Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Skin chapped and dry tettery

Must scratch until the skin bleeds; then becomes painful

Brittle skin on fingers

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

Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and staggering

Delicate children, products of artificial baby foods

Abnormal cravings-chalk, charcoal, dry food, tea-grounds

Aversion to meat

Potatoes disagree

No desire to eat

Can swallow but small morsels at a time

Stool hard dry, knotty; 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 and on alternate days

Damp weather

Blisters on various parts

Intense burning better cold applications

Especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles

"Boiling" sensation

Thirst for lemonade

Hard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus

Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; flow more at night

Abdominal symptoms in the afternoon

Pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings

Constant urging to urinate

Skin diseased and deformed nails

Thickly-coated white tongue

Cannot bear heat of sun

Tendency to grow fat

An absence of pain, where it could be expected

Loss of appetite

Desire for acids, pickles

Urine turbid and foul odor

Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs

Itching when warm in bed

Dry skin

Cold bathing

In evening

Acids

Wine

Water, and washing

Wet poultices

During rest

Moist warmth

Stinging pains

Soreness

Intolerance of heat, and slightest touch

Constricted sensations

Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off in the interior of the body

Much prostration

Craving for milk

Cannot urinate without a stool

Urine scanty, high colored

Dreams full of care and toil

Heat in any form

Touch

Pressure

Late in afternoon

After sleeping

In closed and heated rooms

Right side

Uncovering

Cold bathing

Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion

Irritable weakness

Burning pains

Unquenchable thirst; drinks much, but little at a time

Burning relieved by heat

Fear fright and worry

Complaints that return annually

Degenerative changes

Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition

Maintains the system under the stress of malignancy regardless of location

Septic infections and low vitality

Craves acids, milk and coffee

Albuminous urine

Menses too profuse and too soon

Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin

Itching, burning, swellings; œdema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly skin; worse cold and scratching

After midnight

from cold, cold drinks, or food

Seashore

Right side

From head elevated

Warm drinks

Flushed face

Glaring eyes

Throbbing carotids

Excited mental state

Hyperæsthesia of all senses

Restless sleep

Dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water

Heat, redness, throbbing and burning

No thirst, anxiety or fear

Violence of attack and suddenness of onset

Averse to meat and milk

Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse

Dry and hot skin; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth

Jar

Noise

Draught

After noon

Lying down

Intolerant of tight clothing around waist

Menses too early and profuse; worse at night

Traces of menses between menstruation

Leucorrhœa acrid, thick, tough, greenish, follows menses

Blunt instrument leave deep impression on the skin

Itching on getting warm

Irritable

Parched lips, mouth

Excessive thirst; thirst for large draughts 

Bitter taste

Sensitive epigastrium, and feeling of a stone in the stomach

Stools large, dry, hard

Affects 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

Urine red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot

Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion

Evening

Open air

Warm weather after cold days

Warmth

Any motion

Morning

Eating

Hot weather

Exertion

Touch

Pressure

Rest

Cold things

Coldness of single parts and inclination to lie down, with aggravation on lying on left side

Slightest noise startles from sleep

Dread from motion

Thirstless and tolerates only warm drinks

Sweet sweat-attracts flies

Itching rash alternates with asthma

After sleeping in daytime

Very thirsty

Loss of appetite

Thick urine

Icy coldness

Patients living or working in damp, cold basements

Eruptions on hands, arms or face around the menstrual period

Aversion to food

Burning thirst for cold drinks

Intense itching, always worse in cold, wet weather

From cold in general

Damp, rainy weather

External warmth

Acrid feeling in mouth and throat

Feeling as if all internal organs were too large, especially those of left side

Exercise

Scratching

On rising in morning

Intolerable itching, worse undressing, from warmth, walking

Dry, scaly, wilted skin

Pulsations all over the body

Feeling of coldness, as of ice water in stomach

Bitter taste after a swallow of water

Urine offensive

Must hurry when desire comes to urinate

Dreams of urinating

Menses too early, prolonged. 

