LAC FELINUM- a snapshot

  • Morbid conscientiousness
  • Great fear of sharp objects, thinks that they will pierce the eyes
  • Severe headache with pain in left eye, the pains penetrate into brain backwards and to right side of vertex.
  • Great photophobia
  • Styes
  • Desire to eat paper
  • Eyes get affected every September

(Think of this remedy when you think of SPIGELIA. Both have piercing eye pains and fear of sharp objects)

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KALIUM ARSENICUM/ KALI ARS- a snapshot

  • Complaints tending towards malignancy
  • Restless nervous, anaemic
  • Frightened expression
  • Jealous, quarrelsome
  • Doesn’t want to answer
  • Nights are filled with sufferings
  • Aggravation- < noise, touch, cold feet, 1-3am
  • Amelioration- > Rainy days
  • Skin
    • Intolerable itching
    • Chronic eczema, psoriasis, lichen
    • Agg- < undressing, warmth, walking
    • Fissures in bend of joints
    • Sudden onset in skin malignancy
    • Numerous nodules under skin

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PLUMBUM METALLICUM- a snapshot

  • Affections more of emotions than of intellect
  • Slow insidious processes
  • Marasmus with large hard abdomen and constipation, in children
  • Impaired memory (compare ANACARDIUM, BARYTA CARB, LAC CANINUM)
  • Changeable incoherent symptoms in single parts
  • Exaggerates illness
  • Impulse to stretch
  • Inclined to cheat, deceive
  • Stiffness
  • Taciturn timid restless anxious
  • Fears assassination
  • Greasy oily shiny skin of face (NAT MUR, SELE, THUJA)
  • Tremors of nasolabial muscle
  • Fainting on going to a room full of people
  • Hysteria only when watched
  • Tendency to abortion
  • It feels as if there isn’t enough space for the foetus to grow
  • Stools
    • Constipation
    • Stool like sheep dung
    • Stools passed with colic
    • Cold sweat during stool
  • Paralysis
    • Touch < the part
    • Of single parts
    • Wrist drop
    • Loss of plantar reflexes
    • Lower limbs
  • Twitching pains and cramps
  • Cold feet during walking
  • Disposition to yawn and stretch
  • Convulsions/ cramps
    • With haemorrhage
    • Periodical
    • Or hyperaesthesia
  • Chronic epilepsy with marked aura
  • Physical labor exhaust the mind
  • Delirium
    • Nocturnal
    • Alternating with colic or pain in limbs
    • Alternating delirium and somnolence
  • Pain in atrophied limb alternating with colic
  • Skin
    • Skin of face oily greasy (compare NATRUM MUR, SANIC, SELENIUM, THUJA)
    • Skin dry and oversensitive
    • Dry burning ulcers
    • Distended veins on forearms and legs
  • Foetid food sweat
  • Falls asleep while speaking
  • Sclerosed spine with lightening like pains > pressure
  • Interstitial nephritis
    • With great pains in abdo
    • With cerebral symptoms and amaurosis
  • Intussusception
  • Strangulated hernias
  • Blue margins along gums
  • Tremors of tongue, can’t put it out
  • Eye
    • Glaucoma
    • Optic nerve inflamed
  • Very dry hair
  • Multiple sclerosis
    • Lightening pains exhorting cries
    • Rapid emaciation
  • Progressive muscular atrophy
  • Rapid and excessive emaciation
  • Paraesthesia or hyperaesthesia after pains

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AESCLEPIAS TUBEROSA- a snapshot

  • Action on
    • Sudoriferous glands
    • Chest muscles
  • Bronchitis
  • Pleurisy
  • Catarrhal states
    • From damp cold weather (compare dulcamara)
    • Headache with yellow sticky discharge
    • Catarrhal dysentery with rheumatic pains all over
  • Base of left lung painful
  • Cough
    • Dry, causes pain in head and abdo
    • Pain chest shooting downward from left nipple
    • Pain > bending forward
    • Intercoastal space near sternum is tender
  • Irritation in larynx with huskiness
  • Influenza with pleuritic pain
  • Lancinating pains between shoulder
  • Sick headaches with flatulence
  • Flatulence after meals
  • Stomach sensitive to tobacco
    • Feeling of drunkenness after smoking little
  • Stools smell like rotten eggs
  • Joints pains as if adhesions being broken up on bending
  • Diagonal pains
  • Excessive weakness, cannot walk.
  • Numbness of whole body
  • Motion <
  • Deep breathing <
  • Snuffles of children
  • Capillary bronchitis in children
  • Sweating as concomitant
    • In pleuropneumonia
    • Diarrhoea
    • In rheumatism
  • Colliquative states (compare AGARICUS)
  • Yellow coated tongue
  • Yellow nasal discharge
  • Pericardial effusion.

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RUTA GRAVEOLENS- a snapshot

  • Melancholy towards evening
  • Injuries
    • To periosteum/ bones
    • Dislocations
    • Sprains, lameness after sprains
  • Pthisis after mechanical injuries to chest
    • Yellow expectoration
  • Restlessness as concomitant
    • Constantly changing position in bed
  • Severe soreness in the body
    • Weakness and bruised feeling
    • The side lain on feels hard (compare BAPTISIA, PYROGINUM)
  • Rectum
    • Prolapse after confinement
    • Prolapse on trying to pass stool
    • Prolapse on even bending
    • Nauseas felt in rectum
    • Stricture of rectum
  • Cancers of lower bowel
  • Eyes
    • Asthenopia
    • Burning redness in the eye after fine work.
    • Eyes feel weary (compare NATRUM MUR, SENEGA)
  • Back/ joints
    • Severe backacke esp just before getting up in the morning
    • Complaints are better after moving sp joint pains.
    • Backache > lying down on back
    • Wrist and ankles painful and stiff
    • Cracking in joints < open air
    • Burning pain in feet while walking, bones feel sore
  • Thighs feel weak
  • Hamstrings feel shortened (KALI BI, GRAPH, GUAIAC)
  • Bursitis/ ganglion
  • Legs feel weak on getting up from chair
  • Knees give way on ascending and descending stairs
  • Tension in stomach > drinking milk
  • < uncooked food
  • Glowing heat of skin
  • Unquenchable thirst for cold water
  • Vomiting of worms in children

