AGNUS CASTUS- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Suited to those who have abused sexual powers
  • Apathy, sadness
  • H/o repeated gonorrhoea
  • Alternate self contempt with over exaltation
  • Impotence, complete loss of sexual desire
  • Tachycardia from tobacco chewing
  • Milk deficient in nursing mother with great sadness
  • Thinks he is going to die soon and repeats the same
  • Sensation of bowels pressing down, wants to support them with hands
  • Pupils dilated
  • Deep anal fissures, soft stools are passed with difficultly
  • Hysterical palpitations with nosebleed
  • Imaginary odours like musk or hering in front of nose

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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VIPERA BERUS

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Arrested development in children (Allen’s Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica)
  • Affects the veins, causes venous engorgement
  • Bursting sensation
  • < letting the part hang down > raising the part up
  • Nerves affected- polio
    • Multiple neuritis
  • Ascending paralysis
  • Peeling of skin in large patches
  • Epistaxis on nursing
  • Jaundice with enlarged liver and fever
  • Swollen and blue face and lips
  • Great thirst for cold water
  • Haematuria
  • Boils, gangrene, ulcer etc

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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VIOLA ODORATA- sanpshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Intellectual faculties predominate the emotions
  • Frequent shedding of tears
  • Irritable, tall, thin, nervous
  • Disobedient
  • Weak memory
  • Headache, knit eyebrows from pain
  • Tension as generality
  • Eye ear kidney and worm symptoms combined.
  • Ear pain with eye pain
  • Recurrent otorrhoea in childhood
  • Enuresis with strong smelling urine
  • Fibroids
  • Rheumatic pains- sp right side of body, shoulder and wrist
  • Dry skin with moist palms
  • Craving for meat
  • Feeling of weight on chest

(In a first glance you might think of PULS or SILICEA for the patient. But keep viola odorata in mind when thinking of these remedies)

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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CICUTA VIROSA- a snaphsot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Violence.
  • Mistrustful.
  • Confounds present with past.
  • Bad effects of concussion to brain sp convulsions
  • Convulsions in children during dentition, from worms.
  • Opithotonus
  • < touch, noise
  • Convulsions- no memory. Does not know where he is, knows nothing but answers the questions.
  • Meningitis
  • Head symptoms > passing flatus.
  • Eyes- bad effects from exposure to snow.
  • Strabismus or spasm of eyes after an injury.
  • Bleeding from ears
  • Thick yellow crusted lesions sp on scalp face etc.
  • Desires coal, charcoal etc.
  • Very chilly, desires warmth.

Aude sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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AMMONIUM MUR- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Fat sluggish, large body with thin limbs
    • With respiratory complaints
  • Large buttocks
  • Acrid nasal catarrh, corroding the lip
  • Inflamed tonsils, enlarged painful lymph nodes
  • Dry cough agg night, burning in spot in chest, tenacious mucus
  • Rattling in chest
  • Cough with liver troubles
  • Cough as concomitant
  • Secretions glairy as concomitant.
  • Icy coldness between shoulders
  • Menses
    • Flow more at night
    • Diarrhoea before and during menses
    • Bleeding from rectum during menses
  • Leucorrhoea
    • Profuse like white of an egg
    • Profuse after urination with colic
    • Haemorrhoids from suppressed leucorrhoea
  • Stools
    • Hard and crumbling at verge of anus
    • No stools are alike
  • Smarting and burning piles, agg after stools
  • Tensive pains in limbs, muscles and tendons feel shortened, cannot walk straight
  • Pain in heels ulcerative severe pains, or ulcers on heels.
  • Urine passed more freely with stools
  • Morning stiffness of body > walking in open air

Head and chest symptoms < morning, abdomen < in afternoon and skin, limbs and fever < in the evening

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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STASIS DERMATITIS, VARICOSE VEINS AND ITS MANAGEMENT(HOMOEOPATHY)

Patient Management/Removal of maintaining cause

What is stasis dermatitis?

Stasis dermatitis is hyperpigmentation and later scarring and destruction of the skin, especially of the lower extremities as a sequelae to venous insufficiency.

Who is more liable to have stasis dermatitis?

Found generally in old age but can be found in anyone where there’s damage to the venous system or its valves. Predilection to those with
Jobs requiring long standing,
Increased intrabdominal pressure from chronic constipation, tumour, pregnancy, obesity etc.

