| |
| Depression |
|
|
Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Lachesis |
For patients of a melancholic
disposition
Sensation of tension in various parts
Cannot bear anything tight anywhere
Great loquacity
Amative
Sad in the morning; no desire to mix with
the world
Restless and uneasy; does not wish to attend to
business; wants to be off somewhere all the time
Jealous
Mental labor best performed at night
Suspicious
Derangement of the time sense
Craving for alcohol, oysters
Any food causes distress
Hungry, cannot wait for food
Constipated, offensive stool
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
Sleeps into
aggravation; ailments that come on during sleep
Left side
In the spring
Warm bath
Pressure or constriction
Hot drinks
Closing eyes
|
Appearance of discharges
Warm applications
|
| Lycopodium |
Adapted
more especially to ailments gradually developing, functional power
weakening, with failures of the digestive powers,
Mild temperaments of lymphatic
constitution, with catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin
shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc
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
Melancholy; afraid to be alone
Little things annoy
Extremely sensitive
Averse to undertaking new things
Head strong and haughty when sick
Loss of self-confidence
Hurried when eating
Constant fear of breaking down under stress
Apprehensive
Weak memory, confused thoughts; spells
or writes wrong words and syllables
Failing brain-power
Cannot bear to see anything new
Cannot read what he writes
Sadness in morning on awaking
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
Polyuria during the night
Heavy red sediment in urine
No erectile power; impotence
Premature seminal emission
Menses too late; last too long, too profuse
Coition painful
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
|
| Causticum |
Sad, hopeless
Intensely sympathetic
Ailments from long-lasting grief, sudden emotions
Emaciation due to disease, worry, etc, and of
long standing
Burning, rawness, and soreness
Greasy taste
Aversion to sweets
Feels as if lime were burned in stomach
Stools soft and small, size of goose-quill or
hard, tough, covered with mucus; shines like grease; small-shaped;
expelled with much straining, or only on standing up
Urine involuntary when coughing, sneezing;
expelled very slowly, and sometimes retained
Involuntary urination during first sleep at
night; also from slightest excitement
Loss of sensibility on passing urine
Menses cease at night; flow only during day
Leucorrhœa at night, with great weakness
Menses delayed, late
Very drowsy; can hardly keep awake
Nocturnal sleeplessness, with dry heat,
inquietude |
Dry, cold winds
In clear fine weather
Cold air
From motion of carriage
After eating fresh meat; smoked meat agrees
|
In damp, wet weather
Warmth
Heat of bed
|
| 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
Psychic causes of disease; ill effects of grief,
fright, anger, etc
Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases
Irritable; gets into a passion about trifles
Awkward, hasty
Wants to be alone to cry
Tears with laughter
Hungry, yet loose flesh
Heartburn, with palpitation
Unquenchable thirst
Sweats while eating
Craving for salt
Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like
oysters, fats
Urination increased, involuntary when walking,
coughing, etc
Has to wait a long time for it to pass urine if
others are present
Emission, even after coitus
Impotence with retarded emission.
Menses irregular; usually profuse
Leucorrhœa acrid, watery
Tachycardia
Sensation of coldness of heart
Heart and chest feel constricted
Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse
Heart's pulsations shake body
Pulse intermits on lying down
Sleepy in forenoon
Nervous jerking during sleep
Dreams of robbers
Sleepless from grief.
