Boericke's Materia Medica

Acon.	Aconitum napellus (Monkshood)
Agar.	Agaricus muscarius (Toadstool)
All-c.	Allium cepa (Red Onion)
Anac.	Anacardium (Marking Nut)
Ant-c.	Antimonium crudum (Sulphide of Antimony)
Ant-t.	Antimonium tartaricum (Tartrate of Antimony)
Apis	Apis (Honeybee)
Arg-n.	Argentum nitricum (Nitrate of Silver)
Arn.	Arnica (Leopard's Bane)
Ars.	Arsenicum album (White Oxide of Arsenic)
Bapt.	Baptisia (Wild Indigo)
Bar-c.	Baryta carbonica (Carbonate of Baryta)
Bell.	Belladonna (Deadly Nightshade)
Bell-p.	Bellis perennis (Daisy)
Berb.	Berberis (Barberry)
Bor.	Borax (Borate of Sodium)
Bry.	Bryonia (Wild Hops)
Calc.	Calcarea carbonica (Carbonate of Lime)
Calc-f.	Calcarea fluorica (Fluoride of Lime)
Calc-p.	Calcarea phosphorica (Phosphate of Lime)
Calen.	Calendula (Marigold)
Canth.	Cantharis (Spanish Fly)
Caps.	Capsicum (Cayenne Pepper)
Carbo-an.	Carbo animalis (Animal Charcoal)
Carbo-v.	Carbo vegetabilis (Vegetable Charcoal)
Carb-ac.	Carbolicum acidum (Carbolic Acid)
Caul.	Caulophyllum (Blue Cohosh)
Caust.	Causticum (Hahnemann's Potassium Hydrate)
Cham.	Chamomilla (German Chamomile)
Chin.	China officinalis (Peruvian Bark / Cinchona)
Cimic.	Cimicifuga (Black Snakeroot)
Cina	Cina (Wormseed)
Cocc.	Cocculus (Indian Cockle)
Coc-c.	Coccus cacti (Cochineal)
Coff.	Coffea cruda (Unroasted Coffee)
Colch.	Colchicum (Meadow Saffron)
Coloc.	Colocynthis (Bitter Cucumber)
Con.	Conium (Poison Hemlock)
Cupr.	Cuprum metallicum (Copper)
Dios.	Dioscorea (Wild Yam)
Dros.	Drosera (Sundew)
Dulc.	Dulcamara (Bittersweet)
Eup-pur.	Eupatorium purpureum (Queen of the Meadow)
Euphr.	Euphrasia (Eyebright)
Ferr.	Ferrum metallicum (Iron)
Ferr-p.	Ferrum phosphoricum (Phosphate of Iron)
Gels.	Gelsemium (Yellow Jasmine)
Glon.	Glonoin (Nitroglycerine)
Graph.	Graphites (Plumbago)
Ham.	Hamamelis (Witch Hazel)
Hep.	Hepar sulphuris (Hahnemann's Calcium Sulphide)
Hyper.	Hypericum (St. John's Wort)
Ign.	Ignatia (St. Ignatius Bean)
Ip.	Ipecacuanha (Ipecac Root)
Kali-bi.	Kali bichromicum (Bichromate of Potassium)
Kali-c.	Kali carbonicum (Carbonate of Potassium)
Kali-m.	Kali muriaticum (Chloride of Potassium)
Kali-p.	Kali phosphoricum (Phosphate of Potassium)
Kali-s.	Kali sulphuricum (Sulphate of Potassium)
Lach.	Lachesis (Bushmaster Venom)
Led.	Ledum (Marsh Tea)
Lyc.	Lycopodium (Club Moss)
Mag-c.	Magnesia carbonica (Carbonate of Magnesia)
Mag-m.	Magnesia muriatica (Chloride of Magnesia)
Mag-p.	Magnesia phosphorica (Phosphate of Magnesia)
Merc.	Mercurius vivus (Mercury)
Naja	Naja (Cobra Venom)
Nat-c.	Natrum carbonicum (Carbonate of Sodium)
Nat-m.	Natrum muriaticum (Chloride of Sodium)
Nat-p.	Natrum phosphoricum (Phosphate of Sodium)
Nat-s.	Natrum sulphuricum (Sulphate of Sodium)
Nit-ac.	Nitricum acidum (Nitric Acid)
Nux-v.	Nux vomica (Poison Nut)
Op.	Opium (Poppy)
Petr.	Petroleum (Crude Rock Oil)
Ph-ac.	Phosphoricum acidum (Phosphoric Acid)
Phos.	Phosphorus (Phosphorus)
Phyt.	Phytolacca (Pokeroot)
Podo.	Podophyllum (May Apple)
Psor.	Psorinum (Scabies Vesicle)
Puls.	Pulsatilla (Wind Flower)
Pyrog.	Pyrogenium (Artificial Sepsin)
Rheum	Rheum (Rhubarb)
Rhod.	Rhododendron (Snow Rose)
Rhus-t.	Rhus toxicodendron (Poison Ivy)
Rumx.	Rumex (Yellow Dock)
Ruta	Ruta (Rue)
Sars.	Sarsaparilla (Smilax)
Sep.	Sepia (Cuttlefish Ink)
Sil.	Silica (Pure Flint)
Spong.	Spongia tosta (Roasted Sponge)
Staph.	Staphisagria (Stavesacre)
Sulph.	Sulphur (Sublimated Sulphur)
Sul-ac.	Sulphuricum acidum (Sulphuric Acid)
Symph.	Symphytum (Comfrey)
Tab.	Tabacum (Tobacco)
Thuj.	Thuja (Arbor Vitae)
Urt-u.	Urtica urens (Stinging Nettle)
Verat.	Veratrum album (White Hellebore)
Zinc.	Zincum metallicum (Zinc)

Aconitum napellus
(Monkshood)

     A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body. Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is the most characteristic manifestation of Aconite. Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever, call for it. Does not want to be touched. Sudden and great sinking of strength. Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold weather, draft of cold air, checked perspiration, also complaints from very hot weather, especially gastrointestinal disturbances, etc. First remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers. Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly. Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and numbness. Influenza. Tension of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms. When prescribing Aconite remember Aconite causes only functional disturbance, no evidence that it can produce tissue change: its action is brief and shows no periodicity. Its sphere is in the beginning of an acute disease and not to be continued after pathological change comes. In Hyperemia, congestion not after exudation has set in. Influenza.

Mind. Great fear, anxiety, and worry accompany every ailment, however trivial. Delirium is characterized by unhappiness, worry, fear, raving, rarely unconsciousness. Forebodings and fears. Fears death but believes that he will soon die; predicts the day. Fears the future, a crowd, crossing the street. Restlessness, tossing about. Tendency to start. Imagination acute, clairvoyance. Pains are intolerable; they drive him crazy. Music is unbearable; makes her sad. Thinks his thoughts come from the stomach: that parts of his body are abnormally thick. Feels as if what had just been done was a dream.

Head. Fullness; heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning, undulating sensation. Intercranial pressure. (Hedera Helix.) Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water. Vertigo; worse on rising [Nux-v.; Op.] and shaking head. Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end. Nocturnal furious delirium.

Eyes. Red, inflamed. Feel dry and hot, as if sand in them. Lids swollen, hard and red. Aversion to light. Profuse watering after exposure to dry, cold winds, reflection from snow, after extraction of cinders and other foreign bodies.

Ears. Very sensitive to noises; music is unbearable. External ear hot, red, painful, swollen. Earache. [Cham.] Sensation as of drop of water in left ear.

Nose. Smell acutely sensitive. Pain at root of nose. Coryza; much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils. Hemorrhage of bright red blood. Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but scanty watery coryza.

Face. Red, hot, flushed, swollen. One cheek red, the other pale. [Cham.; Ip.] On rising the red face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes dizzy. Tingling in cheeks and numbness. Neuralgia, especially on left side, with restlessness, tingling, and numbness. Pain in jaws.

Mouth. Numb, dry, and tingling. Tongue swollen; tip tingles. Teeth sensitive to cold. Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing. Gums hot and inflamed. Tongue coated white. [Ant-c.]

Throat. Red, dry, constricted, numb, prickling, burning, stinging. Tonsils swollen and dry.

Stomach. Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination. Thirst for cold water. Bitter taste of everything except water. Intense thirst. Drinks, vomits, and declares he will die. Vomiting, bilious, mucous and bloody, greenish. Pressure in stomach with dyspnea. Hematemesis. Burning from stomach to esophagus.

Abdomen. Hot, tense, tympanitic. Sensitive to touch. Colic, no position relieves. Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup. Burning in umbilical region.

Rectum. Pain with nightly itching and stitching in anus. Frequent, small stool with tenesmus: green, like chopped herbs. White with red urine. Choleraic discharge with collapse, anxiety, and restlessness. Bleeding hemorrhoids. [Ham.] Watery diarrhea in children. They cry and complain much, are sleepless and restless.

Urine. Scanty, red, hot, painful. Tenesmus and burning at neck of bladder. Burning in urethra. Urine suppressed, bloody. Anxiety always on beginning to urinate. Retention, with screaming and restlessness, and handling of genitals. Renal region sensitive. Profuse urination, with profuse perspiration and diarrhea.

Male. Crawling and stinging in glans. Bruised pain in testicles, swollen, hard. Frequent erections and emissions. Painful erections.

Female. Vagina dry, hot, sensitive. Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late. Frenzy on appearance of menses. Suppressed from fright, cold, in plethoric subjects. Ovaries congested and painful. Sharp shooting pains in womb. Afterpains, with fear and restlessness.

Respiratory. Constant pressure in left chest; oppressed breathing on least motion. Hoarse, dry, croupy cough; loud, labored breathing. Child grasps at throat every time he coughs. Very sensitive to inspired air. Shortness of breath. Larynx sensitive. Stitches through chest. Cough, dry, short, hacking; worse at night and after midnight. Hot feeling in lungs. Blood comes up with hawking. Tingling in chest after cough.

Heart. Tachycardia. Affections of the heart with pain in left shoulder. Stitching pain in chest. Palpitation, with anxiety, fainting, and tingling in fingers. Pulse full, hard; tense and bounding; sometimes intermits. Temporal and carotid arteries felt when sitting.

Back. Numb, stiff, painful. Crawling and tingling, as if bruised. Stiffness in nape of neck. Bruised pain between scapulae.

Extremities. Numbness and tingling; shooting pains; icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet. Arms feel lame, bruised, heavy, numb. Pain down left arm [Tab.]. Hot hands and cold feet. Rheumatic inflammation of joints; worse at night; red shining swelling, very sensitive. Hip joint and thigh feel lame, especially after lying down. Knees unsteady; disposition of foot to turn. Weak and lax ligaments of all joints. Painless cracking of all joints. Bright red hypothenar eminences on both hands. Sensation as if drops of water trickled down the thigh.

Sleep. Nightmare. Nightly ravings. Anxious dreams. Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about. [Use thirtieth potency.] Starts up in sleep. Long dreams, with anxiety in chest. Insomnia of the aged.

Skin. Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning. Purpura miliaris. Rash like measles. Gooseflesh. Formication and numbness. Chilliness and formication down back. Pruritus relieved by stimulants.

Fever. Cold stage most marked. Cold sweat and icy coldness of face. Coldness and heat alternate. Evening chilliness soon after going to bed. Cold waves pass through him. Thirst and restlessness always present. Chilly if uncovered or touched. Dry heat, red face. Most valuable febrifuge with mental anguish, restlessness, etc. Sweat drenching, on parts lain on; relieving all symptoms.

Modalities. Better, in open air. Worse, in warm room, in evening and night; lying on affected side, from music, from tobacco smoke, dry, cold winds.

Relationship. Vinegar in large doses is antidotal to poisonous effects. Acids, wine and coffee, lemonade, and acid fruits modify its action.
     Not indicated in malarial and low fevers or hectic and pyemic conditions, and in inflammations when they localize themselves. Sulphur often follows it. Compare Chamomilla and Coffea in intense pain and sleeplessness.
     Complementary: Coff.; Sulph. Sulphur may be considered a chronic Aconite. Often completes a cure begun with Aconite.
     Compare: Bell.; Cham.; Coff.; Ferr-p.

Dose. Sixth potency for sensory affections; first to third for congestive conditions. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases. Aconite is a rapid worker. In Neuralgias tincture of the root often preferable, one drop doses (poisonous), or again, the thirtieth potency according to susceptibility ofpatient.

Agaricus muscarius
(Toadstool)

     This fungus contains several toxic compounds, the best known of which is Muscarin. The symptoms of poisoning do not develop at once, usually twelve to fourteen hours elapse before the initial attack. There is no antidote, treatment, entirely symptomatic (Schneider). Agaricus acts as an intoxicant to the brain, producing more vertigo and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.
     Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications. Incipient phthisis; is related to the tubercular diathesis, anemia, chorea, twitching ceases during sleep. Various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles are pictured in the symptomatology of this remedy. It corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion. Thus, in delirium of fevers, alcoholism, etc. General paralysis. Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice. Sensitive to pressure and cold air. Violent bearing-down pains. Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg. Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.

Mind. Sings, talks, but does not answer. Loquacity. Aversion to work. Indifference. Fearlessness. Delirium characterized by singing, shouting, and muttering; rhymes and prophesies. Begins with paroxysm of yawning.
     The provings bring out four phases of cerebral excitement.
     1. Slight stimulation: shown by increased cheerfulness, courage, loquacity, exalted fancy.
     2. More decided intoxication: great mental excitement and incoherent talking, immoderate gaiety alternates with melancholy. Perception of relative size of objects is lost, takes long steps and jumps over small objects as if they were trunks of trees: a small hole appears as a frightful chasm, a spoonful of water an immense lake. Physical strength is increased, can lift heavy loads. With it much twitching.
     3. Third stage: produces a condition of furious or raging delirium, screaming, raving, wants to injure himself, etc.
     4. Fourth stage: mental depression, languor, indifference, confusion, disinclination to work, etc. We do not get the active cerebral congestion of Belladonna, but a general nervous excitement such as is found in delirium tremens, delirium of fevers, etc.

Head. Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking. Head in constant motion. Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput. Lateral headache, as if from a nail. [Coff.; Ign.] Dull headache from prolonged desk work. Icy coldness, like icy needles, or splinters. Neuralgia with icy cold head. Desire to cover head warmly. [Sil.] Headache with nosebleed or thick mucous discharge.

Eyes. Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim. Vibrating specters. Double vision [Gels.], dim and flickering. Asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation. Twitching of lids and eyeballs. Margins of lids red; itch and burn and agglutinate. Inner angles very red.

Ears. Burn and itch, as if frozen. Twitching of muscles about the ear and noises.

Nose. Nervous nasal disturbances. Itching internally and externally. Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sensitiveness; watery noninflammatory discharge. Inner angles very red. Fetid, dark, bloody discharge. Nosebleed in old people. Sensation of soreness in nose and mouth.

Face. Facial muscles feel stiff; twitch; face itches and burns. Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters. Neuralgia, as if cold needles ran through nerves or sharp ice touched them.

Mouth. Burning and smarting on lips. Herpes on lips. Twitching. Taste sweet. Aphthae on roof of mouth. Splinter like pains in tongue. Thirsty all the time. Tremulous tongue. [Lach.] Tongue white.

Throat. Stitches along eustachian tube to ear. Feels contracted. Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up. Dryness of pharynx, swallowing difficult. Scratching in throat; cannot sing a note.

Stomach. Empty eructations, tasting of apples. Nervous disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hiccough. Unnatural hunger. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Profuse inodorous flatus. Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure. Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region.

Abdomen. Stitching pains in liver, spleen and abdomen. Stitches under short ribs, left side. Diarrhea with much fetid flatus. Fetid stools.

Urine. Stitches in urethra. Sudden and violent urging to urinate. Frequent urination.

Female. Menses, increased, earlier. Itching and tearing, pressive pains of genitals and back. Spasmodic dysmenorrhea. Severe bearing-down pains, especially after menopause. Sexual excitement. Nipples itch, burn. Complaints following parturition and coitus. Leucorrhea, with much itching.

Respiratory. Violent attacks of coughing that can be suppressed by effort of will, worse eating, pain in head while cough lasts. Spasmodic coughing at night after falling asleep, with expectoration of little balls of mucus. Labored, oppressed breathing. Cough ends in a sneeze.

Heart. Irregular, tumultuous palpitation, after tobacco. Pulse intermittent and irregular. Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax were narrowed. Palpitation with redness of face.

Back. Pain, with sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in dorsal region. Lumbago; worse in open air. Crick in back. Twitching of cervical muscles.

Extremities. Stiff all over. Pain over hips. Rheumatism better motion. Weakness in loins. Uncertain gait. Trembling. Itching of toes and feet as if frozen. Cramp in soles of feet. Pain in shin bone. Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia. Paralysis of lower limbs, with spasmodic condition of arms. Numbness of legs on crossing them. Paralytic pain in left arm followed by palpitation. Tearing painful contractions in the calves.

Skin. Burning, itching, redness, and swelling, as from frostbites. Pimples, hard, like flea bites. Miliary eruption, with intolerable itching and burning. Chilblains. Angioneurotic edema; rosacea. Swollen veins with cold skin. Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustular and edematous lesions.

Sleep. Paroxysms of yawning. Restless from violent itching and burning. On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often. Vivid dreams. Drowsy in daytime. Yawning, followed by involuntary laughter.

Fever. Very sensitive to cool air. Violent attacks of heat in evening. Copious sweat. Burning spots.

Modalities. Worse, open cold air, after eating, after coitus. In cold weather, before a thunderstorm. Pressure on dorsal spine, which causesinvoluntary laughter. Better, moving about slowly.

Relationship. Compare: Cimic.
     Antidote: Coff.

Dose. Third to thirtieth and two hundredth potency. In skin affections and brain exhaustions give the lower attenuations.

Allium cepa
(Red Onion)

     A picture of coryza, with acrid nasal discharge and laryngeal symptoms, eye secretion bland; singers' cold, worse in warm room and toward evening; better in open air is presented by this remedy. Specially adapted to phlegmatic patients; colds in damp cold weather. Neuralgic pains, like a fine thread, following amputations or injuries to nerves. Traumatic chronic neuritis. Burning in nose, mouth, throat, bladder and skin. Sensation of glowing heat on different parts of the body.

Head. Catarrhal headache, mostly in forehead; worse in warm room towards evening. Thread-like pains in face. Headache ceases during menses; returns when flow disappears.

Eyes. Red. Much burning and smarting lachrymation. Sensitive to light. Eyes suffused and watery; profuse; bland lachrymation, better in open air. Burning in eyelids.

Ears. Earache, shooting in eustachian tube.

Nose. Sneezing, especially when entering a warm room. Copious, watery and extremely acrid discharge. Feeling of a lump at root of nose. Hay fever. [Sil.; Psor.] Fluent coryza with headache, cough, and hoarseness. Polypus.

Stomach. Canine hunger. Pain in pyloric region. Thirst. Belching. Nausea.

Abdomen. Rumbling, offensive flatus. Pains in left hypogastrium. Colic sitting, moving about.

Rectum. Diarrhea with very offensive flatus. Stitches in rectum; itching and rhagades in anus. Glowing heat in rectum.

Urine. Sensation of weakness in bladder and urethra. Increased secretion of urine with coryza. Urine red with much pressure and burning in urethra.

Respiratory. Hoarseness. Hacking cough on inspiring cold air. Tickling in larynx. Sensation as if larynx is split or torn. Oppressed breathing from pressure in middle of chest. Constricted feeling in region of epiglottis. Pain extending to ear.

Extremities. Lame joints. Ulcers on heel. Painful affections of fingers about nails. Neuralgia of stump. Bad effects from getting feet wet. Limbs, especially arms, feel sore and tired.

Sleep. Yawning with headache and drowsiness. Gaping in deep sleep. Dreams. Wakes at 2 a.m.

Modalities. Worse, in the evening, in warm room. Better, in open air, and in cold room.

Relationship. Compare: Gels.; Euphr.; Acon.; Ip.
Complementary: Phos.; Thuj.; Puls.
     Antidote: Arn.; Cham.; Verat.

Dose. Third potency.

Anacardium
(Marking Nut)

     The Anacardium patient is found mostly among the neurasthenics; such have a type of nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food; impaired memory, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing). Syphilitic patients often suffer with these conditions. Intermittency of symptoms. Fear of examination in students. Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse. Sensation of a plug in various parts: eyes, rectum, bladder, etc.; also of a band. Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort. This is a sure indication, often verified. Its skin symptoms are similar to Rhus, and it has proved a valuable antidote to Poison Oak.

Mind. Fixed ideas. Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills. Anxiety when walking, as if pursued. Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language. Brain-fag. Impaired memory. Absent mindedness. Very easily offended. Malicious; seems bent on wickedness. Lack of confidence in himself or others. Suspicious. Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead. Senile dementia. Absence of all moral restraint.

Head. Vertigo. Pressing pain, as from a plug; worse after mental exertion: in forehead; occiput, temples, vertex; better during a meal. Itching and little boils on scalp.

Eyes. Pressure like a plug on upper orbit. Indistinct vision. Objects appear too far off.

Ears. Pressing in the ears as from a plug. Hard of hearing.

Nose. Frequent sneezing. Sense of smell perverted. Coryza with palpitation, especially in the aged.

Face. Blue rings around eyes. Face pale.

Mouth. Painful vesicles; fetid odor. Tongue feels swollen, impeding speech and motion, with saliva in mouth. Burning around lips as from pepper.

Stomach. Weak digestion, with fullness and distention. Empty feeling in stomach. Eructation, nausea, vomiting. Eating relieves Anacardium dyspepsia. Apt to choke when eating or drinking. Swallows food and drinks hastily.

Abdomen. Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines. Rumbling, pinching, and griping.

Rectum. Bowels inactive. Ineffectual desire; rectum seems powerless, as if plugged up; spasmodic constriction of sphincter ani; even soft stool passes with difficulty. Itching at anus; moisture from rectum. Hemorrhage during stool. Painful hemorrhoids.

Male. Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams. Prostatic discharge during stool.

Female. Leucorrhea, with soreness and itching. Menses scanty.

Respiratory. Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug. Oppression of chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air. Cough excited by talking, in children, after fit of temper. Cough after eating with vomiting of food and pain in occiput.

Heart. Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the aged; stitches in heart region. Rheumatic pericarditis with double stitches.

Back. Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight. Stiffness at nape of neck.

Extremities. Neuralgia in thumb. Paralytic weakness. Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged. Cramps in calves. Pressure as from a plug in the glutei. Warts on palms of hands. Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption.

Sleep. Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights. Anxious dreams.

Skin. Intense itching eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular eruption; swelling, urticaria; eruption like that of Poison Oak. Lichen planus; neurotic eczema. Warts on hands. Ulcer formation on forearm.

Modalities. Worse, on application of hot water. Better, from eating, when lying on side, from rubbing.

Relationship. Antidote: Coff., Rhus-t.
Compare: Rhus-t.

Dose. Sixth to two hundredth potency.

Antimonium crudum
(Sulphide of Antimony)

     For homeopathic employment, the mental symptoms, and those of the gastric sphere, determine its choice. Excessive irritability and fretfulness, together with a thickly coated white tongue, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy. All the conditions are aggravated by heat and cold bathing. Cannot bear heat of sun. Tendency to grow fat. An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable. Gout with gastric symptoms.

Mind. Much concerned about his fate. Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction. Sulky; does not wish to speak. Peevish; vexed without cause. Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at. Angry at every little attention. Sentimental mood.

Head. Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing, from disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wines. Suppressed eruptions. Heaviness in forehead, with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed. Headache with great loss of hair.

Eyes. Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated. Canthi raw and fissured. Chronic blepharitis. Pustules on cornea and lids.

Ears. Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube. Ringing and deafness. Moist eruption around ear.

Nose. Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts. Eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked, and scurfy.

Face. Pimples, pustules, and boils on face. Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin. Sallow and haggard.

Mouth. Cracks in corners of mouth. Dry lips. Saltish saliva. Much slimy mucus. Tongue coated thick white, as if whitewashed. Gums detach from teeth; bleed easily. Toothache in hollow teeth. Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus. Canker sores. Pappy taste. No thirst. Subacute eczema about mouth.

Throat. Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares. Hawking in open air. Laryngitis. Rough voice from over use.

Stomach. Loss of appetite. Desire for acids, pickles. Thirst in evening and night. Eructation tasting of the ingesta. Heartburn, nausea, vomiting. After nursing, the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very cross. Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather. Constant belching. Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels. Sweetish water brash. Bloating after eating.

Stool. Anal itching. Diarrhea alternates with constipation, especially in old people. Diarrhea after acids, sour wine, baths, over eating; slimy, flatulent stools. Mucous piles, continued oozing of mucus. Hard lumps mixed with watery discharge. Catarrhal proctitis. Stools composed entirely of mucus.

Urine. Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul odor.

Male. Eruption on scrotum and about genitals. Impotence. Atrophy of penis and testicles.

Female. Excited; parts itch. Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse. Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian region. Leucorrhea watery; acrid, lumpy.

Respiratory. Cough worse coming into warm room, with burning sensation in chest, itching of chest, oppression. Loss of voice from becoming overheated. Voice harsh and badly pitched.

Back. Itching and pain of neck and back.

Extremities. Twitching of muscles. Jerks in arms. Arthritic pain in fingers. Nails brittle; grow out of shape. Horny warts on hands and soles. Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence. Feet very tender; covered with large horny places. Inflamed corns. Pain in heels.

Skin. Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and pustules. Sensitive to cold bathing. Thick, hard, honey colored scabs. Urticaria; measle-like eruption. Itching when warm in bed. Dry skin. Warts. [Thuj.; Caust.] Dry gangrene. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.

Sleep. Continual drowsiness in old people.

Fever. Chilly even in warm room. Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhea. Hot sweat.

Modalities. Worse, in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing. Wet poultices. Better, in open air, during rest. Moist warmth.

Relationship. Compare: Puls.; Ip.; Sulph.
Complementary: Sulph.
     Antidote: Hep.

Dose. Third to sixth potency.

Antimonium tartaricum
(Tartrate of Antimony)

     Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium crudum, but also many peculiar to itself. Clinically, its therapeutic application has been confined largely to the treatment of respiratory diseases, rattling of mucus with little expectoration has been a guiding symptom. There is much drowsiness, debility and sweat characteristic of the drug, which group should always be more or less present, when the drug is prescribed. Gastric affections of drunkards and gouty subjects. Cholera morbus. Sensation of coldness in blood vessels. Bilharziasis. Homeopathic to dysuria, strangury, hematuria, albuminuria, catarrh of bladder and urethra, burning in rectum, bloody mucous stools, etc. Acts indirectly on the parasites by stimulating the oxidizing action of the protective substance. By-effects following injection for Bilharziasis. Chills and contractures and pain in muscles.
     Trembling of whole body, great prostration and faintness. Lumbago. Chills, contractures and muscular pains. Warts on glans penis.

Mind and Head. Vertigo alternates with drowsiness. Great despondency. Fear of being alone. Muttering, delirium, and stupor. Vertigo, with dullness and confusion. Band-like feeling over forehead. Face pale and sunken. Child will not be touched without whining. Headache as from a band compressing. [Nit-ac.]

Tongue. Coated, pasty, thick white, with red edges. Red and dry, especially in the center. Brown.

Face. Cold, blue, pale; covered with cold sweat. Incessant quivering of chin and lower jaw. [Gels.]

Stomach. Difficult deglutition of liquids. Vomiting in any position, excepting lying on right side. Nausea, retching, and vomiting, especially after food, with deathly faintness and prostration. Thirst for cold water, little and often, and desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally. Nausea produces fear; with pressure in precordial region, followed by headache with yawning and lachrymation and vomiting.

Abdomen. Spasmodic cough, much flatus. Pressure in abdomen, especially on stooping forward. Cholera morbus. Diarrhea in eruptive diseases.

Urine. Burning in urethra during and after urinating. Last drops bloody with pain in bladder. Urging increased. Catarrh of bladder and urethra. Stricture. Orchitis.

Respiratory. Hoarseness. Great rattling of mucus, but very little is expectorated. Velvety feeling in chest. Burning sensation in chest, which ascends to throat. Rapid, short, difficult breathing; seems as if he would suffocate; must sit up. Emphysema of the aged. Coughing and gaping consecutively. Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus. Cough excited by eating, with pain in chest and larynx. Edema and impending paralysis of lungs. Much palpitation, with uncomfortable hot feeling. Pulse rapid, weak, trembling. Dizziness, with cough. Dyspnea relieved by eructation.Cough and dyspnea better lying on right side.

Back. Violent pain in sacrolumbar region. Slightest effort to move may cause retching and cold, clammy sweat. Sensation of heavy weight at the coccyx, dragging downward all the time. Twitching of muscles; limbs tremulous.

Skin. Pustular eruption, leaving a bluish red mark. Smallpox. Warts.

Fever. Coldness, trembling, and chilliness. Intense heat. Copious perspiration. Cold, clammy sweat, with great faintness. Intermittent fever with lethargic condition.

Sleep. Great drowsiness. On falling asleep electric-like shocks. Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all complaints.

Modalities. Worse, in evening; from lying down at night; from warmth; in damp cold weather; from all sour things and milk. Better, from sitting erect; from eructation and expectoration.

Relationship. Antidote: Puls.; Sep.
     Compare: Kali-s.; Ip.

Dose. Second and sixth trituration. The lower potencies sometimes aggravate.

Apis
(Honeybee)

     Acts on cellular tissues causing edema of skin and mucous membranes.
     The very characteristic effects of the sting of the bee furnish unerring indications for its employment in disease. Swelling or puffing up of various parts, edema, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat, and slightest touch, and afternoon aggravation are some of the general guiding symptoms. Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acute, inflammation of kidneys, and other parenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis. Apis acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, serous membranes. It produces serous inflammation with effusion, membranes of brain, heart, pleuritic effusion, etc. Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general soreness is marked. Constricted sensations. Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off in the interior of the body. Much prostration.

Mind. Apathy, indifference, and unconsciousness. Awkward; drops things readily. Stupor, with sudden sharp cries and startings. Stupor alternating with erotic mania. Sensation of dying. Listless; cannot think clearly. Jealous, fidgety, hard to please. Sudden shrill, piercing screams. Whining. Tearfulness. Jealous, fright, rage, vexation, grief. Cannot concentrate mind when attempting to read or study.

Head. Whole brain feels very tired. Vertigo with sneezing, worse on lying or closing eyes. Heat, throbbing, distensive pains, better on pressure, and worse on motion. Sudden stabbing pains. Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as from a blow, extending to neck (better on pressure), accompanied with sexual excitement. Bores head into pillow and screams out.

Eyes. Lids swollen, red, edematous, everted, inflamed; burn and sting. Conjunctiva bright red, puffy. Lachrymation hot. Photophobia. Sudden piercing pains. Pain around orbits. Serous exudation, edema, and sharp pains. Suppurative inflammation of eyes. Keratitis with intense chemosis of ocular conjunction. Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation. Styes, also prevents their recurrence.

Ears. External ear red, inflamed, sore; stinging pains.

Nose. Coldness of tip of nose. Red, swollen, inflamed, with sharp pains.

Face. Swollen, red, with piercing pain. Waxy, pale, edematous. Erysipelas with stinging burning edema. Extends from right to left.

Mouth. Tongue fiery red, swollen, sore, and raw, with vesicles. Scalding in mouth and throat. Tongue feels scalded, red hot, trembling. Gums swollen. Lips swollen, especially upper. Membrane of mouth and throat glossy, as if varnished. Red, shining, and puffy, like erysipelas. Cancer of the tongue.

Throat. Constricted, stinging pains. Uvula swollen, sac-like. Throat swollen, inside and out; tonsils swollen, puffy, fiery red. Ulcers on tonsils. Fiery red margin around leathery membrane. Sensation of fishbone in throat.

Stomach. Sore feeling. Thirstless. Vomiting of food. Craving for milk. [Rhus-t.]

Abdomen. Sore, bruised on pressure, when sneezing. Extremely tender. Dropsy of abdomen. Peritonitis. Swelling in right groin.

Stool. Involuntary on every motion; anus seems open. Bloody, painless. Anus feels raw. Hemorrhoids, with stinging pain, after confinement. Diarrhea watery, yellow; cholera infantum type. Cannot urinate without a stool. Dark, fetid, worse after eating. Constipation; feels as if something would break on straining.

Urine. Burning and soreness when urinating. Suppressed, loaded with casts; frequent and involuntary; stinging pain and strangury; scanty, high colored. Incontinence. Last drops burn and smart.

Female. Edema of labia; relieved by cold water. Soreness and stinging pains; ovaritis; worse in right ovary. Menses suppressed, with cerebral and head symptoms, especially in young girls. Dysmenorrhea, with severe ovarian pains. Metrorrhagia profuse, with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging pain. Sense of tightness. Bearing down, as if menses were to appear. Ovarian tumors, metritis with stinging pains. Great tenderness over abdomen and uterine region.

Respiratory. Hoarseness; dyspnea, breathing hurried and difficult. Edema of larynx. Feels as if he could not draw another breath. Suffocation; short, dry cough, suprasternal. Hydrothorax.

Extremities. Edematous. Synovitis. Felon in beginning. Knee swollen, shiny, sensitive, sore, with stinging pain. Feet swollen and stiff. Feel too large. Rheumatic pain in back and limbs. Tired, bruised feeling. Numbness of hands and tips of fingers. Hives with intolerable itching. Edematous swellings.

Skin. Swellings after bites; sore, sensitive. Stinging. Erysipelas, with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue. Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pain. [Ars.] Sudden puffing up of whole body.

Sleep. Very drowsy. Dreams full of care and toil. Screams and sudden starting during sleep.

Fever. Afternoon chill, with thirst; worse on motion and heat. External heat, with smothering feeling. Sweat slight, with sleepiness. Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently. Sleeps after the fever paroxysm. After perspiration, nettle rash, also with shuddering.

Modalities. Worse, heat in any form; touch; pressure; late in afternoon; after sleeping; in closed and heated rooms. Right side. Better, in open air, uncovering, and cold bathing.

Relationship. Complementary: Nat-m., the "chronic" Apis; also Bar-c., if lymphatics are involved.
Inimical: Rhus-t.
     Compare: Zinc.; Canth.; Lach.

Dose. Tincture to thirtieth potency. In edematous conditions the lower potencies. Sometimes action is slow; so several days elapse before it is seen to act, and then urine is increased. Apium virus, sixth trituration.

Argentum nitricum
(Nitrate of Silver)

     In this drug the neurotic effects are very marked, many brain and spinal symptoms presenting themselves which give certain indications for its homeopathic employment. Symptoms of incoordination, loss of control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically; trembling in affected parts. Is an irritant of mucous membranes, producing violent inflammation of the throat, and a marked gastroenteritis. Very characteristic is the great desire for sweets, the splinter-like pains, and free mucopurulent discharge in the inflamed and ulcerated mucous membranes. Sensation as if a part were expanding and other errors of perception are characteristic. Withered up and dried constitutions present a favorable field for its action, especially when associated with unusual or long continued mental exertion. Head symptoms often determine the choice of this remedy. Pains increase and decrease gradually. Flatulent state and prematurely aged look. Explosive belching, especially in neurotics. Upper abdominal affections brought on by undue mental exertion. Paraplegia Myelitis and disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord. Intolerance of heat. Sensation of a sudden pinch. (Dudgeon.) Destroys red blood corpuscles, producing anemia.

Mind. Thinks his understanding will and must fail. Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window. Faintish and tremulous. Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease. Time passes slowly. Memory weak. Errors of perception. Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry. Peculiar mental impulses. Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational motives for actions.

Head. Headache with coldness and trembling. Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemicranial attacks. Sense of expansion. Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling. Headache from mental exertion, from dancing. Vertigo, with buzzing in ears and with nervous affections. Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye. Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure. Itching of scalp. Hemicrania; bones of head feel as if separated.

Eyes. Inner canthi swollen and red. Spots before the vision. Blurred vision. Photophobia in warm room. Purulent ophthalmia. Great swelling of conjunctiva; discharge abundant and purulent. Chronic ulceration of margin of lids; sore, thick, swollen. Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily. Eye strain from sewing; worse in warm room. Aching, tired feeling in eyes, better closing or pressing upon them. Useful in restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscles. Paretic condition of ciliary muscle. Acute granular conjunctivitis. Cornea opaque. Ulcer in cornea.

Nose. Loss of smell. Itching. Ulcers in septum. Coryza, with chilliness, lachrymation, and headache.

Face. Sunken, old, pale, and bluish. Old man's look; tight drawing of skin over bones.

Mouth. Gums tender and bleed easily. Tongue has prominent papillae; tip is red and painful. Pain in sound teeth. Taste coppery, like ink. Canker sores.

Throat. Much thick mucus in throat and mouth causes hawking. Raw, rough and sore. Sensation of a splinter in throat on swallowing. Dark redness of throat. Catarrh of smokers, with tickling as of hair in throat. Strangulated feeling.

Stomach. Belching accompanies most gastric ailments. Nausea, retching, vomiting of glairy mucus. Flatulence; painful swelling of pit. Painful spot over stomach that radiates to all parts of the abdomen. Gnawing ulcerating pain; burning and constriction. Ineffectual effort at eructation. Great craving for sweats. Gastritis of drunkards. Ulcerative pain in left side under ribs. Trembling and throbbing in stomach. Enormous distention. Ulceration of stomach, with radiating pain. Desire for cheese and salt.

Abdomen. Colic, with much flatulent distention. Stitchy ulcerative pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs.

Stool. Watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like chopped spinach, with shreddy mucus and enormous distention of abdomen; very offensive. Diarrhea immediately after eating or drinking. Fluids go right through him; after sweets. After any emotion with flatulence. Itching of anus.

Urine. Urine passes unconsciously, day and night. Urethra inflamed, with pain, burning, itching; pain as from a splinter. Urine scanty and dark. Emission of a few drops after having finished. Divided stream. Early stage of gonorrhea; profuse discharge and terrible cutting pains; bloody urine.

Male. Impotence. Erection fails when coition is attempted. Cancer-like ulcers. Desire wanting. Genitals shrivel. Coition painful.

Female. Gastralgia at beginning of menses. Intense spasm of chest muscles. Orgasms at night. Nervous erethism at change of life. Leucorrhea profuse, with erosion of cervix, bleeding easily. Uterine hemorrhage, two weeks after menses. Painful affections of left ovary.

Respiratory. High notes cause cough. Chronic hoarseness. Suffocative cough, as if from a hair in throat. Dyspnea. Chest feels as if a bar were around it. Palpitation, pulse irregular and intermittent; worse lying on right side. Painful spots in chest. Angina pectoris, nightly aggravation. Many people in a room seem to take away his breath.

Back. Much pain. Spine sensitive with nocturnal pains, paraplegia; posterior spinal sclerosis.

Extremities. Cannot walk with eyes closed. Trembling, with general debility. Paralysis, with mental and abdominal symptoms. Rigidity of calves. Debility in calves especially. Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when unobserved. Numbness of arms. Postdiphtheritic paralysis (after Gels.).

Skin. Brown, tense, and hard. Drawing in skin, as from a spider web, or dried albuminoussubstance, withered and dried up. Irregular blotches.

Sleep. Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination; horrible dreams of snakes, and of sexual gratification. Drowsy stupor.

Fever. Chills with nausea. Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up.

Modalities. Worse, warmth in any form; at night; from cold food; sweets; after eating; at menstrual period; from emotions, left side. Better, from eructation; fresh air; cold; pressure.

Relationship. Antidote: Nat-m.
     Compare: Ars.; Merc.; Phos.; Puls.

Dose. Third to thirtieth potency.
     Best form an aqueous solution 1 to 9, 2 or 3 drop doses. This solution in water preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh, these readily decompose into the oxide.

Arnica
(Leopard's Bane)

     Produces conditions upon the system quite similar to those resulting from injuries, falls, blows, contusions. Tinnitus aurium. Putrid phenomena. Septic conditions; prophylactic of pus infection. Apoplexy, red, full face.
     It is especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems to have caused the present trouble. After traumatic injuries, overuse of any organ, strains. Arnica is disposed to cerebral congestion. Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with impoverished blood, cardiac dropsy with dyspnea. A muscular tonic. Traumatism of grief, remorse or sudden realization of financial loss. Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained. Bed feels too hard. Marked effect on the blood. Affects the venous system inducing stasis. Ecchymosis and Hemorrhages. Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots. Tendency to hemorrhage and low fever states. Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not mature. Sore, lame, bruised feeling. Neuralgias originating in disturbances of pneumogastric. Rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders. Aversion to tobacco. Influenza. Thrombosis. Hematocele.

Mind. Fears touch, or the approach of anyone. Unconscious; when spoken to answers correctly, but relapses. Indifference; inability to perform continuous active work; morose, delirious. Nervous; cannot bear pain; whole body oversensitive. Says there is nothing the matter with him. Wants to be let alone. Agoraphobia (fear of space). After mental strain or shock.

Head. Hot, with cold body; confused; sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching pains. Scalp feels contracted. Cold spot on forehead. Chronic vertigo; objects whirl about especially when walking.

Eyes. Diplopia from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal hemorrhage. Bruised, sore feeling in eyes after close work. Must keep eyes open. Dizzy on closing them. Feel tired and weary after sightseeing, moving pictures, etc.

Ears. Noises in ear caused by rush of blood to the head. Shooting in and around ears. Blood from ears. Dullness of hearing after concussion. Pain in cartilages of ears as if bruised.

Nose. Bleeding after every fit of coughing, dark fluid blood. Nose feels sore; cold.

Mouth. Fetid breath. Dry and thirsty. Bitter taste. [Coloc.] Taste as from bad eggs. Soreness of gums after teeth extraction. [Sep.] Empyema of maxillary sinus.

Face. Sunken; very red. Heat in lips. Herpes in face.

Stomach. Longing for vinegar. Distaste for milk and meat. Canine hunger. Vomiting of blood. Pain in stomach during eating. Repletion with loathing. Oppressive gases pass upward and downward. Pressure as from a stone. Feeling as if stomach were passing against spine. Fetid vomiting.

Abdomen. Stitches under false ribs. Distended; offensive flatus. Sharp thrusts through abdomen.

Stool. Straining of tenesmus in diarrhea. Offensive, brown, bloody, putrid, involuntary. Looks like brown yeast. Must lie down after every stool. Diarrhea of consumption; worse lying on left side. Dysenteric stools with muscular pains.

Urine. Retained from overexertion. Dark brick-red sediment. Vesical tenesmus with very painful micturition.

Female. Bruised parts after labor. Violent afterpains. Uterine hemorrhage from mechanical injury after coition. Sore nipples. Mastitis from injury. Feeling as if fetus were lying crosswise.

Respiratory. Coughs depending on cardiac lesion, paroxysmal, at night, during sleep, worse exercise. Acute tonsillitis, swelling of soft palate and uvula. Pneumonia; approaching paralysis. Hoarseness from overuse of voice. Raw, sore feeling in morning. Cough produced by weeping and lamenting. Dry, from tickling low down in trachea. Bloody expectoration. Dyspnea with hemoptysis. All bones and cartilages of chest painful. Violent spasmatic cough, with facial herpes. Whooping cough, child cries before coughing. Pleurodynia. [Cimic.]

Heart. Angina pectoris; pain especially severe in elbow of left arm. Stitches in heart. Pulse feeble and irregular. Cardiac dropsy with distressing dyspnea. Extremities distended, feel bruised and sore. Fatty heart and hypertrophy.

Extremities. Gout. Great fear of being touched or approached. Pain in back and limbs, as if bruised or beaten. Sprained and dislocated feeling. Soreness after overexertion. Everything on which he lies seems too hard. Deathly coldness of forearm. Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain in pelvic region. Rheumatism begins low down and works up. [Led.]

Skin. Black and blue. Itching, burning, eruption of small pimples. Crops of small boils. [Sil.] Ecchymosis. Bed sores. Acne indurata, characterized by symmetry in distribution.

Sleep. Sleepless and restless when overtired. Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible. Horrors in the night. Involuntary stools during sleep.

Fever. Febrile symptoms closely related to typhoid. Shivering over whole body. Heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest of body. Internal heat; feet and hands cold. Nightly sour sweats.

Modalities. Worse, least touch; motion; rest; wine; damp cold. Better, lying down, or with head low.

Relationship. Complementary: Acon.; Ip.
     Compare: Acon.; Bapt.; Bell-p.; Ham.; Rhus-t.; Hyper.

Dose. Third to thirtieth potency. Locally, the tincture, but should never be applied hot or at all when abrasions or cuts are present.

Arsenicum album
(White Oxide of Arsenic)

     A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease make its homeopathic employment constant and certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful application. Among these the all-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation, are most important. Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion. This, with the peculiar irritability of fibre, gives the characteristic irritable weakness. Burning pains. Unquenchable thirst. Burning relieved by heat. Seaside complaints. [Nat-m.] Injurious effects of fruits, especially more watery ones. Gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency. Fear, fright and worry. Green discharges. Infantile Kala-azar. (Dr. Neatby.)
     Arsenicum should be thought of in ailments from alcoholism, ptomaine poisoning, stings, dissecting wounds, chewing tobacco; ill effects from decayed food or animal matter; odor of discharges is putrid; in complaints that return annually. Anemia and chlorosis. Degenerative changes. Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition. Reduces the refractive index of blood serum (also Chin. and Ferr-p.). Maintains the system under the stress of malignancy regardless of location. Malarial cachexia. Septic infections and low vitality.

Mind. Great anguish and restlessness. Changes place continually. Fears, of death, of being left alone. Great fear, with cold sweat. Thinks it useless to take medicine. Suicidal. Hallucinations of smell and sight. Despair drives him from place to place. Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage. General sensibility increased. [Hep.] Sensitive to disorder and confusion.

Head. Headaches relieved by cold, other symptoms worse. Periodical burning pains, with restlessness; with cold skin. Hemicrania, with icy feeling of scalp and great weakness. Sensitive head in open air. Delirium tremens; cursing and raving; vicious. Head is in constant motion. Scalp itches intolerably; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and covered with dry scales; nightly burning and itching; dandruff. Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair.

Eyes. Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrymation. Lids red, ulcerated, scabby, scaly, granulated. Edema around eyes. External inflammation, with extreme painfulness; burning, hot, and excoriating lachrymation. Corneal ulceration. Intense photophobia; better external warmth. Ciliary neuralgia, with fine burning pain.

Ears. Skin within, raw and burning. Thin, excoriating, offensive otorrhea. Roaring in ears, during a paroxysm of pain.

Nose. Thin, watery, excoriating discharge. Nose feels stopped up. Sneezing without relief. Hay fever and coryza; worse in open air; better indoors. Burning and bleeding. Acne of nose. Lupus.

Face. Swollen, pale, yellow, cachetic, sunken, cold, and covered with sweat. Expression of agony. Tearing, needle-like pains; burning. Lips black, livid. Angry, circumscribed flush of cheeks.

Mouth. Unhealthy easily bleeding gums. Ulceration of mouth with dryness and burning heat. Epithelioma of lips. Tongue dry, clean, and red; stitching and burning pain in tongue, ulcerated with blue color. Bloody saliva. Neuralgia of teeth; feel long and very sore; worse after midnight; better warmth. Metallic taste. Gulping up burning water.

Throat. Swollen, edematous, constricted, burning; unable to swallow. Diphtheritic membrane, looks dry and wrinkled.

Stomach. Cannot bear the sight or smell of food. Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time. Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or drinking. Anxiety in pit of stomach. Burning pain. Craves acids and coffee. Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat. Long lasting eructations. Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or brown-black mixed with blood. Stomach extremely irritable; seems raw, as if torn. Gastralgia from slightest food or drink. Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice cream, ice water, tobacco. Terrible fear and dyspnea, with gastralgia; also faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion. Malignant symptoms. Everything swallowed seems to lodge in the esophagus, which seems as if closed and nothing would pass. Ill effects of vegetable diet, melons, and watery fruits generally. Craves milk.

Abdomen. Gnawing, burning pains like coals of fire; relieved by heat. Liver and spleen enlarged and painful. Ascites and anasarca. Abdomen swollen and painful. Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing.

Rectum. Painful, spasmodic protrusion of rectum. Tenesmus. Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus.

Stool. Small, offensive, dark, with much prostration. Worse at night, and after eating and drinking; from chilling stomach, alcoholic abuse, spoiled meat. Dysentery dark, bloody, very offensive. Cholera, with intense agony, prostration, and burning thirst. Body cold as ice. [Verat.] Hemorrhoids burn like fire; relieved by heat. Skin excoriated about anus.

Urine. Scanty, burning, involuntary. Bladder as if paralyzed. Albuminous. Epithelial cells; cylindrical clots of fibrin and globules of pus and blood. After urinating, feeling of weakness in abdomen. Bright's disease. Diabetes.

Female. Menses too profuse and too soon. Burning in ovarian region. Leucorrhea, acrid, burning, offensive, thin. Pain as from red-hot wires; worse least exertion; causes great fatigue; better in warm room. Menorrhagia. Stitching pain in pelvis extending down the thigh.

Respiratory. Unable to lie down; fears suffocation. Air passages constricted. Asthma worse midnight. Burning in chest. Suffocative catarrh. Cough worse after midnight; worse lying on back. Expectoration scanty, frothy. darting pain through upper third of right lung. Wheezing respiration. Hemoptysis with pain between shoulders; burning heat all over. Cough dry, as from sulphur fumes; after drinking.

Heart. Palpitation, pain, dyspnea, faintness. Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco chewers. Pulse more rapid in morning. [Sulph.] Dilatation. Cyanosis. Fatty degeneration. Angina pectoris, with pain in neck and occiput.

