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| Brain Tumor |
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Apomorphinum |
Vertigo Dilated pupils
Nausea and vomiting
Vomiting is preceded by nausea, lassitude and increased secretion of
sweat, saliva, mucus and tears
Violent inclination to vomit
Hot feeling all over body, especially head |
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| Arnica |
Especially suited to cases when any injury, however
remote, seems to have caused the present trouble After traumatic
injuries, overuse of any organ, strains
Disposed to cerebral congestion
Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with impoverished blood,
cardiac dropsy with dyspnœa
Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained
Bed feels too hard. Marked effect on the blood
Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots
Tendency to hæmorrhage and low-fever states
Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not
mature
Sore, lame, bruised feeling
Aversion to tobacco
Head hot, with cold body; confused; sensitiveness of brain,
with sharp, pinching pains
Scalp feels contracted
Cold spot on forehead
Fetid breath
Mouth dry and thirsty
Bitter taste
Taste as from bad eggs
Longing for vinegar
Distaste for milk and meat
Canine hunger
Dark brick-red sediment in urine
Sleepless and restless when over tired
Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated
bodies, anxious and terrible
Horrors in the night. |
Least touch Motion
Rest
Wine
Damp cold |
Lying down, or with head low |
| Baryta Carbonica |
Specially indicated in infancy and old age
This remedy brings aid to scrofulous children, especially if they are
backward mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do not grow and develop,
have scrofulous ophthalmia, swollen abdomen, take cold easily, and then
always have swollen tonsils
Diseases of old men when degenerative changes begin;-cardiac vascular and
cerebral
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
Brain feels as if loose
Fatty tumors about neck
Hungry, but refuses food
Worse after warm food
Constipation, with hard, knotty stools
Diminished desire and premature impotence
Menses scanty
Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot
Twitching during sleep |
While thinking of symptoms From washing
Lying on painful side |
Walking in open air |
| Belladonna |
Active congestion, furious excitement, perverted
special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain Always is associated with
hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited
mental state
Hyperæsthesia of all senses
Convulsive movements
Dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water
Neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly
Heat, redness, throbbing and burning
Great children's remedy
No thirst, anxiety or fear
Stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset
Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards
Head sensitive to least contact; much throbbing and heat
Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing
Pain; fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and
temples
Sudden outcries
Pain in head worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in
afternoon; better by pressure and semi-erect posture
Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side
Constant moaning
Loss of appetite
Averse to meat and milk
Great thirst for cold water
Desire diminished
Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse; menses and
lochia very offensive and hot
Restless sleep, 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 |
Touch Jar
Noise
Draught
After noon
Lying down |
Semi-erect |
| Calcarea Carbonica |
Increased local and general perspiration Gets out
of breath easily
A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork
Abscesses in deep muscles; polypi and exostoses
Pituitary and thyroid dysfunction.
Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence
Persons of scrofulous type, who take cold easily, with increased mucous
secretions
Children who grow fat, are large-bellied, with large head, pale skin,
chalky look
Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats
Children crave eggs and eat dirt and other indigestible things; are prone
to diarrhœa
Patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour
Sense of weight on top of headHeadache, with cold hands and feet
Vertigo on ascending, and when turning head
Head feels hot and heavy, with pale face
Icy coldness in, and on the head, especially right side
Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible
things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets
Milk disagrees
Frequent sour eructations
Dislike of fat
Loss of appetite when overworked
Heartburn and loud belching
Ravenous hunger.
Repugnance to hot food
Thirst; longing for cold drinks
Urine dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody
Frequent seminal emissions
Increased sexual desire
Semen emitted too soon
Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache
and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return
Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep; horrid visions when opening
eyes
Starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy
Drowsy in early part of evening
Frequent waking at night
Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light slumber
Night terrors
Dreams of the dead |
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 |
| Conium |
Difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength
while walking Weakened memory
Sexual debility found here
Growth of tumors
General feeling as if bruised by blows
Great debility in the morning in bed
Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation
Cancerous diathesis
Vertigo, when lying down, and when turning over in bed, when
turning head sidewise, or turning eyes; worse, shaking head, slight
noise or conversation of others, especially towards the left
Headache, stupefying, with nausea and vomiting of mucus, with a feeling
as of foreign body under the skull
Scorched feeling on top
Tightness as if both temples were compressed; worse after a meal
Bruised, semi lateral pains
Dull occipital pain on rising in morning
Amelioration from eating and aggravation a few hours after meals; acidity
and burning
Tremulous weakness after every stool
Much difficulty in voiding urine
It flows and stops again
Desire increased; power decreased
Sexual nervousness, with feeble erection
Menses delayed and scanty; parts sensitive
Leucorrhœa after micturition |
Lying down Turning or rising in bed
Celibacy
Before and during menses
From taking cold
Bodily or mental exertion |
While fasting In the dark
From letting limbs hang down
Motion
Pressure |
| Glonoine |
Great lassitude, no inclination to work; extreme
irritability, easily excited by the slightest opposition, ending in
congestive head symptoms Gets sick when sitting before an open fire
Surging of blood to head and heart
Tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation
Violent convulsions, associated with cerebral congestion
Sensation of pulsation throughout body
Pulsating pains
Cannot recognize localities
Confusion, with dizzinessHead heavy, but cannot lay it on
pillow
Cannot bear any heat about head
Better from uncovering head
Throbbing headache
Very irritable
Vertigo on assuming upright position
Cerebral congestion
Head feels enormously large, as if skull were too small for brain.
