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• Burning severe.
• Cellulitis, suppuration, lymphangitis, sepsis.
• Wounds, insect bites etc become septic.
• Severe burning and prostration as concomitant.
• Ulceration, sloughing, black blue blisters, gangrenous tissue.
• Compare ars, pyro, lach.

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• Unusual candour and talkativeness. Very open-hearted.
• Awkward in action and speech. Drop things from hands.
• Stammering.
• Haemorrhage- dark/ oozing. Herpetic eruptions.
• Urticaria with diarrhoea or menorrhagia.
• Tetters- dry or moist.
• Puffiness. Things leave an indentation when held. Odema persisting in old sprains or at fracture sites.
• Menses flow only at night.
• Renal colic > by eating is a very unusual guide.
• Very similar to USTILAGO in haemorrhage.
• (Think of a person sp. female coming and talking very openly about things but she stammers and is awkward, dropping things from hands. Patient looks a bit swollen/ puffiness in appearance. Her skin is tettery, has urticaria or herpetic eruptions. She has complaints related to menses or some passive haemorrhage. She has diarrhoea before and during menses. Look no further and give Bovista.)

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• Diarrhoea- spluttering, coming out in a gush, thin watery followed by burning in anus.
• Burning pains- all pains have a burning character and this feature is an important differentiation point from all other diarrhoea remedies.  Burning in eyes, stomach, anus etc.
• Itching in the eyes with burning and sneezing, if found with diarrhoea can point out towards Gambogia.

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Rheumatism and paralytic complaints. (Pains so severe as to make walking difficult, bruised sore feeling).

Tetanus with blueness of face during spasm.

Bone caries and ulcers.

Great desire for coffee.

Irritability like nux vom but nux is stubborn while angust is coward.

Belching with cough.

Chronic diarrhoea with emaciation.

Used after merc has been given but fails.

(Think of this remedy in a person who is coffee drinker and have couple of cups of it a day. The patient starts getting pains and stiffness in the joints which increases to the extent making him unable to walk properly. He feels weak with no power in the legs. You might notice some ulcers on the legs. The patient may also complain of sever spasms wherein his face might turn blue from pain. There might be a h/o weight loss from chronic diarrhoea not settling with any remedy. You may hear that he has become irritable recently and is not like himself. He may feel weak inside, backing down in situations where he earlier held his ground. You may think of RUTA or MERC for him. Think of ANGUSTURA VERA too when you think of these remedies.)

(This remedy is prepared from the bark of its tree.)

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Shivangi Jain
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(compiled from N M CHOIDHRY MATERIA MEDICA and NASH LEADERS)

Pains with desire to take deep breath- xantho

Pains with chilliness- puls

Pains with delirium- veart alb

Pains with fainting- hepar sulph

Pains with irritability- cham, nux v

Pains with numbness- aco, plat, cham

Pains with salivation- plantago

Pains with sleepiness- nux mos

Pains with sweat- cham

Pains with frequent micturition- thuja

In an acute case sometimes, it is important to relieve the most troubling symptom. It can however lead us to the right remedy if carefully individualized. These quick tips of differentiating between closely associated remedies aspire to do the same. 

Here you will find how to differentiate nausea of different remedies. The characteristic symptoms which differentiate these remedies are also mentioned for easy understanding.

• Nux vom- has more of retching than vomiting. Chilliness and irritability.
• Ant tart- nausea is associated with sleepiness. Rattling in chest.
• Ipecac- nausea is associated with clean tongue and thirstlessness. Rattling chest.
• Tobaccum- severe nausea with sweating and sinking in stomach > by uncovering the abdomen.
• Lobelia- very similar to tobaccum (except the modality), it has however more action on respiratory sphere, rattling chest. Salivation with complaints. Pricking and itching of skin Is a useful concomitant to differentiate it from other drugs. Urine with deep red colour/ sediment with aSbove complaints.

Rhododendron has amelioration by immediate motion(Boger). This differentiates it from other medicines that have agg < or aml > around motion like, rhus tox, puls, bryonia, phyto, caps etc.