Skin greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts |
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 |
| Nitricum Acidum |
Irritable,
hateful, vindictive, headstrong
Hopeless despair
Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar
Fear of death
Acts best on the dark complexioned and past
middle life
All discharges very offensive, especially urine,
feces, and perspiration
Takes cold easily and disposed to diarrhœa
Excessive physical irritability
Great hunger, with sweetish taste
Longing for indigestible things-chalk, earth, etc
Loves fat and salt
Urine scanty, dark, offensive; smells like
horse's urine; cold on passing
Urine bloody and albuminous
Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, watery, or
stringy, offensive
Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with
pain in back, hips and thighs
Short breath on going upstairs |
Evening and night
Cold climate, and also hot weather
|
While riding in carriage |
| Pulsatilla |
Weeps easily
Timid, irresolute
Fears in evening to be alone, dark, ghost
Likes sympathy
Easily discouraged
Morbid dread of the opposite sex
Religious melancholy
Given to extremes of pleasure and pain
Highly emotional
Mentally, an April day
Pre-eminently a female remedy, especially for
mild, gentle, yielding disposition
Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable,
contradictory
Seeks the open air; always feels better there,
even though he is chilly
Symptoms ever changing
Thirstless, peevish, and chilly
First serious impairment of health is referred to
age of puberty
Great sensitiveness
Wants the head high
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
No two stools alike
Two or three normal stools daily
Increased desire to urinate; worse when lying
down
Involuntary micturition at night, while coughing
or passing flatus
Tardy menses; too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted,
changeable, intermittent
Leucorrhœa acrid, burning, creamy
Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when lying
on left side
Smothering sensation on lying down
Wide awake in the evening;
first sleep restless
Wakes languid, unrefreshed
Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon
Sleeps with hands over head |
From heat
Rich fat food
After eating
Towards evening
Warm room
Lying on left or on painless side
When allowing feet to hang down
|
Open air
Motion
Cold applications
Cold food and drinks, though not thirsty
|
| Sulphur |
Ebullitions of heat
Dislike of water
Dry and hard hair and skin
Red orifices
Sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am
Cat-nap sleep
Prone to skin affections
Aversion to being washed
Complaints that relapse
General offensive character of discharge and
exhalations
Very red lips and face, flushing easily
Very forgetful
Difficult thinking
Busy all the time
Childish peevishness in grown people. Irritable
Affections vitiated; very selfish, no
regard for others
Religious melancholy
Averse to business; loafs-too lazy to arouse
himself
Nearly always irritable, depressed, thin and
weak, even with good appetite
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
Frequent urination, especially at night
Must hurry, sudden call to urinate
Great quantities of colorless urine
Much offensive perspiration
Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult;
thick, black, acrid, making parts sore
Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating
Pulse more rapid in morning
than in evening
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
|
| China |
Apathetic, indifferent,
disobedient, taciturn, despondent
Ideas crowd in mind; prevent sleep
Disposition to hurt other people's feelings
Sudden crying and tossing about
Debility from exhausting discharges, from loss of
vital fluids, together with a nervous erethism
Periodicity is most marked
Sensitive to draughts
Seldom indicated in the earlier stages of acute
disease
Vomiting of undigested food
Slow digestion
Weight after eating
Hungry without appetite
Flat taste
Milk disagrees
Hungry longing for food, which lies undigested
Flatulence; belching of bitter fluid or
regurgitation of food gives no relief; worse eating fruit
Stool undigested, frothy, yellow; painless;
worse at night, after meals, during hot weather, from fruit, milk,
beer
Very weakening stools, with much flatulence;
difficult even when soft
Excited lascivious fancy
Frequent emissions, followed by great weakness
Menses too early; dark clots and abdominal
distention
Profuse menses with pain
Desire too strong
Bloody leucorrhœa; seems to take the place of
the usual menstrual discharge
Irregular with weak rapid beats followed by
strong, hard beats
Drowsiness
Unrefreshing sleep or constant stupor
Wakens early
Protracted sleeplessness
Anxious, frightful dreams with confused
consciousness on waking, so that the dream cannot be rid of and fear of
dream remains |
Slightest touch
Draught of air
Every other day
Loss of vital fluids
At night
After eating
Bending over
|
Bending double
Hard pressure
Open air
Warmth
|
| Nux Vomica |
Pre-eminently the remedy for
many of the conditions incident to modern life
Patient is rather thin, spare, quick, active,
nervous, and irritable
Does a good deal of mental work; has mental
strains and leads a sedentary life, found in prolonged office work, over
study, and close application to business, with its cares and anxieties.
Seeks stimulants, coffee, wine, possibly in
excess
Takes preferably rich and stimulating food
Pre-eminently a male remedy
Zealous fiery temperament
Easily chilled, avoid open air, etc
Very irritable
Sensitive to all impressions
Ugly, malicious
Cannot bear noises, odors, light, etc
Does not want to be touched
Time passes too slowly
Even the least ailment affects her greatly
Disposed to reproach others
Sullen, fault-finding
Sour taste, and nausea in the morning, after
eating.
