cough; yellow expectoration
A nervous "gone" sensation at the pit
of the stomach
Menstruation too late or too scanty in
pale, irritable, sensitive, lachrymose females
Too profuse discharge, deep-red or blackish-red,
thin and not coagulating; sometimes with offensive odor
Nocturnal seminal emissions; sexual power
diminished utter prostration after coitus
Very yellow urine
|
Excitement
Worry
Mental and physical exertion
Eating
Cold
Early morning
|
Warmth
Rest
Nourishment
|
| Lachesis |
Profound
prostration
Patients of a melancholic disposition
Sensation of tension in various parts
Cannot bear anything tight anywhere
Upper part of windpipe very susceptible to touch
Sensation of suffocation and strangulation on
lying down, particularly when anything is around throat; compels
patient to spring from bed and rush for open window
Spasm of glottis; feels as if something ran from
neck to larynx
Feels he must take a deep breath
Cough; dry, suffocative fits, tickling
Little secretion and much sensitiveness; worse,
pressure on larynx, after sleep, open air
Breathing almost stops on falling asleep
Larynx painful to touch; sensation as of a plug
which moves up and down, with a short cough
Craving for alcohol, oysters
Any food causes distress
Hungry, cannot wait for food
Constipated, offensive stool
Menses too short, too feeble; pains all
relieved by the flow
Patient sleeps into an aggravation
Sudden starting when falling asleep
Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep
Wide-awake in evening
|
After
sleep
Sleeps into
aggravation
Left side
In the spring
Warm bath
Pressure or constriction
Hot drinks
Closing eyes
|
Appearance
of discharges
Warm applications
|
| Ledum pal |
General lack of animal
heat, and yet heat of bed is intolerable
Cough, with bloody expectoration
Dyspnœa; chest feels constricted
Suffocative arrest of breathing
Pain along trachea
Oppressive constriction of chest
Tickling in larynx; spasmodic cough
Chest hurts when touched
|
At night
From heat of bed
|
From cold
Putting feet in cold water
|
| Lobelia Inflata |
Depressed relaxed condition
with oppression of the chest and epigastrium, impeded respiration, nausea
and vomiting
Languor, relaxation of muscles, nausea,
vomiting and dyspepsia in asthma and gastric affections
Best adapted to light complexioned fleshy people
Bad effects of drunkenness
Suppressed discharges
Dyspnœa from constriction of chest; worse,
any exertion
Sensation of pressure or weight in chest; better
by rapid walking
Feels as if heart would stop
Asthma; attacks, with weakness, felt in pit of
stomach and preceded by prickling all over
Cramp, ringing cough, short breath, catching at
throat
Acidity, flatulence, shortness of breath after
eating
Heartburn with profuse flow of saliva
Extreme nausea and vomiting
Profuse salivation, with good appetite
Profuse sweat and prostration
Cannot bear smell or taste of tobacco
Acrid, burning taste; acidity, with contractive
feeling in pit of stomach
Flatulence, shortness of breath after eating
Heartburn
Urine deep red color and copious red sediment
|
Tobacco
Afternoon
Slightest motion
Cold, especially cold washing
|
By rapid walking
Toward evening
From warmth
|
| Lycopodium |
Adapted
more especially to ailments gradually developing, functional power
weakening
Atony
Malnutrition
Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with
catarrhal tendencies
Older persons, where the skin shows yellowish
spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis
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
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
Tickling cough
Dyspnœa
Tensive, constrictive, burning pain in chest
Cough worse going down hill
Cough deep, hollow
Expectorations gray, thick, bloody, purulent, salty
Night cough, tickling as from Sulphur fumes
