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| Psoriasis |
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Antimonium Tartaricum |
Drowsiness, debility and
sweat
Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels
Chills and contractures and pain in
muscles
Trembling of whole body, great prostration and
faintness
Thirst for cold water, little and often
Desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally
Great drowsiness
On falling asleep electric-like shocks
Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all
complaints
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In
evening
From lying down at night
From warmth
In damp cold weather
From all sour things and milk
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From sitting erect
From eructation and expectoration.
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| Arsenicum Album |
All-prevailing
debility, exhaustion, and restlessness
Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion
Irritable weakness
Burning pains
Burning relieved by heat
Fear fright and worry
Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition
Maintains the system under the stress of
malignancy regardless of location
Septic infections and low vitality
Scalp itches intolerably; circular patches
of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and covered with dry scales;
nightly burning and itching
Cannot bear the sight or smell of food
Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a
time
Craves milk, acids and coffee
Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter
substances which seem to excoriate the throat
Long-lasting eructations
Stools small, offensive, dark, with much
prostration
Urine scanty, burning, involuntary, albuminous
Menses too profuse and too soon
Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin
Skin itching, burning, swellings; œdema,
eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching
Disturbed, anxious, restless sleep; must
have head raised by pillows
Suffocative fits during 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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| Arsenicum Iodatum |
Profound prostration
Recurring fever and sweats
Emaciation
Tendency to diarrhœa
Intense thirst; water is immediately ejected
Drenching night-sweats
Pulse rapid, feeble, weak, irregular
Chilly, cannot endure cold
Skin dry, scaly, itching
Marked exfoliation of skin in large
scales, leaving a raw exuding surface beneath
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| Asterias Rubens |
Flabby, lymphatic constitution; flabby with red
face
Excitement in both sexes
Gait unsteady; muscles refuse to obey the will
Skin destitute of pliability and elasticity; itching spots
Psoriasis and herpes zoster worse left arm and chest
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Coffee
Night
Cold damp weather
Left side
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| Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum |
Psoriasis syphilitica
High blood pressure due to disturbed function of nervous mechanism
Leucorrhœa, with spasmodic contraction of vagina
Sub-involution
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| Berberis Aquifolium |
Tongue thickly coated,
yellowish-brown; feels blistered
Thick mucus, and bright-red, mealy sediment in
urine
Skin pimply, dry, rough, scaly
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| Borax |
Itching on back of finger-joints
Trade eruptions on fingers and hands, itching and stinging
Ends of hair become tangled
Dread of downward motion
Urine hot, smarting pain in orifice; pungent
smell
Leucorrhœa like white of eggs, with sensation as
if warm water was flowing
Menses too soon, profuse, with griping,
nausea and pain in stomach extending into small of back
Voluptuous dreams
Cannot sleep on account of heat, especially in
head
Cries out of sleep as if frightened
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Downward
motion
Noise
Smoking
Warm weather
After menses
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Pressure
Evening
Cold weather
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| Carbolicum Acidum |
Stupor
Paralysis of sensation and motion
Feeble pulse and depressed breathing
Increased olfactory sensibility.
Mental and bodily languor
Disinclination to study, with headache like a
band
Physical exertion brings on abscess somewhere
Appetite lost
Desire for stimulants and tobacco
Constant belching, nausea, vomiting, dark
olive green
Painful flatulence often marked in one part of
the bowel
Urine almost black
Irritating leucorrhœa, causing itching and
burning
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| Chrysarobinum |
Violent itching,
thighs, legs and ears
Dry, scaly eruption, especially around eyes and
ears, scabs with pus underneath
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| Cicuta Virosa |
Violent, strange desires
Sensation of internal chill
Moaning and howling
Does absurd things
Thirst; burning pressure; hiccough
Desire for unnatural things, like coal
Indigestion, with
insensibility, frothing at mouth
No itching,
exudation forms into a hard, lemon-colored crust
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From touch
Draughts
Concussion
Tobacco smoke
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| Corallium |
Congestion of face after
dinner; becomes purple in face
Feeling as if cold air were streaming through
skull and air-passages
One is too cold when uncovered and too hot when
covered; relieved by artificial heat
Food tastes like sawdust; Bread tastes like straw
Beer tastes sweet
Craves salt
Coral-colored, then dark red spots, changing to
copper-colored spots
Psoriasis of palms and soles
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In open air
Changing from a warm too cold room
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| Cuprum Aceticum |
Chronic psoriasis
Leprous-like eruption, without itching, over whole body, in spots of
various sizes
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Mental emotions
Touch
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Chewing
Pressure
Night
Lying on affected side
Warmth
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| Fluoricum Acidum |
Is compelled to move about
energetically
