Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Torpor and congestion of the liver and portal system, with constipation

Flying pains all over

Fullness in various parts, dry, swollen mucous membranes

Weight of a stone, with gnawing, aching pain; most manifest about three hours after meals

Large, hard, dry stools

Frequent, scant, dark, muddy, hot urine

From any motion

Walking

From moving bowels

After eating

Afternoon

Standing

Tendency to paretic muscular states

Old people, with lack of vital heat, or prematurely old, with debility

Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and staggering

Eructations in spare, dry, thin subjects

Delicate children, products of artificial baby foods

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

Hard dry, knotty stools; no desire

Must strain at stool in order to urinate

Menses too early, short, scanty, pale, followed by great exhaustion

In afternoon

From potatoes

In morning on awaking

Warm room

From cold washing

In evening

On alternate days

Damp weather

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

Uncleanness in bodily habits

Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, water brash, and chilliness

Great appetite, but easily satisfied

Stools difficult, hard, and knotty

Aversion to the other sex

Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black

From cold, wet weather

Wet applications

Washing

During 3 to 4 am

During menses

In dry weather

Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness

Swelling of epigastrium. Burning at stomach and hot eructations

Urine turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment

Constipation, stools hard and knotty

Many complaints come on only in winter

From sunset to sunrise

Nausea, acidity and dislike of fat

Gets out of breath easily

 A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork

Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats

Prone to diarrhœa

Is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour

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

Cramps in stomach; worse, pressure, cold water

Ravenous hunger

Swelling over pit of stomach, like a saucer turned bottom up

Repugnance to hot food

Pain in epigastric region to touch

Thirst; longing for cold drinks

Hyperchlorhydria

Frequent emissions; increased desire; semen emitted too soon

Menses too early, too profuse, too long; the least excitement causes their return

Leucorrhœa, milky 

Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light slumber

Night terrors 

Dreams of the dead

Ascending

Cold in every form

Water

Washing

Moist air

Wet weather

During full moon

Standing

Lying on painful side

Sneezing (pain in head and nape)

Tendency to perspiration

Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats

Much flatulence

Great hunger with thirst

Flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations

Heartburn

Easy vomiting in children

Leucorrhœa, like white of egg

Exposure to damp

Cold weather

Melting snow

Sensation of hollowness, or emptiness, as if parts had gone to sleep

Feels too weak to talk loud

Nausea from riding in cars, boat, etc, or looking at boat in motion; worse on becoming cold or taking cold

Nausea, with faintness and vomiting

Aversion to food, drink, tobacco

Metallic taste

Cramp, in stomach during and after meal

Loss of appetite

Desire for cold drinks, especially beer

Sensation in stomach as if one had been a long time without food until hunger was gone

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

After loss of sleep

Open air

Smoking

Riding

Swimming

Touch

Noise

Jar

Afternoon

Menstrual period

After emotional disturbance

Trouble at the change of life, old and bachelors

General feeling as if bruised by blows

Great debility in the morning in bed

Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation

Terrible nausea, acrid heartburn and acid eructations; worse on going to bed

Painful spasms of the stomach

Amelioration from eating and aggravation a few hours after meals; acidity and burning; painful spot at the level of the sternum.

Tremulous weakness after every stool

Much difficulty in voiding, it flows and stops again

Menses delayed and scanty; parts sensitive

Turning or rising in bed

Celibacy

Before and during menses

From taking cold

Bodily or mental exertion

In the dark

From letting limbs hang down

Motion

Pressure

Vomiting, sour bloody, biliary

Nausea

Deficient appetite

Profuse flow of saliva; ropy

From rest

 Atony

Malnutrition

Red sand in urine

 Intolerant of cold drinks

Craves everything warm

Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power

Emaciation

Debility in morning

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

Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food, cabbage, beans, etc

Excessive hunger

Aversion to bread, etc

Desire for sweet things

Food tastes sour

Sour eructations

Great weakness of digestion

After eating, pressure in stomach, with bitter taste in mouth

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

inking sensation; worse night

Menses too late; last too long, too profuse

Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina

Dreams of accidents

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

After midnight

From warm food and drink

On getting cold

From being uncovered

Broken-down, "worn-out" women, with uterine and climacteric disorders

Numbness and distension in various, parts and nerve prostration

Sensitive to the least start, noise, touch, etc

Tendency to constipation after nervous strain; sensitive to least touch, it causes starting, or cold winds or weather or from excess of care and worry with constipation and heaviness

Desire for fruit, acids, and vegetables

Eructations sour, and vomiting of bitter water

Craving for meat

Change of temperature

Cold wind or weather

Every three weeks

Rest.

