Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Difficult respiration; wants windows open

Chest feels heavy; stitches, with heart feeling too large and palpitating pleuritic exudations

Stitching pains shooting through to the back, worse lying on back or breathing deeply

Oppression, as of a load on chest

Dyspnœa in middle of night, relieved by sitting up

Pulse more rapid in morning than in evening

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

Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections

Aversion to being washed

Complaints that relapse

General offensive character of discharge and exhalations

Often great use in beginning the treatment of chronic cases and in finishing acute ones

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

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

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

Tensive, constrictive, burning pain in chest

Especially for ailments gradually developing, functional power weakening, with failures of the digestive powers, where the function of the liver is seriously disturbed

Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; also precocious, weakly children

Symptoms characteristically run from right to left, acts especially on right side of body, and are worse from about 4 to 8 pm.

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

Excessive hunger

Aversion to bread, etc

Desire for sweet things

Food tastes sour

Sour eructations

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

Vagina dry; coition painful

Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina

Drowsy during day; starting in sleep

Dreams of accidents

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

Burning pains, heat and oppression of chest

Tightness across chest; great weight on chest

Sharp stitches in chest; respiration quickened, oppressed

Much heat in chest

Tall, slender persons, narrow chested, with thin, transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous debility, emaciation, amative tendencies, seem to be under the special influence of Phosphorus

Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms

Suddenness of symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains

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'

Great weakness after stool

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

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

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

Lying on right side

Cold food

Cold

Open air

Washing with cold water

Sleep

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

A milky, acrid leucorrhœa, during urination

Discharge of blood between menstrual periods

Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body

Night-walking; gets up while asleep

Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head

Frequent starts in sleep

Anxious dreams

Excessive gaping

In morning

From washing

During menses

Uncovering

Lying down

Damp

Lying on, left side

Cold

Wrapping up head, summer

In wet or humid weather

Air-passages constricted

Burning in chest.

Darting pain through upper third of right lung

Wheezing respiration

All-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation

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.

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

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

Swelling of feet

Sleep disturbed, anxious, restless; must have head raised by pillows

Suffocative fits during sleep

Sleeps with hands over head

Dreams are full of care and fear.

After midnight

From cold, cold drinks, or food

Seashore

Right side

From head elevated

Warm drinks

Sensation of suffocation and strangulation on lying down, particularly when anything is around throat; compels patient to spring from bed and rush for open window

Feels he must take a deep breath

Cramp-like distress in præcordial region

Breathing almost stops on falling asleep

Palpitation, with fainting spells, especially during climacteric

Constricted feeling causing palpitation, with anxiety

Irregular beats

Very important during the climacteric and for patients of a melancholic disposition

Sensation of tension in various parts

Cannot bear anything tight anywhere

Craving for alcohol, oysters

Any food causes distress

Hungry, cannot wait for food

Constipated, offensive stool

Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow

Intense excitement of sexual organs

Sudden starting when falling asleep

Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep

Wide-awake in evening

Left side

In the spring

Warm bath

Pressure or constriction

Hot drinks

Closing eyes

Warm applications

Typical Nux 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, overstudy, and close application to business, with its cares and anxieties

Seeks stimulants, coffee, wine, possibly in excess

Takes preferably rich and stimulating food

Is pre-eminently a male remedy

Zealous fiery temperament

Easily chilled, avoid open air, etc

Always seems to be out of tune; inharmonious spasmodic action

Sour, bitter eructations

Desire for stimulants

Loves fats and tolerates them well

Difficult belching of gas

Frequent calls to urinate; little and often

Easily excited sexual desire

Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular, blood black

Cannot sleep after 3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly

Drowsy after meals, and in early evening

Dreams full of bustle and hurry

Mental exertion

After eating

Touch

Spices

Stimulants

Narcotics

Dry weather

Cold

In evening

While at rest

In damp, wet weather

Strong pressure

Pain as from ulcer in middle of chest

Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when lying on left side

Smothering sensation on lying down

Is pre-eminently a female remedy, especially for mild, gentle, yielding disposition; sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory

Seeks the open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly

Symptoms ever changing

Thirstless, peevish, and chilly

When first serious impairment of health is referred to age of puberty

Great sensitiveness

Wants the head high; feels uncomfortable with only one pillow

Lies with hands above head

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

Flatulence

Dislikes butter

Heartburn

No two stools alike; two or three normal stools daily

Tardy menses; too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted, changeable, intermittent

Leucorrhœa acrid, burning, creamy

Wide awake in the evening; first sleep restless; wakes languid, unrefreshed; irresistible sleepiness in afternoon.

