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• Sadness and melancholy
  • esp after emissions
• Fear
  • Bad news
  • As if something will happen
• Lassitude in hot weather
• Ill effects of mental exertion and sexual vice
• Easy startling
• Gets up at night thinking furniture are people
• Sourness
  • Discharges, sweat, stool, urine, vomitus
  • Eructations
  • leucorrhoea
• Acidity
  • Gastralgia
  • Colic after eating, stools contain undigested food
  • < milk sugar, fats
  • Mouthful of acidic fluid rises from stomach
  • Sour eructations with one ear hot and itchy
  • Vertigo with gastric derangement
• < coition
  • Urging for stool and urine after coitus
  • Itching at meatus after coitus
• Thunderstorm causes trembling
• < Gaslight
• Joint pains
  • Esp big toe
  • Alternate with heart complaints, Heart pains better when joint pains aggravate
  • Eruptions around joints
• One pupil dilated
• Headache with nausea with one pupil dilated and blurred vision. (? Due to SOL)
• Dysphagia
• Worms
  • Colic with worms
  • Child grinds teeth
  • Picking of nose
  • Roundworms and pinworms
  • Squinting of eyes
• Yellowness of all discharges
  • Tongue coated thick yellow
  • Yellowish leucorrhoea
  • Yellowish d/c from eyes
  • Tonsils covered with yellow coating
  • Yellow phlegm
  • Yellow crusta lactae
• Very weak/ debilitated
  • Paralytic weakness of lower limbs
• Stool
  • Sour
  • Undigested
  • While passing flatus fears will pass stool
  • Legs give way while walking
  • Sensation as if a marble dropped down the descending colon at stool
• Itching
  • Nose, mouth, anus
  • Eczema and itching near ankles
• Morning sickness in pregnancy
• Liver enlarged and engorged
  • Jaundice, give 1x
• One ear red hot other pale, one side of face flushed
• Sore hamstrings
• Sterility with acid secretions from vagina
• Semen fluid and watery, smells like urine
• Skin
  • Chafing of skin
  • Eczema with creamy honey discharge
  • Hives
  • Rosy erysipelas
  • Eczema with symptoms of acidity
• Desires
  • Strong tasting flavors, eggs, fried fish, beer
• Aversion bread and butter

(Comes very close to Sepia in its pain in joints, eruptions around joints and indifference to family. Compare Rheum in sourness. A medicine with many facets.)

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• Light haired bookworm, romantic girls
• Ailments from
  • Grief and anger
  • Night watching
  • Travelling, motion sickness
  • Tea drinking
• Easily offended, at least trifles, weeps
• Discontented
• Agg by least contradiction
• Vomiting of cerebral tumors
• Paralysis
  • One sided
  • Lower half of body
  • Numbness and weakness
• Weakness
  • Paralytic
  • Exhausted after least exertion
  • Cannot hold up neck
  • Can’t talk it fatigues (STANNUM, CALC)
• Mania
  • Escaping, talking more and hastily
  • Irresistible desire to sing
• Anxious
  • Health of others about
  • As if have committed a crime
• Sits and stares, doesn’t care about anything that goes around
• Can read only left half of the line
• Liver
  • Enlargement after anger
• Cracking of joints
• Sensation
  • Emptiness of inner parts
  • Bones broken, tearing
• Vertigo as if swimming with giddiness
• Hard swollen glands with stinging pain
• Fever
  • Angry and irritated during fever
  • Intermittent fever with lameness of back
  • Chilliness and perspiration with heat
• Eating or drinking cold causes tearing in the limbs
• Obstinate constipation with tendency to hernia after nux von fails
• Aversion to open air
• Spasms
  • Oesophagus, throat, stomach, everywhere
• Swallowing difficult after paralysis
• Aversion to sour food
• Desire beer
• Menses
  • Severe weakness during menses, cant even stand.
• Feels better at night than at day
• Time passes rapidly
• Slowness, takes time to complete each job
  • Speaks slowly, cannot comprehend
• Occipital headache
• Metallic taste in mouth
• Troubles during pregnancy
  • Vomiting
  • Backache

(Compare- GELSEMIUM, PETROLEUM)

(Think of a person who has suffered grief or anger or both, some personal tragedy or trauma. Think in myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis, brain tumors, or conditions which cause great weakness. Weakness and paralysis after that. Feels empty inside. Can’t bear contradiction and cries. Trembles. Startles. In a dazed state.)

