Materia medica/ knowledge of medicinal powers

• 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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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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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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Shivangi Jain
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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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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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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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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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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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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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• Strong constitution debilitated by
  • Loss of vital fluid
  • Sexual excesses
  • Violent acute diseases
  • Grief, care, worries, long successions of moral emotions, homesickness, unhappy love
  • Chagrin
• Apathy
  • Indifferent to everything
  • Delirious, answers when woken up, and goes back in slumber
• Homesickness with disposition to weep
• Mild yielding disposition
• Tendency to abscess after fevers
• Painlessness
  • Fever
  • Ulcers
  • Diarrhoea
• Growing pains
  • Affections of children who are growing too fast
• Emaciation
  • The child vomits whatever is taken, there is not enough mother’s milk, the child does not cry, he emaciates.
• Diabetes
  • Profuse pale urine
• Menses
  • Milky urine before menses
  • Menses, profuse, with pain in liver
• Palpitation
  • After grief
• Pains are felt less when moving about, < when resting
• Symptoms following sour food and drinks
• Mental and physical exertion <
• Brain fag
• Headache
  • From long lasting grief
  • Pressing pain in vertex
  • Eyes feel too big for sockets
  • In school girls from eyestrain
  • After overstudy
  • Of students growing too fast
  • Aggravation motion, noise
  • Amelioration lying
• Onanism
  • Bad effects from
  • Semen passed during stools
  • Distressed by culpability of the act
• Numbness as generality
• Pinning with emaciation
• Pain in stump after amputation >
• Desires
  • Juicy things
  • Cold milk
• Bones
  • Pain in bones
  • Offensive carries
  • Agg night
• Face
  • White of an egg fried off
  • Dark circles
• Chest
  • Very susceptible to cold
  • Aggravation cold, talking
  • Weak in children growing too fast
  • Chest troubles after brain fag    
• Diarrhoea
  • Painless
  • Not debilitating
  • In weak debilitating rachitic children
• Urine
  • Profuse, milky or clear     
  • Urination preceded by anxiety
• Much flatulence of garlicky odour

(Think of a person who starts emaciation after some severe emotions or acute disease or excessive indulgences, develops diabetes with profuse urination. As a child he had headaches and had taken up height too fast or had growing pains. Now he has many chest complaints which are agg from cold and can’t think any more. A mild person by nature he becomes indifferent to others and surroundings. Even his fever, diarrhoea etc are painless. Once of strong constitution, he practiced onanism and is now suffering from consequences. Susceptible to headaches, he is much better when moving about despite his debility. Phosphoric acid will once again rekindle extinguishing life in this person.)

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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
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• Suited
  • To female
    • Hysteria
      • Several times a day
    • With chronic indigestion
    • Functional heart complaints
    • Liver troubles
    • Chronic constipated
  • To men with
    • Sexual troubles
    • Liver complaints
  • To children
    • Rachitic, puny, with craving for sweets
• Those who cannot digest milk
• Disposition to catch cold
• Chronicity
• General soreness and weakness
• Weepy and desire for solitude
• Stools like sheep dung, crumbling at the verge of anus
• Chronic indigestion
  • Regurgitation while walking
  • Eructation tasting like rotten eggs
• Palpitation > by walking
• Liver engorged, heavy
  • Agg lying rt side, a dragging sensation from left
• Menses
  • Dark pitch like
  • Eruptions on face before menses
• Coition after
  • Burning and Pain in back
  • Burning or pain in hip
  • Pain in cord and testes
• Sweat of head and feet
• Headache, periodical,
  • Aml wrapping up,
  • Extremely sensitive to noise
• Seabathing <
  • Weakness after
  • Soreness of chest after
• Nose obstructed, breathes through mouth
• Loss of smell and taste with or after coryza/ influenza
• Complaints > by motion
• Complaints after dinner, like fainting, nausea, trembling etc
• Constipation of infants during dentition
• Chronic constipation with liver complaints and yellow tongue
• Facial neuralgia < draft, damp air, > pressure, heat
• Presses abdominal muscles to urinate
• Indurations after inflammation
• Sleepless at night from thirst and heat, has to get out of bed
• Sleep disturbed by cough, wakes him up
• Leucorrhoea
  • With stools
  • Between menses, with uterine spasm
  • After exercise
• Toothache
• Hiccough after dinner causing vomiting
• Very restless limbs, wants to move them, hence walks
• Very sensitive to noise
• Nibbling dainties

(Think of a female/ male with chronic indigestion and liver complaints, who has chronic constipation; a child who does not grow well as he’s intolerant to milk, who breathes through mouth as he his nose is obstructed, he has head and feet sweat. The male will have congenital scrotal hernia. The patient is very restless and moves about. The patient requiring this remedy would want hair wrapped up and will have sweaty feet (compare Silicea))

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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
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• Haemorrhage
  • Bright red profuse blood
  • From various body parts
  • After riding
  • After tooth extraction
  • With severe backache
  • With fainting
  • With noises and obstruction in the ear
  • Painful sinking in stomach
  • Haemoptysis
  • Threatened abortion
• Amelioration
  • Exertion in open air          
  • Tight bandage
  • Bending forward
• Pregnancy varices

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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
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• Ulcers
  • In lower part of the body- rectum legs, toes etc, but also breast.
  • Painful
  • From shoe bite
  • From pressure sores
• Abscess below coccyx
• Pains
  • Severe, rolls on floor from pain
  • Splinter like pains
• Anus
  • Fissures
  • Large ulcerated haemorrhoids
  • Burning In anus after stool then internal chilliness
• Every motion every turn of body causes pain in spine

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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
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• Indecision
• Paralysis
  • After head injury (used after ARNICA)
  • After epistaxis (used after BELL)
  • Rt sided ptosis
  • Facial/ buccal paralysis (? Bells palsy)
  • Motor paralysis without loss of sensations
  • Decreased reflexes
  • Paralysis of respiratory muscles
• Weakness from loss of fluids
• Aggravation
  • 2 am
  • Damp cold
  • Rt sided
• Pains lancinating from ears to legs
• DM with paralysis
• Vertigo with weakness of legs
• Offensive leucorrhoea
• Swelling of lobe of ear
• Tendency to corns and boils
• Foetid discharge
• Feeling as if heavy weight is clinging to the parts
• Leprosy
• Atrophic rhinitis
• Sleep apnoea
• Cannot lift fingers
• Legs give way while walking

Aude Sapere

Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/