Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Ammoniacum |
Esp indicated for aged and feeble
Ill humor
Sensitive to cold
Catarrhal headache due to closure of frontal sinuses
Difficult breathing
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| Arsenicum Album |
Restlessness; worse at night
Great exhaustion after slightest exertion
Irritable weakness
Burning pains
Unquenchable thirst; drinks often but little at a time
Fear, fright and worry
Putrid discharges
Gradual loss of weight
Septic infection and low vitality
Headaches relieved by cold, other symptoms worse
Thin, watery, excoriating discharge from nose.
Nose feels stopped up
Sneezing without relief
Coryza worse in open air; better indoors
Craves acids, coffee and milk
Urine albuminous
Menses too soon and too profuse
Leucorrhoea acrid, burning, offensive, thin
Dreams full of care and fear
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Wet weather
After midnight
From cold
From cold drinks or food
Seashore
Right side |
Heat
From head elevated
Warm drinks |
| Asafoetida |
Flatulence
Hysterical and hypochondriacal patients
Extreme sensitiveness
Terrible, throbbing pains at night
Boring above eyebrows
Stitches under left frontal eminence
Pressive pain in head from within outwards
Ulceration of mucus membranes and very offensive purulent discharge |
At night
From touch
Left side
During rest
Warm applications |
Open air
From motion
Pressure |
| Aurum Metallicum |
Hopeless, despondent and great desire to commit
suicide
Palpitation and congestions
High blood pressure
Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward pressure
Pain in bones extending to face
Congestion of head
Violent pains in bones around eyes
Nose ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed
Inflammation of nose; fetid discharge, purulent, bloody
Boring pain in nose; worse at night
Putrid smell from nose
Tearing in zygoma; mastoid and other facial bones inflamed
Urine turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment
Frightful dreams
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In cold weather
When getting cold
Winter
From sunset to sunrise |
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| Aurum Mur |
Burning, yellow leucorrhoea
Diseases of frontal sinus
Stitching pain in left side of forehead
Weariness, aversion to all work
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| Belladonna |
Hot red skin
Flushed face
Glaring eyes
Throbbing carotids
Excited mental state
Pains that come and go suddenly
No thirst, anxiety or fear
Violence of attack and suddenness of onset
Pain; fullness, esp in forehead, also occiput, and temples
Headache from suppressed catarrh
Coryza; mucus mixed with blood
Averse to meat and milk
Menses bright, too early , too profuse, very offensive and hot
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Touch
Jar
Noise
Draught
Afternoon
Lying down |
Semi erect |
| Calcarea Carbonica |
Increased perspirations
Dislike of fat, boiled things, meat
Gets out of breath easily
A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork
Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence
Takes cold easily
Great sensitiveness to cold
Fat, flabby, perspiring, cold, damp and sour patient
Stoppage of nose, also with fetid, yellow discharge
Offensive odor in nose
Polypi; swelling at the root of nose
Craving for indigestible things, chalk
, coal, pencils, eggs, salt and sweets
Milk disagrees
Thirst; longing for cold drinks
Menses too long, too profuse, too early
Milky leucorrhoea
Dreams of dead
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From exertion, mental or physical
Ascending
Cold in very form
Water
Washing
Moist air
Wet weather
During full moon
Standing
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Dry climate and weather
Lying on painful side
Sneezing |
| Camphora |
Icy coldness of the whole body
Sudden sinking of strength
Pulse small and weak
Extreme restlessness
Cracking of joints
Does not want to be covered, not withstanding the icy coldness of the
body
Very sensitive to cold and touch
Indicated in children and weakly blondes
Headache, with catarrhal symptoms, sneezing etc
Fleeting stitches in temples and orbits
Nose cold and pinched
Face pale, haggard, anxious, distorted; bluish, cold |
Motion
Night
Contact
Cold air |
While thinking of the ailments
Warmth |
| Eucalyptus |
Nose stuffed up sensation; thin watery coryza; nose
does not stop running; tightness across bridge
Chronic catarrhal, purulent and fetid discharge from nose
Inflammation of ethmoid and frontal sinuses
Slow digestion
Leucorrhoea acrid, fetid
Continued fever
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| Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum |
