Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

 Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever

Does not want to be touched

Sudden and great sinking of strength

Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold weather, draught of cold air, checked perspiration, also complaints from very hot weather

Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly

Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and numbness

Tension of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms

Its action is brief and shows no periodicity

Fullness in head; heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning undulating sensation; intercranial pressure; burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water (Indigo)

Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end

Thirst for cold water

Bitter taste of everything except water

 Intense thirst

Urine scanty, red, hot, painful

Frequent erections and emissions

Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late; frenzy on appearance of menses

Stiffness in nape of neck

Nightmare; nightly ravings; anxious dreams

Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about; starts up in sleep

Long dreams, with anxiety in chest

In evening and night

Lying on affected side

From music

From tobacco-smoke

Dry, cold winds

Twitching ceases during sleep

Various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections

General paralysis

Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice

Sensitive to pressure and cold air

Violent bearing-down pains

Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg

Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling

Head in constant motion; falling backward, as if a weight in occiput

Lateral headache, as if from a nail (

Icy coldness, like icy needles, or splinters

Desire to cover head warmly

Thirsty all the time

Empty eructations, tasting of apples

Unnatural hunger

Profuse inodorous flatus

Fetid stools

Sudden and violent urging to urinate

Frequent urination

Menses, increased, earlier

Sexual excitement

Leucorrhœa, with much itching

Twitching of cervical muscles

Paroxysms of yawning

Restless sleep from violent itching and burning; on falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often

Vivid dreams

Drowsy in daytime

After eating

After coitus

In cold weather

Before a thunder-storm.

Pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter

All kind of illusions of sight; everything appears large

Motes over everything

On reading, words run together; double vision, all objects seem to be elongated

Convulsive movements

Dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water

Neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly

Heat, redness, throbbing and burning

Great children's remedy

No thirst, anxiety or fear

Stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset

Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side; constant moaning

Loss of appetite

Averse to meat and milk.

Great thirst for cold water

Abhorrence of liquids; dread of drinking

Desire diminished

Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse; very offensive and hot

Stiff neck; swelling of glands of neck; pain in nape, as if it would break

Sleep restless, crying out, gritting of teeth; kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels

Screams out in sleep

Sleeplessness, with drowsiness; starting when closing the eyes or during sleep

Sleeps with hands under head

Jar

Noise

Draught

After noon

Lying down

Mucous membranes are all dry

The Bryonia 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 suits 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

Painful stiffness in nape of neck

Drowsy; starting when falling asleep

Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick

Evening

Open air

Warm weather after cold days

Warmth

Warm drinks

Any motion

Morning

Eating

Hot weather

Exertion

Touch

Pressure

Rest

Cold things

Pains like electric shocks here and there

Waving sensation or opening and shutting sensation in brain

Brain feels too large

Menses profuse, dark, coagulated, offensive with backache, nervousness; always irregular

Stiffness and contraction in neck and back

Sleeplessness

Cold (except headache)

During menses

the more profuse the flow, the greater the suffering

Eating

There is always great prostration, internal coldness, and tendency to collapse

Shocks as from electricity through one half of body

Dreams of mice

Smell of food causes nausea even to fainting, especially fish

Profuse salivary secretion

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

Motion

Loss of sleep

Smell of food in evening

Mental exertion

Unclean odor from whole body

Contraction of limbs, stiffness and immobility; feeling that he must stretch

Desire for apples and other fruits

Aversion to milk

Much wind in bowels

Constant desire to urinate

Stiff neck and sore shoulders

Heat

Cold wet weather

Pressure

Touch

From 6 pm to 4 am

Is jealous, afraid of being poisoned, etc

Weakness and nervous agitation

Tremulous weakness and twitching of tendons

Muscular twitchings, spasmodic affections

Cannot swallow liquids

Involuntary micturition; has no will to urinate

Impotence

Excited sexual desire

Intense sleeplessness

Great restlessness; every muscle twitches

Will not be covered

During menses

After eating

When lying down

Especially adapted to the nervous temperament-women of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution; rapid change of mental and physical condition, opposite to each other

Great contradictions

Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in mind or body, at the same time made worse by drinking coffee

The superficial and erratic character of its symptoms is most characteristic

Cannot bear tobacco

Pain is small, circumscribed spots

Sour taste.

