Remedy

Characteristics Symptoms

Patient Worse by

Patient Better by

Jerking, twitching, trembling and itching

Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice

Sensitive to pressure and cold

Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg

Desire to cover head warmly

Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim

Thirsty all the time

Empty eructations, tasting of apples

Menses increased and early

After eating

After coitus

In cold weather

Before thunderstorm

Pressure on dorsal spine

Scaly pustular eruptions with burning and itching, worse at night

Excessive irritability and fretfulness

Thickly coated white tongue

Can not bear heat of sun

Tendency to grow fat

No thirst

Desire for acids and pickles

Constant belching

Menses too early and profuse

Leucorrhoea watery, acrid, lumpy

Cold things

Evening

Acids

Wine

Water

Washing

During rest

Moist warmth

Nosebleed on washing

Loss of smell

Drowsiness

Debility

Sweating

Sensation of coldness in blood vessels

Trembling of whole body, great prostration and faintness

Thirst for cold water; little and often

Desire for apples, fruits and acids 

From lying down at night

Warmth

Damp cold weather

Sour things

Milk

From eructations and expectoration

Acne indurata, characterized by symmetry in distribution

Acts best in plethoric patients

Limbs and body ache as if beaten

Bed feels too hard

Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots

Sore, lame and bruised feeling

Aversion to tobacco

Thirst with dry mouth

Longing for vinegar

Distaste for milk and meat

Dark brick red sediment in urine

Great fear of being touched or approached

Dreams of death, mutilated bodies

Motion

Rest

Wine

Damp cold

With head low

Eruptions papular, dry, scaly, rough; worse cold and scratching

Debility, exhaustion and restlessness

Great exhaustion after slightest exertion

Irritable weakness

Unquenchable thirst; drinks much but little at a time

Burning relieved by heat

Fear, fright and worry

Gradual loss of weight

Septic infections and low vitality

Craves acids, coffee and milk

Urine scanty, burning, albuminous

Menses too soon and too profuse

Leucorrhoea acrid, burning, offensive, thin

Dreams full of care and fear

After midnight

Cold.

Cold drinks or foods

Seashore

Right side

From head elevated

Warm drinks

Acne in young people

Sugar in urine

Profound prostration

Rapid, irritable pulse

Recurring fevers and sweats

Emaciation

Drenching night sweats

Chilly, can not endure cold

Great prostration

Chilly even before a fire

Itching in various parts

Scarlet eruptions

Desire for ice cold things

Hoarseness

Languid, drowsy and irritable

Disposition to pimples at adolescence

Best indicated in flabby, lymphatic constitution, flabby with red face

Excitement in both sexes

Night

Cold, damp weather

Left side

Sexual hyperaesthesia

High blood pressure

Urine turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment

Stools constipated, hard and knotty

Sobs aloud in sleep

Frightful dreams

When getting cold

From sunset to sunrise

Walking

Getting warm

High blood pressure

Leucorrhoea with spasmodic contraction of vagina

October to spring

Rest

Specifically indicated in infancy and old age

Also in children who are backward physically or mentally, are dwarfish, do not grow and develop

Takes cold easily

Always have swollen tonsils

Offensive foot sweat

Very weak and weary; must sit or lie down or lean on something

Very averse to meeting strangers

Constipated, hard, knotty stools

Menses scanty

While thinking of symptoms

Washing

Lying on painful side

Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading

Hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperæsthesia of all senses

Dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water

Pains that come and go suddenly

Heat, redness, throbbing and burning

Great children's remedy

No thirst, anxiety or fear

Violence of attack and suddenness of onset

Averse to meat and milk

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

Jar

Noise

Draught

After noon

Lying down

Princely remedy for old laborers, especially gardeners

Wakes early in morning and cannot get to sleep again

Cold wind

Left side

Hot bath and warmth of bed

Before storms

Cold bathing

Blotches and pimples; clears the complexion

Lassitude

Thick mucus, and bright-red, mealy sediment in urine

Rapid change of symptoms-pains change in regard to place and character-thirst alternates with thirstlessness, hunger, and loss of appetite, etc