Knees swollen, with tearing, drawing pains

Feet red, inflamed, swollen. Legs feel heavy and weary

Rich fat food

After eating

Towards evening

Warm room

Lying on left or on painless side

When allowing feet to hang down

Motion

Cold applications

Cold food and drinks, though not thirsty

Difficult, quick respiration; worse every movement; caused by stitches in chest

Heaviness beneath the sternum extending towards the right shoulder

Stitches in cardiac region

Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick

Hot swelling of feet

The general character of the pain here produced is a stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest. These characteristic stitching pains, greatly aggravated by any motion, are found everywhere, but especially in the chest; worse pressure

Mucous membranes are all dry

Patient is irritable; has vertigo from raising the head, pressive headache; dry, parched lips, mouth; excessive thirst, bitter taste, sensitive epigastrium, and feeling of a stone in the stomach; stools large, dry, hard

Especially suited for  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

Abnormal hunger, loss of taste

Thirst for large draughts

Urine red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot

Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion, with tearing pains in legs; suppressed, with vicarious discharge or splitting headache

Drowsy; starting when falling asleep

Evening

Open air

Warm weather after cold days

Warm drinks

Warmth

Any motion

Morning

Eating

Hot weather

Exertion

Touch

Pressure

Rest

Cold things

Suffocating spells; tightness, burning and soreness in chest; worse going upstairs or slightest ascent, must sit down

Sharp pains in chest from before backwards

Chest very sensitive to touch, percussion, or pressure

Longing for fresh air

Swelling of joints, especially knee

Increased local and general perspiration

Fleeting chest pains

Gets out of breath easily

A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork

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.

Patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour

Persistent sour taste

Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets

Milk disagrees

Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting

Dislike of fat

Loss of appetite when overworked

Heartburn and loud belching

Ravenous hunger

Repugnance to hot food.

Thirst; longing for cold drinks

Aggravation while eating

Frequent 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

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

Ascending

Cold in every form

Water

Washing

Moist air

Wet weather

During full moon

Standing

Lying on painful side

Shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs

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

Immoderate thirst

Hungry, yet loose flesh

Heartburn, with palpitation

Unquenchable thirst

Sweats while eating

Craving for salt

Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats

Has to wait a long time for it to pass if others are present

Menses irregular; usually profuse

Leucorrhœa acrid, watery

Sleepy in forenoon

Nervous jerking during sleep

Dreams of robbers

Sleepless from grief

Music

Warm room

Lying down

About 10 a m

At seashore

Mental exertion

Consolation

Heat

Talking

Cold bathing

Going without regular meals

Lying on right side

Pressure against back

Tight clothing

Dyspnœa; worse, after sleep; better, rapid motion

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

Taste salty, putrid

Feeling of goneness; not relieved by eating

Nausea at smell or sight of food

Everything tastes too salty

Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles

Loathes fat

Red, adhesive, sand in urine

Involuntary urination, during first sleep

Bearing-down sensation as if everything would escape through vulva; must cross limbs to prevent protrusion, or press against vulva

Leucorrhœa yellow, greenish; with much itching

Menses Too late and scanty, irregular; early and profuse; sharp clutching pains

Washing

Laundry-work

Dampness

Left side

After sweat

Cold air

Before thunder-storm

After milk, especially when boiled.