Complaints of old age, or the prematurely aged,
with weak, distended blood vessels
Sour eructations
Averse to coffee, wants fancy dishes
Desire for highly seasoned food
Craves cold water, hungry
Warm drinks produce diarrhœa
Sexual passion and desire increased with erections
at night, during sleep
Urine scanty,
dark
Menses copious, frequent, too long
Copious and excoriating leucorrhœa
Itching especially of the orifices,
and in spots, worse warmth
Profuse, sour, offensive perspiration
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Warmth
Morning
Warm drinks
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Cold
While walking
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| Graphites |
In patients who are rather
stout, of fair complexion, with tendency to skin affections and
constipation
Fat, chilly, and costive, with delayed
menstrual history, take cold easily
Has a particular tendency to develop the skin
phase of internal disorders
Tendency to obesity
Aversion to meat
Sweets nauseate
Hot drinks disagree
Eructation difficult
Flatulence
Urine turbid, with sediment; sour smelling
Menses too late, with constipation; pale
and scanty, with tearing pain in epigastrium, and itching before
Leucorrhœa, pale, thin, profuse,
white, excoriating, with great weakness in back
Sexual debility, with increased desire; aversion
to coition; too early or no ejaculation in males
Rough, hard, persistent dryness of portions of
skin unaffected by eczema
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Warmth
At night
During and after menstruation
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In the dark
From wrapping up
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| Hepar Sulph |
Suits especially scrofulous
and lymphatic constitutions who are inclined to have eruptions and
glandular swellings
Unhealthy skin
Blondes with sluggish character and weak muscles
Great sensitiveness to all impressions
Sweating patient pulling blanket around him.
The tendency to suppuration is most
marked, and has been a strong guiding symptom in practice
Chilliness
Hypersensitiveness
Splinter-like pains
Craving for sour and strong things
Feeling as if wind were blowing on some part
The side of the body on which he lies at night
becomes gradually insufferably painful; he must turn
Scurfs on and behind the ears
Aversion to fat food
Frequent eructations, without taste or smell
Stool clay-colored and soft; sour, white,
undigested, fetid
Loss of power to expel even a soft stool
Urine voided slowly, without force-drops
vertically, bladder weak; seems as if some always remained
Greasy pellicle on urine
Excitement and seminal emission without amorous
fancies
Menses late and scanty
Extremely offensive leucorrhœa; smells like old
cheese
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From
dry cold winds
Cool air
Slightest draught
From Mercury
Touch
Lying on painful side
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In
damp weather
From wrapping head up
From warmth
After eating
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| Hydrocotyle |
Difficulty in maintaining the
upright posture
Very copious perspiration
Profuse leucorrhœa
Great thickening of epidermoid layer and
exfoliation of scales
Psoriasis gyrate, on trunk and
extremities, palms and soles; circular spots, with scaly edges
Intolerable itching, especially of soles
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| Iris Versicolor |
Profuse flow of saliva
Deficient appetite
Psoriasis; irregular patches with shining scales
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In evening and at night
From rest
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From continued motion |
| Kali Arsencium |
Malignancy, and inveterate
skin diseases
Restless, nervous and anæmic
Intolerable itching, worse undressing
Dry, scaly, wilted skin
Foul smelling leucorrhoea
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| Kali Bromatum |
General failure of mental
power
Loss of memory
Melancholia
Urine profuse, with thirst
Debility and impotence
Exaggerated sexual
desire in females
Itching; worse on chest, shoulders, and face
Restless sleep
Extreme drowsiness
Sleeplessness due to worry and grief and sexual
excess
Night terrors
Grinding teeth in sleep
Horrible dreams
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When occupied mentally or physically |
| Kali Sulphuricum |
Insipid, pappy taste
Dread of hot drinks
Menses too late, scanty, with feeling of weight in abdomen
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In evening
Heated room
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Cool, open air |
| Lycopodium |
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
Atony
Malnutrition
Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with
catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots,
earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis,
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
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 in urine
No erectile power; impotence
Premature seminal emission
Menses too late; last too long, too profuse
Coition painful
Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina
Drowsy during day
Starting in sleep
Dreams of accidents
Skin becomes thick and indurated
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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
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By motion
After midnight
From warm food and drink
On getting cold
From being uncovered
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| Manganum Aceticum |
Strongly exaggerated reflexes
and physical disturbances, evidenced by men making fun of each other's
gait
For speakers and singers. Great accumulation of
mucus
Growing pains and weak ankles
General soreness and aching; every part of the
body feels sore when touched
Menses too early and scanty, in anæmic subjects
Itching;
better, scratching
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Cold
wet weather
Change of weather
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Lying down (cough) |
| Mercurius Auratus |
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| Mercurius Solubilis |
Tremors
everywhere
Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from
least exertion.