Catarrh of the chest in infants, seems full of
mucus rattling
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
Polyuria during the night
Heavy red sediment in urine
No erectile power; impotence
Premature emission
Menses too late; last too long, too profuse
Coition painful
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
|
| Magnolia |
Stiffness and soreness
Patient tired and stiff
Soreness when quiet
Erratic shifting of pains
Oppression of chest with inability to expand the
lungs
Suffocated feeling when walking fast or lying on
left side
Dyspnœa
Tendency to faint
|
Damp air
Lying on left side
In morning on first rising
|
Dry weather
Motion
Inter-menstrual flow
|
| Mephitis Putorius |
Suffocative feeling
Asthmatic paroxysms
Spasmodic cough; cough so violent, seems as if
each spell would terminate life
Child must be raised up, gets blue in face,
cannot exhale, Mucous rales through upper part of chest
Wants to bathe in ice-cold water
Sudden contraction of glottis, when drinking or
talking; food goes down wrong way
Asthma, as if inhaling Sulphur; cough from
talking; hollow, deep, with rawness, hoarseness, and pains through chest
Violent spasmodic cough; worse at night
Awakes at night with rush of blood to lower legs
Vivid dream of water, fire, etc
|
|
|
| Morphinum |
Faint and struggling for
breath
Dyspnœa, paroxysmal, on first falling asleep
Chest tight
Pain in middle of sternum
Dry, hard, teasing, exhausting cough,
worse at night
Strangling cough, with viscid mucus sputum; thin,
scanty, but sounds loose and abundant
Thirst
Loss of appetite, with aversion to meat
Slow and difficult urination
Sore feeling all over
Bed feels too hard.
Yawning, drowsy; prolonged, deep sleep
Sleepless; restless sleep, with frequent
startings
Sleepy, but cannot sleep
|
After sleep |
|
| Naja |
Feeling of intoxication
Loss of power over the limbs
Bereft of speech, swallowing, and the control
over the movement of the lips
Saliva is ejected in large quantities
Respiration gradually becomes slower and slower,
and at length ceases
Conscious all time
Marked surging of blood upwards
Marked dyspnœa
Inability to lie on left side
Very susceptible to cold
Control of sphincters lost
Grasping at throat, with sense of choking
Irritating, dry cough, dependent on cardiac
lesions
Sticky mucus and saliva
Asthmatic constriction in evening
Asthma beginning with coryza
Profound, like a log, with stertorous breathing,
a typical reptilian state
|
From
use of stimulants |
From walking or riding in open air |
| Napthalinum |
Spasmodic asthma;
better in open air
Soreness in chest and stomach; must loosen
clothing
Dyspnœa and sighing inspiration
Emphysema in the aged with asthma
Acute laryngo-tracheitis
Bronchitis when the spasmodic element is
associated with tenacious expectoration and oppression
Irresistible sexual desire
Black urine
Terribly offensive odor of decomposing ammoniacal
urine
|
|
|
| Natrum Sulph |
Where
the complaints are such as are due to living in damp houses, basements,
cellars
Feels every change from dry to wet; cannot
even eat plants growing near water, nor fish
Always feels best in warm, dry air
Dyspnœa, during damp weather
Must hold chest when coughing
Humid asthma; rattling in chest, at 4 and 5 am
Cough, with thick ropy, greenish
expectoration; chest feels all gone
Constant desire to take deep, long breath
Asthma in children, as a constitutional
remedy
Springs up in bed the cough hurts so; holds
painful side
Pain through lower left chest
Every fresh cold brings on attack of asthma
Brown, bitter coating on tongue
Yellow complexion
Thirst for something cold
Urine loaded with bile; brisk-dust sediment;
excessive secretion
Leucorrhœa yellowish-green, following
gonorrhœa in female
Leucorrhœa with hoarseness
|
Music
Lying on left side
Dampness of basement
Damp weather
Rainy weather
Water in any form.