Pressure

Warmth of bed, hot applications

Drawing limbs up

Cold bathing

After sleep

Hoarseness; worse, evenings, talking; evening oppression of breathing, sore and raw chest

Breath cold; must be fanned

Typical Carbo patient is 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

Patient may be almost lifeless, but the head is hot; 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

Sense of weight, as in the head (occiput), eyes and eyelids, before the ears, in the stomach, and elsewhere in the body; putrid (septic) condition of all its affections, coupled with a burning sensation

General venous stasis, bluish skin, limbs cold

Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations

Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests

Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things

The simplest food distresses

Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen

Premature and too copious menses; pale blood

Leucorrhœa before menses, thick, greenish, milky, excoriating

Night

Open air

Cold

From fat food, butter, coffee, milk

Warm damp weather

Wine

From fanning

Cold

Collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness

Cold perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all complaints

Voracious appetite

Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed

Averse to warm food.

Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt

Menses too early; profuse and exhausting

Wet, cold weather

Warmth

Lack of vital heat

Desire lost, parts atrophied; frequent profuse emissions

Deep morning sleep with anxious, vexatious dreams

Bathing

Warm, damp, weather

Cannot lie on right side

Stitches from lower lobe of right lung to back

Dropsical swelling of feet and legs

Tremors everywhere

Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion

A human "thermometer"; sensitive to heat and cold

Breath, excretions and body smell foul

Sweetish metallic taste

Salivary secretions greatly increased; bloody and viscid; saliva fetid, coppery

speech difficult on account of trembling tongue.

Great thirst, with moist mouth

Putrid eructations

Intense thirst for cold drinks

Weak digestion, with continuous hunger

Frequent urging to urinate

Urine dark, scanty, bloody, albuminous

Menses profuse, with abdominal pains

Leucorrhœa excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts

Wet, damp weather

Lying on right side

Perspiring

Warm room and warm bed

Rainy weather

Much oppression in breathing; worse after any effort, and entering warm room, or ascending even a few steps

Slow labored, stertorous breathing; bubbling sound

Big toe painful and swollen

Often in rather stout women who are always tired and weary, take cold easily, suffer from cholera-like symptoms before menses, lead a sedentary life, have a slow reaction generally, and are disposed to frequent use of the smelling-bottle

Fat patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel suffocated

Very sensitive to cold air

Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it

Heaviness in all organs

Uncleanness in bodily habits

Swelling of parts, glands, etc

Acid secretions

Prostration from trifles

Great dryness of mouth and throat

Taste sour; metallic

Great appetite, but easily satisfied

Frequent desire; involuntary at night

Erection without desire; seminal emissions

Leucorrhœa burning, acrid, watery

Aversion to the other sex

Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard, difficult stool, with fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness

Sleepiness during the day

Starts from sleep strangling

From cold, wet weather

Wet applications

Washing

During 3 to 4 am

During menses

In dry weather

Trouble at the change of life, old and bachelors

General feeling as if bruised by blows

Great debility in the morning in bed

Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation

Tremulous weakness after every stool

Much difficulty in voiding urine; it flows and stops again

Desire increased; power decreased

Menses delayed and scanty; parts sensitive

Leucorrhœa after micturition

Turning or rising in bed

Celibacy

Before and during menses

From taking cold

Bodily or mental exertion

In the dark

From letting limbs hang down

Motion

Pressure

Hoarseness and loss of voice

Leaning forward relieves chest symptoms

Coldness of chest

Soft pulse, coldness, general depression, and very characteristic stitches, which may be felt in any part of the body, or in connection with any affection

All Kali pains are sharp and cutting; nearly all better by motion.

Sensitive to every atmospheric change, and intolerance of cold weather.

Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic tendencies

Sweat, backache, and weakness

Throbbing pains

Pains from within out, and of stinging character

"Giving-out" sensation

Flatulence

Desire for sweets

Sour eructations

Constant feeling as if stomach were full of water.

Disgust for food

Anxiety felt in stomach

Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate

Complaints from coition; deficient sexual instinct; excessive emissions, followed by weakness

Menses early, profuse or too late, pale and scanty, with soreness about genitals; pains from back pass down through gluteal muscles, with cutting in abdomen

White swelling of knee

Drowsy after eating

Wakes about two o'clock and cannot sleep again

In cold weather

From soup and coffee

In morning about three o'clock

Lying on left and painful side

During day

While moving about.

Soreness at lower end of sternum

Short breath on going upstairs

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

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

Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive

Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with pain in back, hips and thighs

Cold climate, and also hot weather