also known as carbonate of lime
SYMPTOMS.
weakness (especially worse ascending stair/hills),
cold sensitivity,
sweaty, perspiration (head) at night,
anxious,
despairing of recovery,
complaints could come on from exhaustion and overwork,
worse from cold,
damp weather.
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Calcarea carbonica
Thursday, October 8, 2009Posted by khurram shahzad at 12:09 PM 0 comments
Carbo vegetabilis
also known as vegetable charcoal.
SYMPTOMS.
great weakness/collapse,
often with air hunger (better in cool air; desires to be fanned – improves breathing),
very chilly; intestinal bloating and flatulence (better belching and passing flatus),
cold breath,
cold sweat,
worse lying flat (prefers to sit),
emotional apathy.
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Mercurius vivus
Also known as or solubilis or mercury.
SYMPTOMS
alternating heat and chills,
clammy perspiration,
worse extremes of heat and cold,
profuse salivation (offensive and especially at night during sleep);
coated,
dirty tongue showing teeth imprints on the edges,
aggravation at night,
offensive discharges.
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Muriaticum acidum
Also known as hydrochloric acid.
SYMPTOPMS
so weak he can’t sit up – slides down in bed;
sleeps most of the day,
waking only briefly to take nourishment;
copious sweating on turning to the right side in bed,
burning pains,
canker sores,
thorough aversion to meat.
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Gelsemium
Also known as yellow jasmine.
SYMPTOMS
great weakness – verging of tremulousness from weakness,
flu-like aching and heaviness of the extremities (and back),
chills running up and down the back,
lack of thirst,
dull headache over the eyes with difficulty keeping the eyes open,
sleepy appearance,
chills alternating with heat,
feeling better after urination.
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Cistus canadensis
Also known as rock rose
Symptoms
great cold sensitivity,
enlarged cervical (neck) lymph nodes,
sensations of coldness in various parts (especially a burning, ice cold sensation in the nose when air in inhaled),
nasal discharge and sneezing,
sinusitis,
burning sore throat,
craving for cheese.
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ACONITUM NAPELLUS
Wednesday, October 7, 2009also known as Monkshood (Ranunculacea.)
INTRODUCTION
It is generally indicated in acute or recent cases occurring in young persons, especially girls, of a full, plethoric habit who lead a sedentary life; persons easily affected by atmospheric changes; dark hair and eyes, rigid muscular fibre.
Complaints caused by exposure to dry cold air, dry north or west winds, or exposure to draughts of cold air while in a perspiration; bad effects of checked perspiration.
Great fear and anxiety of mind, with great nervous excitability; afraid to go out, to go into a crowd where there is any excitement or many people; to cross the street.
The countenance is expressive of fear; the life is rendered miserable by fear; is sure his disease will prove fatal; predicts the day he will die; fear of death during pregnancy.
Restless, anxious, does everything in great haste; must change position often; everything startles him. Pains; are intolerable, they drive him crazy; he becomes very restless; at night.
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SIGNS & SYMPTOMS
This mental anxiety, worry, fear accompanies the most trivial ailment. Music is unbearable, makes her sad (Sab., during menses, Nat. c.). On rising from a recumbent position the red face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes faint or giddy and falls, and fears to rise again; often accompanied by vanishing of sight and unconsciousness.
Amenorrhoea in plethoric young girls; after fright, to prevent suppression of menses. For the congestive stage of inflammation before localization takes place.
Fever; skin dry and hot; face red, or pale and red alternately; burning thirst for large quantities of cold water; intense nervous restlessness, tossing about in agony; becomes intolerable towards evening and on going to sleep.
Convulsions; of teething children; heat, jerks and twitches of single muscles; child gnaws its fist, frets and screams; skink hot and dry; high fever.
Cough, croup; dry, hoarse, suffocating, loud, rough, croaking; hard, ringing, whistling; on expiration (Caust. - on inhalation, Spong.); from dry, cold winds or drafts of air.