Back. Weakness in small of back. Drawing in of shoulders. Pain and burning in back.

Extremities. Trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness. Cramps in calves. Swelling of feet. Sciatica. Burning pains. Peripheral neuritis. Diabetic gangrene. Ulcers on heel. [All-c.] Paralysis of lower limbs with atrophy.

Skin. Itching, burning, swellings; edema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching. Malignant pustules. Ulcers with offensive discharge. Anthrax. Poisoned wounds. Urticaria, with burning and restlessness. Psoriasis. Scirrhus. Icy coldness of body. Epithelioma of the skin. Gangrenous inflammations.

Sleep. Disturbed, anxious, restless. Must have head raised by pillows. Suffocative fits during sleep. Sleeps with hands over head. Dreams are full of care and fear. Drowsy, sleeping sickness.

Fever. High temperature. Periodically marked with adynamia. Septic fevers. Intermittent. Paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion. Hay fever. Cold sweats. Typhoid, not too early; often after Rhus. Complete exhaustion. Delirium; worse after midnight. Great restlessness. Great heat about 3 a.m. Sordes.

Modalities. Worse, wet weather, after midnight; from cold, cold drinks, or food. Seashore. Right side. Better, from heat; from head elevated; warm drinks.

Relationship. Complementary: Rhus-t.; Carbo-v.; Phos.; Thuj. Antidotal to Lead poison.
     Antidote: Op.; Carbo-v.; Chin.; Hep.; Nux-v. Chemical Antidote: Charcoal; Hydrated Peroxide of Iron; Lime Water.
     Compare: Phos.; Chin.; Verat.; Carbo-v.; Kali-p.

Dose. Third to thirtieth potency. The very highest potencies often yield brilliant results.
     Low attenuations in gastric, intestinal, and kidney diseases; higher in neuralgias, nervous diseases, and skin. But if only surface conditions call for it, give the lowest potencies 2X to 3X trituration. Repeated doses advisable.

Baptisia
(Wild Indigo)

     The symptoms of this drug are of an asthenic type, simulating low fevers, septic conditions of the blood, malarial poisoning, and extreme prostration. Indescribable sick feeling. Great muscular soreness and putrid phenomena always are present. All the secretions are offensive: breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc. Epidemic influenza. Chronic intestinal toxemia of children with fetid stools and eructations.
     Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of antibodies to the bac. typhosus, viz., the agglutinins. Thus it raises the natural bodily resistance to the invasion of the bacillary intoxication, which produces the typhoid syndrome. Typhoid carriers. After inoculation with antityphoid serum. Intermittent pulse, especially in the aged.

Mind. Wild, wandering feeling. Inability to think. Mental confusion. Ideas confused. Illusion of divided personality. Thinks he is broken or double, and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together. Delirium, wandering, muttering. Perfect indifference. Falls asleep while being spoken to. Melancholia, with stupor.

Head. Confused, swimming feeling. Vertigo; pressure at root of nose. Skin of forehead feels tight; seems drawn to back of head. Feels too large, heavy, numb. Soreness of eyeballs. Brain feels sore. Stupor; falls asleep while spoken to. Early deafness in typhoid conditions. Eyelids heavy.

Face. Besotted look. Dark red. Pain at root of nose. Muscles of jaw rigid.

Mouth. Taste flat, bitter. Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated. Breath fetid. Tongue feels burned; yellowish brown; edges red and shining. Dry and brown in center, with dry and glistening edges; surface cracked and sore. Can swallow liquids only; least solid food gags.

Throat. Dark redness of tonsils and soft palate. Constriction, contraction of esophagus. Great difficulty in swallowing solid food. Painless sore throat, and offensive discharge. Contraction at cardiac orifice.

Stomach. Can swallow only liquids, vomiting due to spasm of esophagus. Gastric fever. No appetite. Constant desire for water. Sinking feeling at stomach. Pain in epigastric region. Feeling of hard substance. All symptoms worse from beer. [Kali-bi.] Cardiac orifice contracted convulsively and ulcerative inflammation of stomach and bowels.

Abdomen. Right side markedly affected. Distended and rumbling. Soreness over region of gallbladder, with diarrhea. Stools very offensive, thin, dark, bloody. Soreness of abdomen, in region of liver. Dysentery of old people.

Female. Threatened miscarriage from mental depression, shock, watching, low fevers. Menses too early, too profuse. Lochia acrid, fetid. Puerperal fever.

Respiratory. Lungs feel compressed, breathing difficult; seeks open window. Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare and sense of suffocation. Constriction of chest.

Back and Extremities. Neck tired. Stiffness and pain, aching and drawing in arms and legs. Pain in sacrum, around hips and legs. Sore and bruised. Decubitus.

Sleep. Sleepless and restless. Nightmare and frightful dreams. Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed. Falls asleep while answering a question.

Skin. Livid spots all over body and limbs. Burning and heat in skin. [Ars.] Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration.

Fever. Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body. Heat all over, with occasional chills. Chill about 11 a.m. Adynamic fevers. Typhus fever. Shipboard fever.

Modalities. Worse, humid heat; fog; indoors.

Relationship. Compare: Bryonia and Arsenic may be needed to complete the favorable reaction. Rhus-t.; Ars.; Bry.; Arn.; Pyrog.

Dose. Tincture, to twelfth attenuation. Has rather short action.

Baryta carbonica
(Carbonate of Baryta)

     Specially indicated in infancy and old age. This remedy brings aid to scrofulous children, especially if they are backward mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do not grow and develop, have scrofulous ophthalmia, swollen abdomen, take cold easily, and then always have swollen tonsils. Persons subject to quinsy, which is prone to suppurate; gums bleed easily. Diseases of old men when degenerative changes begin (cardiac vascular and cerebral) who have hypertrophied prostate or indurated testes, very sensitive to cold, offensive foot sweats, very weak and weary, must sit or lie down or lean on something. Very averse to meeting strangers. Catarrh of posterior nares, with frequent epistaxis. Often useful in the dyspepsia of the young who have masturbated and who suffer from seminal emissions, together with cardiac irritability and palpitation. Affects glandular structures, and useful in general degenerative changes, especially in coats of arteries, aneurism, and senility. Baryta is a cardiovascular poison acting on the muscular coats of heart and vessels. Arterial fibrosis. Blood vessels soften and degenerate, become distended, and aneurisms, ruptures, and apoplexies result.

Mind. Loss of memory, mental weakness. Irresolute. Lost confidence in himself. Senile dementia. Confusion. Bashful. Aversion to strangers. Childish; grief over trifles.

Head. Vertigo; stitches, when standing in the sun, extending through head. Brain feels as if loose. Hair falls out. Confusion. Wens.

Eyes. Alternate dilatation and contraction of pupils. Photophobia. Gauze before eyes. Cataracts. [Calc.; Phos.; Sil.]

Ears. Hardness of hearing. Crackling noise. Glands around ears painful and swollen. Reverberation on blowing nose.

Nose. Dry; sneezing, coryza, with swelling of upper lip and nose. Sensation of smoke in nose. Discharge of thick, yellow mucus. Frequent bleeding. Scabs around wings of nose.

Face. Pale, puffed; sensation as of cobweb. Upper lip swollen.

Mouth. Awakes with dry mouth. Gums bleed and retract. Teeth ache before menses. Mouth filled with inflamed vesicles, foul taste. Paralysis of tongue. Smarting, burning pain in tip of tongue. Dribbling of saliva at dawn. Spasm of esophagus when food enters.

Throat. Submaxillary glands and tonsils swollen. Takes cold easily, with stitches and smarting pain. Quinsy. Suppurating tonsils from every cold. Tonsils inflamed, with swollen veins. Smarting pain when swallowing; worse empty swallowing. Feeling of a plug in pharynx. Can only swallow liquids. Spasm of esophagus as soon as food enters esophagus, causes gagging and choking. [Graph.] Throat troubles from over use of voice. Stinging pain in tonsils, pharynx or larynx.

Stomach. Water brash, hiccough, and eructations, which relieves pressure as of a stone. Hungry, but refuses food. Pain and weight immediately after a meal, with epigastric tenderness. [Kali-c.] Worse after warm food. Gastric weakness in the aged with possible malignancy present.

Abdomen. Hard and tense, distended. Colicky. Enlarged mesenteric glands. Pain in abdomen swallowing food. Habitual colic, with hunger, but food is refused.

Rectum. Constipation, with hard, knotty stools. Hemorrhoids protrude on urinating. Crawling in rectum. Oozing at anus.

Urine. Every time patient urinates, his piles come down. Urging to urinate. Burning in urethra on urinating.

Male. Diminished desire and premature impotence. Enlarged prostate. Testicles indurated.

Female. Before menses, pain in stomach and small of back. Menses scanty.

Respiratory. Dry, suffocative cough, especially in old people, full of mucus but lacking strength to expectorate, worse every change of weather. Larynx feels as if smoke were inhaled. Chronic aphonia. Stitches in chest; worse inspiration. Lungs feel full of smoke.

Heart. Palpitation and distress in region of heart. Aneurism. [Lyc.] Accelerates the heart's action at first, blood pressure much increased, contraction of blood vessels. Palpitation when lying on left side, when thinking of it especially: pulse full and hard. Cardiac symptoms after suppressed foot sweat.

Back. Swollen glands in nape of occiput. Fatty tumors about neck. Bruised pain between scapulae. Stiffness in sacrum. Weakness of spine.

Extremities. Pain in axillary glands. Cold, clammy feet. [Calc.] Fetid foot sweats. Numbness of limbs. Numb feeling from knees to scrotum; disappears when sitting down. Toes and soles sore; soles painful when walking. Pain in joints; burning pains in lower limbs.

Sleep. Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot. Twitching during sleep.

Modalities. Worse, while thinking of symptoms; from washing; lying on painful side. Better, walking in open air.

Relationship. Complementary: Dulc.; Sil.; Psor.
Incompatible: Calc.
     Antidotefor poisonous doses: Epsom salts.

Dose. Third to thirtieth potency, the latter to remove the predisposition to quinsy. Baryta is slow in action, bears repetition.

Belladonna
(Deadly Nightshade)

     Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. It has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands. Belladonna always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperesthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly. Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. Great children's remedy. Epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting. Scarlet fever and also prophylactic. Here use the thirtieth potency. Exophthalmic goitre. Corresponds to the symptoms of "airsickness" in aviators. Give as preventive. No thirst, anxiety of fear. Belladonna stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset. Belladonna for the extreme of thyroid toxemia. Use 1X (Beebe).

Mind. Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by spectres and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities. While the retina is insensible to actual objects, a host of visual hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within. He is acutely alive and crazed by a flood of subjective visual impressions and fantastic illusions. Hallucinations; sees monsters, hideous faces. Delirium; frightful images; furious; rages, bites, strikes; desire to escape. Loss of consciousness. Disinclined to talk. Perversity, with tears. Acuteness of all senses. Changeableness.

Head. Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards. Sensitive to least contact. Much throbbing and heat. Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing. Pain; fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples. Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow. Sudden outcries. Pain worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure and semierect posture. Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side. Constant moaning. Hair splits; is dry and comes out. Headache worse on right side and when lying down; ill effects, cold, etc.; from having hair cut.

Face. Red, bluish red, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive motion of muscles of face. Swelling of upper lip. Facial neuralgia with twitching muscles and flushed face.

Eyes. Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down. Pupils dilated. Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; dry, burn; photophobia; shooting in eyes. Exophthalmus. Ocular illusions; fiery appearance. Diplopia, squinting, spasms of lids. Sensation as if eyes were half closed. Eyelids swollen. Fundus congested.

Ears. Tearing pain in middle and external ear. Humming noises. Membrana tympani bulges and injected. Parotid gland swollen. Sensitive to loud tones. Hearing very acute. Otitis media. Pain causes delirium. Child cries out in sleep; throbbing and beating pain deep in ear, synchronous with heart beat. Hematoma auris. Acute and subacute conditions of Eustachian tube. Autophony (hearing one's voice in ear).

Nose. Imaginary odors. Tingling in tip of nose. Red and swollen. Bleeding of nose, with red face. Coryza; mucus mixed with blood.

Mouth. Dry. Throbbing pain in teeth. Gumboil. Tongue red on edges. Strawberry tongue. Grinding of teeth. Tongue swollen and painful. Stammering.

Throat. Dry, as if glazed; angry looking congestion; red, worse on right side. Tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition; worse, liquids. Sensation of a lump. Esophagus dry; feels contracted. Spasms in throat. Continual inclination to swallow. Scraping sensation. Muscles of deglutition very sensitive. Hypertrophy of mucous membrane.

Stomach. Loss of appetite. Averse to meat and milk. Spasmodic pain in epigastrium. Constriction; pain runs to spine. Nausea and vomiting. Great thirst for cold water. Spasms of stomach. Empty retching. Abhorrence of liquids. Spasmodic hiccough. Dread of drinking. Uncontrollable vomiting.

Abdomen. Distended, hot. Transverse colon protrudes like a pad. Tender, swollen. Pain as if clutched by a hand; worse, jar, pressure. Cutting pain across; stitches in left side of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching it. Extreme sensitiveness to touch, bedclothes, etc. [Lach.]

Stool. Thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk. Shuddering during stool. Stinging pain in rectum; spasmodic stricture. Piles more sensitive with backache. Prolapsus ani. [Ign.; Podo.]

Urine. Retention. Acute urinary infections. Sensation of motion in bladder as of a worm. Urine scanty, with tenesmus; dark and turbid, loaded with phosphates. Vesical region sensitive. Incontinence, continuous dropping. Frequent and profuse. Hematuria where no pathological condition can be found. Prostatic hypertrophy.

Male. Testicles hard, drawn up, inflamed. Nocturnal sweat of genitals. Flow of prostatic fluid. Desire diminished.

Female. Sensitive forcing downwards, as if all the viscera would protrude at genitals. Dryness and heat of vagina. Dragging around loins. Pain in sacrum. Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse. Hemorrhage hot. Cutting pain from hip to hip. Menses and lochia very offensive and hot. Labor pains come and go suddenly. Mastitis pain, throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from nipple. Breasts feel heavy; are hard and red. Tumors of breast, pain worse lying down. Badly smelling Hemorrhages, hot gushes of blood. Diminished lochia.

Respiratory. Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea. Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night. Larynx feels sore. Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal. Cheyne-Stokes respiration. [Op.] Hoarse; loss of voice. Painless hoarseness. Cough with pain in left hip. Barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with expectoration of blood. Stitches in chest when coughing. Larynx very painful; feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough. High, piping voice. Moaning at every breath.

Heart. Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, with labored breathing. Palpitation from least exertion. Throbbing all through body. Dicrotism. Heart seemed too large. Rapid but weakened pulse.

Extremities. Shooting pains along limbs. Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating. Tottering gait. Shifting rheumatic pains. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Jerking limbs. Spasms. Involuntary limping. Cold extremities.

Back. Stiff neck. Swelling of glands of neck. Pain in nape, as if it would break. Pressure on dorsal region most painful. Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs.

Skin. Dry and hot; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth. Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading. Erythema; pustules on face. Glands swollen, tender, red. Boils. Acne rosacea. Suppurative wounds. Alternate redness and paleness of the skin. Indurations after inflammations. Erysipelas.

Fever. A high feverish state with comparative absence of toxemia. Burning, pungent, steaming, heat. Feet icy cold. Superficial blood vessels, distended. Perspiration dry only on head. No thirst with fever.

Sleep. Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth. Kept awake by pulsation of blood vessels. Screams out in sleep. Sleeplessness, with drowsiness. Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep. Sleeps with hands under head. [Ars.]

Modalities. Worse, touch, jar, noise, draft, after noon, lying down. Better, semierect.

Relationship. Compare: Calcarea is often required after Belladonna.
Antidote: Coff.; Op.; Acon.

Dose. First to thirtieth potency and higher. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases.

Bellis perennis
(Daisy)

     It acts upon the muscular fibers of the blood vessels. Much muscular soreness. Lameness, as if sprained. Venous congestion, due to mechanical causes. First remedy in injuries to the deeper tissues, after major surgical work. Results of injuries to nerves with intense soreness and intolerance of cold bathing. After gout, debility of limbs.
     Traumatism of the pelvic organs, autotraumatism, expresses the condition calling for this remedy; ill effects from masturbation. Excellent remedy for sprains and bruises. Complaints due to cold food or drink when the body is heated, and in affections due to cold wind. Externally, in nevi. Acne. Boils all over. Sore, bruised feeling in the pelvic region. Exudations, stasis, swelling, come within the range of this remedy. Rheumatic symptoms. Does not vitiate the secretions. "It is a princely remedy for old laborers, especially gardeners." (Burnett.)

Head. Vertigo in elderly people. Headache from occiput to top of head. Forehead feels contracted. Bruised soreness. Itching around scalp and over back, worse from hot bath and bed.

Female. Breasts and uterus engorged. Varicose veins in pregnancy. During pregnancy inability to walk. Abdominal muscles lame. Uterus feels sore, as if squeezed.

Sleep. Wakes early in morning and cannot get to sleep again.

Abdomen. Soreness of abdominal walls and of uterus. Stitches in spleen, sore, enlarged. Yellow, painless diarrhea, foul odor, worse at night. Bloated; rumbling in bowels.

Skin. Boils. Ecchymosis, swelling, very sensitive to touch. Venous congestion due to mechanical causes. Varicose veins with bruised sore feeling. Exudations and swellings. Acne.

Extremities. Joints sore, muscular soreness. Itching on back and flexor surfaces of thighs. Pain down anterior of thighs. Wrist feels contracted as from elastic band around joint. Sprains with great soreness. Railway spine.

Relationship. Compare: Arn.; Ars.; Staph.; Ham.; Bry.

Modalities. Worse, left side; hot bath and warmth of bed; before storms; cold bathing; cold wind.

Dose. Tincture to third potency.

Berberis
(Barberry)

     Rapid changes of symptoms: pains change in regard to place and character; thirst alternates with thirstlessness, hunger, and loss of appetite, etc. Acts forcibly on the venous system, producing pelvic engorgements and hemorrhoids.
     Hepatic, and rheumatic affections, particularly with urinary, hemorrhoidal and menstrual complaints.
     Old gouty constitutions. Pain in region of kidneys is most marked; hence its use in renal and vesical troubles, gallstones, and vesical catarrh. It causes inflammation of kidneys with hematuria. Pains may be felt all over body, emanating from small of back. It has also marked action on the liver, promoting the flow of bile. Often called for in arthritic affections with urinary disturbances. Wandering, radiating pains. Acts well in fleshy persons, good livers, but with little endurance. Spinal irritation. All Berberis pains radiate, are not worse by pressure, but worse in various attitudes, especially standing and active exercise.

Head. Listless, apathetic, indifferent. Puffy sensation, feeling as if becoming larger. Vertigo with attacks of fainting. Frontal headache. Chilliness in back and occiput. Tearing pain in auricle, and gouty concretions. Sensation of a tight cap pressing upon the whole scalp.

Nose. Dry; obstinate catarrh of left nostril. Crawling in nostrils.

Face. Pale, sticky. Sunken cheeks and eyes, with bluish circles.

Mouth. Sticky sensation. Diminished saliva. Sticky, frothy saliva, like cotton. Tongue feels scalded; vesicles on tongue.

Stomach. Nausea before breakfast. Heartburn.

Abdomen. Stitches in region of gallbladder; worse, pressure, extending to stomach. Catarrh of the gallbladder with constipation and yellow complexion. Stitching pain in front of kidneys extending to liver, spleen, stomach, groins, Poupart's ligament. Sticking deep in ilium.

Stool. Constant urging to stool. Diarrhea painless, clay colored, burning, and smarting in anus and perineum. Tearing around anus. Fistula in ano.

Urine. Burning pains. Sensation as if some urine remained after urinating. Urine with thick mucus and bright red, mealy sediment. Bubbling, sore sensation in kidneys. Pain in bladder region. Pain in the thighs and loins on urinating. Frequent urination; urethra burns when not urinating.

Male. Neuralgia of spermatic cord and testicles. Smarting, burning, stitching in testicles, in prepuce and scrotum.

Female. Pinching constriction in mons veneris, vaginismus, contraction and tenderness of vagina. Burning and soreness in vagina. Desire diminished, cutting pain during coition. Menses scanty, gray mucus, with pain in kidneys and chilliness, pain down thighs. Leucorrhea, grayish mucus, with painful urinary symptoms. Neuralgia of ovaries and vagina.

Respiratory. Hoarseness; polypus of larynx. Tearing stitches in chest and region of heart.

Back. Stitches in neck and back; worse, respiration. Sticking pain in region of kidneys radiating thence around abdomen, to hips and groins. Numb, bruised sensation. Stitches from kidneys into bladder. Tearing, sticking with stiffness, making rising difficult, involving hips, nates, limbs, with numbness. Lumbago. [Rhus-t.] Metatarsus and metacarpus feel sprained. Postoperative pain in lumbar region; soreness with sharp pain following course of circumflex iliac nerve to bladder with frequent urination.

Extremities. Rheumatic paralytic pain in shoulders, arms, hands and fingers, legs and feet. Neuralgia under fingernails, with swelling of finger joints. Sensation of cold on outside of thighs. Heels pain, as if ulcerated. Stitching between metatarsal bones as from a nail when standing. Pain in balls of feet on stepping. Intense weariness and lameness of legs after walking a short distance.

Skin. Flat warts. Itching, burning and smarting; worse, scratching; better, cold applications. Small pustules over whole body. Eczema of anus and hands. Circumscribed pigmentation following eczematous inflammation.

Fever. Cold sensation in various parts, as if spattered with cold water. Warmth in lower part of back, hips, and thighs.

Modalities. Worse, motion, standing. It brings on, or increases, urinary complaints.

Relationship. Compare: Lyc.; Nux-v.; Sars.
Antidote: Bell.

Dose. Tincture, to sixth potency.

Borax
(Borate of Sodium)

     Gastrointestinal irritation. Salivation, nausea, vomiting, colic, diarrhea, collapse, albuminuria, casts and vesical spasm. Delirium, visual changes, hematuria, and skin eruptions have all be observed from overdosing.
Dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints. For homeopathic purposes, the peculiar nervous symptoms are very characteristic, and have frequently been verified, especially in the therapeutics of children. Of much value in epilepsy. Aphthous ulceration of mucous membranes.

Mind. Extreme anxiety, especially from motions which have a downward direction, rocking, being carried downstairs, laid down. Anxious expression of face during the downward motions, starts and throws up hands on laying patient down, as if afraid of falling. Excessively nervous; easily frightened. Sensitive to sudden noises. Violent fright from report of a gun, even at a distance. Fear of thunder.

Head. Aches, with nausea and trembling of whole body. Hair tangled at tips, cannot be separated, as in Plica Polonica.

Eyes. Lashes turn inward. Visions of bright waves. Eyelids inflamed, lids cut against eyeball. Entropium.

Ears. Very sensitive to slightest noise; not so much disturbed by louder ones.

Nose. Red nose, of young women. [Nat-c.] Red and shining swelling, with throbbing and tensive sensation. Tip swollen and ulcerated. Dry crusts.

Face. Pale, earthy, with suffering expression. Swollen, with pimples on nose and lips. Feeling of cobwebs.

Mouth. Aphthae. White fungus like growth. Mouth hot and tender; ulcers bleed on touch and eating. Painful gumboil. Crying when nursing. Taste bitter. [Bry.; Puls.; Cupr.] Taste of "cellar mold".

Stomach and Abdomen. Distention after eating; vomiting. Gastralgia, depending upon uterine disturbance. Pain as if diarrhea would result.

Stool. Loose, pappy, offensive stools in children. Diarrhea, offensive, preceded by colic; stools mucous, with aphthous sore mouth.

Urine. Hot, smarting pain in orifice. Pungent smell. Child afraid to urinate, screams before urinating. [Sars.] Small red particles on diaper.

Female. Labor pains with frequent eructations. Galactorrhea. [Calc.; Con.; Bell.] In nursing, pain in opposite breast. Leucorrhea like white of eggs, with sensation as if warm water was flowing. Menses too soon, profuse, with gripping, nausea and pain in stomach extending into small of back. Membranous dysmenorrhea. Sterility. Favors easy conception. Sensation of distention in clitoris with sticking. Pruritis of vulva and eczema.

Respiratory. Hacking and violent cough; expectoration, moldy taste and smell. Stitches in chest, with inspiration and cough. Cough with moldy taste; breath smells moldy. Pleurodynia; worse upper part of right chest. Arrest of breathing when lying; is obliged to jump and catch breath, which causes pain in right side. Out of breath on going up stairs.

Extremities. Feeling as of cobwebs on hands. Itching on back of finger joints and hands. Throbbing pain in tip of thumb. Stitches in sole. Pain in heel. Burning pain in great toe; inflammation of balls of toes. Eczema of toes and fingers with loss of nails.

Skin. Psoriasis. Erysipelas in face. Itching on back of finger joints. Unhealthy skin; slight injuries suppurate. Herpes. [Rhus-t.] Erysipelatous inflammation with swelling and tension. Chilblains relieved in open air. Trade eruptions on fingers and hands, itching and stinging. Ends of hair become tangled.

Sleep. Voluptuous dreams. Cannot sleep on account of heat, especially in head. Cries out of sleep as if frightened. [Bell.]

Modalities. Worse, downward motion, noise, smoking, warm weather, after menses. Better, pressure, evening, cold weather.

Relationship. Incompatible: Acetic acid, Vinegar, and Wine.
Antidote: Cham.; Coff.
     Compare: Calc.; Bry.; Sul-ac.

Dose. First to third trituration. In skin diseases continue its use for several weeks. Locally in pruritus pudendi. A piece of Borax, the size of a pea, dissolved in the mouth, acts magically in restoring the voice, in cases of sudden hoarseness brought on by cold, and frequently for an hour or so, it renders the voice silvery and clear.

Bryonia
(Wild Hops)

     Acts on all serous membranes and the viscera they contain. Aching in every muscle. The general character of the pain here produced is a stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest. These characteristic stitching pains, greatly aggravated by any motion, are found everywhere, but especially in the chest; worse pressure. Mucous membranes are all dry. The Bryonia patient is irritable; has vertigo from raising the head, pressive headache; dry, parched lips, mouth; excessive thirst, bitter taste, sensitive epigastrium, and feeling of a stone in the stomach; stools large, dry, hard; dry cough; rheumatic pains and swellings; dropsical effusions into synovial and serous membranes.
     Bryonia affects especially the constitution of a robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability. It prefers the right side, the evening, and open air. Warm weather after cold days, to manifest its action most markedly.
     Children dislike to be carried or raised. Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy. Complaints apt to develop slowly.

Mind. Exceedingly irritable; everything puts him out of humor. Delirium; wants to go home: talks of business.

Head. Vertigo, nausea, faintness on rising, confusion. Bursting, splitting headache, as if everything would be pressed out; as if hit by a hammer from within; wore from motion, stooping, opening eyes. Headache becomes seated in occiput. Drawing in bones towards zygoma. Headache; worse on motion, even of eyeballs. Frontal headache, frontal sinuses involved.

Nose. Frequent bleeding of nose when menses should appear. Also in the morning, relieving the headache. Coryza with shooting and aching in the forehead. Swelling of tip of nose, feels as if it would ulcerate when touched.

Ears. Aural vertigo. [Sil.; Chin.] Roaring, buzzing.

Eyes. Pressing, crushing, aching pain. Glaucoma. Sore to touch and when moving them.

Mouth. Lips parched, dry, cracked. Dryness of mouth, tongue, and throat, with excessive thirst. Tongue coated yellowish, dark brown; heavily white in gastric derangement. Bitter taste. [Nux-v.; Coloc.] Burning in lower lip in old smokers. Lip swollen, dry, black and cracked.

Throat. Dryness, sticking on swallowing, scraped and constricted. [Bell.] Tough mucus in larynx and trachea, loosened only after much hawking; worse coming into warm room.

Stomach. Nausea and faintness when rising up. Abnormal hunger, loss of taste. Thirst for large drafts. Vomiting of bile and water immediately after eating. Worse, warm drinks, which are vomited. Stomach sensitive to touch. Pressure in stomach after eating, as of a stone. Soreness in stomach when coughing. Dyspeptic ailments during summer heat. Sensitiveness of epigastrium to touch.

Abdomen. Liver region swollen, sore, tensive. Burning pain, stitches; worse, pressure, coughing, breathing. Tenderness of abdominal walls.

Stool. Constipation; stools hard, dry, as if burnt; seem too large. Stools brown, thick, bloody; worse in morning, from moving, in hot weather, after being heated, from cold drinks, every spell of hot weather.

Urine. Red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot.

Female. Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion, with tearing pains in legs; suppressed, with vicarious discharge or splitting headache. Stitching pains in ovaries on taking a deep inspiration; very sensitive to touch. Pain in right ovary as if torn, extending to thigh. Milk fever. Pain in breasts at menstrual period. Breasts hot and painful, hard. Abscess of mammae. Frequent bleeding of nose at appearance of menses. Menstrual irregularities, with gastric symptoms. Ovaritis. Intermenstrual pain, with great abdominal and pelvic soreness. [Ham.]

Respiratory. Soreness in larynx and trachea. Hoarseness; worse in open air. Dry, hacking cough from irritation in upper trachea. Cough, dry, at night; must sit up; worse after eating or drinking, with vomiting, with stitches in chest, and expectoration of rust colored sputa. Frequent desire to take a long breath; must expand lungs. Difficult, quick respiration; worse every movement; caused by stitches in chest. Cough, with feeling as if chest would fly to pieces; presses his head on sternum; must support chest. Croupous and pleuropneumonia. Expectoration brick shade, tough, and falls like lumps of jelly. Tough mucus in trachea, loosened only with much hawking. Coming into warm room excites cough. [Nat-c.] Heaving beneath the sternum extending towards the right shoulder. Cough worse by going into warm room. Stitches in cardiac region. Angina pectoris (use tincture).

Back. Painful stiffness in nape of neck. Stitches and stiffness in small of back. From hard water and sudden changes of weather.

Extremities. Knees stiff and painful. Hot swelling of feet. Joints red, swollen, hot, with stitches and tearing; worse on least movement. Every spot is painful on pressure. Constant motion of left arm and leg.

Skin. Yellow; pale, swollen, dropsical; hot and painful. Seborrhea. Hair very greasey.

Sleep. Drowsy; starting when falling asleep. Delirium; busy with business matters and what he had read.

Fever. Pulse full, hard, tense, and quick. Chill with external coldness, dry cough, stitches. Internal heat. Sour sweat after slight exertion. Easy, profuse perspiration. Rheumatic and typhoid marked by gastrohepatic complications.

Modalities. Worse, warmth, any motion, morning, eating, hot weather, exertion, touch. Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick. Better, lying on painful side, pressure, rest, cold things.

Relationship. Complementary: Rhus-t.
     Antidote: Acon.; Cham.; Nux-v.
Compare: Kali-m.

Dose. First to twelfth attenuation.

Calcarea carbonica
(Carbonate of Lime)

     This great Hahnemannian antipsoric is a constitutional remedy par excellence. Its chief action is centered in the vegetative sphere, impaired nutrition being the keynote of its action, the glands, skin, and bones, being instrumental in the changes wrought. Increased local and general perspiration, swelling of glands, scrofulous and rachitic conditions generally offer numerous opportunities for the exhibition of Calcarea. Incipient phthisis. [Ars.] It covers the tickling cough, fleeting chest pains, nausea, acidity and dislike of fat. Gets out of breath easily. A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork. Abscesses in deep muscles; polypi and exostoses. Pituitary and thyroid disfunction.
     Raised blood coagulability. Is a definite stimulant to the periosteum. Is a hemostatic and gives this power probably to the gelatine injections.
     Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence. Persons of scrofulous type, who take cold easily, with increased mucous secretions, children who grow fat, are large bellied, with large head, pale skin, chalky look, the so-called leucophlegmatic temperament; affections caused by working in water. Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats. Children crave eggs and eat dirt and other indigestible things; are prone to diarrhea. Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour.

Mind. Apprehensive; worse towards evening; fears loss of reason, misfortune, contagious diseases. Forgetful, confused, low-spirited. Anxiety with palpitation. Obstinacy; slight mental effort produces hot head. Averse to work or exertion.

Head. Sense of weight on top of head. Headache, with cold hands and feet. Vertigo on ascending, and when turning head. Headache from overlifting, from mental exertion, with nausea. Head feels hot and heavy, with pale face. Ice coldness in, and on the head, especially right side. Open fontanelles; head enlarged; much perspiration, wets the pillow. Itching of the scalp. Scratches head on waking.

Eyes. Sensitive to light. Lachrymation in open air and early in morning. Spots and ulcers on cornea. Lachrymal ducts closed from exposure to cold. Easy fatigue of eyes. Farsighted. Itching of lids, swollen, scurfy. Chronic dilatation of pupils. Cataract. Dimness of vision, as if looking through a mist. Lachrymal fistula; scrofulous ophthalmia.

Ears. Throbbing; cracking in ears; stitches; pulsating pain as if something would press out. Deafness from working in water. Polypi which bleed easily. Scrofulous inflammation with mucopurulent otorrhea, and enlarged glands. Perversions of hearing; hardness of hearing. Eruption on and behind ear. [Petr.] Cracking noises in ear. Sensitive to cold about ears and neck.

Nose. Dry, nostrils sore, ulcerated. Stoppage of nose, also with fetid, yellow discharge. Offensive odor in nose. Polypi; swelling at root of nose. Epistaxis. Coryza. Takes cold at every change of weather. Catarrhal symptoms with hunger; coryza alternates with colic.

Face. Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with deep-seated eyes, surrounded by dark rings. Crusta lactea; itching, burning after washing. Submaxillary glands swollen. Goitre. Itching of pimples in whiskers. Pain from right mental foramen along lower jaw to ear.

Mouth. Persistent sour taste. Mouth fills with sour water. Dryness of tongue at night. Bleeding of gums. Difficult and delayed dentition. Teeth ache; excited by current of air, anything cold or hot. Offensive smell from mouth. Burning pain at tip of tongue; worse, anything warm taken into stomach.

Throat. Swelling of tonsils and submaxillary glands; stitches on swallowing. Hawking up of mucus. Difficult swallowing. Goitre. Parotid fistula.

Stomach. Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things (chalk, coal, pencils); also for eggs, salt and sweets. Milk disagrees. Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting. Dislike of fat. Loss of appetite when overworked. Heartburn and loud belching. Cramps in stomach; worse, pressure, cold water. Ravenous hunger. Swelling over pit of stomach, like a saucer turned bottom up. Repugnance to hot food. Pain in epigastric region to touch. Thirst; longing for cold drinks. Aggravation while eating. Hyperchlorhydria. [Phos.]

Abdomen. Sensitive to slightest pressure. Liver region painful when stooping. Cutting in abdomen; swollen abdomen. Incarcerated flatulence. Inguinal and mesenteric glands swollen and painful. Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist. Distention with hardness. Gallstone colic. Increase of fat in abdomen. Umbilical hernia. Trembling; weakness, as if sprained. Children are late in learning to walk.

Stool. Crawling and constriction in rectum. Stool large and hard [Bry.]; whitish, watery, sour. Prolapse ani, and burning, stinging hemorrhoids. Diarrhea of undigested food, fetid, with ravenous appetite. Children's diarrhea. Constipation; stool at first hard, then pasty, then liquid.

Urine. Dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody. Irritable bladder. Enuresis. (Use 30th.)

Male. Frequent emissions. Increased desire. Semen emitted too soon. Coition followed by weakness and irritability.

Female. Before menses, headache, colic, chilliness and leucorrhea. Cutting pains in uterus during menstruation. Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return. Uterus easily displaced. Leucorrhea, milky. [Sep.] Burning and itching of parts before and after menstruation; in little girls. Increased sexual desire; easy conception. Hot swelling breasts. Breasts tender and swollen before menses. Milk too abundant; disagreeable to child. Deficient lactation, with distended breasts in lymphatic women. Much sweat about external genitals. Sterility with copious menses. Uterine polypi.

Respiratory. Tickling cough troublesome at night, dry and free expectoration in morning; cough when playing piano, or by eating. Persistent, irritating cough from arsenical wall paper. (Clarke.) Extreme dyspnea. Painless hoarseness; worse in the morning. Expectoration only during the day; thick, yellow, sour mucus. Bloody expectoration; with sour sensation in chest. Suffocating spells; tightness, burning and soreness in chest; worse going upstairs or slightest ascent, must sit down. Sharp pains in chest from before backwards. Chest very sensitive to touch, percussion, or pressure. Longing for fresh air. Scanty, salty expectoration. [Lyc.]

Heart. Palpitation at night and after eating. Palpitation with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of chest; after suppressed eruption.

Back. Pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise; from overlifting. Pain between shoulderblades, impeding breathing. Rheumatism in lumbar region; weakness in small of back. Curvature of dorsal vertebrae. Nape of neck stiff and rigid. Renal colic.

Extremities. Rheumatoid pains, as after exposure to wet. Sharp sticking, as if parts were wrenched or sprained. Cold, damp feet; feel as if damp stockings were worn. Cold knees. Cramps in calves. Sour foot sweat. Weakness of extremities. Swelling of joints, especially knee. Burning of soles of feet. Sweat of hands. Arthritic nodosities. Soles of feet raw. Feet feel cold and dead at night. Old sprains. Tearing in muscles.

Sleep. Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep. Horrid visions when opening eyes. Starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy. Drowsy in early part of evening. Frequent waking at night. Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light slumber. Night terrors. [Kali-p.] Dreams of the dead.

Fever. Chill at 2 p.m. begins internally in stomach region. Fever with sweat. Pulse full and frequent. Chilliness and heat. Partial sweats. Night sweats, especially on head, neck and chest. Hectic fever. Heat at night during menstruation, with restless sleep. Sweat over head in children, so that pillow becomes wet.

Skin. Unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flaccid. Small wounds do not heal readily. Glands swollen. Nettle rash; better in cold air. Warts on face and hands. Petechial eruptions. Chilblains. Boils.

Modalities. Worse, from exertion, mental or physical; ascending; cold in every form; water, washing, moist air, wet weather; during full moon; standing. Better, dry climate and weather; lying on painful side. Sneezing (pain in head and nape).

Relationship. Antidote: Ip.; Nit-ac.; Nux-v.
     Complementary: Bell.; Rhus-t.; Lyc.; Sil.
     Calcarea is useful after Sulphur where the pupils remain dilated. When Pulsatilla failed in school girls.
     Incompatible: Bry.; Sulphur should not be given after Calcarea.
Compare: Sulph.; Lyc.; Sil.; Puls.; Cham.

Dose. Sixth trituration. Thirtieth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too frequently in elderly people.

Calcarea fluorica
(Fluoride of Lime)

     A powerful tissue remedy for hard, stony glands, varicose and enlarged veins, and malnutrition of bones. Hard knots in female breast. Goitre. Congenital hereditary syphilis. Induration threatening suppuration. Many cases of cataract have undoubtedly been influenced favorably by it. Congenital syphilis manifesting itself in ulceration of mouth and throat, caries and necrosis with boring pains and heat in parts. Arteriosclerosis; threatened apoplexy. Tuberculosis. Used after operations, the tendency to adhesions is reduced.

Mind. Great depression; groundless fears of financial ruin.

Head. Creaking noise in head. Blood tumors of newborn infants. Hard excrescences on the scalp. Ulcers on the scalp with callous, hard edges.

Eyes. Flickering and sparks before the eyes, spots on the cornea; conjunctivitis; cataract. Strumous phlyctenular keratitis. Subcutaneous palpebral cysts.

Ears. Calcareous deposits on tympanum; sclerosis of ossicula and petrous portion of temporal bone, with deafness, ringing and roaring. Chronic suppuration of middle ear.

Nose. Cold in the head; stuffy cold; dry coryza; ozena. Copious, offensive, thick, greenish, lumpy, yellow nasal catarrh. Atrophic rhinitis, especially if crusts are prominent.

Face. Hard swelling on the cheek, with pain or toothache, hard swelling on jaw bone.

Mouth. Gum boil, with hard swelling on the jaw. Cracked appearance of the tongue, with or without pain. Induration of the tongue, hardening after inflammation. Unnatural looseness of the teeth, with or without pain; teeth become loose in their sockets. Toothache, with pain if any food touches the tooth.

Throat. Follicular sore throat; plugs of mucus are continually forming in the crypts of the tonsils. Pain and burning in throat; better by warm drinks; worse, cold drinks. Hypertrophy of Luschka's tonsil. Relaxed uvula, tickling referred to larynx.

Stomach. Vomiting of infants. Vomiting of undigested food. Hiccough. [Sul-ac.] Flatulency. Weakness and daintiness of appetite, nausea and distress after eating in young children who are overtaxed by studies. Acute indigestion from fatigue and brain-fag; much flatulence.

Stool and Anus. Diarrhea in gouty subjects. Itching of anus. Fissure of the anus, and intensely sore crack near the lower end of the bowel. Bleeding hemorrhoids. Itching of anus as from pinworms. Internal or blind piles frequently, with pain in back, generally far down on the sacrum, and constipation. Much wind in lower bowels. Worse, pregnancy.

Male. Hydrocele; indurations of the testicles.

Respiratory. Hoarseness. Croup. Cough with expectoration of tiny lumps of yellow mucus, with tickling sensation and irritation on lying down. Spasmodic cough. Calcarea fluorica removes fibroid deposits about the endocardium and restores normal endocardial structure. (Eli G. Jones, M.D.)

Circulatory. Chief remedy for vascular tumors with dilated blood vessels, and for varicose or enlarged veins. Aneurism. Valvular disease. When the tuberculous toxins attack the heart and blood vessels.

Neck and Back. Chronic lumbago; aggravated on beginning to move, and ameliorated on continued motion. Osseous tumors. Rachitic enlargement of femur in infants. Pain lower part of back, with burning.

Extremities. Ganglia or encysted tumors at the back of the wrist. Gouty enlargements of the joints of the fingers. Exostoses on fingers. Chronic synovitis of knee joint.

Sleep. Vivid dreams, with sense of impending danger. Unrefreshing sleep.

Skin. Marked whiteness of skin. Scar tissue; adhesions after operations. Chaps and cracks. Fissures or cracks in the palms of the hands, or hard skin. Fissure of the anus. Suppurations with callous, hard edges. Whitlow. Indolent, fistulous ulcers, secreting thick, yellow pus. Hard, elevated edges of ulcer, surrounding skin purple and swollen. Knots, kernels, hardened glands in the female breast. Swellings or indurated enlargements having their seat in the fasciae and capsular ligaments of joints, or in the tendons. Indurations of stony hardness.

Modalities. Worse, during rest, changes of weather. Better, heat, warm applications.

Relationship. Compare: Con.; Rhus-t.

Dose. Third to twelfth trituration. A "chronic" remedy. Needs some time before manifesting its effects. Should not be repeated too frequently.

Calcarea phosphorica
(Phosphate of Lime)

     One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has many symptoms in common with Calcarea carbonica, there are some differences and characteristic features of its own. It is especially indicated in tardy dentition and troubles incident to that period, bone disease, nonunion of fractured bones, and the anemias after acute diseases and chronic wasting diseases. Anemic children who are peevish, flabby, have cold extremities and feeble digestion. It has a special affinity where bones form sutures or symphyses, and all its symptoms are worse from any change of weather. Numbness and crawling are characteristic sensations, and tendency to perspiration and glandular enlargement are symptoms it shares with the carbonate. Scrofulosis, chlorosis and phthisis.

Mind. Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation. [Ign.; Ph-ac.] Always wants to go somewhere.

Head. Headache, worse near the region of sutures, from change of weather, of school children about puberty. Fontanelles remain open too long. Cranial bones soft and thin. Defective hearing. Headache, with abdominal flatulence. Head hot, with smarting of roots of hair.

Eyes. Diffused opacity in cornea following abscess.

Mouth. Swollen tonsils; cannot open mouth without pain. Complaints during teething; teeth develop slowly; rapid decay of teeth. Adenoid growths.

Stomach. Infant wants to nurse all the time and vomits easily. Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats. Much flatulence. Great hunger with thirst, flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations. Heartburn. Easy vomiting in children.

Abdomen. At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in abdomen. Sunken and flabby. Colic, soreness and burning around navel.

Stool. Bleeding after hard stool. Diarrhea from juicy fruits or cider; during dentition. Green, slimy, hot, sputtering, undigested, with fetid flatus. Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms.

Urine. Increased, with sensation of weakness. Pain in region of kidneys when lifting or blowing the nose.

Female. Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls. If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with violent backache. During lactation with sexual excitement. Nymphomania, with aching, pressing, or weakness in uterine region. After prolonged nursing. Leucorrhea, like white of egg. Worse morning. Child refuses breast; milk tastes salty. Prolapsus in debilitated persons.

Respiratory. Involuntary sighing. Chest sore. Suffocative cough; better lying down. Hoarseness. Pain through lower left lung.

Neck and Back. Rheumatic pain from draft of air, with stiffness and dullness of head. Soreness in sacroiliac symphysis, as if broken.

Extremities. Stiffness and pain, with cold, numb feeling, worse any change of weather. Crawling and coldness. Buttocks, back and limbs asleep. Pains in joints and bones. Weary when going upstairs.

Modalities. Worse, exposure to damp, cold weather, melting snow. Better, in summer; warm, dry atmosphere.

Relationship. Complementary: Ruta; Hep.
     Compare: Sil.; Psor.; Sulph.

Dose. First to third trituration. Higher potencies often more effective.

Calendula
(Marigold)

     A most remarkable healing agent, applied locally. Useful for open wounds, parts that will not heal, ulcers, etc. Promotes healthy granulations and rapid healing by first intention. Hemostatic after tooth extraction. Deafness. Catarrhal conditions. Neuroma. Constitutional tendency to erysipelas. Pain is excessive and out of all proportion to injury. Great disposition to take cold, especially in damp weather. Paralysis after apoplexy. Cancer, as an intercurrent remedy. Has remarkable power to produce local exudation and helps to make acrid discharge healthy and free. Cold hands.

Head. Extremely nervous; easily frightened; tearing headache; weight on brain. Submaxillary glands swollen, painful to touch. Pain in right side of neck. Lacerated scalp wounds.

Eyes. Injuries to eyes which tend to suppuration; after operations; blennorrhea of lachrymal sac.

Ears. Deafness; worse in damp surroundings and with eczematous conditions. Hears best on a train, and distant sounds.

Nose. Coryza in one nostril; with much green discharge.

Stomach. Hunger immediately after nursing. Bulimia. Heartburn with horripilations. Nausea in chest. Vomiting. Sinking sensation. Epigastric distention.

Respiratory. Cough, with green expectoration, hoarseness; with distention of inguinal ring.

Female. Warts at the os externum. Menses suppressed, with cough. Chronic endocervicitis. Uterine hypertrophy, sensation of weight and fullness in pelvis; stretching and dragging in groin; pain on sudden movements. Os lower than natural. Menorrhagia.

Skin. Yellow; goose flesh. Promotes favorable cicatrization, with least amount of suppuration. Slough, proud flesh, and raised edges. Superficial burns and scalds. Erysipelas (use topically).

Fever. Coldness, great sensitiveness to open air; shuddering in back, skin feels warm to touch. Heat in evening.

Modalities. Worse, in damp, heavy, cloudy weather.

Relationship. Compare: Ham.; Hyper.; Symph.; Arn.
     Compare in deafness: Calc.; Mag-c.; Graph.
     Antidote: Rheum
     Complementary: Hep.

Dose. Locally. Aqueous Calendula for all wounds, the greatest healing agent. Also as an injection in leucorrhea; internally, tincture, to third potency. For burns, sores, fissures, and abrasions, etc., use Calendula Cerate.

Cantharis
(Spanish Fly)

     This powerful drug produces a furious disturbance in the animal economy, attacking the urinary and sexual organs especially, perverting their function, and setting up violent inflammations, and causing a frenzied delirium, simulating hydrophobia symptoms. Puerperal convulsions. Produces most violent inflammation of the whole gastrointestinal canal, especially lower bowel. Oversensitiveness of all parts. Irritation. Raw, burning pains. Hemorrhages. Intolerable, constant urging to urinate is most characteristic. Gastric, hepatic and abdominal complaints that are aggravated by drinking coffee. Gastric derangements of pregnancy. Dysuria, with other complaints. Increases secretion of mucous membranes, tenacious mucus. The inflammations Cantharis produces (bladder, kidneys, ovaries, meninges, pleuritic and pericardial membranes) are usually associated with bladder irritation.

Mind. Furious delirium. Anxious restlessness, ending in rage. Crying, barking; worse touching larynx or drinking water. Constantly attempts to do something, but accomplishes nothing. Acute mania, generally of a sexual type; amorous frenzy; fiery sexual desire. Paroxysms of rage, crying, barking. Sudden loss of consciousness with red face.

Head. Burning in brain. Sensation as if boiling water in brain. Vertigo; worse in open air.

Eyes. Yellow vision. Fiery, sparkling, staring look. Burning in eyes.

Ears. Sensation as if wind were coming from ear, or hot air. Bones about ear painful. [Caps.]

Face. Pale, wretched, death-like appearance. Itching vesicles on face, burning when touched. Erysipelas of face, with burning, biting heat with urinary symptoms. Hot and red.

Throat. Tongue covered with vesicles; deeply furred; edges red. Burning in mouth, pharynx, and throat; vesicles in mouth. Great difficulty in swallowing liquids. Very tenacious mucus. [Kali-bi.] Violent spasms reproduced by touching larynx. Inflammation of throat; feels on fire. Constriction; aphthous ulceration. [Nit-ac.] Scalding feeling. Burnt after taking too hot food.