Indicated for blondes with sluggish character and
weak muscles
Great sensitiveness to all impressions
Sweating patient pulls blanket around him
Easy and profuse perspiration
Infected sinus with pus formation
Chilliness
Splinter like pains
Craving for sour and strong things
Feeling as if wind were bowing on some part
The side of body on which he lies at night becomes gradually
insufferably painful; he must turn
Boring pain in the right temple and in root of nose every morning
Pain in eyes, as if pulled back into head
Nose sore, ulcerated
Sneezes every time, he goes into a dry cold wind, with running from
nose, later thick offensive discharge or stopped up
Discharges smell like old cheese
Longing for acids, wine and strong tasting food
Aversion to fat food
Stools clay colored, soft, sour, undigested and fetid
Greasy pellicle on urine
Menses late and scanty
Extremely offensive leucorrhoea; smells like old cheese |
From dry, cold winds
Cool air
Slightest draught
From mercury
Touch
Lying on painful side |
In damp weather
From wrapping up the head
From warmth
After eating |
| Ignatia |
Hyperasthesia of all senses
Esp indicated for patients with nervous temperament; women of
sensitive, excited nature, dark mild disposition, quick to perceive and
rapid to execute
Great contradictions
Can not bear tobacco
Pain in small, circumscribed spots
Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side
Cramp like pain over root of nose
Averse to ordinary diet; longs for great variety of indigestible
articles
Craves for acid things
Urine profuse, watery
Much sighing
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Coffee
Morning
Open air
After meals
Liquids
External warmth |
While eating
Change of position |
| Iodum |
Rapid metabolism; loss of flesh with great appetite
Great debility; slight effort induces perspiration
Exceedingly thin and dark complexioned patients
Tremor
Craves cold air
Sluggish vital reaction
Acute catarrh of mucus membranes
Loss of breath on going upstairs
Throbbing in head; rush of blood, and feeling of a tight band
Sneezing
Dry coryza becomes fluent in open air; fluent hot
Pain at the root of nose and frontal sinus
Anxious and worried, if he does not eat
Urine frequent, profuse, dark yellow green, thick, acrid with cuticle
on surface
Leucorrhoea acrid, thick, slimy, corroding the linen
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When quiet
In warm room
Right side |
After eating
Walking about
In open air |
| Kali Bichromicum |
General weakness bordering on paralysis
Indicated for fleshy, fat, light complexioned patients
Pains migrate quickly
Catarrh of pharynx, larynx, bronchi and nose
Tough, stringy and viscid secretions
Perforation of septum of nose
Headache over eyebrows
Aching and fullness in glabella
Semi lateral headache in small spots and from suppressed catarrh
Frontal headaches; usually over one eye
Pressure and pain at root of nose and sticking in nose
Inflammation of extends to frontal sinuses with distress and fullness
at the root of nose
Dropping from posterior nares
Much hawking
Inability to breathe through nose
Nasal discharge thick, ropy and greenish-yellow
Violent sneezing
Chronic inflammation of frontal sinus with stopped up sensation in nose
Dislikes water
Can not digest meat
Desire for beer and acids
Ropy mucus in urine
Yellow, tenacious leucorrhoea
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In morning
Beer
Hot weather
Undressing |
From heat |
| Kali Iodatum |
Profuse, watery, acrid coryza or profuse, cool,
greenish unirritating
Pain in frontal sinus
Diffused sensitivity
Loss of weight
Pain through sides of head
Pain intense over eyes and root of nose
Increased salivation
Much thirst
Flatulence
Menses late and profuse
Corrosive leucorrhoea
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Cold food and drink, esp milk
Warm clothing
Warm room
At night
Damp weather |
Motion
Open air |
| Kali Muriaticum |
Sub acute catarrhal states
White or gray coating of base of tongue
Thick, white discharges for nose
Menses dark clotted or tough black blood like tar
Leucorrhoea milky white, thick, bland
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Fat or rich food
Motion |
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| Lycopodium |
Ailments gradually developing
Older persons
Earthy complexion
Red sand in urine
Intolerance of cold drinks; craves every thing warm
Indicated for people intellectually keen, but of weak muscular power
Emaciation
Thin withered, dry and full of gas
Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities
Pains come and go suddenly
Sensitive to noise and odor
Pain in temples, as if they were screwed towards each other
