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• Tubercular remedy
• Obesity
• Suicidal mood
• Indifferent to things and people around.
• Very sensitive to cold air.
• Cough
  • Dry tickling cough
  • Agg- < lying down (HYOS, CON), lying on left side
  • Agg- < change of temperature of air or volume (PHOS, SPONG)
  • Aml- > covering the mouth and nose with cloth (IPECAC, KALI BI)
  • With involuntary urination (PULS, SILICEA, CAUST)
  • Touching throat pit brings on the cough
  • Every breath of air causes tickling in larynx, exciting cough (SEP)
• Raw and sore larynx and trachea
  • Frothy expectoration
  • Hawks tenacious mucous
  • Dry mucous membranes
• Itching
  • Urticaria
  • On undressing, exposure to cold air (HEP SULPH, NAT SULPH, OLEAN)
• Morning diarrhoea
  • Driving patient out of bed (ALOE, NAT SULPH, PODO, SULPH)
  • Profuse painless
• Ravenous appetite
• Chronic gastritis, pain < moving about
• Cramps in feet
• Sudden sleepiness

(An obese tubercular remedy, which is very sensitive to cold air. Patient covers mouth to prevent the cough from coming on while talking or otherwise. With ravenous appetite it also has itching on exposure to cold air. Think of this remedy when you think of CAL CARB which is complementary to RUMEX).

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Shivangi Jain
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(Caladium belongs to Arum family of plants which irritate skin and mucous membranes intensely)

• Very sensitive to noise, startling from least noise in sleep (NUX VOM, ARUM TRY, TAREN HIS)
• Afraid of his own shadow
• Lascivious, Ogles at women in street
• Wants to lie down all the time
• Dread of motion
• Effects of masturbation
• Averse to medicine
• Very careful about his health, apprehensive.
• Sexual organs, male
  • Impotence with depression
  • Impotence with excitability but relaxed penis (LYCO, SELE)
  • No orgasm even after caresses (CALCAREA, SELE)
  • Sweat on genitilia
  • Flaccid organs, glans like rags
  • Prepuce loses its contractility and remains retracted after coition
• Female
  • Pruritis vaginae
    • Pregnancy, during
    • Causes, orgasm (ORIG, ZINC)
    • From pinworms
• Skin
  • Mosquito bites itch too much
  • Urticarial eruptions
  • Sweat is sweet which attracts flies
• Thirstless, can only tolerate warm drinks
• Fever
  • Fever during sleep, ceases when wakes up
• General > from sweating and short nap (nux vom)
• CALADIUM destroys craving for tobacco
• Restless, cannot control himself after smoking.
• Headaches and mental states of smokers
• Headache with pain in shoulder and neck and throbbing in ear < noises
• Sighing respiration
• Fears going to sleep

(Think of a person who masturbates, is addicted to tobacco smoking and is lazy and wants to be in bed all the time. Smoking makes him restless yet he cannot leave it. His desires are many but he’s not able to perform. He startles easily at every noise. He’s very apprehensive and careful about his health but is averse to take medicine. The female has voluptuous itching in perineum. The skin is sensitive, with violent itching in insect bites.)

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• Injuries
  • Burns that ulcerate with ichorous discharge
  • Lacerated wounds with blunt instruments; bones bare, crushed; much sloughing of soft parts 
• Foul, putrid offensive discharges
  • Discharges that burn
• Important concomitants
  • Pale around mouth and nose
  • Offensive breath
    • In constipation
    • Diphtheria
    • Scarlatina etc.
  • Painlessness in complaints
  • Very acute sense of smell
• Pain that come suddenly and go suddenly
• Collapse, bathed in profuse cold sweat (VERATRUM ALB, CARBO VEG)
• Boils come on anywhere in body from physical exertion
• Desires- whiskey/ tobacco
• Headache
  • Band like sensation
• Mouth
  • Ulcers inside mouth
  • Uvula- whitish
• Glazed throat
• Regurgitation of liquid without pain
• Diarrhoea
  • Offensive, watery with tenesmus
  • Scraping of intestines, currant jelly like stool
• Uterus
  • Thick sticky offensive leucorrhoea/ discharge
• Gangrene/ sepsis
• Aching between scapulae
• Cancers
  • Stomach
  • Epitheliomas
  • Cervical cancer
• Nervous dyspepsia of extremely painful character sp in drunkards.
• Burning
  • Everywhere- mouth, throat, stomach, rectum
  • Pains of burning nature
  • Secretions that burn
  • Sensation of a burning ball on forehead