Chest. Pleurisy, as soon as effusion has taken place. Intense dyspnea; palpitation; frequent, dry cough. Tendency to syncope. Short, hacking cough, blood streaked tenacious mucus. Burning pains.

Stomach. Burning sensation of esophagus and stomach. [Carb-ac.] Disgust for everything: drink, food, tobacco. Burning thirst, with aversion to all fluids. Very sensitive, violent burning. Vomiting of blood streaked membrane and violent retching. Aggravation from drinking coffee; drinking the smallest quantity increases pain in bladder, and is vomited. Thirst unquenchable.

Stool. Shivering with burning. Dysentery; mucous stools, like scrapings of intestines. Bloody, with burning and tenesmus and shuddering after stool.

Urine. Intolerable urging and tenesmus. Nephritis with bloody urine. Violent paroxysms of cutting and burning in whole renal region, with painful urging to urinate; bloody urine, by drops. Intolerable tenesmus; cutting before, during, and after urine. Urine scalds him, and is passed drop by drop. Constant desire to urinate. Membranous scales looking like bran in water. Urine jelly-like, shreddy.

Male. Strong desire; painful erection. Pain in glans. Priapism in gonorrhea.

Female. Retained placenta [Sep.], with painful urination. Expels moles, dead fetuses, membranes, etc. Nymphomania. [Lach.] Puerperal metritis, with inflammation of bladder. Menses too early and too profuse; black swelling of vulva with irritation. Constant discharge from uterus; worse false step. Burning pain in ovaries; extremely sensitive. Pain in os coccyx, lancinating and tearing.

Respiratory. Voice low; weak feeling. Stitches in chest. [Bry.; Kali-c.] Pleurisy, with exudation.

Heart. Palpitation; pulse feeble, irregular; tendency to syncope. Pericarditis, with effusion.

Back. Pain in loins, with incessant desire to urinate.

Extremities. Tearing in limbs. Ulcerative pain in soles; cannot step.

Skin. Dermatitis venenata with bleb formation. Secondary eczema about scrotum and genitals, following excessive perspiration. Tendency to gangrene. Eruption with mealy scales. Vesicular eruptions, with burning and itching. Sunburn. Burns, scalds, with rawness and smarting, relieved by cold applications, followed by undue inflammation. Erysipelas, vesicular type, with great restlessness. Burning in soles of feet at night.

Fever. Cold hands and feet; cold sweat. Soles burn. Chill, as if water were poured over him.

Modalities. Worse, from touch, or approach, urinating, drinking cold water or coffee. Better, rubbing.

Relationship. Antidote: Acon.; Puls.
     Compare: Apis; Ars.

Dose. Sixth to thirtieth potency. Bears repeated doses well. Locally, in burns and eczema, 1X and 2X, in water, or as cerate.

Capsicum
(Cayenne Pepper)

     Seems to suit especially persons of lax fiber, weak; diminished vital heat. A relaxed plethoric sluggish, cold remedy. Not much reactive force. Such persons are fat, indolent, opposed to physical exertion, averse to go outside of their routine, get homesick easily. General uncleanliness of body. Abstainers from accustomed alcoholics. It affects the mucous membranes, producing a sensation of constriction. Inflammation of petrous bone. Burning pains and general chilliness. Older people who have exhausted their vitality, especially by mental work, and poor living; blear eyed appearance; who do not react. Fear of slightest draft. Marked tendency to suppuration in every inflammatory process. Prostration and feeble digestion of alcoholics. Myalgia, aching and jerking of muscles.

Mind. Excessive peevishness. Homesickness, with sleeplessness and disposition to suicide. Wants to be let alone. Peppery disposition. Delirium tremens.

Head. Bursting headache; worse, coughing. Hot face. Red cheeks. Face red, though cold.

Ears. Burning and stinging in ears. Swelling and pain behind ears. Inflammation of mastoid. Tenderness over the petrous bone; extremely sore and tender to touch. Otorrhea and mastoid disease before suppuration.

Throat. Hot feeling in fauces. Subacute inflammation of Eustachian tube with great pain. Pain and dryness in throat extending to the ears. Sore throat of smokers and drinkers. Smarting in; constriction. Burning constriction worse between acts of deglutition. Inflamed uvula and palate; swollen and relaxed.

Mouth. Herpes labialis (apply one drop of the mother tincture). Stomatitis. Disagreeable smell from mouth. Fetid odor from mouth.

Stomach. Burning in tip of tongue. Atonic dyspepsia. Much flatulence, especially in debilitated subjects. Intense craving for stimulants. Vomiting, sinking at pit of stomach. Much thirst; but drinking causes shuddering.

Stool. Bloody mucus, with burning and tenesmus; drawing pain in back after stool. Thirsty after stool, with shivering. Bleeding piles, with soreness of anus. Stinging pain during stool.

Urine. Strangury, frequent, almost ineffectual urging. Burning in orifice. Comes first in drops, then in spurts; neck of bladder spasmodically contracted. Ectropion of meatus.

Male. Coldness of scrotum, with impotency, atrophied testicles, loss of sensibility in testicles, with softening and dwindling. Gonorrhea, with chordee, excessive burning, pain in prostate.

Female. Climacteric disturbances with burning of tip of tongue. Uterine hemorrhage near the menopause, with nausea. Sticking sensation in left ovarian region.

Respiratory. Constriction of chest; arrests breathing. Hoarseness. Pain at apex of heart or in rib region, worse touch. Dry, hacking cough, expelling an offensive breath from lungs. Dyspnea. Feels as if chest and head would fly to pieces. Explosive cough. Threatening gangrene of lung. Pain in distant parts on coughing: bladder, legs, ears, etc.

Extremities. Pain from hips to feet. Sciatica, worse bending backward; worse, coughing. Tensive pain in the knee.

Fever. Coldness, with ill humor. Shivering after drinking. Chill begins in back; better, heat. Must have something hot to back. Thirst before chill.

Modalities. Better, while eating, from heat. Worse, open air, uncovering, drafts.

Relationship. Antidote: Cina
     Compare: Puls.; Lyc.; Bell.

Dose. Third to sixth attenuation. In delirium tremens, dram doses of tincture in milk or tincture of orange peel.

Carbo animalis
(Animal Charcoal)

     Seems to be especially adapted to scrofulous and venous constitutions, old people, and after debilitating disease, with feeble circulation and lowered vitality. Glands are indurated, veins distended, skin blue. Stitch remaining after pleurisy. Easily strained from lifting. Weakness of nursing women. Ulceration and decomposition. All its secretions are offensive. Causes local congestions without heat.

Mind. Desire to be alone, sad and reflective, avoids conversation. Anxiety at night, with orgasm of blood.

Head. Headache, as if head had been blown to pieces. Rush of blood with confusion. Sensation as if something lay above eyes so that she could not look up. Bluish cheeks and lips. Vertigo followed by nosebleed. Nose swollen, tip bluish small tumor on it. Hearing confused; cannot tell direction of sound.

Stomach. Eating tires patient. Weak, empty feeling in stomach. Burning and griping. Weak digestion. Flatulence. Ptomaine poisoning. Repugnance to fat food. Sour water from mouth. Pyrosis.

Female. Nausea of pregnancy; worse at night. Lochia offensive. [Rhus-t.] Menses too early, frequent long lasting, followed by great exhaustion, so weak, can hardly speak [Cocc.], flow only in morning. [Bor.; Sep.] Burning in vagina and labia. Darting in breast; painful indurations in breast, especially right. Cancer of uterus, burning pain down thighs.

Respiratory. Pleurisy, typhoid character, and remaining stitch. Ulceration of lung, with feeling of coldness of chest. Cough, with discharge of greenish pus.

Skin. Spongy ulcers, copper colored eruption. Acne rosacea. Chilblains, worse in evening, in bed and from cold. Verruca on hands and face of old people, with bluish color of extremities. Glands indurated, swollen, painful, in neck, axillae, groin, mammae; pains lancinating, cutting, burning. [Con.] Burning, rawness and fissures; moisture. Bubo.

Extremities. Pain in coccyx; burns when touched. Ankles turn easily. Straining and overlifting produce great debility. Joints weak. Easy discoloration. Pain in hip joints at night. Night sweat fetid and profuse. Wrist pain.

Modalities. Worse, after shaving, loss of animal fluids.

Relationship. The Carbon group all have putrid discharges and exhalations. All act on the skin, causing intertrigo and excoriations. Glandular enlargements and catarrhal states, flatulency and asphyxiation.
     Complementary: Calc-p.
     Antidote: Ars.; Nux-v.
     Compare: Sep.; Sulph.

Dose. Third to thirtieth potency. The third trituration for insufflation in aural polypi.

Carbo vegetabilis
(Vegetable Charcoal)

     Disintegration and imperfect oxidation is the keynote of this remedy. The typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints. Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis. Body becomes blue, icy cold. Bacteria find a rich soil in the nearly lifeless blood stream and sepsis and typhoidal state ensues.
     A lowered vital power from loss of fluids, after drugging; after other diseases; in old people with venous congestions; states of collapse in cholera, typhoid; these are some of the conditions offering special inducements to the action of Carbo vegetabilis. The patient may be almost lifeless, but the head is hot; coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and quickened respiration, and must have air, must be fanned hard, must have all the windows open. This is a typical state for Carbo vegetabilis. The patient faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh air. Hemorrhage from any mucous surface. Very debilitated. Patient seems to be too weak to hold out. Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness. Sense of weight, as in the head (occiput), eyes and eyelids, before the ears, in the stomach, and elsewhere in the body; putrid (septic) condition of all its affections, coupled with a burning sensation. General venous stasis, bluish skin, limbs cold.

Mind. Aversion to darkness. Fear of ghosts. Sudden loss of memory.

Head. Aches from any overindulgence. Hair feels sore, falls off easily; scalp itches when getting warm in bed. Hat pressed upon head like a heavy weight. Head feels heavy, constricted. Vertigo with nausea and tinnitus. Pimples on forehead and face.

Face. Puffy, cyanotic. Pale, hippocratic, cold with cold sweat; blue. [Cupr.; Op.] Mottled cheeks and red nose.

Eyes. Vision of black floating spots. Asthenopia. Burning in eyes. Muscles pain.

Ears. Otorrhea following exanthematous diseases. Ears dry. Malformation of cerumen with exfoliation of dermoid layer of meatus.

Nose. Epistaxis in daily attacks, with pale face. Bleeding after straining, with pale face; tip of nose red and scabby, itching around nostrils. Varicose veins on nose. Eruption in corner of alae nasi. Coryza with cough, especially in moist, warm weather. Ineffectual efforts to sneeze.

Mouth. Tongue coated white or yellow brown, covered with aphthae. Teeth very sensitive where chewing; gums retracted and bleed easily. Blood oozing from gums when cleaning teeth. Pyorrhea.

Stomach. Eructations, heaviness, fullness, and sleepiness; tense from flatulence, with pain; worse lying down. Eructations after eating and drinking. Temporary relief from belching. Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations. Water brash, asthmatic breathing from flatulence. Nausea in the morning. Burning in stomach, extending to back and along spine. Contractive pain extending to chest, with distention of abdomen. Faint gone feeling in stomach, not relieved by eating. Crampy pains forcing patient to bend double. Distress comes on a half-hour after eating. Sensitiveness of epigastric region. Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests. Gastralgia of nursing women, with excessive flatulence, sour, rancid belching. Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things. The simplest food distresses. Epigastric region very sensitive.

Abdomen. Pain as from lifting a weight; colic from riding in a carriage; excessive discharge of fetid flatus. Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen. Ailments accompanying intestinal fistulae. Abdomen greatly distended; better, passing wind. Flatulent colic. Pain in liver.

Rectum and Stool. Flatus hot, moist, offensive. Itching, gnawing and burning in rectum. Acrid, corrosive moisture from rectum. A musty, glutinous moisture exudes. Soreness, itching, moisture of perineum at night. Discharge of blood from rectum. Burning at anus, burning varices. Painful diarrhea of old people. Frequent, involuntary cadaverous smelling stools, followed by burning. White hemorrhoids; excoriation of anus. Bluish, burning piles, pain after stool.

Male. Discharge of prostatic fluid at stool. Itching and moisture at thigh near scrotum.

Female. Premature and too copious menses; pale blood. Vulva swollen; aphthae; varies on pudenda. Leucorrhea before menses, thick, greenish, milky, excoriating. During menstruation, burning in hands and soles.

Respiratory. Cough with itching in larynx; spasmodic with gagging and vomiting of mucus. Whooping cough, especially in beginning. Deep, rough voice, failing on slight exertion. Hoarseness; worse, evenings, talking; evening oppression of breathing, sore and raw chest. Wheezing and rattling of mucus in chest. Occasional spells of long coughing attacks. Cough, with burning in chest; worse in evening, in open air, after eating and talking. Spasmodic cough, bluish face, offensive expectoration, neglected pneumonia. Breath cold; must be fanned. Hemorrhage from lungs. Asthma in aged with blue skin.

Extremities. Heavy, stiff; feel paralyzed; limbs, go to sleep; want of muscular energy; joints weak. Pain in shins. Cramp in soles; feet numb and sweaty. Cold from knees down. Toes red, swollen. Burning pain in bones and limbs.

Fever. Coldness, with thirst. Chill begins in forearm. Burning in various places. Perspiration on eating. Hectic fever, exhausting sweats.

Skin. Blue, cold ecchymosed. Marbled with venous over distension. Itching; worse on evening, when warm in bed. Moist skin; hot perspiration; senile gangrene beginning in toes; bed sores; bleed easily. Falling out of hair, from a general weakened condition. Indolent ulcers, burning pain. Ichorous, offensive discharge; tendency to gangrene of the margins. Purpura. Varicose ulcers, carbuncles. [Ars.]

Modalities. Worse, evening; night and open air; cold; from fat food, butter, coffee, milk, warm damp weather; wine. Better, from eructation, from fanning, cold.

Relationship. The Carbon group all have putrid discharges and exhalations. All act on the skin, causing intertrigo and excoriations. Glandular enlargements and catarrhal states, flatulency and asphyxiation.
     Antidote: Ars.
     Compare: Lyc.; Ars.; Chin.
     Complementary: Kali-c.; Dros.

Dose. First to third trituration in stomach disorders. Thirtieth potency and higher in chronic conditions, and in collapse.

Carbolicum acidum
(Carbolic Acid)

     Carbolic acid is a powerful irritant and anesthetic. A languid, foul, painless destructive remedy. Stupor, paralysis of sensation and motion, feeble pulse and depressed breathing, death due to paralysis of respiratory centers. Acts primarily on the central nervous system. Increased olfactory sensibility.
     Produces mental and bodily languor, disinclination to study, with headache like a band. Very marked acuteness of smell is a strong guiding symptom. Stomach symptoms are also important. Pains are terrible; come and go suddenly. Physical exertion brings on abscess somewhere. Putrid discharges. [Bapt.] Scarlet fever, with marked tendency to destruction of tissue internally, and fetid odor. Spasmodic coughs. Arthritis. (See Dose.)

Head. Disinclined to mental work. Tight feeling, as if compressed by a rubber band. [Gels.] Orbital neuralgia over right eye. Headache, better, by green tea; while smoking.

Nose. Smell very acute. Putrid discharge. Ozena, with fetor and ulceration. Influenza and resulting debility.

Throat. Ulcerated patches on inside of lips and cheeks. Burning in mouth to stomach. Fauces red, and covered with exudation. Uvula whitened and shriveled. Putrid discharge. Almost impossible to swallow. Diphtheria, fetid breath, regurgitation on swallowing liquids, but little pain. [Bapt.] Face dusky red; white about mouth and nose. Rapid sinking of vital forces.

Stomach. Appetite lost. Desire for stimulants and tobacco. Constant belching, nausea, vomiting, dark olive green. Heat rises up esophagus. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Painful flatulence often marked in one part of the bowel. Fermentative dyspepsia with bad taste and breath.

Stool. Constipation, with very offensive breath. Bloody, like scrapings of intestines. Great tenesmus. Diarrhea; stools thin, black, putrid.

Urine. Almost black. Diabetes. Irritable bladder in old men with frequent urination at night, or probably prostatic nature.

Female. Discharges always offensive. [Nit-ac.; Nux-v.; Sep.] Pustules about vulva containing bloody pus. Agonizing backache across loins, with dragging-down thighs. Pain in left ovary; worse walking in open air. Erosions of cervix; fetid, acrid discharge. Leucorrhea in children. [Merc.; Puls.; Sep.] Puerperal fever, with offensive discharge. Irritating leucorrhea, causing itching and burning.

Extremities. Cramps in fore part of leg, close to tibia during walking. Gnawing pains in shin bones. Arthritis.

Skin. Itching vesicles, with burning pain. Burns tend to ulcerate.

Relationship. The Carbon group all have putrid discharges and exhalations. All act on the skin, causing intertrigo and excoriations. Glandular enlargements and catarrhal states, flatulency and asphyxiation.
     Compare: Ars.; Carbo-v.
     Antidote: Alcohol; Vinegar; Chalk; Iodine. Glauber's Salt in watery solution.
Incompatible: Glycerine and vegetable oils.

Dose. Third to thirtieth potency. Phenol in Arthritis, according to Goodno. Must be absolutely pure. Crystals Solution (25%) in equal parts of water and glycerine, dose 20 minims well diluted 3 times daily (Bartlett).

Caulophyllum
(Blue Cohosh)

     This is a woman's remedy. Want of tonicity of the womb. During labor, when the pains are deficient and the patient is exhausted and fretful. Besides, it has a special affinity for the smaller joints. Thrush, locally and internally.

Stomach. Cardialgia, spasms of stomach. Dyspepsia with spasmodic symptoms.

Female. Extraordinary rigidity of os. [Bell.; Gels.] Spasmodic and severe pains, which fly in all directions; shivering, without progress; false pains. Revives labor pains and furthers progress of labor. After pains. Leucorrhea, with moth spots on forehead. Habitual abortion from uterine debility. [Puls.] Needle-like pains in cervix. Dysmenorrhea, with pains flying to other parts of body. Lochia protracted; great atony. Menses and leucorrhea profuse.

Skin. Discoloration of skin in women with menstrual and uterine disorder.

Extremities. Severe drawing, erratic pain and stiffness in small joints, fingers, toes, ankles, etc. Aching in wrists. Cutting pains on closing hands. Erratic pains, changing place every few minutes.

Relationship. Incompatible: Coff.
     Compare: Cimic.; Sep.; Puls.; Gels.

Dose. Tincture to third attenuation.

Causticum
(Hahnemann's Potassium Hydrate)

     Manifests its action mainly in chronic rheumatic, arthritic and paralytic affections, indicated by the tearing, drawing pains in the muscular and fibrous tissues, with deformities about the joints; progressive loss of muscular strength, tendinous contractures. Broken down seniles. In catarrhal affections of the air passages, and seems to choose preferable dark complexioned and rigid fibered persons. Restlessness at night, with tearing pains in joints and bones, and faint-like sinking of strength. This weakness progresses until we have gradually appearing paralysis. Local paralysis, vocal cords, muscles of deglutition, of tongue, eyelids, face, bladder and extremities. Children are slow to walk. The skin of a Causticum person is of a dirty white sallow, with warts, especially on the face. Emaciation due to disease, worry, etc., and of long standing. Burning, rawness, and soreness are characteristic.

Mind. Child does not want to go to bed alone. Least thing makes it cry. Sad, hopeless. Intensely sympathetic. Ailments from long lasting grief, sudden emotions. Thinking of complaints, aggravates, especially hemorrhoids.

Head. Sensation of empty space between forehead and brain. Pain in right frontal eminence.

Face. Paralysis of right side. Warts. Pain in facial bones. Dental fistula. Pain in jaws, with difficulty in opening mouth.

Eyes. Cataract with motor disturbances. Inflammation of eyelids; ulceration. Sparks and dark spots before eyes. Ptosis. [Gels.] Vision impaired, as if film were before eyes. Paralysis of ocular muscles after exposure to cold.

Ears. Ringing, roaring, pulsating, with deafness; words and steps reecho; chronic middle ear catarrh; accumulation of earwax.

Nose. Coryza, with hoarseness. Scaly nose. Nostrils ulcerated. Pimples and warts.

Mouth. Bites inside of cheek from chewing. Paralysis of tongue, with indistinct speech. Rheumatism of articulation of lower jaw. Gums bleed easily.

Stomach. Greasy taste. Aversion to sweets. Feels as if lime were burned in stomach. Worse after eating fresh meat; smoked meat agrees. Sensation of ball rising in throat. Acid dyspepsia.

Stool. Soft and small, size of goose quill. [Phos.] Hard, tough, covered with mucus; shines like grease; small shaped; expelled with much straining, or only on standing up. Pruritis. Partial paralysis of rectum. Rectum sore and burns. Fistula and large piles.

Urine. Involuntary when coughing, sneezing. [Puls.] Expelled very slowly, and sometimes retained. Involuntary during first sleep at night; also from slightest excitement. Retention after surgical operations. Loss of sensibility on passing urine.

Female. Uterine inertia during labor. Menses cease at night; flow only during day. [Puls.] Leucorrhea at night, with great weakness. [Nat-m.] Menses delay, late. [Con.; Graph.; Puls.]

Respiratory. Hoarseness with pain in chest; aphonia. Larynx sore. Cough, with raw soreness of chest. Expectoration scanty; must be swallowed. Cough with pain in hip, especially left worse in evening; better, drinking cold water; worse, warmth of bed. Sore streak down trachea. Mucus under sternum, which he cannot quite reach. Pain in chest, with palpitation. Cannot lie down at night. Voice reechoes. Own voice roars in ears and distresses. Difficulty of voice of singers and public speakers (Royal).

Back. Stiffness between shoulders. Dull pain in nape of neck.

Extremities. Left sided sciatica, with numbness. Paralysis of single parts. Dull, tearing pain in hands and arms. Heaviness and weakness. Tearing joints. Unsteadiness of muscles of forearm and hand. Numbness; loss of sensation in hands. Contracted tendons. Weak ankles. Cannot walk without suffering. Rheumatic tearing in limbs; better by warmth, especially heat of bed. Burning in joints. Slow in learning to walk. Unsteady walking and easily falling. Restless legs at night. Cracking and tension in knees; stiffness in hollow of knee. Itching on dorsum of feet.

Skin. Soreness in folds of skin, back of ears, between thighs. Warts large, jagged, bleeding easily, on tips of fingers and nose. Old burns that do not get well, and ill effects from burns. Pain of burns. Cicatrices freshen up; old injuries reopen. Skin prone to intertrigo during dentition.

Sleep. Very drowsy; can hardly keep awake. Nocturnal sleeplessness, with dry heat, inquietude.

Modalities. Worse, dry, cold winds, in clear fine weather, cold air; from motion of carriage. Better, in damp, wet weather; warmth. Heat of bed.

Relationship. Causticum does not agree with Phosphorus; the remedies should not be used after each other.
     Antidote: Paralysis from lead poisoning.
     Complementary: Carbo-v.
     Compare: Rhus-t.; Ars.

Dose. Third to thirtieth attenuation. In chronic ailments and especially in paralytic states, the higher potencies once or twice a week.

Chamomilla
(German Chamomile)

     The chief guiding symptoms belong to the mental and emotional group, which lead to this remedy in many forms of disease. Especially of frequent employment in diseases of children, where peevishness, restlessness, and colic give the needful indications. A disposition that is mild, calm and gentle; sluggish and constipated bowels contraindicate Chamomilla.
     Chamomilla is sensitive, irritable, thirsty, hot, and numb. Oversensitiveness from abuse of coffee and narcotics. Pains unendurable, associated with numbness. Night sweats.

Mind. Whining restlessness. Child wants many things which he refuses again. Piteous moaning because he cannot have what he wants. Child can only be quieted when carried about and petted constantly. Impatient, intolerant of being spoken to or interrupted; extremely sensitive to every pain; always complaining. Spiteful, snappish. Complaints from anger and vexation. Mental calmness contraindicates Chamomilla.

Head. Throbbing headache in half of the brain. Inclined to bend head backward. Hot, clammy sweat on forehead and scalp.

Ears. Ringing in ears. Earache, with soreness; swelling and heat driving patient frantic. Stitching pain. Ears feel stopped.

Eyes. Lids smart. Yellow sclerotic. Spasmodic closing of lids.

Nose. Sensitive to all smells. Coryza, with inability to sleep.

Face. One cheek red and hot; the other pale and cold. Stitches in jaw extending to inner ear and teeth. Teeth ache worse after warm drink; worse, coffee, at night. Drives to distraction. Jerking of tongue and facial muscles. Distress of teething children. [Calc-p.]

Throat. Parotid and submaxillary glands swollen. Constriction and pain as from a plug.

Mouth. Toothache, if anything warm is taken, from coffee, during pregnancy. Nightly salivation.

Stomach. Eructations, foul. Nausea after coffee. Sweats after eating or drinking. Aversion to warm drinks. Tongue yellow; taste bitter. Bilious vomiting. Acid rising; regurgitation of food. Bitter, bilious vomiting. Pressive gastralgia, as from a stone. [Bry.]

Abdomen. Distended. Griping in region of navel, and pain in small of back. Flatulent colic, after anger, with red cheeks and hot perspiration. Hepatic colic. Acute duodenitis. [Kali-bi. (chronic).]

Stool. Hot, green, watery, fetid, slimy, with colic. Chopped white and yellow mucus like chopped eggs and spinach. Soreness of anus. Diarrhea during dentition. Hemorrhoids, with painful fissures.

Female. Uterine hemorrhages. Profuse discharge of clotted, dark blood, with labor-like pains. Labor pains spasmodic; press upward. [Gels.] Patient intolerant of pain. [Caul.; Caust.; Gels.; Puls.] Nipples inflamed; tender to touch. Infants' breasts tender. Yellow, acrid leucorrhea. [Ars.; Sep.; Sulph.]

Respiratory. Hoarseness, hawking, rawness of larynx. Irritable, dry tickling cough; suffocative tightness of chest, with bitter expectoration in daytime. Rattling of mucus in child's chest.

Back. Insupportable pain in loins and hips. Lumbago. Stiffness of neck muscles.

Extremities. Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night; compelled to walk about. Burning of soles at night. [Sulph.] Ankles give way in the afternoon. Nightly paralytic loss of power in the feet, unable to step on them.

Sleep. Drowsiness with moaning, weeping and wailing during sleep; anxious, frightened dreams, with half open eyes.

Modalities. Worse, by heat, anger, open air, wind, night. Better, from being carried, warm wet weather.

Relationship. Compare: Acon.; Puls.; Coff.; Bell.; Staph.; Ign. Follows Belladonna in diseases of children and abuse of Opium.
Antidote: Nux-v.; Puls.
     Complementary: Bell.; Mag-c.

Dose. Third to thirtieth attenuation.

China officinalis
(Peruvian Bark / Cinchona)

Debility from exhausting discharges, from loss of vital fluids, together with a nervous erethism, calls for this remedy. Periodicity is most marked. Sensitive to drafts. Seldom indicated in the earlier stages of acute disease. Chronic gout. Chronic suppurative pyelitis. Post operative gas pains, no relief from passing it.

Mind. Apathetic, indifferent, disobedient, taciturn, despondent. Ideas crowd in mind; prevent sleep. Disposition to hurt other people's feelings. Sudden crying and tossing about.

Head. As if skull would burst. Sensation as if brain were balancing to and fro, and striking against skull, receiving great pain. [Sulph.; Sul-ac.] Intense throbbing of head and carotids. Spasmodic headache in vertex, with subsequent pain, as if bruised in sides of head. Face flushed after hemorrhages, or sexual excesses, or loss of vital fluids. Relieved from pressure and warm room. Scalp sensitive; worse combing hair. Aches worse in open air, from temple to temple. Worse by contact, current of air, stepping. Dizzy when walking.

Eyes. Blue color around eyes. Hollow eyes. Yellowish sclerotica. Black specks, bright dazzling illusions; night blindness in anemic retina. Spots before eyes. Photophobia. Distortion of eyeballs. Intermittent ciliary neuralgia. Pressure in eyes. Amaurosis; scalding lachrymation.

Ears. Ringing in ears. External ear sensitive to touch. Hearing sensitive to noise. Lobules red and swollen.

Nose. Checked catarrh. Easily bleeding from nose, especially on rising. Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge. Violent dry sneezing. Cold sweat about nose.

Face. Sallow complexion. Face bloated; red.

Mouth. Toothache; better pressing teeth firmly together, and by warmth. Tongue coated thick, dirty; tip burns, succeeded by ptyalism. Bitter taste. Food tastes too salty.

Stomach. Tender, cold. Vomiting of undigested food. Slow digestion. Weight after eating. Ill effects of tea. Hungry without appetite. Flat taste. Darting pain crosswise in hypogastric region. Milk disagrees. Hungry longing for food, which lies undigested. Flatulence; belching of bitter fluid or regurgitation of food gives no relief; worse eating fruit. Hiccough. Bloatedness better by movement.

Abdomen. Much flatulent colic; better bending double. Tympanitic abdomen. Pain in right hypochondrium. Gallstone colic. [Triumfetta semitriloba.] Liver and spleen swollen and enlarged. Jaundice. Internal coldness of stomach and abdomen. Gastroduodenal catarrh.

Stool. Undigested, frothy, yellow; painless; worse at night, after meals, during hot weather, from fruit, milk, beer. Very weakening, with much flatulence. Difficult even when soft.

Male. Excited lascivious fancy. Frequent emissions, followed by great weakness. Orchitis.

Female. Menses too early. Dark clots and abdominal distention. Profuse menses with pain. Desire too strong. Bloody leucorrhea. Seems to take the place of the usual menstrual discharge. Painful heaviness in pelvis.

Respiratory. Influenza, with debility. Cannot breathe with head low. Labored, slow respiration; constant choking. Suffocative catarrh; rattling in chest; violent, hacking cough after every meal. Hemorrhage from lungs. Dyspnea, sharp pain in left lung. Asthma; worse damp weather.

Heart. Irregular with weak rapid beats followed by strong, heart beats. Suffocative attacks, syncope; anemia and dropsy.

Back. Sharp pains across kidneys, worse movement and at night. Knife-like pains around back. (D. MacFarlan.)

Extremities. Pains in limbs and joints, as if sprained; worse, slight touch; hard pressure relieves. Sensation as of a string around limb. Joints swollen; very sensitive, with dread or open air. Great debility, trembling, with numb sensation. Averse to exercise; sensitive to touch. Weariness of joints; worse, mornings and when sitting.

Skin. Extreme sensitiveness to touch, but hard pressure relieves. Coldness; much sweat. One hand ice cold, the other warm. Anasarca. [Ars.; Apis] Dermatitis; erysipelas. Indurated glands; scrofulous ulcers and caries.

Sleep. Drowsiness. Unrefreshing or constant stupor. Wakens early. Protracted sleeplessness. Anxious, frightful dreams with confused consciousness on waking, so that the dream cannot be rid of and fear of dream remains. Snoring, especially with children.

Fever. Intermittent, paroxysms anticipate; return every week. All stages well marked. Chill generally in forenoon, commencing in breast; thirst before chill, and little and often. Debilitating night sweats. Free perspiration caused by every little exertion, especially on single parts. Hay fever, watery coryza, pain in temples.

Modalities. Worse, slightest touch. Draft of air; every other day; loss of vital fluids; at night; after eating; bending over. Better, bending double; hard pressure; open air; warmth.

Relationship. Antidote: Arn.; Ars.; Nux-v.; Ip.
Compare: Ars.; Nat-s.
     Complementary: Ferr.; Calc-p.

Dose. Tincture, to thirtieth potency.

Cimicifuga
(Black Snakeroot)

     Has a wide action upon the cerebrospinal and muscular system, as well as upon the uterus and ovaries. Especially useful in rheumatic, nervous subjects with ovarian irritation, uterine cramps and heavy limbs. Its muscular and crampy pains, primarily of neurotic origin, occurring in nearly every part of the body, are characteristic. Agitation and pain indicate it. Pains like electric shocks here and there. Migraine. Symptoms referable to the pelvic organs prominent. "It lessens the frequency and force of the pulse soothes pain and allays irritability."

Mental. Sensation of a cloud enveloping her. Great depression, with dream of impending evil. Fears riding in a closed carriage, of being obliged to jump out. Incessant talking. Visions of rats, mice, etc. Delirium tremens; tries to injure himself. Mania following disappearance of neuralgia.

Head. Wild feeling in brain. Shooting and throbbing pains in head after mental worry, overstudy, or reflex of uterine disease. Waving sensation or opening and shutting sensation in brain. Brain feels too large. Pressing-outward pain. Tinnitus. Ears sensitive to least noise.

Eyes. Asthenopia associated with pelvic trouble. Deepseated throbbing and shooting pains in eyes, with photophobia from artificial light. Intense aching of eyeball. Pain from eyes to top of head.

Stomach. Nausea and vomiting caused by pressure on spine and cervical region. Sinking in epigastrium. [Sep.; Sulph.] Gnawing pain. Tongue pointed and trembling.

Female. Amenorrhea (use Macrotin preferably). Pain in ovarian region; shoots upward and down anterior surface of thighs. Pain immediately before menses. Menses profuse, dark, coagulated, offensive with backache, nervousness; always irregular. Ovarian neuralgia. Pain across pelvis, from hip to hip. Afterpains, with great sensitiveness and intolerance to pain. Inframammary pains worse, left side. Facial blemishes in young women.

Respiratory. Tickling in throat. Dry, short cough, worse speaking and at night. Cough when secretion is scanty: spasmodic, dry, with muscular soreness and nervous irritation.

Heart. Irregular, slow, trembling pulse. Tremulous action. Angina pectoris. Numbness of left arm; feels as if bound to side. Heart's action ceases suddenly, impending suffocation. Left sided inframammary pain.

Back. Spine very sensitive, especially upper part. Stiffness and contraction in neck and back. Intercostal rheumatism. Rheumatic pains in muscles of back and neck. Pain in lumbar and sacral region, down thighs, and through hips. Crick in back.

Extremities. Uneasy, restless feeling in limbs. Aching in limbs and muscular soreness. Rheumatism affecting the belly of muscles, especially large muscles. Choreic movements, accompanied by rheumatism. Jerking of limbs. Stiffness in Achilles tendon. Heaviness in lower extremities. Heavy, aching, tensive pain.

Sleep. Sleeplessness. Brain irritation of children during dentition.

Skin. Locally and internally for ivy poisoning.

Modalities. Worse, morning, cold (except headache), during menses; the more profuse the flow, the greater the suffering. Better, warmth, eating.

Relationship. Compare: Puls.; Agar.

Dose. First to thirtieth attenuation, third most frequently used.

Cina
(Wormseed)

     This is a children's remedy: big, fat, rosy, scrofulous, corresponding to many conditions that may be referred to intestinal irritation, such as worms and accompanying complaints. An irritability of temper, variable appetite, grinding of teeth, and even convulsions, with screams and violent jerkings of the hands and feet, are all within its range of action. The Cina patient is hungry, cross, ugly, and wants to be rocked. Pain in shocks. Skin sensitive to touch.

Mind. Ill humor. Child very cross; does not want to be touched, or crossed, or carried. Desires many things, but rejects everything offered. Abnormal consciousness, as if having committed some evil deed.

Head. Headache, alternating with pain in abdomen. Relieved by stooping. Pain in head when using eyes.

Eyes. Dilated pupils; yellow vision. Weak sight from masturbation. Strabismus from abdominal irritation. Eyestrain, especially when presbyopia sets in. Pulsation of superciliary muscle.

Ears. Digging and scratching in ears.

Nose. Itching of nose all the time. Wants to rub it and pick at it. Bores at nose till it bleeds.

Face. Intense, circumscribed redness of cheeks. Pale, hot, with dark rings around eyes. Cold perspiration. White and bluish about the mouth. Grits teeth during sleep. Choreic movements of face and hands.

Stomach. Gets hungry soon after a meal. Hungry, digging, gnawing sensation. Epigastric pain; worse, first waking in morning and before meals. Vomiting and diarrhea immediately after eating and drinking. Vomiting with a clean tongue. Desires many and different things. Craving for sweets.

Abdomen. Twisting pain about navel. Bloated and hard abdomen.

Stool. White mucus, like small pieces of popped corn, preceded by pinching colic. Itching of anus. Worms. [Nat-p.]

Urine. Turbid, white; turns milky on standing. Involuntary at night.

Female. Uterine hemorrhage before puberty.

Respiratory. Gagging cough in the morning. Whooping cough. Violent recurring paroxysms, as of down in throat. Cough ends in a spasm. Cough so violent as to bring tears and sternal pains; feels as if something had been torn off. Periodic; returning spring and fall. Swallows after coughing. Gurgling from throat to stomach after coughing. Child is afraid to speak or more for fear of bringing on paroxysm of coughing. After coughing, moaning, anxious, gasps for air and turns pale.

Extremities. Twitching and jerking distortion of limbs, trembling. Paralyzed shocks; patient will jump suddenly, as though in pain. Child throws arms from side to side. Nocturnal convulsions. Sudden inward jerking of fingers of right hand. Child stretches out feet spasmodically. Left foot in constant spasmodic motion.

Sleep. Child gets on hands and knees in sleep; on abdomen. Night terrors of children; cries out, screams, wakes frightened. Troubles while yawning. Screams and talks in sleep. Grits teeth.

Fever. Light chill. Much fever, associated with clean tongue. Much hunger; colicky pains; chilliness, with thirst. Cold sweat on forehead, nose, and hands. In Cina fever, face is cold and hands warm.

Modalities. Worse, looking fixedly at an object, from worms, at night, in sun, in summer.

Relationship. Compare: Ign.; Cham.
     Antidote: Caps.

Dose. Third attenuation. For nervous irritable children, thirtieth and two hundredth preferable.

Cocculus
(Indian Cockle)

     Within the sphere of action of Cocculus are many spasmodic, and paretic affections, notably those affecting half of the body. Affects the cerebrum, will not cure convulsive seizures proceeding from the spinal cord. (A. E. Hinsdale.) Painful contracture of limbs and trunk; tetanus. Many of the evil effects of night watching are relieved by it. It shows a special attraction for light haired females, especially during pregnancy, causing much nausea and backache. Unmarried and childless women, sensitive and romantic girls, etc. All its symptoms are worse riding in a carriage or on shipboard; hence its use in seasickness. Sensation of hollowness, or emptiness, as if parts had gone to sleep. Feels too weak to talk loud.

Mind. Capricious. Heavy and stupid. Time passes too quickly; absorbed in reveries. Inclination to sing irresistible. Slow of comprehension. Mind benumbed. Profound sadness. Cannot bear contradiction. Speaks hastily. Very anxious about the health of others.

Head. Vertigo, nausea, especially when riding or sitting up. Sense of emptiness in head. Headache in occiput and nape; worse, lying on back of head. Sick headache from carriage riding, cannot lie on back part of head. Pupils contracted. Opening and shutting sensation, especially in occiput. Trembling of head. Pain in eyes as if torn out of head.

Face. Paralysis of facial nerve. Cramp-like pain in masseter muscle; worse, opening mouth. Prosopalgia in afternoon, with wide radiations of pain.

Stomach. Nausea from riding in cars, boat, etc., or looking at boat in motion; worse on becoming cold or taking cold. Nausea, with faintness and vomiting. Aversion to food, drink, tobacco. Metallic taste. Paralysis of muscles preventing deglutition. Dryness of esophagus. Seasickness. Cramp, in stomach during and after meal. Hiccough and spasmodic yawning. Loss of appetite. Desire for cold drinks, especially beer. Sensation in stomach as if one had been a long time without food until hunger was gone. Smell of food disgusts. [Colch.]

Abdomen. Distended, with wind, and feeling as if full of sharp stones when moving; better, lying on one side or the other. Pain in abdominal ring, as if something were forced through. Abdominal muscles weak; it seems as if a hernia would take place.

Female. Dysmenorrhea, with profuse dark menses. Too early menses, clotted, with spasmodic colic. Painful pressing in uterine region, followed by hemorrhoids. Purulent, gushing leucorrhea between menses; very weakening, can scarcely speak. So weak during menstruation, scarcely able to stand.

Respiratory. Sensation of emptiness and cramp in chest. Dyspnea as from constriction of trachea, as if irritated by smoke. Choking constriction in upper part of esophagus, oppressing breathing and inducing cough.

Back. Cracking of cervical vertebrae when moving head. Paralytic pain in small of back. Pain in shoulder and arms as if bruised. Pressure in scapula and nape. Stiffness on moving shoulders.

Extremities. Lameness; worse by bending. Trembling and pain in limbs. Arms go to sleep. One-sided paralysis; worse after sleep. Hands are alternately hot and cold; numbness and cold sweat now of one, now of the other hand. Numb and unsteady. Knees crack on motion. Lower limbs very weak. Inflammatory swelling of knee. Intensely painful, paralytic drawing. Limbs straightened out, painful when flexed.

Sleep. Spasmodic yawning. Coma vigil. Constant drowsiness. After loss of sleep, night watching, nursing.

Fever. Chill, with flatulent colic, nausea, vertigo, coldness of lower extremities, and heat of head. Sweat general. Nervous form of low fever. Chilliness, with perspiration, and heat of skin.

Modalities. Worse, eating, after loss of sleep, open air, smoking, riding, swimming, touch, noise, jar; afternoon. Menstrual period. After emotional disturbance.

Relationship. Antidote: Coff.; Nux-v.
Compare: Petr.; Puls.; Ign.

Dose. Third to thirtieth potency.

Coccus cacti
(Cochineal)

     The clinical application of the symptoms of this remedy, place it among the medicines for spasmodic and whooping coughs, and catarrhal conditions of the bladder; spasmodic pains in kidneys, with visceral tenesmus. Anuria, anasarca, ascites.

Mind. Early morning or afternoon, sadness.

Head. Suboccipital soreness; worse after sleep and exertion. Headache, worse from lying on back, better with the head high. Dull pain over right eye in morning. Sensation of a foreign body between upper lid and eyeball. Distress from cinders lodged in eye.

Respiratory. Constant hawking from enlarged uvula; coryza, with inflamed fauces; accumulation of thick viscid mucus, which is expectorated with great difficulty. Tickling in larynx. Sensation of a crumb behind larynx, must swallow continually; brushing teeth causes cough. Fauces very sensitive. Suffocative cough; worse, first waking, with tough, white mucus, which strangles. Spasmodic morning cough. Whooping cough attacks end with vomiting of this tough mucus. Chronic bronchitis complicated with gravel; large quantities of albuminous, tenacious mucus, are expectorated. Walking against wind takes breath away.

Heart. Sensation as if everything were pressed toward the heart.

Urine. Urging to urinate; brick-red sediment. Urinary calculi, hematuria, urates, and uric acid; lancinating pains from kidney to bladder. Deep colored, thick urine. Dysuria.

Female. Menses too early, profuse, black and thick; dark clots, with dysuria. Intermittent menstruation; flow only in evening and at night. Large clots escape when passing water. Labia inflamed.

Modalities. Worse, left side, after sleep, touch, pressure of clothing, brushing teeth, slightest exertion. Better, walking.

Relationship. Compare: Canth.; Sars.

Dose. Lower triturations.

Coffea cruda
(Unroasted Coffee)

     Stimulates the functional activity of all organs, increasing the nervous and vascular activity. The drinking of coffee by the aged is likely to increase production of uric acid, causing irritation of kidneys; muscle and joint pains, and with the increased susceptibility of old people to the stimulating action of coffee and tea, their use should be curtailed or carefully watched. Great nervous agitation and restlessness. Extreme sensitiveness characterizes this remedy. Neuralgia in various parts; always with great nervous excitability and intolerance of pain, driving to despair. Unusual activity of mind and body. Bad effects of sudden emotions, surprises, joy, etc. Nervous palpitation. Coffea is specially suited to tall, lean, stooping persons with dark complexions, temperament choleric and sanguine. Skin hypersensitive.

Mind. Gaiety, easy comprehension, irritability, excited; senses acute. Impressionable, especially to pleasurable impressions. Full of ideas, quick to act. Tossing about in anguish. [Acon.]

Head. Tight pain, worse from noise, smell, narcotics. Seems as if brain were torn to pieces, as if nail were driven in head. Worse in open air. Sensitive hearing.

Face. Dry heat, with red cheeks. Prosopalgia extending to molar teeth, ears, forehead, and scalp.

Mouth. Toothache; temporarily relieved by holding ice water in the mouth. Hasty eating and drinking. Delicate taste.

Stomach. Excessive hunger. Intolerance of tight clothing. After wine and liquor.

Female. Menses too early and long lasting. Dysmenorrhea, large clots of black blood. Hypersensitive vulva and vagina. Voluptuous itching.

Sleep. Wakeful; on a constant move. Sleeps till 3 a.m., after which only dozing. Wakes with a start, sleep disturbed by dreams. Sleepless, on account mental activity; flow of ideas, with nervous excitability. Disturbed by itching of anus.

Respiratory. Short, dry cough of measles in nervous, delicate children.

Heart. Violent irregular palpitation especially after excessive joy or surprise. Rapid high tension pulse and urinary suppression.

Extremities. Crural neuralgia; worse, motion, afternoon and night; better, by pressure.

Modalities. Worse, excessive emotions (joy), narcotics, strong odors, noise, open air, cold, night. Better, warmth, from lying down; holding ice in mouth.

Relationship. Incompatible: Cocc.
     Complementary: Acon.
Compare: Acon.; Cham.; Nux-v.
     Antidote: Nux-v.; Tab.

Dose. Third to two hundredth potency.

Colchicum
(Meadow Saffron)

     Affects markedly the muscular tissues, periosteum, and synovial membranes of joints. Has specific power of relieving the gouty paroxysms. It seems to be more beneficial in chronic affections of these parts. The parts are red, hot, swollen. Tearing pains; worse, in the evening and at night and from touch; stubbing the toes hurts exceedingly. There is always great prostration, internal coldness, and tendency to collapse. Effects of night watching and hard study. Shocks as from electricity through one half of body. Bad effects from suppressed sweat. Dreams of mice.

Head. Headache chiefly frontal and temporal, but also occipital and in nape of neck, worse afternoon and evening.

Eyes. Pupils unequal; left pupil contracted. Variations in visual acuity. Lachrymation worse in open air; violent tearing pain in eyes. Dim vision after reading. Spots before eyes.

Ears. Itching in ears; sharp, shooting pains below right tragus.

Face. Pain in facial muscles, moving about. Tingling and edematous swelling; cheeks red, hot, sweaty. Very irritable with the pains. [Cham.] Pain behind angle of right lower jaw.

Stomach. Dry mouth, tongue burns, gums and teeth pain. Thirst; pain in stomach and flatulence. The smell of food causes nausea even to fainting, especially fish. Profuse salivary secretion. Vomiting of mucus, bile and food; worse, any motion; great coldness in stomach. Craving for various things, but is averse to them when smelling them, seized then with nausea. Gouty gastralgia. Burning or icy coldness in stomach and abdomen. Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages. Pain in transverse colon.

Abdomen. Distention of abdomen, with gas, inability to stretch out legs. Borborygmi. Pain over liver. Cecum and ascending colon much distended. Fullness and continuous rumbling. Ascites.

Stool. Painful, scanty, transparent, jelly-like mucus; pain, as if anus were torn open, with prolapse. Autumnal dysentery; stools contain white shreddy particles in large quantities. Ineffectual pressing; feels feces in rectum, but cannot expel them.

Female. Pruritis of genitals. Cold feeling in thigh after period. Sensation of swelling in vulva and clitoris.

Urine. Dark, scanty or suppressed; bloody, brown, black, inky; contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar.

Heart. Anxiety in region of heart. Impulse not felt. Pericarditis, with severe pain, oppression and dyspnea, pulse threadlike. Sound of heart become weaker, pulse of low tension.

Extremities. Sharp pain down left arm. Tearing in limbs during warm weather, stinging during cold. Pins and needles in hands and wrists, fingertips numb. Pain in front of thigh. Right plantar reflex abolished. Limbs, lame, weak, tingling. Pain worse in evening and warm weather. Joints stiff and feverish; shifting rheumatism; pains worse at night. Inflammation of great toe, gout in heel, cannot bear to have it touched or moved. Tingling in the finger nails. Knees strike together, can hardly walk. Edematous swelling and coldness of legs and feet.

Back. Aching in lumbar and lumbosacral region. Dull pain across loins. Backache, better, rest and pressure.

Skin. Blotchy papular rash on face. Pink spots on back, chest and abdomen. Urticaria.

Modalities. Worse, sundown to sunrise; motion, less of sleep, smell of food in evening, mental exertion. Better, stooping.

Relationship. Antidote: Thuj.; Cocc.; Nux-v.; Puls.
Compare: Carbo-v.; Arn.; Ars.; Verat.

Dose. Third to thirtieth attenuation.

Colocynthis
(Bitter Cucumber)

     Often indicated in the transition season when the air is cold, but the sun is still powerful enough to heat the blood.
     Develops most of its symptoms in the abdomen and head, causing intense neuralgias. It is especially suitable for irritable persons easily angered, and ill effects therefrom. Women with copious menstruation, and of sedentary habits. Persons with a tendency to corpulency. The neuralgic pains are nearly always relieved by pressure. Cramps and twitching and shortening of muscles. Constrictions and contractions. Cystospasm following operations on orifices. [Hyper.] Urinous odor or perspiration. [Berb.; Nit-ac.] Agonizing pain in abdomen, causing patient to bend double, is most characteristic. Sensations: Cutting, twisting, grinding, contracting and bruised; as if clamped with iron bands.

