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| Rheumatoid Arthritis |
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Arsenicum Album |
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
Complaints that return annually
Anæmia and chlorosis
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
Cannot bear the sight or smell of food
Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a
time
Craves acids and coffee
Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter
substances which seem to excoriate the throat
Long-lasting eructations.
Craves milk
Stool small, offensive, dark, with much
prostration
Urine scanty, burning, involuntary, albuminous
Menses too profuse and too soon
Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin
Pulse more rapid in morning
Trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness,
heaviness, uneasiness
Swelling of feet
Paralysis of lower limbs with atrophy
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
Drowsy, sleeping sickness
High temperature during fever
Periodic fever marked with adynamia intermittent
paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion
Cold sweats
Great heat about 3 am
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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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| Causticum |
Tearing,
drawing pains in the muscular and fibrous tissues, with deformities about
the joints
Progressive loss of muscular strength, tendinous
contractures
Broken down seniles
Esp indicated in dark-complexioned and
rigid-fibered persons
Restlessness at night, with tearing pains in
joints and bones, and faint-like sinking of strength
Skin of a Causticum person is of a dirty white
sallow, with warts, especially on the face
Emaciation due to disease, worry, etc, and of
long standing
Burning, rawness, and soreness
Greasy taste
Aversion to sweets
Feels as if lime were burned in stomach
Worse after eating fresh meat; smoked meat agrees
Stool soft and small, size of goose-quill; or
hard, tough, covered with mucus; shines like grease; small-shaped;
expelled with much straining, or only on standing up
Urine involuntary when coughing, sneezing ;
expelled very slowly, and sometimes retained
Involuntary urination during first sleep at
night; also from slightest excitement
Loss of sensibility on passing urine
Menses cease at night; flow only during day
Leucorrhœa at night, with great weakness
Menses delay, late
Heaviness and weakness
Tearing joints
Contracted tendons
Weak ankles; cannot walk without suffering
Rheumatic tearing in limbs; better by warmth,
especially heat of bed
Burning in joints
Unsteady walking and easily falling
Restless legs at night
Cracking and tension in knees; stiffness in
hollow of knee
Very drowsy; can hardly keep awake
Nocturnal sleeplessness, with dry heat,
inquietude
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Dry, cold winds
In clear fine weather
Cold air
From motion of carriage
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In
damp, wet weather
Warmth
Heat of bed
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| Cimicifuga |
Especially useful in
rheumatic, nervous subjects with ovarian irritation, uterine cramps and
heavy limbs
Agitation and pain
Pains like electric shocks here and there
Menses profuse, dark, coagulated,
offensive with backache, nervousness; always irregular
Irregular, slow, trembling pulse
Stiffness and contraction in neck and back
Rheumatic pains in muscles of back and neck
Pain in lumbar and sacral region, down thighs,
and through hips
Crick in back.
Uneasy, restless feeling in limbs
Aching in limbs and muscular soreness
Rheumatism affecting the belly of muscles,
especially large muscles
Stiffness in tendo-Achilles
Heaviness in lower extremities
Heavy, aching, tensive pain
Sleeplessness
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Morning
Cold (except headache)
During menses
The more profuse the flow, the greater the
suffering
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Warmth
Eating
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| Guaiacum |
Especially
adapted to the arthritic diathesis, rheumatism, and tonsillitis
Free foul secretions
Unclean odor from whole body
Sensitiveness and aggravation from local heat.
Contraction of limbs, stiffness and immobility
Feeling that he must stretch
Desire for apples
and other fruits
Aversion to milk
Constant desire to urinate
Aching in nape
Stiff neck and sore shoulders
Stitches between scapula to occiput
Contractive pain between scapula.
Rheumatic pain in shoulders, arms and hands
Growing pains
Immovable stiffness
Ankle pain extending up the leg, causing lameness
Joints swollen, painful, and intolerant of
pressure; can bear no heat
Stinging pain in limbs
Arthritic lancinations followed by contraction of
limbs
A feeling of heat in the affected limbs |
From
motion
Heat
Cold wet weather
Pressure
Touch
From 6 pm to 4 am
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External
pressure |
| Iodum |
Rapid metabolism: Loss of
flesh great appetite
Hungry with much thirst
Great debility, the slightest effort
induces perspiration
Is exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with
enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin
Craves cold air.
