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| Chronic Urticaria |
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Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Anacardium |
Impaired memory, depression, and
irritability Diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing)
Intermittency of symptoms
Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and
curse
Sensation of a plug in various parts-eyes, rectum, bladder, etc;
also of a band
Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort
Intense itching, eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular
eruption; swelling, urticaria
Apt to choke when eating or drinking; swallows food and drinks hastily
Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams
Leucorrhœa, with soreness and itching
Menses scanty
Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights
Anxious dreams |
On application of hot water |
From eating When lying on side
From rubbing |
| Antimonium Crudum |
Excessive irritability and fretfulness,
together with a thickly-coated white tongue Cannot bear heat of sun
Tendency to grow fat
An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable
Sensitive to cold bathing
Urticaria; measles-like eruption; itching when warm in bed; dry
skin
Saltish saliva
Pappy taste
No thirst; thirst in evening and night
Loss of appetite
Desire for acids, pickles
Eructation tasting of the ingesta.
Constant belching
Sweetish water brash
Bloating after eating
Urine frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul odor
Menses too early and profuse
Leucorrhœa watery; acrid, lumpy |
In evening From heat
Acids
Wine
Water
Washing
Wet poultices
Cold bathing |
In open air During rest
Moist warmth |
| Antipyrinum |
Dilation of capillaries of skin and consequent
circumscribed patches of hyperemia and swelling Profuse perspiration,
dizziness, cyanosis, and somnolence
Albumen and blood in urine
Urticaria, appearing and disappearing suddenly, with internal
coldness.
Dark blotches on skin of penis, sometimes with œdema
Bloody saliva
Urine diminished
Menses suppressed
Watery leucorrhœa
Trembling and cramps
Crawling and numbness
General prostration |
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| Arsenicum Album |
All-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and
restlessness, with nightly aggravation Great exhaustion
after the slightest exertion
Irritable weakness
Burning pains
Fear fright and worry
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
Itching, burning, swellings; œdema, eruption, papular, dry, rough,
scaly; worse cold and scratching
Urticaria, with burning and restlessness
Icy coldness of body
Cannot bear the sight or smell of food
Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time
Craves milk, acids and coffee.
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 |
Wet weather After midnight
From cold
Cold drinks, or food
Seashore
Right side |
From heat From head elevated
Warm drinks |
| Astacus Fluviatilis |
Nettle-rash over whole body Itching
Liver affections with nettle-rash |
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| Bovista |
Marked languor and lassitude Adapted to
stammering children, old maids with palpitation; and "tettery" patients
Blunt instrument leave deep impression on the skin
Urticaria on excitement, with rheumatic lameness, palpitation and
diarrhœa
Itching on getting warm
Urticaria on waking in the morning, worse from bathing
Intolerant of tight clothing around waist
Menses too early and profuse; worse at night
Voluptuous sensation
Leucorrhœa acrid, thick, tough, greenish, follows menses
Traces of menses between menstruation |
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| Calcarea Carbonica |
Increased local and general perspiration Gets out
of breath easily
A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork
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, the so-called leuco-phlegmatic temperament
Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats
Children crave eggs and eat dirt and other indigestible things; are prone
to diarrhœa
Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and
sour
Nettle rash; better in cold air
Takes cold at every change of weather
Persistent sour taste; mouth fills with sour water.
Offensive smell from mouth
Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible
things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets
Milk disagrees
Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting
Dislike of fat
Loss of appetite when overworked
Heartburn and loud belching
Ravenous hunger
Repugnance to hot food
Thirst; longing for cold drinks
Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist
Increase of fat in abdomen
Stool large and hard; whitish, watery, sour
Urine dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment,
bloody
Frequent seminal emissions; increased desire; semen emitted too
soon
Coition followed by weakness and irritability
Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache
and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return
Leucorrhœa, milky
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 |
| Chloralum Hydratum |
Emotional excitability, hallucinations Night
terrors in children
Muscular prostration
Red blotches, like measles
Urticaria, worse, spirituous liquors, hot drinks
Erythema aggravated by alcoholic drinks, with palpitation; causes pain in
tendons and extensors
Intense itching
Surface of body stone-cold
Wheals come on from a chill; better, warmth
Insomnia, hallucinations, horrid dreams
Somnolence |
After hot drinks Stimulants
Eating
Night |
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| Condurango |
Painful cracks in corner of mouth |
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| Copaiva Officinalis |
Hives, with fever and constipation.
Erysipelatous inflammation, especially around abdomen
Circumscribed lenticular patches, with itching; mottled appearance
Chronic urticaria in children
Food seems too salty.