Mind. Extremely irritable. Becomes angry when questioned. Mortification caused by offense. Anger, with indignation. [Cham.; Bry.; Nux-v.]

Head. Vertigo when turning head to the left. Lateral cutting headache, with nausea, vomiting. Pains (better pressure and heat), with soreness of scalp. Burning pains, digging, rending, and tearing. Frontal headache; worse, stooping, lying on back, and moving eyelids.

Eyes. Pains sharp, boring, better pressure. Sensation on stooping, as if eye would fall out. Gouty affections of eyes. Violent pain in eyeballs which precede the development of glaucoma.

Face. Tearing, shooting, and swelling of face; left side great soreness. Get relief from pressure. [Chin.] Neuralgia, with chilliness; teeth seems too long. Sounds reecho in ears. Pain in stomach, always with pain of teeth or head.

Stomach. Very bitter taste. Tongue rough, as from sand, and feels scalded. Canine hunger. Feeling in stomach as if something would not yield; drawing pain.

Abdomen. Agonizing cutting pain in abdomen causing patient to bend over double, and pressing on the abdomen. Sensation as if stones were being ground together in the abdomen, and would burst. Intestines feel as if bruised. Colic with cramps in calves. Cutting in abdomen, especially after anger. Each paroxysm is attended with general agitation and a chill over the cheeks, ascending from the hypogastrium. Pain in small spot below navel. Dysenteric stool renewed each time by the least food or drink. Jelly-like stools. Musty odor. Distention.

Female. Boring pain in ovary. Must draw up double, with great restlessness. Round, small cystic tumors in ovaries or broad ligaments. Wants abdomen supported by pressure. Bearing-down cramps, causing her to bend double. [Op.]

Urine. Intense burning along urethra during stool. Vesical catarrh, discharge like fresh white of egg. Viscid. [Ph-ac.] Fetid; small quantities, with frequent urging. Itching at orifice. Red, hard crystals, adhering firmly to vessel. Tenesmus of bladder. Pains on urinating over whole abdomen.

Extremities. Contraction of muscles. All the limbs are drawn together. Pain in right deltoid. Cramp-like pain in hip; lies on affected side; pain from hip to knee. Spontaneous luxation of the hip joints. Stiffness of joints and shortening of tendons. Sciatic pain, left side, drawing, tearing; better, pressure and heat; worse, gentle touch. Contraction of the muscles. Pain down right thigh; muscles and tendons feel too short; numbness with pains. Pain in left knee joint.

Modalities. Worse, from anger and indignation. Better, doubling up, hard pressure, warmth, lying with head bent forward.

Relationship. Antidote: Coff.; Staph.; Cham. Colocynthis is the best antidote to lead poisoning. (Royal).
     Compare: Dios.; Cham.; Cocc.; Merc.; Mag-p.

Dose. Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Conium
(Poison Hemlock)

     An old remedy, rendered classical by Plato's graphic description of its employment in the death of Socrates. The ascending paralysis it produces, ending in death by failure of respiration, show the ultimate tendency of many symptoms produced in the provings, for which Conium is an excellent remedy, such as difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength while walking, painful stiffness of legs, etc. Such a condition is often found in old age, a time of weakness, languor, local congestions, and sluggishness. This is the special environment that Conium chooses to manifest its action. It corresponds to the debility, hypochondriasis, urinary troubles, weakened memory, sexual debility found here. Troubles at the change of life, old maids and bachelors. Growth of tumors invite it also. General feeling as if bruised by blows. Great debility in the morning in bed. Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation. Cancerous diathesis. Arteriosclerosis. Caries of sternum. Enlarged glands. Acts on the glandular system, engorging and indurating it, altering its structure like scrofulous and cancerous conditions. Tonic after grippe. Insomnia of multiple neuritis.

Mind. Excitement causes mental depression. Depressed, timid, averse to society, and afraid of being alone. No inclination for business or study; takes no interest in anything. Memory weak; unable to sustain any mental effort.

Head. Vertigo, when lying down, and when turning over in bed, when turning head sidewise, or turning eyes; worse, shaking head, slight noise or conversation of others, especially towards the left. Headache, stupefying, with nausea and vomiting of mucus, with a feeling as of foreign body under the skull. Scorched feeling of top. Tightness as if both temples were compressed; worse after a meal. [Gels.] Bruised, semilateral pains. Dull occipital pain on rising in morning.

Eyes. Photophobia and excessive lachrymation. Corneal pustules. Dim sighted; worse, artificial light. On closing eyes, he sweats. Paralysis of ocular muscles. [Caust.] In superficial inflammations, as in phlyctenular conjunctivitis and keratitis. The slightest ulceration or abrasion will cause the intensest photophobia.

Ears. Defective hearing; discharge from ear blood colored.

Nose. Bleeds easily: becomes sore. Polypus.

Stomach. Soreness about the root of tongue. Terrible nausea, acrid heartburn, and acid eructations; worse on going to bed. Painful spasms of the stomach. Amelioration from eating and aggravation a few hours after meals; acidity and burning; painful spot the level of the sternum.

Abdomen. Severe aching in and around the liver. Chronic jaundice, and pains in right hypochondrium. Sensitive, bruised, swollen, knife-like pains. Painful tightness.

Stool. Frequent urging; hard, with tenesmus. Tremulous weakness after every stool. [Verat.; Ars.; Arg-n.] Heat and burning in rectum during stool.

Urine. Much difficulty in voiding. It flows and stops again. [Led.] Interrupted discharge. Dribbling in old men.

Male. Desire increased; power decreased. Sexual nervousness, with feeble erection. Effects of suppressed sexual appetite. Testicles hard and enlarged.

Female. Dysmenorrhea, with drawing-down thighs. Mammae lax and shrunken, hard, painful to touch. Stitches in nipples. Wants to press breast hard with hand. Menses delayed and scanty; parts sensitive. Breasts enlarge and become painful before and during menses. [Calc.] Rash before menses. Itching around pudenda. Unready conception. Induration of os and cervix. Ovaritis; ovary enlarged, indurated; lancinating pain. Ill effects of repressed sexual desire or suppressed menses, or from excessive indulgence. Leucorrhea after micturition.

Respiratory. Dry cough, almost continuous, hacking; worse, evening and at night; caused by dry spot in larynx with itching in chest and throat, when lying down, talking or laughing, and during pregnancy. Expectoration only after long coughing. Want of breath on taking the least exercise; oppressed breathing, constriction of chest; pains in chest.

Back. Dorsal pain between shoulders. Ill effects of bruises and shocks to spine. Coccygodinia. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region.

Extremities. Heavy, weary, paralyzed; trembling; hands unsteady; fingers and toes numb. Muscular weakness, especially of lower extremities. Perspiration of hands. Putting feet on chair relieves pain.

Skin. Axillary glands pain, with numb feeling down arm. Induration after contusions. Yellow skin, with papular eruption; yellow fingernails. Glands enlarged and indurated, also mesenteric. Flying stitches through the glands. Tumors; piercing pains; worse, at night. Chronic ulcers with fetid discharge. Sweat as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing eyes. Night and morning sweat, with offensive odor, and smarting in skin.

Modalities. Worse, lying down, turning or rising in bed; celibacy; before and during menses, from taking cold, bodily or mental exertion. Better, while fasting, in the dark, from letting limbs hand down, motion and pressure.

Relationship. Compare: Bar-c.; Kali-p.

Dose. Best in higher potencies given infrequently, especially for growths, paretic states, etc. Otherwise sixth to thirtieth.

Cuprum metallicum
(Copper)

Spasmodic affections, cramps, convulsions, beginning in fingers and toes, violent, contractive, and intermitting pain, are some of the more marked expressions of the action of Cuprum; and its curative range therefore includes tonic and clonic spasms, convulsions, and epileptic attacks. Chorea brought on by fright. Nausea greater than in any other remedy. In epilepsy, aura begins at knees, ascends to hypogastrium; then unconsciousness, foaming, and falling. Symptoms disposed to appear periodically and in groups. Complaints begin in left side. [Lach.] Tape worm (colloidal Cuprum 3X)
     Where eruptions strike in, as in scarlet fever, complaints may result, such as excessive vomiting, stupor, convulsions, which come within the sphere of this remedy. The pains are increased by movement and touch.

Head. Fixed ideas, malicious and morose. Uses words not intended. Fearful. Empty feeling. Purple, red swelling of head, with convulsions. Bruised pain in brain and eyes on turning them. Meningitis. Sensation as if water were poured over head. Giddiness accompanies many ailments, head falls forward on chest.

Eyes. Aching over eyes. Fixed, starry, sunken, glistening, turned upward. Crossed. Quick rolling of eyeballs, with closed eyes.

Face. Distorted, pale bluish, with blue lips. Contraction of jaws, with foam at mouth.

Nose. Sensation of violent congestion of blood to nose.

Mouth. Strong metallic, slimy taste, with flow of saliva. Constant protrusion and retraction of the tongue, like a snake. [Lach.] Paralysis of tongue. Stammering speech.

Stomach. Hiccough preceding the spasms. Nausea. Vomiting, relieved by drinking cold water; with colic, diarrhea, spasms. Strong metallic taste. [Rhus-t.] When drinking, the fluid descends with gurgling sound. Craves cool drink.

Abdomen. Tense, hot and tender to touch; contracted. Neuralgia of abdominal viscera. Colic, violent and intermittent. Intussusception.

Stool. Black, painful, bloody, with tenesmus and weakness. Cholera; with cramps in abdomen and calves.

Female. Menses too late, protracted. Cramps extending into chest, before, during, or after suppression of menses. Also, from suppressed foot sweats. [Sil.] Ebullition of blood; palpitation. Chlorosis. Afterpains.

Heart. Angina pectoris. Slow pulse; or hard, full and quick. Palpitation, precordial anxiety and pain. Fatty degeneration. [Phyt.]

Respiratory. Cough has a gurgling sound, better by drinking cold water. Suffocative attacks, worse 3 a.m. Spasm and constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, alternating with spasmodic vomiting. Whooping cough, better, swallow water, with vomiting and spasms and purple face. Spasm of the glottis. Dyspnea with epigastric uneasiness. Spasmodic dyspnea before menstruation. Angina with asthmatic symptoms and cramps (Clarke).

Extremities. Jerking, twitching of muscles. Coldness of hands. Cramps in palms. Great weariness of limbs. Cramps in calves and soles. Epilepsy; aura begins in knees. Clenched thumbs. Clonic spasms, beginning in fingers and toes.

Skin. Bluish, marbled. Ulcers, itching spots, and pimples at the folds of joints. Chronic psoriasis and lepra (Hughes).

Sleep. Profound, with shocks in body. During sleep constant rumbling in abdomen.

Modalities. Worse, before menses; from vomiting, contact. Better, during perspiration, drinking cold water.

Relationship. Antidote: Bell.; Hep.
     Copper is found in Dulcamara, Staphisagria, Conium and some other plants.
Complementary: Calc.
     Compare: Nux-v.; Verat.

Dose. Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Dioscorea
(Wild Yam)

     As a remedy for many kinds of pain, especially colic, and in severe, painful affections of abdominal and pelvic viscera; it ranks with the polychrests of the Materia Medica. Persons of feeble digestive powers; tea drinkers, with much flatulence. Gallstone colic.

Mind. Calls things by the wrong name.

Head. Dull pain in both temples; better pressure, but worse afterwards. Buzzing in head.

Stomach. Mouth dry and bitter in morning, tongue coated, no thirst. Belching of large quantities of offensive gas. Neuralgia of stomach. Sinking at the pit of the stomach; pyrosis. Pain along sternum and extending into arms. Eructations of sour, bitter wind, with hiccough. Sharp pain in epigastrium, relieved by standing erect.

Abdomen. Pains suddenly shift to different parts: appear in remote localities, as fingers and toes. Rumbling, with emission of much flatus. Griping, cutting in hypogastric region, with intermittent cutting in stomach and small intestines. Colic; better walking about; pains radiate from abdomen to back, chest, arms; worse, bending forwards and while lying. Sharp pains from liver, shooting upward to right nipple. Pain from gallbladder to chest, back, and arms. Renal colic, with pain in extremities. Hurried desire for stool.

Heart. Angina pectoris; pain back of sternum into arms; labored breathing; feeble action of heart. Especially with flatulence and pain through chest and tightness across.

Rectum. Hemorrhoids, with darting pains to liver; look like bunches of grapes or red cherries; protrude after stool, with pain in anus. Diarrhea (worse in morning), yellowish, followed by exhaustion, as if flatus and feces were hot.

Male. Relaxation and coldness of organs. Pains shoot into testicles from region of kidneys. Strong smelling sweat on scrotum and pubes. Emissions in sleep, or from sexual atony, with weak knees.

Female. Uterine colic; pains radiate from uterus. Vivid dreams.

Respiratory. Tight feeling all along sternum. Chest does not seem to expand on breathing. Short-winded.

Extremities. Lameness in back; worse, stooping. Aching and stiffness in joints. Sciatica; pains shoot down thigh; worse, right side; better, when perfectly still. Felons in beginning, when pricking is first felt. Nails brittle. Cramps in flexors of fingers and toes.

Modalities. Worse, evening and night, lying down, and doubling up. Better, standing erect, motion in open air; pressure.

Relationship. Antidote: Cham.
     Compare: Coloc. (differs in modalities); Nux-v.; Cham.; Bry.

Dose. Tincture,to third potency.

Drosera
(Sundew)

     Affects markedly the respiratory organs and was pointed out by Hahnemann as the principal remedy for whooping cough. Drosera can break down resistance to tubercle and should therefore be capable of raising it (Dr. Tyler). Laryngeal phthisis is benefited by it. Phthisis pulmonum; vomiting of food from coughing with gastric irritation and profuse expectoration. Pains about hip joint. Tubercular glands.

Head. Vertigo when walking in open air, with inclination to fall to the left side. Coldness of left half of face, with stinging pains and dry heat of right half.

Stomach. Nausea. Aversion to and bad effects from acids.

Respiratory. Spasmodic, dry irritative cough, like whooping cough, the paroxysms following each other very rapidly; can scarcely breathe; chokes. Cough very deep and hoarse; worse, after midnight; yellow expectoration, with bleeding from nose and mouth; retching. Deep, hoarse voice; hoarseness; laryngitis. Rough, scraping sensation deep in the fauces and soft palate. Sensation as if crumbs were in the throat, of feather in larynx. Laryngeal phthisis, with rapid emaciation. Harassing and titillating cough in children: not at all through the day, but commences as soon as the head touches the pillow at night. Clergyman's sore throat, with rough, scraping, dry sensation deep in the fauces; voice hoarse, deep, toneless, cracked, requires exertion to speak. Asthma when talking,with contraction of the throat at every word uttered.

Extremities. Paralytic pains in the coxofemoral joint and thighs. Stiffness in joints of feet. All limbs feel lame. Bed feels too hard.

Fever. Internal chilliness; shivering, with hot face, cold hands, no thirst. Is always too cold, even in bed.

Modalities. Worse, after midnight, lying down, on getting warm in bed, drinking, singing, laughing.

Relationship. Compare: Cupr.

Dose. First to twelfth attenuation.

Dulcamara
(Bittersweet)

     Hot days and cold nights toward the close of summer are especially favorable to the action of Dulcamara, and is one of the remedies that correspond in their symptoms to the conditions found as effects of damp weather, colds after exposure to wet, especially diarrhea. It has a specific relation also to the skin, glands, and digestive organs, mucous membranes secreting more profusely while the skin is inactive. The rheumatic troubles induced by damp cold are aggravated by every cold change and somewhat relieved by moving about. Results from sitting on cold, damp ground. Icy coldness. One-sided spasms with speechlessness. Paralysis of single parts. Congestive headache, with neuralgia and dry nose. Patients living or working in damp, cold basements. [Nat-s.] Eruptions on hands, arms or face around the menstrual period.

Head. Mental confusion. Occipital pain ascending from nape of neck. Headache relieved by conversation. Rejects things asked for. Back part of head chill, heavy, aching, during cold weather. Ringworm of scalp. Scaldhead, thick brown crusts, bleeding when scratched. Buzzing in head.

Nose. Dry coryza. Complete stoppage of nose. Stuffs up when there is a cold rain. Thick, yellow mucus, bloody crusts. Profuse coryza. Wants nose kept warm, least cold air stops the nose. Coryza of the newborn.

Eyes. Every time he takes cold it settles in eyes. Thick, yellow discharge; granular lids. Hay fever; profuse, watery discharge, worse in open air.

Ears. Earache, buzzing, stitches, and swelling of parotids. Middle ear catarrh. [Kali-m.]

Face. Tearing in cheek extending to ear, orbit, and jaw, preceded by coldness of parts, and attended by canine hunger. Humid eruption on cheeks and face generally.

Mouth. Saliva tenacious, soapy. Dry, rough tongue, rough scraping in throat, after taking cold in damp weather. Cold sores on lips. Facial neuralgia; worse, slightest exposure to cold.

Stomach. Vomiting of white, tenacious mucus. Aversion to food. Burning thirst for cold drinks. Heartburn. Nausea accompanies the desire for stool. Chilliness during vomiting.

Abdomen. Colic from cold. Acts prominently on umbilical region. Cutting pain about navel. Swelling of inguinal glands. [Merc.]

Stool. Green, watery, slimy, bloody, mucus, especially in summer, when the weather suddenly becomes cold; from damp, cold weather and repelled eruptions.

Urine. Must urinate when getting chilled. Strangury, painful micturition. Catarrh of bladder from taking cold. Urine has thick, mucous, purulent sediment. Ischuria from wading with bare feet in cold water.

Female. Suppression of menses from cold or dampness. Before appearance of menses, a rash appears on skin, or sexual excitement. Dysmenorrhea, with blotches all over; mammae engorged and sore, delicate, sensitive to cold.

Respiratory. Cough worse cold, wet weather, with free expectoration, tickling in larynx. Cough, hoarse, spasmodic. Whooping cough, with excessive secretion of mucus. Winter coughs, dry, teasing. Asthma with dyspnea. Loose, rattling cough; worse wet weather. Must cough a long time to expel phlegm. Cough after physical exertion.

Back. Stiff neck. Pain in small of back, as after long stooping. Stiffness and lameness across neck and shoulders, after getting cold and wet.

Extremities. Paralysis: paralyzed limbs, feet icy cold. Warts on hands. Perspiration on palms of hands. Pain in shin bones. Rheumatism alternates with diarrhea. Rheumatic symptoms after acute skin eruptions.

Skin. Adenitis. Pruritus, always worse in cold, wet weather. Herpes zoster, pemphigus. Swelling and indurated glands from cold. Vesicular eruptions. Sensitive bleeding ulcers. Little boils. Red spots, urticaria, brought on by exposure, or sour stomach. Humid eruptions on face, genitals, hands, etc. Warts, large, smooth, on face and palmar surface of hands. Anasarca. Thick, brown-yellow crusts, bleeding when scratched.

Fever. Dry burning heat all over. Chilliness towards evening, mostly in back. Icy coldness, with pains. Dry heat and burning of skin. Chilliness with thirst.

Modalities. Worse, at night; from cold in general, damp, rainy weather. Better, from moving about, external warmth.

Relationship. Antidote: Cupr.
     Complementary: Bar-c.
     Incompatible: Bell.; Lach.
     Compare: Rhus-t.; Cimic.; Calc.; Puls.; Bry.; Nat-s.

Dose. Second to thirtieth potency.

Eupatorium purpureum
(Queen of the Meadow)

     Albuminuria, diabetes, strangury, irritable bladder, enlarged prostate are a special field for this remedy. Excellent in renal dropsy. Chills and pains run upwards. Impotency and sterility. Homesickness.

Head. Left sided headache with vertigo. Pain from left shoulder to occiput. Sick headache beginning in morning, worse afternoon and evening, worse in cold air.

Urine. Deep, dull pain in kidneys. Burning in bladder and urethra on urinating. Insufficient flow; milky. Strangury. Hematuria. Constant desire: bladder feels dull. Dysuria. Vesical irritability in women. Diabetes insipidus.

Back. Weight and heaviness in loins and back.

Female. Pain around left ovary. Threatened abortion. External genitals feel as though wet.

Fever. No thirst during chill, but much frontal ache. Chill commences in back. Violent shaking, with comparatively little coldness. Bone pains.

Relationship. Compare: Ph-ac.

Dose. First potency.

Euphrasia
(Eyebright)

     Manifests itself in inflaming the conjunctival membrane especially, producing profuse lachrymation. Patient is better in open air. Catarrhal affections of mucous membranes especially of eyes and nose. Profuse acrid lachrymation and bland coryza; worse, evening. Hawking up of offensive mucus.

Head. Bursting headache with dazzling of eyes. Catarrhal headache, with profuse discharge from eyes and nose.

Nose. Profuse, fluent coryza, with violent cough and abundant expectoration.

Eyes. Catarrhal conjunctivitis; discharge of acrid matter. The eyes water all the time. Acrid lachrymation; bland coryza. [Opposite: All-c.] Discharge thick and excoriating. [Merc. thin and acrid.] Burning and swelling of the lids. Frequent inclination to blink. Free discharge of acrid matter. Sticky mucus on cornea; must wink to remove it. Pressure in eyes. Little blister on cornea. Opacities. Rheumatic iritis. Ptosis. [Gels.; Caust.]

Face. Redness and heat of cheeks. Stiffness of upper lip.

Stomach. Vomiting from hawking mucus. Nausea and bitterness after smoking.

Rectum. Dysentery. Prolapse ani. Pressure down in anus when sitting. Constipation.

Female. Menses painful; flow lasts only an hour or day; late, scanty, short. Amenorrhea, with ophthalmia.

Male. Spasmodic retraction of genitals, with pressure above pubic bone. Condyloma and sycotic excrescences. Prostatitis. Nocturnal irritability of bladder; dribbling urine.

Respiratory. Frequent yawning when walking in open air. Profuse, fluent coryza in morning, with much cough and expectoration. Influenza. Gags when clearing the throat in morning. Whooping cough only in daytime, with profuse lachrymation.

Skin. First stage of measles; eye symptoms marked. Consequence of external injuries.

Sleep. Yawning when walking in open air. Sleepy during day.

Fever. Chilly and cold. Sweat mostly on chest, at night during sleep.

Modalities. Worse, in evening, indoors, warmth; south winds, from light. Better, from coffee, in dark.

Relationship. Antidote: Puls.
     Compare: All-c.; Ars.; Gels.

Dose. Third to sixth potency.

Ferrum metallicum
(Iron)

     Best adapted to young weakly persons, anemic and chlorotic, with pseudoplethora, who flush easily; cold extremities; oversensitiveness; worse after any active effort. Weakness from mere speaking or walking though looking strong. Pallor of skin, mucous membranes, face, alternating with flushes. Orgasms of blood to face, chest, head, lungs, etc. Irregular distribution of blood. Pseudoplethora. Muscles flabby and relaxed.

Mind. Irritability. Slight noises unbearable. Excited from slightest opposition. Sanguine temperament.

Head. Vertigo on seeing flowing water. Stinging headache. Ringing in ears before menses. Hammering, pulsating, congestive headache; pain extends to teeth, with cold extremities. Pain in back of head, with roaring in neck. Scalp painful. Must take down the hair.

Eyes. Watery, dull red; photophobia; letters run together.

Face. Fiery-red and flushed from least pain, emotion, or exertion. Red parts become white, bloodless and puffy.

Nose. Mucous membranes relaxed, boggy, anemic, pale.

Mouth. Pain in teeth; relieved by icy cold water. Earthy, paste taste, like rotten eggs.

Stomach. Voracious appetite, or absolute loss of appetite. Loathing of sour things. Attempts to eat bring on diarrhea. Spits up food by the mouthful. [Phos.] Eructations of food after eating, without nausea. Nausea and vomiting after eating. Vomiting immediately after eating. Vomiting after midnight. Intolerance of eggs. Distention and pressure in the stomach after eating. Heat and burning in stomach. Soreness of abdominal walls. Flatulent dyspepsia.

Stool. Undigested, at night, while eating or drinking, painless. Ineffectual urging; stool hard, followed by backache or cramping pain in rectum; prolapsus recti; itching of anus, especially young children.

Urine. Involuntary; worse daytime. Tickling in urethra extending to bladder.

Female. Menses remit a day or two, and then return. Discharge of long pieces from uterus. Women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have a fiery-red face. Menses too early, too profuse, last too long; pale, watery. Sensitive vagina. Tendency to abortion. Prolapse of vagina.

Respiratory. Chest oppressed; breathing difficult. Surging of blood to chest. Hoarseness. Cough dry, spasmodic. Hemoptysis. With the cough pain in occiput.

Heart. Palpitation; worse, movement. Sense of oppression. Anemic murmur. Pulse full, but soft and yielding; also, small and weak. Heart suddenly bleeds into the blood vessels, and as suddenly draws a reflux, leaving pallor of surface.

Extremities. Rheumatism of the shoulder. Dropsy after loss of vital fluids. Lumbago; better, slow walking. Pain in hip joint, tibia, soles, and heel.

Skin. Pale; flushes rapidly; pits on pressure.

Fever. General coldness of extremities; head and face hot. Chill at 4 a.m. Heat in palms and soles. Profuse, debilitating sweat.

Modalities. Better, walking slowly about. Better after rising. Worse, while sweating; while sitting still. After cold washing and overheating. Midnight aggravation.

Relationship. Antidote: Ars.; Hep.
     Complementary: Chin.; Ham.
     Compare: Rumx. (similar in respiratory and digestive sphere and contains organic iron); Graph.; Cupr.

Dose. States of debility where the blood is poor in hematin require material doses; plethoric, hemorrhagic conditions call for small doses, from the second to the sixth potency.

Ferrum phosphoricum
(Phosphate of Iron)

     In the early stages of febrile conditions, it stands midway between sthenic activity of Aconite and Belladonna, and the asthenic sluggishness and torpidity of Gelsemium. The typical Ferrum phosphoricum subject is not full blooded and robust, but nervous, sensitive, anemic with the false plethora and easy flushing of Ferrum. Prostration marked; face more active than Gelsemium. The superficial redness never assumes the dusky hue of Gelsemium. Pulse soft and flowing; no anxious restlessness of Aconite. Susceptibility to chest troubles. Bronchitis of young children. In acute exacerbation of tuberculosis, a fine palliative of wonderful power. Corresponds to Grauvogl's Oxygenoid Constitution, the inflammatory, febrile, emaciating, wasting consumptive.
     The remedy for first stage of all febrile disturbances and inflammations before exudation sets in; especially for catarrhal affections of the respiratory tract. Ferrum phosphoricum 3X increases hemoglobin. In pale, anemic subjects, with violent local congestions. Hemorrhages, bright from any orifice.

Head. Soreness to touch, cold, noise, jar. Rush of blood to head. Ill effects of sun heat. Throbbing sensation. Vertigo. Headache better cold applications.

Eyes. Red, inflamed, with burning sensation. Feeling as of sand under lids. Hyperemia of optic disc and retina, with blurred vision.

Ears. Noises. Throbbing. First stage of otitis. Membrana tympani red and bulging. Acute otitis; when Belladonna fails, prevents suppuration.

Nose. First stage of colds in the head. Predisposition to colds. Epistaxis; bright red blood.

Face. Flushed; cheeks sore and hot. Florid complexion. Facial neuralgia; worse, shaking head and stooping.

Throat. Mouth hot; fauces red, inflamed. Ulcerated sore throat. Tonsils red and swollen. Eustachian tubes inflamed. Sore throat of singers. Subacute laryngitis with fauces inflamed and red (2X). After operations on throat and nose to control bleeding and relieve soreness. First stage of diphtheria. Ranula in vascular, sanguine constitutions.

Stomach. Aversion to meat and milk. Desire for stimulants. Vomiting of undigested food. Vomiting of bright red blood. Sour eructations.

Abdomen. First stage of peritonitis. Hemorrhoids. Stools watery, bloody, undigested. First stage of dysentery, with much blood in discharges.

Urine. Urine spurts with every cough. Incontinence. Irritation at neck of bladder. Polyuria. Diurnal enuresis.

Female. Menses every three weeks, with bearing-down sensation and pain on top of head. Vaginismus. Vagina dry and hot.

Respiratory. First stage of all inflammatory affections. Congestions of lungs. Hemoptysis. Short, painful tickling cough. Croup. Hard, dry cough, with sore chest. Hoarseness. Expectoration of pure blood in pneumonia. Cough better at night.

Heart. Palpitation; pulse rapid. First stage of cardiac diseases. Short, quick, soft pulse.

Extremities. Stiff neck. Articular rheumatism. Crick in back. Rheumatic pain in shoulder; pains extend to chest and wrist. Whitlow. Palms hot. Hands swollen and painful.

Sleep. Restless and sleepless. Anxious dreams. Night sweats of anemia.

Fever. Chill daily at 1 p.m. All catarrhal and inflammatory fevers; first stage.

Modalities. Worse, at night and 4 to 6 a.m.; touch, jar, motion, right side. Better, cold applications.

Relationship. Compare: (Oxygenoid Constitution: Acon.; Chin.; Ars.; Graph.; Petr.); Acon.; Gels.; Chin.

Dose. Third to twelfth potency.

Gelsemium
(Yellow Jasmine)

     Centers its action upon the nervous system, causing various degree of motor paralysis. General prostration. Dizziness, drowsiness, dullness, and trembling. Slow pulse, tired feeling, mental apathy. Paralysis of various groups of muscles about the eyes, throat, chest, larynx, sphincter, extremities, etc. Postdiphtheritic paralysis. Muscular weakness. Complete relaxation and prostration. Lack of muscular coordination. General depression from heat of sun. Sensitive to a falling barometer; cold and dampness brings on many complaints. Children fear falling, grab nurse or crib. Sluggish circulation. Nervous affections of cigar makers. Influenza. Measles. Pellagra.

Mind. Desire to be quiet, to be left alone. Dullness, languor, listless. "Discernings are lethargied." Apathy regarding his illness. Absolute lack of fear. Delirious on falling to sleep. Emotional excitement, fear, etc., lead to bodily ailments. Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news. Stage fright. Child starts and grasps the nurse, and screams as if afraid of falling. [Bor.]

Head. Vertigo, spreading from occiput. Heaviness of head; band feeling around and occipital headache. Dull, heavy ache, with heaviness of eyelids; bruised sensation; better, compression and lying with head high. Pain in temple, extending into ear and wing of nose, chin. Headache, with muscular soreness of neck and shoulders. Headache preceded by blindness; better, profuse urination. Scalp sore to touch. Delirious on falling asleep. Wants to have head raised on pillow.

Eyes. Ptosis; eyelids heavy; patient can hardly open them. Double vision. Disturbed muscular apparatus. Corrects blurring and discomfort in eyes even after accurately adjusted glasses. Vision blurred, smoky. [Phos.] Dim sighted; pupils dilated and insensible to light. Orbital neuralgia, with contraction and twitching of muscles. Bruised pain back of the orbits. One pupil dilated, the other contracted. Deep inflammations, with haziness of vitreous. Serous inflammations. Albuminuric retinitis. Detached retina, glaucoma and descemetitis. Hysterical amblyopia.

Nose. Sneezing; fullness at root of nose. Dryness of nasal fossae. Swelling of turbinates. Watery, excoriating discharge. Acute coryza, with dull headache and fever.

Face. Hot, heavy, flushed, besotted-looking. [Bapt.; Op.] Neuralgia of face. Dusky hue of face, with vertigo and dim vision. Facial muscles contracted, especially around the mouth. Chin quivers. Lower jaw dropped.

Mouth. Putrid taste and breath. Tongue numb, thick, coated, yellowish, tremble, paralyzed.

Throat. Difficult swallowing, especially of warm food. Itching and tickling in soft palate and nasopharynx. Pain in sternocleidomastoid, back of parotid. Tonsils swollen. Throat feels rough, burning. Postdiphtheritic paralysis. Tonsillitis; shooting pain into ears. Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed. Aphonia. Swallowing causes pain in ear. [Hep.; Nux-v.] Difficult swallowing. Pain from throat to ear.

Stomach. As a rule, the Gelsemium patient has no thirst. Hiccough; worse in the evening. Sensation of emptiness and weakness at the pit of the stomach, or of an oppression, like a heavy load.

Stool. Diarrhea from emotional excitement, fright, bad news. [Ph-ac.] Stool painless or involuntary. Cream colored [Calc.], tea-green. Partial paralysis of rectum and sphincter.

Urine. Profuse, clear, watery, with chilliness and tremulousness. Dysuria. Partial paralysis of bladder; flow intermittent. Retention.

Female. Rigid os. [Bell.] Vaginismus. False laborpains; pains pass up back. Dysmenorrhea, with scanty flow; menses retarded. Pain extends to back and hips. Aphonia and sore throat during menses. Sensation as if uterus were squeezed. [Cham.; Nux-v.]

Male. Spermatorrhea, without erections. Genitals cold and relaxed. [Ph-ac.] Scrotum continually sweating. Gonorrhea, first stage; discharge scanty; tendency to corrode; little pain, but much heat; smarting at meatus.

Respiratory. Slowness of breathing, with great prostration. Oppression about chest. Dry cough, with sore chest and fluent coryza. Spasm of the glottis. Aphonia; acute bronchitis, respiration quickened, spasmodic affections of lungs and diaphragm.

Heart. A feeling as if it were necessary to keep in motion, or else heart's action would cease. Slow pulse. Palpitation; pulse soft, weak, full and flowing. Pulse slow when quiet, but greatly accelerated on motion. Weak, slow pulse of old age.

Back. Dull, heavy pain. Complete relaxation of the whole muscular system. Languor; muscles feel bruised. Every little exertion causes fatigue. Pain in neck, especially upper sternocleido muscles. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region, passing upward. Pain in muscles of back, hips, and lower extremities, mostly deep-seated.

Extremities. Loss of power of muscular control. Cramp in muscles of forearm. Professional neuroses. Writer's cramp. Excessive trembling and weakness of all limbs. Hysteric convulsions. Fatigue after slight exercise.

Sleep. Cannot get fully to sleep. Delirious on falling asleep. Insomnia from exhaustion; from uncontrollable thinking; tobacco. Yawning. Sleepless from nervous irritation. [Coff.]

Fever. Wants to be held, because he shakes so. Pulse slow, full, soft, compressible. Chilliness up and down back. Heat and sweat stages, long and exhausting. Dumb-ague, with much muscular soreness, great prostration, and violent headache. Nervous chills. Bilious remittent fever, with stupor, dizziness, faintness; thirstless, prostrated. Chill, without thirst, along spine; wave-like, extending upward from sacrum to occiput.

Skin. Hot, dry, itching, measle-like eruption. Erysipelas. Measles, catarrhal symptoms; aids in bringing out eruption. Retrocedent, with livid spots. Scarlet fever with stupor and flushed face.

Modalities. Worse, damp weather, fog, before a thunderstorm, emotion, or excitement, bad news, tobacco smoking, when thinking of his ailments; at 10 a.m. Better, bending forward, by profuse urination, open air, continued motion, stimulants.

Relationship. Compare: Ign. (gastric affections of cigar makers); Bapt.; Ip.; Acon.; Bell.; Cimic.; Mag-p. (Gelsemium contains some Magnesia phosphorica.)
     Antidote: Chin.; Coff. Alcoholic stimulants relieve all complaints where Gelsemium is useful.

Dose. Tincture,to thirtieth attenuation; first to third most often used.

Glonoin
(Nitroglycerine)

     Recent German provings of Glonoine confirm the original American provings and clinical indications and bring out very marked nerve disturbances. Great lassitude, no inclination to work; extreme irritability, easily excited by the slightest opposition, ending in congestive head symptoms. The sixth potency alone produced itching all over body with later acne and furuncle formation, also bulimy.
     Great remedy for congestive headaches, hyperemia of the brain from excess of heat or cold. Excellent for the intercranial, climacteric disturbances, or due to menstrual suppression. Children get sick when sitting before an open fire. Surging of blood to head and heart. Tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation. Violent convulsions, associated with cerebral congestion. Sensation of pulsation throughout body. Pulsating pains. Cannot recognize localities. Sciatica in atheromatous subjects, with cold shriveled limb; seasickness.

Head. Confusion, with dizziness. Effects of sunstroke; heat on head, as in typesetters and workers under gas and electric light. Head heavy, but cannot lay it on pillow. Cannot bear any heat about head. Better from uncovering head. Throbbing headache. Angiospastic neuralgia of head and face. Very irritable. Vertigo on assuming upright position. Cerebral congestion. Head feels enormously large, as if skull were too small for brain. Sun headaches; increases and decreases with the sun. Shocks in head, synchronous with pulse. Headache in place of menses. Rush of blood to head in pregnant women. Threatened apoplexy. Meningitis.

Eyes. See everything half light, half dark. Letters appear smaller. Sparks before eyes.

Mouth. Pulsating toothache.

Ears. Throbbing; each beat of heart is heard in ears; full feeling.

Face. Flushed, hot, livid, pale; sweaty; pains in root of nose; faceache. Dusky face.

Throat. Neck feels full. Collars must be opened. Chokes and swells up under ears.

Stomach. Gastralgia in anemic patients with feeble circulation. Nausea and vomiting. Faint, gnawing, and empty feeling at pit of stomach. Abnormal hunger.

Abdomen. Constipation, with itching, painful hemorrhoids, with pinching in abdomen before and after stool. Diarrhea: copious blackish, lumpy stools.

Female. Menses delayed, or sudden cessation with congestion to head. Climacteric flushing.

Heart. Laborious action. Fluttering. Palpitation with dyspnea. Cannot go uphill. Any exertion brings on rush of blood to heart and fainting spells. Throbbing in the whole body to fingertips.

Extremities. Itching all over, worse extremities. Pain in left biceps. Drawing pain in all limbs. Backache.

Modalities. Better, brandy. Worse, in sun; exposure to sun rays, gas, open fire; jar, stooping, having hair cut; peaches, stimulants; lying down; from 6 a.m. to noon; left side.

Relationship. Antidote: Acon.
     Compare: Bell.; Op.

Dose. Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Graphites
(Plumbago)

     Like all the carbons, this remedy is an antipsoric of great power, but especially active in patients who are rather stout, of fair complexion, with tendency to skin affections and constipation, fat, chilly, and costive, with delayed menstrual history. Take cold easily. Children impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. Has a particular tendency to develop the skin phase of internal disorders. Eradicates tendency to erysipelas. Anemia with redness of face. Tendency to obesity. Swollen genitals. Gushing leucorrhea. Aids absorption of cicatricial tissue. Induration of tissue. Cancer of pylorus. Duodenal ulcer.

Mind. Great tendency to start. Timid. Unable to decide. Want of disposition to work. Fidgety while sitting at work. Music makes her weep. Apprehensive, despondency, indecision.

Head. Rush of blood to head with flushed face also with nosebleed and distention and flatulence. Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side, with inclination to vomit. Sensation of cobweb on forehead. Feels numb and pithy. Rheumatic pains on one side of head, extending to teeth and neck. Burning on vertex. Humid, itching eruption on hairy scalp, emitting a fetid odor. Cataleptic condition.

Eyes. Ophthalmia, with intolerance of artificial light. Eyelids red and swollen. Blepharitis. Dryness of the lids. Eczema of lids; fissured.

Ears. Dryness of inner ear. Cracking in ears when eating. Moisture and eruptions behind the ears. Hears better in noise. Hardness of hearing. Hissing in the ears. Detonation in ear like report of a gun. Thin, white, scaly membrane covering membrana tympani, like exfoliated epithelium. Fissures in and behind the ear.

Nose. Sore on blowing it; is painful internally. Smell abnormally acute; cannot tolerate flowers. Scabs and fissures in nostrils.

Face. Feels as if cobwebs were on it. Eczema of nose. Itching pimples. Moist eczema around mouth and chin. Erysipelas, burning and stinging.

Mouth. Rotten odor from mouth. Breath smells like urine. Burning blisters on tongue, salivation. Sour eructations.

Stomach. Aversion to meat. Sweets nauseate. Hot drinks disagree. Nausea and vomiting after each meal. Morning sickness during menstruation. Pressure in stomach. Burning in stomach, causing hunger. Eructation difficult. Constrictive pain in stomach. Recurrent gastralgia. Flatulence. Stomach pain is temporarily relieved by eating, hot drinks especially milk and lying down.

Abdomen. Nauseous feeling in abdomen. Fullness and hardness in abdomen, as from incarcerated flatulence; must loosen clothing; presses painfully at abdominal ring. Croaking in abdomen. Inguinal region sensitive, swollen. Pain of gas opposite the side on which he lies. Chronic diarrhea, stools brownish, liquid, undigested, offensive. Very fetid gas preceded by colic.

Stool. Constipation; large, difficult, knotty stools united by mucus threads. Burning hemorrhoids. Prolapse, diarrhea; stools of brown fluid, mixed with undigested substance, very fetid, sour odor. Smarting, sore anus, itching. Lump stool, conjoined with threads of mucus. Varices of the rectum. Fissure of anus.

Urine. Turbid, with sediment. Sour smelling.

Female. Menses too late, with constipation; pale and scanty, with tearing pain in epigastrium, and itching before. Hoarseness, coryza, cough, sweats and morning sickness during menstruation. Leucorrhea, pale, thin, profuse, white, excoriating, with great weakness in back. Mammae swollen and hard. Induration of ovaries and uterus and mammae. Nipples sore, cracked, and blistered. Decided aversion to coitus.

Male. Sexual debility, with increased desire; aversion to coition; too early or no ejaculation; herpetic eruption on organs.

Respiratory. Constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, suffocative attacks wakes from sleep; must eat something. Pain in middle of chest, with cough, scraping and soreness. Chronic hoarseness with skin affections. Inability to control the vocal chords; hoarseness on beginning to sing and for breaking voice.

Extremities. Pain in nape of neck, shoulders and back and limbs. Spinal pains. Pain in small of back with great weakness. Excoriation between thighs. Left hand numb; arms feel asleep; fingernails thick, black, and rough. Matrix inflamed. [Psor.] Edema of lower limbs. Toenails crippled. Stiffness and contraction of toes. Nails brittle and crumbling. Nails deformed, painful, sore, thick, and crippled. Cracks or fissures in ends of fingers. Offensive perspiration of feet.

Skin. Rough, hard, persistent dryness of portions of skin unaffected by eczema. Early stage of keloid and fibroma. Pimples and acne. Eruptions, oozing out a sticky exudation. Rawness in bends of limbs, groins, neck, behind ears. Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates. Ulcers discharging a glutinous fluid, thin and sticky. Swelling and induration of glands. Gouty nodosities. Cracks in nipples, mouth, between toes, anus. Phlegmonous erysipelas of face; burning and stinging pain. Swelling of feet. Wens. Chronic Poison Oak.

Modalities. Worse, warmth, at night, during and after menstruation. Better, in the dark, from wrapping up.

Relationship. The Carbon group all have putrid discharges and exhalations. All act on the skin, causing intertrigo and excoriations. Glandular enlargements and catarrhal states, flatulency and asphyxiation.
     Complementary: Arg-n. (follows well in gastric derangements); Caust.; Hep.; Lyc.; Ars.
     Compare: Petr.; Sep.; Sulph. The associated constipation with mucus covered stools and gastric flatulency should be taken into consideration and differentiate it from such remedies as Petroleum and Lycopodium.(Raue.)
Antidote: Nux-v.; Acon.; Ars.

Dose. Sixth to thirtieth potency. Locally as a cerate, in sore nipples.

Hamamelis
(Witch Hazel)

     Venous congestion, hemorrhages, varicose veins, and hemorrhoids, with bruised soreness of affected parts, seem to be the special sphere of this remedy. Acts upon the coats of the veins causing relaxation with consequent engorgement. Passive venous hemorrhages from any part. Great value in open, painful wounds, with weakness from loss of blood. After operations, supercedes the use of morphia (Helmuth).

Head. Wants "the respect due to me" shown. Feeling as of a bolt from temple to temple. Fullness, followed by epistaxis. Numbness over frontal bone.

Eyes. Painful weakness; sore pain in eyes; bloodshot appearance; inflamed vessels greatly injected. Hastens absorption of intraocular hemorrhage. Eyes feel forced out.

Nose. Bleeding from nose profuse; flow passive, noncoagulable, with tightness in bridge of nose. Bad odor from nose.

Throat. Mucous membrane distended and bluish; varicosis of throat.

Stomach. Tongue feels burnt. Thirst. Blisters on side. Hematemesis of black blood. Throbbing and pain in stomach.

Stool. Anus feels sore and raw. Hemorrhoids, bleeding profusely, with soreness. Dysentery. Pulsation in rectum.

Urine. Hematuria, with increased desire.

Female. Ovarian congestion and neuralgia; feel very sore. Vicarious menstruation. Uterine hemorrhage, bearing-down pain in back. Menses dark, profuse, with soreness in abdomen. Metrorrhagia, occurring midway between menstrual periods. Intermenstrual pain (Jas. W. Ward). Vagina very tender. Profuse leucorrhea. Vulva itches. Milk leg, hemorrhoids, and sore nipples, after confinement. Metrorrhagia; passive flow. Vaginismus, ovaritis, soreness over whole abdomen. Phlegmasia alba.

Male. Pain in spermatic cord, running into testes. Varicocele. Pain in testicles. Orchitis. Testicles enlarged, hot, and painful. Epididymitis.

Respiratory. Hemoptysis; tickling cough. Chest feels sore and constricted.

Back. Sore pain down cervical vertebrae. Severe pain in lumbar and hypogastric region, extending down legs.

Extremities. Tired feeling in arms and legs. Very sore muscles and joints. Varicose veins. Chilliness in back and hips, extending down legs. Neuralgia of internal saphenous nerve.

Skin. Bluish chilblains. Phlebitis. Purpura. Varicose veins and ulcers; very sore. Burns. Ecchymosis. Traumatic inflammations. [Arn.]

Modalities. Worse, warm, moist air.

Relationship. Compare in hemorrhoids: Calc-f.
     Compare: Arn.; Calen.; Bell-p.; Sul-ac.; Puls.
     Antidote: Arn.
Complementary: Ferr.

Dose. Tincture, to sixth attenuation. Distilled extract locally.

Hepar sulphuris
(Hahnemann's Calcium Sulphide)

     Suits especially scrofulous and lymphatic constitutions who are inclined to have eruptions and glandular swellings. Unhealthy skin. Blondes with sluggish character and weak muscles. Great sensitiveness to all impressions. Sweating patient pulling blanket around him. Locally, it has special affinity to the respiratory mucous membrane, producing croupous catarrhal inflammation, profuse secretion; also easy perspiration. After abuse of Mercury. Infected sinus with pus forming. The tendency to suppuration is most marked, and has been a strong guiding symptom in practice. The lesions spread by the formation of small papules around the side of the old lesion. Chilliness, hypersensitiveness, splinter-like pains, craving for sour and strong things are very characteristic. Feeling as if wind were blowing on some part. The side of the body on which he lies at night becomes gradually insufferably painful; he must turn. Pellagra (material doses required). Syphilis after antispecific gross medication.

Mind. Anguish in the evening and night, with thoughts of suicide. The slightest cause irritates him. Dejected and sad. Ferocious. Hasty speech.

Head. Vertigo and headache, when shaking the head or riding. Boring pain in the right temple and in root of nose every morning. Scalp sensitive and sore. Humid scald-head itching and burning. Cold sweat on head.

Eyes. Ulcers on cornea. Iritis, with pus in anterior chamber; purulent conjunctivitis, with marked chemosis, profuse discharge, great sensitiveness to touch and air. Eyes and lids red and inflamed. Pain in the eyes, as if pulled back into the head. Boring pain in upper bones of the orbits. Eyeballs sore to touch. Objects appear red and too large. Vision obscured by reading; field reduced one-half. Bright circles before eyes. Hypopion.

Ears. Scurfs on and behind the ears. Discharge of fetid pus from the ears. Whizzing and throbbing in ears, with hardness of hearing. Deafness after scarlet fever. Pustules in auditory canal and auricle. Mastoiditis.

Nose. Sore, ulcerated. Soreness of nostrils, with catarrhal troubles. Sneezes every time he goes into a cold, dry wind, with running from nose, later, thick, offensive discharge. Stopped up every time he goes out into cold air. Smell like old cheese. Hay fever. (Hepar 1X will often start secretions and profuse drainage in stuffy colds.)

Face. Yellowish complexion. Middle of lower lip cracked. Vesicular erysipelas, with pricking in parts. Neuralgia of right side, extending in streak into temple, ear, alae, and lip. Pains in bones of face, especially when being touched. Ulcers in corners of mouth. Shooting in jaw on opening mouth.

Mouth. Ptyalism. Gums and mouth painful to touch and bleed readily.

Throat. When swallowing, sensation as if a plug and of a splinter in throat. Quinsy, with impending suppuration. Stitches in throat extending to the ear when swallowing. Hawking up of mucus.

Stomach. Longing for acids, wine, and strong tasting food. Aversion to fat food. Frequent eructations, without taste or smell. Distention of stomach, compelling one to loosen the clothing. Burning in stomach. Heaviness and pressure in stomach after a slight meal.

Abdomen. Stitching in region of liver when walking, coughing, breathing, or touching it. [Bry.; Merc.] Hepatitis, hepatic abscess; abdomen distended, tense; chronic abdominal affections.

Stool. Clay colored and soft. Sour, white, undigested, fetid. Loss of power to expel even a soft stool.

Urine. Voided slowly, without force: drops vertically, bladder weak. Seems as if some always remained. Greasy pellicle on urine. Bladder difficulties of old men. [Phos.; Sulph.]