|
Dry weather
Pressure
Changing position
|
| Nux Vomica |
Indicated
after much dosing, establishing a sort of equilibrium of forces and
counteracting chronic effects
Pre-eminently the
remedy for many of the conditions incident to modern life
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; or, again, he hopes to quiet his
excitement, by indulging in the sedative effects of tobacco, if not really
a victim, to the seductive drugs, like opium, etc
Takes preferably rich and stimulating food; wine
and women play their part to make him forget the close application of the
day
Late hours are a consequence; a thick head,
dyspepsia, and irritable temper are the next day's inheritance
Is pre-eminently a male remedy
Irritable
nervous system
Hypersensitive and over-impressionable
Zealous fiery temperament
Are easily chilled,
avoid open air, etc
Seems to be out of
tune; inharmonious spasmodic action
Spasmodic constriction
Asthma, with fullness in stomach, morning or
after eating
Cough, with sensation as if something were torn
loose in chest
Shallow respiration
Oppressed breathing
Tight, dry hacking cough; at times with bloody
expectoration
Cough brings on bursting headache and
bruised pain in epigastric region
Sour, bitter eructations
Ravenous hunger, especially about a day before an
attack of dyspepsia
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
Easily excited sexual desire
Emissions from high living
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
|
Morning
Mental exertion
After eating
Touch
Spices
Stimulants
Narcotics
Dry weather
Cold
|
From
a nap, if allowed to finish it
In evening
While at rest
In damp, wet weather
Strong pressure
|
| Passiflora Incarnata |
An efficient anti-spasmodic
Has a quieting effect on the nervous system
Atonic condition generally present
Asthma, 10-30 gtt every ten minutes for a
few doses
Flatulence and sour
eructations
Restless and wakeful, resulting from exhaustion
Especially in the feeble, infants and the aged.
Nocturnal cough
|
|
|
| Pothos |
For asthmatic complaints;
worse from inhaling any dust
Millar's asthma
Spasmodic croup
Troublesome respiration, with sudden feeling of
anguish and sweat.
Pain in chest, with difficult breathing
Asthma; relieved by stool |
|
|
| Psorinum |
Wants
the head kept warm, wants warm clothing even in summer
Extreme sensitiveness to cold
Debility, independent of any organic
disease, especially the weakness remaining after acute disease
Lack of reaction, i.e., phagocytes
defective; when well-chosen remedies fail to act
Scrofulous patients
Secretions have a filthy smell
Profuse sweating; easy
perspiration when walking
Asthma, with dyspnœa; worse, sitting up; better,
lying down and keeping arms spread wide apart
Dry, hard cough, with great weakness in chest
Feeling of ulceration under sternum
Pain in chest; better, lying down
Cough returns every winter, from suppressed
eruption
Eructations like bad eggs
Very hungry always; must have something
to eat in the middle of the night
Stool mucous, bloody, excessively fetid, dark
fluid
Leucorrhœa fetid, lumpy, with much
backache and debility
Sleepless from intolerable itching
Easily startled
|
Coffee
Changes of weather
In hot sunshine
From cold
Dread of least cold air or draft
|
Heat
Warm clothing
Even in summer
|
| Ptelea |
Feeling of pressure on lungs
and of suffocation, when lying on back
Asthma; dyspnœa; cramp-like pain in
cardiac region
Excess of saliva,
with dry bitter taste
Stomach feels empty after eating
Sleep restless, with frightful dreams; nightmare,
awakes languid and unrefreshed
|
Lying on left side
Early morning
|
Eating sour things |
| Pulsatilla |
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
Mucous membranes are all affected
Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish-green
Symptoms ever changing
Thirstless, peevish, and chilly
When 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
Capricious hoarseness; comes and goes
Dry cough in evening and at night; must sit up
in bed to get relief; and loose cough in the morning, with copious
mucous expectoration
Pressure upon the chest and soreness.
Urine emitted with cough
Pain as from ulcer in middle of chest
Expectoration bland, thick, bitter, greenish
Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when lying
on left side
Smothering sensation on lying down
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
Heartburn.