Acts well in fleshy persons, good livers, but with little endurance

Diminished saliva; sticky, frothy saliva, like cotton

Urine with thick mucus and bright-red, mealy sediment

Menses scanty, gray mucus

Leucorrhœa with grayish mucus

Standing

Adapted to stammering children, old maids with palpitation; and "tettery" patients

Intolerant of tight clothing around waist

Menses too early and profuse; worse at night

Leucorrhœa acrid, thick, tough, greenish, follows menses

Traces of menses between menstruation

Sweat in axillæ; onion smell

Best indicated in Blondes

Sense of suffocation

Excoriating discharges

Profuse sweats

Great weakness

Cold sensation when inspiring

Menses too early; too profuse, with membranous shreds

When sitting in warm room

Warm damp weather 

When at rest

Lying left side

Exercise

At sea.

Increased local and general perspiration

Gets out of breath easily

A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork

Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence

Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats

Fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour patients

Takes cold at every change of weather

Persistent sour taste

Aversion to fat, meat, boiled things

Craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets

Milk disagrees

Thirst; longing for cold drinks

Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist

Menses too early, too profuse, too long

Leucorrhœa, milky

Dreams of the dead

Ascending

Cold in every form

Water

Washing

Moist air

Wet weather

During full moon

Standing

Lying on painful side

Numbness and crawling

Tendency to perspiration

Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats

Much flatulence

Leucorrhœa, like white of egg

Weary when going upstairs

Exposure to damp, cold weather

Melting snow

Dry, scurfy accumulation and exfoliation of epithelial scales

Many little matterless pimples under the hair, bleeding when scratched

Skin affections with yellowish scabs

Mucous discharges are yellow, thick and lumpy

Menses late, long-lasting

Very sensitive to cold

Patient is weak, emaciated, cold and chilly, but worse from being overheated

Great thirst

Painful and irregular menses; flow between periods

Feeble pulse

Depressed breathing

Increased olfactory sensibility

Pains are terrible; come and go suddenly

Desire for stimulants and tobacco

Almost black; containing sugar

Acne rosacea

All secretions are offensive

Weak digestion

Flatulence

Repugnance to fat food

Menses too early, frequent long lasting; followed by great exhaustion; so weak, can hardly speak; flow only in morning

After shaving

Loss of animal fluids

Eruption in corner of alæ nasi

Typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints

Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness

Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis

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

Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests

Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things

The simplest food distresses

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

From fanning

Cold.

Dirty white sallow skin

Emaciation

Burning, rawness, and soreness

Pimples and warts on nose

Aversion to sweets

Worse after eating fresh meat; smoked meat agrees

Menses cease at night; flow only during day; delayed

In clear fine weather

Cold air

From motion of carriage

Warmth

Heat of bed

Vesicular or squamous lesions, associated with foul smelling discharge and crust formation, tending to become confluent and to give the appearance of a single crust covering the entire area

Violent itching in thighs, legs and ears

Dry, scaly eruption, especially around eyes and ears, scabs with pus underneath

Sensation of internal chill

Pustules which run together forming thick, yellow scabs on face and head, corners of mouth and chin, with burning pain

Desire for unnatural things, like coal

Draughts

Concussion

Tobacco smoke

Menses profuse, dark, coagulated, offensive

Cold (except headache)

During menses; the more profuse the flow, the greater the suffering

Eating

Lewd dreams

Emissions without erection

Mental excitement

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

Menses delayed and scanty

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

Symptoms of blood poisoning, septic conditions generally

Tired feeling

Foul discharges with emaciation and great debility

Urine albuminous, scanty, frequent, and involuntary

Acne rosacea

A state of intoxication like alcohol

Everything appears beautiful and larger; excitement soon changing to depression

Sensation as if pimples would break out

Salivation

Constant hunger; poor digestion; loses flesh

Especially indicated in patients who are rather stout, of fair complexion

Constipation

Fat, chilly, and costive

Delayed menstrual history

Takes cold easily

Gushing leucorrhœa; pale, thin, profuse, white, excoriating

Hears better in noise

Breath smells like urine

Aversion to meat

Sweets nauseate

Hot drinks disagree

Menses too late, with constipation; pale and scanty

Decided aversion to coitus

At night

During and after menstruation

From wrapping up

Acne in youth

The lesions spread by the formation of small papules around the side of the old lesion