Flatulence
Sour, bitter eructations
Nausea and vomiting, with much retching
Desire for stimulants
Loves fats and tolerates them well
Difficult belching of gas
Wants to vomit, but cannot
Frequent calls to urinate; little and often
Frequent small evacuations
Scanty stool, with much urging
Easily excited desire
Emissions from high living
Menses too early, lasts too long; always
irregular, blood black with faint spells
Sexual desire too strong
Cannot sleep after
3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly
Drowsy after meals, and in early evening
Dreams full of bustle and hurry |
Morning
Mental exertion
After eating
Touch
Spices
Stimulants
Narcotics
Dry weather
Cold
|
From a nap, if allowed to
finish it
In evening
While at rest
In damp, wet weather
Strong pressure |
| Carbo Vegetabilis |
Patient is sluggish, fat and
lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints
Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries,
causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis
Body becomes blue, icy-cold
A lowered vital power from loss of fluids, after
drugging; after other diseases; in old people with venous congestions
Coldness
Breath cool
Pulse imperceptible
Oppressed and quickened respiration, and must
have air, must be fanned hard, must have all the windows open
Faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh
air
Very debilitated
Seems to be too weak to hold out
Persons who have never fully recovered from
the effects of some previous illness
General venous stasis, bluish skin, limbs cold
Aversion to darkness
Fear of ghosts
Eructations, heaviness, fullness, and
sleepiness; tense from flatulence, with
pain; worse lying down
Eructations after eating and drinking
Temporary relief from belching
Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations
Waterbrash, asthmatic breathing from flatulence.
Digestion slow; food putrefies before it
digests.
Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things
The simplest food distresses
Premature and too copious menses; pale blood.
Leucorrhœa before menses, thick, greenish,
milky, excoriating
|
Evening
Night and open air
Cold
From fat food, butter, coffee, milk
Warm damp weather
Wine
|
From eructation
From fanning
Cold
|
| Ignatia |
Marked hyperæsthesia of all
the senses
Mentally, the emotional element is uppermost,
and co-ordination of function is interfered with
Especially adapted to the nervous
temperament-women of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild
disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution
Rapid change of mental and physical condition,
opposite to each other
Great contradictions
Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling
patients who suffer acutely in mind or body, at the same time made worse
by drinking coffee
Superficial and erratic character
of its symptoms
Effects of grief and worry
Cannot bear tobacco
Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding
Melancholic, sad, tearful
Not communicative
Sighing and sobbing
After shocks, grief, disappointment
Sour eructation
Much flatulence
Averse to ordinary diet; longs for great variety
of indigestible articles
Craving for acid things
Urine profuse, watery
Menses, black, too early, too profuse, or
scanty
Feminine sexual frigidity
Sleep very light
Jerking of limbs on going to sleep
Sleepless from grief, cares, with itching of arms
and violent yawning
Dreams continuing a long time; troubling him
|
In
the morning
Open air
After meals
Coffee
Smoking
Liquids
External warmth
|
While
eating
Change of position
|
| Mercurius |
Tremors
everywhere
Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from
least exertion
Great deal of weariness, prostration, and
trembling
A human "thermometer"
Sensitive to heat and cold
Profuse, oily perspiration does not relieve
Breath, excretions and body smell foul
Slow in answering questions
Memory weakened, and loss of will-power
Weary of life
Mistrustful
Thinks he is losing his reason
Putrid eructations
Intense thirst for cold drinks
Weak digestion, with continuous hunger
Frequent urging to urinate
Urine dark, scanty, bloody, albuminous
Menses profuse, with abdominal pains
Leucorrhœa excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation
of rawness in parts
|
At
night
Wet, damp weather
Lying on right side
Perspiring
Warm room and warm bed
From damp, cold, rainy weather
|
|
| Natrum Carbonicum |
Unable to think; difficult,
slow comprehension
Mental weakness and depression
Worries
Very sensitive to noise; colds, change of weather
Anxious and restless during thunderstorm
Marked gayety
Sensitive to presence of certain individuals
Water-brash
Hungry at 5 am
Very weak digestion, caused by slightest
error of diet
Averse to milk
Depressed after eating. Bitter taste
Sudden call to stool
Escapes with haste and noise
Yellow substance like pulp of orange in
discharge
Diarrhœa from milk
Menses late, scanty like meat-washings
Leucorrhœal discharge, offensive, irritating
preceded by colic
Wakes too early in morning
Amorous dreams
Drowsy during day |
Sitting
From music
Summer heat
Mental exertion
Thunderstorm
Least draught
Changes of weather
Sun
|
By moving
By boring in ears and nose
|
| Alumina |
Old people, with lack of
vital heat, or prematurely old, with debility
Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and
staggering
Disposition to colds in the head, and eructations
in spare, dry, thin subjects
Low-spirited; fears loss of reason
Confused as to personal identity
Hasty, hurried
Time passes slowly
Variable mood
Suicidal tendency when seeing knife or blood
Abnormal cravings-chalk, charcoal, dry food,
tea-grounds
Heartburn; feels constricted
Aversion to meat
Potatoes disagree
No desire to eat
Can swallow but small morsels at a time
Must strain at stool in order to urinate
Excessive sexual desire
Involuntary seminal emissions when straining at
stool
Menses too early, short, scanty, pale,
followed by great exhaustion
Leucorrhœa acrid, profuse transparent, ropy,
with burning; worse during daytime, and after menses
Restless; anxious and confused dreams
Sleepy in morning
|
Periodically
In afternoon
From potatoes
In morning on awaking
Warm room
|
In
open air
From cold washing
In evening and on alternate days
Damp weather
As day advances.
