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• Pains
  • With sweat
  • The more the pain more the sweat (compare CHAMOMILLA)
  • Dragging in nature
• Muscular weakness of the eyes
• Neuralgia rt head with veil before eyes
• Confusion with dim vision
• Nose
  • Sneezing coryza
  • Nosebleed
• Uterus
  • Sore feeling, bearing down
  • Puerperal metritis
• Leucorrhoea
  • When walking
• Soreness of external genitalia
• Pelvic inflammation with sweating

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• Aversion to females and girls, with nymphomania
• Sadness alternating with hopefulness
• Pain in back on swallowing
• Hot putrid eructation, burning in throat
• Abdomen
  • Bloated
  • Tympanites
  • No flatus passed up or down
  • Faecal vomiting
• Urine thick milky
• Menses profuse and long lasting
• Oily greasy skin
• Post operative gas pains
• Riding in carriage causes pain in heart

(You might think of ASAFOETIDA, which has similar bloating and GI symptoms. ASAFOETIDA however has marked constant eructations and other features which distinguishes it from RAPHANUS. The aversion to females in RAPHANUS with GERD like symptoms should clinch the remedy.)

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• Self-centred
• Whining and irritable
• Mesnses
  • Dysmenorrhoea with dysuria
  • Puberty agg
  • Amenorrhoea in young girls
  • Amenorrhoea with backache
  • Sleeplessness with amenorrhoea
  • Dysmenorrhoea after abortion
• Coryza, sneezing
  • Dry mouth, throat
  • With nosebleed
• Muscles draw in knots
• Aversion sweets

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• A spleen remedy
  • Enlarged spleen in intermittents
  • Painful spleen
  • Breathless from enlarged spleen
• Cannot lie on left side
• Liver enlarged and sensitive
• Chronic bronchitis with profuse secretions
• Very chilly, must sit near fire to relieve
• leukaemia
• Green urine is a very important concomitant of this remedy
• Left sided pain in
  • Diarrhoea, leucorrhoea or with dyspnoea

(Think of this remedy in grossly enlarged spleen (splenomegaly) differential diagnosis- malaria, myeloproliferative disorders etc.)

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Prepared from tincture of the fresh plant when in bloom, it produces hemorrhages and tenesmus.

• Haemorrhage/ hemorrhage
  • Bright red
  • In gushes, on slightest exertion
  • Metrorrhagia
  • Dysentery
• Dysuria with metrorrhagia
• Vesico-rectal tenesmus
• Urinary retention
• Injury around eye from blow
• Ecchymosis
• Placenta previa- its tendency to produce free haemorrhage makes it useful in placenta previa.
• Tympanites
• < rainy weather

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• Bones
  • Communited fracture
  • Non healing fractures, callous does not form
• Injury
  • Pain in periosteum remains after bones have healed
  • Injury to sinews, bones, tendons
  • Blunt injuries to eyes involving eyeballs
  • Penetrating injuries to perineum
• Coldness
• Gastric and duodenal ulcers

(Clarke in his THE DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL MATERIA MEDICA very beautifully explains the difference in injury of ARNICA and SYMPHYTUM

Arn., soft parts, Symp., hard; Arn., painful swelling with discoloration, Symp., without discoloration; Arn., sore, bruised lame; Symp., pricking, stitching, jagging pains)

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• Blood won’t clot, wounds wouldn’t heal.
• Epilepsy
  • A glow rises from feet up (epileptic aura)
• Chorea
• Limbs
  • Rheumatism from cold
  • With pain in limbs, pain in ankle and knee alternating with pain in elbow and shoulders
  • Numbness and sensation of spider in hand and feet
  • Trembling sensation
• Females
  • Metrorrhagia, partly clotted bright blood
  • Retained placenta
  • Complaints of climacteric years
• Heart
  • Hypertrophied and failing
  • Cannot lie on back reclining or on left side
  • Weak pulse
  • Valvular diseases
• Hypertensive albuminuria
• Palpitation during coition.

(A rheumatic remedy with heart and joint symptoms, it should be thought of in females who suffer from heavy bleeding)

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• Fleshy subjects
• Impatient, anxiety
• Slightest change of diet disturbs bowels
• Asthmatic rales in bronchi
• Cough with offensive breath
• Pains going outwards
• Stomach disturbances with headache
• Headache during menses
• Appetite increased
• Gastritis

Think of a NUX VOM like subject with lot of cough and mucus rales in his chest

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• Loquacious. Excitable, full of fancies
• Cough/ Whooping cough
  • Each spells seems to end the life
  • Spasmodic
  • Child turns blue
  • Cannot exhale
  • Dry, hollow, deep
  • Agg drinking, talking, night
  • Asthmatic
• Desire to bathe in icy water which might agg
• agg menses after
• Fidgety feet
• Violent vertigo
• Headache from motion of carriage

(Think of a person who is excitable and talkative, who has congestions to various parts of body, so much so that he even wants to bathe in very cold water. He is restless and fidgety feet (you might think of PHOSPHOROUS). He suffers from severe cough which is agg at night on drinking and talking)

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• Scornful, contemptuous
• Talkative, polished talks but disconnected talks, jumping from one topic to another.
• Whole body feels heavy
• Sensation of weight on neck
• Soreness of body to touch.
• Joints feel dislocated on movement
• Sense of touch affected; everything feels rough
• Numbness of head, fingers, skin
• Stinging pains
• Catarrhal condition
• Imaginary odours in front of nose
• Cough dry, pthisical, greenish expectoration.
• Painless periodical hoarseness of larynx with deep bass voice
• Can’t brush hair, sensitive scalp
• Eyes feel enlarged, pushed out of sockets

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