Aconite should never be given simply to control the fever, never alternated with other drugs for that purpose.
If it be a case requiring Aconite no other drug is needed; Aconite will cure the case. Unless indicated by the exciting cause, is nearly always injurious in first stages of typhoid fever.
Aggravation. Evening and night, pains are insupportable; in a warm room; when rising from bed; lying on affected side (Hep., Nux m.).Amelioration. In the open air (Alum., Mag. c., Puls., Sab.).Relationship.
Complementary: to Coffea in fever, sleeplessness, intolerance of pain; to Arnica in traumatism; to Sulphur in all cases.
Rarely indicated in fevers which bring out eruptions. Aconite is the acute of Sulphur, and both precedes and follows it in acute inflammatory conditions.
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ACETICUM ACIDUM
chemically it is known as Glacial Acetic Acid or acetic acid. (CH3COOH.)
INTRODUCTION
This drug produces a condition of profound anæmia, with some dropsical symptoms, great debility, frequent fainting, dyspnœa, weak heart, vomiting, profuse urination and sweat. Hæmorrhage from any part. Especially indicated in pale, lean persons, with lax, flabby muscles. Wasting and debility. Acetic acid has the power to liquefy albuminous and fibrinous deposits. Epithelial cancer, internally and locally (W Owens) . Sycosis with nodules and formations in the joints. Hard chancre.
The 1x solution will soften and cause formation of pus.
SYMPTOMS
Mind.--Irritable, worried about business affairs.
Head.--Nervous headache, from abuse of narcotics. Blood rushes to head with delirium. Temporal vessels distended. Pain across root of tongue.
Face.--Pale, waxen, emaciated. Eyes sunken, surrounded by dark rings. Bright red. Sweaty. Epithelioma of lip. Cheeks hot and flushed. Aching in left jaw-point.
Stomach.--Salivation. Fermentation in stomach. Intense burning thirst. Cold drinks distress. Vomits after every kind of food. Epigastric tenderness. Burning pain as of an ulcer. Cancer of stomach. Sour belching and vomiting. Burning waterbrash and profuse salivation. Hyperchlorhydria and gastralgia. Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin and cold sweat on forehead. Stomach feels as if she had taken a lot of vinegar.
Abdomen.--Feels as if abdomen was sinking in. Frequent watery stools, worse in morning. Tympanitic. Ascites. Hæmorrhage from bowels.
Urine.--Large quantities of pale urine. Diabetes, with great thirst and debility (Phos ac).
Female.--Excessive catamenia. Hæmorrhages after labor. Nausea of pregnancy. Breasts painfully enlarged, distended with milk. Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, sour. Anæmia of nursing mothers.
Respiratory.--Hoarse, hissing respiration; difficult breathing; cough when inhaling. Membranous croup. Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes. False membrane in throat. Profuse bronchorrhœa. Putrid sore throat (gargle).
Back.--Pain in back, relieved only by lying on abdomen.
Extremities.--Emaciation. Œdema of feet and legs.
Skin.--Pale, waxen, œdematous. Burning, dry, hot skin, or bathed in profuse sweat. Diminished sensibility of the surface of body. Useful after stings, bites, etc. Varicose swellings. Scurvy; anasarca. Bruises; sprains.
Adapted to pale lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy (Fer.).
Fever.--Hectic, with drenching night-sweats. Red spot on left cheek. No thirst in fever. Ebullitions. Sweat profuse, cold.
Haemorrhage; from every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus (Fer., Mill.); metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis (Arn.). Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrot., Iod., Sanic., Tub.).
Great prostration; after injuries (Sulph. ac.); after surgical shock; after anaesthetics.
Thirst; intense, burning, insatiable even for large quantities in dropsy, diabetes, chronic diarrhoea; but no thirst in fever.
OTHER
Sour belching and vomiting of pregnancy, burning water-brash and profuse salivation, day and night (Lac. ac., salivation <>Relationship. It antidotes anaesthetic vapors (Amyl.); fumes of charcoal and gas; Opium and Stramonium.