|
| Iodum |
Anxiety when quiet
Present anxiety and depression, no
reference to the future
Sudden impulse to run and do violence
Forgetful
Must be busy
Fear of people, shuns every one
Melancholy
Suicidal tendency
Rapid metabolism: Loss of flesh great
appetite
Great debility, the slightest effort induces
perspiration
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
Rapid emaciation,
notwithstanding good appetite
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
Loss flesh, yet hungry and eating well
Urine frequent and copious, dark yellow-green,
thick, acrid with cuticle on surface
Great weakness during menses
Menstruation irregular
Acrid leucorrhœa, thick, slimy, corroding the
linen
|
When quiet
In warm room
Right side
|
Walking about
In open air
After eating
|
| Rhus Tox |
Listless, sad
Thoughts of suicide
Extreme restlessness, with continued change of
position
Sensorium becomes cloudy
Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in
bed
Motion always "limbers up" the Rhus
patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a change of position
Want of appetite for any kind of food, with
unquenchable thirst
Bitter taste
Desire for milk
Drowsy after eating
Urinary dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine,
with white sediment
Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid
Pulse quick, weak, irregular, intermittent, with
numbness of left arm
Trembling and palpitation when sitting still
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
|
| Stramonium |
Devout, earnest,
beseeching and ceaseless talking
Loquacious, garrulous, laughing, singing,
swearing, praying, rhyming.
Rapid changes from joy to sadness
Violent and lewd.
Cannot bear solitude or darkness; must have
light and company
Suppressed secretions and excretions
Sensation as if limbs were separated from body
Absence of pain and muscular mobility especially
of muscles of expression and of locomotion
Gyratory and graceful motions
Food tastes like straw
Violent thirst
Aversion to water
Awaken terrified; screams with fright
Deep snoring sleep
Sleepy, but cannot sleep
|
In dark room
When alone
Looking at bright or shining objects
After sleep
On swallowing
|
From
bright light
Company
Warmth
|
| Bryonia |
Exceedingly irritable;
everything puts him out of humor
Dry, parched lips, mouth
Bitter taste
Feeling of a stone in the stomach
Stools large, dry, hard
Especially for the
constitution of a robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to
leanness and irritability
Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy
Complaints apt to develop slowly
Nausea and faintness when rising up
Abnormal hunger, loss of taste
Thirst for large draughts
Vomiting of bile and water immediately after
eating.
Urine red,
brown, like beer; scanty, hot.
Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion,
with tearing pains in legs; suppressed, with vicarious discharge or
splitting headache
Drowsy; starting when falling asleep
|
Warmth
Any motion
Morning
Eating
Hot weather
Exertion
Touch
Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick
Right side
Evening
Open air
Warm weather after cold days
Warm drinks
|
Lying
on painful side
Pressure
Rest
Cold things
|
| Hyoscyamus |
Very suspicious
Talkative
Obscene, uncovers body
Jealous, foolish
Great hilarity; inclined to laugh at
everything
Great restlessness; every muscle twitches
Will not be covered
Inclined to be unseemly and immodest in acts,
gestures and expressions
Persists in
stripping herself, or uncovering genitals
Afraid of being
poisoned, etc
Weakness and nervous agitation
Involuntary
urination
Has no will to urinate
Impotence
Lascivious; exposes his person
Excited sexual desire
Intense sleeplessness
Sopor, with convulsions
Starts up frightened
|
At
night
During menses
After eating
When lying down.