Gas and intestinal flatulence, urging to stool and difficult passage with
pain
Constant desire to urinate
Urine smells of violets; greenish, turbid color; peculiar pungent odor
Stools covered with mucus, with colic and chilliness |
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| Dulcamara |
Hot days and cold nights towards the close of
summer are especially favorable to the action of Dulcamara Icy coldness
Patients living or working in damp, cold basements
Eruptions on hands, arms or face around the menstrual period
Pruritis, always worse in cold, wet weather
Urticaria, brought on by exposure, or sour stomach
Saliva tenacious, soapy
Aversion to food. Burning thirst for cold drinks
Heartburn
Must urinate when getting chilled
Urine has thick, mucous, purulent sediment |
At night From cold in general
Damp, rainy weather |
From moving about External warmth |
| Hepar Sulph |
Unhealthy skin Blondes with sluggish character
and weak muscles
Great sensitiveness to all impressions
Sweating patient pulling blanket around him
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
Chronic and recurring urticaria
Constant offensive exhalation from the body
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
Urine voided slowly, without force-drops vertically, bladder weak; seems
as if some always remained
Greasy pellicle on urine
Excitement and emission without amorous fancies
Menses late and scanty.
Extremely offensive leucorrhœa; smells like old cheese |
From dry cold winds Cool air
Slightest draught
From Mercury
Touch
Lying on painful side |
In damp weather From wrapping head up
From warmth
After eating |
| Ichthyolum |
Uric acid diathesis Chronic hives
Skin hot and irritated; itching
Disagreeable taste, burning sensation, very thirsty
Increased appetite
Disposition to soft, shapeless stools
Urine increased in quantity and frequency; Uric acid deposits |
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| Lycopodium |
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, etc; also precocious, weakly children
Symptoms characteristically run from right to left, acts especially on
right side of body, and are worse from about 4 to 8 pm.
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
Hives; worse, warmth
Violent itching; fissured eruptions
Bad odor from mouth
Excessive hunger
Aversion to bread, etc
Desire for sweet things
Food tastes sour
Sour eructations
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
Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete
Polyuria during the night; heavy red sediment
No erectile power; impotence; premature emission
Menses too late; last too long, too profuse
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 |
| Natrum Muriaticum |
Great debility; most weakness felt in the morning
in bed Coldness
Emaciation most notable in neck
Great liability to take cold
Dry mucous membranes
Constrictive sensation throughout the body
Great weakness and weariness
Oversensitive to all sorts of influences
Urticaria; itch and burn
Hives, itching after exertion
Greasy skin
Hungry, yet loose flesh
Heartburn, with palpitation
Unquenchable thirst
Sweats while eating
Craving for salt
Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats
Pain just after urinating
Urination increased, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc
Has to wait a long time for it to pass if others are present
Emission, even after coitus; impotence with retarded emission
Menses irregular; usually profuse
Leucorrhœa acrid, watery
Sleepy in forenoon
Nervous jerking during sleep
Dreams of robbers |
Noise Music
Warm room
Lying down
About 10 a m
At seashore
Mental exertion
Consolation
Heat
Talking |
Open air Cold bathing
Going without regular meals
Lying on right side
Pressure against back
Tight clothing |
| 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
Septic conditions
Skin red, swollen; itching intense
Vesicles, herpes; urticaria; pemphigus; erysipelas; vesicular
Suppurative forms
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
Stools of cadaverous odor
Frothy, painless stools
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 |
| Sepia |
Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down
sensation, especially in women, upon whose organism it has most pronounced
effect Tendency to abortion
Upward tendency of its symptoms
Easy fainting
"Ball" sensation in inner parts
Acts best on brunettes
Feels cold even in warm room
Itching; not relieved by scratching; worse in bends of elbows and knees
Urticaria on going in open air; better in warm room
Feeling of goneness; not relieved by eating
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
Menses Too late and scanty, irregular; early and profuse;
sharp clutching pains |
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 |
| Strophanthus Hispidus |
Hives Anæmia with palpitation and
breathlessness
Corpulent persons
Urticaria, especially more chronic forms
Increased secretion; scanty and albuminous |
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| Sulphur |
Heat and burning, with itching; made worse
by heat of bed 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
Cat-nap sleep
Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections
Aversion to being washed
When carefully-selected remedies fail to act, especially in acute
diseases, it frequently arouses the reactionary powers of the organism
Complaints that relapse
General offensive character of discharge and exhalations
Very red lips and face, flushing easily
Often great use in beginning the treatment of chronic cases and in
finishing acute ones
Dry, scaly, unhealthy; every little injury suppurates
Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing
Pruritis, especially from warmth, is evening, often recurs in
spring-time, in damp weather
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
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 |
At rest When standing
Warmth in bed
Washing
Bathing
In morning
11 am
Night
From alcoholic stimulants
Periodically |
Dry, warm weather Lying on right side
From drawing up affected limbs |
| Urtica Urens |
Symptoms return at the same time every year Uric
acid diathesis; favors elimination.
Rheumatism associated with urticaria-like eruptions
Acid and excoriating leucorrhœaItching blotches
Urticaria, burning heat, with formication; violent itching
Consequences of suppressed nettle rash
Rheumatism alternates with nettle-rash |
From snow-air Water
Cool moist air
Touch |
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