Great deal of weariness, prostration, and
trembling
Sensitive to heat and cold.
Profuse, oily perspiration does not relieve
Breath, excretions and body smell foul
Putrid eructations
Intense thirst for cold drinks
Weak digestion, with continuous hunger
Hiccough and regurgitation
Urine dark, scanty, bloody, albuminous
Menses profuse, with abdominal pains
Leucorrhœa excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation
of rawness in parts
Itching,
worse from warmth of bed
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At
night
Wet, damp weather
Lying on right side
Perspiring
Warm room and warm bed.
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| Muriaticum Acidum |
Becomes
so weak she slides down the bed
Involuntary stools while passing urine
Cannot bear sight or thought of meat
At times, ravenous appetite and constant desire
to drink
Achlorhydria and fermentation of food
Cannot urinate without having bowels move at same
time
Menses appear too soon. Leucorrhœa
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In
damp weather
Before midnight
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Lying on left side |
| Napthalinum |
Irresistible desire to urinate
Black urine
Terribly offensive odor of decomposing ammoniacal urine
Itching infiltration of skin
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| Natrum Arsenicosum |
Floating sensation on turning head quickly
Eyes feel heavy and droop. Lachrymation in wind
Lungs feel as though smoke had been inhaled
Feels tired all over
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| Natrum Muriaticum |
Great debility; most weakness
felt in the morning in bed
Coldness
Emaciation most notable in neck
Great liability to take cold
Dry mucous membranes
Constrictive sensation throughout the body
Great weakness and weariness
Oversensitive to all sorts of influences
Hungry, yet loose flesh
Heartburn, with palpitation
Unquenchable thirst
Sweats while eating
Craving for salt
Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like
oysters, fats
Urine increased,
involuntary when walking, coughing, etc
Has to wait a long time for it to pass urine if
others are present
Seminal emission,
even after coitus
Menses irregular; usually profuse
Leucorrhœa acrid, watery
Sleepy in forenoon
Nervous jerking during sleep
Dreams of robbers
Sleepless from grief
Crusty eruptions in bends of limbs, margin of
scalp, behind ears
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Noise
Music
Warm room
Lying down
About 10 a m
At seashore
Mental exertion
Consolation
Heat
Talking
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Open air
Cold bathing
Going without regular meals
Lying on right side
Pressure against back
Tight clothing
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| Nitricum Acidum |
Acts best on the dark
complexioned and past middle life
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
Great hunger, with sweetish taste
Longing for indigestible things-chalk, earth, etc
Excess of oxalic acid, uric acid and phosphates
in urine
Great mental depression
Loves fat and salt
Urine scanty, dark, offensive; smells like
horse's urine; cold on passing
Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, watery, or
stringy, offensive
Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with
pain in back, hips and thighs
Psoriasis; zigzag, irregular edges; base looks
like raw flesh
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Evening
and night
Cold climate and also hot weather
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While
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| Nitromuriaticum Acidum |
More adapted to hepatic
torpor and gastric catarrh common in hot and damp climates
Constant drooling at night
Metallic taste
Sour eructations, with empty hungry feeling in
stomach; not relieved by eating
Constipated, with ineffectual urging
Urine cloudy
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By eating meat
Alcohol
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| Petroleum |
Ailments from riding in cars,
carriages, or ships
Long-lasting complaints
follow mental states-fright, vexation, etc
Skin around eyes dry and scurfy
Heartburn; hot, sharp, sour eructation
Strong aversion to fat food, meat; worse, eating
cabbage
Hunger, immediately after stool
Ravenous hunger; must rise at night and eat
Odor of garlic
Leucorrhœa, profuse, albuminous
Skin dry, constricted, very sensitive, rough
and cracked, leathery
Thick, greenish crusts, burning and itching;
redness, raw; cracks bleed easily
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Dampness
Before and during a thunder-storm
From riding in cars
Passive motion
In winter
Eating
From mental states
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Warm air
Lying with head high
Dry weather
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| Phosphorus |
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
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
Urine turbid, brown, with red sediment
Lack of sexual power; irresistible desire;
involuntary emissions, with lascivious dreams
Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but
last too long
Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead
of menses
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
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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
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In dark
Lying on right side
Cold food
Cold
Open air
Washing with cold water
Sleep
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| Platanus |
Both acute and old neglected cases, where
destruction of tissue occurred and cicatricial contraction caused marked
