Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Aloe |
Incontinence in aged,
bearing-down sensation and enlarged prostate
Scanty and high colored urine
Adapted to weary people, the aged, and
phlegmatic, old beer-drinkers
Dissatisfied and angry about himself, alternating
with lumbago
Heat internally and externally
Aversion to meat
Longing for juicy things
After eating, flatulence, pulsation in rectum
and sexual irritation
Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed
Lumpy, watery stool
Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum after
stool
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Early morning
Summer
Heat
In hot
Dry weather
After eating or drinking
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From cold
Open air
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| Argentum Nitricum |
Urine passes unconsciously,
day and night
Emission of a few drops after having finished
urinating
Divided stream of urine.
Urine scanty and dark
Symptoms of in co-ordination, loss of control and
want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically; trembling in
affected parts
Great desire for sweets
Sensation as if a part were expanding and other
errors of perception
Withered up and dried constitutions present a
favorable field for its action, especially when associated with unusual or
long continued mental exertion
Pains increase and decrease gradually
Flatulent state and prematurely aged look
Explosive belching especially in neurotics
Intolerance of heat
Sensation of a sudden pinch
Nausea, retching, vomiting of glairy mucus
Ineffectual effort at eructation
Desire for cheese and salt
Stools watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like
chopped spinach, with shreddy mucus and enormous distention of
abdomen; very offensive
Impotence
Erection fails when coition is attempted
Desire wanting
Coition painful
Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination
Horrible dreams of snakes, and of sexual
gratification
Drowsy stupor
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Warmth
in any form
At night
From cold food
Sweets
After eating
At menstrual period
From emotions
Left side
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From
eructation
Fresh air
Cold
Pressure
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| Baryta Carbonica |
Enlarged prostate
Indicated in infancy and old age
Brings aid to scrofulous children, especially if
they are backward mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do not grow and
develop
Take cold easily
Diseases of old men when degenerative changes
begin
Very sensitive to cold
Offensive foot-sweats
Very weak and weary
Must sit or lie down or lean on something
Very averse to meeting strangers
Water brash, hiccough, and eructation, which
relieves pressure as of a stone
Hungry, but refuses food
Pain and weight immediately after a meal, with
epigastric tenderness
Constipation, with hard, knotty stools
Diminished desire and premature impotence
Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too
hot
Twitching during sleep
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While thinking of symptoms
From washing
Lying on painful side
After warm food
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Walking in open air |
| Chimaphila Umbellata |
Loss of prostatic fluid
Prostatic enlargement and irritation
Scanty urine, and loaded with ropy,
muco-purulent sediment
Urging to urinate
Urine turbid, offensive, containing ropy or
bloody mucus, and depositing a copious sediment
Burning and scalding during micturition, and
straining afterwards
Must strain before flow comes
Sugar in urine
Unable to urinate without standing with feet wide
apart and body inclined forward
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In damp weather
From sitting on cold stones or pavements
Left side
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| Cimicifuga Racemosa |
Agitation and pain
Pains like electric shocks here and there
Irregular, slow, trembling pulse
Tremulous action
Sleeplessness
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Morning
Cold (except headache)
During menses; the more profuse the flow, the
greater the suffering
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Warmth
Eating.
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| Ferrum Picricum |
Acts best in dark-haired
patients, plethoric, with sensitive livers
Senile hypertrophy of the prostate
Frequent micturition at night, with full
feeling and pressure in rectum
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| Gelsemium |
General prostration
Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and
trembling
Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy
Muscular weakness
Complete relaxation and prostration. Lack of
muscular co-ordination
General depression from heat of sun
Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and
dampness brings on many complaints
Sluggish circulation
No thirst
Urine profuse, clear, watery, with
chilliness and tremulousness
A feeling as if it were necessary to keep in
motion, or else heart's action would cease
Palpitation; pulse soft, weak, full and flowing
Pulse slow when quiet, but greatly accelerated on
motion
Weak, slow pulse of old age
Cannot get fully to sleep
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Damp weather
Fog
Before a thunderstorm
Emotion, or excitement
Bad news
Tobacco-smoking
When thinking of his ailments
At 10 am
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Bending forward
By profuse urination
Open air
Continued motion
Stimulants
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| Hydrangea |
Enlarged
prostate
Profuse deposit of
white amorphous salts in urine.