Gnawing, hungry feeling
All-gone sensation, especially in tea drinkers
Waterbrash, with foul taste in the morning
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
Wide awake in the evening;
first sleep restless
Wakes languid, unrefreshed
Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon
Sleeps with hands over head
|
From heat
Rich fat food
After eating
Towards evening
Warm room
Lying on left or on painless side
When allowing feet to hang down
|
Open air
Motion
Cold applications
Cold food and drinks, though not thirsty
|
| Quebracho |
Removes temporary obstruction
to the oxidation of the blood by stimulating respiratory centers,
increasing oxidation and excretion of carbonic acid
Uræmic dyspnœa
An effective remedy in many cases of asthma
It stimulates the respiratory centers and
increases the oxygen in the blood
"Want of breath" during exertion
is the guiding symptom
Cardiac asthma
|
|
|
| Sabadilla |
Chilliness;
sensitive to cold
No thirst
Loathing for strong food
Canine appetite for sweets and farinaceous food
Cold, empty feeling in stomach
Desire for hot things
Sweetish taste
Menses too late; come by fits and starts; intermit
|
Cold and cold drinks
Full moon
|
Warm food and drink
Wrapped up
|
| Sambucus Nigra |
Acts especially on the
respiratory organs
Profuse sweat accompanies many affections
Chest oppressed with pressure in stomach, and
nausea
Hoarseness with tenacious mucus in larynx
Paroxysmal, suffocative cough, coming on about
midnight, with crying and dyspnœa
Spasmodic croup
Loose choking cough
Child awakes suddenly, nearly suffocating,
sits up, turns blue
Cannot expire
Millar's asthma
Frequent micturition, with scanty urine
|
Sleep
During rest
After eating fruit
|
Sitting up in bed
Motion
|
| Sangunaria Canadensis |
Is a right-sided remedy
pre-eminently, and affects chiefly the mucous membranes, especially of the
respiratory tract
Circumscribed redness of the cheeks
Flashes of heat
Determination of blood to head and chest
Distention of temporal veins
Burning in palms and soles,
Burning sensations, like from hot water
Sudden stopping of catarrh of respiratory
tract followed by diarrhœa
Burning in various parts
Œdema of larynx
Trachea sore
Heat and tension behind the sternum
Cough of gastric origin; relieved by
eructation
Cough, with burning pain in chest; worse, right
side
Sputum tough, rust-colored, offensive,
almost impossible to raise
Cough returns with every fresh cold
Tickling behind sternum, causes a constant
hacking cough; worse at night on lying down; must sit up in bed
Burning soreness in right chest, through to right
shoulder
Severe soreness under right nipple
Severe dyspnœa and constriction of chest
Offensive breath and purulent expectoration
Burning in chest as of hot steam from chest to
abdomen
Asthma with stomach disorders
Sudden stoppage of catarrh of air passages brings
on diarrhœa
Aversion to butter
Craving for piquant things
Unquenchable thirst
Leucorrhœa fetid, corrosive
Menses offensive, profuse |
Sweets
Right side
Motion
Touch
|
Acids
Sleep
Darkness
|
| Scilla (Squilla) Maritima |
Ailments requiring several
days to reach their maximum
Broncho-pneumonia.
Acts especially on mucous membranes of the
respiratory and digestive tracts, and also upon the kidneys
Valuable in chronic bronchitis of old people with
mucous rales, dyspnœa, and scanty urine
Dyspnœa and stitches in chest, and
painful contraction of abdominal muscles
Violent, furious, exhausting cough, with
much mucus
Profuse, salty, slimy expectoration
Involuntary spurting of urine and sneezing
Child rubs face with fist during cough
Cough provoked by taking a deep breath or cold
drinks, from exertion, change from warm to cold air
Frequent calls to urinate at night, passing large
quantities
Sneezing with coughing
Great urging; much watery urine
Involuntary spurting of urine when
coughing |
Motion |
Rest |
| Scrophularia |
Violent dyspnœa, oppression
of chest with trembling
Pain about bifurcation of trachea
Asthma in scrofulous patients
Great drowsiness;
in morning and before and after meals with weariness
|
|
|
| Silphium Lacinatum |
Cough with expectoration profuse,
stringy, frothy, light-colored
Excited by sense of mucus rattling in chest and
worse by drafts of air
Constriction of lungs
Catarrh, with copious, stringy, mucous discharges
Desire to hawk and scrape throat
Irritation of posterior nares, involving mucous
membranes of nasal passages with constriction of supra-orbital region
|
|
|
| Sterculia ( Kola) |
Weak heart
Craving for liquor
Asthma
Prolonged physical exertion without taking food and without feeling
