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| Irritable Bowel Syndrome |
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Gambogia |
Great irritability of the stomach;
burning, smarting, and dryness of the tongue and throat
Pain in the stomach after food
Tenderness in epigastrium
Pain and distention of abdomen from flatulence,
after stool
Rumbling and rolling
Diarrhœa, with sudden and forcible ejection
of bilious stools
Tenesmus after, with burning at anus
Ileo-cæcal region sensitive to pressure
Profuse, watery diarrhœa in hot weather,
particularly old people
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Towards evening
At night.
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| Carbo Vegetabilis |
Eructations,
heaviness, fullness, and sleepiness;
stomach tense from flatulence, with pain; worse lying down
Eructations after eating and drinking
Temporary relief from belching
Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations
Water brash, asthmatic breathing from flatulence
Nausea in the morning
Burning in stomach, extending to back and along
spine
Contractive pain extending to chest, with
distention of abdomen
Faint gone feeling in stomach, not relieved by
eating
Crampy pains forcing patient to bend double
Distress comes on a half-hour after eating
Sensitiveness of epigastric region
Digestion slow; food putrefies before it
digests.
Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things
The simplest food distresses
Pain in abdomen as from lifting a weight;
excessive discharge of fetid flatus
Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and
abdomen
Ailments accompanying intestinal fistulæ
Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing
wind
Flatulent colic
Flatus hot, moist, offensive. Itching, gnawing and
burning in rectum
Frequent, involuntary cadaverous-smelling stools,
followed by burning
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
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
Premature and too copious menses; pale blood
Leucorrhœa before menses, thick, greenish,
milky, excoriating
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Evening
Night
Open air
Cold
From fat food, butter, coffee, milk
Warm damp weather
Wine
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From
eructation
From fanning
Cold
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| Colchicum |
Pain in stomach
and flatulence
Smell of food causes nausea even to fainting,
especially fish
Profuse salivary secretion
Vomiting of mucus, bile and food; worse, any
motion
Craving for various things, but is averse
to then when smelling them, seized them with nausea
Burning or icy coldness in stomach and
abdomen
Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages
Pain in transverse colon.
Distention of abdomen, with gas, inability
to stretch out legs
Cæcum and ascending colon much distended
Fullness and continuous rumbling.
Stool painful,
scanty, transparent, jelly-like mucus; pain, as if anus were torn open,
with prolapse
Ineffectual pressing; feels feces in rectum, but
cannot expel them
Great
prostration, internal coldness,
and tendency to collapse
Shocks as from electricity through one half of
body
Dreams of mice
Urine dark, scanty or suppressed; bloody, brown,
black, inky; contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar
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Sundown to
sunrise
Motion
Loss of sleep
Smell of food
In evening
Mental exertion
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Stooping |
| Colocynthis |
Very bitter
taste.
Canine hunger
Feeling in stomach as if something would not
yield; drawing pain.
Agonizing cutting pain in abdomen causing patient
to bend over double, and pressing on the abdomen
Sensation as if stones were being ground together
in the abdomen, and would burst
Intestines feel as if bruised
Colic with cramps in calves
Cutting in abdomen, especially after anger
Each paroxysm is attended with general agitation
and a chill over the cheeks, ascending from the hypogastrium
Pain in small spot below navel
Jelly-like stools; musty odor
Often indicated in the transition season when the
air is cold, but the sun is still powerful enough to heat the blood
Especially suitable
for irritable persons easily angered, and ill effects there from
Women with copious menstruation, and of sedentary
habits
Persons with a tendency to corpulency
Pains are nearly always relieved by pressure
Cramps and twitching and shortening of muscles
Constrictions and contractions
Urinous odor of perspiration
Agonizing pain in abdomen, causing patient
to bend double
Sensations; cutting, twisting, grinding,
contracting and bruised; as if clamped with iron bands
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From anger and
indignation |
Doubling up
Hard pressure
Warmth
Lying with head bent forward
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| Natrum Sulphuricum |
Where the
complaints are such as are due to living in damp houses, basements,
cellars
Feels every change from dry to wet; cannot
even eat plants growing near water, nor fish
Always feels best in warm, dry air
Vomits sour
Thirst for something cold
Bilious vomiting, acid dyspepsia, with
heartburn and flatulence
Duodenal catarrh;
Cannot bear tight clothing around waist, worse,
lying on left side
Flatulency; wind colic in ascending colon;
worse, before breakfast
Burning in abdomen and anus
Bruised pain and urging to stool
Diarrhœa yellow, watery stools
Loose morning stools, worse, after spell
of wet weather
Stools involuntary, when passing flatus
Great size of the fecal mass.