(Carbolic acid is highly corrosive in nature. It produces severe pains and ulcers. The discharges are offensive and foul. It produces severe weakness and produces boils on least exertion.)

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• Aversion to profession
• Easily does the work when creative, however analytical work is difficult
• Very sensitive to noise
  • Every noise pierces the body sp the teeth
  • Easy startling
• Fruitless activity, restless, wrings hands
• Sense of duality
  • As if her head was another strange head.
  • As if vertex did not belong to her
• Infantile atrophy, infant eats well but emaciates
• Severe nausea
  • Motion sickness, closes eyes which further agg.
• Vertigo
  • Meneier’s disease, aural origin
  • On closing eyes
  • With blindness
• Time passes too quickly (compare: TOO SLOWLY, ARGENTUM NITRICUM, CANNABIS INDICA, NUX MOSCHATA)
• A tubercular remedy
  • Pthisis florida
  • Scrofulosis, caries, necrosis
  • Violent stitches in upper left chest, below the scapula, extending to neck (ANIS, MYRTUS, PIX LIQ, SULPH)
• Severe bone pains
• Chronic nasal catarrh with thick yellow offensive discharge (PULS, THUJA)
• Headache
  • Deep seated
  • Starts in occiput
  • Starts in morning and stays till evening
  • Agg- < lying down, < least movement of the head, < noise, from someone walking on the floor
• Spine
  • Very sensitive to touch, sits away from chair to avoid touch
• Wants to lie down in horizontal position
• Sits with legs crossed
• Nervous sensitiveness during
  • Puberty
  • Pregnancy
  • Climacteric

(i.e during change of life phases)

• Dreams
  • Of journey
  • Of riding horses
  • Of broken tooth     
• Cravings
  • Bananas
  • Acidic fruits like oranges
  • Wine, tobacco smoke.

(This remedy should be thought when thinking of PHOSPHOROUS. Though we always individualize the case, it’s pathogenesis points towards its usefulness in personality disorders and space occupying lesions in brain and other CNS pathologies.)

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• Ill effects of blow to head
• Disappointed love
• Homesick
• Psoric children
  • Prone to brain trouble
  • During dentition, brain troubles
• Slow in answering
• Involuntary sighing
• Staring as if lost in thoughts.
• Very chilly, cannot be covered enough
• < 4-8pm, thinking of complaints
• Stupor
• Child nurses greedily
• Melancholy/ sadness
  • In young girls
  • When menses fail to return
• Menses appear and do not return in young girls
• Staggering walk, muscles refuse their office (when attention diverted from the work she is doing, she faulters)
• Automatic motion of one hand and leg
• Dropsical
  • Hydrocephalous
  • All parts are swollen and dropsical
  • Post scarlatina dropsy
  • Dropsy with fever, debility and suppressed urine
• A dark remedy
  • Sooty nostrils
  • Dusky face
  • Dusky lips
  • Dark hands
• Headache, severe, bore head in the pillow or moves it from side to side
• Photophobia
• Chewing motion of mouth
• Voracious appetite
• Sudden screams in sleep.
• Cri encephalique. Cannot be fully aroused.
• Breathing better lying down
• Boring pains in parts that cover the bone

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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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Shivangi Jain
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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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Shivangi Jain
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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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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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