Cider vinegar antidotes Carbolic acid. Follows well; after Cinchona, in haemorrhage; after Digitalis, in dropsy.
Acetic acid is antidotal to all anæsthetic vapors. Counteracts sausage poisoning.
It aggravates; the symptoms of Arn., Bell., Lach., Mer., especially the headache from Belladonna.
Compare: Ammon acet (Profuse saccharine urine, patient is bathed in sweat). Benzoin oderiferum--Spice-wood (night sweats). Ars; China; Digitalis; Liatris (General anasarca in heart and kidney disease, dropsy, and chronic diarrhœa).
refferences
Dose.--Third to thirtieth potency. Not to be repeated too often, except in croup
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ABIES NIGRA
Friday, October 2, 2009also called as Black Spruce
A powerful and long-acting remedy, in various forms of disease, whenever the characteristic stomach symptoms are present. Most of the symptoms are associated with the gastric disturbances. In dyspeptic troubles of the aged, with functional heart symptoms; also after tea or tobacco. Constipation. Pain in external meatus.
Head.--Hot, with flushed cheeks. Low-spirited. Dull during the day, wakeful at night. Unable to think.
Stomach.--Pain in stomach always comes on after eating. Sensation of a lump that hurts, as if a hard-boiled egg had lodged in cardiac end of stomach; continual distressing constriction just above the pit of the stomach, as if everything were knotted up. Total loss of appetite in morning, but great craving for food at noon and night. Offensive breath. Eructations.
Chest.--Painful sensation, as if something were lodged in the chest and had to be coughed up; lungs feel compressed. Cannot be fully expanded. Worse coughing; waterbrash succeeds cough. Choking sensation in throat. Dyspnœa; worse lying down; sharp, cutting pain in heart; heart's action heavy and slow; tachycardia, bradycardia.
Back.--Pain in small of back. Rheumatic pains and aching in bones.
Sleep.--Wakeful and restless at night, with hunger. Bad dreams.
Fever.--Alternate heat and cold; chronic intermittent fever, with pain in stomach.
Modalities.--Worse after eating.
Relationship.--Compare: (Lump in stomach--China, Bryon, Pulsat); also other Conifers--Thuja, Sabina, Cupressus (painful indigestion) also Nux vom, Kali carb.
Dose.-- First to thirtieth potency.
REF: http://www.homeoint.org/books/boericmm/a/abies-n.htm
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ABIES CANADENSIS-PINUS CANADENSIS
ABIES CANADENSIS-PINUS CANADENSIS also know as Hemlock Spruce
Mucous membranes are affected by Abies can and gastric symptoms are most marked, and a catarrhal condition of the stomach is produced. There are peculiar cravings and chilly sensations that are very characteristic, especially for women with uterine displacement, probably due to defective nutrition with debility. Respiration and heart action labored. Wants to lie down all the time; skin cold and clammy, hands cold; very faint. Right lung and liver feel small and hard. Gleet.
SYMPTOMS
Head.-- Feels light-headed, tipsy. Irritable.
Stomach.-- Canine hunger with torpid liver. Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium. Great appetite, craving for meat, pickles, radishes, turnips, artichokes, coarse food. Tendency to eat far beyond capacity for digestion. Burning and distention of stomach and abdomen with palpitation. Flatulence disturbs the heart's action. Pain in right shoulder-blade, and constipation, with burning in rectum.
Female.--Uterine displacements. Sore feeling at fundus of uterus, relieved by pressure. Prostration; wants to lie down all the time. Thinks womb is soft and feeble.
Fever.--Cold shivering, as if blood were ice-water (Acon). Chills run down back. Cold water feeling between shoulders (Ammon mur). Skin clammy and sticky. Night-sweat (China).
Dose.-- First to third potency.
REF- www.homeoint.org/books/boericmm/a/abies-c.htm
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