Sense of smell very acute
Feeling of dryness posteriorly in nose
Scanty excoriating discharge anteriorly in nose
Ulcerated nostrils
Nose stopped up
Fan like motion of alae nasi
Aversion to bread etc
Desire for sweet things
Eating ever so little creates fullness
Can not eat oysters
Menses too late, too long and too profuse
Acrid leucorrhoea
Dreams of accidents
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Right side
From right to left
Above down wards
4 to 8 pm
Heat, warm room, air or bed
Warm applications |
By motion
After midnight
From warm food and drink
On getting cold
From being uncovered |
| Menthol |
Frontal headache, pain over frontal sinus, descends
to eyeballs
Supra orbital pain over left eye
Pain in face above zygoma with numbness
Cold sensation in nose
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| Mercurius Iodatus Flavus |
Tongue coated thickly; yellow at base
Cheesy exudates from throat with offensive breath
Constant inclination to swallow
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Right side |
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| Mercurius |
Tremors; trembling from least exertion
Weakness with ebullitions
Sensitive to heat and cold
Profuse oily perspiration
Breath, excretions and body smell foul
Tendency of pus formation, which is thin, greenish, putrid; streaked
with thin blood
Band feeling about head
One sided tearing pains in head
Much sneezing; esp in sunshine
Pain and swelling of nasal bones, and caries, with greenish, fetid
discharge
Increased salivation
Intense thirst for cold drinks
Menses profuse, with abdominal pains
Leucorrhoea excoriating, greenish and bloody
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At night
Warmth of bed
Damp, cold rain weather
During perspiration
Rest
Lying on right side |
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| Mezereum |
Bruised, weary feeling in joints, with drawing and
stiffness
Chilliness
Sensitive to cold air
Semi lateral complaints
Stupefying headache in right side
Sneezing, coryza, interior of nose excoriated
Desire for ham fat
Mouth waters
Red flakes float on top of urine
Menses too frequent, soon and profuse
Leucorrhoea like albumen; very corroding |
Cold air
Night
Evening until midnight
Warm food
Touch
Motion |
Open air |
| Natrum Muriaticum |
Great debility; most felt in the morning in bed
Coldness
Emaciation most notable in neck
Great liability to take cold
Dry mucus membranes
Constrictive sensation through out the body
Oversensitive to all sorts of influences
Chronic headache, semi-lateral, congestive, from sunrise to sunset,
periodical
Inflammation of frontal sinus
Nasal discharge thin and watery, like raw white of eggs
Violent sneezing
Loss of smell and taste
Unquenchable thirst
Sweats while eating
Craving for salt
Aversion to bread, anything slimy, like oysters, fats
Has to wait for long time to pass urine in presence of others
Menses irregular
Leucorrhoea acrid, watery
Dreams of robbers
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Noise
Music
Warm room
Lying down
At 10 am
At seashore
Mental exertion
Consolation
Heat
Talking |
Open air
Cold bathing
Going without regular meals
Lying on right side
Pressure against back
Tight clothings |
| Nitricum Acidum |
Pains as from splinters
Sticking pains
Best indicated in dark complexioned and past middle life patients
Pains appear and disappear quickly
All discharges are very offensive
Takes cold easily
Chronic complaints
Excessive physical irritability
Sensation of a band around head
Green casts from nose every morning
Chronic nasal catarrh with yellow, offensive corrosive discharges
Longings for indigestible things like chalk, earth etc; also loves fat
and salt
Urine scanty, dark and offensive; smell's like horse's; cold on passing
Menses early, profuse, like muddy water
Leucorrhoea brown, flesh colored, watery or stringy, offensive
Short breath on going upstairs
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Evening and night
Cold climate
Hot weather |
While riding in a carriage |
| Nux Vomica |
Best indicated in rather thin, spare, quick,
active, nervous and irritable patients
Leads a sedentary life
Takes rich and stimulating foods
Zealous fiery temperament
Easily chilled
Avoids open air
Frontal headache, with desire to press head against something
Headache in sunshine
Nose stuffed up, esp at night
Acrid discharge from nose with stuffed up feeling
Desire for stimulants
Loves fats and tolerates them well
Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular
Can not sleep after 3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretched
Dreams full of bustle and hurry
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Morning