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• Extremely restless, cannot sit in one place, anguished and keeps moving.
• Peevish and dissatisfied as if very ill
• Clings on to mother and wants her to keep the company
• Constant complaining
• Severe gastralgia
  • Vomits least food or drink.
  • Food eaten long back is vomited
  • Complaints after surgery on abdomen like laparotomy.
  • Thirst for cold water.
• Headache/ facial neuralgia alternates with gastralgia
• Itching around ankles, with erosion from scratching
• Extreme prostration
• Pain
  • Heaviness in inner parts
  • Screwing and pressing pains
• Angina radiating to left arm      
• Toothache amelioration by holding cold water in mouth

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• Quarrelsome
• Angry disposition
• Worried about future
• Easily offended at least trifles
• Complaints from long lasting grief, vexation. Fright
• Thinks death is near, and wants to settle affairs.
• Strumous diathesis
• Affects oil glands, sweat glands
• Sense of duality as if another person in bed
  • Sleep or delirium during
  • (https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/somatoparaphrenia-asomatognosia-and-homoeopathy/ )
• Skin
  • Folds, behind ears
  • Eczematous eruptions
    • Scrotum < at night
  • Extremely sensitive
  • Doesn’t heal well
  • Corroding spread
  • Bed sores
  • Herpes on chest
  • Cracks in hands, thickened skin, dry
  • < winters
  • Aml summers
  • Suppression of skin eruptions causes diarrhoea
• Car sickness
• Symptoms come and go rapidly
• Cold
  • Easily affected by cold
• Stiff limbs
• Affections of glands after injuries
• Vertigo
  • Rising on
• Headache    
  • With, severe occipital pain
  • Leaden heavy
  • Cold breeze felt on head
  • Hold head, temples during headache
• Eye
  • Marginal blepharitis
  • Loss of eyelash
• Tip of nose itches
• Coccydynia
• Gastralgia
  • Pregnancy of
  • Aml eating
• Diarrhoea
  • Daytime only
  • After cabbage / sauerkraut
  • Yellow gushing
• Sweat
  • Of genitilia
  • Offensive foot sweat
• Nausea from hunger
  • After stools
• Involuntary urination on rising
• Visual hallucination

(Think of person with oily skin and lot of skin complaints, who has a h/o some long lasting emotion, he fears he’ll die so wants to wind up his affairs quickly. He cannot bear hunger though, and has nausea if doesn’t eat. He may be prone to diarrhoea esp during day. A lesser used yet valuable remedy to be thought of in complaints from long lasting grief and other emotions.)

