Laurocerasus



Fever

Chilliness and febrile shivering, which are removed neither by heat of fire, nor by that of bed. Shuddering, with cutis anserina, followed by burning heat. Chilliness and heat in alternation. Heat running down the back. Perspiration during the heat and continuing all night. Perspiration after eating. Coldness over whole body, but especially in feet, principally in open air. Want of natural heat. Pulse feeble, slow, and irregular, often imperceptible, again more rapid, seldom full and hard.

Relations

*Antidoted by: Camph., Coffea, Ip., Opium *Compatible: Belladonna Phosphorus, Pul., Ver, *Compare: Camph. (coldness, cramps, lack of reaction, fainting _ Camph. sudden, Lauro. long-lasting. *Camph. is a product of a *true Laurel), Caps. (lack of reaction in persons of lax fibre), Opium (lack of reaction in patients where there is no pain, stupid, drowsy), Pso. (lack of reaction in chilly, psoric persons, despair of recovery, chest affection better lying down), Sul. (lack of reaction in hot, perspiring, psoric subjects, chest affections, liver wasted after congestion), Val. And Ambra (lack of reaction in nervous persons), Carb-v. (cold knees. breath, tongue, collapse, indifference), Lachesis, Chi., Digitalis, Verbascum, Ant-t. (asphyxia neonatorum, Ant-t. has rattling of mucus, head thrown back, Lauro. blue face, twitching, gasping), Baryta C., Belladonna, Bryonia, Kali-ca. (Stitches), Calcarea, Ip., Nux-v., Opium and Nux moschata (drowsiness), Pho., Pul., Rhus, Sepia *Compare also: Hydrocy-ac., and Amyg., Pru. spi., Pru. Virg., and other Rosacea. In hunger after meals with feeling of emptiness, Calcarea, Chi., Cascara., Cion., Gratiola (after meals and after stool, Petroleum), in semi lateral swelling of tongue, Calcarea, Silicea, Thuja (Lauro. has loss of speech with it).

John Henry Clarke
John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica