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| Osteopenia |
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Asafoetida |
Suits hysterical and hypochondriacal patients
Extreme sensitiveness and terrible throbbing, nightly pains
Offensive otorrhœa, with boring pains in mastoid bone
Caries of nasal bones
Great difficulty in bringing up wind
Flatulence and regurgitation of liquid
Hysterical flatulence. Great distention. Sensation of emptiness and weak
Forcible eructation of gas
Gurgling and rolling of wind, which escapes afterwards with loud and
difficult eructation
Darting pain and caries in bones |
At night From touch
Left side
During rest
Warm applications |
Open air From motion
Pressure |
| Calcarea Carbonica |
Increased local and general perspiration Rachitic
conditions
Gets out of breath easily
A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork
Is a definite stimulant to the periosteum
Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence
Persons of scrofulous type, who take cold easily, with increased mucous
secretions, children who grow fat, are large-bellied, with large head, pale
skin, chalky look, the so-called leuco-phlegmatic temperament; affections
caused by working in water
Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats
Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and
sour
Open fontanelles; head enlarged; much perspiration, wets the pillow
Pain from right mental foramen along lower jaw to ear
Difficult and delayed dentition
Aversion to meat, boiled things, fat
Craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for
eggs, salt and sweets
Milk disagrees
Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting
Loss of appetite when overworked
Heartburn and loud belching
Ravenous hunger
Repugnance to hot food
Thirst; longing for cold drinks
Aggravation while eating
Children are late in learning to walk
Urine dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment,
bloody
Frequent seminal emissions; increased desire
Semen emitted too soon
Coition followed by weakness and irritability
Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache
and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return
Leucorrhœa, milky (Sepia
Increased sexual desire; easy conception
Curvature of dorsal vertebræ
Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep; horrid visions when opening
eyes; starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy
Drowsy in early part of evening
Frequent waking at night
Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light slumber
Night terrors
Dreams of the dead |
From exertion, mental or physical Ascending
Cold in every form
Water
Washing
Moist air
Wet weather
During full moon
Standing |
Dry climate and weather Lying on painful side |
| Calcarea Phosphorica |
Especially indicated in tardy dentition and
troubles incident to that period Bone disease non-union of fractured bones
It has a special affinity where bones form sutures or symphyses
Numbness and crawling
Tendency to perspiration
Headache, worse near the region of sutures
Fontanelles remain open too long
Cranial bones soft and thin
Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats. Much flatulence
Great hunger with thirst flatulence temporarily relieved by sour
eructations
Heartburn
Urine increased, with sensation of weakness
Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls. If late, blood is dark;
sometimes, first bright, then dark, with violent backache
Leucorrhœa, like white of egg
Soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if broken
Pains in joints and bones
Weary when going upstairs |
Exposure to damp, cold weather Melting snow
From any change of weather |
In summer Warm, dry atmosphere |
| Ferrum Metallicum |
Best adapted to young weakly persons, anæmic and
chlorotic, with pseudo-plethora, who flush easily; cold extremities; over
sensitiveness; worse after any active effort 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
Earthy, pasty taste, like rotten eggs
Voracious appetite, or absolute loss of appetite
Loathing of sour things
Eructations of food after eating, without nausea
Intolerance of eggs
Stool 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
Pain in hip-joint, tibia, soles, and heel |
While sweating While sitting still
After cold washing
Overheating
Midnight |
Walking slowly about After rising |
| Lycopodium |
Adapted more especially to ailments gradually
developing, functional power weakening 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
Pre-senility
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
Bad odor from mouth
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.
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
Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete
Polyuria during the night; heavy red sediment.
No erectile power; impotence; premature emission
Menses too late; last too long, too profuse
Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina
Drowsy during day; starting in sleep; dreams of accidents
Offensive secretions; viscid and offensive perspiration,
especially of feet and axillæ |
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 |
By motion After midnight
From warm food and drink
On getting cold
From being uncovered |
| Mercurius |
Tremors everywhere Weakness with
ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion
Complaints increase with the sweat and rest; all associated with a great
deal of weariness, prostration, and trembling
A human "thermometer"; sensitive to heat and cold
Breath, excretions and body smell foul
Tendency to formation of pus, which is thin, greenish, putrid; streaked
with thin blood
Pain and swelling of nasal bones, and caries, with greenish fetid
ulceration
Aching in facial bones
Sweetish metallic taste
Salivary secretions greatly increased
Great thirst, with moist mouth
Putrid eructations. Intense thirst for cold drinks
Weak digestion, with continuous hunger
Menses profuse, with abdominal pains
Leucorrhœa excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness
in parts
Bruised pain in small of back, especially when sitting
Tearing pain in coccyx; better, pressing on abdomen
Bone-pains and in limbs; worse, night
Excessive odorous viscid perspiration; worse, night |
At night Wet, damp weather
Lying on right side
Perspiring
Warm room
Warm bed |
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| Mezereum |
Affections of bones, and neuralgias most important,
especially about teeth and face Bruised, weary feeling in joints, with
drawing and stiffness
Pains of various kinds, with chilliness and sensitiveness to cold air
Bone pains
Pains shoot upward and seem to draw patient up out of bed
Semi-lateral complaints
Patient is very sensitive to cold air
Violent neuralgia about face and teeth, running towards ear, at night;
worse, eating; better near hot stove
Desire for ham-fat.