Mental exertion
After eating
Touch
Spices
Stimulants
Narcotics
Dry weather
Cold |
From a nap, if allowed to finish
In evening
While at rest
In damp, wet weather
Strong pressure |
| Phosphoricum Acidum |
Nervous exhaustion
Mental debility
Best indicated in young people who grow rapidly, and who are overtaxed,
mentally or physically
Pain in head as if temples were crushed together
Crushing headache
Pains as if eyeballs were forcibly pressed together and into head
Nose bleeding; bores fingers into nose
Craves juicy things
Thirst for cold milk
Urine profuse, watery, milky
Menses too early and profuse
Lascivious dreams with emissions
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Exertion
From being talked to
Loss of vital fluids
Sexual excesses |
From keeping warm |
| Phosphorus |
Tall, slender persons, narrow chested, with thin,
transparent skin
Great nervous debility
Emaciation
Amative tendencies
Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors,
touch, electrical changes, thunder storms
Suddenness of symptoms
Chronic congestion of head
Oversensitive to smell
Chronic catarrh, with small haemorrhages; handkerchief is always bloody
Thirst for very cold water
Stools long, narrow, hard, like dog's
Urine turbid, brown, with red sediments
Menses too early, scanty but lasting too long
Leucorrhoea profuse, smarting, corrosive
Lascivious dreams; of fire, haemorrhages
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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 thunderstorm
Ascending stairs |
In dark
Lying on right side
Cold food
Cold
Open air
Washing with cold water
Sleep |
| Sabadilla |
Coryza
Chilliness
Sensitive to cold
Oversensitive to odors
Spasmodic sneezing, with running nose
Severe frontal pains
Copious, watery, nasal discharge
No thirst
Loathing for strong food
Canine appetite for sweets and farinaceous foods
Desire for hot things
Menses too late; come by fits and starts; intermittent
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Cold, cold drinks
Full moon
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Warm food and drink
Wrapped up |
| Silicea |
Suppurative processes
Patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothings,
hates drafts
Cold hands and feet
Lack of vital heat
Prostration of body and mind
Great sensitiveness to taking cold
Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants
Ailments attended with pus formation
Want of grit, moral or physical
Pain begins at occiput, and spreads over head and settles over eyes
Swelling in the glabella
Dry, hard crusts form, bleeding when loosened
Sneezing in morning
Nose obstructed and loss of smell
Disgust for warm food and meat
Milky, acrid leucorrhoea
Increased menses
Anxious dreams
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Winter
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 |
| Spigelia |
Stabbing pains
Very sensitive to touch
Parts feel chilly; send shudder through frame
Pain beneath frontal eminence and temples, extending to eyes
Semi lateral, involving left eye; pain violent, throbbing; worse making
a false steps
Pain as if a band around head
Severe pain in and around eyes, extending deep into sockets
Forepart of nose always dry; discharges through posterior nares
Chronic catarrh, with post nasal dropping of bland mucus
Foul odor from mouth
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Touch
Motion
Noise
Turning
Washing
Concussion |
lying on right side with head high
Inspiring |
| Sticta |
Dullness and malaise
Dull, heavy pressure in forehead and root of nose
Stiffness of neck
Burning in eyes and soreness of balls
Dryness of nasal membranes
Constant need to blow the nose, but no discharge
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Sudden changes in temperature |
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| Teucrium Marum |
Oversensitive
Desire to stretch
Chronic nasal catarrh
Large, offensive crusts and clinkers in nose
Loss of sense of smell
Frontal pain in head; worse stooping
Catarrhal condition of both anterior and posterior nostrils
Moldy taste in throat |
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| Thuja |
Rapid exhaustion and emaciation
Lift sided complains
Chilly
pain in head as of pierced by nail
Left sided headaches
Chronic catarrh; thick green mucus; blood and pus
Ulceration within the nostrils
Dryness of nasal cavities
Painful pressure at root
Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes
Can not eat onions
Leucorrhoea profuse; thick, greenish
Menses scanty and retarded
Sweats only uncovered parts |
At night
From heat of bed
At 3 am and 3 pm
From cold, damp air
After breakfast
Fat
Coffee
Vaccination |
Left side
While drawing up limbs |