WORSE AFTER SLEEP.
Sleeps into an aggravation of his complaint.
May be loquacious, suspicious, jealous.
Speech hurried: or abnormally slow.
Snake bites.
Insect bites that are rather blue.
Ulcers, bluish surroundings.
IPECACUANHA.
Spasmodic cough. Asthma. Wheezing.
Diarrhoea-stools green, or bloody stools – bright blood. With NAUSEA.
Complaints with nausea unrelieved by vomiting.
LEDUM.
Punctured wounds, from stepping on nails; stings of insects.
Bites of animals.
Later on, if there are shooting pains and threatened lockjaw, use Hypericum (which see).
Rheumatism, where, with a chilly patient, the pains are relieved by cold applications. (Pulsatilla)
“Back eye” from a blow.
LYCOPODIUM.
Worse afternoon 4 to 8 p.m.
Right side ailments; may cross to left side (in diphtheria, etc.).
Patients loves sweet things, hot drinks.
Anticipation is a misery. (Argentum nit.: Gelsemium: etc.) Hunger, but a little food fills stomach.
Fulness and distension after food.
Must loosen clothing.
Worse from heat: from cold drinks.
MERCURIUS COR.
Diarrhoea.
DYSENTERY:-practically specific.
Tormenting straining, before, with, and after stool.
“Never-get-done” sensation.
Stools of blood; of bloody, shreddy slime.
Scanty.
Straining in bladder also.
Hot urine, passed drop by drop, with much straining.
Flabby, tooth-notched tongue.
Swollen tongue.
Salivation.
Inflammation of bladder. (See Cantharis.)
MERC. CYAN.
Almost a specific for DIPHTHERIA.
Septic sore throats, with foul mouth and tongue.
One, or many small white patches on tonsils (follicular tonsillitis), with foul mouth and high temperature.
Give three doses, six hours apart, to prevent diphtheria, where there has been risk of infection.
(A wonderful remedy for syphilitic manifestations and sores. Here give one, or three doses six-hourly, and wait four or five weeks before repeating.)
MERCURIUS (MERC. SOL.). Profuse, offensive sweat in fevers, etc. Sweat does not relieve.
Mouth and tongue very foul. Salivation.
Rheumatism, influenza, pneumonia, etc., with offensive sweat and foul tongue.
Itching eruptions worse at night.
NATRUM MUR.
MALARIA. (See Eupatorium and Arsenicum.) Recurrent attacks of malaria, best given between attacks.
ILLNESSES, and poor health, FOLLOWING MUCH MALARIA, and MUCH QUININE.
A Natrum mur. malaria begins about 10 a.m.
Severe backache, only relieved by lying on back on a hard cushion.
Influenza with this form of backache.
Headaches, maddening, bursting, or hammering in character.
May start, with “fiery zigzaga.” (Sepia.) The typical Natrum mur. patient is irritable, weeps easily, hates fuss, craves salt, is very affected by the sun.
(It helps the diseases of great salt-eaters.)
NUX VOM.
Excitable.
Choleric.
Impatient.
Irritable.
Hypersensitive.
Active. Intense. Nervous.
Gastric upsets and constipation in persons of such temperament.
SPASMS. Abdominal spasms.
Constipation, with constant desire for stool, and little result; irregular peristalsis.
Helps where there is a craving for, alcohol, seasoned foods, coffee.
PHOSPHORUS.
Congestions.
Haemorrhages. Small, easy bleedings of bright blood (nose, chest, anus).
Easy bruising-even to purpura. (Lachesis)
Vomiting. Craves cold drinks (which may be vomited when they become warm in stomach).
Burning pain in stomach, relieved by cold drinks and ices (reverse of Arsenic).
Often crave Salt. (Natrum Mur.)
Vertigo. Feeling as if feet rose in air.
Chest tight.
Pneumonia, with spitting of bright blood, or “prune juice” expectoration.
The Phosphorus patient is worse for cold (except for stomach and headache, which are better for cold).
Worse for lying on left side.
Nervous.
Nervous alone. In the dark.