What causes stasis dermatitis?

The most common causes include
Varicose veins,
Harvesting veins for cardiac procedures,
Injuries to veins etc.

What are varicose veins?

One of the commonest causes of stasis dermatitis, varicose veins happen due to the incompetency of valves in the veins of the lower legs. The valves prevent the retrograde (backward) flow of blood. When they are incompetent the blood starts pooling in the legs, causing swelling, pain and pigmentation. Slowly the veins enlarge and become tortuous and prominent. As the skin starts getting affected, it becomes atrophic, pigmented and liable to varicose ulcers.

Complications of varicose veins

Complications include

Hyperpigmentation of skin

Scarring of skin, due to atrophic changes

Non-healing varicose ulcers- least injury to atrophic skin leads to varicose ulcers, the usual location of which is the inner side of lower leg (medial aspect just above ankle)

General Management

Regular exercising ensures that the blood flow in the extremities is maintained. Regular exercising also prevents heart diseases which in turn precludes venous insufficiency from harvesting veins for cardiac procedures.

Eating a fibrous and roughage-rich diet prevents constipation which is one of the reasons for raised intraabdominal pressure (which predisposes to varicose veins)

Raising the feet

This simple position while sitting, in those with predilection to varicose veins can in the long run delay the onset of varicose veins.

Massaging from below upwards

This simple massage practice improves flow of blood and prevents stagnation of blood in lower extremities.

Activating soleus

The calf muscles are called the second heart of the body. Simply moving your heels up and down while your toes are fixed while sitting or standing aids the flow of blood from lower extremities towards heart, preventing pooling of blood.

Weight loss
Losing weight helps in many ways in tackling varicose veins.
It improves cardiac function,
Reduces intrabdominal pressure
Improves flexibility and care of feet.

Stop smoking
Smoking causes oxidative damage to the vessels and may predispose to predominantly arterial blocking, but some recent evidence points to venous damage as well. In general, it is better to stop smoking for a better cardiovascular health.

Wearing compression stockings
Commercially and easily available in different sizes, compression stockings prevent pooling of the blood in the lower extremities. They sit tightly around the leg and may pose inconvenience to the wearer. Because of this reason their compliance is low. Nevertheless, when properly fitted and regularly used, they slow down the progress of the diseases to a great extent.
Caution- They are not be used during sleep.

Medical management

Homoeopathic medicine and
Giving constitutional medicine- this is would be given by your homeopathic physician after detailed case taking and taking many factors into consideration.
Massaging with HAMAMELIS Q- (I generally use HAMAMELIS Q 1 drop in 10 drops of oil i.e 1:10 ratio and ask the patient to massage feet from below upwards before sleeping).

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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AMMONIUM CARB- a snapshot

Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers
  • Weak lethargic stout females who are very chilly and have a tendency to take cold.
  • Desire to lie down all the time.
  • Aversion to bathing. Unclean body habits.
  • Haemorrhagic diathesis- fluid blood
  • Breathlessness
    • Agg ascending
    • Agg 3-4 am
    • Warm room, feels better in open air (like CARBO VEG)
  • Rattling in chest but nothing comes up. (compare ANT TART)
  • Weak heart
  • Nose always blocked. Snuffles of children. Sleeps with mouth open.
  • Loses breath on sleeping, wakes up gasping for breath. (compare GRINDELIA, LACHESIS)
  • Day sleepiness
  • Sore throat, swollen tonsils, with tendency to gangrenous ulceration
  • Cannot eat without drinking.
  • Very acrid discharges
    • Menses
    • leucorrhoea
    • Coryza etc.
  • Menses
    • Early profuse black clotted menses
    • Agg night
    • Diarrhoea before menses
    • Sadness during menses
    • Yawning and chilliness during menses
    • More when sitting
  • Scarlet fever
    • Body very red .
    • Faint eruptions.     
  • Becomes irritable in wet stormy weather.
  • Bones ache at every change of weather.
  • Bursting headache like BELL and GLONINE sp forehead
  • Nosebleed
    • In morning on waking
    • On washing face
    • After eating
    • On washing hands
  • Emphysema
  • Panaritium/ felon, deep seated pains as if in bones
  • Joint pains agg night, from heat of bed.

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/

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