Urine hard to start
Heavy deposit of mucus
Great thirst
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| Populus Tremuloides |
Prostate enlarged
Urine contains mucus and pus
Night-sweats
Indigestion, with flatulence and acidity
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| Sabal Serrulata |
Prostatic troubles;
enlargement; discharge of prostatic fluid
Loss of sexual power
Coitus painful at the time of emission
General and sexual debility
Acts on membrano-prostatic portion of urethra
Fear of going to sleep
Languor, apathy and indifference
Belching and acidity
Desire for milk
Constant desire to pass water at night
Difficult urination
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| Senecio |
Prostate enlarged
Lascivious dreams, with involuntary emissions
Sour eructations; nausea
Straining at stool; thin, dark, bloody, with
tenesmus
Urinary scanty, high-colored, bloody, with
much mucus and tenesmus
Great heat and constant urging
Great drowsiness, with unpleasant dreams
Nervousness and sleeplessness
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| Sulphur |
Inertia and relaxation of
fiber; hence feebleness of tone
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
Complaints that relapse
General offensive character of discharge and
exhalations
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. Burning,
painful, weight-like pressure
Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have
something to eat
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
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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Warm weather
Lying on right side
From drawing up affected limbs
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| Thiosinaminum |
Scar tissue,
tumors, enlarged glands; lupus, strictures, adhesions
Noises in ear
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| Thuja |
Pain and burning felt near
neck of bladder, with frequent and urgent desire to urinate
Prostatic enlargement
Tearing in muscles and joints, worse at rest,
better in dry weather, worse damp humid atmosphere; lameness
Hydrogenoid constitutions, whose blood is
morbidly hydroscopic, so that damp air and water are inimical
Complaints from moonlight
Rapid exhaustion and emaciation
Left-sided and chilly
Complete loss of appetite
Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes
Rancid eructations after fat food
Cannot eat onions
Flatulence
Thirst
Urinary stream split and small
Sensation of trickling after urinating
Severe cutting after urination
Frequent micturition accompanying pains
Desire sudden and urgent, but cannot be
controlled
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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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| Alfalfa |
Vesical irritability of prostatic hypertrophy
Increased thirst
Appetite impaired, but chiefly increased even to bulimia
Must eat frequently, so that he cannot wait for regular meals; hungry
in forenoon
Much nibbling of food and craving for sweets
Flatulence with distention
Shifting, flatulent pain along colon several hours after meals
Frequent, loose, yellow, painful stools, with burning of flatulence
Increased elimination of urea, indican and phosphates
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| Ammonium Muriaticum |
Especially adapted to fat and
sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles
A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seems
to be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc
Profuse
glairy secretions
"Boiling" sensation
Thirst for lemonade
Regurgitation of food
Bitter water brash
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Head and chest symptoms in the morning
Abdominal symptoms in the afternoon
Pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile
symptoms, in the evenings.
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Open air |
| Benzoicum Acidum |
Urine repulsive odor;
changeable color; brown, acid
Enuresis; dribbling, offensive urine of
old men
Excess of uric acid
Sweat while eating
Stool frothy, offensive, liquid,
light-colored, like soapsuds
Bowel movements, mostly windy
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in open air; by uncovering |
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| Calcarea Flourica |
Hard, stony glands
Induration threatening suppuration
Indurations of stony hardness
Vomiting of undigested food
Flatulency
Weakness and daintiness of appetite, nausea and
distress after eating in young children who are overtaxed by studies
Acute indigestion from fatigue and brain-fag;
much flatulence
Much wind in lower bowels
Vivid dreams, with sense of impending danger
Unrefreshing sleep
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During
rest
Changes of weather
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Heat
Warm applications
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| Calcarea Iodata |
Especially enlarged glands
Flabby children subject to colds
Secretions inclined to be profuse and yellow
Easy perspiration
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| Chromium Sulphate |
Prostatic hypertrophy
Tachycardia
Lack of nervous tone
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| Conium |
Much difficulty in voiding
urine; it flows and stops again
;interrupted discharge
Dribbling urine in old men
Desire increased in males; power decreased
Sexual nervousness, with feeble erection
Difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of
strength while walking, painful stiffness of legs etc
Condition is often found in old age, a time of
weakness, languor, local congestions, and sluggishness
Debility, hypochondriasis, urinary troubles,
weakened memory, sexual debility
Trouble at the change of life, old and bachelors
General feeling as if bruised by blows
Great debility in the morning in bed
Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and
palpitation
Terrible nausea, acrid heartburn and acid
eructations; worse on going to bed
Frequent urging for stools; stools hard, with
tenesmus
Tremulous weakness after every stool
Sweat as soon as one sleeps,
or even when closing eyes
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Lying
down
Turning or rising in bed
Celibacy
Before and during menses
From taking cold
Bodily or mental exertion.