deformity of lid,
Acts best in children
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| Sepia |
Weakness, yellow complexion,
bearing-down sensation, especially in women, upon whose organism it has
most pronounced effect
Tendency to abortion
Upward tendency of its symptoms
Easy fainting
Acts best on brunettes
Feels cold even in warm room
Feeling of goneness; not relieved by eating
Everything tastes too salty
Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles
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
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Forenoons
and evenings
Washing
Laundry-work
Dampness
Left side
After sweat
Cold air
Before thunder-storm
After milk,
especially when boiled
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By
exercise
Pressure
Warmth of bed
Hot applications
Drawing limbs up
Cold bathing
After sleep
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| Strychninum Arsenicum |
Prostration
Psoriasis
Marked dyspnœa when lying down
Urine scanty, high specific gravity, heavily loaded with glucose
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| Strychninum Phosphoricum |
Twitching, stiffness,
weakness and loss of power
Irregularity of pulse
Lack of control
Uncontrollable desire to laugh
Disinclination to use the brain
Rapid and weak pulse
Hands and axillæ covered with clammy
perspiration
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Motion
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Rest
In open air
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| Stellaria |
Condition
of stasis, congestion, and sluggishness of all functions
Sharp, shifting, rheumatic pains in all
parts very pronounced
Parts sore to touch;
Shifting pains
Psoriasis
Clay-colored stools |
Mornings
Warmth
Tobacco
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Evenings
Cold air
Motion
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| Sulphur |
Heat
and burning, with itching; made worse by heat of bed
Inertia and relaxation of fiber; hence feebleness
of tone characterizes its symptoms
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
Complaints that relapse
General offensive character of discharge and
exhalations
Very red lips and face, flushing easily
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
Water fills the patient up
Frequent micturition, especially at night
Mucus and pus in urine; parts sore over which
it passes
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
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
Skin dry, scaly, unhealthy; every little
injury suppurates
Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing
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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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| Terebinthina |
Drowsiness
Urine scanty, suppressed, odor of violets
Pulse rapid, small, thready, intermittent
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| Thuja |
Tearing
in muscles and joints, worse at rest, better in dry weather, worse damp
humid atmosphere; lameness
Damp air and water
are inimical
Complaints from moonlight
Rapid exhaustion and emaciation
Left-sided and chilly medicine
Complete loss of appetite
Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes
Rancid eructations after fat food
Cannot eat onions
Urinary stream split and small
Sensation of trickling after urinating
Frequent micturition accompanying pains
Desire sudden and urgent, but cannot be
controlled
Profuse leucorrhœa; thick, greenish
Menses scanty, retarded
Dry skin, with brown spots
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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
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Left side
While drawing up a limb
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| Thyroidinum |
Emaciation
Muscular weakness
Sweating
Nervous tremor of face and limbs
Tingling sensations
Excessive obesity
Acts better with pale patients, rather than those
of high color
Great weakness and hunger, yet loses flesh
Sensation of faintness and nausea
Easy fatigue, weak pulse, tendency to fainting,
palpitation, cold hands and feet, low blood pressure, chilliness and
sensitive to cold
Desire for sweets and thirst for cold water
Flatulence, much flatus in abdomen
Increased urinary flow; polyuria; some albumen
and sugar
Urine smells of violets, burning along urethra,
increase of uric acid
Psoriasis associated with adiposity (not
in developing stage)
Skin dry, impoverished
Sluggish cases
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| Tuberculinum |
Especially adapted to the
light-complexioned, narrow-chested subjects
Lax fiber, low recuperative powers, and very
susceptible to changes in the weather
Always tired
Motion causes intense fatigue
Aversion to work
Wants constant changes
Symptoms are constantly changing and
well-selected remedies fail to improve, and cold is taken from the
slightest exposure
Rapid emaciation
Skin affections
Very sensitive, mentally and physically
General exhaustion
Nervous weakness
Averse to meat
All-gone, hungry sensation
Desire for cold milk
Menses too early, too profuse, long-lasting
Sleep poor; wakes early
Overpowering sleepiness in daytime
Dreams vivid and distressing
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Motion
Music
Before a storm
standing
Dampness
From draught
Early morning
After sleep
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Open air |
| Ustilago Maydis |
Uncontrollable masturbation
Spermatorrhœa, with erotic fancies and amorous dreams
Seminal emissions, with irresistible tendency to masturbation
Vicarious menstruation
Skin dry; copper-colored spots
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