|
Stooping |
| Belladonna |
Hot, red skin
Flushed face
Glaring eyes
Throbbing carotids
Excited mental state
Hyperæsthesia of all senses
Dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to
water
Heat, redness, throbbing and burning
Great children's remedy
No thirst, anxiety or fear
Stands for violence of attack and suddenness
of onset
Furious; rages, bites, strikes
Desire to escape
Disinclined to talk
Perversity, with tears
Changeableness
Loss of appetite
Averse to meat and milk
Great thirst for cold water
Empty retching
Abhorrence of liquids.
Dread of drinking
Sexual desire diminished
Menses increased; bright red, too early, too
profuse
Rapid but weakened pulse
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 |
| Verbascum |
Constant dribbling of urine
Involuntary urination
Burning urination
|
Change of temperature
Talking
Sneezing
From 9 am to 4 pm
|
|
| 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
Take cold easily
Tendency to obesity
Great tendency to start
Timid
Want of disposition to work
Fidgety while sitting at work
Music makes her weep
Apprehensive, despondency, indecision
Aversion to meat
Sweets nauseate
Hot drinks disagree
Eructation difficult
Flatulence
Urine turbid, with sediment; sour smelling
Menses too late
Leucorrhœa gushing, 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
|
| Aurum Metallicum |
Hopeless, despondent, and great
desire to commit suicide
Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction
Palpitation and congestions
Feeling of self-condemnation and utter
worthlessness
Profound despondency, with increased blood
pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and thoughts of suicide
Talks of committing suicide
Great fear of death
Peevish and vehement at least contradiction
Constant rapid questioning without waiting for
reply
Cannot do things fast enough
Over sensitiveness; to noise,
excitement, confusion
Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness
Hot eructations
Urine turbid, like buttermilk, with thick
sediment
Violent erections
Palpitation. Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular
Sleepless
Sobs aloud in sleep
Frightful dreams
|
In
cold weather when getting cold
Many complaints come on only in winter
From sunset to sunrise
|
|
| Calcarea Carbonica |
Increased local and general
perspiration
Acidity and dislike of fat
Gets out of breath easily
A jaded state, mental or physical, due to
overwork
Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence
Take cold easily
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
Is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold,
damp and sour
Apprehensive;
worse towards evening
Fears loss of reason, misfortune,
contagious diseases
Forgetful, confused, low-spirited
Anxiety with palpitation
Obstinacy; slight mental effort produces hot head
Averse to work or exertion
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
Stool large and hard; whitish, watery, sour
Urine dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with
white sediment, bloody
Frequent seminal emissions
Increased sexual desire
Semen emitted too soon
Coition followed by weakness and irritability
Menses too early, too profuse, too long;
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
|
| 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
Anxiety when walking, as if pursued
Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with
tendency to use violent language
Absent mindedness
Very easily offended
Malicious; seems bent on wickedness
Lack of confidence in himself or others
Suspicious
Absence of all moral restraint
Weak digestion, with fullness and distention
Eructation, nausea, vomiting
Apt to choke when eating or drinking
Swallows food and drinks hastily
Increased sexual
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
|
| Baryta Carbonica |
Specially indicated in infancy
and old age
Scrofulous children, especially if they are
backward mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do not grow and develop
Take cold easily, and then always have swollen
tonsils
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
Loss of memory, mental weakness
Irresolute
Lost confidence in himself
Confusion
Bashful
Childish; grief over trifles
Hungry, but refuses food
Diminished desire and premature impotence
Menses scanty
Palpitation when lying on left side, when
thinking of it especially
Pulse full and hard
Talking in sleep
Awakens frequently; feels too hot
Twitching during sleep
|
While thinking of symptoms
From washing; lying on painful side
After warm food
|
Walking in open air |
| Phosphorus |
Great lowness of spirits
Easily vexed
Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of
every corner
Great tendency to start
Over-sensitive to external impressions
Loss of memory
Ecstasy
Dread of death when alone
Excitable, produces heat all over
Restless, fidgety
Hypo-sensitive, indifferent
Tall, slender persons, narrow chested, with thin,
transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous
debility
Emaciation
Amative tendencies
Great susceptibility to external impressions, to
light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms
Suddenness of symptoms, sudden
prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains, etc
Hunger soon after eating
Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal
Belching large quantities of wind, after eating
Throws up ingesta by the mouthfuls
Vomiting; water is thrown up as soon as it
gets warm in the stomach
Stool very fetid stools and flatus; long,
narrow, hard, like a dog's; difficult to expel
Desire for stool on lying on, left side
Great weakness after stool
Urine turbid, brown, with red sediment.