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• Affects both mucous and serous membranes
• Rt sided affection, sp behind ears, under jaw
• Haemorrhage
  • From nose, intestines, inner parts of body
• Rapid progress of disease, inflammations
• Mania
  • Rage, tearing and barking like a god, agg touch and seeing bright objects, as in hydrophobia
  • Amorous and sexual, increased desire
• Burning pains
  • Rawness everywhere
  • Internal as well as external
  • Throat, kidney, stomach, head etc
  • Severe burning pain in meningitis, start at nape of neck and extend forward
• Dropsy
  • Pleurisy with stitching pains in chest (AESU TUB, BRY, SPIG)
  • Pericarditis
    • Irregularpulse palpitation, tendency to syncope
• Urine
  • Raw burning pains in bladder and urethra before during and after urination
  • Urine bloody, shreddy with mucus, bran like scales, pus etc.
  • Gonorrhoea
• Bloody serous discharges
• No appetite, disgust for everything, food, drink despite burning thirst
• Skin
  • Burns
  • Erysipelas, vesicular, with burning pains
  • Erythema from exposure to sun
• Tongue
  • Burnt by hot fluids
  • Suppuration of tongue
• Ear
  • Dental fistula (upper incisors)
  • Bones of ears painful (CAPS)
• Yellow vision
• Throat
  • Aphthous ulceration in throat
  • Raw burning pains in throat
  • Cannot swallow liquids
  • Tough stringy mucus in bronchi, difficult to expectorate (KALI BI, BOVISTA)
• Female
  • Menses
    • Too early and too profuse
  • Expels moles and dead foetus and promotes fecundity
  • Retain placenta (SEP) with painful urination
  • Metritis with painful urination
  • And nymphomania.
• Males
  • Satyriasis
  • Increased desire with painful erections (PIC AC) and painful urination (thuja has erections without painful urination)
  • Bloody semen (LEDUM, MERC, PETRO)
• Urinous odour on genitilia
• Stools
  • Bloody
  • Like scrapping of intestine
• Aggravation
  • Severe agg from coffee, it causes nausea, pain in stomach, fullness in abdomen and many other GIT symptoms
  • Cold drinks
  • Oil agg
  • Urination agg
  • Periodic, every 7 days
• Amelioration
  • Rubbing

(Think of a person who is weepy, who doesn’t know what he wants, constantly trying to do something but gets nothing done, he has severe urinary infection with burning pains and chills. He also has cough and cannot seem to get out the tenacious mucous. The discharges are bloody, and he feels very weak, so much so that even speaking is an effort. Now urinary concomitant can be with any complaint that he may have. With cough, with meningitis, in erysipelas or other skin conditions etc; the pains are burning and raw and are agg touching but aml rubbing. He has severe heel pain. Cantharis also helped him when he had burns. Timely application prevented blister formation and he recovered quickly.)

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• Sensitive to cold
  • Skin chaps on least exposure
  • Throat gets affected with tonsillitis
• Attacks come and go suddenly
• Affections of eyes
• Doubts people
• Thinking about disease causes palpitation
• Severe constipation
  • No desire for days together with sheep dung like stools
• Haemorrhage
  • Fearful bleeding after tooth extraction
  • Clots in urine
  • Haemorrhage after childbirth
• Indurations and hardenings
  • Uterus
  • Rectum, scirrhous of
  • Tongue
  • Ulcers with indurated base
  • Breast
• Air passages
  • Nasal polyp
    • With neuralgic headaches
  • Complete aphonia can’t talk
  • Bronchitis
  • Epidemic membranous croup
• Mouth
  • Ulcers
  • Salivation
• Oesophagus
  • Burning and constriction of oesophagus
  • Difficulty in swallowing liquids

(Think of this medicine in a person who complains of chapping of skin in winters and recurrent sore throats and tonsillitis. Anxious about his disease he has severe constipation and bleeds easily. There may be an induration tendency in body.  vocal cords are specifically affected with hoarseness, pain and aphonia. It’s difficult for him to even swallow liquids.)

(Compare- Prepared from a salt of aluminium it shows many similar characteristics with alumina when it comes to constipation, scirrhous tendencies and affections of throat.)

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A plant belonging to the citrus family, is used traditionally for digestive disorders and fevers, has its symptomatology come out shiningly in homeopathic proving.

Pharmacological evaluations have found it to be having compounds acting against breast and liver cancer cells. It has antioxidant, antifungal, anthelminthic, antipyretic antibacterial and wound healing properties.

The proving is mentioned in Dr S C Ghose’s ‘Drugs of Hindoosthan’ and in a proving published by CCRH.

The part used for proving are stem and leaves.