Male. Herpes, sensitive, bleed easily. Ulcers externally on prepuce similar to chancre. [Nit-ac.] Excitement and emission without amorous fancies. Itching of glans, frenum, and scrotum. Suppurating inguinal glands. Figwarts of offensive odor. Humid soreness on genitals and between scrotum and thigh. Obstinate gonorrhea "does not get well."

Female. Discharge of blood from uterus. Itching of pudenda and nipples, worse during menses. Menses late and scanty. Abscesses of labia with great sensitiveness. Extremely offensive leucorrhea. Smells like old cheese. Profuse perspiration at the climacteric.

Respiratory. Loses voice and coughs when exposed to dry, cold wind. Hoarseness, with loss of voice. Cough troublesome when walking. Dry, hoarse cough. Cough excited whenever any part of the body gets cold or uncovered, or from eating anything cold. Croup with loose, rattling cough; worse in morning. Choking cough. Rattling, croaking cough; suffocative attacks; has to rise up and bend head backwards. Anxious, wheezing, moist breathing, asthma worse in dry cold air; better in damp. Palpitation of heart.

Extremities. Finger joints swollen; tendency to easy dislocation. Nail of great toe painful on slight pressure.

Skin. Abscesses; suppurating glands are very sensitive. Papules prone to suppurate and extend. Acne in youth. Suppurate with prickly pain. Easily bleed. Angioneurotic edema. Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates. Chapped skin, with deep cracks on hands and feet. Ulcers, with bloody suppuration smelling like old cheese. Ulcers very sensitive to contact, burning, stinging, easily bleeding. Sweats day and night without relief. "Cold sores" very sensitive. Cannot bear to be uncovered; wants to be wrapped up warmly. Sticking or pricking in afflicted parts. Putrid ulcers, surrounded by little pimples. Great sensitiveness to slightest touch. Chronic and recurring urticaria. Smallpox. Herpes circinatus. Constant offensive exhalation from the body.

Fever. Chilly in open air or from slightest draft. Dry heat at night. Profuse sweat; sour, sticky, offensive.

Modalities. Worse, from dry cold winds; cool air; slightest draft; from Mercury, touch; lying on painful side. Better, in damp weather, from wrapping head up, from warmth, after eating.

Relationship. Antidote: Bell.; Cham.; Sil.
     Compare: Acon.; Spong.; Staph.; Sil.; Sulph. Hepar antidotes bad effects from Mercury, Iodine, Potash, Cod-liver Oil. Removes the weakening effects of Ether.

Dose. First to two hundredth. The higher potencies may abort suppuration, the lower promote it. If it is necessary to hasten it, give 2X.

Hypericum
(St. John's Wort)

     The great remedy for injuries to nerves, especially of fingers, toes and nails. Crushed fingers, especially tips. Excessive painfulness is a guiding symptom to its use. Prevents lockjaw. Punctured wounds. Relieves pain after operations. Quite supersedes the use of Morphia after operations. (Helmuth.) Spasms after every injury. Has an important action on the rectum; hemorrhoids. Coccydynia. Spasmodic asthmatic attacks with changes of weather or before storms, better by copious expectoration. Injured nerves from bites of animals. Tetanus. Neuritis, tingling, burning and numbness. Constant drowsiness.

Mind. Feels as if lifted high in air, or anxiety lest he fall from heights. Mistakes in writing. Effects of shock. Melancholy.

Head. Heavy; feels as if touched by an icy cold hand. Throbbing in vertex; worse in close room. Brain seems compressed. Right side of face aches. Brain-fag and neurasthenia. Facial neuralgia and toothache of a pulling, tearing character, with sadness. Head feels longer: elongated to a point. In fractured skull, bone splinters. Brain feels alive. Pains in eyes and ears. Falling out of hair.

Stomach. Craving for wine. Thirst; nausea. Tongue coated white at base, tip clean. Feeling of lump in stomach. [Bry.]

Rectum. Urging, dry, dull, pressing pain. Hemorrhoids, with pain, bleeding, and tenderness.

Back. Pain in nape of neck. Pressure over sacrum. Spinal concussion. Coccyx injury from fall, with pain radiating up spine and down limbs. Jerking and twitching of muscles.

Extremities. Darting pain in shoulders. Pressure along ulnar side of arm. Cramp in calves. Pain in toes and fingers, especially in tips. Crawling in hand and feet. Lancinating pain in upper and lower limbs. Neuritis, with tingling, burning pain, numbness and flossy skin. Joints feel bruised. Hysterical joints. Tetanus. Traumatic neuralgia and neuritis.

Respiratory. Asthma worse foggy weather and relieved by profuse perspiration.

Skin. Hyperidrosis, sweating of scalp, worse in morning after sleep; falling of hair from injury; eczema of hands and face, intense itching, eruption seems to be under the skin. Herpes zoster. Old ulcers or sores in mouth when very sensitive. Lacerated wounds with much prostration from loss of blood.

Modalities. Worse, in cold; dampness; in a fog; in close room; least exposure; touch. Better, bending head backward.

Relationship. Compare: Led. (punched wounds and bites of animals); Arn.; Staph.; Calen.; Ruta; Coff.
Antidote: Ars.; Cham.

Dose. Tincture, to third potency.

Ignatia
(St. Ignatius Bean)

     Produces a marked hyperesthenia of all the senses, and a tendency to clonic spasms. Mentally, the emotional element is uppermost, and coordination of function is interfered with. Hence, it is one of the chief remedies for hysteria. It is especially adapted to the nervous temperament: women of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution. Rapid change of mental and physical condition, opposite to each other. Great contradictions. Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in mind or body, at the same time made worse by drinking coffee. The superficial and erratic character of its symptoms is most characteristic. Effects of grief and worry. Cannot bear tobacco. Pain is small, circumscribed spots. The plague. Hiccough and hysterical vomiting.

Mind. Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful. Not communicative. Sighing and sobbing. After shocks, grief, disappointment.

Head. Feels hollow, heavy; worse, stooping. Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side. Cramp-like pain over root of nose. Congestive headaches following anger or grief; worse, smoking or smelling tobacco, inclines head forward.

Eyes. Asthenopia, with spasms of lids and neuralgic pain about eyes. [Nat-m.] Flickering zigzags.

Face. Twitching of muscles of face and lips. Changes color when at rest.

Mouth. Sour taste. Easily bites inside of cheeks. Constantly full of saliva. Toothache; worse after drinking coffee and smoking.

Throat. Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed. Tendency to choke, globus hystericus. Sore throat; stitches when not swallowing; better, eating something solid. Stitches between acts of swallowing. Stitches extend to ear. [Hep.] Tonsils inflamed, swollen, with small ulcers. Follicular tonsillitis.

Stomach. Sour eructation. All-gone feeling in stomach; much flatulence; hiccough. Cramps in stomach; worse slightest contact. Averse to ordinary diet; longs for great variety of indigestible articles. Craving for acid things. Sinking in stomach, relieved by taking a deep breath.

Abdomen. Rumbling in bowels. Weak feeling in upper abdomen. Throbbing in abdomen. Colicky, griping pains in one or both sides of abdomen.

Rectum. Itching and stitching up the rectum. Prolapse. Stools pass with difficulty; painful constriction of anus after stool. Stitches in hemorrhoids during cough. Diarrhea from fright. Stitches from anus deep into rectum. Hemorrhage and pain; worse when stool is loose. Pressure as of a sharp instrument from within outward.

Urine. Profuse, watery. [Ph-ac.]

Respiratory. Dry, spasmodic cough in quick successive shocks. Spasm of glottis. [Calc.] Reflex coughs. Coughing increases the desire to cough. Much sighing. Hollow spasmodic cough, worse in the evening, little expectoration, leaving pain in trachea.

Female. Menses, black, too early, too profuse, or scanty. During menses great languor, with spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen. Feminine sexual frigidity. Suppression from grief.

Extremities. Jerking of limbs. Pain in Achilles tendon and calf. Ulcerative pain in soles.

Sleep. Very light. Jerking of limbs on going to sleep. Insomnia from grief, cares, with itching of arms and violent yawning. Dreams continuing a long time; troubling him.

Fever. Chill, with thirst; not relieved by external heat. During fever, itching; nettle rash all over body.

Skin. Itching, nettle rash. Very sensitive to draft of air. Excoriation, especially around vagina and mouth.

Modalities. Worse, in the morning, open air, after meals, coffee, smoking, liquids, external warmth. Better, while eating, change of position.

Relationship. Compare: Zinc.; Kali-p.; Sep.; Cimic.
     Complementary: Nat-m.
     Incompatible: Coff.; Nux-v.; Tab.
     Antidote: Puls.; Cham.; Cocc.

Dose. Sixth, totwo hundredth potency.

Ipecacuanha
(Ipecac Root)

     The chief action is on the ramifications of the pneumogastric nerve, producing spasmodic irritation in chest and stomach. Morphia habit. The principal feature of Ipecacuanha is its persistent nausea and vomiting, which form the chief guiding symptoms. Indicated after indigestible food, raisins, cakes, etc. Especially indicated in fat children and adults, who are feeble and catch cold in relaxing atmosphere; warm, moist weather. Spasmodic affections. Hemorrhages bright red and profuse.

Mind. Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not.

Head. Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to teeth and root of tongue.

Eyes. Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm of accommodation from irritable weakness of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from looking on moving objects.

Face. Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids.

Nose. Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.

Stomach. Tongue usually clean. Mouth, moist; much saliva. Constant nausea and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed, as if hanging down. Hiccough.

Abdomen. Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining pain so great that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; worse, around the navel. Body rigid; stretched out stiff.

Stool. Pitch-like, green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at navel. Dysenteric, slimy.

Female. Uterine hemorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting during pregnancy. Pain from navel to uterus. Menses too early and too profuse.

Respiratory. Dyspnea; constant constriction in chest. Asthma. Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza; wheezing cough. Cough incessant and violent, with every breath. Chest seems full of phlegm, but does not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. Suffocative cough; child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping cough, with nosebleed, and from mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Hemoptysis from slightest exertion. Hoarseness, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.

Fever. Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnea. Relapses from improper diet.

Sleep. With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep. [Ign.]

Extremities. Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.

Skin. Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Miliary rash.

Modalities. Worse, periodically; from veal, moist warm wind, lying down.

Relationship. Compare: Ars.; Cham.; Puls.
Antidote: Ars.; Chin.; Tab.
     Complementary: Cupr.; Arn.

Dose. Third to two hundredth potency.

Kali bichromicum
(Bichromate of Potassium)

     The special affinities of this drug are the mucous membrane of stomach, bowels, and air passages; bones and fibrous tissue. Kidneys, heart, and liver are also affected. Incipient parenchymatous; nephritis. Nephritis with gastric disturbances. Cirrhosis of liver. Anemia and absence of fever are characteristic. General weakness bordering on paralysis. It is especially indicated for fleshy, fat, light complexioned persons subject to catarrhs or with syphilitic or scrofulous history. Symptoms are worse in the morning; pains migrate quickly, rheumatic and gastric symptoms alternate. More adapted to subacute rather than the violent acute stage. Mucous membranes everywhere are affected. Catarrh of pharynx, larynx, bronchi and nose, and a tough, stringy, viscid secretion is produced, which condition is a very strong guiding symptom for this drug. Perforation of the septum. Chronic atonic catarrh. Polypus. Dilatation of stomach and heart.

Head. Vertigo with nausea when rising from seat. Headache over eyebrows, preceded by blurred vision. Aching and fullness in glabella. Semilateral headache in small spots, and from suppressed catarrh. Frontal pain; usually over one eye. Bones and scalp feel sore.

Eyes. Supraorbital neuralgia, right side. Eyelids burn, swollen, edematous. Discharge ropy and yellow. Ulcers on cornea; no pain or photophobia. Descemetitis, with only moderate irritation of eye. Croupous conjunctivitis; granular lids, with pannus. Iritis, with punctate deposits on inner surface of cornea. Slight pain, with severe ulceration or inflammation. [Con. opposite.]

Ears. Swollen, with tearing pains. Thick, yellow, stringy, fetid discharge. Sharp stitches in left ear.

Nose. Snuffles of children, especially fat, chubby babies. Pressure and pain at root of nose, and sticking pain in nose. Septum ulcerated; round ulcer. Fetid smell. Discharge thick, ropy, greenish yellow. Tough, elastic plugs from nose; leave a raw surface. Inflammation extends to frontal sinuses, with distress and fullness at root of nose. Dropping from posterior nares. Loss of smell. Much hawking. Inability to breathe through nose. Dryness. Coryza, with obstruction of nose. Violent sneezing. Profuse, watery nasal discharge. Chronic inflammation of frontal sinus with stopped-up sensation.

Face. Florid complexion. Blotchy, red appearance. Acne. Bones sensitive, especially beneath orbits.

Mouth. Dry; viscid saliva. Tongue mapped, red, shining, smooth, and dry, with dysentery; broad, flat, indented, thickly coated. Feeling of a hair on tongue.

Throat. Fauces red and inflamed. Dry and rough. Parotid glands swollen. Uvula relaxed, edematous, bladder-like. Pseudomembranous deposit on tonsils and soft palate. Burning extending to stomach. Aphthae. Diphtheria, with profound prostration and soft pulse. Discharge from mouth and throat, tough and stringy.

Stomach. Nausea and vomiting after beer. Load immediately after eating. Feels as if digestion had stopped. Dilatation of stomach. Gastritis. Round ulcer of stomach. Stitches in region of liver and spleen and through to spine. Dislikes water. Cannot digest meat. Desire for beer and acids. Gastric symptoms are relieved after eating, and the rheumatic symptoms reappear. Vomiting of bright yellow water.

Abdomen. Cutting pain in abdomen, soon after eating. Chronic intestinal ulceration. Soreness in right hypochondrium, fatty infiltration of liver and increase in soft fibrous tissue. Painful retraction, soreness and burning.

Stool. Jelly-like, gelatinous; worse, mornings. Dysentery; tenesmus, stools brown, frothy. Sensation of a plug in anus. Periodic constipation, with pain across the loins, and brown urine.

Urine. Burning in urethra. After urinating a drop seems to remain which cannot be expelled. Ropy mucus in urine. Urethra becomes clogged up. Congestion of kidneys; nephritis, with scanty, albuminous urine and casts. Pyelitis; urine mixed with epithelial cells, mucus, pus or blood. Hematochyluria.

Male. Itching and pain of penis, with pustules. Ulcers, with paroxysmal stitches; aggravated at night. Constriction at root of penis, at night on awakening. Syphilitic ulcers, with cheesy, tenacious exudation. Erections.

Female. Yellow, tenacious leucorrhea. Pruritus of vulva, with great burning and excitement. Prolapsus uteri; worse in hot weather.

Respiratory. Voice hoarse; worse, evening. Metallic, hacking cough. Profuse, yellow expectoration, very glutinous and sticky, coming out in long, stringy, and very tenacious mass. Tickling in larynx. Catarrhal laryngitis cough has a brassy sound. True membranous croup, extending to larynx and nares. Cough, with pain in sternum, extending to shoulders; worse when undressing. Pain at bifurcation of trachea on coughing; from mid sternum to back.

Heart. Dilatation, especially from coexisting kidney lesion. Cold feeling around heart.

Back. Cutting through loins; cannot walk; extends to groins. Pain in coccyx and sacrum extending up and down.

Extremities. Pains fly rapidly from one place to another. [Kali-s.; Puls.] Wandering pains, along the bones; worse cold. Left sided sciatica; better, motion. Bones feels sore and bruised. Very weak. Tearing pains in tibia; syphilitic rheumatism. Pain, swelling and stiffness and crackling of all joints. Soreness of heels when walking. Achilles tendon swollen and painful. Pains in small spots.

Skin. Acne. Papular eruptions. Ulcer with punched out edges, with tendency to penetrate and tenacious exudation. Pustular eruption, resembling smallpox, with burning pains. Itching with vesicular eruption.

Modalities. Better, from heat. Worse, beer, morning, hot weather, undressing.

Relationship. Compare: Hep.; Calc. In the production of false membranes compare: Sul-ac.; Ip.
Antidote: Ars.; Lach.

Dose. Third trituration, also thirtieth attenuation and higher.
     The lower preparations of this salt should not be kept too long.

Kali carbonicum
(Carbonate of Potassium)

     The weakness characteristic of all Potassium Salts is seen especially in this, with soft pulse, coldness, general depression, and very characteristic stitches, which may be felt in any part of the body, or in connection with any affection. All Kali pains are sharp and cutting; nearly all better by motion. Never use any Salts of Potash where there is fever (T. F. Allen). Sensitive to every atmospheric change, and intolerance of cold weather. One of the best remedies following labor. Miscarriage, for consequent debilitated states. Early morning aggravation is very characteristic. Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic tendencies. Sweat, backache, and weakness. Throbbing pains. Tendency to dropsy. Tubercular diathesis. Pains from within out, and of stinging character. "Giving out" sensation. Fatty degenerations. Stinging pains in muscles and internal parts. Twitching of muscles. Pain in small spot on left side. Hypothyroidism. Coxitis.

Mind. Despondent. Alternating moods. Very irritable. Full of fear and imaginations. Anxiety felt in stomach. Sensation as if bed were sinking. Never wants to be left alone. Never quiet or contended. Obstinate and hypersensitive to pain, noise, touch.

Head. Vertigo on turning. Headache from riding in cold wind. Headache comes on with yawning. Stitches in temples; aching in occiput, one sided, with nausea, on riding in carriage. Loose feeling in head. Great dryness of hair; falls out.

Eyes. Stitches in eyes. Spots, gauze, and black points before eyes. Lids stick together in morning. Swelling over upper lid, like little bags. Swelling of glabella between brows. Asthenopia. Weak sight from excessive sexual indulgence. On shutting eyes, painful sensation of light penetrating the brain.

Ears. Stitches in ears. Itching, cracking, ringing and roaring.

Nose. Nose stuffs up in warm room. Thick, fluent, yellow discharge. Postnasal dropping. Sore, scurfy nostrils; bloody nasal mucus. Crusty nasal openings. Nosebleed on washing face in morning. Ulcerated nostrils.

Mouth. Gums separate from teeth; pus oozes out. Pyorrhea. Aphthae. Tongue white. Much saliva constantly in mouth. Bad, slimy taste.

Throat. Dry, parched, rough. Sticking pain, as from a fish bone. Swallowing difficult; food goes down esophagus slowly. Mucous accumulation in the morning.

Stomach. Flatulence. Desire for sweets. Feeling of lump in pit of stomach. Gagging. Dyspepsia of old people; burning acidity, bloating. Gastric disorders from ice water. Sour eructations. Nausea; better lying down. Constant feeling as if stomach were full of water. Sour vomiting; throbbing and cutting in stomach. Disgust for food. Anxiety felt in stomach. Epigastrium sensitive externally. Easy choking when eating. Epigastric pain to back.

Abdomen. Stitches in region of liver. Old chronic liver troubles, with soreness. Jaundice and dropsy. Distention and coldness of abdomen. Pain from left hypochondrium through abdomen; must turn on right side before he can rise.

Rectum. Large, difficult stools, with stitching pain an hour before. Hemorrhoids, large, swollen, painful. Itching, ulcerated pimples around anus. Large discharge of blood with natural stool. Pain in hemorrhoids when coughing. Burning in rectum and anus. Easy prolapsus. [Graph.; Podo.] Itching. [Ign.]

Urine. Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate. Pressure on bladder long before urine comes. Involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing, etc.

Male. Complaints from coition. Deficient sexual instinct. Excessive emissions, followed by weakness.

Female. Menses early, profuse [Calc.] or too late, pale and scanty, with soreness about genitals; pains from back pass down through gluteal muscles, with cutting in abdomen. Pain through left labium, extending through abdomen to chest. Delayed menses in young girls, with chest symptoms or ascites. Difficult, first menses. Complaints after parturition. Uterine hemorrhage; constant oozing after copious flow, with violent backache, relieved by sitting and pressure.

Respiratory. Cutting pain in chest; worse lying on right side. Hoarseness and loss of voice. Dry, hard cough about 3 a.m., with stitching pains and dryness of pharynx. Bronchitis, whole chest is very sensitive. Expectoration scanty and tenacious, but increasing in morning and after eating; aggravated right lower chest and lying on painful side. Hydrothorax. Leaning forward relieves chest symptoms. Expectoration must be swallowed; cheesy taste; copious, offensive, lump. Coldness of chest. Wheezing. Cough with relaxed uvula. Tendency to tuberculosis; constant cold taking; better in warm climate.

Heart. Sensation as if heart were suspended. Palpitation and burning in heart region. Weak, rapid pulse; intermits, due to digestive disturbance. Threatened heart failure.

Back. Great exhaustion. Stitches in region of kidneys and right scapula. Small of back feels weak. Stiffness and paralytic feeling in back. Burning in spine. Severe backache during pregnancy, and after miscarriage. Hip disease. Pain in nates and thighs and hip joint. Lumbago with sudden sharp pains extending up and down back and to thighs.

Extremities. Backs and legs give out. Uneasiness, heaviness, and tearing in limbs and jerking. Tearing pains in limbs with swelling. Limbs sensitive to pressure. White swelling of knee. Tearing in arms from shoulder to wrist. Lacerating in wrist joint. Paralysis of old people, and dropsical affections. Limbs go to sleep easily. Tips of toes and fingers painful. Soles very sensitive. Itching of great toe, with pain. Pain from hip to knee. Pain in knees.

Skin. Burning as from a mustard plaster.

Sleep. Drowsy after eating. Wakes about two o'clock and cannot sleep again.

Modalities. Worse, after coition; in cold weather; from soup and coffee; in morning about three o'clock; lying on left and painful side. Better, in warm weather, though moist; during day, while moving about.

Relationship. Complementary: Carbo-v. (Lowness of vitality may suggest a preliminary course of Carbo to nurse up recuperation to the point that Kali carbonicum would come in helpfully.) Follows Nux often in stomach and bladder troubles.
     Compare: Calc.; Phos.; Lyc.; Bry.; Nat-m.; Sep.
Antidote: Coff.

Dose. Thirtieth and higher. Sixth trituration. Do not repeat too often. Use cautiously in old gouty cases, advanced Bright's and tuberculosis.

Kali muriaticum
(Chloride of Potassium)

     Although not proven, this remedy has a wide clinical use, through its introduction by Schuessler. It certainly is of great value in catarrhal affections, in subacute inflammatory states, fibrinous exudations, and glandular swellings. White or gray coating of base of tongue, and expectoration of thick, white phlegm, seem to be special guiding symptoms. Bursitis prepatellaris.

Head. Imagines he must starve. Headache, with vomiting. Crusta lactea. Dandruff.

Eyes. White mucus, purulent scabs. Superficial ulcer. Trachoma. Corneal opacities.

Ears. Chronic, catarrhal conditions of the middle ear. Glands about the ear swollen. Snapping and noises in the ear. Threatened mastoid. Great effusion about the auricle.

Nose. Catarrh; phlegm white, thick. Vault of pharynx covered with adherent crusts. Stuffy cold. Nosebleed. [Arn.; Bry.]

Face. Cheek swollen and painful.

Mouth. Aphthae; thrush; white ulcers in mouth. Swollen glands about jaw and neck. Coating of tongue grayish white, dryish, or slimy.

Throat. Follicular tonsillitis. Tonsils inflamed; enlarged so much, can hardly breathe. Grayish patches or spots in the throat and tonsils. Adherent crusts in vault of pharynx. "Hospital" sore throat. Eustachian catarrh.

Stomach. Fatty or rich food causes indigestion. Vomiting of white, opaque mucus; water gathers in the mouth. Pain in the stomach, with constipation. Bulimia; hunger disappears by drinking water.

Abdomen. Abdominal tenderness and swelling. Flatulence. Thread worms, causing itching at the anus.

Stool. Constipation; light colored stools. Diarrhea, after fatty food; clay colored, white, or slimy stools. Dysentery; purging, with slimy stools. Hemorrhoids; bleeding; blood dark and thick; fibrinous, clotted.

Female. Menstruation too late or suppressed, checked or too early; excessive discharge; dark clotted, or tough, black blood, like tar. Leucorrhea; discharge of milky white mucus, thick, nonirritating, bland. Morning sickness, with vomiting of white phlegm. Bunches in breast feel quite soft and are tender.

Respiratory. Loss of voice; hoarseness. Asthma, with gastric derangements; mucus white and hard to cough up. Loud, noisy stomach cough; cough short, acute, and spasmodic, like whooping cough; expectoration thick and white. Rattling sounds of air passing through thick, tenacious mucus in the bronchi; difficult to cough up.

Back and Extremities. Rheumatic fever; exudation and swelling around the joints. Rheumatic pains felt only during motion, or increased by it. Nightly rheumatic pains; worse from warmth of bed; lightning-like from small of back to feet; must get out of bed and sit up. Hands get stiff while writing.

Skin. Acne, erythema, and eczema, with vesicles containing thick, white contents. Dry, flour-like scales on the skin. [Ars.] Bursitis.

Modalities. Worse, rich food, fats, motion.

Relationship. Compare: Belladonna which Kali muriaticum follows well in catarrhal and hypertrophic conditions. Bry.; Merc.; Puls.; Sulph.

Dose. Third to twelfth potency.
     External use in skin affections with burning sensation.

Kali phosphoricum
(Phosphate of Potassium)

     One of the greatest nerve remedies. Prostration. Weak and tired. Especially adapted to the young. Marked disturbance of the sympathetic nervous system. Conditions arising from want of nerve power, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression, are wonderfully improved by this remedy. The causes are usually excitement, overwork and worry. Besides, it corresponds to states of adynamia and decay, gangrenous conditions. In these two directions it has won many clinical laurels. Remember it in the treatment of suspected malignant tumors. After removal of cancer when in healing process skin is drawn tight over the wound. Delayed labor.

Mind. Anxiety, nervous dread, lethargy. Indisposition to meet people. Extreme lassitude and depression. Very nervous. Starts easily, irritable. Brain-fag; hysteria; night terrors. Somnambulance. Loss of memory. Slightest labor seems a heavy task. Great despondency about business. Shyness; disinclined to converse.

Head. Occipital headache; better, after rising. Vertigo, from lying, on standing up, from sitting, and when looking upward. Cerebral anaemia. Headache of students, and those worn out by fatigue. Headaches are relieved by gentle motion. Headache, with weary, empty, gone feeling at stomach. [Ign.; Sep.]

Eyes. Weakness of sight; loss of perceptive power; after diphtheria; from exhaustion. Drooping of eyelids. [Caust.]

Ears. Humming and buzzing in the ears.

Nose. Nasal disease, with offensive odor; fetid discharge.

Face. Livid and sunken, with hollow eyes. Right sided neuralgia, relieved by cold applications.

Mouth. Breath offensive, fetid. Tongue coated brownish, like mustard. Excessively dry, in the morning. Toothache, with easily bleeding gums; they have a bright red seam on them. Gums spongy and receding. [Caps.; Ham.; Lach.]

Throat. Gangrenous sore throat. Paralysis of the vocal cords.

Stomach. A nervous "gone" sensation at the pit of the stomach. [Ign.; Sep.; Sulph.] Feels seasick without nausea.

Abdomen. Diarrhea; foul, putrid odor; occasioned by fright, with depression and exhaustion. Diarrhea while eating. Dysentery; stools consist of pure blood; patient becomes delirious; abdomen swells. Cholera; stools have the appearance of rice water. [Verat.; Ars.] Prolapsus recti. [Ign.; Podo.]

Female. Menstruation too late or too scanty in pale, irritable, sensitive, lachrymose females. Too profuse discharge, deep red or blackish red, thin and not coagulating; sometimes with offensive odor. Feeble and ineffectual labor pains.

Male. Nocturnal emissions; sexual power diminished; utter prostration after coitus. [Kali-c.]

Urine. Enuresis. Incontinence of urine. Bleeding from the urethra. Very yellow urine.

Respiratory. Asthma; least food aggravates. Short breath on going upstairs. Cough; yellow expectoration.

Extremities. Paralytic lameness in back and extremities. Exertion aggravates. Pains, with depression, and subsequent exhaustion.

Fever. Subnormal temperature.

Modalities. Worse, excitement, worry, mental and physical exertion; eating, cold, early morning. Better, warmth, rest, nourishment.

Relationship. Compare: Zinc.; Gels.; Cimic.; Lach.

Dose. Third to twelfth trituration. The highest potencies seem to be indicated in certain cases.

Boericke's Materia Medica

Acon.	Aconitum napellus (Monkshood)
Agar.	Agaricus muscarius (Toadstool)
All-c.	Allium cepa (Red Onion)
Anac.	Anacardium (Marking Nut)
Ant-c.	Antimonium crudum (Sulphide of Antimony)
Ant-t.	Antimonium tartaricum (Tartrate of Antimony)
Apis	Apis (Honeybee)
Arg-n.	Argentum nitricum (Nitrate of Silver)
Arn.	Arnica (Leopard's Bane)
Ars.	Arsenicum album (White Oxide of Arsenic)
Bapt.	Baptisia (Wild Indigo)
Bar-c.	Baryta carbonica (Carbonate of Baryta)
Bell.	Belladonna (Deadly Nightshade)
Bell-p.	Bellis perennis (Daisy)
Berb.	Berberis (Barberry)
Bor.	Borax (Borate of Sodium)
Bry.	Bryonia (Wild Hops)
Calc.	Calcarea carbonica (Carbonate of Lime)
Calc-f.	Calcarea fluorica (Fluoride of Lime)
Calc-p.	Calcarea phosphorica (Phosphate of Lime)
Calen.	Calendula (Marigold)
Canth.	Cantharis (Spanish Fly)
Caps.	Capsicum (Cayenne Pepper)
Carbo-an.	Carbo animalis (Animal Charcoal)
Carbo-v.	Carbo vegetabilis (Vegetable Charcoal)
Carb-ac.	Carbolicum acidum (Carbolic Acid)
Caul.	Caulophyllum (Blue Cohosh)
Caust.	Causticum (Hahnemann's Potassium Hydrate)
Cham.	Chamomilla (German Chamomile)
Chin.	China officinalis (Peruvian Bark / Cinchona)
Cimic.	Cimicifuga (Black Snakeroot)
Cina	Cina (Wormseed)
Cocc.	Cocculus (Indian Cockle)
Coc-c.	Coccus cacti (Cochineal)
Coff.	Coffea cruda (Unroasted Coffee)
Colch.	Colchicum (Meadow Saffron)
Coloc.	Colocynthis (Bitter Cucumber)
Con.	Conium (Poison Hemlock)
Cupr.	Cuprum metallicum (Copper)
Dios.	Dioscorea (Wild Yam)
Dros.	Drosera (Sundew)
Dulc.	Dulcamara (Bittersweet)
Eup-pur.	Eupatorium purpureum (Queen of the Meadow)
Euphr.	Euphrasia (Eyebright)
Ferr.	Ferrum metallicum (Iron)
Ferr-p.	Ferrum phosphoricum (Phosphate of Iron)
Gels.	Gelsemium (Yellow Jasmine)
Glon.	Glonoin (Nitroglycerine)
Graph.	Graphites (Plumbago)
Ham.	Hamamelis (Witch Hazel)
Hep.	Hepar sulphuris (Hahnemann's Calcium Sulphide)
Hyper.	Hypericum (St. John's Wort)
Ign.	Ignatia (St. Ignatius Bean)
Ip.	Ipecacuanha (Ipecac Root)
Kali-bi.	Kali bichromicum (Bichromate of Potassium)
Kali-c.	Kali carbonicum (Carbonate of Potassium)
Kali-m.	Kali muriaticum (Chloride of Potassium)
Kali-p.	Kali phosphoricum (Phosphate of Potassium)
Kali-s.	Kali sulphuricum (Sulphate of Potassium)
Lach.	Lachesis (Bushmaster Venom)
Led.	Ledum (Marsh Tea)
Lyc.	Lycopodium (Club Moss)
Mag-c.	Magnesia carbonica (Carbonate of Magnesia)
Mag-m.	Magnesia muriatica (Chloride of Magnesia)
Mag-p.	Magnesia phosphorica (Phosphate of Magnesia)
Merc.	Mercurius vivus (Mercury)
Naja	Naja (Cobra Venom)
Nat-c.	Natrum carbonicum (Carbonate of Sodium)
Nat-m.	Natrum muriaticum (Chloride of Sodium)
Nat-p.	Natrum phosphoricum (Phosphate of Sodium)
Nat-s.	Natrum sulphuricum (Sulphate of Sodium)
Nit-ac.	Nitricum acidum (Nitric Acid)
Nux-v.	Nux vomica (Poison Nut)
Op.	Opium (Poppy)
Petr.	Petroleum (Crude Rock Oil)
Ph-ac.	Phosphoricum acidum (Phosphoric Acid)
Phos.	Phosphorus (Phosphorus)
Phyt.	Phytolacca (Pokeroot)
Podo.	Podophyllum (May Apple)
Psor.	Psorinum (Scabies Vesicle)
Puls.	Pulsatilla (Wind Flower)
Pyrog.	Pyrogenium (Artificial Sepsin)
Rheum	Rheum (Rhubarb)
Rhod.	Rhododendron (Snow Rose)
Rhus-t.	Rhus toxicodendron (Poison Ivy)
Rumx.	Rumex (Yellow Dock)
Ruta	Ruta (Rue)
Sars.	Sarsaparilla (Smilax)
Sep.	Sepia (Cuttlefish Ink)
Sil.	Silica (Pure Flint)
Spong.	Spongia tosta (Roasted Sponge)
Staph.	Staphisagria (Stavesacre)
Sulph.	Sulphur (Sublimated Sulphur)
Sul-ac.	Sulphuricum acidum (Sulphuric Acid)
Symph.	Symphytum (Comfrey)
Tab.	Tabacum (Tobacco)
Thuj.	Thuja (Arbor Vitae)
Urt-u.	Urtica urens (Stinging Nettle)
Verat.	Veratrum album (White Hellebore)
Zinc.	Zincum metallicum (Zinc)

Lachesis
(Bushmaster Venom)

     Like all snake poisons, Lachesis decomposes the blood, rendering it more fluid; hence a hemorrhagic tendency is marked. Purpura, septic states, diphtheria, and other low forms of disease, when the system is thoroughly poisoned and the prostration is profound. The modalities are most important in guiding to the remedy. Delirium tremens with much trembling and confusion. Very important during the climacteric and for patients of a melancholic disposition. Ill effects of suppressed discharges. Diphtheritic paralysis. Diphtheria carriers. Sensation of tension in various parts. Cannot bear anything tight anywhere.

Mind. Great loquacity. Amative. Sad in the morning; no desire to mix with the world. Restless and uneasy; does not wish to attend to business; wants to be off somewhere all the time. Jealous. Mental labor best performed at night. Euthanasia. Suspicious; nightly delusion of fire. Religious insanity. [Verat.] Derangement of the time sense.

Head. Pain through head on awaking. Pain at root of nose. Pressure and burning on vertex. Waves of pain; worse after moving. Sun headaches. With headache, flickerings, dim vision, very pale face. Vertigo. Relieved by onset of a discharge (menses or nasal catarrh).

Eyes. Defective vision after diphtheria, extrinsic muscles too weak to maintain focus. Sensation as if eyes were drawn together by cords which were tied in a knot at root of nose.

Ears. Tearing pain from zygoma into ear; also with sore throat. Ear wax hard, dry.

Nose. Bleeding, nostrils sensitive. Coryza, preceded by headache. Hay asthma; paroxysms of sneezing. [Sil.]

Face. Pale. Trifacial neuralgia, left side, heat running up into head. [Phos.] Tearing pain in jaw bones. [Phos.] Purple, mottled, puffed; looks swollen, bloated, jaundiced, chlorotic.

Mouth. Gums swollen, spongy, bleed. Tongue swollen, burns, trembles, red, dry and cracked at tip, catches on teeth. Aphthous and denuded spots with burning and rawness. Nauseous taste. Teeth ache, pain extends to ears. Pain in facial bones.

Throat. Sore, worse left side, swallowing liquids. Quinsy. Septic parotiditis. Dry, intensely swollen, externally and internally. Diphtheria; membrane dusky, blackish; pain aggravated by hot drinks; chronic sore throat, with much hawking; mucus sticks, and cannot be forced up or down. Very painful; worse slightest pressure, touch is even more annoying. In diphtheria, etc., the trouble began on the left side. Tonsils purplish. Purple, livid color of throat. Feeling as if something was swollen which must be swallowed; worse, swallowing saliva or liquids. Pain into ear. Collar and neckband must be very loose.

Stomach. Craving for alcohol, oysters. Any food causes distress. Pit of stomach painful to touch. Hungry, cannot wait for food. Gnawing pressure made better by eating, but returning in a few hours. Perceptible trembling movement in the epigastric region. Empty swallowing more painful than swallowing solids.

Abdomen. Liver region sensitive, cannot bear anything around waist. Especially suitable to drunkards. Abdomen tympanitic, sensitive, painful. [Bell.]

Stool. Constipated, offensive stool. Anus feels tight, as if nothing could go through it. Pain darting up the rectum every time he sneezes or coughs. Hemorrhage from bowels like charred straw, black particles. Hemorrhoids protrude, become constricted, purplish. Stitches in them on sneezing or coughing. Constant urging in rectum, not for stool.

Female. Climacteric troubles, palpitation, flashes of heat, hemorrhages, vertex headache, fainting spells; worse, pressure of clothes. Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow. Left ovary very painful and swollen, indurated. Mammae inflamed, bluish. Coccyx and sacrum pain, especially on rising from sitting posture. Acts especially well at beginning and close of menstruation.

Male. Intense excitement of sexual organs.

Respiratory. Upper part of windpipe very susceptible to touch. Sensation of suffocation and strangulation on lying down, particularly when anything is around throat; compels patient to spring from bed and rush for open window. Spasm of glottis; feels as if something ran from neck to larynx. Feels he must take a deep breath. Cramp-like distress in precordial region. Cough; dry, suffocative fits, tickling. Little secretion and much sensitiveness; worse, pressure on larynx, after sleep, open air. Breathing almost stops on falling asleep. Larynx painful to touch. Sensation as of a plug [Anac.] which moves up and down, with a short cough.

Heart. Palpitation, with fainting spells, especially during climacteric. Constricted feeling causing palpitation, with anxiety. Cyanosis. Irregular beats.

Back. Neuralgia of coccyx, worse rising from sitting posture; must sit perfectly still. Pain in neck, worse cervical region. Sensation of threads stretched from back to arms, legs, eyes, etc.

Extremities. Sciatica, right side, better lying down. Pain in tibia (may follow sore throat.) Shortening of tendons.

Sleep. Patient sleeps into an aggravation. Sudden starting when falling asleep. Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep. [Bell.; Op.] Wide awake in evening.

Fever. Chilly in back; feet icy cold; hot flushes and hot perspiration. Paroxysm returns after acids. Intermittent fever every spring.

Skin. Hot perspiration, bluish, purplish appearance. Boils, carbuncles, ulcers, with bluish, purple surroundings. Dark blisters. Bedsores, with black edges. Blue-black swellings. Pyemia; dissecting wounds. Purpura, with intense prostration. Senile erysipelas. Wens. Cellulitis. Varicose ulcers.

Modalities. Worse, after sleep. [Kali-bi.] Lachesis sleeps into aggravation; ailments that come on during sleep [Calc.]; left side, in the spring, warm bath, pressure or constriction, hot drinks. Closing eyes. Better, appearance of discharges, warm applications.

Relationship. Antidote: Ars.; Merc.; Heat; Alcohol; Salt.
     Complementary: Lyc.; Hep.
     Incompatible: Carb-ac.
     Compare: Nat-m.; Nit-ac.; Naja

Dose. Eighth to two hundredth potency. Doses ought not be repeated too frequently. If well indicated, a single dose should be allowed to exhaust its action.

Ledum
(Marsh Tea)

     Affects especially the rheumatic diathesis, going through all the changes, from functional pain to altered secretions and deposits of solid, earthy matter in the tissues. The Ledum rheumatism begins in feet, and travels upward. It affects also the skin, producing an eruption like Poison Oak, and is antidotal thereto, as well as to stings of insects. There is a general lack of animal heat, and yet heat of bed is intolerable. For punctured wounds, produced by sharp-pointed instruments or bites, particularly if the wounded parts are cold, this is the remedy. Tetanus with twitching of muscles near wound.

Head. Vertigo when walking, with tendency to fall to one side. Distress when head is covered. Nosebleed. [Bry.]

Eyes. Aching in eyes. Extravasation of blood in lids, conjunctiva, aqueous or vitreous. Contused wounds. Cataract with gout.

Face. Red pimples on forehead and cheeks; stinging when touched. Crusty eruption around nose and mouth.

Mouth. Dry, retching with eructation. Musty taste with catarrhal affection.

Respiratory. Burning in nose. Cough, with bloody expectoration. Dyspnea; chest feels constricted. Suffocative arrest of breathing. Pain along trachea. Bronchitis with emphysema of aged. Oppressive constriction of chest. Tickling in larynx; spasmodic cough. Hemoptysis, alternating with rheumatism. Chest hurts when touched. Whooping cough; spasmodic, double inspiration with sobbing.

Rectum. Anal fissures. Hemorrhoidal pain.

Extremities. Gouty pains shoot all through the foot and limb, and in joints, but especially small joints. Swollen, hot, pale. Throbbing in right shoulder. Pressure in shoulder, worse motion. Cracking in joints; worse, warmth of bed. Gouty nodosities. Ball of great toe swollen. Rheumatism begins in lower limbs and ascends. Ankles swollen. Soles painful, can hardly step on them. [Ant-c.; Lyc.] Easy spraining of ankle.

Fever. Coldness, want of animal heat. Sensation as of cold water over parts; general coldness with heat of face.

Skin. Acne on forehead, sticking pain therein. Eczema (facial). Itching of feet and ankles; worse, scratching and warmth of bed. Ecchymosis. Long discoloration after injuries. Carbuncles. Antidote to Rhus poisoning. [Anac.]

Modalities. Better, from cold, putting feet in cold water. Worse, at night, and from heat of bed.

Relationship. Compare: Ledum antidotes spider poisons. Ruta; Ham.; Bell-p.; Arn.

Dose. Third to thirtieth potency.

Lycopodium
(Club Moss)

     This drug is inert until the spores are crushed. Its wonderful medicinal properties are only disclosed by trituration and succussion.
     In nearly all cases where Lycopodium is the remedy, some evidence of urinary or digestive disturbance will be found. Corresponds to Grauvogle's carbonitrogenoid constitution, the noneliminative lithemic. Lycopodium is adapted more especially to ailments gradually developing, functional power weakening, with failures of the digestive powers, where the function of the liver is seriously disturbed. Atony. Malnutrition. Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc.; also precocious, weakly children. Symptoms characteristically run from right to left, acts especially on right side of body, and are worse from about 4 to 8 p.m. In kidney affections, red sand in urine, backache, in renal region; worse before urination. Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm. Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power. Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases. Carcinoma. Emaciation. Debility in morning. Marked regulating influence upon the glandular (sebaceous) secretions. Pre-senility. Ascites, in liver disease. Lycopodium patient is thin, withered, full of gas and dry. Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities. Pains come and go suddenly. Sensitive to noise and odors.

Mind. Melancholy, afraid to be alone. Little things annoy. Extremely sensitive. Averse to undertaking new things. Headstrong and haughty when sick. Loss of self-confidence. Hurried when eating. Constant fear of breaking down under stress. Apprehensive. Weak memory, confused thoughts; spells or writes wrong words and syllables. Failing brainpower. [Anac.; Phos.; Bar-c.] Cannot bear to see anything new. Cannot read what he writes. Sadness in morning on awaking.

Head. Shakes head without apparent cause. Twists face and mouth. Pressing headache on vertex; worse from 4 to 8 p.m. and from lying down or stooping, if not eating regularly. Throbbing headache after every paroxysm of coughing. Headaches over eyes in severe colds; better, uncovering. [Sulph.] Vertigo in morning on rising. Pain in temples, as if they were screwed toward each other. Tearing pain in occiput; better, fresh air. Great falling out of hair. Eczema; moist oozing behind ears. Deep furrows on forehead. Premature baldness and gray hair.

Eyes. Styes on lids near internal canthus. Day blindness. Night blindness more characteristic. Sees only half of an object. Ulceration and redness of lids. Eyes half open during sleep.

Ears. Thick, yellow, offensive discharge. Eczema about and behind ears. Otorrhea and deafness with or without tinnitus; after scarlatina. Humming and roaring with hardness of hearing; every noise causes peculiar echo in ear.

Nose. Sense of smell very acute. Feeling of dryness posteriorly. Scanty excoriating, discharge anteriorly. Ulcerated nostrils. Crusts and elastic plugs. [Kali-bi.] Fluent coryza. Nose stopped up. Snuffles; child starts from sleep rubbing nose. Fan-like motion of alae nasi. [Phos.]

Face. Grayish yellow color of face, with blue circles around eyes. Withered, shriveled, and emaciated; copper colored eruption. Dropping of lower jaw, in typhoid fever. [Lach.; Op.] Itching; scaly herpes in face and corner of mouth.

Mouth. Teeth excessively painful to touch. Toothache, with swelling of cheeks; relieved by warm application. Dryness of mouth and tongue, without thirst. Tongue dry, black, cracked, swollen; oscillates to and fro. Mouth waters. Blisters on tongue. Bad odor from mouth.

Throat. Dryness of throat, without thirst. Food and drink regurgitates through nose. Inflammation of throat, with stitches on swallowing; better, warm drinks. Swelling and suppuration of tonsils. Ulceration of tonsils, beginning on right side. Diphtheria; deposits spread from right to left; worse, cold drinks. Ulceration of vocal bands. Tubercular laryngitis, especially when ulceration commences.

Stomach. Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food, cabbage, beans, etc. Excessive hunger. Aversion to bread, etc. Desire for sweet things. Food tastes sour. Sour eructations. Great weakness of digestion. Bulimia, with much bloating. After eating, pressure in stomach, with bitter taste in mouth. Eating ever so little creates fullness. Cannot eat oysters. Rolling of flatulence. [Chin.; Carb-ac.] Wakes at night feeling hungry. Hiccough. Incomplete burning eructations rise only to pharynx, there burn for hours. Likes to take food and drink hot. Sinking sensation; worse night.

Abdomen. Immediately after a light meal, abdomen is bloated, full. Constant sense of fermentation in abdomen, like yeast working; upper left side. Hernia, right side. Liver sensitive. Brown spots on abdomen. Dropsy, due to hepatic disease. Hepatitis, atrophic form of nutmeg liver. Pain shooting across lower abdomen from right to left.

Stool. Diarrhea. Inactive intestinal canal. Ineffectual urging. Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete. Hemorrhoids; very painful to touch, aching.

Urine. Pain in back before urinating; ceases after flow; slow in coming, must strain. Retention. Polyuria during the night. Heavy red sediment. Child cries before urinating. [Bor.]

Male. No erectile power; impotence. Premature emission. Enlarged prostate. Condylomata.

Female. Menses too late; last too long, too profuse. Vagina dry. Coition painful. Right ovarian pain. Varicose veins of pudenda. Leucorrhea, acrid, with burning in vagina. Discharge of blood from genitals during stool.

Respiratory. Tickling cough. Dyspnea. Tensive, constrictive, burning pain in chest. Cough worse going down hill. Cough deep, hollow. Expectorations gray, thick, bloody, purulent, salty. [Ars.; Phos.; Puls.] Night cough, tickling as from Sulphur fumes. Catarrh of the chest in infants, seems full of mucus rattling. Neglected pneumonia, with great dyspnea, flaying of alae nasae and presence of mucous rales.

Heart. Aneurism. [Bar-c.] Aortic disease. Palpitation at night. Cannot lie on left side.

Back. Burning between scapulae as of hot coals. Pain in small of back.

Extremities. Numbness, also drawing and tearing in limbs, especially while at rest or at night. Heaviness of arms. Tearing in shoulder and elbow joints. One foot hot, the other cold. Chronic gout, with chalky deposits in joints. Profuse sweat of the feet. Pain in heel on treading as from a pebble. Painful callosities on soles; toes and fingers contracted. Sciatica, worse right side. Cannot lie on painful side. Hands and feet numb. Right foot hot, left cold. Cramps in calves and toes at night in bed. Limbs go to sleep. Twitching and jerking.

Fever. Chill between 3 and 4 p.m., followed by sweat. Icy coldness. Feels as if lying on ice. One chill is followed by another. [Calc.; Sil.; Hep.]

Sleep. Drowsy during day. Starting in sleep. Dreams of accidents.

Skin. Ulcerates. Abscesses beneath skin; worse warm applications. Hives; worse, warmth. Violent itching; fissured eruptions. Acne. Chronic eczema associated with urinary, gastric and hepatic disorders; bleeds easily. Skin becomes thick and indurated. Varicose veins, nevi, erectile tumors. Brown spots, freckles worse on left side of face and nose. Dry, shrunken, especially palms; hair becomes prematurely gray. Dropsies. Offensive secretions; viscid and offensive perspiration, especially of feet and axilla. Psoriasis.

Modalities. Worse, right side, from right to left, from above downward, 4 to 8 p.m.; from heat or warm room, hot air, bed. Warm applications, except throat and stomach which are better from warm drinks. Better, by motion, after midnight, from warm food and drink, on getting cold, from being uncovered.

Relationship. Complementary: Lycopodium acts with special benefit after Calcarea and Sulphur. Graph.; Lach.
     Antidote: Puls.; Caust.
     Compare: (Carbonitrogenoid Constitution: Sulph.; Rhus-t.; Urt-u.; Merc.; Hep.); Ant-c.; Nat-m.; Bry.; Nux-v.