Best indicated in blondes with sluggish character and weak muscles

Great sensitiveness to all impressions

Sweating patient pulling blanket around him

The tendency to suppuration

Chilliness

Splinter-like pains

Craving for sour and strong things

Feeling as if wind were blowing on some part

The side of the body on which he lies at night becomes gradually insufferably painful; he must turn

Smell like old cheese

Aversion to fat food

Clay-colored and soft; sour, white, undigested, fetid

Greasy pellicle on urine

Menses late and scanty

Extremely offensive leucorrhœa; smells like old cheese

Cannot bear to be uncovered; wants to be wrapped up warmly

Constant offensive exhalation from the body

Profuse sweat; sour, sticky, offensive

Cool air

Slightest draught

From Mercury

Touch

Lying on painful side

From wrapping head up

From warmth

After eating

Acidum

Sinking sensation at the epigastrium

Drink rumbles through throat and stomach

Vivid, incoherent dreams

Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration

Exceedingly thin, dark complexioned patients

Tremor

Craves cold air

Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many of its aspects

Rapid emaciation

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

Frequent and copious, dark yellow-green, thick, acrid with cuticle on surface

Acrid leucorrhœa, thick, slimy, corroding the linen`

In warm room

Right side

Walking about

In open air.

Pustules on lids and around eyes

Itching and pricking when heated

Exercise

Scratching

On rising in morning

Itching and eruptions of small red pustules

Menses early, black, pitch-like coagulated

Papular eruptions

Pustular eruption, resembling smallpox, with burning pains

Itching with vesicular eruption

General weakness bordering on paralysis

Especially indicated for fleshy, fat, light complexioned persons

More adapted to sub acute rather than the violent acute stage

Cannot digest meat

Desire for beer and acids

Ropy mucus in urine

Yellow, tenacious leucorrhœa

Beer

Hot weather

Undressing

Itching; worse on chest, shoulders, and face

Urine profuse, with thirst

Exaggerated sexual desire

Night terrors

Grinding teeth in sleep

Horrible dreams

Coldness

General depression

Sensitive to every atmospheric change

Intolerance of cold weather

Best indicated in fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic tendencies

Profuse sweating

Backache

Weakness

"Giving-out" sensation

Desire for sweets

Delayed menses in young girls; difficult, first menses

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

Purple spots; worse on legs

Saliva increased

Much thirst

Menses late, profuse

Corrosive leucorrhœa

Warm clothing

Warm room

At night

Damp weather

Open air

Fatty or rich food causes indigestion

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

Motion

Urine offensive

Dreams of urinating

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

Anxious dreams of pursuit, fire, erections, etc

Cold

Rest

When lying

After menstruation

Motion

Warm diet

Profuse and frequent urination

Red pimples on forehead and cheeks; stinging when touched

There is a general lack of animal heat, and yet heat of bed is intolerable

From heat of bed

Putting feet in cold water

Copper-colored eruption on face

Ailments gradually developing

Best indicated in older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion; also precocious, weakly children; to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power

Red sand in urine

Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm

Emaciation

Debility in morning

Patient is thin, withered, full of gas and dry. Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities

Sensitive to noise and odors

Aversion to bread, etc

Desire for sweet things

Cannot eat oysters

Menses too late; last too long, too profuse

Leucorrhœa, acrid, with burning in vagina

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

Eruptions ulcerate and form thick scabs under purulent matter exudes

Very sensitive to cold air

Eruption around mouth, with coryza

Desire for ham-fat

Red flakes float on top of urine

Menses too frequent, soon, profuse

Leucorrhœa like albumen; very corroding

Night, evening until midnight

Warm food

Touch

Motion

Vesicular and pustular eruptions

Tremors everywhere

Weakness with ebullitions and trembling from least exertion

Sensitive to heat and cold; a human "thermometer"

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

Intense thirst for cold drinks

Menses profuse, with abdominal pains

Leucorrhœa excoriating, greenish and bloody

Skin almost constantly moist

From warmth of bed

From damp, cold, rainy weather

During perspiration

Rest

Lying on right side

Warm room 

Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints

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

Loss of smell and taste

Unquenchable thirst

Sweats while eating

Craving for salt

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

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

Leucorrhœa acrid, watery

Dreams of robbers

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.

