Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Increased sexual desire; easy conception

Increased local and general perspiration

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

Children crave eggs and eat dirt and other indigestible things; are prone to diarrhœa

Calcarea 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

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

While eating

Lying on painful side

Excoriating, burning, and offensive discharges

Overgrown, poorly developed children

Putrid odor and bitter taste

Urine offensive

Violent itching of vulva and vagina, worse when urinating

Can urinate only when lying; cannot get out of bed quick enough during first sleep

Dreams of urinating

Must hurry when desire comes to urinate

Corrosive itching within vulva, burning and swelling of labia; violent itching between labia and thighs

During menses, difficult hearing; buzzing and roaring; eruption after

Burning and soreness in external and internal parts

Leucorrhœa, yellow, acrid; odor of green corn; worse between periods

Menses too early, prolonged; menstrual flow intermits; ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on lying down

Sleep disturbed with tossing; paralytic sensation in limbs on waking

Anxious dreams of pursuit, fire, erections, etc

Cold rest

When lying

After menstruation

Motion

Warm diet

Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion

Complaints increase with the sweat and rest; all associated with a great deal of weariness, prostration, and trembling

A human "thermometer"

Sensitive to heat and cold

Parts are much swollen, with raw, sore feeling; the profuse, oily perspiration does not relieve

Breath, excretions and body smell foul

Tendency to formation of pus, which is thin, greenish, putrid; streaked with thin blood

Sweetish metallic taste

Salivary secretions greatly increased; bloody and viscid

Saliva fetid, coppery

Speech difficult on account of trembling tongue

Fetid odor from mouth, can smell it all over room.

Great thirst, with moist mo

Constant desire to swallow

Putrid eructations

Intense thirst for cold drinks

Weak digestion, with continuous hunger

Frequent urging to urinate

Greenish discharge from urethra; burning in urethra on beginning to urinate

Urine dark, scanty, bloody, albuminous

Menses profuse, with abdominal pains

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

Itching and burning; worse, after urinating; better, washing with cold water

Wet, damp weather

Lying on right side

Perspiring

Warm room

Warm bed

Damp, cold, rainy weather

Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory

The patient seeks the open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly

Mucous membranes are all affected

Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish-green

Often indicated after abuse of Iron tonics, and after badly-managed measles

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

Greasy taste

Dry mouth, without thirst; wants it washed frequently

Frequently licks the dry lips

Offensive odor from mouth

Food, especially bread, tastes bitter

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

Bitter taste, diminished taste of all food

Flatulence

Dislikes butter

Heartburn

Gnawing, hungry feeling

No two stools alike

Two or three normal stools daily

Increased desire to urinate; worse when lying down

Burning in orifice of urethra during and after micturition

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

Leucorrhœa acrid, burning, cream

Wide awake in the evening; first sleep restless; wakes languid, unrefreshed

Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon

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

Cold drinks, though not thirsty

Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation, especially in women, upon whose organism it has most pronounced effect

Tendency to abortion

 Hot flashes at menopause with weakness and perspiration

Upward tendency of its symptoms

Easy fainting

"Ball" sensation in inner parts

Sepia acts best on brunettes

Feels cold even in warm room

Taste salty, putrid

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

Violent stitches upward in the vagina, from uterus to umbilicus

Vagina painful, especially on coition

Evenings

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

Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion

Irritable weakness

Burning pains

Burning relieved by heat

Fear fright and worry

Green discharges

Septic infections and low vitality

Metallic taste

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

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

After midnight

From cold, cold drinks, or food

Seashore

Right side

From head elevated

Warm drinks

Very sensitive to slightest noise; not so much disturbed by louder ones

Taste bitter;  of "cellar mould"

Hot, smarting pain in orifice; pungent smell; child afraid to urinate, screams before urinating

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

Sensation of distention in clitoris with sticking

Pruritis of vulva and eczema

Voluptuous dreams

Cannot sleep on account of heat, especially in head

Cries out of sleep as if frightened

Noise

Smoking

Warm weather

After menses

Evening

Cold weather

Sugar in urine

Especially active in old, easily-tired people, cachectic individuals, with great debility

Feels his wits sharpened, head cleared, facile expression

Weak muscular power, poor digestion and obstinate constipation

Emaciation and prostration

Peppery taste

Weak digestion

Bitter taste

Cannot eat bread or vegetables

Urine smells decomposed

Leucorrhœa, worse after menses; acrid and corroding, shreddy, tenacious

Pruritus vulvæ, with profuse leucorrhœa

Sexual excitement

Hungry with much thirst

Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration

Exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin

Tremor

Craves cold air

Acts prominently on connective tissue

Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many of its aspects.

Is warm, and wants cool surroundings

Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs

Offensive odor from mouth

Ravenous hunger and much thirst

Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were turned into gas

Anxious and worried if he does not eat

Loss flesh, yet hungry and eating well

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

In warm room

Night side

In open air

After eating

White or gray coating of base of tongue, and expectoration of thick, white phlegm

Fatty or rich food causes indigestion

Flatulence

Leucorrhœa; discharge of milky-white mucus, thick, non-irritating, bland

Fats

Motion

Pains appear and disappear quickly

Putrid breath

Salivation

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; burning and stinging

Urine bloody and albuminous

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

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

Stitches through vagina

Night

Cold climate

And also hot weather

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

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

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

Water fills the patient up

Frequent micturition, especially at night

Burning in urethra during micturition, lasts long after

Mucus and pus in urine; parts sore over which it passes

Must hurry, sudden call to urinate

Great quantities of colorless urine

Pudenda itches

Vagina burns

Much offensive perspiration

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

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