Shocks in head, synchronous with pulse
Headache in place of menses
Abnormal hunger
Menses delayed, or sudden cessation with congestion to head |
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 |
Brandy |
| Graphites |
Especially active in patients who are rather stout,
of fair complexion Tendency to skin affections and constipation
Fat, chilly, and costive
Delayed menstrual history
Takes cold easily
Impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands
Induration of tissue
Rush of blood to head with flushed face also with nose bleed and
distension and flatulence
Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side, with inclination to
vomit
Sensation of cobweb on forehead
Feels numb and pithy
Burning on vertex
Aversion to meat
Sweets nauseate
Hot drinks disagree
Eructation difficult.
Flatulence
Urine turbid, with sediment; sour smelling
Menses too late, with constipation; pale and scanty, with tearing
pain in epigastrium, and itching before
Leucorrhœa, pale, thin, profuse, white, excoriating, with
great weakness in back
Sexual debility, with increased desire; aversion to coition; too early or
no ejaculation |
Warmth At night
During and after menstruation |
In the dark From wrapping up |
| Hydrastis Canadensis |
Thick, yellowish, ropy secretion
Especially active in old, easily-tired people, cachectic individuals, with
great debility
Cerebral effects prominent, feels his wits sharpened, head cleared,
facile expression
Weak muscular power, poor digestion and obstinate constipation
Emaciation and prostration
Cancer and cancerous state, before ulceration, when pain is principal
symptom
Bitter taste
Pain as from a hard-cornered substance
Cannot eat bread or vegetables
Urine smells decomposed
Leucorrhœa, worse after menses; acrid and corroding, shreddy, tenacious
Sexual excitement |
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| Kali Iodatum |
Diffused sensitiveness Symptoms like loss
of weight, spitting of blood, etc
Pain through sides of head
Violent headache
Cranium swells up in hard lump
Pain intense over eyes and root of nose
Brain feels enlarged
Hard nodes in head, with severe pain
Saliva increased
Cold food and drink, especially milk, aggravate. Much thirst
Flatulence
Menses late, profuse
Corrosive leucorrhœa |
Warm clothing Warm room
At night
Damp weather |
Motion Open air |
| Plumbum Metallicum |
Constrictive sensation in internal organs.
Delirium, coma and convulsions
Excessive and rapid emaciation
Contractions and boring pain
Pain as if a ball rose from throat to brainUrine albuminous; low specific
gravity; scanty
Loss of sexual power |
At night Motion |
Rubbing Hard pressure
Physical exertion |
| Sepia |
Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation
Pains extend down to back, chills easily
Tendency to abortion
Upward tendency of its symptoms
Easy fainting
"Ball" sensation in inner parts
Acts best on brunettes
All pains are from below up
Feels cold even in warm room
Pulsating headache in cerebellum
Vertigo, with sensation of something rolling round in head
Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left, or in forehead,
with nausea, vomiting; worse indoors and when lying on painful side
Jerking of head backwards and forwards
Coldness of vertex
Headache in terrible shocks at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow
Everything tastes too salty
Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles
Worse, after milk, especially when boiled
Loathes fat
Red, adhesive, sand in urine
Involuntary urination, during first sleep
Leucorrhœa yellow, greenish; with much itching |
Forenoons and evenings Washing
Laundry-work
Dampness
Left side
After sweat
Cold air
Before thunder-storm |
By exercise Pressure
Warmth of bed
Hot applications
Drawing limbs up
Cold bathing
After sleep |
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