Below is a summary of same:

• Colic- The main action of the remedy is a colicky pain that is specially centered around naval area. The colic can be biliary colic or intestinal colic which is followed by expulsion of worms.
• Sudden shivering without fever
• Fever- known for its effectiveness in fevers occurring in the autumn, especially those accompanied by flu-like symptoms, tonsillitis, It is marked by fevers that come alternate or every 3^rd day with intense thirst during the heat stage, and profound weakness.

Fever pattern: Typically occurs every alternate day or on the third day, often between 5–10 a.m. or 3–4 p.m. Another common fever time is from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., with symptoms of pain and thirstlessness, constipation, or watery diarrhoea.

Chill and Heat Stage: intense thirst during the heat stage, otherwise thirstless.

Weakness: Marked debility during and after fever, with palpitation, faintness, and a heavy, weak sensation in limbs.

Mind

• Indifferent, irritable, and depressed mood.
• Anxiety and restlessness, better by lying down.
• Sensation of weight or pressure on the vertex (top) of the head.

Head

• Morning vertigo, with a sensation of the things going around in a circle
• Headache when hungry, relieved by eating and rest.
• Gnawing pain in one temple, later shifting to the other side.
• Headache improves with rest.

Eyes

• Burning photophobia, with trembling light upon opening eyes.
• Red, swollen eyes with acrid watery discharge.

Ears

• Increased sensitivity to sound.
• Humming in both ears.

Nose

• Thin, acrid, watery nasal discharge with sneezing and nasal stuffiness.
• Hoarseness of voice.
• Symptoms worse after 5 p.m., often associated with fever.
• Occasional nosebleeds.

Mouth and Throat

• Unbearable thirst during fever, otherwise thirstlessness.
• Cracked lips, ulcerated tongue with teeth imprints.
• Bleeding, swollen, and painful gums.
• Swollen tonsils that may persist for weeks after fever.
• Choking sensation; painful swallowing, improved by hot drinks.

Stomach and Digestion

• Constant nausea and belching of salty water.
• Sour eructations after eating or drinking.
• Vomiting ameliorated by tea, lime juice, or sour foods; accompanied by great weakness.
• Canine hunger and craving for sweet and lime juice.
• Pain in the pit of the stomach.
• Craving for lime juice and sweets.

Abdomen

• Severe griping, colicky pain around the navel, so intense it may cause unconsciousness.
• Pain relieved by hot applications, often followed by expulsion of worms.
• Alternating constipation and diarrhoea.
• Constipation with dry mouth and no thirst.
• Diarrhoea aggravated after eating, with bloody, mucoid, or muco-bloody stools.

Urinary and Sexual Organs

• No sexual desire.
• Erections without desire.
• A peculiar electric throbbing sensation in the urethra, lasting a few seconds that lasted a few weeks after the proving ended.
• Eruptions on the genitalia.

Respiratory System

• Cough with coryza, worse in open air, better by covering the body.
• Pain in the ribs, especially on the left side, worsened by laughing, relieved by deep breathing.
• Hoarseness of voice, aggravated in the evening.

Heart and Circulation

• Palpitations with weakness, especially after exertion or during fever.
• Full pulse during fever, becoming weak and slow afterward.

Extremities

• Joint pains better by rest.
• Heaviness and weakness in limbs; legs feel as if they will collapse at every step.
• Cramping when stretching the legs.
• Tingling or numbness, with legs “falling asleep”.

Skin

• Itching, especially on uncovered parts, worse at night and by scratching.
• Painful eruptions on the legs

Many complaints improve with rest and hot drinks, and worsen in open air, after eating, or in the evening.