Acute exacerbation of chronic inflammation
Arthritis Deformans
Acts prominently on connective tissue
Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many
of its aspects
Rapid emaciation, notwithstanding good appetite
Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs
Empty eructations, as if every particle of
food were turned into gas
Anxious and worried if he does not eat
Urine frequent and copious, dark yellow-green,
thick, acrid with cuticle on surface
Great weakness during menses
Menstruation irregular
Acrid leucorrhœa, thick, slimy, corroding the
linen
Joints inflamed and painful
Rheumatism of nape and upper extremities
Rheumatic pains, nightly pains in joints;
constrictive sensations
Flushes of heat all over body
Marked fever, restlessness, red cheeks, apathetic
Profuse sweat
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When quiet
In warm room
Right side
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Walking about
In open air
After eating.
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| Kali Iodatum |
Acts prominently on fibrous
and connective tissues, producing infiltration, œdema, etc
Diffused sensitiveness
Rheumatism in neck, back, feet, especially
heels and soles; worse, cold and wet
Saliva increased
Much thirst
Flatulence
Menses late, profuse
Corrosive leucorrhœa
Rheumatism; pains at night and in damp weather
Contraction of joints
Rheumatism of knees with effusion
Pain in small of back and coccyx
Pain in hip, forcing limping
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Warm
clothing
Warm room
At night
Damp weather
Cold food and drink, especially milk,
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Motion
Open air
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| Pulsatilla |
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 during sleep; feels
uncomfortable with only one pillow; lies with hands above head
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
Stool rumbling, watery; worse, night
No two stools alike
Two or three normal stools daily
Increased desire to
urinate; worse when lying down
Involuntary micturition at night, while coughing
or passing flatus
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
Sleeps with hands over head
Shooting pain in the nape and back, between
shoulders; in sacrum after sitting
Hip-joint painful
Knees swollen, with tearing, drawing pains
Boring pain in heels toward evening; suffering
worse from letting the affected limb hang down
Chilliness, even in warm room, without
thirst
Chilly with pains, in spots, worse evening
Chill about 4 pm
Intolerable burning heat at night, with distended
veins; heat in parts of body, coldness in other
One-sided sweat; pains during sweat
External heat is intolerable, veins are
distended
During apyrexia, headache, diarrhœa, loss of
appetite, nausea
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From heat
Rich fat food
After eating
Towards evening
Warm room
Lying on left or on painless side
When allowing feet to hang down
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Open air
Motion
Cold applications
Cold food and drinks, though not thirsty
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| Arnica |
Conditions upon the system
quite similar to those resulting from injuries, falls, blows, contusions
Especially suited to cases when any injury,
however remote, seems to have caused the present trouble
Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated
with impoverished blood
Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if
sprained
Bed feels too hard
Tendency to hæmorrhage and low-fever states
Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic
conditions, abscesses that do not mature
Sore, lame, bruised feeling
Rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue,
especially of back and shoulders
Aversion to tobacco
Longing for vinegar
Distaste for milk and meat
Canine hunger
Oppressive gases pass upward and downward
Urine retained from over-exertion; dark brick-red
sediment
Pulse feeble and irregular
Great fear of being touched or approached
Sprained and dislocated feeling
Everything on which he lies seems too hard
Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain in
pelvic region
Rheumatism begins low down and works up
Sleepless and restless when over tired
Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head;
dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible
Horrors in the night
Involuntary stools during sleep
Febrile symptoms closely related to typhoid
Shivering over whole body
Heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest
of body
Internal heat; feet and hands cold
Nightly sour sweats
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Least touch
Motion
Rest
Wine
Damp cold
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Lying down, or with head low |
| Colchicum |
Affects markedly the muscular
tissues, periosteum, and synovial membranes of joints; seems to be more
beneficial in chronic affections of these parts
The parts are red, hot, swollen
Tearing pains; worse, in the evening and at night
and from touch; stubbing the toes hurts exceedingly
Always great prostration
Internal coldness
Tendency to collapse
Shocks as from electricity through one half of
body
Dreams of mice
The smell of food causes nausea even to
fainting, especially fish
Profuse salivary secretion
Great coldness in stomach
Craving for various things, but is averse
to then when smelling them, seized them with nausea
Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages
Urine dark, scanty or suppressed; bloody, brown,
black, inky; contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar
Sound of heart become weaker, pulse of low
tension
Tearing in limbs during warm weather, stinging
during cold
Pins and needles in hands and wrists, fingertips
numb
Pain in front of thigh
Limbs, lame, weak, tingling
Pain worse in evening and warm weather
Joints stiff and feverish; shifting rheumatism;
pains worse at night
Inflammation of great toe, gout in heel, cannot
bear to have it touched or moved
Knees strike together, can hardly walk
Œdematous swelling and coldness of legs and feet
Aching in lumbar and lumbo-sacral region
Backache, better, rest and pressure
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Sundown
to sunrise
Motion
Loss of sleep
Smell of food in
evening
Mental exertion
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Stooping |
| Mercurius Corrosivus |
Urine hot, burning, scanty or
suppressed; bloody, greenish discharge; albuminous
Salivation.