Mouth waters
Red flakes float on top of urine
Menses too frequent, soon, profuse
Leucorrhœa like albumen; very corroding
Violent sexual desire
Pain and burning in tibia and long bones
Bones, especially long bones, inflamed and swollen; caries,
exostosis; pain worse night, touch, damp weather |
Cold air Night
Evening until midnight
Warm food
Touch
Motion |
Open air |
| Nitricum Acidum |
Sticking pains Acts best on the dark
complexioned and past middle life
Pains appear and disappear quickly
All discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration.
Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold easily and disposed to
diarrhœa
Excessive physical irritability
Caries of mastoid
Putrid breath
Salivation
Bloody saliva
Great hunger, with sweetish taste
Longing for indigestible things-chalk, earth, etc
Loves fat and salt
Urine scanty, dark, offensive; smells like horse's urine;
cold on passing;
Urine bloody and albuminous
Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive
Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with pain in back, hips and
thighs
Short breath on going upstairs |
Evening and night Cold climate
and also hot weather |
While riding in carriage |
| Phosphoricum Acidum |
A congenial soil for the action of Phos acid is
found in young people who grow rapidly, and who are overtaxed, mentally or
physically Rhachitis and periosteal inflammation
Averse to sunlight; sees colors as if a rainbow
Intolerant of noise
Craves juicy things
Sour risings
Thirst for cold milk
Frequent, profuse, watery, milky
Micturition, preceded by anxiety and followed by burning
Frequent urination at night
Phosphaturia
Emissions at night and at stool
Sexual power deficient; parts relax during embrace
Menses too early and profuse, with pain in liver
Itching; yellow leucorrhœa after menses
Boring pain between scapulæ
Pain in back and limbs, as if beaten
Tearing pains in joints, bones, and periosteum
Great debility
Pains at night, as if bones were scraped
Stumbles easily and makes missteps
Lascivious dreams with emissions |
Exertion From being talked to
Loss of vital fluids
Sexual excesses
Everything impeding circulation causes aggravation of symptoms |
From keeping warm |
| Phosphorus |
Destruction of bones, especially the lower
jaw and tibia Tall, slender persons, narrow chested, with thin,
transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous
debility, 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
Bone fragility
Pain in orbital bones
Periostitis of nasal bones
Swelling and necrosis of lower jaw
Thirst for very cold water
Hunger soon after eating
Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal
Belching large quantities of wind, after eating
Very fetid stools and flatus
Long, narrow, hard, like a dog's; difficult to expel
Desire for stool on lying on, left side
Great weakness after stool
Urine turbid, brown, with red sediment
Lack of power; irresistible desire; involuntary emissions, with
lascivious dreams
Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long; weeps
before menses
Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses
Burning in back; pain as if broken
Heat between the shoulder-blades
Weak spine
Can scarcely hold anything with his hands
Tibia inflamed and becomes necrosed
Great drowsiness, especially after meals
Vivid dreams of fire; of hæmorrhage
Lascivious dreams
Goes to sleep late and awakens weak
Short naps and frequent wakings |
Touch 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 |
In dark Lying on right side
Cold food
Cold
Open air
Washing with cold water
Sleep |
| Pulsatilla |
Pre-eminently a female remedy, especially for mild,
gentle, yielding disposition Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking;
changeable, contradictory
The patient seeks the open air; always feels better there, even
though he is chilly
Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish-green.
Symptoms ever changing
Thirstless, peevish, and chilly.
Great sensitiveness
Wants the head high. Feels uncomfortable with only one pillow
Lies with hands above head
Nasal bones sore
Greasy taste
Dry mouth, without thirst; wants it washed frequently
Offensive odor from mouth
Food, especially bread, tastes bitter
Much sweet saliva
Alternations of taste, bitter, bilious, greasy, salty, foul;
loss of taste
Desire for tonics
Averse to fat food, warm food, and drink
Eructations; taste of food remains a long time; after ices,
fruits, pasty
Bitter taste, diminished taste of all food
Flatulence
Dislikes butter
Heartburn
Thirstlessness, with nearly all complaints
No two stools alike
Two or three normal stools daily
Urine increased desire; worse when lying down
Menses too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted, changeable,
intermittent.