Dose. Both the lower and the highest potencies are credited with excellent results. For purposes of aiding elimination the second and third attenuation of the tincture, a few drops, 3 times a day, have proved efficacious, otherwise the sixth to two hundredth potency, and higher, in not too frequent doses.

Magnesia carbonica
(Carbonate of Magnesia)

     Gastrointestinal catarrh, with marked acidity. Often used with advantage for complaints arising in people who have been taking this drug to sweeten the stomach. Is frequently indicated in children; whole body smells sour, and disposed to boils. Broken-down, "worn-out" women, with uterine and climacteric disorders. With numbness and distention in various parts and nerve prostration. Sensitive to the least start, noise, touch, etc. Affections of the antrum of Highmore. Effects of shock, blows, mental distress. Sense of numbness; nerve prostration; tendency to constipation after nervous strain; sensitive to least touch, it causes starting, or cold winds or weather or from excess of care and worry with constipation and heaviness. Intense neuralgic pains.

Head. Sticking pain in the side of the head on which he lies, as if the hair was pulled; worse, mental exertion. Itching of scalp worse in damp weather. Pain above margin of right orbit. Black motes before eyes.

Ears. Diminished hearing. Deafness; comes suddenly and varies. Numbness of outer ear. Feeling of distention of middle ear. Subdued tinnitus.

Face. Tearing pain in one side; worse, quiet; must move about. Toothache, especially during pregnancy; worse at night; worse, cold and quiet. Teeth feel too long. Ailments from cutting wisdom teeth. Pain in malar bone, worse during rest, night. Swelling of malar bone with pulsating pain, worse exposure to cold wind.

Mouth. Dry at night. Sour taste. Vesicular eruption; bloody saliva. Sticking pain in throat; hawking up fetid, pea colored particles.

Stomach. Desire for fruits, acids, and vegetables. Eructations sour, and vomiting of bitter water. Craving for meat.

Abdomen. Rumbling, gurgling. Dragging towards pelvis. Very heavy; contractive, pinching pain in right iliac region.

Stool. Preceded by griping, colicky pain. Green, watery, frothy, like a frog pond's scum. Bloody mucous stools. Milk passes undigested in nursing children. Sour, with tenesmus. [Rheum] Constipation after mental shock or severe nervous strain.

Female. Sore throat before menses appear. Before menses, coryza and nasal stoppage. Menses too late and scanty, thick, dark, like pitch; mucous leucorrhea. Menses flow only in sleep; more profuse at night, or when lying down; cease when walking.

Respiratory. Tickling cough, with salty, bloody expectoration. Constrictive pains in chest, with dyspnea. Soreness in chest during motion.

Extremities. Tearing in shoulders as if dislocated. Right shoulder painful, cannot raise it. Whole body feels tired and painful, especially legs and feet. Swelling in bend of knee.

Skin. Earthy, sallow and parchment-like; emaciation. Itching vesicles on hands and fingers. Nodosities under skin. Sore; sensitive to cold.

Fever. Chilly in evening. Fever at night. Sour, greasy perspiration.

Sleep. Unrefreshing; more tired on rising than on retiring.

Modalities. Worse, warmth of bed; change of temperature; cold wind or weather; every three weeks; rest. Better, warm air; walking in open air.

Relationship. Antidote: Ars.; Merc.
     Complementary: Cham.
     Compare: Rheum

Dose. Third to thirtieth potency.

Magnesia muriatica
(Chloride of Magnesia)

     A liver remedy with pronounced characteristic constipation. Chronic liver affections with tenderness and pain, extending to spine and epigastrium, worse after food. Especially adapted to diseases of women, with a long history of indigestion and uterine disease; children who cannot digest milk. Evil effects of sea bathing.

Head. Sensitive to noise; bursting headache; worse, motion, open air; better, pressure, and wrapping up warmly. [Sil.] Much sweating of head. [Calc.; Sil.] Facial neuralgia pains, dull, aching, worse damp weather, slightest draft, better pressure heat.

Nose. Nostrils ulcerated. Coryza. Nose stopped and fluent. Loss of smell and taste, following catarrh. Cannot lie down. Must breathe through mouth.

Mouth. Blisters on lips. Gums swollen, bleed easily. Tongue feels burnt and scalded. Throat dry, with hoarseness.

Stomach. Appetite poor, bad taste in mouth. Eructations like rotten eggs. Continued rising of white froth into mouth. Cannot digest milk. Urine can be passed only by pressing abdominal muscles.

Abdomen. Pressing pain in liver; worse lying on right side. Liver enlarged with bloating of abdomen; yellow tongue. Congenital scrotal hernia. Must use abdominal muscles to enable him to urinate.

Urine. Urine difficult to void. Bladder can only be emptied by straining and pressure.

Bowels. Constipation of infants during dentition; only passing small quantity; stools knotty, like sheep's dung, crumbling at verge of anus. Painful smarting hemorrhoids.

Female. Menses black, clotted. Pain in back and thighs. Metrorrhagia; worse at night. Great excitement at every period. Leucorrhea with every stool and after exercise. Tinea ciliaris, eruptions in face and forehead worse before menses.

Heart. Palpitation and cardiac pain while sitting; better by moving about. [Gels.] Functional cardiac affections with liver enlargement.

Respiratory. Spasmodic dry cough; worse forepart of night, with burning and sore chest.

Extremities. Pain in back and hips; in arms and legs. Arms "go to sleep" when waking in morning.

Sleep. Sleep during day; restless at night on account of heat and shock; anxious dreams.

Modalities. Worse, immediately after eating, lying on right side; from sea bathing. Better, from pressure, motion; open air, except headache.

Relationship. Antidote: Cham.
     Compare: Nat-m.; Puls.; Sep.

Dose. 5 drops of tincture. Third to two hundredth potency.

Magnesia phosphorica
(Phosphate of Magnesia)

     The great antispasmodic remedy. Cramping of muscles with radiating pains. Neuralgic pains relieved by warmth. Especially suited to tired, languid, exhausted subjects. Indisposition for mental exertion. Goitre.

Mind. Laments all the time about the pain. Inability to think clearly. Sleepless on account of indigestion.

Head. Vertigo on moving, falls forward on closing eyes, better walking in open air. Aches after mental labor, with chilliness; always better warmth. [Sil.] Sensation as if contents were liquid, as if parts of brain were changing places, as of a cap on head.

Eyes. Supraorbital pains; worse, right side; relieved by warmth applied externally. Increased lachrymation. Twitching of lids. Nystagmus, strabismus, ptosis. Eyes hot, tired, vision blurred, colored lights before eyes.

Ears. Severe neuralgic pain; worse behind right ear; worse, by going into cold air, and washing face and neck with cold water.

Mouth. Toothache; better by heat and hot liquids. Ulceration of teeth, with swelling of glands of face, throat and neck, and swelling of tongue. Complaints of teething children. Spasms without febrile symptoms.

Throat. Soreness and stiffness, especially right side; parts seem puffy, with chilliness, and aching all over.

Stomach. Hiccough, with retching day and night. Thirst for very cold drinks.

Abdomen. Enteralgia, relieved by pressure. Flatulent colic, forcing patient to bend double; relieved by rubbing, warmth, pressure; accompanied with belching of gas, which gives no relief. Bloated, full sensation in abdomen; must loosen clothing, walk about, and constantly pass flatus. Constipation in rheumatic subjects due to flatulence and indigestion.

Female. Menstrual colic. Membranous dysmenorrhea. Menses too early, dark, stringy. Swelling of external parts. Ovarian neuralgia. Vaginismus.

Respiratory. Asthmatic oppression of chest. Dry, tickling cough. Spasmodic cough, with difficulty in lying down. Whooping cough. Voice hoarse, larynx sore and raw. Intercostal neuralgia.

Heart. Angina pectoris. Nervous spasmodic palpitation. Constricting pains around heart.

Fever. Chilliness after dinner, in evening. Chills run up and down the back, with shivering, followed by a suffocating sensation.

Extremities. Involuntary shaking of hands. Paralysis agitans. Cramps in calves. Sciatica; feet very tender. Darting pains. Twitchings. Chorea. Writers' and players' cramp. Tetanic spasms. Weakness in arms and hands, fingertips stiff and numb. General muscular weakness.

Modalities. Worse, right side, cold, touch, night. Better, warmth, bending double, pressure, friction.

Relationship. Compare: Kali-p.; Coloc.; Sil.; Zinc.; Dios.
     Antidote: Bell.; Gels.; Lach.

Dose. First to twelfth potency. Sometimes the highest potencies are preferable. Acts especially well, given in hot water.

Mercurius vivus
(Mercury)

     Every organ and tissue of the body is more or less affected by this powerful drug; it transforms healthy cells into decrepit, inflamed and necrotic wrecks, decomposes the blood, producing a profound anemia. This malignant medicinal force is converted into useful life saving and life preserving service if employed homeopathically, guided by its clear cut symptoms. The lymphatic system is especially affected with all the membranes and glands, and internal organs, bones, etc. Lesions produced by mercury very similar to those of syphilis. Very often indicated in the secondary stage of syphilis when there is a febrile chloroanemia, rheumatoid pains behind sternum, around joints, etc.; ulceration of mouth and throat, falling of the hair, the eruptions and ulcerations of mouth and throat, etc. These are the special conditions and stages to which Mercurius is homeopathic and where the 2X will do surprising work. Again, hereditary syphilis manifestations, are within its range; bullae, abscesses, snuffles, marasmus, stomatitis or destructive inflammations. Tremors everywhere. Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion. All Mercury symptoms are worse at night, from warmth of bed, from damp, cold, rainy weather, worse during perspiration. Complaints increase with the sweat and rest; all associated with a great deal of weariness, prostration, and trembling. A human "thermometer". Sensitive to heat and cold. Parts are much swollen, with raw, sore feeling; the profuse, oily perspiration does not relieve. Breath, excretions and body smell foul. Tendency to formation of pus, which is thin, greenish, putrid; streaked with blood.

Mind. Slow in answering questions. Memory weakened, and loss of willpower. Weary of life. Mistrustful. Thinks he is losing his reason.

Head. Vertigo, when lying on back. Band feeling about head. One-sided, tearing pains. Tension about scalp, as if bandaged. Catarrhal headaches; much heat in head. Stinging, burning, fetid eruptions on scalp. Loss of hair. Exostosis, with feeling of soreness. Scalp tense; oily sweat on head.

Eyes. Lids red, thick, swollen. Profuse, burning, acrid discharge. Floating black spots. After exposure to glare of fire; foundry men. Parenchymatous keratitis of syphilitic origin with burning pain. Iritis, with hypopyon.

Ears. Thick, yellow discharge; fetid and bloody. Otalgic, worse warmth of bed; at night, sticking pains. Boils in external canal.

Nose. Much sneezing. Sneezing in sunshine. Nostrils raw, ulcerated; nasal bones swollen. Yellow-green, fetid, pus-like discharge. Coryza; acrid discharge, but too thick to run down the lip; worse, warm room. Pain and swelling of nasal bones, and caries, with greenish fetid ulceration. Nosebleed at night. Copious discharge of corroding mucus. Coryza, with sneezing; sore, raw, smarting sensation; worse, damp weather; profuse, fluent.

Face. Pale, earthy, dirty looking, puffy. Aching in facial bones. Syphilitic pustules on face.

Mouth. Sweetish metallic taste. Salivary secretions greatly increased; bloody and viscid. Saliva fetid, coppery. Speech difficult on account of trembling tongue. Gums spongy, recede, bleed easily. Sore pain on touch and from chewing. Whole mouth moist. Crown of teeth decay. Teeth loose, feel tender and elongated. Furrow in upper surface of tongue lengthwise. Tongue heavy, thick; moist coating; yellow, flabby, teeth indented; feels as if burnt, with ulcers. Fetid odor from mouth; can smell it all over room. Alveolar abscess, worse at night. Great thirst, with moist mouth.

Throat. Bluish red swelling. Constant desire to swallow. Putrid sore throat; worse right side. Ulcers and inflammation appearing at every change in weather. Stitches into ear on swallowing; fluids return through nose. Quinsy, with difficult swallowing; after pus has formed. Sore, raw, smarting, burning throat. Complete loss of voice. Burning in throat, as from hot vapor ascending.

Stomach. Putrid eructations. Intense thirst for cold drinks. Weak digestion, with continuous hunger. Stomach sensitive to touch. Hiccough and regurgitation. Feels replete and constricted.

Abdomen. Stabbing pain, with chilliness. Boring pain in right groin. Flatulent distention, with pain. Liver enlarged; sore to touch, indurated. Jaundice. Bile secreted deficiently.

Stool. Greenish, bloody and slimy, worse at night; with pain and tenesmus. Never-get-done feeling. Discharge accompanied by chilliness, sick stomach, cutting colic, and tenesmus. Whitish gray stools.

Urine. Frequent urging. Greenish discharge from urethra; burning in urethra on beginning to urinate. Urine dark, scanty, bloody, albuminous.

Male. Vesicles and ulcers; soft chancre. Cold genitals. Prepuce irritated; itches. Nocturnal emissions, stained with blood.

Female. Menses profuse, with abdominal pains. Leucorrhea excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts. Stinging pain in ovaries. [Apis] Itching and burning; worse, after urinating; better, washing with cold water. Morning sickness, with profuse salivation. Mammae painful and full of milk at menses.

Respiratory. Soreness from fauces to sternum. Cannot lie on right side. [Left side, Lyc.] Cough, with yellow mucopurulent expectoration. Paroxysms of two; worse, night, and from warmth of bed. Catarrh, with chilliness; dread of air. Stitches from lower lobe of right lung to back. Whooping cough with nosebleed. [Arn.] Cough worse, tobacco smoke.

Back. Bruised pain in small of back, especially when sitting. Tearing pain in coccyx; better, pressing on abdomen.

Extremities. Weakness of limbs. Bone pains and in limbs; worse, night. Patient very sensitive to cold. Oily perspiration. Trembling extremities, especially hands; paralysis agitans. Lacerating pain in joints. Cold, clammy sweat on legs at night. Dropsical swelling of feet and legs.

Skin. Almost constantly moist. Persistent dryness of the skin contraindicate Mercurius. Excessive odorous viscid perspiration; worse, night. General tendency to free perspiration, but patient is not relieved thereby. Vesicular and pustular eruptions. Ulcers, irregular in shape, edges undefined. Pimples around the main eruption. Itching; worse from warmth of bed. Crusta lactea; yellowish brown crusts, considerable suppuration. Glands swell every time patient takes cold. Buboes. Orchitis. [Ham.; Puls.]

Fever. Generally gastric or bilious, with profuse nightly perspiration; debility; slow and lingering. Heat and shuddering alternately. Yellow perspiration. Profuse perspiration without relief. Creeping chilliness; worse in the evening and into night. Alternate flashes of heat in single parts.

Modalities. Worse, at night, wet, damp weather, lying on right side, perspiring; warm room and warm bed.

Relationship. Compare: Phos.; Kali-m.
     Antidote: Hep.

Dose. Second to thirtieth potency.

Naja
(Cobra Venom)

     Naja produces a typical bulbar paralysis (L. J. Boyd). Causes no hemorrhage but only edema, hence the victims of this reptile frequently bear very little sign of external injury, a small scratch or puncture being the only indication where the fangs have worked their havoc. The tissue lying beneath the wound is colored dark purple, and a large quantity of viscid blood-like fluid collects in the vicinity of the wound. An intense burning pain at the spot bitten is the first symptom. In man there follows an interval before fresh symptoms occur. The average is about an hour. Once developed, the symptoms follow a rapid course. A feeling of intoxication is produced, followed by a loss of power over the limbs. The patient is bereft of speech, swallowing, and the control over the movement of the lips. The saliva is ejected in large quantities, the respiration gradually becomes slower and slower, and at length ceases. Conscious all time. Is not a hemorrhagic or septic, medicine like Lachesis and Crotalus. Its action settles around the heart; valvular troubles. Marked surging of blood upwards, marked dyspnea, inability to lie on left side. Hypertrophy, and valvular lesions. Organs seem to be drawn together. Very susceptible to cold. With heart symptoms, pain in forehead and temples. Diseases primarily depending upon degeneration of motor cells. Control of sphincters lost.

Mind. Broods constantly over imaginary troubles. Suicidal insanity. Depressed. Aversion to talking. Blurred speech. Melancholy. Dreads to be left alone. Fear of rain.

Head. Pain in left temple and in left orbital region, extending to occiput, with nausea and vomiting. Hay fever, with dry larynx. Suffocative spells after sleeping. [Lach.] Eyes staring. Ptosis of both lids.

Ears. Illusions of hearing; otalgia; chronic otorrhea, black discharges; smells like herring brine.

Respiratory. Grasping at throat, with sense of choking. Irritating, dry cough, dependent on cardiac lesions. [Spong.] Sticky mucus and saliva. Asthmatic constriction in evening. Asthma beginning with coryza.

Heart. Dragging and anxiety in precordia. Feeling of weight on heart. Angina pains extending to nape of neck, left shoulder and arm with anxiety and fear of death. With the heart symptoms pain in forehead and temples. Pulse irregular in force. Threatened paralysis of heart, body cold, pulse slow, weak, irregular, tremulous. Acute and chronic endocarditis. Palpitation. Stitching pain in region of heart. Damaged heart after infectious diseases. Marked symptoms of low tension.

Female. Neuralgia of left ovary; often serviceable in obscure pain in left groin, especially in postoperative cases; seems to be drawn to heart.

Sleep. Profound, like a log, with stertorous breathing, a typical reptilian state.

Modalities. Worse, from use of stimulants. Better, from walking or riding in open air.

Relationship. Compare: Serpent poisons generally. Lach.; Spong.

Dose. Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Natrum carbonicum
(Carbonate of Sodium)

     Great debility caused by summer heat; chronic effects of sunstroke: exhaustion; anemic; milky, watery skin; very weak ankles, are all peculiar Natrum carbonicum conditions.

Mind. Unable to think; difficult, slow comprehension. Mental weakness and depression; worries; very sensitive to noise; colds, change of weather. Anxious and restless during thunderstorm; worse from music. Marked gaiety. Sensitive to presence of certain individuals.

Head. Aches from slightest mental exertion, worse from sun or working under gaslight. [Glon.] Feels too large. Oversensitive of hearing. Head aches with return of hot weather. Vertigo from exposure to sun.

Nose. All troubles of external nose which may attain a morbid size: pimples and puffiness. Constant coryza; obstruction of nose. Catarrh; bad smell of nasal secretion. Many troubles of external nose. [Caust.] Posterior nasal catarrh. Hawking much mucus from throat; worse, slightest draft.

Face. Freckles, yellow spots, pimples. Swelling of upper lip. Pale, with blue rings around eyes and swollen lids.

Stomach. Feels swollen and sensitive. Ill effects of drinking cold water when overheated. Water brash. Hungry at 5 a.m. Very weak digestion, caused by slightest error of diet. Averse to milk. Depressed after eating. Bitter taste. Old dyspeptics, always belching, have sour stomach and rheumatism. Dyspepsia relieved by soda biscuits.

Bowels. Sudden call to stool. Escapes with haste and noise. Yellow substance like pulp of orange in discharge. Diarrhea from milk.

Female. Induration of cervix. Pudenda sore. Bearing-down sensation. [Sep.] Heaviness; worse, sitting; better, by moving. Menses late, scanty, like meat washings. [Nit-ac.] Leucorrheal discharge, offensive, irritating, preceded by colic.

Respiratory. Dry cough, when coming into warm room from out of doors. Cough with coldness of left side of breast.

Sleep. Wakes too early in morning. Amorous dreams. Drowsy during day.

Extremities. Old sprains. Great weakness of limbs, especially in morning. Easy dislocation and spraining of ankles. Foot bends under. [Caust.] Soreness between toes and fingers. Heel and Achilles tendon affected. Chapped hands. The hollow of the knee is painful on motion. Icy cold up to knees.

Skin. Inclination to perspire easily, or dry, rough, cracked skin. Eruption on fingertips, knuckles and toes. Vesicular eruption in patches and circles. Veins full. Soles of feet raw and sore.

Modalities. Worse, sitting, from music, summer heat, mental exertion, thunderstorm. Least draft, changes of weather, sun. Better, by moving, by boring in ears and nose.

Relationship. All the Natrums stimulate cellular activity and increase oxidation and metabolism.
     Compare: Nat-s.; Caust.
     Antidote: Ars.

Dose. Sixth potency.

Natrum muriaticum
(Chloride of Sodium)

     The prolonged taking of excessive salt causes profound nutritive changes to take place in the system, and there arise not only the symptoms of salt retention as evidenced by dropsies and edemas, but also an alteration in the blood causing a condition of anemia and leucocytosis. There seems also to be a retention in the tissues of effete materials giving rise to symptoms loosely described as gouty or rheumatic gout. The provings are full of such symptoms. (Dr. Stonham.) A great remedy for certain forms of intermittent fever, anemia, chlorosis, many disturbances of the alimentary tract and skin. Great debility; most weakness felt in the morning in bed. Coldness. Emaciation most notable in neck. Great liability to take cold. Dry mucous membranes. Constrictive sensation throughout the body. Great weakness and weariness. Oversensitive to all sorts of influences. Hyperthyroidism. Goitre. Addison's disease. Diabetes.

Mind. Psychic causes of disease; ill effects of grief, fright, anger, etc. Depressed, particularly in chronic diseases. Consolation aggravates. Irritable; gets into a passion about trifles. Awkward, hasty. Wants to be alone to cry. Tears with laughter.

Head. Throbs. Blinding headache. Aches as if a thousand little hammers were knocking on the brain, in the morning on awakening, after menstruation, from sunrise to sunset. Feels too large; cold. Anemic headache of school girls; nervous, discouraged, broken down. Chronic headache, semilateral, congestive, from sunrise to sunset, with pale face, nausea, vomiting; periodical; from eyestrain; menstrual. Before attack, numbness and tingling in lips, tongue and nose, relieved by sleep. Frontal sinus inflammation.

Eyes. Feel bruised, with headache in school children. Eyelids heavy. Muscles weak and stiff. Letters run together. Sees sparks. Fiery, zigzag appearance around all objects. Burning in eyes. Give out on reading or writing. Stricture of lachrymal duct with suppuration. Escape of mucopus when pressing upon sac. Lachrymation, burning and acrid. Lids swollen. Eyes appear wet with tears. Tears stream down face on coughing. [Euphr.] Asthenopia due to insufficiency of internal recti muscles. [Gels. when due to external muscles.] Pain in eyes when looking down. Cataract incipient.

Ears. Noises; roaring and ringing.

Nose. Violent, fluent coryza, lasting from one to three days, then changing into stoppage of nose, making breathing difficult. Discharge thin and watery, like raw white of egg. Violent sneezing coryza. Infallible for stopping a cold commencing with sneezing. Use thirtieth potency. Loss of smell and taste. Internal soreness of nose. Dryness.

Face. Oily, shiny, as if greased. Earthy complexion. Fever blisters.

Mouth. Frothy coating on tongue, with bubbles on side. Sense of dryness. Scorbutic gums. Numbness, tingling of tongue, lips, and nose. Vesicles and burning on tongue, as if there was a hair on it. Eruptions around mouth and vesicles like pearls on lips. Lips and corners of mouth dry, ulcerated, and cracked. Deep crack in middle of lower lip. Tongue mapped. [Ars.; Rhus-t.] Loss of taste. Large vesicle on lower lip, which is swollen and burns. Immoderate thirst.

Stomach. Hungry, yet lose flesh. Heartburn, with palpitation. Unquenchable thirst. Sweats while eating. Craving for salt. Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters; fats. Throbbing in pit. Sticking sensation in cardiac orifice.

Abdomen. Cutting pain in abdomen. Distended. Pain in abdominal ring on coughing.

Rectum. Burning pains and stitching after stool. Anus contracted, torn, bleeding. Constipation; stool dry, crumbling. [Mag-m.] Painless and copious diarrhea, preceded by pinching pain in abdomen.

Urine. Pain just after urinating. [Sars.] Increased, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc. Has to wait a long time for it to pass if others are present. [Hep.]

Male. Emission, even after coitus. Impotence with retarded emission.

Female. Menses irregular; usually profuse. Vagina dry. Leucorrhea acrid, watery. Bearing-down pains; worse in morning. [Sep.] Prolapsus uteri, with cutting in urethra. Ineffectual labor pains. Suppressed menses. [Follow with Kali-c.] Hot during menses.

Respiratory. Cough from a tickling in the pit of stomach, accompanied by stitches in liver and spurting of urine. [Caust.] Stitches all over chest. Cough, with bursting pain in head. Shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs. [Calc.] Whooping cough with flows of tears with cough.

Heart. Tachycardia. Sensation of coldness of heart. Heart and chest feel constricted. Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse. Heart's pulsations shake body. Intermits on lying down.

Extremities. Pain in back, with desire for some firm support. [Rhus-t.; Sep.] Every movement accelerates the circulation. Palms hot and perspiring. Arms and legs, but especially knees, feel weak. Hangnails. Dryness and cracking about fingernails. Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities. Ankles weak and turn easily. Painful contraction of hamstrings. [Caust.] Cracking in joints on motion. Coldness of legs with congestion to head, chest, and stomach.

Sleep. Sleepy in forenoon. Nervous jerking during sleep. Dreams of robbers. Sleepless from grief.

Skin. Greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts. Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints. Fever blisters. Urticaria; itch and burn. Crusty eruptions in bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears. [Caust.] Warts on palms of hands. Eczema; raw, red, and inflamed; worse, eating salt, at seashore. Affects hair follicles. Alopecia. HIves, itching after exertion. Greasy skin.

Fever. Chill between 9 and 11 a.m. Heat; violent thirst, increases with fever. Fever blisters. Coldness of the body, and continued chilliness very marked. Hydremia in chronic malarial states with weakness, constipation, loss of appetite, etc. Sweats on every exertion.

Modalities. Worse, noise, music, warm room, lying down; about 10 a.m., at seashore, mental exertion, consolation, heat, talking. Better, open air, cold bathing, going without regular meals, lying on right side; pressure against back, tight clothing.

Relationship. All the Natrums stimulate cellular activity and increase oxidation and metabolism.
     Complementary to Apis; Sep.; Ign.
     Compare: Ign.; Sep.; Thuj.; Graph.
     Antidote: Ars.; Phos.

Dose. Twelfth to thirtieth and higher. The very highest potencies often yield most brilliant results. And in infrequent dosage.

Natrum phosphoricum
(Phosphate of Sodium)

     Natrum phosphoricum is the remedy for conditions arising from excess of lactic acid, often resulting from too much sugar. Ailments, with excess of acidity. Sour eructations and taste. Sour vomiting. Yellow, creamy coating at the back of the roof of mouth and tongue. Inflammation of any part of the throat, with sensation of a lump in throat. Flatulence, with sour risings. Colic, with symptoms of worms. Cracking of joints. Jaundice (1X trit.). Oxaluria.

Mind. Imagines, on waking at night, that pieces of furniture are persons; that he hears footsteps in next room. Fear.

Head. Feels dull in the morning, full feeling and throbbing.

Eyes. Discharge of golden yellow, creamy matter from the eyes. Dilation of one pupil. Whites of eyes dirty yellow.

Ears. One ear hot, frequently itchy, accompanied by gastric derangements and acidity.

Nose. Offensive odor. Itching of nose. Nasopharyngeal catarrh, with thick, yellow, offensive mucus.

Face. Paleness of bluish, florid appearance of face.

Mouth. Canker sores of lip and cheeks. Blisters on tip of tongue, with stinging in evening. Thin, moist coating on the tongue. Yellow, creamy coating at the back part of the roof of the mouth. Dysphagia. Thick, creamy membrane over tonsils and soft palate.

Stomach. Sour eructations, sour vomiting, greenish diarrhea. Spits mouthful of food.

Male. Emissions without dreams, with weakness in back and trembling in limbs. Desire without erection. Gonorrhea.

Female. Menses too early; pale, thin, watery. Sterility, with acid secretions from vagina. Leucorrhea; discharge creamy or honey colored, or acid and watery. Sour smelling discharges from uterus. Morning sickness, with sour vomiting.

Extremities. Rheumatism of the knee joint.

Back. Weariness; aching in wrists and finger joints. Hamstrings sore. Synovial crepitation. Rheumatic arthritis.

Skin. Yellow. Itching in various parts, especially of ankles. Hives. Smooth, red, shining. Erysipelas. Feet icy cold in daytime, burn at night. Swelling of lymphatic glands.

Relationship. All the Natrums stimulate cellular activity and increase oxidation and metabolism.
     Compare: Calc.; Phos.
     In oxaluria 1X four times daily prevents formation of calculi; keeps the oxal. of lime in solution (Schwartz).

Dose. Third to twelfth trituration. In Jaundice 1X.

Natrum sulphuricum
(Sulphate of Sodium)

     A liver remedy, especially indicated for the so-called hydrogenoid constitution, where the complaints are such as are due to living in damp houses, basements, cellars. They are worse in rainy weather, water in any form. Feels every change from dry to wet; cannot even eat plants growing near water, nor fish. Always feels best in warm, dry air. Clinically, it has been found a valuable remedy for spinal meningitis, head symptoms from injuries to head, mental troubles therefrom. Every spring, return of skin affections. Tendency to warts. Fingers and toes affected. Chronic gout. [Lyc.]

Mind. Lively music saddens. Melancholy, with periodical attacks of mania. Suicidal tendency; must exercise restraint. Inability to think. Dislikes to speak, or to be spoken to.

Head. Occipital pain. Piercing stitches in ears. Vertigo; relieved by sweat on head. Bursting feeling on coughing. Hot feeling on top of head. Boring in right temple, preceded by burning in stomach. Ill effects of falls and injuries to the head, and mental troubles arising therefrom. Dreams of running water.

Ears. Sticking pain, earache, lightning-like stitches in damp weather.

Nose. Nasal catarrh, with thick, yellow discharge and salty mucus. Coryza. Epistaxis. Ethmoiditis.

Eyes. Conjunctiva yellow. Granular lids. Photophobia. [Graph.]

Mouth. Slimy, thick, tenacious, white mucus. Bitter taste, blisters on palate.

Throat. Thick, yellow mucus, drops from posterior nares.

Stomach. Vomits sour. Brown, bitter coating on tongue. Yellow complexion. Thirst for something cold. Bilious vomiting, acid dyspepsia, with heartburn and flatulence.

Abdomen. Duodenal catarrh; hepatitis; icterus and vomiting of bile; liver sore to touch, with sharp, stitching pains; cannot bear tight clothing around waist, worse, lying on left side. Flatulency; wind colic in ascending colon; worse, before breakfast. Burning in abdomen and anus. Bruised pain and urging to stool. Diarrhea yellow, watery stools. Loose morning stools; worse, after spell of wet weather. Stools involuntary, when passing flatus. Great size of the fecal mass.

Urine. Loaded with bile. Brick-dust sediment. Excessive secretion. Diabetes.

Female. Nosebleed during menses, which are acrid and profuse. Burning in pharynx during menstruation. Herpetic vulvitis. Leucorrhea yellowish green, following gonorrhoea in female. Leucorrhea with hoarseness.

Male. Condylomata; soft, fleshy excresences; greenish discharges. Gonorrhea; discharge thick, greenish; little pain.

Respiratory. Dyspnea, during damp weather. Must hold chest when coughing. Humid asthma; rattling in chest, at 4 and 5 a.m. Cough, with thick, ropy, greenish expectoration; chest feels all gone. Constant desire to take deep, long breath. Asthma in children, as a constitutional remedy. Delayed resolution in pneumonia. Springs up in the bed the cough hurts so; holds painful side. [Bry.] Pain through lower left chest. Every fresh cold brings on attack of asthma.

Back. Itching when undressing. Violent pains in back of neck, and at base of brain. Piercing pain between scapulae. Spinal meningitis; opisthotonos.

Extremities. Swelling of axillary glands. Inflammation around root of nails. Burning in soles; edema of feet; itching between toes. Gout. Pain in limbs, compels frequent change in position. Run-arounds. Pain in hip joints, worse left, worse, stooping. Stiffness of knees, cracking of joints. Rheumatism, worse in damp cold weather.

Skin. Itching while undressing. Jaundiced, watery blisters. Sycotic excrescences; wart-like red lumps all over body.

Modalities. Worse, music (makes her sad); lying on left side; dampness of basement, damp weather. Better, dry weather, pressure, changing position.

Relationship. All the Natrums stimulate cellular activity and increase oxidation and metabolism.
     Compare: Sulph.; Thuj.; Merc.
     Complementary: Ars.; Thuj.

Dose. First to twelfth trituration.

Nitricum acidum
(Nitric Acid)

     Selects for its special seat of action the outlets of the body where the mucous membrane and skin meet; these pain as from splinters. Sticking pains. Marked improvement of all symptoms while riding in a carriage. Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life. Syphilis, after abuse of Mercury. Pains appear and disappear quickly. [Bell.] Hydrogenoid constitution. Sycotic remedy.
     Blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue, genitals; bleed easily. Fissures, with pain during stool, as if rectum were torn. All discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration. Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold easily and disposed to diarrhea. Excessive physical irritability. Cachexia, due to syphilis, scrofula, intermittent fever with liver involvement and anemia, etc. Gravel; arthritis. Capillary bleeding after curettage.

Mind. Irritable, hateful, vindictive, headstrong. Hopeless despair. Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar. Fear of death.

Head. Sensation of a band around head. Headaches from pressure of hat; full feeling; worse from street noises. Hair falls out. Scalp sensitive.

Ears. Difficult hearing; better by riding in carriage or train. Very sensitive to noise, as the rattle of wagons over pavements. [Coff.; Nux-v.] Cracking in ears when chewing.

Eyes. Double vision; sharp, sticking pains. Ulceration of cornea. Gonorrheal ophthalmia, photophobia, constant lachrymation. Syphilitic iritis.

Nose. Ozena. Green casts from nose every morning. Coryza, with sore and bleeding nostrils. Tip red. Stitches, as of a splinter in nose. Caries of mastoid. Nosebleed, with chest affections. Chronic nasal catarrh, with yellow, offensive, corrosive discharge. Nasal diphtheria, with watery and exceedingly excoriating discharge.

Mouth. Putrid breath. Salivation. Bleeding of gums. Painful pimples on the sides of the tongue. Tongue clean, red and wet with center furrow. Teeth become loose; gums soft and spongy. Ulcers in soft palate, with sharp, splinter-like pains. Salivation and fetor oris. Bloody saliva.

Throat. Dry. Pain into ears. Hawks mucus constantly. White patches and sharp points, as from splinters, on swallowing.

Stomach. Great hunger, with sweetish taste. Longing for indigestible things: chalk, earth, etc. Pain in cardiac orifice. Dyspepsia with excess of oxalic acid, uric acid and phosphates in urine and great mental depression. Loves fat and salt. [Sulph.]

Abdomen. Great straining, but little passes. Rectum feels torn. Bowels constipated, with fissures in rectum. Tearing pains during stools. Violent cutting pains after stools, lasting for hours. Hemorrhages from bowels, profuse, bright. Prolapsus ani. Hemorrhoids bleed easily. Diarrhea, slimy and offensive. After stools, irritable and exhausted. Colic relieved from tightening clothes. Jaundice, aching in liver.

Urine. Scanty, dark, offensive. Smells like horse's urine. Cold on passing. Burning and stinging. Urine bloody and albuminous. Alternation of cloudy, phosphatic urine with profuse urinary secretion in old prostatic cases.

Male. Soreness and burning in glans and beneath prepuce. Ulcers; burn and sting; exude, offensive matter.

Female. External parts sore, with ulcers. [Hep.; Merc.; Thuj.] Leucorrhea brown, flesh colored, watery, or stringy, offensive. Hair on genitals falls out. [Nat-m.; Zinc.] Uterine hemorrhages. Menses early, profuse, like muddy water. With pain in back, hips and thighs. Stitches through vagina. Metrorrhagia after parturition.

Respiratory. Hoarseness. Aphonia, with dry hacking cough, from tickling in larynx and pit of stomach. Soreness at lower end of sternum. Short breath on going upstairs. [Ars.; Calc.] Cough during sleep. [Cham.]

Extremities. Fetid foot sweat, causing soreness of toes, with sticking pain; chilblains on toes. Sweating of palms, hands; cold, blue nails. Offensive sweat in axillae at night.

Skin. Warts, large jagged; bleed on washing. Ulcers bleed easily, sensitive; splinter-like pains; zigzag, irregular edges; base looks like raw flesh. Exuberant granulations. Black pores on face, papules worse on forehead.

Modalities. Worse, evening and night, cold climate, and also hot weather. Better, while riding in carriage. [Reverse: Cocc.]

Relationship. Complementary: Ars.; Sep.
     Inimical: Lach.
     Compare: Merc.; Kali-c.; Thuj.; Hep.; Calc.

Dose. Sixth potency. As the Nitric acid patient begins to improve skin symptoms may appear for a time, a favorable indication.

Nux vomica
(Poison Nut)

     Is the greatest of polychrests, because the bulk of its symptoms correspond in similarity with those of the commonest and most frequent of diseases. It is frequently the first remedy, indicated after much dosing, establishing a sort of equilibrium of forces and counteracting chronic effects.
     Nux is preeminently the remedy for many of the conditions incident to modern life. The typical Nux patient is rather thin, spare, quick, active, nervous, and irritable. He does a good deal of mental work; has mental strains and leads a sedentary life, found in prolonged office work, overstudy, and close application to business, with its cares and anxieties. This indoor life and mental strain seeks stimulants, coffee, wine, possibly in excess; or again, he hopes to quiet his excitement, by indulging in the sedative effects of tobacco, if not really a victim, to the seductive drugs, like opium, etc. These things are associated with other indulgences; at table, he takes preferably rich and stimulating food; wine and women play their part to make him forget the close application of the day. Late hours are a consequence; a thick head, dyspepsia, and irritable temper are the next day's inheritance. Now he takes some cathartic, liver pills, or mineral water, and soon gets into the habit of taking these things, which still further complicate matters. Since these frailties are more yielded to by men than women, Nux is preeminently a male remedy. These conditions produce an irritable, nervous system, hypersensitive and overimpressionable, which Nux will do much to soothe and calm. Especially adapted to digestive disturbances, portal congestion, and hypochondriacal states depending thereon. Convulsions, with consciousness; worse, touch, moving. Zealous fiery temperament. Nux patients are easily chilled, avoid open air, etc. Nux always seems to be out of tune; inharmonious spasmodic action.

Mind. Very irritable; sensitive to all impressions. Ugly, malicious. Cannot bear noises, odors, light, etc. Does not want to be touched. Time passes too slowly. Even the least ailment affects her greatly. Disposed to reproach others. Sullen, fault finding.

Head. Headache in occiput or over eyes, with vertigo; brain feels turning in a circle. Oversensitiveness. Vertigo, with momentary loss of consciousness. Intoxicated feeling; worse, morning, mental exertion, tobacco, alcohol, coffee, open air. Pressing pain on vertex, as if a nail driven in. Vertigo in morning and after dinner. Scalp sensitive. Frontal headache, with desire to press the head against something. Congestive headache, associated with hemorrhoids. Headache in the sunshine. [Glon.; Nat-c.] Feels distended and sore within, after a debauch.

Eyes. Photophobia; much worse in morning. Smarting, dry sensation in inner canthi. Infraorbital neuralgia, with watering of eyes. Optic nerve atrophy, from habitual use of intoxicants. Paresis of ocular muscles; worse, tobacco and stimulants. Orbital twitching radiating towards the occiput. Optic neuritis.

Ears. Itching in ear through Eustachian tube. Auditory canal dry and sensitive. Otalgia; worse in bed. Hyperesthesia of auditory nerves; loud sounds are painful, and anger him.

Nose. Stuffed up, at night especially. Stuffy colds, snuffles, after exposure to dry, cold atmosphere; worse, in warm room. Odors tend to produce fainting. Coryza; fluent in daytime; stuffed up at night and outdoors; or alternates between nostrils. Bleeding in morning. [Bry.] Arid discharge, but with stuffed-up feeling.

Mouth. Jaws contracted. Small aphthous ulcers, with bloody saliva. First half of tongue clean; posterior covered with deep fur; white, yellow, cracked edges. Teeth ache; worse, cold thing. Gums swollen, white, and bleeding.

Throat. Rough, scraped feeling. Tickling after waking in morning. Sensation of roughness, tightness, and tension. Pharynx constricted. Uvula swollen. Stitches into ear.

Stomach. Sour taste, and nausea in the morning, after eating. Weight and pain in stomach; worse, eating, some time after. Flatulence and pyrosis. Sour, bitter eructations. Nausea and vomiting, with much retching. Ravenous hunger, especially about a day before an attack of dyspepsia. Region of stomach very sensitive to pressure. [Bry.; Ars.] Epigastrium bloated, with pressure as of a stone, several hours after eating. Desire for stimulants. Loves fats and tolerates them well. [Puls. opposite.] Dyspepsia from drinking strong coffee. Difficult belching of gas. Wants to vomit, but cannot.

Abdomen. Bruised soreness of abdominal walls. [Apis; Sulph.] Flatulent distention, with spasmodic colic. Colic from uncovering. Liver engorged, with stitches and soreness. Colic, with upward pressure, causing short breath, and desire for stool. Weakness of abdominal ring region. Strangulated hernia. [Op.] Forcing in lower abdomen towards genitals. Umbilical hernia of infants.

Stool. Constipation, with frequent ineffectual urging, incomplete and unsatisfactory; feeling as if part remained unexpelled. Constriction of rectum. Irregular, peristaltic action; hence frequent ineffectual desire, or passing but small quantities at each attempt. Absence of all desire for defecation is a contraindication. Alternate constipation and diarrhea: after abuse of purgatives. Urging to stool felt throughout abdomen. Itching, blind hemorrhoids, with ineffectual urging to stool; very painful; after drastic drugs. Diarrhea after a debauch; worse, morning. Frequent small evacuations. Scanty stool, with much urging. Dysentery; stools relieve pains for a time. Constant uneasiness in rectum. Diarrhea, with jaundice.

Urine. Irritable bladder; from spasmodic sphincter. Frequent calls; little and often. Hematuria. [Ip.] Ineffectual urging, spasmodic and strangury. Renal colic extending to genitals, with dribbling urine. While urinating, itching in urethra and pain in neck of bladder.

Male. Easily excited desire. Emissions from high living. Bad effects of sexual excesses. Constrictive pain in testicles. Orchitis. [Ham.; Puls.] Spermatorrhea, with dreams, backache, burning in spine, weakness and irritability.

Female. Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular, blood black [Lach.; Puls.] with faint spells. Prolapsus uteri. Dysmenorrhea, with pain in sacrum, and constant urging to stool. Inefficient labor pains; extend to rectum, with desire for stool and frequent urination. Desire too strong. Metrorrhagia, with sensation as if bowels wanted to move.

Respiratory. Catarrhal hoarseness, with scraping in throat. Spasmodic constriction. Asthma, with fullness in stomach, morning or after eating. Cough, with sensation as if something were torn loose in chest. Shallow respiration. Oppressed breathing. Tight, dry, hacking cough; at times with bloody expectoration. Cough brings on bursting headache and bruised pain in epigastric region.

Back. Backache in lumbar region. Burning in spine; worse, 3 to 4 a.m. Cervicobrachial neuralgia; worse, touch. Must sit up in order to turn in bed. Bruised pain below scapulae. Sitting is painful.

Extremities. Arms and hands go to sleep. Paresis of arms, with shocks. Legs numb; feel paralyzed; cramps in calves and soles. Partial paralysis, from overexertion of getting soaked. [Rhus-t.] Cracking in knee joints during motion. Drags his feet when walking. Sensation of sudden loss of power of arms and legs in the morning.

Sleep. Cannot sleep after 3 a.m. until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly. Drowsy after meals, and in early evening. Dreams full of bustle and hurry. Better after a short sleep, unless aroused.

Skin. Body burning hot, especially face; yet cannot move or uncover without feeling chilly. Urticaria, with gastric derangement. Acne; skin red and blotchy.

Fever. Cold stage predominates. Paroxysms anticipate in morning. Excessive rigor, with blueness of fingernails. Aching in limbs and back, and gastric symptoms. Chilly; must be covered in every stage of fever. Perspiration sour; only one side of body. Chilliness on being uncovered, yet he does not allow being covered. Dry heat of the body.

Modalities. Worse, morning, mental exertion, after eating, touch, spices, stimulants, narcotics, dry weather, cold. Better, from a nap, if allowed to finish it; in evening, while at rest, in damp, wet weather [Caust.], strong pressure.

Relationship. Nux seeds contain Copper, notice the cramp causing proclivities of both.
     Complementary: Sulph.; Sep.
     Inimical: Zinc.
     Compare: Kali-c.; Bry.; Lyc.; Graph.
     Antidote: Coff.; Ign.; Cocc.

Dose. First to thirtieth potency and higher. Nux is said to act best given in the evening.

Opium
(Poppy)

     Hahnemann says that it is much more difficult to estimate the action of Opium than of almost any other drug. The effects of Opium as shown in the insensibility of the nervous system, the depression drowsy stupor, painlessness, and torpor, the general sluggishness and lack of vital reaction, constitute the main indications for the drug when used homeopathically. All complaints are characterized by sopor. They are painless, and are accompanied by heavy, stupid sleep, stertorous breathing. Sweaty skin. Dark, mahogany brown face. Serous apoplexy: venous, passive congestion. Want of sensitiveness to the action of medicines. Reappearance and aggravation from becoming heated. Opium lessens voluntary movements, contracts pupils, depresses higher intellectual powers, lessens self-control and power of concentration, judgement; stimulates the imagination, checks all secretions except that of the skin. Want of susceptibility to remedies even though indicated. Diseases that originate from fright.

Mind. Patient wants nothing. Complete loss of consciousness; apoplectic state. Frightful fancies, daring, gay, bright. Unable to understand or appreciate his sufferings. Thinks he is not at home. Delirious talking, with wide open eyes.

Head. Vertigo; lightness of head in old people. Dull, heavy, stupid. Delirium. Vertigo after fright. Pain in back of head; great weight there. [Gels.] Bursting feeling. Complete insensibility; no mental grasp for anything. Paralysis of brain.

Eyes. Half closed, dilated; pupils insensible, contracted. Ptosis. [Gels.; Caust.] Staring, glassy.

Face. Red, bloated, swollen, dark suffused, hot. Looks intoxicated, besotted. [Bapt.; Lach.] Spasmodic facial twitching, especially corners of mouth. Veins of face distended. Hanging down of lower jaw. Distorted.

Mouth. Dry. Tongue black, paralyzed. Bloody froth. Intense thirst. Blubbering of lips. Difficult articulation and swallowing.

Stomach. Vomiting, with colic and convulsions. Fecal vomiting. Incarcerated hernia. Hungry; no desire to eat.

Abdomen. Hard, bloated, tympanitic. Lead colic. During colic, urging to stool and discharge of hard feces.

Stool. Obstinate constipation; no desire to go to stool. Round, hard, black balls. Feces protrude and recede. [Thuj.; Sil.] Spasmodic retention of feces in small intestines. Stools involuntary, black, offensive, frothy. Violent pain in rectum, as if pressed asunder.

Urine. Slow to start; feeble stream. Retained or involuntary, after fright. Loss of power or sensibility of bladder.

Female. Suppressed menses from fright. Cessation of labor pains with coma and twitchings. Puerperal convulsions; drowsiness or coma between paroxysms. Threatened abortion and suppression of lochia, from fright, with sopor. Horrible labor-like pains in uterus, with urging to stool.

Respiratory. Breathing stops on going to sleep; must be shaken to start it again. Hoarse. Deep snoring; rattling, stertorous breathing. Difficult, intermittent, deep, unequal respiration. Heat in chest; burning about heart. Cough, with dyspnea and blue face; with bloody expectoration.

Sleep. Great drowsiness. [Gels.] Falls into a heavy stupid sleep. Profound coma. Loss of breath on falling asleep. Coma vigil. Picking at bedclothes. Very sleepy, but cannot go to sleep. Distant noises, cocks crowing, etc., keep him awake. Child dreams of cats, dogs, black forms. Bed feels so hot cannot lie on it. Pleasant, fantastic, amorous dreams. Shaking chill; then heat, with sleep and sweat. Thirst only during heat.

Fever. Pulse full and slow. Heat extending over body. Hot perspiration. Fever characterized by stupor, snoring respiration, twitching of limbs, intense thirst and sleepiness. General low temperature with inclination to stupor.

Back and Extremities. Opisthotonos. Swollen veins of neck. Painless paralysis. Twitching of limbs. Numbness. Jerks as if flexors were overacting. Convulsions; worse from glare of light; coldness of limbs.

Skin. Hot, damp, sweating. Constant desire to uncover. Hot perspiration over whole body except lower limbs.

Modalities. Worse, heat, during and after sleep. [Apis; Lach.] Better, cold things, constant walking.

Relationship. Compare: Apis; Bell.; Gels.
     Antidote: Acute Opium poisoning: Atropine and Black Coffee. Chronic Opium poisoning: Ip.; Nux-v. Berberis is useful to counteract Opium habit.

Dose. Third to thirtieth and two hundredth potency.