Taste salty and bitter
Stool hot, bloody, slimy, offensive, with cutting
pains and shreds of mucous membrane
Pulse rapid and intermittent
Chilly from slightest exposure
Profuse perspiration; surface cold
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Evening
Night
Acids
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While at rest |
| Sabina |
Special action upon serous
and fibrous membranes
Pain from sacrum to the pubis
Violent pulsations; wants windows open
Heartburn
Desire for lemonade
Bitter taste
Bloody urine; much urging
Menses profuse, bright
Sexual desire increased
Leucorrhœa after menses, corrosive, offensive
Paralytic pain in small back
Shooting pain in heels and metatarsal bones
Arthritic pain in joints
Red, shining swelling
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From least motion
Heat
Warm air
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In cool fresh air |
| Sulphur |
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
Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections
Aversion to being washed
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
Mucus and pus in urine; parts sore over which
it passes
Must hurry, sudden call to urinate
Great quantities of colorless urine
Involuntary seminal emissions
Much offensive perspiration
Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult;
thick, black, acrid, making parts sore
Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating
Drawing pain between shoulders
Stiffness of nape
Sensation as if vertebræ glided over each other
Rheumatic pain in left shoulder
Drawing and tearing in arms and hands
Stiffness of knees and ankles
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
Frequent flashes of heat
Night sweat, on nape and occiput
Perspiration of single parts
Disgusting sweats
Fever remits
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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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| Sulphur Terebinthinatum |
For relieving the pains in Chronic Rheumatoid
Arthritis |
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| Arbutus Andrachne |
Eczema associated with gouty and rheumatic symptoms
Arthritis; especially larger joints
Urine rendered more clear
Symptoms shift from skin to joints
Vesical symptoms
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| Benzoicum Acidum |
Joints crack on motion
Tearing with stitches
Pain in tendo Achilles
Swelling of the wrist
Pain and swelling in knees
Tearing pain in great toe
Pains suddenly change their locality
Sweat while eating
Stool frothy, offensive, liquid,
light-colored, like soapsuds, bowel movements, mostly windy
Urine of repulsive odor;
changeable color; brown, acid
Involuntary
urination; dribbling, offensive urine of old men
Excess of uric acid in urine
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In open air
By uncovering
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| Calcarea Carbonica |
Increased local and general
perspiration
Acidity and dislike
of fat
Gets out of breath easily
A jaded state, mental or physical, due to
overwork
Abscesses in deep muscles; polypi and
exostoses
Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence
Take cold easily, with increased mucous
secretions
Great sensitiveness to cold
Partial sweats
Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and
perspiring and cold, damp and sour
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
Loss of appetite when overworked
Heartburn and loud belching
Ravenous hunger
Thirst; longing for cold drinks
Urine dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with
white sediment, bloody
Frequent seminal emissions
Increased sexual 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)
Pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise; from over lifting
Pain between shoulder-blades, impeding breathing
Rheumatism in lumbar region; weakness in small of
back
Nape of neck stiff and rigid
Rheumatoid pains, as after exposure to wet
Sharp sticking, as if parts were wrenched or
sprained
Swelling of joints, especially knee
Arthritic nodosities
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
Chill at 2
pm begins internally in stomach region
Fever with sweat
Pulse full and frequent
Chilliness and heat
Night sweats, especially on head, neck and
chest
Sweat over head in children, so that pillow
becomes wet
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From
exertion, mental or physical
Ascending
Cold in every form
Water, washing, moist air, wet weather
During full moon
Standing
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Dry climate and weather
Lying on painful side
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| Caulophyllum |