Leucorrhœa acrid, burning, creamy
Pain in back; tired feeling
Wide awake in the evening; first sleep restless; wakes languid,
unrefreshed
Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon
Sleeps with hands over head |
From heat Rich fat food
After eating
Towards evening
Warm room
Lying on left or on painless side
When allowing feet to hang down |
Open air Motion
Cold applications
Cold food and drinks, though not thirsty |
| Ruta Graveolens |
Acts upon the periosteum and cartilages, eyes and
uterus. All parts of the body are painful, as if bruised
Feeling of intense lassitude, weakness and despair
Injured "bruised" bones
Constant urging to urinate, feels bladder full
Pain in nape, back and loins
Backache better pressure and lying on back
Spine and limbs feel bruised
Small of back and loins pain
Legs give out on rising from a chair, hips and thighs so weak
Pain in bones of feet and ankles
Great restlessness |
Lying down From cold, wet weather |
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| Sepia |
Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down
sensation, especially in women, upon whose organism it has most pronounced
effect Pains extend down to back, chills easily
Upward tendency of its symptoms
Easy fainting
"Ball" sensation in inner parts
Sepia acts best on brunettes
All pains are from below up
Feels cold even in warm room
Open fontanelles
Taste salty, putrid
Everything tastes too salty
Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles
Worse, after milk, especially when boiled.
Loathes fat
Red, adhesive, sand in urine
Involuntary urination, during first sleep
Leucorrhœa yellow, greenish; with much itching
Menses Too late and scanty, irregular; early and profuse;
sharp clutching pains
Weakness in small of back
Pains extend into back |
Forenoons and evenings Washing
Laundry-work
Dampness
Left side
After sweat
Cold air
Before thunder-storm |
By exercise Pressure
Warmth of bed
Hot applications
Drawing limbs up
Cold bathing
After sleep |
| Silicea |
Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis
Scrofulous, rachitic children, with large head open fontanelles and sutures,
distended abdomen, slow in walking
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
Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants
Want of grit, moral or physical
Caries of mastoid
Sensitive to noise.
Nasal bones sensitive
Perforation of septum
Disgust for meat and warm food
Want of appetite; thirst excessive
Sour eructations after eating
Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled, recedes again
A milky, acrid leucorrhœa
Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body
Weak spine; very susceptible to draughts on back
Pain in coccyx
Diseases of bones of spine
Night-walking; gets up while asleep
Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head
Frequent starts in sleep; anxious dreams; excessive gaping |
New moon In morning
From washing
During menses
Uncovering,
Lying down
Damp
Lying on
Left side
Cold |
Warmth Wrapping up head
Summer
In wet or humid weather |
| Staphysagria |
Acts on teeth and alveolar periosteum Sexual
sins and excesses
Very sensitive
Desire for stimulants
Craving for tobacco
Canine hunger, even when stomach is full.
Leucorrhœa
Sensation as if a drop of urine were rolling continuously along the
channel
Backache; worse in morning before rising
Extremities feel beaten and painful
Dull aching of nates extending to hip-joint and small of back |
Anger Indignation
Grief
Mortification
Loss of fluids
Onanism
Sexual excesses
Tobacco
Least touch on affected parts |
After breakfast Warmth
Rest at night |
| Sulphur |
Ebullitions of heat, dislike of water, dry and
hard hair and skin, red orifices, sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am,
and cat-nap sleep Standing is the worst position for Sulphur
patients, it is always uncomfortable
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
Complete loss of, or excessive appetite
Putrid eructation
Food tastes too salty
Drinks much, eats little
Milk disagrees
Great desire for sweets
Great acidity, sour eructation
Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have something to eat
Frequent micturition, especially at night
Must hurry, sudden call to urinate
Great quantities of colorless urine
Much offensive perspiration
Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid,
making parts sore; menses preceded by headache or suddenly stopped
Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating. Nipples cracked; smart and burn
Drawing pain between shoulders
Stiffness of nape
Sensation as if vertebræ glided over each other
Cannot walk erect; stoop-shouldered
Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep
Vivid dreams
Wakes up singing
Wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly
Catnaps; slightest noise awakens
Cannot sleep between 2 an 5 am |
At rest When standing
Warmth in bed
Washing
Bathing
In morning
11 am
Night
From alcoholic stimulants
Periodically |
Dry, warm weather Lying on right side
From drawing up affected limbs |
| Symphytum |
Of great use in wounds penetrating to perineum and
bones, and in non-union of fractures; irritable stump after
amputation, irritable bone at point of fracture |
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