Lack of sexual power in males
Irresistible desire; involuntary
emissions, with lascivious dreams
Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but
last too long
Weeps before menses
Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead
of menses
Violent palpitation with anxiety, while lying on
left side
Pulse rapid, small, and soft |
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
|
| Arsenicum Album |
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
Despair drives him from place to place
Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage
General sensibility increased
Sensitive to disorder and confusion
All-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and restlessness
Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion.
Irritable weakness
Burning relieved by heat
Fear fright and worry
Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition
Cannot bear the sight or smell of food
Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a
time
Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or
drinking
Craves milk, acids and coffee
Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter
substances which seem to excoriate the throat. Long-lasting eructations
Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or
brown-black mixed with blood
Stool small, offensive, dark, with much
prostration
Urine scanty, burning, involuntary, albuminous
Menses too profuse and too soon
Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin
Palpitation, pain, dyspnœa, faintness
Pulse more rapid in morning
Disturbed, anxious, restless sleep
Must have head raised by pillows during sleep
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
|
| Thuja |
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 medicine
Emotional sensitiveness; music causes weeping and
trembling
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
Profuse leucorrhœa; thick, greenish
Menses scanty, retarded
|
At
night
From heat of bed
At 3 am and 3 pm
From cold, damp air
After breakfast
Fat
Coffee
Vaccination
|
Left side
While drawing up a limb
|
| Cocculus |
Specially
for light-haired females, unmarried and childless women, sensitive
and romantic girls, etc
Sensation of hollowness, or emptiness, as
if parts had gone to sleep
Feels too weak to talk loud
Capricious
Heavy and stupid
Time passes too quickly; absorbed in
reveries
Inclination to sing irresistible
Slow of comprehension
Mind benumbed
Profound sadness
Cannot bear contradiction
Speaks hastily
Very anxious about the health of others
Nausea from riding in cars, boat, etc, or looking
at boat in motion; worse on becoming cold or taking cold
Aversion to food, drink, tobacco
Metallic taste
Loss of appetite
Desire for cold drinks, especially beer
Smell of food disgusts
Too early menses, clotted, with spasmodic colic
Purulent, gushing leucorrhœa between menses; very
weakening, can scarcely speak
So weak during menstruation, scarcely able to
stand
Constant drowsiness
|
Eating
After loss of sleep
Open air
Smoking
Riding
Swimming
Touch
Noise
Jar
Afternoon
Menstrual period
After emotional disturbance
|
|
| Argentum Nitricum |
Symptoms of in co-ordination,
loss of control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically
Trembling
Great desire for sweets
Sensation as if a part were expanding and other
errors of perception
Withered up and dried constitutions, 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
Thinks his understanding will and must fail
Fearful and nervous
Impulse to jump out of window
Faintish and tremulous
Melancholic; apprehensive of serious
disease
Time passes slowly
Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry
Peculiar mental impulses
Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational motives
for actions
Flatulence
Ineffectual effort at eructation
Great craving for sweets
Desire for cheese and salt
Watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like chopped
spinach, with shreddy mucus and enormous distention of abdomen; very
offensive
Fluids go right through him; after sweets
Urine passes unconsciously, day and night
Urine scanty and dark
Emission of a few drops after having finished
urinating
Divided urinary stream
Impotence; erection fails when coition is
attempted
Sexual desire wanting
Coition painful
Leucorrhœa profuse, with erosion of cervix
bleeding easily
Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination
Horrible dreams of snakes, and of sexual
gratification
Drowsy stupor
|
Warmth
in any form
At night
From cold food
Sweets
After eating
At menstrual period
From emotions
Left side
|
From
eructation
Fresh air
Cold
Pressure
|
| Silicea |
Yielding, faint-hearted,
anxious
Nervous and excitable
Sensitive to all impressions
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
Want of grit, moral or physical
Disgust for meat and warm food
Want of appetite; thirst excessive
Sour eructations after eating
Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly
expelled, recedes again
A milky, acrid leucorrhœa, during urination.
