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Depression

 

Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

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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

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