Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
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Aconitum Napellus |
Epileptic Dementia
Great fear and anxiety; forebodings
Fear death but believes that he will soon die; predicts the day
Fears the future, a crowd, crossing the street
Restlessness, tossing about
Tendency to start
Imagination acute; clairvoyance
Music unbearable; makes her sad
Acute, sudden and violent attacks
Dose not want to be touched
Thirst for cold water
Bitter taste for everything except water
Urine scanty, red, hot, painful |
In warm room
In evening and night
Lying on affected side
From music
From tobacco smoke
Dry, cold wind
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In open air |
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Aesculus Glabra |
Paretic Dementia
Speech thick |
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Agaricus Muscarius |
Jerking, twitching, trembling and itching
Sensitive to pressure and cold air
Sings, talks, but does not answer
Loquacity
Aversion to work
Indifference
Fearlessness
Rhymes and prophesies
Desire to cover head warmly
Reading difficult, as types seems to move, to swim
Double vision, dim and flickering
Empty eructation, tasting of apples
Sweet taste in mouth
Thirsty all the time |
Open cold air
After eating
After coitus
In cold weather
Before thunder-storm
Pressure on dorsal spine |
Moving about slowly |
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Agnus Castus |
Masturbatic Dementia
Absent minded, forgetful, lack of courage
Fear of death
Nervous depression with forebodings; Sadness with impression of speedy death
Illusion of smell- herrings, musk
More pronounced in men
From abuse of sexual power
Impotence; parts cold, relaxed; desire gone |
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Anacardium |
Impaired memory; brain fag; absent minded
Depression
Irritability; very easily offended
Weakening of smell, sight and hearing
Aversion to work
Lacks confidence in self or others
Irresistible desire to swear and curse
Thinks he is possessed by two persons or wills
Anxiety when walking, as if pursued
Malicious; seems bent on wickedness; absence of all moral restraint
Suspicious
Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead |
On application of hot water |
From eating
When lying on side
From rubbing |
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Apium Virus |
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Arsenicum Album |
Paretic Dementia
Great anguish and restlessness; changes place continually
Fears, of death, of being left alone; great fear, with cold sweat
Thinks it useless to take medicine
Suicidal
Hallucinations of smell and sight
Despair drives him from place to place
Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage
Sensitive to disorder and confusion.
All-prevailing debility, exhaustion; great exhaustion after the slightest
exertion
Unquenchable thirst; drinks much, but little at a time
Craves acids, milk and coffee
Paralysis of lower limbs with atrophy |
Wet weather
After midnight
From cold, cold drinks, or food
Seashore
Right side |
From heat
From head elevated
Warm drinks |
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Aurum Iodatum |
Senile Dementia |
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Badiaga |
Paretic Dementia
Soreness of muscles and integuments; worse motion and friction of clothes,
with sensitiveness to cold
General paresis
Slight sounds are greatly accentuated
Much thirst |
By cold |
By heat |
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Baryta Acetica |
Senile Dementia
Forgetful
Wavering long between opposite resolutions
Lack of self confidence
Feeling of cobweb in face |
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Baryta Carbonica |
Senile Dementia
Loss of memory, mental weakness
Irresolute
Lost confidence in himself
Confusion
Bashful; aversion to strangers
Childish; grief over trifles
Very sensitive to cold
Offensive foot-sweats
Very weak and weary, must sit or lie down or lean on something |
While thinking of symptoms
From washing
Lying on painful side |
Walking in open air |
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Belladonna |
Furious excitement
Hot red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, acuteness of all senses
No anxiety or fear
Violent and sudden attack
Lives in a world of his own, engrossed by spectres and visions; oblivious to surrounding realities
Sees monsters, hideous faces, and frightful images.
