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Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Apis Mellifica |
Swelling or puffing up of various parts Odema
Red rosy hue
Stinging pains
Soreness
Intolerance of heat, and slightest touch
Acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, serous
membranes
Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general soreness is marked
Constricted sensations
Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off in the interior of
the body
Much prostration
Skin sore, sensitive; stinging
Sudden puffing up of whole body
Afternoon chill, with thirst; worse on motion and heat
External heat, with smothering feeling. Sweat slight, with sleepiness
Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently
Sleeps after the fever paroxysm
After perspiration, nettle rash, also with shuddering
Thirstless
Craving for milk
Suppressed urine, loaded with casts; frequent and involuntary; scanty,
high colored
Very drowsy
Dreams full of care and toil
Screams and sudden starting during sleep |
Heat in any form Touch
Pressure
Late in afternoon
After sleeping
In closed and heated rooms
Right side. |
In open air Uncovering
Cold bathing |
| Arnica Montana |
Conditions quite similar to those resulting from
injuries, falls, blows, contusions Putrid phenomena
Septic conditions
Especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems to have
caused the present trouble
Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with impoverished blood,
cardiac dropsy with dyspna
Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained
Bed feels too hard
Affects the venous system inducing stasis
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
Skin black and blue
Itching, burning, eruption of small pimples
Febrile symptoms closely related to typhoid; shivering over whole body;
heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest of body; internal heat; feet
and hands cold; nightly sour sweats
Longing for vinegar
Distaste for milk and meat
Canine hunger
Dark brick-red sediment
Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated
bodies, anxious and terrible
Horrors in the night
Involuntary stools during sleep |
Least touch Motion
Rest
Wine
Damp cold |
Lying down, or with head low |
| Arsenicum Album |
All-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and
restlessness Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion.
Irritable weakness
Burning pains
Unquenchable thirst
Burning relieved by heat
Fear fright and worry
Degenerative changes
Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition
System under the stress of malignancy regardless of location
Septic infections and low vitality
Cannot bear the sight or smell of food
Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time
Craves acids, milk and coffee
Long-lasting eructations
Skin itching, burning, swellings; dema, eruption, papular,
dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching
Icy coldness of body
High temperature; periodicity marked with adynamia
Septic fevers
Paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion
Cold sweats
Great heat about 3 am
Stool small, offensive, dark, with much prostration
Urine scanty, burning, involuntary; albuminous
Menses too profuse and too soon
Leucorrha, acrid, burning, offensive, thin
Disturbed, anxious, restless sleep; must have head raised by pillows
Suffocative fits during sleep
Sleeps with hands over head
Dreams are full of care and fear |
Wet weather After midnight
From cold, cold drinks, or food
Seashore
Right side |
From heat From head elevated
Warm drinks. |
| Baptisia Tinctoria |
Simulating low fevers Septic conditions of
the blood
Extreme prostration
Indescribable sick feeling
Great muscular soreness and putrid phenomena always are present
All the secretions are offensive-breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc
Livid spots all over body and limbs. Burning and heat in skin
Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body
Heat all over, with occasional chills
Chill about 11 am
No appetite
Constant desire for water
All symptoms worse from beer
Menses too early, too profuse
Sleepless and restless
Nightmare and frightful dreams
Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed
Falls asleep while answering a question |
Humid heat Fog
Indoors |
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| Crotalus Horridus |
Low septic states General disorganization of the
blood
Hæmorrhagic diathesis
Sleeps into his symptoms
More right-sided in its action
Malignant fevers of a hæmorrhagic or putrescent character
Bloody sweat
Cold sweats
Swelling and discoloration, skin tense and shows every tint of color,
with excruciating pain
Sallow skin
Yellow color of the whole body
Great sensitiveness of skin of right half of body
Hæmorrhage from every part of body
