Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

 Alumina

 Dryness of mucus membranes and skin

In old people with lack of vital heat or prematurely old with debility

Falling of hair with itching and numbness of scalp

Cravings for chalk, charcoal, dry food, tea grounds

Hard, dry and knotty stools

From potatoes

Periodically

In afternoon

In morning on awaking

Warm room

 In open air

From cold washing

In evening

On alternate days

Damp weather

 Antimonium Crudum

 Excessive irritability and fretfulness

Thickly coated white tongue

Can not bear heat of Sun

Tendency to grow fat

Great loss of hair with headaches

Desires for acids and pickles

 Heat

Cold bathing

In evening

Acids

Wine

Water

 In open air

During rest

Moist warmth

Arsenicum Album

 All pervading debility, exhaustion and restlessness; great exhaustion after the slightest exertion

Unquenchable thirst; drinks much, but little at a time

Fear fright and worry

Scalp itches intolerably; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive and covered with dry scales

Craves acids, coffee, milk

 Wet weather

After midnight

From cold, cold drinks or cold food

Seashore

Right side

From heat

From elevated head

Warm drinks

 Arundo

Falling of hair with itching of scalp; roots of hair painful

Desire for acids

Red sediment in urine 

Aurum Metallicum

Hopeless, despondent and great desire to commit suicide

Boils on scalp 

Urine turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment

Stools hard and knotty

In cold weather

From sunset to sunrise 

 Bacillinum

Constant disposition to take cold

Night and early morning

Cold air 

Baryta Carb 

In old age

Takes cold easily

Offensive foot sweats

Very weak & weary, must sit, lie down or lean on something

Very averse to meeting strangers

Hair falls out 

Hard, knotty stools

After warm food

While thinking of symptoms

From washing

Lying on painful side

Walking in open air

Calcarea Carb

Increased perspiration

Dislike of fat, meat and boiled things

Gets out of breath easily

A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork

Takes cold easily

Craving for eggs, salt, sweets, indigestible things like chalk, coal, pencils

Fat, fair and flabby

Itching of head; scratches head on waking

Thirst; longing for cold drinks

Milk

From exertion, mental or physical

Ascending

Cold in every form

Water, washing, moist air, wet weather

During full moon

Standing

Dry climate and weather

Lying on painful side

Calcarea Iodata

In flabby children subject to cold

Easy perspiration

Carbo Vegetabilis

Sluggish, fat and lazy

Body becomes blue, ice cold

Oppressed and quickened respiration; must have air, must be fanned hard; must have windows open