Easily bites inside of cheeks

Constantly full of saliva

Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed

Sour eructation

Averse to ordinary diet; longs for great variety of indigestible articles

Craving for acid things

Urine profuse, watery

Menses, black, too early, too profuse, or scanty; during menses great languor, with spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen

Feminine sexual frigidity

Sleep very light; jerking of limbs on going to sleep

Dreams continuing a long time; troubling him

Open air

After meals

Coffee

Smoking

Liquids

External warmth

Change of position

Light-complexioned people

A desire to talk-a flow of language and the courage to make a speech

Neck drawn over to one side in sore throat

Stiffness of neck

Pain in nape, as if dislocated

Body icy cold; face yellow; tendency to sweat

Atony

Malnutrition

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.

Lycopodium 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

Shakes head without apparent cause

Twists face and mouth

Mouth waters

Bad odor from mouth

Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food, cabbage, beans, etc

Excessive hunger

Aversion to bread, etc

Desire for sweet things

Food tastes sour

Sour eructations

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

No erectile power; impotence; premature emission

Menses too late; last too long, too profuse

Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina

Drowsy during day; starting in sleep

Dreams of accidents

Offensive secretions; viscid and offensive perspiration, especially of feet and axillæ

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

Cramping of muscles with radiating pains

Neuralgic pains relieved by warmth

Especially suited to tired, languid, exhausted subjects

Indisposition for mental exertion

Sensation as contents of head were liquid, as if parts of brain were changing places, as of a cap on head

Thirst for very cold drinks

Menses too early, dark, stringy

Twitchings

General muscular weakness

Cold

Touch

Night

Bending double

Pressure

Friction

Twitching of facial muscles; mouth and eyes open in rapid succession

Face hot and flushed

Head jerked to one side

Aversion to food

Excessive thirst

Violent erections

Unsteady gait

Constant motion of whole body

Seeks stimulants, coffee, wine, possibly in excess; takes preferably rich and stimulating food

Nux is pre-eminently a male remedy

Irritable, nervous system, hypersensitive and over-impressionable

 Zealous fiery temperament

Easily chilled, avoid open air, etc

Always seems to be out of tune; inharmonious spasmodic action

Sour, bitter eructation

Ravenous hunger,

Desire for stimulants; loves fats and tolerates them well

Dyspepsia from drinking strong coffee

Difficult belching of gas

Frequent ineffectual desire to urinate, or passing but small quantities at each attempt

Frequent calls; little and often

Easily excited desire

Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular, blood black with faint spells

Sexual desire too strong

Cervico-brachial neuralgia; worse, touch

Must sit-up in order to turn in bed

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

Respiration increased

All reflexes are more active

Stiffness in muscles and face and neck

The muscles relax between paroxysms; worse slightest touch, sound, odor

Explosive nervousness

The pains and sensations come suddenly and return at intervals

Jerking of head forwards

Desire for coitus ; any touch on body excites a voluptuous sensation

Rigidity of cervical muscles; sharp pain in nape and down spine

Violent jerking, twitching, and trembling

Touch

Noise

Motion

After meals

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

Tea-drinking dyspepsia

Flatulence and distension; protruding here and there

Urinary stream split and small.; desire sudden and urgent, but cannot be controlled

Profuse leucorrhœa; thick, greenish

Menses scanty, retarded

Profuse perspiration before menses

From heat of bed

At 3 am and 3 pm

From cold, damp air

After breakfast

Fat

Coffee

Vaccination

While drawing up a limb