Black pores on face, papules worse on forehead

Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life

All discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration

Take cold easily

Disposed to diarrhœa

Excessive physical irritability

Very sensitive to noise, as the rattle of wagons over pavements

Longing for indigestible things-chalk, earth; fats, 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

Short breath on going upstairs

Cold climate, and also hot weather

Pre-eminently the remedy for many of the conditions incident to modern life

Thin, spare, quick, active, nervous, and irritable patient

Does a good deal of mental work; has mental strains and leads a sedentary life

Seeks stimulants, coffee, wine, possibly in excess

Takes preferably rich and stimulating food

Zealous fiery temperament

Easily chilled, avoid open air

Loves fats and tolerates them well

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

Frequent calls to urinate; little and often

Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular

Must sit up in order to turn in bed

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

Mental exertion

After eating

Touch

Spices

Stimulants

Narcotics

Dry weather

Cold

In evening

While at rest

In damp, wet weather

Strong pressure

Eruption on scalp

Humid, fetid spots behind ears and occiput, with red, rough, herpetic spots in front

Corrosive itching on forehead and edge of hair; worse, heat

Undigested feces

Stool passes when emitting flatus

Rest

Friction of clothes

Climacteric disturbances generally

Itching at night

Strong aversion to fat food, meat

Must rise at night and eat

Odor of garlic

Leucorrhœa, profuse, albuminous

Riding in cars, carriages, or ships

Eating cabbage

Dampness

Before and during a thunder-storm

Eating

From mental states

Lying with head high

Dry weather

Mental debility first; later physical

Best indicated in young people who grow rapidly, and who are overtaxed, mentally or physically

Averse to sunlight; sees colors as if a rainbow

Intolerant of noise

Craves juicy things

Thirst for cold milk

Urine frequent, profuse, watery, milky

Menses too early and profuse

Lascivious dreams with emissions

From being talked to

Loss of vital fluids

Sexual excesses

Everything impeding circulation

Eruption around finger-nails

Intolerable itching

Wants the head kept warm; wants warm clothing even in summer

Extreme sensitiveness to cold

Lack of reaction

Secretions have a filthy smell

Profuse sweating

Very hungry always; must have something to eat in the middle of the night

Leucorrhœa fetid, lumpy, with much backache and debility

Dread of least cold air or draft

Changes of weather

In hot sunshine

From cold

Warm clothing, even in summer

Pre-eminently a female remedy, especially for mild, gentle, yielding disposition

Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking

Changeable, contradictory; symptoms ever changing

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

Thirstless

Peevish

Great sensitiveness

Wants the head high; feels uncomfortable with only one pillow

Lies with hands above head

Desire for tonics

Averse to fat food, warm food, and drink

Two or three normal stools daily; no two stools alike

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

Leucorrhœa acrid, burning, creamy

Rich fat food

After eating

Towards evening

Warm room

Lying on left or on painless side

When allowing feet to hang down

Cold applications

Cold food and drinks, though not thirsty

Small pimples

Itching all over body, burning of skin, as if afire

Lowered blood pressure

Severe aching pains all over, with restlessness, better moving about

Great weakness

Aversion to sweets, ice-cream

Delayed and irregular menstruation

Dreams vivid, busy; of fire

Continued motion

Hot bath

Lying down

Pressure

Motion always "limbers up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a change of position

Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat

Desire for milk

Dark, turbid, high-colored, scanty urine, with white sediment

Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid

Dreams of great exertion

Cold, wet rainy weather and after rain

At night

During rest

Drenching

When lying on back or right side

Motion

Walking

Change of position

Rubbing

Warm applications

From stretching out limbs.