Walking in open air

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; or, again, he hopes to quiet his excitement,

Takes preferably rich and stimulating food; wine and women play their part to make him forget the close application of the day

Pre-eminently a male remedy. 

Irritable, nervous system, hypersensitive and over-impressionable

Especially adapted to digestive disturbances, portal congestion, and hypochondriacal states depending thereon

Zealous fiery temperament

Easily chilled, avoid open air, etc

Seems to be out of tune; inharmonious spasmodic action

Sour taste, and nausea in the morning, after eating

Weight and pain in stomach; worse, eating, some time after

Sour, bitter eructations

Nausea and vomiting, with much retching

Ravenous hunger, especially about a day before an attack of dyspepsia

Region of stomach very sensitive to pressure 

Epigastrium bloated, with pressure as of a stone, several hours after eating

Desire for stimulants

Loves fats and tolerates them well 

Difficult belching of gas

Wants to vomit, but cannot

Constipation, with frequent ineffectual urging, incomplete and unsatisfactory; feeling as if part remained unexpelled

Passing but small quantities at each attempt

Urging to stool felt throughout abdomen

Frequent small evacuations

Frequent calls to urinate; little and often

Easily excited desire. emissions from high living, bad effects of sexual excesses

Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular, blood black 

Cannot sleep after 3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly

Mental exertion

After eating

Touch

Spices

Stimulants

Narcotics

Dry weather

Cold

In evening

While at rest

In damp

Wet weather

Strong pressure

Periodical remissions

Violent pain in epigastrium, discharge of flatus relieves

Gastralgia

Sensation of coldness below epigastrium

Burning pain, extending upwards

Slightest touch causes excruciating pain

Bitter and sour eructation, worse at night

Cannot eat strawberries

Slightest touch

Light

Shaving

Aroused about 3 am with gastric and abdominal pain

By thinking about self

Lingering gastric and lung troubles

Chronic diarrhœa

Heartburn; hot, sharp, sour eructation

Distention of stomach

Feeling of great emptiness in stomach

Strong aversion to fat food, meat; worse, eating cabbage

Hunger, immediately after stool

Nausea, with accumulation of water in mouth

Gastralgia when stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating 

Ravenous hunger; must rise at night and eat 

Odor of garlic

Leucorrhœa, profuse, albuminous

From riding in cars, carriages, or ships

Dampness

Before and during a thunder-storm

Passive motion

Eating

From mental states

Lying with head high

Dry weather.

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.

Vomiting; water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach

Cardiac opening seems contracted, too narrow; the food scarcely swallowed, comes up again

Pain in stomach; relieved by cold food, ices

Region of stomach painful to touch, or on walking

Inflammation of stomach, with burning extending to throat and bowels

Bad effects of eating too much salt

Very fetid stools and flatus; long, narrow, hard, like a dog's

Turbid, brown urine, with red sediment

Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long

Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses

Vivid dreams of fire; of hæmorrhage

Lascivious dreams

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

Lying on right side

Cold food

Cold

Open air

Washing with cold water

Sleep

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

On swallowing food, it easily gets into posterior nares

Want of appetite; thirst excessive

Sour eructations after eating

Pit of stomach painful to pressure

Vomiting after drinking

A milky (Calc; Puls; Sep), acrid leucorrhœa, during urination

In morning

From washing

During menses

Uncovering

Lying down

Damp

Lying on  left side

Cold

Winter

Wrapping up head

Summer

In wet or humid weather.

Tremor and weakness

Everything must be done in a hurry

Hot flushes, followed by perspiration, with trembling

Gastralgia and hypochlorrhydria

Heartburn; sour eructations; sets teeth on edge

Craving for alcohol

Water causes coldness of stomach; must be mixed with liquors.

Averse to smell of coffee

Sour vomiting

Desire for fresh food.

Coldness of stomach relieved by applied heat

Nausea with chilliness

In forenoon and evening

Lying on affected side

Cold perspiration on the forehead

Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities

Profuse, violent retching and vomiting 

Voracious appetite

Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed

Averse to warm food

Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion

Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt

Anguish in pit of stomach

Great weakness after vomiting

Gastric irritability with chronic vomiting of food

Menses too early; profuse and exhausting

Wet, cold weather

Warmth

Burning in stomach

Heartburn from sweet things

Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine

Ravenous hunger about 11 am 

Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough

Atonic dyspepsia, feeling as if stomach were collapsed

Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards

Menses too late, suppressed

Menses flow more at night

From touch

Between 5 to 7 pm

After dinner

From wine

Discharges

Appearance of eruptions