Urine loaded
with bile; brisk-dust sediment; excessive secretion |
Music (makes her sad)
Lying on left side
Dampness of basement
Damp weather
Water in every form
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Dry weather
Pressure
Changing position.
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| 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; 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
Takes some cathartic, liver pills, or mineral
water, and soon gets into the habit of taking these things, which still
further complicate matters.
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
Always 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 s of a stone, several
hours after eating
Desire for stimulants; loves fats and
tolerates them well
Dyspepsia from drinking strong coffee
Difficult belching of gas
Wants to vomit, but cannot.
Bruised soreness of abdominal walls
Flatulent distension, with spasmodic colic
Colic from uncovering.
Colic, with upward pressure, causing short
breath, and desire for stool
Weakness of abdominal ring region
Alternate constipation and diarrhœa-after abuse
of purgatives
Urging to stool felt throughout abdomen
Diarrhœa after a debauch; worse, morning
Frequent small evacuations
Scanty stool, with much urging
Constant uneasiness in rectum
Frequent calls to urinate; little and often
Easily excited sexual desire
Menses too early, lasts too long; always
irregular, blood black with faint spells
Cannot sleep after
3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly
Drowsy after meals, and in early evening
Dreams full of bustle and hurry
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Morning
Mental exertion
After eating
Touch
Spices
Stimulants
Narcotics
Dry weather
Cold
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From a nap, if
allowed to finish it
In evening
While at rest
In damp, wet weather
Strong pressure
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| Rheum |
Desire for
various kinds of food, but soon tires of all
Throbbing in pit of stomach
Feels full
Colicky pain about navel
Colic when uncovering
Wind seems to rise up to chest.
Before stool, unsuccessful urging to urinate
Stools smell sour, pasty, with
shivering and tenesmus, and burning in anus
Colicky, even ineffectual urging to evacuate
altered fecal stools. |
Uncovering
After eating
Moving about
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| Agaricus Muscarius |
Sensation as
if pierced by needles of ice
Sensitive to pressure and cold air
Violent bearing-down pains
Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold,
numbness and tingling
Empty eructations, tasting of apples
Unnatural hunger
Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen
Profuse inodorous flatus
Burning in stomach about three hours after a
meal, changing into a dull pressure
Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver
region.
Stitching pains in liver, spleen and abdomen
Stitches under short ribs, left side
Diarrhœa with much fetid flatus
Fetid stools.
Menses, increased, earlier
Leucorrhœa, with much itching |
Open cold air
After eating
After coitus
In cold weather
Before a thunder-storm
Pressure on dorsal spine, which causes
involuntary laughter.
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Moving about
slowly |
| Aloe |
Bad effects
from sedentary life or habits
Adapted to weary people, the aged, and
phlegmatic, old beer-drinkers
Dissatisfied and angry about himself
Heat internally and externally
Aversion to meat
Longing for juicy things
After eating, flatulence, pulsation in rectum
and sexual irritation
Nausea, with headache
Pain in pit of the stomach when making false
step.