Has a special affinity for the smaller joints
Menses and leucorrhœa profuse
Severe drawing, erratic pain and stiffness in small joints, fingers,
toes, ankles, etc
Aching in wrists
Cutting pains on closing hands
Erratic pains, changing place every few minutes
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| Ferrum Iodatum |
Body emaciated
Debility following drain upon vital forces
Urine dark; sweet smelling
Difficulty in retaining urine
Leucorrhœa like boiled starch
Menses suppressed or scanty
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| Ferrum Picricum |
Acts best in dark-haired
patients, plethoric, with sensitive livers
Frequent micturition at night, with full
feeling and pressure in rectum
Pain in right side of neck and down right arm
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| Lacticum Acidum |
Thirst; voracious hunger
Copious salivation and water-brash
Hot, acrid eructation
Rheumatic pain in joints and shoulders, wrists, knees,
with much weakness
Trembling of whole body while walking
Large quantities of urine passed, frequently;
saccharine in urine
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| Ledum Pal |
Affects especially the
rheumatic diathesis, going through all the changes, from functional pain
to altered secretions and deposits of solid, earthy matter in the tissues
Rheumatism begins in feet, and travels upward
General lack of animal heat, and yet heat
of bed is intolerable
Gouty pains shoot all through the foot and limb,
and in joints, but especially small joints; swollen, hot, pale
Throbbing in right shoulder
Pressure in shoulder, worse motion
Cracking in joints; worse, warmth of bed
Ball of great to swollen
Ankles swollen
Soles painful, can hardly step on them
Easy spraining of ankle
Sensation as of cold water over parts; general
coldness with heat of face
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At night
From heat of bed
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From cold
Putting feet in cold water
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| 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
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
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
Palpitation at night
Cannot lie on left side
Tearing in shoulder and elbow joints
Painful callosities on soles; toes and fingers
contracted
Drowsy during day
Starting in sleep
Dreams of accidents
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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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| Natrum Phos |
Conditions
arising from excess of lactic acid, often resulting from too much sugar
Ailments, with excess of acidity
Sour eructations and taste
Sour vomiting
Yellow, creamy coating at the back of the roof
of mouth and tongue
Flatulence, with sour risings
Cracking of joints
Seminal emissions without dreams, with weakness
in back and trembling in limbs
Sexual desire
without erection
Menses too early; pale, thin, watery
Leucorrhœa; discharge creamy or honey-colored,
or acid and watery
Rheumatism of the knee-joint
Weariness; aching in wrists and finger-joints
Synovial crepitation
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| Salicylicum Acidum |
Flatulence; hot, sour
belching
Putrid fermentation
Tongue purplish, leaden-colored; foul breath
Knees swollen and painful
Acute articular rheumatism; worse, touch and
motion, profuse sweat
Pain shifts
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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
Tendency to abortion
Upward tendency of its symptoms
Easy fainting
"Ball" sensation in inner parts
Acts best on brunettes
All pains are from below up
Feels cold even in warm room
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; sharp clutching pains
Violent, intermittent palpitation
Tremulous feeling with flushes
Weakness in small of back
Pains extend into back
Lower extremities lame and stiff, tension as if
too short; heaviness and bruised feeling
Frequent flushes of heat; sweat from least motion
General lack of warmth of body
Feet cold and wet
Shivering, with thirst; worse, towards evening
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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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| Thyroidinum |
Emaciation
Muscular weakness
Sweating,
Tingling sensations
Excessive obesity
Acts better with pale patients, rather than those
of high color
Great weakness and hunger, yet loses flesh
Involuntary urination at night
Sensation of faintness and nausea
Easy fatigue,
Tendency to fainting
Cold hands and feet
Low blood pressure
Chilliness and sensitive to cold
Weak, frequent pulse, with inability to lie down.