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• Uncommon mental activity
  • Can’t sleep thinking, or continue Even during sleep
• Trembling and tremors from mental or physical exertion
• Ill effects of grief, emotions, blow, injuries.
• Eyes- marked effect on eye
  • Accommodation affected
  • Astigmatism/ increasing myopia
  • Tremor of ocular muscles
  • Muscae voliantes
  • Eyestrain/ spasm after using eyes for long
  • Nystagmus
  • Night blindness
  • Lagopthalmos
  • Blood shot eyes
  • Glaucoma after injury to eye
  • Post diphtheric ocular paralysis
• Spine
  • Creeping numbness in spine
  • Spine sensitive to touch
  • Burning and tingling along spine
  • Lost reflexes or paralysis
  • Impaired locomotion(gels)
  • Locomotor ataxia
• Cerebrospinal meningitis
• Polio
• Numbness
  • In hands and feet
  • Associated with heart pains
• Pulsation
  • Pulsations all over body
  • Pulsation in the throat
• Horror of cold water
  • Can’t bathe
  • Disgust of cold drinks
• Piles following childbirth
• Exerting the will >
• Left sided complaints
• Offensive odor from hands
  • Sweat on excitement
• Pains
  • Shuddering pains from least draft of air
  • Or loss of sensibility to pains
  • Pain after eating, in stomach, extends to chest
  • Pain in rt ear while writing
• Progressive muscular debility
• Overpowering sleepiness
• Tongue feels scalded, oily.
• Lying on abdomen >

(Think of this remedy in neurological conditions sp demyelinating disorders with eye involvement.)

(Common name- Calabar beans

Prepared from- beans which are toxic)

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A lesser-known remedy not found in old homeopathic literature; it found its way in homeopathy from its use in other traditional medicine (sweet flag). It is prepared from the rhizome of the plant. To understand the background of this remedy the reader is given a snapshot of its traditional use and its pharmacological effects found in various research papers.

In traditional medicine it has been used in material doses as:

• Memory enhancer

The recent research into its properties has revealed many other effects in material doses such as:

• Anti inflammatory
• Antioxidant
• Hypolipidemic
• Cytoprotective
• Antimicrobial
• Strong anticonvulsant
• Anti-arrhythmic
• Anti cancer
• Radioprotective and DNA repair activity
• Licicidal activity

Homeopathic proving symptoms are:

• Extreme forgetfulness, dementia
• Convulsions
• Affects membranes
  • Mucous cystitis
  • Bronchitis with copious mucus production
  • Mucous colitis
• Aphasia
• Unconsciousness
• Aggravation- < cold damp weather
  • Sinusitis
  • Rhinitis
  • Bronchitis
  • Cardiac disorders etc
• Lymphadenitis
• Chronic abscess
• Osteonecrosis and other bone diseases
• Alters liver function
• Amenorrhoea
• Dry mouth with drinking water at short intervals

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• Facial flushing is a grand concomitant of this remedy and accompanies almost all the symptoms.
• Congestion as generality
  • Acute or chronic
  • Rush and Congestion of blood to head and face
  • Flushing and then hot sweat, all over the body or in parts
  • Localized flushings
  • Other parts may be icy cold
  • Least emotions cause flushing of face (FERRUM, COCA)
• Throbbing and pulsations
• Craves fresh air, opens the window in the coldest of the weather (SULPH, LACHESIS, ARGENTUM NITRICUM)
  • Can’t bear anything around neck, loosens collar
• Constant stretching and yawning (KALI CARB)
• Convulsions
  • Immediately after delivery
  • Paroxysms run close to each other
  • Grasping at imaginary things during convulsions
• Chorea, all muscles are in motion
• Angina
  • With facial flushings
  • With pain in rt shoulder and arm
  • Sensation of band around chest
  • Choking in throat, pain extending into chest
  • Fluttering and tumultuous action of heart at slightest excitement
• Menses
  • Left sided headache during menses, starts in morning, peaks and decreases by evening
• Headache
  • Dreamy confounding with headache
  • Flushing of face with headache
  • Migraine with pallor (ARS)
• Aggravations
  • Emotions
  • Slight causes
  • Climacteric
  • Heat and closed room

(Compare GLONINE, BELL, LACHESIS)

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