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While fasting
In the dark
From letting limbs hang down
Motion and pressure
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| Eupatorium Purpureum |
Enlarged prostate
Chills and pains run upwards
Impotency
Homesickness
Insufficient urinary flow; milky urine
Constant desire; bladder feels dull
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| Graphites |
Especially active in patients
who are rather stout, of fair complexion, with tendency to skin affections
and constipation
Fat, chilly, and costive,
Take cold easily
Aversion to meat
Sweets nauseate
Eructation difficult
Flatulence
Urine turbid, with sediment
Sour smelling urine
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Warmth
At night
During and after menstruation
Hot drinks
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In the dark
From wrapping up
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| Hepar Sulph |
Urine voided slowly, without
force-drops vertically, bladder weak; seems as if some always remained
Greasy pellicle on urine
Blondes with sluggish character and weak muscles
Great sensitiveness to all impressions
Sweating patient pulling blanket around him
Easy perspiration
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
Longing for acids, wine, and strong-tasting food
Aversion to fat food
Frequent eructations, without taste or smell
Stool clay-colored and soft; sour, white,
undigested, fetid
Loss of power to expel even a soft stool
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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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| Tribulus Terrestris
(Ikshugandha)
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Urinary affections
Debilitated states of the sexual organs, as expressed in seminal
weakness, ready emissions and impoverished semen
Prostatitis
Auto-traumatism of masturbation
Partial impotence caused by overindulgence of advancing age
Incontinence
Painful urination
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| Iodum |
Rapid metabolism: Loss of
flesh great appetite
Hungry with much thirst
Great debility, the slightest effort induces
perspiration
Individual is exceedingly thin, dark
complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but
gets thin
Craves cold air
Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many
of its aspects
Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs
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
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When
quiet
In warm room
Right side
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Walking about
In open air
After eating
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| Kali Bichromicum |
Constriction at root of
penis, at night on awakening
After urinating a drop seems to remain which
cannot be expelled
Ropy mucus in urine
Anĉmia
Absence of fever
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
Tough, stringy, viscid secretion
Nausea and vomiting after beer
Feels as if digestion had stopped
Dislikes water
Cannot digest meat
Desire for beer and acids
Stools jelly-like, gelatinous
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Beer
Morning
Hot weather
Undressing
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From heat |
| Kali Bromatum |
General failure of mental power, loss of memory
Melancholia
Loss of sexual desire
Sexual debility and impotence
Restless sleep
Extreme drowsiness
Sleeplessness due to worry and grief and sexual excess
Night terrors
Grinding teeth in sleep
Horrible dreams
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When occupied mentally or physically |
| Lycopodium |
Enlarge prostate
No erectile power; impotence
Premature emission
Pain in back before urinating; ceases after flow;
slow in coming, must strain Frequent urination during the night
Heavy red sediment in urine
Adapted more
especially to ailments gradually developing, functional power weakening,
with failures of the digestive powers, where the function of the liver is
seriously disturbed
Atony
Malnutrition
Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with
catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots,
earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis
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.
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
Drowsy during day
Starting in sleep
Dreams of accidents
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Right
side
From right to left
From above downward
4 to 8 pm
From heat or warm room
Hot air, bed
Warm applications, except throat and stomach
which are better from warm drinks
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By motion
After midnight
From warm food and drink
On getting cold
From being uncovered
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| Medorrhinum |
Enlarged and painful prostate
with frequent urging and painful urination
Painful tenesmus when urinating
Involuntary urination at night
Urine flows very slowly
Great disturbance and irritability of nervous
system
Pains intolerable; tensive; nerves quiver and
tingle
State of collapse and trembling all over
Intensity of all sensations
Coppery taste and eructations of sulphuretted
hydrogen
Ravenous hunger soon after eating
Very thirsty
Cravings for liquor, salt, sweets, etc, warm
drinks
Can pass stool only by leaning very far back
Dreams she is drinking
Sleeps in knee-chest position
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When
thinking of ailment
From daylight to sunset
Heat
Inland
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At
the seashore
Lying on stomach
Damp weather
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| Oleum Santali |
Frequent, burning, smarting
swelling, and redness of meatus