Pronounced acidity

Intensely acrid eructations

Stools and perspiration sour

Acrid, fetid leucorrhœa

Discharge of blood between menstrual periods

Tendency to miscarriage, especially at third month

Violent pulsations; wants windows open

Desire for lemonade

Menses profuse, bright; discharge of blood between periods, with sexual excitement

Sexual desire increased

Leucorrhœa after menses, corrosive, offensive

Heat

Warm air

Acne, with scanty menses

Burning and itching; worse by heat

Circumscribed redness of the cheeks

Flashes of heat

Determination of blood to head and chest

Distention of temporal veins

Burning in palms and soles

Burning sensations, like from hot water

Aversion to butter

Craving for piquant things

Unquenchable thirst

Menses offensive, profuse

Leucorrhœa fetid, corrosive

Right side

Motion

Touch

Sleep

Darkness.

Eruptions on face and upper lip

Moist eruption on scalp

Moist eruption in right groin before menses

No thirst

Urine scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy, bloody

Menses late and scanty

At night

After urinating

When yawning

In spring

Before menses

Dry, scaly eruption in palms, with itching, Itching about the ankles and folds of skin, between fingers

Great debility; worse, heat

Easy exhaustion, mental and physical, in old age

Desire for brandy and other strong drink

In hot weather

From Cinchona

Draught of air

Coition

Rosacea; saddle-like brownish distribution on nose and cheeks

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

Upward tendency of its symptoms

Easy fainting

"Ball" sensation in inner parts

Acts best on brunettes

Feels cold even in warm room

Everything tastes too salty

Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles

Loathes fat

Red, adhesive, sand in urine

Forenoons and evenings

Washing, laundry-work, dampness

Left side

After sweat

Cold air

Before thunder-storm

Pressure

Warmth of bed

Hot applications

Drawing limbs up

Cold bathing

After sleep

Rose-colored blotches

Is cold, chilly, hugs the fire

Wants plenty warm clothing

Hates drafts

Hands and feet cold

Lack of vital heat

Prostration of mind and body

Great sensitiveness to taking cold

 Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants

Ailments attended with pus formation

Want of grit, moral or physical

Disgust for meat and warm food

Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled, recedes again

A milky, acrid leucorrhœa

Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body

New moon

In morning

From washing

During menses

Uncovering

Lying down

Damp

Lying on left side

Cold

Wrapping up head

Summer

In wet or humid weather

Very sensitive

Desire for stimulants

Craving for tobacco

Loss of fluids

Onanism

Sexual excesses

Tobacco

Least touch on affected parts

Warmth

Rest

At night

Pimply eruption, pustules, rhagades, hang-nails

Ebullitions of heat

Dislike of water

Dry and hard hair and skin

Red orifices

Sinking feeling at stomach about 11 a

Cat-nap sleep

Aversion to being washed

Complaints that relapse

General offensive character of discharge and exhalations

Milk disagrees

Great desire for sweets

Great quantities of colorless urine

Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore

Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating

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

Papular eruption on face

Craving for stimulants, alcohol, fresh food

Averse to smell of coffee

Tremor and weakness; everything must be done in a hurry

Menstruation early and profuse

Acrid, burning leucorrhœa, often of bloody mucus

In forenoon and evening

Lying on affected side

Sensation as if water dropped down spine

Oily pellicle on surface of urine

Left side

Freckles and blotches

Brown spots on hands and arms

Perspiration sweetish, and strong

Rapid exhaustion and emaciation

Left-sided and chilly

Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes

Rancid eructations after fat food

Cannot eat onions

Menses scanty, retarded

Profuse leucorrhœa; thick, greenish 

Water

At night

From heat of bed

At 3 am and 3 pm

From cold, damp air

After breakfast

Fat

Coffee

Vaccination

While drawing up a limb

Especially adapted to the light-complexioned, narrow-chested subjects

Lax fiber, low recuperative powers, and very susceptible to changes in the weather

Always tired; motion causes intense fatigue

Aversion to work

Wants constant changes

Rapid emaciation

Very sensitive, mentally and physically

Averse to meat

Desire for cold milk

Menses too early, too profuse, long-lasting

Longs for cold air

Music

Before a storm

Standing

Dampness

From draught

Early morning

After sleep

Cold perspiration on the forehead

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