Menstrual flow intermits; ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on lying down

Itching, worse towards evening

Cold rest

When lying

After menstruation

Motion

Warm diet

Itching of feet and ankles; worse, scratching and warmth of bed

From heat of bed 

Putting feet in cold water

Skin becomes thick and indurated

 Adapted more especially to ailments gradually developing, functional power weakening, with failures of the digestive powers, where the function of the liver is seriously disturbed

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

Patient is thin, withered, full of gas and dry

Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities

Sensitive to noise and odors

Aversion to bread, etc

Desire for sweet things

Eating ever so little creates fullness

Cannot eat oysters

Likes to take food and drink hot

Menses too late; last too long, too profuse

Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina

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

Tremors everywhere

Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion

Great deal of weariness

Prostration

Sensitive to heat and cold

Profuse, oily perspiration does not relieve

Breath, excretions and body smell foul

Great thirst, with moist mouth

Intense thirst for cold drinks

Menses profuse, with abdominal pains

Leucorrhœa excoriating, greenish and bloody

From warmth of bed

From damp, cold, rainy weather

During perspiration

Rest

Lying on right side

Warm room 

Susceptibility to magnetism and to the personal aura of others

Appetite and thirst diminished

Desire for lemons

Constipation

Chronic effects of sunstroke

Exhaustion

Anæmic; milky, watery skin

Very weak ankles

Very weak digestion, caused by slightest error of diet

Averse to milk

Menses late, scanty like meat-washings

Leucorrhœal discharge, offensive

Wakes too early in morning

Amorous dreams

Drowsy during day

Dry, rough, cracked skin

Eruption on finger-tips, knuckles and toes

Vesicular eruption in patches and circles

From music

Summer heat

Mental exertion

Thunderstorm

Least draught

Changes of weather

Sun

By boring in ears and nose

Profuse flow of urine

Wants to defecate; goes often, but cannot

Aversion to tobacco

Papular and pustular lesions

Most useful in early stages of cutaneous diseases

Aching, soreness, restlessness, prostration

Decrease of weight

Much stringy saliva

Menses too copious and frequent

Effects of a wetting

When it rains

Exposure to damp, cold weather

Night exposure

Motion

Right side

Dry weather

Rest

Can not eat meat; it causes eructations, pruritis

From inhaling cold air

Left chest

Uncovering

Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation, especially in women

Chills easily

Tendency to abortion

Hot flashes at menopause with weakness and perspiration

Upward tendency of its symptoms

Easy fainting

"Ball" sensation in inner parts

Acts best on brunettes

Feels cold even in warm room

Everything tastes too salty

Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles

Loathes fat

Red, adhesive, sand in urine

Forenoons and evenings

Washing

Laundry-work

Dampness

Left side

After sweat

Cold air

Before thunder-storm

Pressure

Warmth of bed

Hot applications

Drawing limbs up

Cold bathing

After sleep

Dry, scaly, unhealthy; every little injury suppurates

Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing

Pruritis, especially from warmth, is evening, often recurs in spring-time, in damp weather

Inertia and relaxation of fiber; hence feebleness of tone

Ebullitions of heat

Dislike of water

Dry and hard hair and skin

Red orifices

Sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am

Cat-nap sleep

Dirty, filthy people, 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

Food tastes too salty

Drinks much, eats little

Milk disagrees

Great desire for sweets

Great quantities of colorless urine

Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore

Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating

Cannot walk erect; stoop-shouldered

Vivid dreams

Cannot sleep between 2 an 5 am

When standing

Warmth in bed

Washing

Bathing

In morning

11 am

Night

From alcoholic stimulants

Periodically

Lying on right side

From drawing up affected limbs

Itching on ears, nose, and in urethra

Papular eruption on face

Cold-sores on lips

Arms covered with itching rash

Hair feels as if erect

Violent itching, and burning like fire after scratching

Eruption of small, red itching pimples

Sweat warm and profuse soon after falling asleep

In warm room

Heat of bed

Motion