Discharge of blood between menstrual periods
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 |
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
|
| Ammonium Carbonica |
Forgetful, ill-humored,
gloomy during stormy weather
Uncleanliness
Talking and hearing others talk affects greatly
Sad, weepy, unreasonable
Rather stout women who are always tired and
weary, take cold easily, suffer from cholera-like symptoms before menses,
lead a sedentary life, have a slow reaction generally, and are disposed to
frequent use of the smelling-bottle
Too frequent and profuse menses
Fat patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel
suffocated
Very sensitive to cold air
Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it
Heaviness in all organs
Acid secretions
Prostration from trifles
Great appetite, but easily satisfied
Stools difficult, hard, and knotty
Frequent desire to urinate; involuntary at night
Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and
fetid
Erection without desire
Seminal emissions.
Leucorrhœa burning, acrid, watery
Aversion to the other sex
Menses too frequent, profuse, early,
copious, clotted, black
Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat,
lachrymation, inability to speak, loud breathing and trembling hands
Sleepiness during the day
Starts from sleep strangling |
Evenings
From cold, wet weather
Wet applications
Washing
During 3 to 4 am
During menses
|
Lying on painful side and on stomach
In dry weather
|
| Cantharis |
Anxious restlessness, ending
in rage
Crying, barking; worse touching larynx or
drinking water
Constantly attempts to do something, but
accomplishes nothing
Amorous frenzy; fiery sexual desire
Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking
Over sensitiveness of all parts
Irritation
Intolerable, constant urging to urinate
Disgust for everything-drink, food, tobacco
Burning thirst, with aversion to all fluids
Very sensitive, violent burning
Vomiting of blood-streaked membrane and violent
retching
Aggravation from drinking coffee; drinking
the smallest quantity increases pain in bladder, and is vomited
Thirst unquenchable
Bloody urine, by drops
Urine scalds him, and is passed drop by drop
Constant desire to urinate
Urine jelly-like, shreddy
Strong sexual desire; painful erections
Menses too early and too profuse; black swelling
of vulva with irritation
Palpitation; pulse feeble, irregular; tendency to
syncope |
From touch, or approach
Urinating
Drinking cold water or coffee
|
Rubbing |
| Tabacum |
Death-like pallor
Icy coldness
Sweat
Intermittent pulse
Complete prostration of the entire muscular
system.
Cold, but wants abdomen uncovered
Pallor, breathlessness, hard-cordlike pulse
Sensation of excessive wretchedness
Very despondent
Forgetful
Discontented
Palpitation when lying on left side
Pulse intermits, feeble, imperceptible
|
Opening
eyes
Evening
Extremes of heat and cold
|
Uncovering
Open fresh air
|
| Petroleum |
Long-lasting complaints
follow mental states-fright, vexation, etc
Loses his way in streets
Feels that death is near, and must hurry to
settle affairs
Irritable, easily offended, vexed at everything
Low-spirited, with dimness of sight
Heartburn; hot, sharp, sour eructation
Feeling of great emptiness
Strong aversion to fat food, meat; worse, eating
cabbage
Hunger, immediately after stool.
Ravenous hunger, must rise at night and eat
Odor of garlic
Before menses, throbbing in head
Leucorrhœa, profuse, albuminous
Sensation of coldness
|
Dampness
Before and during a thunder-storm
From riding in cars
Passive motion
In winter
Eating
From mental states
|
Warm air
Lying with head high
Dry weather
|
| Opium |
Insensibility of the nervous
system
Depression
Drowsy stupor
Painlessness
Torpor
General sluggishness
Lack of vital reaction
Sopor; heavy, stupid
sleep, stertorous breathing
Sweaty skin
Dark, mahogany-brown face
Patient wants nothing
Complete loss of consciousness; apoplectic
state
Frightful fancies, daring, gay, bright
Unable to understand or appreciate his sufferings
Hungry; no desire to eat
Stools involuntary, black, offensive, frothy
Slow to start; feeble stream
Retained or involuntary, after fright
Loss of breath on falling asleep
Very sleepy, but cannot go to sleep
Distant noise, cocks crowing, etc, keep him awake
Bed feels so hot cannot lie on it
Pleasant, fantastic, amorous dreams.
Pulse full and slow
|
Heat
During and after sleep
|
Cold things
Constant walking
|
|
| Back |
|
|