Petroleum
(Crude Rock Oil)

     Strumous diathesis, especially the dark type, who suffer from catarrhal conditions of the mucous membranes, gastric acidity and cutaneous eruptions.
     Very marked skin symptoms, acting on sweat and oil glands. Ailments are worse during the winter season. Ailments from riding in cars, carriages, or ships; lingering gastric and lung troubles; chronic diarrhea. Long lasting complaints follow mental states: fright, vexation, etc. Chlorosis in young girls with or without ulceration of the stomach.

Mind. Marked aggravation from mental emotions. Loses his way in streets. Thinks he is double, or someone else lying alongside. Feels that death is near, and must hurry to settle affairs. Irritable, easily offended, vexed at everything. Low spirited, with dimness of sight.

Head. Sensitive, as of a cold breeze blowing on it. Feels numb, as if made of wood; occiput heavy, as of lead. [Op.] Vertigo on rising, felt in occiput, as if intoxicated, or like seasickness. Moist eruption on scalp; worse, back and ears. Scalp sore to touch, followed by numbness. Headache, must hold temples to relieve; provoked by shaking while coughing. Use thirtieth.

Eyes. Loss of eyelashes. Dim sight; far-sighted; cannot read fine print without glasses; blenorrhea of lachrymal sac; marginal blepharitis. Canthi fissured. Skin around eyes dry and scurfy.

Ears. Noise unbearable, especially from several people talking together. Eczema, intertrigo, etc., in and behind ears, with intense itching. Parts sore to touch. Fissures in meatus. Dry catarrh, with deafness and noises. Ringing and cracking in ears. Chronic Eustachian catarrh. Diminished hearing.

Nose. Nostrils ulcerated, cracked, burn; tip of nose itches. Epistaxis. Ozena, with scabs and mucopurulent discharge.

Face. Dry; feels constricted, as if covered with albumin.

Stomach. Heartburn; hot, sharp, sour eructation. Distension. Feeling of great emptiness. Strong aversion to fat food, meat; worse, eating cabbage. Hunger, immediately after stool. Nausea, with accumulation of water in mouth. Gastralgia when stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating. [Anac.; Sep.] Ravenous hunger. Must rise at night and eat. [Psor.] Odor of garlic.

Abdomen. Diarrhea only in the daytime; watery, gushing and itching of anus. After cabbage; with empty feeling of stomach.

Male. Herpetic eruption on perineum. Prostate inflamed and swollen. Itching in urethra.

Female. Before menses, throbbing in head. Leucorrhea, profuse, albuminous. [Bor.; Calc-p.] Genitals sore and moist. Sensation of moisture. [Eup-pur.] Itching and mealy coating of nipple.

Respiratory. Hoarseness. [Carbo-v.; Caust.; Phos.] Dry cough and oppression of chest at night. Cough produces headache. Oppression of chest; worse, cold air. Dry cough at night, coming deep from chest. Croup and laryngeal diphtheria.

Heart. Sensation of coldness. [Carbo-an.; Nat-m.] Fainting, with ebullitions, heat, and palpitation.

Back. Pain in nape of neck, stiff and painful. Weakness in small of back. Coccyx painful.

Extremities. Chronic sprains. Fetid sweat in axillae. Knees stiff. Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured every winter. Scalding sensation in knee. Cracking in joints.

Skin. Itching at night. Chilblains, moist, itch and burn. Bedsores. Skin dry, constricted, very sensitive, rough and cracked, leathery. Herpes. Slightest scratch makes skin suppurate. [Hep.] Intertrigo; psoriasis of hands. Thick, greenish crusts, burning and itching; redness, raw; cracks bleed easily. Eczema. Rhagades worse in winter.

Fever. Chilliness, followed by sweat. Flushes of heat, particularly of the face and head; worse at night. Perspiration on feet and axillae.

Modalities. Worse, dampness, before and during a thunderstorm, from riding in cars, passive motion; in winter, eating, from mental states. Better, warm air; lying with head high; dry weather.

Relationship. Compare: Carbo-v.; Graph.; Sulph.; Phos.
     Complementary: Sep.
     Antidote: Nux-v.; Cocc.

Dose. Third to thirtieth and higher potencies. Material doses often better.

Phosphoricum acidum
(Phosphoric Acid)

     The common acid "debility" is very marked in this remedy, producing a nervous exhaustion. Mental debility first; later physical. A congenial soil for the action of Phosphoric acid is found in young people who grow rapidly, and who are overtaxed, mentally or physically. Whenever the system has been exposed to the ravages of acute disease, excesses, grief, loss of vital fluids, we obtain conditions calling for it. Pyrosis, flatulence, diarrhea, diabetes, rhachitis and periosteal inflammation. Neurosis in stump, after amputation. Hemorrhages in typhoid. Useful in relieving pain of cancer.

Mind. Listless. Impaired memory. [Anac.] Apathetic, indifferent. Cannot collect his thoughts or find the right word. Difficult comprehension. Effects of grief and mental shock. Delirium, with great stupefaction. Settled despair.

Head. Heavy; confused. Pain as if temples were crushed together. Worse, shaking or noise. Crushing headache. Pressure on top. Hair gray early in life; falls out. Dull headache after coition; from eyestrain. [Nat-m.] Vertigo toward evening, when standing or walking. Hair thins out, turns gray early.

Eyes. Blue rings around. Lids inflamed and cold. Pupils dilated. Glassy appearance. Averse to sunlight; sees colors as if a rainbow. Feel too large. Amblyopia in masturbators. Optic nerves seem torpid. Pain as if eyeballs were forcibly pressed together and into head.

Ears. Roaring, with difficult hearing. Intolerant of noise.

Nose. Bleeding. Bores fingers into nose. Itching.

Mouth. Lips dry, cracked. Bleeding gums; retract from teeth. Tongue swollen, dry, with viscid, frothy mucus. Teeth feel cold. At night, bites tongue involuntarily.

Face. Pale, earthy; feeling of tension as from dried albumen. Sensation of coldness of one side of face.

Stomach. Craves juicy things. Sour risings. Nausea. Symptoms following sour food and drink. Pressure as from a weight, with sleepiness after eating. Thirst for cold milk.

Abdomen. Distention and fermentation in bowels. Enlarged spleen. Aching in umbilical region. Loud rumbling.

Stool. Diarrhea, white, watery, involuntary, painless, with much flatus; not specially exhausting. Diarrhea in weakly, delicate rachitic children.

Urine. Frequent, profuse, water, milky. Diabetes. Micturition, preceded by anxiety and followed by burning. Frequent urination at night. Phosphaturia.

Male. Emissions at night and at stool. Seminal vesiculitis. Sexual power deficient; testicles tender and swollen. Parts relax during embrace. [Nux-v.] Prostatorrhea, even when passing a soft stool. Eczema of scrotum. Edema of prepuce, and swollen glans penis. Herpes preputialis. Sycotic excrescences. [Thuj.]

Female. Menses too early and profuse, with pain in liver. Itching; yellow leucorrhea after menses. Milk scanty; health deteriorated from nursing.

Respiratory. Chest troubles develop after brain-fag. Hoarseness. Dry cough from tickling in chest. Salty expectoration. Difficult respiration. Weak feeling in chest from talking. Pressure behind the sternum, rendering breathing difficult.

Heart. Palpitation in children who grow too fast; after grief, self-abuse. Pulse irregular, intermittent.

Back. Boring pain between scapulae. Pain in back and limbs, as if beaten.

Extremities. Weak. Tearing pains in joints, bones, and periosteum. Cramps in upper arms and wrists. Great debility. Pains at night, as if bones were scraped. Stumbles easily and makes missteps. Itching, between fingers or in folds of joints.

Skin. Pimples, acne, blood boils. Ulcers, with very offensive pus. Burning red rash. Formication in various parts. Falling out of the hair. [Nat-m.] Tendency to abscess after fevers.

Sleep. Somnolency. Lascivious dreams with emissions.

Fever. Chilliness. Profuse sweat during night and morning. Low types of fever, with dull comprehension and stupor.

Modalities. Better, from keeping warm. Worse, exertion, from being talked to; loss of vital fluids; sexual excesses. Everything impeding circulation causes aggravation of symptoms.

Relationship. Compare: Chin.; Nux-v.; Phos.
     Antidote: Coff.

Dose. First potency.

Phosphorus
(Phosphorus)

     Phosphorus irritates, inflames and degenerates mucous membranes, irritates and inflames serous membranes, inflames spinal cord and nerves, causing paralysis, destroys bone, especially the lower jaw and tibia; disorganizes the blood, causing fatty degeneration of blood vessels and every tissue and organ of the body and thus gives rise to hemorrhages, and hematogenous jaundice.
     Produces a picture of destructive metabolism. Causes yellow atrophy of the liver and subacute hepatitis. Tall, slender persons, narrow chested, with thin, transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous debility, emaciation, amative tendencies, seem to be under the special influence of Phosphorus. Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunderstorms. Suddenness of symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains, etc. Polycythemia. Blood extravasations; fatty degenerations, cirrhosis, caries, are pathological states often calling for Phosphorus. Muscular pseudohypertrophy, neuritis. Inflammation of the respiratory tract. Paralytic symptoms. Ill effects of Iodine and excessive use of salt; worse, lying on left side. Tertiary syphilis, skin lesions, and nervous debility. Scurvy. Pseudohypertrophic paralysis. Ataxia and adynamia. Osteo myelitis. Bone fragility.

Mind. Great lowness of spirits. Easily vexed. Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner. Clairvoyant state. Great tendency to start. Oversensitive to external impressions. Loss of memory. Paralysis of the insane. Ecstasy. Dread of death when alone. Brain feels tired. Insanity, with an exaggerated idea of one's own importance. Excitable, produces heat all over. Restless, fidgety. Hyposensitive, indifferent.

Head. Vertigo of the aged, after rising. [Bry.] Heat comes from spine. Neuralgia; parts must be kept warm. Burning pains. Chronic congestion of head. Brain-fag, with coldness of occiput. Vertigo, with faintness. Skin of forehead feels too tight. Itching of scalp, dandruff, falling out of hair in large bunches.

Eyes. Cataract. Sensation as if everything were covered with a mist or veil, or dust, or something pulled tightly over eyes. Black points seem to float before the eyes. Patient sees better by shading eyes with hand. Fatigue of eyes and head even without much use of eyes. Green halo about the candlelight. Letters appear red. Atrophy of optic nerve. Edema of lids and about eyes. Pearly white conjunctiva and long curved lashes. Partial loss of vision from abuse of tobacco. [Nux-v.] Pain in orbital bones. Paresis of extrinsic muscles. Diplopia, due to deviation of the visual axis. Amaurosis from sexual excess. Glaucoma. Thrombosis of retinal vessels and degenerative changes in retinal cells. Degenerative changes where soreness and curved lines are seen in old people. Retinal trouble with lights and hallucination of vision.

Ears. Hearing difficult, especially to human voice. Reechoing of sounds. [Caust.] Dullness of hearing after typhoid.

Nose. Fan-like motion of nostrils. [Lyc.] Bleeding; epistaxis instead of menses. Oversensitive smell. [Carb-ac.; Nux-v.] Periostitis of nasal bones. Foul imaginary odors. Chronic catarrh, with small hemorrhages; handkerchief is always bloody. Polypi; bleeding easily. [Calc.]

Face. Pale, sickly complexion; blue rings under eyes. Hippocratic countenance. Tearing pain in facial bones; circumscribed redness in one or both cheeks. Swelling and necrosis of lower jaw.

Mouth. Swelled and easily bleeding gums, ulcerated. Toothache after washing clothes. Tongue dry, smooth, red or white, not thickly coated. Persistent bleeding after tooth extraction. Nursing sore mouth. Burning in esophagus. Dryness in pharynx and fauces. Thirst for very cold water. Stricture of esophagus.

Stomach. Hunger soon after eating. Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal. Belching large quantities of wind, after eating. Throws up ingesta by the mouthfuls. Vomiting; water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach. Postoperative vomiting. Cardiac opening seems contracted, too narrow; the food scarcely swallowed, comes up again. [Bry.] Pain in stomach; relieved by cold food, ices. Region of stomach painful to touch, or on walking. Inflammation of stomach, with burning extending to throat and bowels. Bad effects of eating too much salt.

Abdomen. Feels cold. [Caps.] Sharp, cutting pains. A very weak, empty, gone sensation felt in whole abdominal cavity. Liver congested. Acute hepatitis. Fatty degeneration. Jaundice. Pancreatic disease. Large, yellow spots on abdomen.

Stool. Very fetid stools and flatus. Long, narrow, hard, like a dog's. Difficult to expel. Desire for stool on lying on left side. Painless, copious debilitating diarrhea. Green mucus, with grains like sago. Involuntary; seems as if anus remained open. Great weakness after stool. Discharge of blood from rectum, during stool. White, hard stools. Bleeding hemorrhoids.

Urine. Hematuria, especially in acute Bright's disease. [Canth.] Turbid, brown, with red sediment.

Male. Lack of power. Irresistible desire; involuntary emissions, with lascivious dreams.

Female. Metritis. Chlorosis. Phlebitis. Fistulous tracks after mammary abscess. Slight hemorrhage from uterus between periods. Menses too early and scanty: not profuse, but last too long. Weeps before menses. Stitching pain in mammae. Leucorrhea profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses. Amenorrhea, with vicarious menstruation. [Bry.] Suppuration of mammae, burning, water, offensive discharge. Nymphomania. Uterine polyps.

Respiratory. Hoarseness; worse evenings. Larynx very painful. Clergyman's sore throat; violent tickling in larynx while speaking. Aphonia, worse evenings, with rawness. Cannot talk on account of pain in larynx. Cough from tickling in throat; worse, cold air, reading, laughing, talking, from going from warm room into cold air. Sweetish taste while coughing. Hard, dry, tight, racking cough. Congestion of lungs. Burning pains, heat and oppression of chest. Tightness across chest; great weight on chest. Sharp stitches in chest; respiration quickened, oppressed. Much heat in chest. Pneumonia, with oppression; worse, lying on left side. Whole body trembles, with cough. Sputa rusty, blood colored, or purulent. Tuberculosis in tall, rapidly growing young people. Do not give it too low or too frequently here, it may but hasten the destructive degeneration of tubercular masses. Repeated hemoptysis. Pain in throat on coughing. Nervous coughs provoked by strong odors, entrance of a stranger; worse in the presence of strangers; worse lying upon left side; in cold room.

Heart. Violent palpitation with anxiety, while lying on left side. Pulse rapid, small, and soft. Heart dilated, especially right. Feeling of warmth in heart.

Back. Burning in back; pain as if broken. Heat between the shoulderblades. Weak spine.

Extremities. Ascending sensory and motor paralysis from ends of fingers and toes. Stitches in elbow and shoulder joints. Burning of feet. Weakness and trembling, from every exertion. Can scarcely hold anything with his hands. Tibia inflamed and becomes necrosed. Arms and hands become numb. Can lie only on right side. Postdiphtheritic paralysis, with formication of hands and feet. Joints suddenly give way.

Sleep. Great drowsiness, especially after meals. Coma vigil. Sleeplessness in old people. Vivid dreams of fire; of hemorrhage. Lascivious dreams. Goes to sleep late and awakens weak. Short naps and frequent wakings.

Fever. Chilly every evening. Cold knees at night. Adynamic with lack of thirst, but unnatural hunger. Hectic, with small, quick pulse; viscid night sweats. Stupid delirium. Profuse perspiration.

Skin. Wounds bleed very much, even if small; they heal and break out again. Jaundice. Little ulcer outside of large ones. Petechiae. Ecchymosis. Purpura hemorrhagia. Scurvy. Fungous hematodes and excrescences.

Modalities. Worse, touch; physical or mental exertion; twilight; warm food or drink; change of weather, from getting wet in hot weather; evening; lying on left or painful side; during a thunderstorm; ascending stairs. Better, in dark, lying on right side, cold food; cold; open air; washing with cold water; sleep.

Relationship. Complementary: Ars.; All-c.; Lyc.; Sil.
     Incompatible: Caust.
     Compare: Calc.; Chin.; Sep.; Lyc.; Sulph. Pneumonia and paralytic phenomena; pleuritic pain and pain in iliocecal region (Cartier).
     Antidote: Antidote to Phosphorus Poisoning: Turpentine with which it forms an insoluble mass. Also Nux-v. Phosphorus antidotes the nausea and vomiting of Chloroform and Ether.

Dose. Third to thirtieth potency. Should not be given too low or in too continuous doses. Especially in tuberculous cases. It may act as Euthanasia here.

Phytolacca
(Pokeroot)

     Aching, soreness, restlessness, prostration, are general symptoms guiding to Phytolacca. Preeminently a glandular remedy. Glandular swellings with heat and inflammation. Has a powerful effect on fibrous and osseous tissues; fasciae and muscle sheaths; acts on scar tissue. Syphilitic bone pains; chronic rheumatism. Sore throat, quinsy, and diphtheria. Tetanus and opisthotonos. Decrease of weight. Retarded dentition.

Mind. Loss of personal delicacy, disregard of surrounding objects. Indifferent to life.

Head. Vertigo on rising. Brain feels sore. Pain from frontal region backward. Pressure in temples and over eyes. Rheumatism of scalp; pains come on every time it rains. Scaly eruption on scalp.

Eyes. Smarting. Feeling of sand under lids. Tarsal edges feel hot. Fistula lachrymalis. Abundant lachrymation, hot.

Nose. Coryza; flow of mucus from one nostril and from posterior nares.

Mouth. Teething children with irresistible desire to bite the teeth together. Teeth clenched; low lip drawn down; lips everted; jaws firmly set; chin drawn down on sternum. Tongue red tip, feels rough and scalded; bleeding from mouth; blisters on side. Mapped, indented, fissured, with yellow patch down center. Much stringy saliva.

Throat. Dark red or bluish red. Much pain at root of tongue; soft palate and tonsils swollen. Sensation of a lump in throat. [Bell.; Lach.] Throat feels rough, narrow, hot. Tonsils swollen, especially right; dark red appearance. Shooting pain into ears on swallowing. Pseudomembranous exudation, grayish white; thick, tenacious yellowish mucus, difficult to dislodge. Cannot swallow anything hot. [Lach.] Tension and pressure in parotid gland. Ulcerated sore throat and diphtheria; throat feels very hot; pain at root of tongue extending to ear. Uvula large, dropsical. Quinsy; tonsils and fauces swollen, with burning pain; cannot swallow even water. Mumps. Follicular pharyngitis.

Abdomen. Sore spot in right hypochondrium. Rheumatism of abdominal muscles. Colic at navel. Burning griping pains. Bruised feeling through epigastrium and abdomen. Constipation of the aged and those with weak heart. Bleeding from rectum.

Urine. Scanty, suppressed, with pain in kidney region. Nephritis.

Female. Mastitis; mammae hard and very sensitive. Tumors of the breasts with enlarged axillary glands. Cancer of breast. Breast is hard, painful and of purple hue. Mammary abscess. When child nurses, pain goes from nipple all over body. Cracks and small ulcers about nipples. Irritable breasts, before and during menses. Galactorrhea. [Calc.] Menses too copious and frequent. Ovarian neuralgia of right side.

Male. Painful induration of testicles. Shooting along perineum to penis.

Heart. Feeling as if heart leaped into throat. [Podo.] Shock of pain in cardiac region alternating with pain in right arm.

Respiratory. Aphonia. Difficult breathing; dry hacking, tickling cough; worse at night. [Bell.] Aching pains in chest, through midsternum; with cough. Rheumatism of lower intercostals.

Back. Aching pains in lumbar region; pains streaking up and down spine into sacrum. Weakness and dull pain in region of kidneys. Back stiff, especially in morning on rising and during damp weather.

Extremities. Shooting pain in right shoulder, with stiffness and inability to raise arm (see Heart.). Rheumatic pains; worse in morning. Pains fly like electric shocks, shooting, lancinating, shifting rapidly. [Puls.; Kali-bi.] Pain in underside of thighs. Syphilitic sciatica. Aching of heels; relieved by elevating feet. Pains like shocks. Pain in legs, patient dreads to get up. Feet puffed; pain in ankles and feet. Neuralgia in toes.

Fever. High fever, alternating with chilliness and great prostration.

Skin. Itches, becomes dry, shrunken, pale. Papular and pustular lesions. Most useful in early stages of cutaneous diseases. Disposition to boils, and when sloughing occurs. Squamous eruptions. Syphilitic eruptions. Swelling and induration of glands. Venereal buboes. Scarlatina-like rash. Warts and moles.

Modalities. Worse, sensitive to electric changes. Effects of a wetting, when it rains, exposure to damp, cold weather, night, exposure, motion, right side. Better, warmth, dry weather, rest.

Relationship. Compare: Bry.; Rhus-t.; Merc.
     Inimical: Merc.
     Antidote: Milk and Salt; Bell.

Dose. Tincture, to third potency. Externally for mastitis.

Podophyllum
(May Apple)

     Is especially adapted to persons of bilious temperament. It affects chiefly the duodenum, small intestines, liver, and rectum. The Podophyllum disease is a gastroenteritis with colicky pain and bilious vomiting. Stool is watery with jelly-like mucus, painless, profuse. Gushing and offensive. Many troubles during pregnancy; pendulous abdomen after confinement; prolapsus uteri; painless cholera morbus. Torpidity of the liver; portal engorgement with a tendency to hemorrhoids, hypogastric pain, fullness of superficial veins, jaundice.

Mind. Loquacity and delirium from eating acid fruits. Depression of spirits.

Head. Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward. Headache, dull pressure, worse morning, with heated face and bitter taste; alternating with diarrhea. Rolling of head from side to side, with moaning and vomiting and eyelids half closed. Child perspires on head during sleep.

Mouth. Grinding the teeth at night; intense desire to press the gums together. [Phyt.] Difficult dentition. Tongue broad, large, moist. Foul, putrid taste. Burning sensation of tongue.

Stomach. Hot, sour belching; nausea and vomiting. Thirst for large quantities of cold water. [Bry.] Vomiting of hot, frothy mucus. Heartburn; gagging or empty retching. Vomiting of milk.

Abdomen. Distended; heat and emptiness. Sensation of weakness or sinking. Can lie comfortably only on stomach. Liver region painful, better rubbing part. Rumbling and shifting of flatus in ascending colon.

Rectum. Cholera infantum and morbus. Diarrhea of long standing; early in morning; during teething, with hot, glowing cheeks while being bathed or washed; in hot weather after acid fruits. Morning, painless diarrhea when not due to venous stasis or intestinal ulceration. Green, watery, fetid, profuse, gushing. Prolapse of rectum before or with stool. Constipation; clay colored, hard, dry, difficult. Constipation alternating with diarrhea. [Ant-c.] Internal and external piles.

Female. Pain in uterus and right ovary, with shifting noises along ascending colon. Suppressed menses, with pelvic tenesmus. Prolapsed uteri, especially after parturition. Hemorrhoids, with prolapsus ani during pregnancy. Prolapsus from overlifting or straining; during pregnancy.

Extremities. Pain between shoulders, under right scapula, in loins and lumbar region. Pain in right inguinal region; shoots down inner thigh to knees. Paralytic weakness on left side.

Fever. Chills at 7 a.m., with pain in hypochondria, and knees, ankles, wrists. Great loquacity during fever. Profuse sweat.

Modalities. Worse, in early morning, in hot weather, during dentition.

Relationship. Compare: Merc.; Nux-v.; Sulph.

Dose. Tincture to sixth potency. The two hundredth and one thousandth seem to do good work in cholera infantum, when indicated.

Psorinum
(Scabies Vesicle)

     The therapeutic field of this remedy is found in so-called psoric manifestations. Psorinum is a cold medicine; wants the head kept warm, wants warm clothing even in summer. Extreme sensitiveness to cold. Debility, independent of any organic disease, especially the weakness remaining after acute disease. Lack of reaction, i.e. phagocytes defective; when well chosen remedies fail to act. Scrofulous patients. Secretions have a filthy smell. Profuse sweating. Cardiac weakness. Skin symptoms very prominent. Often gives immunity from cold-catching. Easy perspiration when walking. Syphilis, inherited and tertiary. Offensive discharges.

Mind. Hopeless; despairs of recovery. Melancholy, deep and persistent; religious. Suicidal tendency.

Head. Awakens at night with pain as from blow on head. Chronic headaches; hungry during attacks; with vertigo. Hammering pain; brain feels too large; worse, change of weather. Dull, pressive pain in occiput. Humid eruption on scalp; hair matted. Hair dry.

Eyes. Agglutinated. Blepharitis. Chronic ophthalmia, that constantly recurs. Edges of lids red. Secretion acrid.

Mouth. Obstinate rhagades at corners. Tongue, gums ulcerated; tough mucus of foul taste adheres to soft palate.

Nose. Dry, coryza, with stoppage of nose. Chronic catarrh; dropping from posterior nares. Acne rosacea.

Ears. Raw, red, oozing scabs around ears. Sore pain behind ears. Herpes from temples over ears to cheeks. Offensive discharge from eczema around ears. Intolerable itching. Chronic otorrhea. Most fetid pus from ears, brownish, offensive.

Face. Swelling of upper lip. Pale, delicate. Humid eruption on face. Sickly.

Throat. Tonsils greatly swollen; painful swallowing, with pain in ears. Profuse, offensive saliva; tough mucus in throat. Recurring quinsy. Eradicates tendency to quinsy. Hawking up of cheesy, pea-like balls of disgusting smell and taste. [Agar.]

Stomach. Eructations like bad eggs. Very hungry always; must have something to eat in the middle of the night. Nausea; vomiting of pregnancy. Pain in abdomen after eating.

Stool. Mucous, bloody, excessively fetid, dark fluid. Hard, difficult stool, with blood from rectum and burning piles. Constipation of infants, in pale, sickly scrofulous children.

Female. Leucorrhea fetid, lumpy, with much backache and debility. Mammae swollen and painful. Pimples oozing an acrid fluid that burns and excoriates the glands.

Respiratory. Asthma, with dyspnea; worse, sitting up; better, lying down and keeping arms spread wide apart. Dry, hard cough, with great weakness in chest. Feeling of ulceration under sternum. Pain in chest; better, lying down. Cough returns every winter, from suppressed eruption. Hay fever returning irregularly every year.

Extremities. Weakness of joints, as if they would not hold together. Eruption around fingernails. Fetid foot sweats.

Skin. Dirty, dingy look. Dry, lusterless, rough hair. Intolerable itching. Herpetic eruptions, especially on scalp and bends of joints with itching; worse, from warmth of bed. Enlarged glands. Sebaceous glands secrete excessively; oily skin. Indolent ulcers, slow to heal Eczema behind ears. Crusty eruptions all over. Urticaria after every exertion. Pustules near fingernails.

Fever. Profuse, offensive perspiration; night sweats.

Sleep. Sleepless from intolerable itching. Easily started.

Modalities. Worse, coffee; Psorinum patient does not improve while using coffee. Changes of weather, in hot sunshine, from cold. Dread of least cold air or draft. Better, heat, warm clothing, even in summer.

Relationship. Complementary: Sulph.
     Compare: In lack of reaction compare Calc.

Dose. Two hundredth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too often. Psorinum requires something like 9 days before it manifests its action, and even a single dose may elicit other symptoms lasting for weeks. (Aegedi.)

Pulsatilla
(Wind Flower)

     The weathercock among remedies.
     The disposition and mental state are the chief guiding symptoms to the selection of Pulsatilla. It is preeminently a female remedy, especially for mild, gentle, yielding disposition. Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory. The patient seeks the open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly. Mucous membranes are all affected. Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish green. Often indicated after abuse of Iron tonics, and after badly managed measles. Symptoms ever changing. Thirstless, peevish, and chilly. When first serious impairment of health is referred to age of puberty. Great sensitiveness. Wants the head high. Feels uncomfortable with only one pillow. Lies with hands above head.

Mind. Weeps easily. Timid, irresolute. Fears in evening to be alone, dark, ghosts. Likes sympathy. Children like fuss and caresses. Easily discouraged. Morbid dread of the opposite sex. Religious melancholy. Given to extremes of pleasure and pain. Highly emotional. Mentally, an April day.

Head. Wandering stitches about head; pains extend to face and teeth; vertigo; better in open air. Frontal and supraorbital pains. Neuralgic pains, commencing in right temporal region, with scalding lachrymation of affected side. Headache from overwork. Pressure on vertex.

Ears. Sensation as if something were being forced outward. Hearing difficult, as if the ear were stuffed. Otorrhea. Thick, bland discharge; offensive odor. External ear swollen and red. Catarrhal otitis. Otalgia, worse at night. Diminishes acuteness of hearing.

Eyes. Thick, profuse, yellow, bland discharges. Itching and burning in eyes. Profuse lachrymation and secretion of mucus. Lids inflamed, agglutinated. Styes. Veins of fundus oculi greatly enlarged. Ophthalmia neonatorum. Subacute conjunctivitis, with dyspepsia; worse, in warm room.

Nose. Coryza; stoppage of right nostril, pressing pain at root of nose. Loss of smell. Large green fetid scales in nose. Stoppage in evening. Yellow mucus; abundant in morning. Bad smells, as of old catarrh. Nasal bones sore.

Face. Right sided neuralgia, with profuse lachrymation. Swelling of lower lip, which is cracked in middle. Prosopalgia towards evening till midnight; chilly, with pain.

Mouth. Greasy taste. Dry mouth, without thirst; wants it washed frequently. Frequently licks the dry lips. Crack in middle of lower lip. Yellow or white tongue, covered with a tenacious mucus. Toothache; relieved by holding cold water in mouth. [Coff.] Offensive odor from mouth. [Merc.] Food, especially bread, tastes bitter. Much sweet saliva. Alterations of taste, bitter, bilious, greasy, salty, foul. Loss of taste. Desire for tonics.

Stomach. Averse to fat food, warm food, and drink. Eructations; taste of food remains a long time; after ices, fruits, pastry. Bitter taste, diminished taste of all food. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration. Flatulence. Dislikes butter. Heartburn. Dyspepsia, with great tightness after a meal; must loosen clothing. Thirstlessness, with nearly all complaints. Vomiting of food eaten long before. Pain in stomach an hour after eating. [Nux-v.] Weight as from a stone, especially in morning on awakening. Gnawing, hungry feeling. Perceptible pulsation in pit of stomach. All-gone sensation, especially in tea drinkers. Water brash, with foul taste in the morning.

Abdomen. Painful, distended; loud rumbling. Pressure as from a stone. Colic, with chilliness in evening.

Stool. Rumbling, watery; worse, night. No two stools alike. After fruit. [Ars.; Chin.] Blind hemorrhoids, with itching and sticking pains. Dysentery; mucus and blood, with chilliness. [Merc.; Rheum] Two or three normal stools daily.

Urine. Increased desire; worse when lying down. Burning in orifice of urethra during and after micturition. Involuntary micturition at night, while coughing or passing flatus. After urinating, spasmodic pain in bladder.

Female. Amenorrhea. [Cimic.] Suppressed menses from wet feet, nervous debility, or chlorosis. Tardy menses. Too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted, changeable, intermittent. Chilliness, nausea, downward pressure, painful, flow intermits. Leucorrhea acrid, burning, creamy. Pain in back; tired feeling. Diarrhea during or after menses.

Male. Orchitis; pain from abdomen to testicles. Thick, yellow discharge from urethra; late stage of gonorrhea. Stricture; urine passed only in drops, and stream interrupted. Acute prostatitis. Pain and tenesmus in urinating, worse lying on back.

Respiratory. Capricious hoarseness; comes and goes. Dry cough in evening and at night; must sit up in bed to get relief; and loose cough in the morning, with copious mucous expectoration. Pressure upon the chest and soreness. Great soreness of epigastrium. Urine emitted with cough. [Caust.] Pain as from ulcer in middle of chest. Expectoration bland, thick, bitter, greenish. Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when lying on left side. [Phos.] Smothering sensation on lying down.

Sleep. Wide awake in the evening; first sleep restless. Wakes languid, unrefreshed. Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon. Sleeps with hands over head.

Back. Shooting pain in the nape and back, between shoulders; in sacrum after sitting.

Extremities. Drawing, tensive pain in thighs and legs, with restlessness, sleeplessness, and chilliness. Pain in limbs, shifting rapidly; tensive pain, letting up with a snap. Numbness around elbow. Hip joint painful. Knees swollen, with tearing, drawing pains. Boring pain in heels toward evening; suffering worse from letting the affected limb hang down. Veins in forearms and hands swollen. Feet red, inflamed, swollen. Legs feel heavy and weary.

Skin. Urticaria, after rich food, with diarrhea, from delayed menses, worse undressing. Measles. Acne at puberty. Varicose veins.

Fever. Chilliness, even in warm room, without thirst. Chilly with pains, in spots, worse evening. Chill about 4 p.m. Intolerable burning heat at night, with distended veins; heat in parts of body, coldness in other. One-sided sweat; pains during sweat. External heat is intolerable, veins are distended. During apyrexia, headache, diarrhea, loss of appetite, nausea.

Modalities. Worse, from heat, rich fat food, after eating, towards evening, warm room, lying on left or on painless side, when allowing feet to hang down. Better, open air, motion, cold applications, cold food and drinks, though not thirsty.

Relationship. Compare: Kali-bi.; Kali-s.; Sulph.
     Complementary: Coff.; Cham.; Nux-v.

Dose. Third to thirtieth attenuation.

Pyrogenium
(Artificial Sepsin)

     This remedy was introduced by English Homeopathists, prepared from decomposed lean beef allowed to stand in the sun for two weeks and then potentized. The provings and most of the clinical experience have been obtained from this preparation. But, subsequently, Dr. Swan potentised some septic pus, which preparation has also been proved and clinically applied. There does not seem to be any marked difference in their effects.
     Pyrogen is the great remedy for septic states, with intense restlessness. "In septic fevers, especially puerperal, Pyrogen has demonstrated its great value as a homeopathic dynamic antiseptic" (H. C. Allen). Hectic, typhoid, typhus, ptomaine poisoning, diphtheria, dissecting wounds, sewer gas poisoning, chronic malaria, aftereffects of miscarriage, all these conditions at times may present symptoms calling for this unique medicine. All discharges are horribly offensive: menstrual, lochial, diarrhea, vomit, sweat, breath, etc. Great pain and violent burning in abscesses. Chronic complaints that date back to septic conditions. Threatening heart failure in zymotic and septic fevers. Influenza, typhoid symptoms.

Mind. Full of anxiety and insane notions. Loquacious. Thinks he is very wealthy. Restless. Feels if crowded with arms and legs. Cannot tell whether dreaming while awake or asleep.

Head. Painless throbbing. Fan-like motion of alae nasi. [Lyc.; Phos.] Bursting headache with restlessness.

Mouth. Tongue red and dry, clean, cracked, smooth, as though varnished. Throat dry, articulation difficult. Nausea and vomiting. Taste terribly fetid. Breath horrible.

Stomach. Coffee grounds vomiting. Vomits water, when it becomes warm in stomach.

Abdomen. Intolerable tenesmus of both bladder and rectum. Bloated, sore, cutting pain.

Stool. Diarrhea; horribly offensive, brown-black; painless, involuntary. Constipation, with complete inertia [Op.]; obstinate from impaction. Stools large, black, carrion-like, or small black balls.

Heart. Tired feeling about heart. Palpitation. Sensation as if heart were too full. Always can hear her heart beat. Pulse abnormally rapid, out of proportion to the temperature. Pain in region of left nipple. Conscious of heart.

Female. Puerperal peritonitis, with extreme fetor. Septicemia following abortion. Menses horribly offensive. Uterine hemorrhages. Fever at each menstrual period, consequent upon latent pelvic inflammation. Septic puerperal infection. Pelvic calculitis. Inflammatory exudate. Postoperative cases, with overwhelming sepsis.

Fever. Coldness and chilliness. Septic fevers. Latent pyogenic condition. Chill begins in back. Temperature rises rapidly. Great heat with profuse hot sweat, but sweating does not cause a fall in temperature.

Extremities. Throbbing in vessels of neck. Numbness of hands, arms, feet. Aching in all limbs and bones. Bed feels too hard. [Arn.] Great debility in the morning. Soreness; better by motion. [Rhus-t.] Rapid decubitus of septic origin.

Skin. Small cut or injury becomes much swollen and inflamed: discolored. Dry.

Sleep. Seems to be in semisleep. Dreams all night.

Modalities. Relief from motion.

Relationship. Compare: Carbo-v.; Ars.; Lach.; Rhus-t.; Bapt.
     Complementary: Bry.

Dose. Sixth to thirtieth and higher potencies. Should not be repeated too frequently.

Rheum
(Rhubarb)

     Of frequent use in children with sour diarrhea; difficult dentition. Whole child smells sour.

Mind. Impatient and vehement; desires many things and cries. [Cina]

Head. Sweat on hairy scalp; constant and profuse. Cool sweat on the face, especially about mouth and nose.

Mouth. Much saliva. Sensation of coolness in teeth. Difficult teething; restless and irritable. Breath smells sour. [Cham.]

Stomach. Desire for various kinds of food, but soon tires of all. Throbbing in pit. Feels full.

Abdomen. Colicky pain about navel. Colic when uncovering. Wind seems to rise up to chest.

Rectum. Before stool, unsuccessful urging to urinate. Stools smell sour, pasty, with shivering and tenesmus, and burning in anus. Sour diarrhea during dentition. Colicky, even ineffectual urging to evacuate altered fecal stools.

Modalities. Worse, uncovering, after eating, moving about.

Relationship. Compare: Mag-p.; Hep.; Podo.; Cham.; Ip.
     Antidote: Cham.
     Complementary: Mag-c.

Dose. Third to sixth potency.

Rhododendron
(Snow Rose)

     Rheumatic and gouty symptoms well marked. Rheumatism in the hot season. The modality (worse before a storm) is a true guiding symptom.

Mind. Dread of a storm; particularly afraid of thunder. Forgetful.

Head. Aching in temples. Tearing pain in bones. Headache; worse, wine, wind, cold and wet weather. Pain in eyes before a storm. Ciliary neuralgia, involving eyeball, orbit, and head. Heat in eyes when using them.

Eyes. Muscular asthenopia; darting pains through eyes from head, worse before a storm.

Ears. Difficult hearing, with whizzing and ringing in ears. Hearing better in the morning; noises come on after patient has been up a few hours.

Face. Prosopalgia; violent jerking pain involving dental nerves, from temple to lower jaw and chin; better, warmth and eating. Toothache in damp weather and before a storm. Swollen gums. Stumps of teeth are loosened.

Chest. Violent pleuritic pains running downward in left anterior chest. Breathless and speechless from violent pleuritic pains running down the anterior chest. Stitches in spleen from fast walking. Crampy pain under short ribs.

Male. Testicles, worse left, swollen, painful, drawn up. Orchitis; glands feel crushed. Induration and swelling of testes after gonorrhea. Hydrocele. [Sil.]

Extremities. Joints swollen. Gouty inflammation of great toe joint. Rheumatic tearing in all limbs, especially right side; worse, at rest and in stormy weather. Stiffness of neck. Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists; worse when at rest. Pains in bones in spots, and reappear by change of weather. Cannot sleep unless legs are crossed.

Modalities. Worse, before a storm. All symptoms reappear in rough weather, night, towards morning. Better, after the storm breaks, warmth, and eating.

Relationship. Compare: Dulc.; Rhus-t.; Nat-s.

Dose. First to sixth potency.

Rhus toxicodendron
(Poison Ivy)

     The effects on the skin, rheumatic pains, mucous membrane affections, and a typhoid type of fever, make this remedy frequently indicated. Rhus affects fibrous tissue markedly: joints, tendons, sheaths, aponeurosis, etc., producing pains and stiffness. Postoperative complications. Tearing asunder pains. Motion always "limbers up" the Rhus patient, and hence he feels better for a time from a change of position. Ailments from strains, overlifting, getting wet while perspiring. Septic conditions. Cellulitis and infections, carbuncles in early stages. Rheumatism in the cold season. Septicemia.

Mind. Listless, sad. Thoughts of suicide. Extreme restlessness, with continued change of position. Delirium, with fear of being poisoned. Sensorium becomes cloudy. Great apprehension at night, cannot remain in bed.

Head. Feels as if a board were strapped on the forehead. Vertigo when rising. Heavy head. Brain feels loose and as if struck against skull on walking or rising. Scalp sensitive; worse on side lain on. Headache in occiput; painful to touch. Pain in forehead and proceeds thence backward. Humid eruptions on scalp; itching greatly.

Eyes. Swollen, red, edematous; orbital cellulitis. Pustular inflammations. Photophobia; profuse flow of yellow pus. Edema of lids, suppurative iritis. Lids inflamed, agglutinated, swollen. Old injured eyes. Circumscribed corneal injection. Intensive ulceration of the cornea. Iritis, after exposure to cold and dampness, and of rheumatic origin. Eye painful on turning it or pressing, can hardly move it, as in acute retrobulbar neuritis. Profuse gush of hot, scalding tears upon opening lids.

Ears. Pain in ears, with sensation as if something were in them. Lobules swollen. Discharge of bloody pus.

Nose. Sneezing; coryza from getting wet. Tip of nose red, sore, ulcerated. Swelling of nose. Nosebleed on stooping.

Face. Jaws crack when chewing. Easy dislocation of jaw. [Ign.; Petr.] Swollen face, erysipelas. Cheek bones sensitive to touch. Parotitis. Facial neuralgia, with chilliness; worse, evening. Crusta lactea. [Calc.]

Mouth. Teeth feel loose and long; gums sore. Tongue red and cracked; coated, except red triangular space at the tip; dry and red at edges. Corners of mouth ulcerated; fever blisters around mouth and chin. [Nat-m.] Pain in maxillary joint.

Throat. Sore, with swollen glands. Sticking pain on swallowing. Parotitis, left side.

Stomach. Want of appetite for any kind of food, with unquenchable thirst. Bitter taste. [Cupr.] Nausea, vertigo, and bloated abdomen after eating. Desire for milk. Great thirst, with dry mouth and throat. Pressure as from a stone. [Bry.; Ars.] Drowsy after eating.

Abdomen. Violent pains, relieved by lying on abdomen. Swelling of inguinal glands. Pain in region of ascending colon. Colic, compelling to walk bent. Excessive distention after eating. Rumbling of flatus on first rising, but disappears with continued motion.

Rectum. Diarrhea of blood, slime, and reddish mucus. Dysentery, with tearing pains down thighs. Stools of cadaverous odor. Frothy, painless stools. Will often abort a beginning suppurative process near the rectum. Dysentery.

Urine. Dark, turbid, high colored, scanty urine, with white sediment. Dysuria, with loss of blood.

Male. Swelling of glands and prepuce: dark red erysipelatous; scrotum thick, swollen, edematous. Itching intense.

Female. Swelling, with intense itching of vulva. Pelvic articulations stiff when beginning to move. Menses early, profuse, and prolonged, acrid. Lochia thin, protracted, offensive diminished [Puls.], with shooting upwards in vagina. [Sep.]

Respiratory. Tickling behind upper sternum. Dry, teasing cough from midnight until morning, during a chill, or when putting hands out of bed. Hemoptysis from overexertion; blood bright red. Influenza, with aching in all bones. Hoarseness from overstraining voice. [Arn.] Oppression of the chest, cannot get breath with sticking pains. Bronchial coughs in old people, worse on awaking and with expectoration of small plugs of mucus.

Heart. Hypertrophy from overexertion. Pulse quick, weak, irregular, intermittent, with numbness of left arm. Trembling and palpitation when sitting still.

Back. Pain between shoulders on swallowing. Pain and stiffness in small of back; better, motion, or lying on something hard; worse, while sitting. Stiffness of the nape of the neck.

Extremities. Hot, painful swelling of joints. Pains tearing in tendons, ligaments, and fascia. Rheumatic pains spread over a large surface at nape of neck, loins, and extremities; better motion. [Agar.] Soreness of condyles of bones. Limbs stiff, paralyzed. The cold fresh air is not tolerated; it makes the skin painful. Pain along ulnar nerve. Tearing down thighs. Sciatica; worse, cold, damp weather, at night. Numbness and formication, after overwork and exposure. Paralysis; trembling after exertion. Tenderness about knee joint. Loss of power in forearm and fingers; crawling sensation in the tips of fingers. Tingling in feet.

Fever. Adynamic; restless, trembling. Typhoid; tongue dry and brown; sordes; bowels loose; great restlessness. Intermittent; chill, with dry cough and restlessness. During heat, urticaria. Hydroa. Chilly, as if cold water were poured over him, followed by heat and inclination to stretch the limbs.

Skin. Red, swollen; itching intense. Vesicles, herpes; urticaria; pemphigus; erysipelas; vesicular suppurative forms. Glands swollen. Cellulitis. Burning eczematous eruptions with tendency to scale formation.

Sleep. Dreams of great exertion. Heavy sleep, as from stupor. Sleepless before midnight.

Modalities. Worse, during sleep, cold, wet rainy weather and after rain; at night, during rest, drenching, when lying on back or right side. Better, warm, dry weather, motion; walking, change of position, rubbing, warm applications, from stretching out limbs.

Relationship. Complementary: Bry.; Calc-f.; Phyt. (Rheumatism).
     Inimical: Apis
     Antidote: Bathing with Milk and Grindelia lotion very effective. Anac.; Graph.
     Compare: Arn.; Bapt.; Lach.; Ars.; Op. (stupefaction more profound).

Dose. Sixth to thirtieth potency. The two hundredth and higher are antidotal to poisoning with the plant and tincture.

Rumex
(Yellow Dock)

     Is characterized by pains, numerous and varied, neither fixed nor constant anywhere. Cough caused by an incessant tickling in the throat pit, which tickling runs down to the bifurcation of the bronchial tubes. Touching the throat pit brings on the cough. Worse from the least cold air; so that all cough ceases by covering up all the body and head with the bedclothes. Rumex diminishes the secretions of mucous membranes, and at the same time exalts sensibility of the mucous membranes of the larynx and trachea. Its action upon the skin is marked, producing an intense itching. Lymphatics enlarged and secretions perverted.

Stomach. Tongue sore at edges; coated; sensation of hard substance in pit of stomach; hiccough, pyrosis, nausea; cannot eat meat; it causes eructations, pruritus. Jaundice after excessive use of alcoholics. Chronic gastritis; aching pain in pit of stomach and shooting in the chest; extends towards the throat pit, worse any motion or talking. Pain in left breast after meals; flatulence.

Respiratory. Nose dry. Tickling in throat pit causes cough. Copious mucous discharge from nose and trachea. Dry, teasing cough, preventing sleep. Aggravated by pressure, talking, and especially by inspiring cool air and at night. Thin, watery, frothy expectoration by the mouthful; later, stringy and tough. Rawness of larynx and trachea. Soreness behind sternum, especially left side, in region of left shoulder. Raw pain under clavicle. Lump in throat.

Stool. Brown, watery, diarrhea early in morning, with cough, driving him out of bed. Valuable in advanced phthisis. [Puls.; Lyc.; Ars.] Itching of anus, with sensation as of a stick in rectum. Piles.

Skin. Intense itching of skin, especially of lower extremities; worse, exposure to cold air when undressing. Urticaria; contagious prurigo.

Modalities. Worse, in evening, from inhaling cold air; left chest; uncovering.

Relationship. Compare: Caust.; Sulph.; Bell.; Rumex contains chrysophanic acid to which the skin symptoms correspond.

Dose. Third to sixth potency.

Ruta
(Rue)

     Acts upon the periosteum and cartilages, eyes and uterus. Complaints from straining flexor tendons especially. Tendency to the formation of deposits in the periosteum, tendons, and about joints, especially wrist. Overstrain of ocular muscles. All parts of the body are painful, as if bruised. Sprains (after Arn.). Lameness after sprains. Jaundice. Feeling of intense lassitude, weakness and despair. Injured "bruised" bones.

Head. Pain as from a nail; after excessive intoxicating drinks. Periosteum sore. Epistaxis.

Eyes. Eye strain followed by headache. Eyes red, hot, and painful from sewing or reading fine print. [Nat-m.; Arg-n.] Disturbances of accommodation. Weary pain while reading. Pressure deep in orbits. Tarsal cartilage feels bruised. Pressure over eyebrow. Asthenopia.

Stomach. Gastralgia of aching, gnawing character.

Urine. Pressure in neck of bladder after urinating; painful closure. [Apis] Constant urging to urinate, feels bladder full.

Rectum. Difficult feces, evacuated only with straining. Constipation, alternating with mucous, frothy stools; discharge of blood with stool. When sitting, tearing stitches in rectum. Carcinoma affecting lower bowel. Prolapsus ani every time the bowels move, after confinement. Frequent, unsuccessful urging to stool. Protrusion of rectum when stooping.

Respiratory. Cough with copious, thick, yellow expectoration; chest feels weak. Painful spot on sternum; short breath with tightness of chest.

Back. Pain in nape, back and loins. Backache better pressure and lying on back. Lumbago worse morning before rising.

Extremities. Spine and limbs feel bruised. Small of back and loins pain. Legs give out on rising from a chair, hips and thighs so weak. [Phos.; Con.] Contraction of fingers. Pain and stiffness in wrists and hands. Ganglia. Sciatica; worse, lying down at night; pain from back down hips and thighs. Hamstrings feel shortened. [Graph.] Tendons sore. Aching pain in Achilles tendon. Thighs pain when stretching the limbs. Pain in bones of feet and ankles. Great restlessness.

Modalities. Worse, lying down, from cold, wet weather.

Relationship. Compare: Phyt.; Rhus-t.; Sil.; Arn.
     Complementary: Calc-p.

Dose. First to sixth potency. Locally, the tincture for ganglia and as a lotion for the eyes.