Rages, bites, strikes
Desire to escape
Disinclined to talk
Perversity with tears
Loss of appetite
Averse to meat and milk |
Touch
Jar
Noise
Draught
Afternoon
Lying down |
Semi-erect |
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Cimicifuga Racemosa |
Epileptic Dementia
Sensation of a cloud enveloping her
Great depression with dream of impending evil
Fears riding in a closed carriage, of being obliged to jump out
Incessant talking
Visions of rats, mice
Stiffness and contraction in back and neck |
Morning
Cold
During menses; greater the glow, more the suffering
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Warmth
Eating
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Calcarea Carb |
Apprehensive; worse towards evening; fears loss of reason, misfortune, contagious diseases
Forgetful, confused and low spirited
Anxiety with palpitation
Obstinacy; slight mental effort produces hot head
Averse to work or exertion
A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork
Increased perspiration
Dislike of fat, meat, boiled things
Gets out of breath easily
Takes cold easily
Fat, fair and flabby
Craves eggs, indigestible things like chalk, coal, pencils, salt, sweets and cold drinks |
Milk
Physical or mental exertion
Ascending
Cold in every form
Water, washing, moist air, wet weather
During full moon
Standing |
Dry climate and weather
Lying on painful side |
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Calcarea Phosphorica |
Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation
Always wants to go somewhere
In anaemic children who have cold extremities and feeble digestion
Sensation of numbness and crawling
Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meat |
Exposure to damp, cold weather
Melting snow |
In summer
Warm, dry atmosphere |
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Cannabis Indica |
Excessive loquacity; exuberance of spirits; intense exaltation; extremely happy and contended, nothing troubles
Time seems too long; seconds seem ages; a few rods an immense distance
Constantly theorizing
Anxious depression; constant fear of becoming insane
Very forgetful; can not finish sentence
Is lost in delicious thoughts
Uncontrollable laughter
Emotional excitement; rapid change of mood
Can not realize her own identity
Clairvoyance
Letters run together when reading |
Morning
From coffee, liquor, tobacco
Lying on right side |
From fresh air
Cold water
Rest |
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Cantharis |
Masturbatic Dementia
Furious delirium
Anxious restlessness, ending in rage
Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking
Constantly attempts to do something, but accomplishes nothing
Amorous frenzy; fiery sexual desire
Disgust for everything; drink, food, tobacco
Unquenchable thirst |
Coffee
Touch or approach
Urinating
Drinking cold water
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Rubbing |
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Causticum |
Masturbatic Dementia
Sad, hopeless; least things make him cry
Intensely sympathetic
Broken down seniles
Emaciation
Aversion to sweets |
Thinking of complaints
Eating fresh meat
Dry, cold winds
in clear, fine weather
Cold air
From motion of carriage |
In damp, wet weather
Warmth
Heat of bed
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Conium |
Depression
Averse to society and afraid to be alone
No inclination for business or study, takes no interest in anything
Memory weak; unable to sustain any mental effort
Difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength while walking
In Old age
Great debility in the morning in bed |
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 |
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Cuprum Aceticum |
Epileptic Dementia
Brain seems void
Inclined to gape and cry |
Mental emotions
Touch |
Chewing
Pressure
Night
Lying on affected side
Warmth |
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Cuprum Metallicum |
Epileptic Dementia
Malicious and morose
Uses words not intended
Fearful
Epilepsy with aura beginning at knees, ascending to hypogastrium followed by
unconsciousness, foaming and falling
Cramps, convulsions beginning in fingers and toes
Craves cool drink |
Before menses
From vomiting
Contact
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During perspiration
Drinking cold water
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Damiana |
Masturbatic Dementia |
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Helleborus |
Slow in answering
Thoughtless; staring
Involuntary sighing
Picks lips and clothes
Sensorial depression
Sees, hears, tastes imperfectly
Stools jelly like, white mucus
Urine scanty, dark; coffee grounds sediment |
4 to 8 p.m.