Abdomen feels full, heavy, hot, bloated
Pulsating pain around navel; worse pressure
Weak feeling, as if diarrhœa would come on
Great accumulation of flatus, pressing downwards,
causing distress in lower bowels
Sensation of plug between symphysis pubis and
os coccygis, with urging to stool
Colic before and during stool
Burning, copious flatus
Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed
Lumpy, watery stool
Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum after
stool
A lot of mucus, with pain in rectum after
stool
Menses too early and too profuse
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Early morning
Summer
Heat
In hot, dry weather
After eating or drinking
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From cold
Open air
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| Arsenicum Album |
All-prevailing
debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation
Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion
Irritable weakness
Burning pains
Burning relieved by heat
Seaside complaints
Odor of discharges is putrid
In complaints that return annually
Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition
System under the stress of malignancy regardless
of location
Septic infections and low vitality
Cannot bear the sight or smell of food
Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a
time
Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or
drinking
Anxiety in pit of stomach
Craves acids, milk and coffee
Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter
substances which seem to excoriate the throat
Long-lasting eructations
Stomach extremely irritable; seems raw, as if
torn
Gastralgia from slightest food or drink
Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream,
ice-water, tobacco
Terrible fear and dyspnœa, with gastralgia; also
faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion
Gnawing, burning pains in abdomen like coals of
fire; relieved by heat
Abdomen swollen and painful
Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing.
Stools small, offensive, dark, with much
prostration
Urine scanty, burning, involuntary, albuminous
Menses too profuse and too soon
Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin
Disturbed, anxious, restless sleep
Must have head raised by pillows to sleep
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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| Baptisia |
Indescribable
sick feeling
Great muscular soreness and putrid phenomena
always are present
All the secretions are offensive-breath, stool,
urine, sweat, etc
Can swallow only liquids, vomiting due to spasm of
œsophagus
No appetite
Constant desire for water
Sinking feeling at stomach
Pain in epigastric region
Feeling of hard substance
Ulcerative inflammation of stomach and bowels.
Right side of abdomen markedly affected
Distended and rumbling
Soreness over region of gall-bladder, with diarrhœa
Stools very offensive, thin, dark, bloody
Soreness of abdomen, in region of liver
Menses too early, too profuse
Nightmare and frightful dreams
Cannot get herself together, feels scattered
about bed
Falls asleep while answering a question
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Humid heat
Fog
Indoors
Beer
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| Bryonia |
Irritable
Dry, parched lips, mouth
Bitter taste
Sensitive epigastrium,
Especially 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
Stomach sensitive to touch
Pressure in stomach after eating, as of a
stone
Soreness in stomach when coughing
Liver region swollen, sore, tensive
Burning pain in abdomen, stitches; worse,
pressure, coughing, breathing
Tenderness of abdominal walls.
Stools brown, thick, bloody; worse in morning,
from moving, in hot weather, after being heated, from cold drinks,
every spell of hot weather.
Urine red,
brown, like beer; scanty, hot
Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion |
Right side
Evening
Open air
Warm weather after cold days
Warmth
Any motion
Morning
Eating
Hot weather
Exertion
Touch
Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick
Warm drinks
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Lying on painful
side
Pressure
Rest
Cold things
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| Calcarea Phosphorica |
Numbness and
crawling
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.
At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in
abdomen
Sunken and flabby abdomen
Colic, soreness and burning around navel.
Diarrhœa from juicy fruits or cider; during
dentition
Green, slimy, hot, sputtering, undigested
stools, with fetid flatus
Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls
Leucorrhœa, like white of egg
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Exposure to damp
Cold weather
Melting snow
Change of weather
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In summer
Warm, dry atmosphere. |
| Ferrum Metallicum |
Flush easily
Cold extremities
Over sensitiveness
Weakness from mere speaking or walking
though looking strong
Pallor of skin, mucous membranes, face,
alternating with flushes
Orgasms of blood to face, chest, head, lungs, etc
Irregular distribution of blood
Pseudo-plethora
Muscles flabby and relaxed
Loathing of sour things
Attempts to eat bring on diarrhœa
Eructations of food after eating, without nausea
Nausea and vomiting after eating
Vomiting immediately after eating
Vomiting after midnight
Intolerance of eggs
Distention and pressure in the stomach after
eating
Heat and burning in stomach
Soreness of abdominal walls
Stools undigested,
at night, while eating or drinking, painless
Menses remit a day or two, and then return
Menses too early, too profuse, last too long;
pale, watery
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While sweating
While sitting still
After cold washing
Overheating
Midnight
Active effort
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Walking slowly
about
After rising
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| Silicea |
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
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
Pit of stomach painful to pressure
Pain or painful cold feeling in abdomen, better
external heat; hard, bloated
Much rumbling in bowels
Diarrhœa of cadaverous odor.