Sarsaparilla
(Smilax)

     Renal colic; marasmus and periosteal pains due to venereal disease. Eruptions following hot weather and vaccinations; boils, and eczema. Urinary symptoms well marked.

Mind. Despondent, sensitive, easily offended, ill humored and taciturn.

Head. Pains cause depression. Shooting pain from above right temporal region. Pains from occiput to eyes. Words reverberate in ear to the root of nose. Periosteal pains due to venereal disease. Influenza. Scalp sensitive. Eruptions on face and upper lip. Moist eruption on scalp. Crusta lactea beginning in face.

Mouth. Tongue white; aphthae; salivation; metallic taste; no thirst. Fetid breath.

Abdomen. Rumbling and fermentation. Colic and backache at the same time. Much flatus; cholera infantum.

Urine. Urine scanty, slimy, flaky, sandy, bloody. Gravel. Renal colic. Severe pain at conclusion of urination. Urine dribbles while sitting. Bladder distended and tender. Child screams before and while passing urine. Sand on diaper. Renal colic and dysuria in infants. Pain from right kidney downward. Tenesmus of bladder; urinepasses in thin, feeble stream. Pain at meatus.

Male. Bloody, seminal emissions. Intolerable stench on genitals. Herpetic eruption on genitals. Itching on scrotum and perineum. Syphilis; squamous eruption and bone pains.

Female. Nipples small, withered, retracted. Before menstruation, itching and humid eruption of forehead. Menses late and scanty. Moist eruption in right groin before menses.

Skin. Emaciated, shriveled, lies in folds, dry, flabby. Herpetic eruptions; ulcers. Rash from exposure to open air; dry, itching; comes on in spring; becomes crusty. Rhagades; skin cracked on hands and feet. Skin hard, indurated. Summer cutaneous affections.

Extremities. Paralytic, tearing pains. Trembling of hands and feet. Burning on sides of fingers and toes. Onychia, ulceration around ends of fingers, cutting sensation under nails. Rheumatism, bone pains; worse at night. Deep rhagades on fingers and toes; burn under nails. Tetter on hands; ulceration around ends of fingers. [Psor.] Cutting sensation under nails. [Petr.] Rheumatic pains after gonorrhea.

Modalities. Worse, dampness at night, after urinating, when yawning, in spring, before menses.

Relationship. Complementary: Merc.; Sep.
     Compare: Berb.; Lyc.; Nat-m.; Petr.
     Antidote: Bell.

Dose. First to sixth potency.

Sepia
(Cuttlefish Ink)

     Acts specially on the portal system, with venous congestion. Stasis and thereby ptosis of viscera and weariness and misery. Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation, especially in women, upon whose organism it has most pronounced effect. Pain extend down to back, chills easily. Tendency to abortion. Hot flashes at menopause with weakness and perspiration. Upward tendency of its symptoms. Easy fainting. "Ball" sensation in inner parts. Sepia acts best on brunettes. All pains are from below up. One of the most important uterine remedies. Tubercular patients with chronic hepatic troubles and uterine reflexes. Feels cold even in warm room. Pulsating headache in cerebellum.

Mind. Indifferent to those loved best. Averse to occupation, to family. Irritable; easily offended. Dreads to be alone. Very sad. Weeps when telling symptoms. Miserly. Anxious toward evening; indolent.

Head. Vertigo, with sensation of something rolling round in head. Prodromal symptoms of apoplexy. Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left, or in forehead, with nausea, vomiting; worse indoors and when lying on painful side. Jerking of head backwards and forwards. Coldness of vertex. Headache in terrible shocks at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow. Hair falls out. Open fontanelles. Roots of hair sensitive. Pimples on forehead near hair.

Nose. Thick, greenish discharge; thick plugs and crusts. Yellowish saddle across nose. Atrophic catarrh with greenish crusts from anterior nose and pain at root of nose. Chronic nasal catarrh, especially postnasal, dropping of heavy, lumpy discharges; must be hawked through the mouth.

Eyes. Muscular asthenopia; black spots in the field of vision; asthenic inflammations, and in connection with uterine trouble. Aggravation of eye troubles morning and evening. Tarsal tumors. Ptosis, ciliary irritation. Venous congestion of the fundus.

Ears. Herpes behind ears on nape of neck. Pain as if from subcutaneous ulceration. Swelling and eruption of external ear.

Face. Yellow blotches; pale or sallow; yellow about mouth. Rosacea; saddle-like brownish distribution on nose and cheeks.

Mouth. Tongue white. Taste salty, putrid. Tongue foul, but clears during menses. Swelling and cracking of lower lip. Pain in teeth from 6 p.m. until midnight; worse on lying.

Stomach. Feeling of goneness; not relieved by eating. [Carbo-an.] Nausea at smell or sight of food. Nausea worse lying on side. Tobacco dyspepsia. Everything tastes too salty. [Carbo-v.; Chin.] Band of pain about four inches wide encircling hypochondria. Nausea in morning before eating. Disposition to vomit after eating. Burning in pit of stomach. Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles. Worse, after milk, especially when boiled. Acid dyspepsia with bloated abdomen, sour eructations. Loathes fat.

Abdomen. Flatulent, with headache. Liver sore and painful; relieved by lying on right side. Many brown spots on abdomen. Feeling of relaxation and bearing-down in abdomen.

Rectum. Bleeding at stool and fullness of rectum. Constipation; large, hard stools; feeling of a ball in rectum; cannot strain; with great tenesmus and pains shooting upward. Dark brown, round balls glued together with mucus. Soft stool, difficult. Prolapsus ani. [Podo.] Almost constant oozing from anus. Infantile diarrhea, worse from boiled milk, and rapid exhaustion. Pains shoot up in rectum and vagina.

Urine. Red, adhesive, sand in urine. Involuntary urination, during first sleep. Chronic cystitis, slow micturition, with bearing-down sensation above pubis.

Male. Organs cold. Offensive perspiration. Gleet; discharge from urethra only during night; no pain. Condylomata surround head of penis. Complaints from coition.

Female. Pelvic organs relaxed. Bearing-down sensation as if everything would escape through vulva [Bell.; Nat-c.; Podo.]; must cross limbs to prevent protrusion, or press against vulva. Leucorrhea yellow, greenish: with much itching. Menses too late and scanty, irregular; early and profuse; sharp clutching pains. Violent stitches upward in the vagina, from uterus to umbilicus. Prolapse of uterus and vagina. Morning sickness. Vagina painful, especially on coition.

Respiratory. Dry, fatiguing cough, apparently coming from stomach. Rotten egg taste with coughing. Oppression of chest morning and evening. Dyspnea; worse, after sleep; better, rapid motion. Cough in morning, with profuse expectoration, tasting salty. [Phos.] Hypostatic pleuritis. Whooping cough that drags on. Cough excited by tickling in larynx or chest.

Heart. Violent, intermittent palpitation. Beating in all arteries. Tremulous feeling with flushes.

Back. Weakness in small of back. Pains extend into back. Coldness between shoulders.

Extremities. Lower extremities lame and stiff, tension as if too short. Heaviness and bruised feeling. Restlessness in all limbs, twitching and jerkings night and day. Pain in heel. Coldness of legs and feet.

Fever. Frequent flushes of heat; sweat from least motion. General lack of warmth of body. Feet cold and wet. Shivering, with thirst; worse, towards evening.

Skin. Herpes circinatus in isolated spots. Itching; not relieved by scratching; worse in bends of elbows and knees. Chloasma; herpetic eruption on lips, about mouth and nose. Ringworm-like eruption every spring. Urticaria on going in open air; better in warm room. Hyperidrosis and bromidrosis. Sweat on feet, worse on toes; intolerable odor. Lentigo in young women. Ichthyosis with offensive odor of skin.

Modalities. Worse, forenoons and evenings; washing, laundry work, dampness, left side, after sweat; cold air, before thunderstorm. Better, by exercise, pressure, warmth of bed, hot applications, drawing limbs up, cold bathing, after sleep.

Relationship. Complementary: Nat-m.; Phos. Nux Vomica intensifies action.
     Inimical: Lach.; Puls.
     Compare: Sil.; Sulph.

Dose. Twelfth, thirtieth and two hundredth potency. Should not be used too low or be repeated too frequently. On the other hand Dr. Jousset's unique experience is that it should be continued for some time in strong doses. 1X twice a day.

Silica
(Pure Flint)

     Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective nutrition. It goes further and produces neurasthenic states in consequence, and increased susceptibility to nervous stimuli and exaggerated reflexes. Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis. Silica can stimulate the organism to reabsorb fibrotic conditions and scar tissue. In phthisis must be used with care, for here it may cause the absorption of scar tissue, liberate the disease, walled in, to new activities. (J. Weir.) Organic changes; it is deep and slow in action. Periodical states; abscesses, quinsy, headaches, spasms, epilepsy, feeling of coldness before an attack. Keloid growth. Scrofulous, rachitic children, with large head, open fontanelles and sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking. Ill effects of vaccination. Suppurative processes. It is related to all fistulous burrowings. Ripens abscesses since it promotes suppuration. Silica patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter. Lack of vital heat. Prostration of mind and body. Great sensitiveness to taking cold. Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants. Ailments attended with pus formation. Epilepsy. Want of grit, moral or physical.

Mind. Yielding, faint hearted, anxious. Nervous and excitable. Sensitive to all impressions. Brain-fag. Obstinate, headstrong children. Abstracted. Fixed ideas; thinks only of pins, fears them, searches and counts them.

Head. Aches from fasting. Vertigo from looking up; better, wrapping up warmly; when lying on left side. [Mag-m.] Profuse sweat of head, offensive, and extends to neck. Pain begins at occiput, and spreads over head and settles over eyes. Swelling in the glabella.

Eyes. Angles of eyes affected. Swelling of lachrymal duct. Aversion to light, especially daylight; it produces dazzling, sharp pain through eyes; eyes tender to touch; worse when closed. Vision confused; letters run together on reading. Styes. Iritis and iridochoroiditis, with pus in anterior chamber. Perforating or sloughing ulcer of cornea. Abscess in cornea after traumatic injury. Cataract in office workers. Aftereffects of keratitis and ulcus cornae, clearing the opacity. Use 30th potency for months.

Ears. Fetid discharge. Caries of mastoid. Loud pistol-like report. Sensitive to noise. Roaring in ears.

Nose. Itching at point of nose. Dry, hard crusts form, bleeding when loosened. Nasal bones sensitive. Sneezing in morning. Obstructed and loss of smell. Perforation of septum.

Face. Skin cracked on margin of lips. Eruption on chin. Facial neuralgia, throbbing, tearing, face red; worse, cold damp.

Mouth. Sensation of a hair on tongue. Gums sensitive to cold air. Boils on gums. Abscess at root of teeth. Pyorrhea. Sensitive to cold water.

Throat. Periodical quinsy. Pricking as of a pin in tonsil. Colds settle in throat. Parotid glands swollen. [Bell.; Rhus-t.; Calc.] Stinging pain on swallowing. Hard, cold swelling of cervical glands.

Stomach. Disgust for meat and warm food. On swallowing food, it easily gets into posterior nares. Want of appetite; thirst excessive. Sour eructations after eating. [Sep.; Calc.] Pit of stomach painful to pressure. Vomiting after drinking. [Ars.; Verat.]

Abdomen. Pain or painful cold feeling in abdomen, better external heat. Hard, bloated. Colic; cutting pain, with constipation; yellow hands and blue nails. Much rumbling in bowels. Inguinal glands swollen and painful. Hepatic abscess.

Rectum. Feels paralyzed. Fistula in ano. [Berb.; Lach.] Fissures and hemorrhoids, painful, with spasm of sphincter. Stool comes down with difficulty; when partly expelled, recedes again. Great straining; rectum stings; closes upon stool. Feces remain a long time in rectum. Constipation always before and during menses; with irritable sphincter ani. Diarrhea of cadaverous odor.

Urine. Bloody, involuntary, with red or yellow sediment. Prostatic fluid discharged when straining at stool. Nocturnal enuresis in children with worms.

Male. Burning and soreness of genitals, with eruption on inner surface of thighs. Chronic gonorrhea, with thick, fetid discharge. Elephantiasis of scrotum. Sexual erethism; nocturnal emissions. Hydrocele.

Female. A milky [Calc.; Puls.; Sep.], acrid leucorrhea, during urination. Itching of vulva and vagina; very sensitive. Discharge of blood between menstrual periods. Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body. Nipples very sore; ulcerated easily; drawn in. Fistulous ulcers of breast. [Phos.] Abscess of labia. Discharge of blood from vagina every time child is nursed. Vaginal cysts. [Lyc.; Puls.; Rhod.] Hard lumps in breast. [Con.]

Respiratory. Colds fail to yield; sputum persistently mucopurulent and profuse. Slow recovery after pneumonia. Cough and sore throat, with expectoration of little granules like shot, which, when broken, smell very offensive. Cough with expectoration in day, bloody or purulent. Stitches in chest through to back. Violent cough when lying down, with thick, yellow lumpy expectoration; suppurative stage of expectoration.

Back. Weak spine; very susceptible to drafts on back. Pain in coccyx. Spinal irritation after injuries to spine; diseases of bones of spine. Potts' disease.

Sleep. Night walking; gets up while asleep. Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head. Frequent starts in sleep. Anxious dreams. Excessive gaping.

Extremities. Sciatica, pains through hips, legs and feet. Cramp in calves and soles. Loss of power in legs. Tremulous hands when using them. Paralytic weakness of forearm. Affections of fingernails, especially if white spots on nails. Ingrowing toenails. Icy cold and sweaty feet. The parts lain on go to sleep. Offensive sweat on feet, hands, and axillae. Sensation in tips of fingers, as if suppurating. Panaritium. Pain in knee, as if tightly bound. Calves tense and contacted. Pain beneath toes. Soles sore. [Ruta] Soreness in feet from instep through to the sole. Suppurates.

Skin. Felons, abscesses, boils, old fistulous ulcers. Delicate, pale, waxy. Cracks at end of fingers. Painless swelling of glands. Rose colored blotches. Scars suddenly become painful. Pus offensive. Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from tissues. Every little injury suppurates. Long lasting suppuration and fistulous tracts. Dry finger tips. Eruptions itch only in daytime and evening. Crippled nails. Indurated tumors. Abscesses of joints. After impure vaccination. Bursa. Lepra, nodes, and coppery spots. Keloid growths.

Fever. Chilliness; very sensitive to cold air. Creeping, shivering over the whole body. Cold extremities, even in a warm room. Sweat at night; worse towards morning. Suffering parts feel cold.

Modalities. Worse, new moon, in morning, from washing, during menses, uncovering, lying down, damp, lying on left side, cold. Better, warmth, wrapping up head, summer; in wet or humid weather.

Relationship. Complementary: Thuj.; Puls. Mercurius and Silica do not follow each other well.
     Compare: Hep.; Kali-p.; Calc.; Phos.

Dose. Sixth to thirtieth potency. The two hundredth and higher of unquestioned activity. In malignant affections, the lowest potencies needed at times.

Spongia tosta
(Roasted Sponge)

     A remedy especially marked in the symptoms of the respiratory organs, cough, croup, etc. Heart affections and often indicated for the tubercular diathesis. Children with fair complexion, lax fiber; swollen glands. Exhaustion and heaviness of the body after slight exertion, with orgasm of blood to chest, face. Anxiety and difficult breathing.

Mind. Anxiety and fear. Every excitement increases the cough.

Head. Rush of blood; bursting headache; worse, forehead.

Eyes. Watering; gummy or mucus discharge.

Nose. Fluent coryza, alternating with stoppage. Dryness; chronic, dry, nasal catarrh.

Mouth. Tongue dry and brown; full of vesicles.

Throat. Thyroid gland swollen. Stitches and dryness. Burning and stinging. Sore throat; worse after eating sweet things. Tickling causes cough. Clears throat constantly.

Stomach. Excessive thirst, great hunger. Cannot bear tight clothing around trunk. Hiccough.

Male. Swelling of spermatic cord and testicles, with pain and tenderness. Orchitis. Epididymitis. Heat in parts.

Female. Before menses, pain in sacrum, hunger, palpitation. During menses, wakes with suffocative spells. [Cupr.; Lach.] Amenorrhea, with asthma. [Puls.]

Respiratory. Great dryness of all air passages. Hoarseness; larynx dry, burns, constricted. Cough, dry, barking, croupy; larynx sensitive to touch. Croup; worse, during inspiration and before midnight. Respiration short, panting, difficult; feeling of a plug in larynx. Cough abates after eating or drinking, especially warm drinks. The dry, chronic sympathetic cough or organic heart disease is relieved by Spongia. [Naja] Irrepressible cough from a spot deep in chest, as if raw and sore. Chest weak; can scarcely talk. Laryngeal phthisis. Goitre, with suffocative spells. Bronchial catarrh, with wheezing, asthmatic cough, worse cold air, with profuse expectoration and suffocation; worse, lying with head low and in hot room. Oppression and heat of chest, with sudden weakness.

Heart. Rapid and violent palpitation, with dyspnea; cannot lie down; also feels best resting in horizontal position. Awakened suddenly after midnight with pain and suffocation; is flushed, hot, and frightened to death. [Acon.] Valvular insufficiency. Angina pectoris; faintness, and anxious sweat. Ebullition of blood, veins distended. Surging of heart into chest, as if it would force out upward. Hypertrophy of heart, especially right, with asthmatic symptoms.

Skin. Swelling and induration of glands; also exophthalmic; cervical glands swollen with tensive pain on turning head, painful on pressure; goitre. Itching; measles.

Sleep. Awakes in a fright, and feels as if suffocating. Generally worse after sleep, or sleeps into an aggravation. [Lach.]

Fever. Attacks of heat with anxiety; heat and redness of face and perspiration.

Modalities. Worse, ascending, wind, before midnight. Better, descending, lying with head low.

Relationship. Compare: Acon.; Hep.; Lach.

Dose. Second trituration, or tincture to third potency.

Staphisagria
(Stavesacre)

     Nervous affections with marked irritability, diseases of the genitourinary tract and skin, most frequently give symptoms calling for this drug. Acts on teeth and alveolar periosteum. Ill effects of anger and insults. Sexual sins and excesses. Very sensitive. Lacerated tissues. Pain and nervousness after extraction of teeth. Sphincters lacerated or stretched.

Mind. Impetuous, violent outbursts of passion, hypochondriacal, sad. Very sensitive as to what others say about her. Dwells on sexual matters; prefers solitude. Peevish. Child cries for many things, and refuses them when offered.

Head. Stupefying headache; passes off with yawning. Brain feels squeezed. Sensation of a ball of lead in forehead. Itching eruption above and behind ears.

Eyes. Heat in eyeballs, dims spectacles. Recurrent styes. Chalazae. Eyes sunken, with blue rings. Margin of lids itch. Affections of angles of eye, particularly the inner. Lacerated or incised wounds of cornea. Bursting pain in eyeballs of syphilitic iritis.

Throat. Stitches flying to the ear on swallowing, especially left.

Mouth. Toothache during menses. Teeth black and crumbling. Salivation, spongy gums, bleed easily. [Merc.] Submaxillary glands swollen. After eating feels sleepy. Pyorrhea.

Stomach. Flabby and weak. Desire for stimulants. Stomach feels relaxed. Craving for tobacco. Canine hunger, even when stomach is full. Nausea after abdominal operations.

Abdomen. Colic after anger. Hot flatus. Swollen abdomen in children, with much flatus. Colic, with pelvic tenesmus. Severe pain following an abdominal operation. Incarcerated flatus. Diarrhea after drinking cold water, with tenesmus. Constipation (2 drops tincture night and morning), hemorrhoids, with enlarged prostate.

Male. Especially after self-abuse; persistent dwelling on sexual subjects. Spermatorrhea, with sunken features; guilty look; emissions, with backache and weakness and sexual neurasthenia. Dyspnea after coition.

Female. Parts very sensitive, worse sitting down. [Berb.] Irritable bladder in young married women. Leucorrhea. Prolapsus, with sinking in the abdomen; aching around the hips.

Urine. Cystocele (locally and internally). Cystitis in lying-in patients. Ineffectual urging to urinate in newly married women. Pressure upon bladder; feels as if it did not empty. Sensation as if a drop of urine were rolling continuously along the channel. Burning in urethra during micturition. Prostatic troubles; frequent urination, burning in urethra when not urinating. [Thuj.] Urging and pain after urinating. Pain after lithotomy.

Skin. Eczema of head, ears, face, and body; thick scabs, dry, and itch violently; scratching changes location of itching. Fig warts pedunculated. [Thuj.] Arthritic nodes. Inflammation of phalanges. Night sweats.

Extremities. Muscles, especially of calves, feel bruised. Backache; worse in morning before rising. Extremities feel beaten and painful. Joints stiff. Crural neuralgia. Dull aching of nates extending to hip joint and small of back.

Modalities. Worse, anger, indignation, grief, mortification, loss of fluids, onanism, sexual excesses, tobacco; least touch on affected parts. Better, after breakfast, warmth, rest at night.

Relationship. Complementary: Caust.; Coloc.
     Compare: Coloc.; Caust.; Ign.; Ph-ac.

Dose. Third to thirtieth potency.

Sulphur
(Sublimated Sulphur)

     This is the great Hahnemannian antipsoric. Its action is centrifugal (from within outward) having an elective affinity for the skin, where it produces heat and burning, with itching; made worse by heat of bed. Inertia and relaxation of fiber; hence feebleness of tone characterizes its symptoms. Ebullitions of heat, dislike of water, dry and hard hair and skin, red orifices, sinking feeling at stomach about 11 a.m., and catnap sleep; always indicate Sulphur homeopathically. Standing is the worse position for Sulphur patients, it is always uncomfortable. Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections. Aversion to being washed. When carefully selected remedies fail to act, especially in acute diseases, it frequently arouses the reactionary powers of the organism. Complaints that relapse. General offensive character of discharge and exhalations. Very red lips and face, flushing easily. Often great use in beginning the treatment of chronic cases and in finishing acute ones.

Mind. Very forgetful. Difficult thinking. Delusions; thinks rags beautiful things: that he is immensely wealthy. Busy all the time. Childish peevishness in grown people. Irritable. Affections vitiated; very selfish, no regard for others. Religious melancholy. Averse to business; loafs: too lazy to arouse himself. Imagining giving wrong things to people, causing their death. Sulphur subjects are nearly always irritable, depressed, thin and weak, even with good appetite.

Head. Constant heat on top of head. [Graph.] Heaviness and fullness, pressure in temples. Beating headache; worse, stooping, and with vertigo. Sick headache recurring periodically. Tinea capitis, dry form. Scalp dry, falling of hair; worse, washing. Itching; scratching causes burning.

Eyes. Burning ulceration of margin of lids. Halo around lamp light. Heat and burning in eyes. [Ars.; Bell.] Black motes before eyes. First stage of ulceration of cornea. Chronic ophthalmia, with much burning and itching. Parenchymatous keratitis. Cornea like ground glass.

Ears. Whizzing in ears. Bad effects from the suppression of an otorrhea. Oversensitive to odors. Deafness, preceded by exceedingly sensitive hearing; catarrhal deafness.

Nose. Herpes across the nose. Nose stuffed indoors. Imaginary foul smells. Alae red and scabby. Chronic dry catarrh; dry scabs and readily bleeding. Polypus and adenoids.

Mouth. Lips dry, bright red, burning. Bitter taste in morning. Jerks through teeth. Swelling of gums; throbbing pain. Tongue white, with red tip and borders.

Throat. Pressure as from a lump, as from a splinter, as of a hair. Burning, redness and dryness. Ball seems to rise and close pharynx.

Stomach. Complete loss of, or excessive appetite. Putrid eructation. Food tastes too salty. Drinks much, eats little. Milk disagrees. Great desire for sweets. [Arg-n.] Great acidity, sour eructation. Burning, painful, weight-like pressure. Very weak and faint about 11 a.m.; must have something to eat. Nausea during gestation. Water fills the patient up.

Abdomen. Very sensitive to pressure; internal feeling of rawness and soreness. Movements as of something alive. [Thuj.] Pain and soreness over liver. Colic after drinking.

Rectum. Itching and burning of anus; piles dependent upon abdominal plethora. Frequent, unsuccessful desire; hard, knotty, insufficient. Child afraid on account of pain. Redness around the anus, with itching. Morning diarrhea, painless, drives out of bed, with prolapsus recti. Hemorrhoids, oozing and belching.

Urine. Frequent micturition, especially at night. Enuresis, especially in scrofulous, untidy children. Burning in urethra during micturition, lasts long after. Mucus and pus in urine; parts sore over which it passes. Must hurry, sudden call to urinate. Great quantities of colorless urine.

Male. Stitches in penis. Involuntary emissions. Itching of genitals when going to bed. Organs cold, relaxed and powerless.

Female. Pudenda itches. Vagina burns. Much offensive perspiration. Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore. Menses preceded by headache or suddenly stopped. Leucorrhea, burning, excoriating. Nipples cracked; smart and burn.

Respiratory. Oppression and burning sensation in chest. Difficult respiration; wants windows open. Aphonia. Heat, throughout chest. Red, brown spots all over chest. Loose cough; worse talking, morning, greenish, purulent, sweetish expectoration. Much rattling of mucus. Chest feels heavy; stitches, with heart feeling too large and palpitating. Pleuritic exudations. Use Tinctura sulphuris. Stitching pains shooting through to the back, worse lying on back or breathing deeply. Flushes of heat in chest rising to head. Oppression, as of a load on chest. Dyspnea in middle of night, relieved by sitting up. Pulse more rapid in morning than in evening.

Back. Drawing pain between shoulders. Stiffness of nape. Sensation as if vertebrae glided over each other.

Extremities. Trembling of hands. Hot, sweaty hands. Rheumatic pain in left shoulder. Heaviness; paretic feeling. Rheumatic gout, with itching. Burning in soles and hands at night. Sweat in armpits, smelling like garlic. Drawing and tearing in arms and hands. Stiffness of knees and ankles. Cannot walk erect; stoop-shouldered. Ganglion.

Sleep. Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep. Vivid dreams. Wakes up singing. Wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly. Catnaps; slightest noise awakens. Cannot sleep between 2 and 5 a.m.

Fever. Frequent flashes of heat. Violent ebullitions of heat throughout entire body. Dry skin and great thirst. Night sweat, on nape and occiput. Perspiration of single parts. Disgusting sweats. Remittent type.

Skin. Dry, scaly, unhealthy; every little injury suppurates. Freckles. Itching, burning; worse scratching and washing. Pimply eruption, pustules, rhagades, hangnails. Excoriation, especially in folds. [Lyc.] Feeling of a band around bones. Skin affections after local medication. Pruritus, especially from warmth, in evening, often recurs in springtime, in damp weather.

Modalities. Worse, at rest, when standing, warmth in bed, washing, bathing, in morning, 11 a.m., night, from alcoholic stimulants, periodically. Better, dry, warm weather, lying on right side, from drawing up affected limbs.

Relationship. Complementary: Psor.; Acon.
     Compare: Acon. (Sulphur often follows in acute diseases); Mercurius and Calcarea are frequently useful after Sulphur, not before. Lyc.; Sep.; Sars.; Puls.

Dose. Acts in all potencies from the lowest to the highest. Some of the best results are obtained from the higher, and not too frequent doses. The twelfth potency is a good one to begin treatment with, going higher or lower according to the susceptibility of the patient. In chronic diseases, two hundredth and upward. In torpid eruptions the lowest potencies.

Sulphuricum acidum
(Sulphuric Acid)

     The "debility" common to acids shows itself here, especially in the digestive tract, giving a very relaxed feeling in the stomach, with craving for stimulants. Tremor and weakness; everything must be done in a hurry. Hot flushes, followed by perspiration, with trembling. Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries. Writer's cramp. Lead poisoning. Gastralgia and hypochlorhydria. Purpura hemorrhagia.

Mind. Fretful, impatient. Unwilling to answer questions; hurried.

Head. Right sided neuralgia; painful shocks; skin feels pinched. Sensation as if brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side. [Bell.; Rhus-t.] Concussion of brain where skin is cold, body bathed in cold sweat. Compressive pain in side of occiput; relieved by holding the hands near the head. Pain of outer parts, as if there were subcutaneous ulceration; painful to touch. Thrust in right temple as if plug were pressed in.

Eyes. Intraocular hemorrhage following traumatism. Great chemosis of conjunctiva, with aching and sharp pain.

Mouth. Aphthae; gums bleed readily. Offensive breath. Pyorrhea.

Stomach. Heartburn; sour eructations; sets teeth on edge. Craving for alcohol. Water causes coldness of stomach; must be mixed with liquors. Relaxed feeling in stomach. Averse to smell of coffee. Sour vomiting. Desire for fresh food. Hiccough. Coldness of stomach relieved by applied heat. Nausea with chilliness.

Abdomen. Weak feeling, with dragging into the hips and small of back. Feeling as if hernia would protrude, especially left side.

Rectum. Piles; oozing dampness. Rectum feels as if it had a big ball. Diarrhea, fetid, black, with sour odor of body, and empty faint feeling in abdomen.

Female. Menstruation early and profuse. Erosion of cervix in the aged; easily bleeding. Acrid, burning leucorrhea, often of bloody mucus.

Respiratory. Respiration rapid with shooting in cervical muscles and movement of wings of nose; larynx moves up and down violently. Bronchitis in children with short, teasing cough.

Extremities. Cramp-like paralytic contraction in arms, hands; jerking of fingers while writing.

Skin. Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises and livid skin. Ecchymosis. Petechiae. Purpura hemorrhagica. Livid, red, itching blotches. Hemorrhage of black blood from all outlets. Cicatrices turn red and blue and become painful. Chilblains with gangrenous tendency. Carbuncles, boils and other staphylococcic and streptococcic infections.

Modalities. Worse, from excess of heat or cold in forenoon and evening. Better, from warmth, and lying on affected side.

Relationship. Complementary: Puls.
     Compare: Ars.; Calen.; Led.; Sep.; Calc.

Dose. Second to thirtieth potency.

Symphytum
(Comfrey)

     The root contains a crystalline solid, that stimulates the growth of epithelium on ulcerated surfaces. It may be administered internally in the treatment of gastric and duodenal ulcers. Also in gastralgia, and externally in pruritus ani. Injuries to sinews, tendons and the periosteum. Acts on joints generally. Neuralgia of knee.
     Of great use in wounds penetrating to perineum and bones, and in nonunion of fractures; irritable stump after amputation, irritable bone at point of fracture. Psoas abscess. Pricking pain and soreness of periosteum.

Head. Pain in occiput, top and forehead; changing places. Pain comes down bone of nose. Inflammation of inferior maxillary bone, hard, red, swelling.

Eyes. Pain in eye after a blow of an obtuse body. For traumatic injuries of the eyes no remedy equals this.

Relationship. Compare: Arn.; Calc-p.

Dose. Tincture.

Tabacum
(Tobacco)

     The symptomatology of Tabacum is exceedingly well marked. The nausea, giddiness, death-like pallor, vomiting, icy coldness, and sweat, with the intermittent pulse, are all most characteristic. Has marked antiseptic qualities, antidotal to cholera germs. Complete prostration of the entire muscular system. Collapse. Gastralgia, enteralgia, seasickness, cholera infantum; cold, but wants abdomen uncovered. Vigorous peristaltic activity. Diarrhea. Produces high tension and arteriosclerosis of the coronary arteries. Should prove the most homeopathic drug for angina pectoris, with coronaritis and high tension (Cartier). Constriction of throat, chest, bladder, rectum. Pallor, breathlessness, hard cord-like pulse.

Mind. Sensation of excessive wretchedness. Very despondent. Forgetful. Discontented.

Head. Vertigo on opening eyes; sick headache, with deathly nausea; periodical. Tight feeling as from a band. Sudden pain, as if struck by a hammer. Nervous deafness. Secretion from eyes, nose and mouth increased.

Eyes. Dim sight; sees as through a veil; strabismus. Amaurosis; muscae volitantes. Central scotoma. Rapid blindness without lesion, followed by venous hyperemia and atrophy of optic nerve.

Face. Pale, blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed, covered with cold sweat. [Ars.; Verat.] Freckles.

Throat. Nasopharyngitis and tracheitis, hemming, morning cough, sometimes with vomiting. Hoarseness of public speakers.

Stomach. Incessant nausea; worse, smell of tobacco smoke [Phos.]; vomiting on least motion, sometimes of fecal matter. During pregnancy with much spitting. Seasickness; terrible faint, sinking feeling at pit of stomach. Sense of relaxation of stomach, with nausea. [Ip.] Gastralgia; pain from cardiac end extending to left arm.

Abdomen. Cold. Wants abdomen uncovered. It lessens the nausea and vomiting. Painful distension. Incarcerated hernia.

Rectum. Constipation; rectum paralyzed, prolapsed. Diarrhea, sudden, watery, with nausea and vomiting, prostration, and cold sweat; discharges look like sour milk, thick, curdled, watery. Rectal tenesmus.

Urine. Renal colic; violent pain along ureter, left side.

Heart. Palpitation when lying on left side. Pulse intermits, feeble, imperceptible. Angina pectoris, pain in precordial region. Pain radiates from center of sternum. Tachycardia. Bradycardia. Acute dilatation caused by shock or violent physical exertion (Royal).

Respiratory. Difficult, violent constriction of chest. Precordial oppression, with palpitation and pain between shoulders. Cough followed by hiccough. Cough dry, teasing, must take a swallow of cold water. [Caust.; Phos.] Dyspnea, with tingling down left arm when lying on left side.

Extremities. Legs and hands icy cold; limbs tremble. Paralysis following apoplexy. Gait shuffling, unsteady. Feebleness of arms.

Sleep. Insomnia with dilated heart, with cold, clammy skin and anxiety.

Fever. Chills, with cold sweat.

Modalities. Worse, opening eyes; evening; extremes of heat and cold. Better, uncovering, open fresh air.

Relationship. Compare: Verat.; Ars.
     Antidote: Vinegar; sour apples. Camphor in the physiological antagonist. Ars. (chewing tobacco); Ign. (smoking); Sep. (neuralgia and dyspepsia); Lyc. (impotency); Nux-v. (bad taste due to tobacco); Phos. (tobacco heart, sexual weakness).

Dose. Third to thirtieth and higher potencies.

Thuja
(Arbor Vitae)

     Acts on skin, blood, gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, and brain. Its relation to the production of pathological vegetations condylomate, warty excrescences, spongy tumors is very important. Moist mucous tubercles. Bleeding fungus growths. Nevus. Excess of venosity.
     The main action of Thuja is on the skin and genitourinary organs, producing conditions that correspond with Hahnemann's sycotic dyscrasia, whose chief manifestation is the formation of wart-like excrescences upon mucous and cutaneous surfaces: fig warts and condylomata. Has a specific antibacterial action, as in gonorrhea and vaccination. Suppressed gonorrhea, salpingitis. Ill effects of vaccination. Sycotic pains, i.e., tearing in muscles and joints, worse at rest, better in dry weather, worse damp humid atmosphere; lameness. Hydrogenoid constitutions, whose blood is morbidly hydroscopic, so that damp air and water are inimical. Complaints from moonlight. Rapid exhaustion and emaciation. Left sided and chilly medicine. Variola, aborts the pustule and prevents the suppurating fever. Vaccinosis, viz., inveterable skin troubles, neuralgia, etc.

Mind. Fixed ideas, as if a strange person were at his side; as if soul and body were separated; as if something alive in abdomen. Emotional sensitiveness; music causes weeping and trembling.

Head. Pain as if pierced by a nail. [Coff.; Ign.] Neuralgia from tea. Left sided headache. White, scaly dandruff; hair dry and falling out. Greasy skin of face.

Eyes. Ciliary neuralgia; iritis. Eyelids agglutinated at night; dry, scaly. Styes and tarsal tumors. [Staph.] Acute and subacute inflammation of sclera. Sclera raised in patches, and looks bluish red. Large, flat phlyctenules; indolent. Recurring episcleritis. Chronic scleritis.

Ears. Chronic otitis; discharge purulent. Creaking when swallowing. Polypi.

Nose. Chronic catarrh; thick, green mucus; blood and pus. On blowing nose, pain in teeth. Ulceration within the nostrils. Dryness of nasal cavities. Painful pressure at root.

Mouth. Tip of tongue very painful. White blisters on side close to root, painfully sore. Teeth decay next to gums; very sensitive; gums retract. Drinks fall audibly into stomach. Ranula; varicose veins on tongue and mouth. Pyorrhea alveolaris.

Stomach. Complete loss of appetite. Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes. Rancid eructations after fat food. Cutting pain in epigastrium. Cannot eat onions. Flatulence; pain after food; sinking sensation in epigastrium before food; thirst. Tea drinking dyspepsia.

Abdomen. Distended; indurations in abdomen. Chronic diarrhea, worse after breakfast. Discharges forcibly expelled; gurgling sound. Brown spots. Flatulence and distention; protruding here and there. Rumbling and colic. Constipation, with violent rectal pain, causing stool to recede. [Sil.] Piles swollen; pain worse sitting, with stitching, burning pains at the anus. Anus fissured; painful to touch, with warts. Movements as of something living, without pain.

Urine. Urethra swollen, inflamed. Urinary stream split and small. Sensation of trickling after urinating. Severe cutting after. [Sars.] Frequent micturition accompanying pains. Desire sudden and urgent, but cannot be controlled. Paralysis sphincter vesicae.

Male. Inflammation of prepuce and glans; pain in penis. Balanitis. Gonorrheal rheumatism. Gonorrhea. Chronic induration of testicles. Pain and burning felt near neck of bladder, with frequent and urgent desire to urinate. Prostatic enlargement.

Female. Vagina very sensitive. [Berb.] Warty excrescences on vulva and perineum. Profuse leucorrhea; thick, greenish. Severe pain in left ovary and left inguinal region. Menses scanty, retarded. Polypi; fleshy excrescences. Ovaritis; worse left side, at every menstrual period. [Lach.] Profuse perspiration before menses.

Respiratory. Dry, hacking cough in afternoon, with pain in pit of stomach. Stitches in chest; worse, cold drinks. Asthma in children. [Nat-s.] Papilloma of larynx. Chronic laryngitis.

Extremities. When walking, limbs feel as if made of wood or glass, and would break easily. Tips of fingers swollen, red, feel dead. Muscular twitchings, weakness and trembling. Cracking in joints. Pain in heels and Achilles tendon. Nails brittle. Ingrowing toenail.

Skin. Polypi, tubercles, warts epithelioma, neva, carbuncles; ulcers, especially in anogenital region. Freckles and blotches. Perspiration sweetish, and strong. Dry skin, with brown spots. Zona; herpetic eruptions. Tearing pains in glands. Glandular enlargement. Nails crippled; brittle and soft. Eruptions only on covered parts; worse after scratching. Very sensitive to touch. Coldness of one side. Sarcoma; polypi. Brown spots on hands and arms.

Sleep. Persistent insomnia.

Fever. Chill, beginning in thighs. Sweat only on uncovered parts, or all over except head, when sleeping; profuse, sour, smelling like honey. Orgasm of blood in the evening, with throbbing in the blood vessels.

Modalities. Worse, at night, from heat of bed; at 3 a.m. and 3 p.m., from cold, damp air; after breakfast; fat, coffee; vaccination. Better, left side; while drawing up a limb.

Relationship. Compare: (Hydrogenoid Constitution: Calc.; Sil.; Nat-s.; Apis; Puls.) Sil.; Merc.; Canth.; Nit-ac.; Puls.; Ant-t.
     Antidote: Merc.
     Complementary: Ars.; Nat-s.; Sil.

Dose. Locally, for warts and excrescences, tincture, or cerate. Internally, tincture to thirtieth potency.

Urtica urens
(Stinging Nettle)

     A remedy for agalactia and lithiasis. Profuse discharge from mucous surfaces. Enuresis and urticaria. Spleen affections. Antidotes ill effects of eating shellfish. Symptoms return at the same time every year. Gout and uric acid diathesis. Favors elimination.
Rheumatism associated with urticaria-like eruptions. Neuritis.

Head. Vertigo, headache with spleen pains.

Abdomen. Diarrhea chronic disease of large intestine characterized by large secretion of mucus.

Male. Itching of scrotum, keeps him awake; scrotum swollen.

Female. Diminished secretion of milk. Uterine hemorrhage. Acid and excoriating leucorrhea. Pruritus vulvae, with stinging, itching, and edema. Arrests flow of milk after weaning. Excessive swelling of breasts.

Extremities. Pain in acute gout deltoid; pain in ankles, wrists.

Skin. Itching blotches. Urticaria, burning heat, with formication; violent itching. Consequences of suppressed nettle rash. Rheumatism alternates with nettle rash. Burn confined to skin. Urticaria nodosa. Erythema, with burning and stinging. Burns and scalds. Chickenpox. [Dulc.] Angioneurotic edema. Herpes labialis with sensation of heat and itching. Itching and stinging of scrotum.

Fever. General heat in bed with soreness over abdomen. Fever of gout. Tropical fever.

Modalities. Worse, from snow-air; water, cool moist air, touch.

Relationship. Compare: Nat-m.; Rhus-t.; Apis; Puls. (urticaria); Anac. (urticaria tuberosa); Lyc. (uric acid conditions).

Dose. Tincture and lower potencies.

Veratrum album
(White Hellebore)

     A perfect picture of collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness, is offered by this drug. Postoperative shock with cold sweat on forehead, pale face, rapid, feeble pulse. Cold perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all complaints. Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities. The profuse, violent retching and vomiting is most characteristic. Surgical shock. Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces. "Coprophagia" violent mania alternates with silence and refusal to talk.

Mind. Melancholy, with stupor and mania. Sits in a stupid manner; notices nothing; sullen indifference. Frenzy of excitement; shrieks, curses. Puerperal mania. Aimless wandering from home. Delusions of impending misfortunes. Mania, with desire to cut and tear things. Attacks of pain, with delirium driving to madness. Cursing, howling all night.

Head. Contracted features. Cold sweat on forehead. Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex. Headache, with nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, pale face. Neck too weak to hold head up.

Eyes. Surrounded by dark rings. Staring; turned upwards, without lustre. Lachrymation with redness. Lids dry heavy.

Face. Features sunken. Icy coldness of tip of nose and face. Nose grows more pointed. Tearing in cheeks, temples, and eyes. Face very pale, blue, collapsed, cold.

Mouth. Tongue pale, cold; cool sensation, as from peppermint. Dry in center not relieved by water. Salty saliva. Toothache, teeth feel heavy as if filled with lead.

Stomach. Voracious appetite. Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed. Averse to warm food. Hiccough. Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion. Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt. Anguish in pit of stomach. Great weakness after vomiting. Gastric irritability with chronic vomiting of food.

Abdomen Sinking and empty feeling. Cold feeling in stomach and abdomen. Pain in abdomen preceding stool. Cramps, knotting abdomen and legs. Sensation as if hernia would protrude. [Nux-v.] Abdomen sensitive to pressure, swollen with terrible colic.

Rectum. Constipation from inactivity of rectum, with heat and headache. Constipation of babies, and when produced by very cold weather. Stools large, with much straining until exhausted, with cold sweat. Diarrhea, very painful, watery, copious, and forcibly evacuated, followed by great prostration. Evacuations of cholera morbus and true cholera when vomiting accompanies the purging.

Respiratory. Hoarse, weak voice. Rattling in chest. Much mucus in bronchial tubes, that cannot be coughed up. Coarse rales. Chronic bronchitis in the aged. Loud, barking, stomach cough, followed by eructation of gas; worse, warm room. Hollow cough, tickling low down, with blue face. Cough comes on from drinking, especially cold water; urine escapes when coughing. Cough on entering warm room from cold air. [Bry.]

Heart. Palpitation with anxiety and rapid audible respiration. Pulse irregular, feeble. Tobacco heart from chewing. Intermittent action of heart in feeble persons with some hepatic obstruction. One of the best heart stimulants in homeopathic doses. (J. S. Mitchell.)

Female. Menses too early; profuse and exhausting. Dysmenorrhea, with coldness, purging, cold sweat. Faints from least exertion. Sexual mania precedes menses.

Extremities. Soreness and tenderness of joints. Sciatica; pains like electric flashes. Cramps in calves. Neuralgia in brachial plexus; arms feel swollen, cold, paralytic.

Skin. Blue, cold, clammy, inelastic; cold as death. Cold sweat. Wrinkling of skin of hands and feet.

Fever. Chill, with extreme coldness and thirst.

Modalities. Worse, at night; wet, cold weather. Better, walking and warmth.

Relationship. Compare: Cupr.; Ars.

Dose. First to thirtieth potency. In diarrhea, not below the sixth.

Zincum metallicum
(Zinc)

     The provings picture cerebral depression. The word "fag" covers a large part of Zinc action. Tissues are worn out faster than they are repaired. Poisoning from suppressed eruptions or discharges. The nervous symptoms of most importance. Defective vitality. Impending brain paralysis. Period of depression in disease. Spinal affections. Twitchings. Pain, as if between skin and flesh. Great relief from discharges. Chorea, from fright or suppressed eruption. Convulsions, with pale face and no heat. Marked anemia with profound prostration. It causes a decrease in the number, and destruction of red blood corpuscles. Repercussed eruptive diseases. In chronic diseases with brain and spinal symptoms, trembling, convulsive twitching and fidgety feet are guiding symptoms.

Mind. Weak memory. Very sensitive to noise. Averse to work, to talk. Child repeats everything said to it. Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime. Melancholia. Lethargic, stupid. Paresis.

Head. Feels as if he would fall to left side. Headache from the smallest quantity of wine. Hydrocephalus. Rolls head from side to side. Bores head into pillow. Occipital pain, with weight on vertex. Automatic motion of head and hands. Brain-fag; headaches of overtaxed school children. Forehead cool; base of brain hot. Roaring in head. Starting in fright.

Eyes. Pterygium; smarting, lachrymation, itching. Pressure as if pressed into head. Itching and soreness of lids and inner angles. Ptosis. Rolling of eyes. Blurring of half of vision; worse, stimulants. Squinting. Amaurosis, with severe headache. Red and inflamed conjunctiva; worse, inner canthus.

Ears. Tearing, stitches, and external swelling. Discharge of fetid pus.

Nose. Sore feeling high up; pressure upon root.

Face. Pale lips, and corners of mouth cracked. Redness and itching eruptions on chin. Tearing in facial bones.

Mouth. Teeth loose. Gums bleed. Gnashing of teeth. Bloody taste. Blisters on tongue. Difficult dentition; child weak; cold and restless feet.

Throat. Dry; constant inclination to hawk up tenacious mucus. Rawness and dryness in throat and larynx. Pain in muscles of throat when swallowing.

Stomach. Hiccough, nausea, vomiting of bitter mucus. Burning in stomach, heartburn from sweet things. Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine. Ravenous hunger about 11 a.m. [Sulph.] Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough. Atonic dyspepsia, feeling as if stomach were collapsed.

Abdomen. Pain after a light meal, with tympanitis. Pain in spot beneath nevi. Gurgling and griping; distended. Flatulent colic, with retraction of abdomen. Enlarged, indurated sore liver. Reflex symptoms from floating kidney. Griping after eating.

Urine. Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards. Hysterical retention. Involuntary urination when walking, coughing or sneezing.

Rectum. Hard, small, constipated stool. Cholera infantum, with tenesmus; green mucous discharges. Sudden cessation of diarrhea, followed by cerebral symptoms.

Male. Testicles swelled, drawn up. Erections violent. Emissions with hypochondriasis. Falling off of hair (pubic). Drawing in testicles up to spermatic cord.

Female. Ovarian pain, especially left; can't keep still. Nymphomania of lying-in women. Menses too late, suppressed; lochia suppressed. [Puls.] Breasts painful. Nipples sore. Menses flow more at night. Complaints all better during menstrual flow. [Lach.] All the female symptoms are associated with restlessness, depression, coldness, spinal tenderness and restless feet. Dry cough before and during menses.

Respiratory. Burning pressure beneath sternum. Constriction and cutting in chest. Hoarseness. Debilitating, spasmodic cough; worse, eating sweet things. Child grasps genitals during cough. Asthmatic bronchitis, with constriction of chest. Dyspnea better as soon as expectoration appears.

Back. Pain in small of back. Cannot bear back touched. [Sulph.; Chin.] Tension and stinging between shoulders. Spinal irritation. Dull aching about the last dorsal or first lumbar vertebrae; worse sitting. Burning along spine. Nape of neck weary from writing or any exertion. Tearing in shoulder blades.

Extremities. Lameness, weakness, trembling and twitching of various muscles. Chilblains. [Agar.] Feet in continued motion; cannot keep still. Large varicose veins on legs. Sweaty. Convulsions, with pale face. Transverse pains, especially in upper extremity. Soles of feet sensitive. Steps with entire sole of foot on floor.

Sleep. Cries out during sleep; body jerks; wakes frightened, scared. Nervous motion of feet when asleep. Loud screaming out at night in sleep without being aware of it. Somnambulism. [Kali-p.]

Skin. Varicose veins, especially of lower extremities. [Puls.] Formication of feet and legs as from bugs crawling over the skin, preventing sleep. Eczema, especially in the anemic and neurotic. Itching of thighs and hollow of knees. Retrocession of eruptions.

Fever. Frequent, febrile shiverings down back. Cold extremities. Night sweat. Profuse sweat on feet.

Modalities. Worse, at menstrual period, from touch, between 5 to 7 p.m.; after dinner, from wine. Better, while eating, discharges, and appearance of eruptions.

Relationship. Compare: Agar.; Ign.; Puls.
     Inimical: Nux-v.; Cham.
     Compare in amelioration by secretions: Lach.

Dose. Second to sixth potency.