Palpitation from least exertion
Desire for sweets and thirst for cold water
Nausea worse riding in car
Flatulence, much flatus in abdomen
Increased urinary flow; polyuria; some albumen
and sugar
Urine smells of violets, burning along urethra,
increase of uric acid
Rheumatoid arthritis with tendency to obesity,
coldness and cramps of extremities
Aching pains
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| China |
Nervous erethism
Periodicity is most marked
Sensitive to draughts
Seldom indicated in the earlier stages of acute
disease
Pains in limbs and joints,
as if sprained; worse, slight touch; hard pressure relieves
Joints swollen; very sensitive, with dread or
open air
Great debility, trembling, with numb sensation
Averse to exercise; sensitive to touch
Weariness of joints; worse, mornings and when
sitting
Slow digestion
Weight after eating
Hungry without appetite
Flat taste
Milk disagrees
Hungry longing for food, which lies undigested
Flatulence; belching of bitter fluid or
regurgitation of food gives no relief; worse eating fruit
Stool undigested, frothy, yellow; painless;
worse at night, after meals, during hot weather, from fruit, milk,
beer; very weakening, with much flatulence; difficult even when soft
Excited lascivious fancy
Frequent seminal emissions, followed by great
weakness
Menses too early; dark clots and
abdominal distention
Profuse menses with pain
Sexual desire too strong
Bloody leucorrhœa; seems to take the place of
the usual menstrual discharge
Drowsiness
Unrefreshing sleep or constant stupor
Wakens early
Protracted sleeplessness
Anxious, frightful dreams with confused
consciousness on waking, so that the dream cannot be rid of and fear of
dream remains
Intermittent fever, paroxysms anticipate; return
every week; all stages well marked; chill generally in forenoon,
commencing in breast; thirst before chill, and little and often;
debilitating night-sweats
Free perspiration caused by every little
exertion, especially on single parts
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Slightest
touch
Draught of air
Every other day
Loss of vital fluids
At night
After eating
Bending over
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Bending
double
Hard pressure
Open air
Warmth
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| Dulcamara |
Mucous
membranes secreting more profusely while
the skin is inactive
Rheumatic
troubles induced by damp cold are aggravated by every cold change and
somewhat relieved by moving about
Complaints from sitting on cold, damp ground
Icy coldness
Patients living or working in damp, cold
basements
Aversion to food
Burning thirst for cold drinks
Must urinate when getting chilled
Urine has thick, mucous, purulent sediment
Stiff neck
Pain in small of back, as after long
stooping. Stiffness and lameness across neck and shoulders, after getting
cold and wet
Dry burning heat all over
Chilliness towards evening, mostly in back
Dry heat and burning of skin
Chilliness with thirst
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At
night
From cold in general
Damp, rainy weather
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From moving about
External warmth
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| Kali Bromatum |
Nodular form of chronic gout
General failure of mental power
Loss of memory
Melancholia
Urine profuse, with thirst
Debility and impotence in males
Exaggerated sexual
desire in females
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 |
| Piper Methysticum |
Silent
and drowsy character with incoherent dreams
Loss of muscular power.
Arthritis Deformans
Urine increased
Pain in thumb-joint
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By
turning mind to another topic
Changing position
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| Ammonium Phosphoricum |
Nodosities
of the joints of the fingers and backs of
the hands
Pain in shoulder-joint
Tightness around chest
Heaviness of limbs, unsteady, tottering gait
Coldness from least draft of air
Rose-colored sediment
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| Antimonium Crudum |
Excessive irritability and
fretfulness
Thickly-coated
white tongue,
Cannot bear heat of sun
Tendency to grow fat
An absence of pain, where it could be expected,
is noticeable
Loss of appetite
Desire for acids, pickles
Thirst in evening and night
Eructation tasting of the ingesta
Heartburn, nausea, vomiting
Constant belching
Sweetish water brash
Bloating after eating
Urine frequent, with burning, and backache;
turbid and foul odor
Impotence
Menses too early and profuse
Leucorrhœa watery; acrid, lumpy
Arthritic pain in fingers
Feet very tender; covered with large horny
places
Pain in heels
Chilly even in warm room
Intermittent fever with disgust, nausea,
vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhœa
Hot sweat
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In
evening
From heat
Acids
Wine
Water
Washing
Wet poultices
Cold bathing
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In
open air
During rest
Moist warmth
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| Calcarea Renalis |
Arthritic nodosities
Tendency to accumulation of tartar on teeth
Gravel and renal calculi
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| Capsicum |
Seems to suit especially
persons of lax fiber, weak; diminished vital heat; a relaxed plethoric
sluggish, cold remedy; not much reactive force
Fat
Indolent
Opposed to physical exertion
Averse to go outside of their routine
Get homesick easily
General uncleanliness of body
A sensation of constriction
Burning pains and general chilliness
Fear of slightest draught
Much flatulence, especially in debilitated
subjects
Intense craving for stimulants
Much thirst; but drinking causes shuddering
Thirsty after stool, with shivering
Pain from hips to feet
Tensive pain in the knee
Chill begins in back; better, heat; must have
something hot to back; thirst before chill
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Open
air
Uncovering
Draughts
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While eating
From heat
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| Kali Carbonica |
Soft
pulse
Coldness
General depression
Very characteristic stitches, which may be
felt in any part of the body, or in connection with any affection
All pains are sharp and cutting; nearly
all better by motion
Absence of fever
Sensitive to every atmospheric change, and intolerance
of cold weather
Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic
tendencies
Sweat, backache, and weakness. Throbbing
pains
Tendency to dropsy
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
Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate
Involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing,
etc
Deficient sexual instinct
Excessive seminal 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
Stiffness and paralytic feeling in back
Pain in nates and thighs and hip-joint
White swelling of knee
Lacerating in wrist-joint.