Fear of thunder: disease: death.
Dysentery, with gaping anus.
Diarrhoea, with gaping anus.
Suits the tall, slender, artistic type of patient.
Very sensitive and nervous.
PULSATILLA.
Changeable disposition. WEEPS EASILY.
Loves sympathy and fuss. Timid. Shy.
Irritable, jealous, suspicious.
Worse for external warmth (except sometimes, the pains).
Craves open air.
Not hungry: not thirsty.
Bad taste. Ailments worse for eating.
Flatulence: stomach and abdominal pain.
Easy diarrhoea. Stools generally loose.
In rheumatism, pains wander.
Great remedy in catarrh: in women’s troubles.
Menses begin late: are often late, scanty, irregular, even suppressed.
Curative in skin, joint, chest, digestive troubles, in patients with the Pulsatilla mentality.
Measles (Gelsemium).
RHUS.
A tendon remedy. Sprains.
Acts on fibrous and muscular tissues.
Rheumatism, lumbago, stiff-neck.
Periarticular rheumatism, worse first moving.
Fevers, with Rhus symptoms, viz.
Tearing pains.
No rest in any position.
Worse from cold, damp, uncovering, washing.
Better for warmth, change of position, motion-after first painful start.
Eruptions, erysipelas, with the Rhus restlessness, and sensitiveness to wet and cold-and aggravation from washing and bathing.
SEPIA.
INDIFFERENT: to family, to loved ones (Phosphorus) to occupations, to pleasure.
Depressed, but intolerant of sympathy: weeps with sympathy.
“Only wants to get away and be quiet.” Intolerant of NOSE, SMELLS, smell of cooking (Arsenicum Cocc. Colchicum).
Feels the cold, but must have open air.
Relief from eating.
Sweat (of feet, cold; of armpits, often offensive)
A great remedy in all complaints of women during pregnancy and lactation.
“Bearing-down pains,” worse standing (better standing, Pulsatilla).
Sepia may be needed in cough, asthma, malaria, skin and joint diseases, etc., but only in patient with the typical “Sepia symptoms.”
Backache better for pressure (Nat. mur.).
Aversion to fats (Pulsatilla, Nat. mur.); desire for sour things- vinegar.
SILICA.
Want of self-confidence.
Lacks grit and enterprise.
Mental labour and concentration difficult.
CHILLY.
Sweating: of head at night (Calcarea), of feet, often offensive. Suppressed foot sweat.
Skin heals badly. Small wounds fester (Hepar).
Boils: whitlow: suppurations: septic conditions. (Lachesis, Crot. h., etc.)
Tends to extrude foreign bodies, and so promotes healing of wounds.
Was extraordinarily useful in War wounds.
Children who don’t grow, don’t thrive, lack grit and stamina and application: are chilly and sweat.
(In sepsis very like Hepar: but Hepar is violently choleric and irritable: Silica in mentality is as above.)
SULPHUR.
Red orifices; lips esp., eyelids anus, if inflamed.
Boils, skin troubles, piles.
Morning diarrhoea or constipation; stools too large, and painful.
The typical Sulph. patient is worse for heat.
Loves fat, which may disagree: salt: sweets.
Feet burn at night: puts them out. (Pulsatilla, Chamomilla Medorrh.) Starving at 10 or 11 a.m.
Always wants to sit down.
Stoop-shouldered. Untidy.
Worse for bath-hates bath and washing.
The “ragged philosopher” type.
In such patients occasional doses of Sulph. will help, whatever is the matter.
Useful after measles: after cerebral haemorrhages.
VERATRUM ALB.
Excessive vomiting, purging.
Excessive cold sweat.
Diarrhoea, with above.
CHOLERA, with excessive evacuations, and excessive cold sweat.
Cold sweat on forehead.
Faintness or collapse.
Sudden, excessive evacuations, with cold sweat.
Rapid sinking of forces: complete prostration (Comp. Arsenicum) Neuralgia of head, with sensation of a lump of ice in vertex.
Attacks of pain with delirium, driving to madness.