A milky, acrid leucorrhœa, during urination
Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy
coldness over whole body
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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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| Sulphur |
Ebullitions of
heat
Dislike of water
Dry and hard hair and skin
Red orifices
Sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am
Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections
Aversion to being washed
When carefully-selected remedies fail to act,
especially in acute diseases, it frequently arouses the reactionary
powers of the organism
Complaints that relapse
General offensive character of discharge and
exhalations
Very red lips and face, flushing easily
Putrid eructation
Food tastes too salty
Drinks much, eats little
Milk disagrees
Great desire for sweets
Great acidity, sour eructation
Burning, painful, weight-like pressure in the
stomach
Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have
something to eat
Nausea during gestation
Water fills the patient up.
Abdomen very
sensitive to pressure; internal feeling of rawness and soreness
Movements in abdomen as of something alive
Colic after drinking.
Morning diarrhœa, painless, drives out of bed,
with prolapsus recti
Must hurry, sudden call to urinate
Great quantities of colorless urine.
Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult;
thick, black, acrid, making parts sore
Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating
Catnaps;
slightest noise awakens
Cannot sleep between 2 an 5 am
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At rest
When standing
Warmth in bed
Washing
Bathing
In morning
11 am
Night
From alcoholic stimulants
Periodically
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Dry, warm
weather
Lying on right side
From drawing up affected limbs
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| Thuja |
Rapid
exhaustion and emaciation
Complete loss of appetite
Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes
Rancid eructations after fat food
Cutting pain in epigastrium
Cannot eat onions
Flatulence; pain after food; sinking sensation in
epigastrium before food; thirst
Abdomen distended;
indurations in abdomen
Chronic diarrhœa, worse after breakfast;
discharges forcibly expelled; gurgling sound
Flatulence and distension; protruding here and
there
Rumbling and colic
Profuse leucorrhœa; thick, greenish
Menses scanty, retarded
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At night
From heat of bed
At 3 am and 3 pm
From cold, damp air
After breakfast
Fat, coffee
Vaccination
From moonlight
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Left side
While drawing up a limb
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| Bovista |
Adapted to
stammering children, old maids with palpitation; and "tettery"
patients
Diarrhœa before and during menses
Menses too early and profuse; worse at night
Leucorrhœa acrid, thick, tough, greenish,
follows menses
Cannot bear tight clothing around waist
Traces of menses between menstruation
Colic, with red
urine; relieved by eating
Must bend double
Pain around umbilicus
Stitches through perineum towards rectum and
genitals.
Chronic diarrhœa of old people; worse at night and
early morning |
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| Digitalis |
Pulse is weak,
irregular, intermittent, abnormally slow
Faint, as if dying
Bluish appearance of face
Prostration from slight exertion
Sweet taste with constant salivation
Excessive nausea, not relieved by vomiting
Faintness, great weakness in stomach
Burning in stomach extending to œsophagus
Discomfort, even after a small quantity of food,
or from mere sight or smell
Tenderness of epigastrium
Neuralgic pain in stomach, unconnected
with taking food.
Pain in left side in the abdomen, apparently in
descending colon and under false ribs
Severe abdominal pains, pulsation in abdominal
aorta, and epigastric constriction
White, chalk-like, ashy, pasty stools
Diarrhœa during jaundice.
Starts from sleep in alarm
that he is falling from a height
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When sitting
erect
After meals and music
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When stomach is
empty
In open air
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| Gratiola |
Chronic catarrhal
conditions
Especially useful in females
Hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals
Dyspepsia, with much distention of the stomach
Cramps and colic after supper and during night,
with swelling of abdomen and constipation
Diarrhœa; green, frothy water, followed by
anal burning, forcibly evacuated without pain
Excessive sexual desire
Menses too profuse, premature, and too long
Leucorrhœa |
Drinking too much water |
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| Magnesium Carbonica |
Gastro-intestinal
catarrh, with marked acidity
Frequently indicated in children; whole body
smells sour, and disposed to boils
Broken-down, "worn-out" women, with
uterine and climacteric disorders
With numbness and distension in various, parts
and nerve prostration
Sensitive to the least start, noise, touch, etc
Sensitive to least touch, it causes
starting, or cold winds or weather or from excess of care and worry
Desire for fruit, acids, and vegetables
Eructations sour, and vomiting of bitter water
Craving for meat.