Faints easily, is worn out, too weak to hold out

Persons who have never recovered fully from the effects of previous illness

Hair feels sore; falls off easily; scalp itches when getting warm in bed

Aversion to milk, meat and fat things

Evening

Night

Open air

Fat food, butter

Coffee

Milk

Warm, damp weather

From eructations

From fanning

Cold

Chrysarobinum

Violent itching

Dryness

Flouricum Acidum

In old age or prematurely aged

Averse to coffee, wants fancy dishes

Desire for highly seasoned food, cold water

Compelled to move about energetically

Warmth

Morning

Warm drinks

Cold

While walking

Graphites

Fat, costive and chilly

Take cold easily

Aversion to meat, sweets

Large, knotty stools united by mucus threads

Urine turbid, with sediments

Hot drinks

Warmth

At night

During and after menses

In the dark

From wrapping up

Hypericum

Falling of hair from injury

Constant drowsiness

Craving for wine

Tongue coated white at base, tip clean

In cold

Dampness

In a fog

In close room

Least exposure

Touch

Bending head backwards

Kali Carbonicum

Coldness; intolerance of cold weather

General depression

Sweat, backache and weakness

Falling of hair with great dryness of hair

Desire for sweets

Early morning about three am

After coition

In cold weather

From soup and coffee

Lying on left and painful side

In warm weather, though moist

During day

While moving about

Lycopodium

Gradually developing and progressive baldness

Runs from right to left

Intolerance of cold drinks; craves everything warm

Intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power

Emaciation

Debility in morning

Thin, withered, full of gas and dry

Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation

Sensitive to noise and odor

Great falling of hair

Premature baldness

Aversion to bread

Desire for sweets

Worse 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Oysters

Right side

From right to left side

From above downwards

From heat or warm room

Hot air, bed

Warm applications

By motion

After midnight

From warm foods and drinks

On getting cold

From being uncovered

Mancinella

Falling of hair after acute sickness

Mezereum

Very sensitive to cold air

Desire for Ham-fat

Red flakes float on top of urine; hot, bloody

Cold air

Night, evening until midnight

Warm food

Touch

Motion

Open air

Natrum Muriaticum

Great debility; most weakness felt in the morning

Coldness

Emaciation most notably in neck

Great liability to take cold

Oversensitive to all sorts of influences

Unquenchable thirst

Sweats while eating

Craving for salt

Aversion to bread, fats and anything slimy like oysters

Affects hair follicles in Baldness

Noise

Music

Warm room

Lying down

About 10 am

At seashore

Mental exertion

Consolation

Heat

Talking

Open air

Cold bathing

Going without regular meals

Lying on right side

Pressure against back

Tight clothings

Nitricum Acidum

Dark complexioned and past middle age

All discharges very offensive

Take cold easily

Scalp sensitive

Desire for indigestible things like chalk, earth etc; fat; salt

Urine scanty, dark, offensive; smells like horse's urine; bloody and albuminous

Evening and night

Cold climate and also hot weather

Riding in a carriage

Petroleum

Aversion to fat food, meat

Ravenous hunger; must rise at night and eat

During winter

Dampness

Before and during a thunderstorm

From riding in cars

Passive motion

Eating

From mental states

Warm air

Lying with head high

Dry weather

Phosphoricum

Acidum

Nervous exhaustion

In young people who grow rapidly, and who are overtaxed, mentally or physically

Hair loss due to acute diseases, excesses, grief or loss of vital fluids

Craves juicy things

Thirst for cold milk

Urine watery, milky, containing sugar

Exertion

From being talked to

Loss of vital fluids

Sexual excesses

From keeping warm

Phosphorus

Tall, slender, narrow chested persons with thin, transparent skin

Emaciation

Amative tendencies

Great susceptibility to external impressions, light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunderstorms

Itching of scalp, dandruff, falling of hair in large bunches

Touch

Physical or mental exertion

Twilight

Warm food or drink

Change of weather

From getting wet in got weather

Evening

Lying on left or painful side

During a thunderstorm

Ascending stairs

In dark

Lying on right side

Cold food

Cold

Open air

Washing with cold water

Sleep

Pix Liquida

Selenium

Great debility; worse heat

Desire for brandy and other strong drinks

Stools constipated, hard

After sleep

In hot weather

From Cinchona

Draught of air

Coition

Sepia

Easy fainting

Acts best on Brunettes

Feels cold even in a warm room

Roots of hair sensitive

Everything tastes too salty

Desire for vinegar, acids, pickles

Loathes fat

Red adhesive sand in urine

Milk, esp. Boiled milk

Forenoons and evenings

Washing

Laundry work

Dampness

Left side

After sweat

Cold air

Before thunderstorm

By exercise

Pressure

Warmth of bed

Hot applications

Drawing up limbs

Cold bathings

After sleep

Silicia

Cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothings, hates drafts; great sensitiveness to taking cold

Lack of vital heat

Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants

Disgust for meat and warm food

Want appetite; thirst excessive

In winter

New moon

In morning

From washing

During ,menses

Uncovering

Lying down

Damp

Lying on left side

Cold

Warmth

Wrapping up head

Summer

In wet or humid weather

Strychninum

Arsenicum

Urine scanty, high specific gravity, heavily loaded with glucose

Syphilinum

Hereditary tendency of alcoholism; craves alcohol

At night

Sundown to sunrise

Seashore

In summer

Inland and mountains

During day

Moving about slowly

Thallium

Hair loss following acute, exhausting diseases

Night sweats

Thuja Occidentalis

Rapid exhaustion and emaciation

Hair dry and fall out

Complete loss of appetite

Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes

Can not eat onions

At night

From heat of bed

At 3 am and 3 p.m.

From cold, damp air

After breakfast

Fat, coffee

Vaccination

Left side

While drawing up limbs

Thyroidinum

Emaciation

Excessive obesity or losses flesh with great weakness and hunger

Pale patients

Low blood pressure

Easy fatigue, weak pulse, tendency of fainting

Palpitation, chilliness and sensitiveness to cold

Desire for sweets

Thirst for cold water

Urine smells of violets; increase of uric acid

Sphingur

Vinca Minor

Spots on scalp, oozing moisture, matting hair together

Corrosive itching of scalp

Bald spots in head

Zincum Metallicum

Can not stand smallest quantity of wine

Ravenous hunger at 11 am

Stools small, hard

During menses

From touch

Between 5 to 7 p.m.

After dinner

From wine

While eating

Discharges

Appearance of eruptions