From evening until morning
From uncovering |
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Hyoscyamus |
Very suspicious
Talkative, obscene, uncovers body
Jealous
Foolish
Great hilarity; inclined to laugh at everything
Attempts to run away
Low, muttering speech; constant carphologia, deep stupor
Unseemly and immodest in acts, gestures and expressions
Afraid of being poisoned |
At night
During menses
After eating
When lying down |
Stooping |
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Ignatia |
Changeable mood
Introspective; silently brooding; not communicative
Melancholic, sad, tearful
Sighing and sobbing
Nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling
Can not bear tobacco
Averse to ordinary diet; longs for great variety of indigestible articles
Cravings for acid things
Urine profuse and watery |
Coffee
In the morning
Open air
After meals
Smoking
Liquids
External warmth |
While eating
Change of position |
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Iodoformium |
Paretic Dementia
Very drowsy |
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Laurocerasus |
Epileptic Dementia
Drink rolls audibly through oesophagus and intestines
General coldness, not ameliorated by warmth
Spasms of facial muscles and oesophagus |
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Lilium Tigrinum |
In unmarried women
Tormented about her salvation
Profound depression of spirits
Constant inclination to weep
Anxious; fears some organic and incurable disease
Disposed to curse, strike, think obscene things
Aimless, hurried manner; must keep busy
Longs for meat
Thirsty, drinks often and much
Urine milky, scanty, hot |
Consolation
Warm room |
Fresh room |
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Mercurius |
Slow in answering questions
Memory weakened, and loss of will power
Weary of life
Thinks he is losing his reason
Tremors
Sensitive to heat and cold
Oily perspiration
Breath, excretions and body smell foul
Intense thirst for cold drinks
Urine dark, scanty, bloody, albuminous
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At night
From warmth of bed
From damp, cold, rainy weather
During perspiration
Lying on right side
Warm room |
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Natrum Iodatum |
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Natrum Salicylicum |
Incipient dementia
Lassitude, drowsiness, listlessness, tremor
All objects seem to move to right |
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Nux Vomica |
Masturbatic Dementia
Very irritable; sensitiveness to all impressions; can not bear noises, odors,
light, etc
Dose not want to be touched
Even the lease ailment affect her greatly
Sullen, fault finding
Disposed to reproach others
Time passes too slowly
Ugly, malicious
Thin, spare, quick and active; zealous fiery temperament
Easily chilled, avoids open air
Desire for stimulants, fats
Easily excited desire; high living; sexual excesses |
Morning
Mental exertion
After eating
Touch
Spices
Stimulants
Narcotics
Dry weather
Cold
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From a nap, if allowed to finish
In evening
While at rest
In damp, wet weather
Strong pressure
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Oenanthe Crocata |
Epileptic Dementia
Sudden and complete unconsciousness
Tendency to cry over little things
Epileptiform convulsions; worse during menstruation and pregnancy
Convulsive facial twitching
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Opium |
Wants nothing
Complete loss of consciousness; apoplectic state
Frightful fancies, daring, gay, bright
Thinks he is not at home
Delirious talking with eyes wide open
Drowsy stupor; heavy stupid sleep, stertorous breathing
Painlessness
Sweaty skin
Stools round, hard, black balls
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Becoming heated
During and after sleep |
Cold things
Constant walking |
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Phosphoricum
Acidum |
Listless
Impaired memory
Apathetic, indifferent
Can not collect his thoughts or find the right word
Difficult comprehension
Settled despair
In young people who grow rapidly, and who are overtaxed, mentally or
physically
Craves juicy things
Thirst for cold milk
Urine profuse, watery, milky; contains sugar |
Exertion
From being talked to
Loss of vital fluids
Sexual excesses
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From keeping warm |
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Phosphorus |
Masturbatic Dementia
Great lowness of spirits
Easily vexed
Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner
Clairvoyant state
Great tendency to start
Over-sensitive to external impressions
Loss of memory
Dread of death when alone
Brain feels tired
Restless, fidgety
Hypo-sensitive, indifferent
Tall, slender persons, narrow chested, with thin, transparent skin
Great nervous debility
Emaciation
Amative tendencies
Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch,
electrical changes, thunder-storms
Thirst for very cold water
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Touch
Physical or mental exertion
Twilight
Warm food or drink
Change of weather
From getting wet in hot weather
Evening
Lying on left or painful side
During a thunder-storm
Ascending stairs |
