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Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
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Arsenicum Album
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Skin itching, burning, swellings; œdema, eruption,
papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching
Swelling of feet
All-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and restlessness,
with nightly aggravation
Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion.
Irritable weakness
Burning pains
Unquenchable thirst
Burning relieved by heat
Fear fright and worry
Green discharges
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
General sensibility increased; sensitive to disorder and
confusion.
Craves acids and coffee; milk
Stool small, offensive, dark, with much
prostration; worse at night, and after eating and drinking
Urine scanty, burning, involuntary; albuminous;
after urinating, feeling of weakness in abdomen
Sleep disturbed, anxious, restless; must have head raised
by pillows; sleeps with hands over head
Dreams are full of care and fear
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Wet weather
After midnight
From cold, cold drinks, or food
Seashore
Right side
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From heat
From head elevated
Warm drinks.
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Elaterium Officinarum
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Much yawning and stretching
Irresistible desire to wander from home at night
Effects of damp weather.
Skin smarts, stings, and burns; dropsical; turns orange in
color
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From exposure on damp ground.
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Hydrocotyle Asiatica
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Interstitial inflammation and
cellular proliferation in any part
Hypertrophy and induration of connective tissue
Difficulty in maintaining the upright posture
Very copious perspiration
Great thickening of epidermoid layer and exfoliation of
scale
Intolerable itching, especially of soles.
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Myristica Sebiferra
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Inflammation of skin, cellular
tissue and periosteum
Coppery taste and burning in throat
Tongue white and cracked
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Anacardium Orientale
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Intense itching
Swelling
Weakening of all senses, sight,
hearing, etc
Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire
to swear and curse
Sensation of a plug in various parts-eyes, rectum,
bladder, etc; also of a band
Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves
all discomfort.
Swallows food and drinks hastily
Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions
without dreams
Leucorrhea, with soreness and itching
Menses scanty
Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights
Anxious dreams
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On application of hot water.
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From eating
When lying on side
From rubbing
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Calotropis Gigantea
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Heat in stomach
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Carduus Marianus
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Taste bitter
Aversion to salt meat
Appetite small
Stools hard, difficult, knotty
Urine cloudy; golden-colored.
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Graphites
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Especially active in patients who are rather stout, of
fair complexion, with tendency to skin affections and constipation, fat,
chilly, and costive, with delayed menstrual history, take cold easily
Tendency to obesity
Swollen genitals
Induration of tissue
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
Urine turbid, with sediment; sour smelling.
Skin rough, hard, persistent dryness of portions of skin
unaffected by eczema.
Swelling of feet
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Warmth
At night
During and after menstruation
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In the dark
From wrapping up
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Hamamelis Virginiana
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Bruised soreness of affected parts,
Passive venous hemorrhages from any part
Wants "the respect due to me" shown
Menses dark, profuse, with soreness in abdomen
Milk-leg, hemorrhoids, and sore nipples, after confinement
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Warm, moist air.
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Iodum
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Rapid metabolism: Loss of flesh great
appetite
Hungry with much thirst
Great debility, the slightest effort induces
perspiration
Individual is exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with
enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin
Tremor
Craves cold air
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
Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were
turned into gas
Anxious and worried if he does not eat
Urine frequent and copious, dark yellow-green, thick,
acrid with cuticle on surface
Testicles swollen and indurated
Great weakness during menses
Menstruation irregular
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When quiet
In warm room
Right side
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Walking about
In open air
After eating
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Lycopodium
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Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with
catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots,
earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; also precocious, weakly children
Symptoms characteristically run from right to left, acts
especially on right side of body, and are worse from about 4 to 8 pm
Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm
Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak,
muscular power
Emaciation
Debility in morning.
Lycopodium 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; cannot bear to see
anything new
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 read what he writes
Sadness in morning on awaking
Aversion to bread, etc
Desire for sweet things
Food tastes sour
Sour eructations
Eating ever so little creates fullness
Cannot eat oysters
Incomplete burning eructations rise only to pharynx
there burn for hours
Likes to take food and drink hot
Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete
Heavy red sediment in urine
No erectile power; impotence
Menses too late; last too long, too profuse
Leucorrhea, acrid, with burning in vagina
Drowsy during day
Starting in sleep
Dreams of accidents
Skin becomes thick and indurated
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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
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By motion
After midnight
From warm food and drink
On getting cold
From being uncovered.
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Silicea
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Suppurative processes
Silica patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants
plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter
Lack of vital heat
Prostration of mind and body
Great sensitiveness to taking cold
Ailments attended with pus formation
Want of grit, moral or physical
Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious
Nervous and excitable
Sensitive to all impressions
Disgust for meat and warm food
Want of appetite; thirst excessive
Elephantiasis of scrotum
A milky, acrid leucorrhea, during urination
Discharge of blood between menstrual periods
Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over
whole body
Frequent starts in sleep
Anxious dreams
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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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