fatigued |
|
|
| Stramonium |
Suppressed secretions and
excretions
Sensation as if limbs were separated from body
Absence of pain and muscular mobility especially
of muscles of expression and of locomotion
Gyratory and graceful motions
Food tastes like straw
Violent thirst
Sexual erethism,
with indecent speech and action
Hands constantly kept on genitals
Awaken terrified; screams with fright
Deep snoring sleep
Sleepy, but cannot sleep
|
In dark room
When alone
Looking at bright or shining objects
After sleep
On swallowing
|
From bright light
Company
Warmth
|
| Strychninum |
Respiration increased
All reflexes are more active
Stiffness in muscles and face and neck
Explosive nervousness
Pains and sensations come suddenly and
return at intervals
Spasm of muscles about larynx
Excessive dyspnœa
Sharp, contractive pains in muscles of chest
Desire for coitus
Any touch on body excites a voluptuous sensation
in females
|
Morning
Touch
Noise
Motion
After meals
|
Lying on back |
| Sulphur |
Heat
and burning, with itching; made worse by heat of bed
Inertia and relaxation of fiber
Ebullitions of heat
Dislike of water
Dry and hard hair and skin
Red orifices
Sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am
Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections
Aversion to being washed
When carefully-selected remedies fail to act,
especially in acute diseases
Complaints that relapse
General offensive character of discharge and
exhalations
Very red lips and face, flushing easily
Oppression and burning sensation in chest
Difficult respiration; wants windows open
Heat, throughout chest
Loose cough; worse talking, morning, greenish,
purulent, sweetish expectoration
Much rattling of mucus
Chest feels heavy; stitches, with heart feeling
too large and palpitating
Stitching pains shooting through to the back,
worse lying on back or breathing deeply
Flushes of heat in chest rising to head
Oppression, as of a load on chest
Dyspnœa in middle of night, relieved by
sitting up
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
Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have
something to eat
Water fills the patient up
Frequent micturition, especially at night.
Mucus and pus in urine; parts sore over which
it passes
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
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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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| Syphilinum |
Utter prostration and
debility in the morning
Pains from darkness to daylight; decrease and
increase gradually
Hereditary tendency to alcoholism
Chronic asthma in summer, wheezing and rattling
Cough dry, hard; worse at night; windpipe
sensitive to touch
Lancinating pains from base of heart to apex at
night
Excessive flow of saliva; it runs out of mouth
when sleeping.
Craves alcohol.
Leucorrhœa profuse, thin, watery, acrid,
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At night
Sundown to sunrise
Seashore
In summer
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Inland and mountains
During day
Moving about slowly
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| Tabacum |
Nausea
Giddiness
Death-like pallor
Vomiting
Icy coldness
Sweat
Intermittent pulse
Complete prostration of the entire muscular
system
Collapse
Constriction of throat, chest, bladder, rectum
Pallor, breathlessness, hard-cordlike pulse
Difficult, violent constriction of chest
Præcordial oppression, with palpitation and pain
between shoulders
Cough followed by hiccough
Cough dry, teasing, must take a swallow of cold
water
Dyspnœa, with tingling down left arm when lying
on left side
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Opening eyes
Evening
Extremes of heat and cold
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Uncovering
Open fresh air
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| Tela Aranearum |
Dry asthma, harassing coughs
Obstinate intermittents
Pulse full, strong,
compressible.
Masked periodical diseases, hectic, broken down
patients
Symptoms come on suddenly with cool, clammy
skin
Numbness of hands and legs when at rest
Continued chilliness |
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| Thuja |
Ill-effects of vaccination
Complaints from moonlight
Rapid exhaustion and emaciation
Left-sided and chilly medicine
Dry, hacking cough in afternoon, with pain in pit
of stomach
Stitches in chest; worse, cold drinks
Asthma in children
Complete loss of appetite
Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes
Rancid eructations after fat food.