In dark
Lying on right side
Cold food
Cold
Open air
Washing with cold water
Sleep
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Picricum Acidum |
Dementia with prostration, sits still and listless
Lack of will power; disinclined to work
Brain fag
Sexual excitement
Nervous weakness
Muscular debility
Heavy tired feeling
Sallow complexion
Aversion to food
Urine scanty; contains much indican, granular cylinders and fatty degenerated
epithelium |
Least exertion, esp. mental
After sleep
Wet weather
Summer; hot weather
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Cold air
Cold water
Tight pressure |
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Plumbum Metallicum |
Paretic Dementia
Mental depression; quiet melancholy
Fear of being assassinated
Slow perception; loss of memory
Intellectual apathy
Progressive muscular atrophy
Excessive and rapid emaciation
Urine albuminous; low specific gravity
Paralysis of lower extremities
Paralysis of single muscles |
At night
Motion |
Rubbing
Hard pressure
Physical exertion |
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Secale Cornutum |
Senile Dementia
Old people with shriveled skin-thin, scrawny old women
Coldness, numbness
Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite and thirst may be excessive
Craves acids
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Heat
Warm covering |
From cold
Uncovering
Rubbing
Stretching out limbs. |
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Silicia |
Epileptic Dementia
Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious
Nervous and excitable
Sensitive to all impressions
Brain fag
Thinks only of pins, fears them, search and counts them
Epilepsy; feeling of coldness before attack
Cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothings, hates drafts
Great sensitiveness to taking cold
Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants
Disgust for meat and warm food
Want of appetite with excessive thirst |
Winter
New moon
In morning
From washing
During menses
Uncovering
Lying down
Damp
Lying on left side
Cold
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Warmth
Wrapping up head
Summer
In wet or humid weather
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Solanum Carolinense |
Epileptic Dementia
Convulsion and epilepsy; where disease has begun beyond age of childhood |
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Staphysigaria |
Masturbatic Dementia
Impetuous
Violent outbursts of passion
Hypochondriacal, sad
Very sensitive as to what others say about her
Dwells on sexual matters
Prefers solitude
Peevish
Sexual sins and excesses
Desire for stimulants, tobacco |
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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Stramonium |
Epileptic Dementia
Devout, earnest, beseeching and ceaseless talking
Loquacious, garrulous, laughing, singing, swearing, praying, rhyming
Sees ghosts, hears voices, talks with spirits
Can not have solitude or darkness; must have light and company
Sight of water or anything glittering brings spasms
Delusions about his identity; this himself tall, double or a part missing
Food tastes like straw
Violent thirst |
In dark room
When alone
Looking at bright or shining things
After sleep
On swallowing
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From light
Company
Warmth
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Sulphur |
Relapses
Very forgetful
Difficult thinking
Delusions; thinks rags beautiful things, that he is immensely wealthy
Busy all the time
Very selfish; no regard for others
Religious melancholy
Averse to business; loafs- too lazy to rouse himself
Dislike of water; aversion to being washed
Sinking feeling at stomach at about 11 am
Cat nap sleep
Food tastes too salty
Great desire for sweets
Great quantity of colorless urine |
When standing
Milk
At rest
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 |
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Veratrum Album |
Sits in stupid manner; notices nothing
Sullen indifference
Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses; cursing, howling all night
Aimless wandering from home
Delusions of impending misfortunes
Extreme coldness, blueness and weakness
Cold perspiration on forehead
Vomiting, purging and cramps in extremities
Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed
Averse to warm food
Craves fruits, juicy and cold things, ice, salt
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At night
Wet cold weather
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Walking
Warmth |
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Veratrum Viride |
Quarrelsome
Twitching and convulsions
Zigzag temperature
Thirsty
Scanty urine with cloudy sediment |
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Zincum Metallicum |
Weak memory
Very sensitive to noise
Averse to work, to talk
Repeats everything said to it
Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime
Melancholia
Lethargic, stupid
Paresis
Trembling
Convulsive twitching
Fidgety feet
Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine
Ravenous hunger about 11 am |
At menstrual period
From touch
Between 5 to 7 pm
After dinner
From wine |
While eating
Discharges
Appearance of eruptions |