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Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Aconitum Napellus |
Fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body
Physical and mental restlessness
Acute, sudden and violent invasion with fever
Does not want to be touched
Sudden and great sinking of strength
Burning in parts
Tingling, coldness and numbness
Tension in arteries
Fullness in head with heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning,
undulating sensation
Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water
Tongue coated white
Thirst for cold water
Bitter taste for every things except water
Urine scanty, red, hot, painful
Menses too profuse, too protracted , late
Rheumatic inflammation of joints; worse at night; red shining swelling,
very sensitive
Hip joint and thigh feel lame, esp after lying
Knees unsteady; disposition of foot to turn
Weak and lax ligaments of all joints
Painless cracking of all joints
Bright red hypothenar eminences on both hands
Skin red, hot, swollen, dry, burning
Cold wave passes through him
Thirst and restlessness always present during fever
Sweats drenching on parts lain on, relieving all symptoms
Anxious dreams
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Dry, cold weather
Draught of cold air
Checked perspiration
Very hot weather
In warm room
In evening and night
Lying on affected side
From music
From tobacco smoke |
In open air |
| Arbutus Andrachne |
Inflammation of large joints
Clearer urine
Vesicle symptoms on skin
Symptoms shift from skin to joints
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| Argentum Metallicum |
Emaciation
A gradual drying up
Desire for fresh air
Difficult respiration
Sensation of expansion
Left sided pains
Acts on joints and their components, bones, cartilages and ligaments
Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side of head, gradually increasing
and ceasing suddenly
Head feels empty, hollow
Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor
Rheumatic affections of joints, esp elbow and knee
Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs
Swelling of ankles
Leucorrhoea foul and excoriating |
From touch
Towards noon |
Open air
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| Asclepias Syriaca |
Acute rheumatic inflammation of large joints
Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to
temple
Constriction across forehead
Increased urine with increase of specific gravity
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| Bryonia |
Stitching, tearing pains; worse by motion, better
rest
Dry mucus membranes
Irritable
Pressive headache; bursting, slitting headache, as if everything would
be pressed out; as if hit by a hammer from within; worse motion, stooping,
opening eyes
Headache becomes seated in occiput
Headache; worse motion, even of eye balls
Frontal headache, frontal; sinuses involved
Dry, parched lips and mouth
Excessive thirst; thirst for large draughts
Bitter taste
Sensitive epigastrium with a feeling of stone in stomach
Stools large, dry and hard
Rheumatic pains and swellings
Indicated esp for patients with constitution of robust, firm fiber and
dark complexion, with tendency to leanness
Physical weakness, all pervading apathy
Slowly developing complaints
Urine red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot
Menses too early, too profuse
Knees stiff and painful
Joints red, swollen, hot with stitches and tearing; worse on least
motion
Every spot is painful on pressure
Skin yellow; pale, swollen, dropsical; hot and painful
Easy, profuse and sour perspiration during fever |
Right side
Evening
Open air
Warm weather after cold days
Warm drinks
Warmth
Any motion
Morning
Eating
Exertion
Touch |
Lying on painful side
Pressure
Rest
Cold things |
| Drosera |
Pains about hip joints
Coldness of left half of face, with stinging pains and dry heat of
right half
Aversion to acids
Paralytic pains in the coxo-femoral joint and thighs
Stiffness in joints of feet
All limbs feel lame
Bed feels too hard
Internal chilliness; shivering, with hot face, cold hands, no thirst |
After midnight
Lying down
On getting warm in bed
Drinking
Singing
Laughing |
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| Mercurius |
Rheumatic pains around joints
Tremors everywhere
Weakness with ebullitions
Sensitive to heat and cold
Breath, excretion and body smell foul
Band feeling about head
One sided tearing headaches
Great thirst with moist mouth
Intense thirst for cold drinks
Menses profuse
Leucorrhoea excoriating, bloody and greenish
lacerating pain in joints
Skin almost constantly moist
Creeping chilliness; worse in the evening and into night
Profuse perspiration without relief during fever
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At night
From warmth of bed
From damp, cold, rainy weather
During perspiration
Rest
Lying on right side
Warm room
Warm bed |
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| Mimosa Humilis |
Lancinations in back and limbs
Swelling and redness of left ankle with tension and lancinations
Sensation as if head is enlarged
Whizzing in ears
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| Rhus Tox |
Rheumatic pains; tearing asunder pains; rheumatism
in cold season
Typhoid type of fever
Affects fibrous tissues markedly- joints, tendons, sheaths
Stiffness
Motion always limbers up and feels better for a time from change of
position
Feels as if a board were strapped on the forehead
Heavy head
Brain feels loose and as if struck against skull on walking or rising
Headache in occiput; painful to touch
Pain in forehead and proceeds thence backwards
Pain in maxillary joint
Desire for milk
Great thirst with dry mouth and thirst
Drowsy after eating
Dark, turbid, high colored, scanty urine with white sediments
Menses early, profuse, prolonged and acrid
Hot, painful swelling of joints
Tearing pains in tendons, ligaments and fascioe
Limbs stiff, paralyzed
Cold fresh air is not tolerated; it makes the skin painful
Pain along ulnar nerve
Tearing down thighs
Tenderness about knee joints
Skin red, swollen; itching intense
Dreams of great exertion
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During sleep
Cold
Wet, rainy weather
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 limbs |
| Sticta |
General feeling of dullness and malaise, as
when a cold is coming
Dull heavy pressure in forehead
Rheumatic stiffness of neck
Rheumatic pain in right shoulder joint, deltoid and biceps
Swelling, heat, redness of joints
Spot of inflammation and redness over affected joint
Pain severe and drawing
Shooting pains in knees
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Sudden change of temperature |
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| Veratrum Viride |
Esp adapted to full blooded, plethoric person
Great prostration
Rheumatism of heart
Bloated livid face
Zig zag temperature
Low blood pressure
Pain from nape of neck in head; can not hold head up
Tongue white or yellow, with red streak down the middle
Thirsty
Urine scanty with cloudy sediment
Severe pain in joints and muscles
Acute rheumatism with fever
Erythema of skin
Hot sweating
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