Cannot eat onions
Flatulence; pain after food; sinking sensation in
epigastrium before food; thirst
Flatulence and distension; protruding here and
there
Urinary stream split and small
Sensation of trickling after urinating
Severe cutting after
Frequent micturition accompanying pains
Desire sudden and urgent, but cannot be
controlled
Profuse leucorrhœa; thick, greenish
Menses scanty, retarded
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At night
From heat of bed
At 3 am and 3 pm
From cold
Damp air
After breakfast
Fat
Coffee
Vaccination
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Left side
While drawing up a limb
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| Tuberculinum |
Especially adapted to the
light-complexioned, narrow-chested subjects
Lax fiber, low recuperative powers, and very
susceptible to changes in the weather
Always tired; motion causes intense fatigue;
aversion to work; wants constant changes
When symptoms are constantly changing and
well-selected remedies fail to improve, and cold is taken from the
slightest exposure
Rapid emaciation
Very sensitive, mentally and physically
General exhaustion
Nervous weakness
Trembling
Hard, dry cough during sleep
Expectoration thick, easy; profuse
Shortness of breath
Sensation of suffocation, even with plenty of
fresh air
Longs for cold air
Hard, hacking cough, profuse sweating and loss of
weight, rales all over chest
Averse to meat
All-gone, hungry sensation
Desire for cold milk
Stools dark-brown, offensive, discharged with
much force
Menses too early, too profuse, long-lasting
Sleep poor; wakes early
Overpowering sleepiness in daytime
Dreams vivid and distressing
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Motion
Music
Before a storm
Standing
Dampness
From draught
Early morning
After sleep
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Open air |
| Veratrum Album |
Collapse,
with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness
Cold perspiration on the forehead
Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces
Hoarse, weak voice
Rattling in chest
Much mucus in bronchial tubes, that cannot be
coughed up
Coarse rales
Loud barking, stomach cough, followed by
eructation of gas; worse, warm room
Hollow cough, tickling low down, with blue face
Cough comes on from drinking, especially cold
water; urine escapes when coughing
Cough on entering warm room from cold air
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
Stools large, with much straining until
exhausted, with cold sweat
Menses too early; profuse and exhausting
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At night
Wet, cold weather
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Walking
Warmth
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| Veratrum Viride |
Congestions, especially to
lungs
Twitchings and convulsions
Especially adapted to full-blooded, plethoric
persons
Great prostration
Bloated, livid face
Effects of sunstroke
Congestive stage and early manifestations of
hepatization in pneumonia
Zigzag temperature
Difficult breathing
Sensation of a heavy load on chest
Thirsty
Smallest quantity of food or drink immediately
rejected
Urine scanty with cloudy sediment
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| Viscum Album |
Lowered blood pressure
Pulse is slow due to central irritation of the
vagus.
Asthma
Dyspnœa; feeling of suffocation when lying on
left side
Spasmodic cough
Asthma, if connected with gout or
rheumatism
Stertorous breathing
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Winter
Cold
Stormy weather
In bed
Movement
Lying on left side
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| Zincum Metallicum |
Tissues are worn out faster
than they are repaired
Poisoning from suppressed eruptions or discharges
Defective vitality
Period of depression in disease
Twitchings
Marked anæmia with profound prostration
Fidgety feet
Burning pressure beneath sternum
Constriction and cutting in chest
Hoarseness
Debilitating, spasmodic cough; worse, eating
sweet things
Child grasps genitals during cough
Asthmatic bronchitis, with constriction, of chest
Dyspnœa better as soon as expectoration
appears
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
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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| Zingiber |
Taste of food remains long,
especially of bread and toast
Complaints from eating melons and drinking
impure water
Acidity
Hoarseness
Smarting below larynx; breathing difficult
Asthma, without anxiety, worse
toward morning
Scratching sensation in throat; stitches in chest
Cough dry, hacking; copious morning sputa
Frequent desire to urinate
Urine thick, turbid, of strong odor, suppressed
After urinating, continues to ooze in drops
Sexual desire excited; painful erections
Emissions
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