Soles very sensitive
Itching of great toe, with pain
Pain from hip to knee
Pain in knees
Drowsy after eating
Wakes about two o'clock and cannot sleep again
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After
coition
In cold weather
From soup and coffee
In morning about three o'clock
Lying on left and painful side
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In
warm weather, though moist
During day
While moving about
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| Manganum Aceticum |
Strongly exaggerated reflexes
and physical disturbances, evidenced by men making fun of each other's
gait
Inflammation of bones or joints, with nightly
digging pains
Chronic arthritis
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
Cannot walk backwards without falling; tending
to fall forward
Walks stooping forward
Peculiar slapping gait, walks on
metacarpo-phalangeal joint; walks backwards
Ankles painful
Shiny red swelling of joints
Knees pain and itch
Rheumatism of feet
Burning spots about joints
Suppuration of skin around joints
Languor and sleepiness
Vivid dreams
Sleepy very early in evening
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Cold
wet weather
Change of weather
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Lying down (cough) |
| Methylenum Coeruleum |
Tendency to tremor
Urine acquires a green color
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| Natrum Bromatum |
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| Natrum Sulphuricum |
Complaints
are such as are due to living in damp houses, basements, cellars
Feels every change from dry to wet; cannot
even eat plants growing near water, nor fish
Always feels best in warm, dry air
Brown, bitter coating on tongue
Yellow complexion
Thirst for something cold
Flatulency; wind colic in ascending colon;
worse, before breakfast
Stools involuntary, when passing flatus
Great size of the fecal mass
Urine loaded with bile; brisk-dust sediment,
excessive secretion
Violent pains in back of neck, and at base of
brain
Piercing pain between scapulæ
Pain in hip-joints, worse left, worse, stooping
Stiffness of knees, cracking of joints
Rheumatism, worse in damp cold weather
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Music
(makes her sad)
Lying on left side
Dampness of basement
Damp weather
Rainy weather
Water in any form.
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Dry weather
Pressure
Changing position
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| Piperazinum |
Increased urea in urine |
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| Radium Bromatum |
Rheumatism and gout
Lowered blood pressure
Severe aching pains all over, with
restlessness, better moving about
Chronic rheumatic arthritis
Lateness in appearance of symptoms
Great weakness
Aversion to sweets, ice-cream.
Increased elimination of solids in urine,
particularly of chlorides
Delayed and irregular menstruation and backache
Aching in back of neck
Pain and lameness in cervical vertebræ, worse
dropping head forward, better standing, or sitting erect
Lumbar and sacral backache, pain appears
to be in bone, continued motion relieves
Backache between shoulders and lumbar-sacral
region, better after walking
Severe pain in all the limbs, joints,
especially in knee and ankles, sharp pains in shoulders, arms, hands and
fingers
Legs, arms and neck feel hard and brittle, as
though they would break on moving.
Cracking in shoulder
Pain in toes, calves, hip-joint, popliteal
spaces
Arthritis, aching pains, worse
at night
Restless sleep
Sleepiness with lethargy
Dreams vivid, busy; of fire.
Cold sensation internally, with chattering of teeth
until noon
Internal chilliness followed by heat of the skin,
associated with bowel movements and flatulence |
Getting
up |
Open air
Continued motion
Hot bath
Lying down
Pressure
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| Rhododendron |
Rheumatism in the hot season
Joints swollen
Rheumatic tearing in all limbs, especially
right side; worse, at rest and in stormy weather
Stiffness of neck
Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists; worse when at
rest
Cannot sleep unless legs are crossed
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Before
a storm
All symptoms reappear in rough weather
Night
Towards morning
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After the storm breaks
Warmth
Eating
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| Thymus Gland Extract |
Arthritis Deformans |
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