Sore sensation relieved by pressure
Intolerance of clothing around stomach
Hungry, craves stimulants, sugar; averse to meat
Prolonged menses
Dark, bloody urine; casts; albuminous, dark, scanty
Dreams of the dead
Starting in sleep
Yawning
Smothering sensation when awaking |
Right side Open air
Evening and morning
In spring
Coming on of warm weather
Yearly
On awaking
Damp and wet
Jar |
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| Lachesis |
Hæmorrhagic tendency
Septic states
When the system is thoroughly poisoned and the prostration is profound
Melancholic disposition
Ill effects of suppressed discharges
Sensation of tension in various parts
Cannot bear anything tight anywhere
Hot perspiration, bluish, purplish appearance
Dark blisters
Bed-sores, with black edges
Blue-black swellings
Chilly in back; feet icy cold; hot flushes and hot perspiration; paroxysm
returns after acids
Craving for alcohol, oysters
Any food causes distress
Hungry, cannot wait for food
Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow
Intense excitement of sexual organs
Patient sleeps into an aggravation
Sudden starting when falling asleep
Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep
Wide-awake in evening |
After sleep Left side
In the spring
Warm bath
Pressure or constriction
Hot drinks
Closing eyes |
Appearance of discharges Warm applications |
| Manganum Aceticum |
Cellulitis, sub acute stage, promotes
suppuration and hastens regeneration Suppuration of skin around joints
Red, elevated spots
Itching; better, scratching
Deep cracks in bends of elbows, etc
Involuntary laughter and involuntary weeping and walking backwards
Strongly exaggerated reflexes and physical disturbances
Great accumulation of mucus
Growing pains and weak ankles
General soreness and aching; every part of the body feels sore when
touched
Flatulence
menses too early and scanty
Languor and sleepiness
Vivid dreams
Sleepy very early in evening |
Cold wet weather Change of weather |
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| Mercurius Iodatus Ruber |
Small fissures and cracks; hard papules Scalded
feeling on tongue
Profuse saliva |
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| Rhus Tox |
Tearing asunder pains Motion always
"limbers up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a
change of position
Ailments from strains, over lifting, getting wet while perspiring
Septic conditions
Cellulitis and infections, carbuncles in early stages
Septicemia
Red, swollen; itching intense; vesicular Suppurative forms
Adynamia fever; restless, trembling
During heat, urticaria
Chilly, as if cold water were poured over him, followed by heat and
inclination to stretch the limbs
Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst
Bitter taste
Desire for milk
Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat
Drowsy after eating
Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment
Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid
Dreams of great exertion
Heavy sleep, as from stupor
Sleepless before midnight |
During sleep Cold, wet rainy weather and after
rain
At night
During rest
Drenching
When lying on back or right side |
Warm, dry weather Motion
Walking
Change of position
Rubbing
Warm applications
From stretching out limbs |
| Silicea |
Suppurative processes Silica patient is
cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands
and feet cold, worse in winter
Lack of vital heat
Prostration of mind and body
Great sensitiveness to taking cold
Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants
Ailments attended with pus formation
Want of grit, moral or physical
Skin delicate, pale, waxy
Cracks at end of fingers
Rose-colored blotches
Scars suddenly become painful
Pus offensive
Every little injury suppurates
Long lasting suppuration and fistulous tracts
Dry finger tips
Eruptions itch only in daytime and evening
Chilliness; very sensitive to cold air
Creeping, shivering over the whole body
Cold extremities, even in a warm room
Sweat at night; worse towards morning
Suffering parts feel cold
Disgust for meat and warm food
Want of appetite; thirst excessive
Sour eructations after eating
A milky acrid leucorrha, during urination.
Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body
Night-walking; gets up while asleep
Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head
Frequent starts in sleep
Anxious dreams
Excessive gaping |
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 |
| Vespa Crabo |
Vasomotor symptoms of skin and mucous membranes
Intense itching; burning
Wheals, macules and swellings with burning, stinging and soreness.
Dizzy, better lying on back
Fainting
Numbness and blindness
Perspiration on parts laid on with itching
Menstruation, preceded by depression, pain, pressure, and constipation |
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