Abdomen rumbling,
gurgling
Dragging towards pelvis
Very heavy; contractive, pinching, pain in
right iliac region.
Stools preceded
by griping, colicky pain
Green, watery, frothy, like a frog-pond's scum
Menses too late and scanty, thick, dark,
like pitch
Mucous leucorrhœa
Menses flow only in sleep; more profuse at night,
or when lying down; cease when walking |
Warmth of bed
Change of temperature
Cold wind or weather
Every three weeks
Rest
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Warm air
Walking in open air
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| Natrum Carbonica |
Great
debility caused by summer heat
Stomach feels
swollen and sensitive
Hungry at 5 am
Very weak digestion, caused by slightest
error of diet
Averse to milk
Depressed after eating
Bitter taste
Dyspepsia relieved by soda biscuits.
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
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Sitting
From music
Summer heat
Mental exertion
Thunderstorm
Least draught
Changes of weather
Sun
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By moving
By boring in ears and nose
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| Rhus Tox |
Motion always
"limbers up" the 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
Nausea, vertigo, and bloated abdomen after eating
Desire for milk
Pressure in stomach as from a stone
Drowsy after eating.
Violent pains in abdomen, relieved by lying on
abdomen
Pain in region of ascending colon
Colic, compelling to walk bent
Excessive distention after eating
Rumbling of flatus on first rising, but
disappears with continued motion.
Diarrhœa of blood, slime, and reddish mucus
Stools of cadaverous odor
Frothy, painless stools
Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white
sediment
Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid
Dreams of great exertion; heavy sleep, as
from stupor, sleepless before midnight
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During sleep
Cold, wet rainy weather and after rain
At night
During rest
Drenching
When lying on back or right side
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Warm, dry weather
Motion
Walking
Change of position
Rubbing
Warm applications
From stretching out limbs
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| Dioscorea Villosa |
Many kinds
of pain, especially colic, and in severe, painful affections of
abdominal and pelvic viscera
Persons of feeble digestive powers; tea-drinkers,
with much flatulence
No thirst
Belching of large quantities of offensive gas
Neuralgia of stomach
Sinking at the pit of the stomach
Pain along sternum and extending into arms
Eructations of sour, bitter wind, with
hiccough
Sharp pain in epigastrium, relieved by standing
erect.
Abdominal Pains
suddenly shift to different parts; appear in remote localities, as
fingers and toes
Rumbling, with emission of much flatus
Griping, cutting in hypogastric region, with
intermittent cutting in stomach and small intestines
Colic; better walking about; pains radiate from
abdomen, to back, chest, arms; worse, bending forwards and while lying
Sharp pains from liver, shooting upward to
right nipple
Pain from gall-bladder to chest, back, and arms
Hurried desire for stool
Diarrhœa (worse in morning), yellowish, followed
by exhaustion, as if flatus and feces were hot
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Evening and night
Lying down
Doubling up
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standing
erect
motion in open air
Pressure. |
| Gelsemium |
General
prostration
Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and
trembling
Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy
Muscular weakness
Complete relaxation and prostration
Lack of muscular co-ordination
General depression from heat of sun
Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and
dampness brings on many complaints
No thirst
Sensation of emptiness and weakness at the pit of
the stomach, or of an oppression, like a heavy load.
Diarrhœa from emotional excitement, fright,
bad news
Stool painless or involuntary. Cream-colored,
tea-green.
Urine profuse, clear, watery, with
chilliness and tremulousness
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Damp weather
Fog
Before a thunderstorm
Emotion, or excitement, bad news
Tobacco-smoking
When thinking of his ailments
At 10 am
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Bending forward
By profuse urination
Open air
Continued motion
Stimulants
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| Trombidium |
Much pain in the abdomen before and
after stool; stool only after eating
Griping in hypochondrium in morning
Congestion of the liver, with urgent, loose, stools on rising
Brown, thin, bloody stools, with tenesmus
During stool, sharp pain in left side, shooting downward
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