Urinary stream small and slow
Sensation of a ball pressing against the urethra;
worse, standing
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| Oxydendron Arboreum |
Urine suppressed
Deranged portal circulation
Prostatic enlargement
Irritation of neck of bladder
Great difficulty of breathing
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| Pareira Brava |
Prostatic affections, and
catarrh of bladder
Sensation as if bladder were distended, with pain
Black, bloody, thick mucous urine
Constant urging; great straining; pain down
thighs during efforts to urinate
Can emit urine only when he goes on his knees,
pressing head firmly against the floor
Feeling of the bladder being distended and
neuralgic pain in the anterior crural region
Dribbling after micturition
Itching along urethra; urethritis, with prostatic
trouble
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| Picricum Acidum |
Prostatic hypertrophy,
especially in cases not too far advanced
Seminal emissions
profuse, followed by great exhaustion, without sensual dreams
Brain fag
Sexual excitement
Prostration
Pins and needle sensation in extremities
Muscular debility
Heavy tired feeling
Sallow complexion
Bitter taste
Aversion to food
Scanty urine
Dribbling urination
Urine contains much indican, granular cylinders
and fatty degenerated epithelium
Nightly urging to urinate
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Least
exertion, especially mental
After sleep
Wet weather
A summer or hot weather remedy; patient is worse
then
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From cold air
Cold water
Tight pressure
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| Piper Menthysticum |
Silent and drowsy character with incoherent dreams,
loss of muscular power
Urine increased
Burning during urination
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| Pulsatilla |
Acute inflammation
of the prostate
Especially for mild,
gentle, yielding disposition
Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable,
contradictory
The patient 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
Great sensitiveness
Wants the head high while sleeping; feels
uncomfortable with only one pillow; lies with hands above head
Averse to fat food, warm food, and drink
Eructations; taste of food remains a long time;
after ices, fruits, pasty. Bitter taste, diminished taste of all
food
Flatulence
Dislikes butter
Heartburn
Pain in stomach an hour after eating
Stools rumbling, watery; worse, night
No two stools alike
Two or three normal stools daily
Increased desire to urinate; worse when lying
down
Involuntary urination at night, while coughing or
passing flatus
Wide awake in the evening;
first sleep restless
wakes languid, unrefreshed
Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon
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From
heat
Rich fat food
After eating
Towards evening
Warm room
Lying on left or on painless side
When allowing feet to hang down
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Open
air
Motion
Cold applications
Cold food and
drinks, though not thirsty
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| Rhus Aromatica |
Urine pale, albuminous
Incontinence
Severe pain at beginning or before
urination, causing great agony in children
Constant dribbling of urine.
Large quantities of urine of low specific gravity
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| Sarsaparilla |
Urine scanty, slimy, flaky,
sandy, bloody
Severe pain at conclusion of urination
Urine dribbles while sitting
Salivation
Metallic taste
No thirst
Fetid breath
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Dampness at night
After urinating
When yawning
In spring
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| Staphysagria |
Constipation, hemorrhoids,
with enlarged prostate
Sensation as if a drop of urine were rolling
continuously along the urinary channel
Burning in urethra during urination
Prostatic troubles; frequent urination, burning
in urethra when not urinating
Urging and pain after urinating
Especially after self-abuse; persistent dwelling
on sexual subjects
Spermatorrha, with sunken features; guilty
look; emissions, with backache and weakness and sexual neurasthenia
Difficult respiration after coition
Ill effects of anger and insults
Sexual sins and excesses
Very sensitive
Desire for stimulants
Craving for tobacco
Canine hunger, even when stomach is full
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Anger
Indignation
Grief
Mortification
Loss of fluids
Onanism
Sexual excesses
Tobacco
Least touch on affected parts
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After breakfast
Warmth
Rest at night
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| Thyroidinum |
Anĉmia
Emaciation
Muscular weakness
Sweating
Nervous tremor of face and limbs, tingling
sensations
Heart rate increased, exophthalmus and dilation
of pupils
Craving for large amount of sweets
Excessive obesity
Acts better with pale patients, rather than
those of high color
Great weakness and hunger, yet loses flesh
Involuntary urination at night
Sensation of faintness and nausea
Marked sensitiveness to cold
Easy fatigue, weak pulse, tendency to fainting,
palpitation, cold hands and feet, low blood pressure, chilliness and
sensitive to cold
Thirst for cold
water
Nausea worse riding in car
Flatulence, much flatus in abdomen
Increased urinary flow; polyuria; some albumen
and sugar
Urine smells of violets, burning along urethra,
increase of uric acid
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| Triticum Repens |
Frequent, difficult,
and painful urination
Enlarged prostate
Incontinence; constant desire to urinate
Urine is dense and causes irritation of the
mucous surfaces
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