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ANAGALLIS ARVENSIS- a snapshot

  • Syphilitic medicine
  • Great hilarity
  • Skin
    • Itching
    • Tingling
    • Tetters
    • Bran like eruptions on hands
    • Warts
    • Eruptions on palms
    • Ringworm
  • Parts feel cold
  • Headache
    • From mental work
    • Supraorbital, with rumbling in stools, > drinking coffee
  • Pains
    • In facial muscles
    • In left shoulder shooting to nape of neck (eupatorium perf)
    • Gouty/ rheumatic pains in shoulders arms etc.
  • Urine
    • Burning and pain in urine
    • Stream splits into several streams

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CHIONANTHUS VIRGINICA- a snapshot

A small shrub tree with fragrant fringe like flowers, the medicine is prepared from the bark of tree.

  • Headaches
    • Bilious
    • Periodical migraines
    • Aggravation stooping and motion
    • Pain over eyes. Root of nose painful.
  • Enlarged
    • Liver
    • Spleen
  • Jaundice
    • Periodical, occurring annually
    • concomitants
      • With amenorrhoea (compare- LEPTANDRA)
      • Constipation
    • Clay coloured stools
    • Very dark urine

(the above 2 symptoms indicate an obstructive jaundice pathology)

  • A very good remedy for gall stones (CHOLESTRINUM, BERBERIS, CALC)
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Paroxysmal abdomen pains
    • Feeling as if knot tied in intestines and left loose slowly
  • Thick yellow coated tongue

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OLEUM JACORIS A- a snapshot

  • Affects – Liver/ pancreas/ tendons/ chest
  • Very good infant remedy
    • Atrophy of infants with hot hands, restlessness and feverishness.
    • Children who cannot digest milk
    • Used locally, in dwarfish emaciated babies
  • Chronic rheumatism- pain in elbows, knees
  • Soreness as generality
    • Sore chest
    • Liver / chest/ abdo/ kidney/ovaries/ back etc
  • Cold damp <
  • Hemoptysis
  • Fever evening with burning in palms
  • Yellowness
    • Tongue
    • Leucorrhoea
    • Expectoration
  • Chilly
  • Cough < on exposure to cold damp weather
  • Red face
  • Voracious appetite yet emaciation (SANICULA, TUBERCULINUM, IODUM)
  • Rigid tendons
  • Milk crust
  • Growth of hair on face of females
  • Ringworms.

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MANGANUM ACETICUM- a snapshot

  • Stoic face, like a mask
  • Involuntary laughter and weeping
  • Weepy, moaning and groaning
  • Anxiety > lying down
  • Asthmatics cannot lie on feather pillows
  • Low monotonous voice
  • Body extremely painful, feels bruised and sore to touch
  • Pains from different parts settle in ears.
  • Very much affected by sad music
  • Delayed first menses
  • Paraplegia
  • Ant horn of spinal cord affected
  • Gait
    • Slapping gait
    • Festinating gait
    • Walks backwards
  • Paralysis
    • Ascending, lower limbs affected first
  • Ears
    • Deafness from exposure to cold damp
    • Whistling tinnitus (compare KALI IOD)
    • Ears open up on blowing nose
  • Nose
    • Chronic catarrhal condition
    • Dryness
  • Larynx
    • Raw, expectoration of mucus
    • Sore throat of singers, speakers
    • Laryngeal pthisis and consequent aphonia
  • Every cold rouses a bronchitis (DULC)
  • Flushes of heat at climacteric
  • Nodes on palate (compare ASAFOETIDA)
  • Hot breath
  • Pruritis of diabetes
  • All complaints
    • < night, cold damp weather
      • Lying down
  • Rheumatism
    • Pain in joints after exposure to cold
    • Red swollen joints
    • Eruptions and suppurations around joints
  • Skin
    • Rhagades in bent of joints
    • Red raised spots on skin
  • Severe bone pains
  • Anaemia, jaundice, nephritis with albuminuria        
  • Ulcers and warts on tongue
  • Salivation with complaints: colic, paralysis etc
  • Headache
    • < straining at stool (? Increased intracranial pressure)
  • Weak ankles

(Think of this remedy in neurological complaints)

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CISTUS CANADENSIS- a snapshot

  • Bad effects of vexation, feels as if paralysed
  • Mental excitement increases all sufferings
  • Coldness
    • Of body parts
      • Throat
      • Tip of finger
      • Chest
      • Tongue
      • Saliva etc
    • Feels very cold
    • Tendency to catch cold
  • Cracks
    • Tetters in hands
    • Near canthi
    • Lips
  • Glands
    • Indurated and inflamed
    • Mammae- Cancer
  • Suppurations
  • Nodosities
  • Headache from not eating
  • Throat
    • Raw, with desire to drink sips of water
    • Glairy tenacious mucous hawked
  • Desire cheese
  • hardened areas in hands of workers with cracks
  • asthmatic after lying down with difficult breathing and numbness and crawling over the body

(Think of a very chilly person who is least affected by cold. Even inspired air feels cold. He gets throat sore on least exposure. Complaints started after vexation, he felt almost paralysed from it. You might think of PHYTO, SANG CAN or HEPAR SULPH)

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