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• Marked periodicity
  • Complaints occur at same hour, same days or at regular precise intervals
• Enlargement
  • Sensation of parts enlarged, sp the hands and legs after getting up in the morning
  • Enlarged spleen
• Cold damp
  • Hydrogenoid constitution
  • Affected by damp cold weather (THUJA, NAT SULPH)
• Neuralgias
  • Face, rt, sense of swelling of face
  • Intercoastal, pain shoots from spine to intercoastal spaces
  • Lumbo-abdominal neuralgias, sp during menses
• Chilliness
  • Very chilly, chilled to bones
• Numbness
  • Arms and legs are numb
  • Numbness along ulnar nerve distribution
• Early profuse menses
• Flickering in eyes < damp weather
• Fever
  • periodic
  • With pain in stomach
  • Pain in limbs
  • Feels very chilly sp during rains
• Pain in teeth on lying down

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• Unconscious of what he is doing or what is said to him
• Boring and picking
  • Of nose, ear, lips, nails until they bleed
• Itching in palate
• Children
  • Who loose flesh
  • Who don’t want to play  
  • Have headache, puts hand on the back and cry
  • Children who pick lips and bore nose
  • Sore mouth of children, refuses food
  • Sleepless children with scanty urine
• Nose
  • Acrid, fluent blood-streaked discharge
  • Mouth breathing
  • Hay fever with pain at root of nose
• Cracked mouth corners with increased salivation
• Hoarseness of voice from overuse in singers, speakers, clergymen
• Skin
  • Scarlet rash
  • Raw bloody surfaces, picks and bores them
  • Impetigo
  • Desquamation in large flakes
• Very restless, tossing and screaming in bed.
• Sore mouth in typhoid with apathy.

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• Bad effects of abortion
• Complaints during climacteric (LACH, SEP, SULPH)
• Very affectionate lively person who becomes melancholic from ailments
• Uterus
  • Bearing down pains
  • Conscious of the womb (HELONIAS, LYSSINUM)
  • Have to cross legs to prevent the sensation
  • Pains shoot from uterus to mammae (opp- LIL TIG)
  • Profuse menses with clots
  • Pain in thighs with uterine complaints
  • Uterine prolapse or displacement with tenesmus and chronic endometritis
• Least touch on genitals causes violent sexual excitement
• Nymphomania
• Leucorrhoea
  • Thick, greenish yellowish and bloody
  • She is happier when the it flows freely
  • Leucorrhoea alternating with mental symptoms
• Sinking sensation in abdo
  • Violent hunger even after eating
• Pains that are < while sitting > on moving

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• Hemiplegia
• Difficult articulation
• Slowness of perception
  • Can’t understand what he reads, gets more confused if he thinks about it, understands more easily, he comprehends everything more easily if he does not think at all that he wishes to understand 
• Skin
  • Easily chapped from friction
• Diplopia
  • Can see objects when looking at them sideways
• Debility, weakness
• Eruptions on scalp esp on occiput and behind ears
• Sunken face with blue rings around eyes
• Sensation of eyes drawn in
• Numbness
  • Of tongue
  • Skin
  • Extremities
• Coldness of legs
• Spasmodic cramps in upper limbs, weakness in lower limbs
• Diarrhoea
  • Of undigested food, passed after a day
  • Morning diarrhoea
• Trembling
  • Of hands when writing
  • Of legs while standing
• Slow pulse
• Paresis after infantile paralysis

Preparation- (Toxic plant, specially cardiotoxic – tincture is prepared from the leaves)

(Suited to person who suffered from hemiplegia and have consequent stiffness in body. The perception is slow, there is weakness and trembling on activity. Extremities are cold and numb and food is not digested properly. The skin chaps easily and there are eruptions behind the ear. The skin symptoms with nervous system affections as concomitant are valuable indicator of this remedy.)

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• Very sensitive to dust
• Irritable from trifles
• Weak memory
• Influenza
  • Pain remaining after influenza
• Hay fever
  • Fluent coryza
  • Husky voice, hoarseness
  • Itchy palate
• Severe body ache, pain in limbs, back etc
• Anterior crural neuralgia
• Very similar to ALLIUM CEPA, but it is aml indoors as against ALLIUM CEPA
• Decreased pulse with anxiety and apprehensiveness

(A very good remedy for common colds, influenza with body aches. Compare ALLIUM CEPA, ARSENIC ALB)

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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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(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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Shivangi Jain
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• Ill effects of blow to head
• Disappointed love
• Homesick
• Post scarlatina complaints
• Reaction to above causations
  • Withdrawal, apathy, indifferenceSuppression of menses
  • mental dullness and weak memory
  • (Think, the patient withdraws after a disappointed, locks self-inside, withdraws and stops talking to anyone. He/she looses interest in surrounding and sits and stares in distance without any reaction to external stimuli. The memory becomes weak and mind slow.  There may be a tendency to commit suicide by drowning.)
• 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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Shivangi Jain
BHMS, MD, PGDMLE, PGDHHM
drshivangijain79@gmail.com
https://drshivangihomoeopathy.com/