Homeopathy Remedy Anacardium



Lids – Twitching. Swelling; l.; swollen feeling. Pressure below l. external canthus; as from a stye in r. inner canthus and neighboring tarsal cartilages. Pressure as with a plug on upper border of r. orbit, extending into brain, with stupefaction of whole side of head. Sensation as if a plug pressed in under upper border of orbits and touched the balls. Vision dim in evening, as if eyes were full of water, obliging winking. Flickering; of a flame, (>) looking steadily. Halo around light in evening. Sensitiveness to light. Short-sighted. Every object appeared a long way off on waking from a nap.

Ears

      Twitches in external. Stitches in l.; tearing S. in tip of l. antitragus. Tearing in l., extending down cheek; T. along upper border of r. cartilage; sticking T. in l. external; suppurative tearing and beating in cartilage and inner ear, (<) boring in with finger, and there arises a stopped feeling in meatus. Twinging in r. meatus. Painful twitchings in l. meatus as if a nerve were put on the stretch, or like electric shocks. Painful drawing in l. meatus internus. Cramplike pain in meatus externus. Cramplike contraction in l. meatus, with pressure against tympanum; cramp- like contraction in l. concha.

Ulcerative pain when biting teeth together; when swallowing. Obstructed feeling, as from cotton, in l., with impaired hearing (verified clinically, (<) during storms). Itching in, with discharge of brownish matter. Tingling in r. Pressure upon external. Drawing pain behind l. Sensation behind ears as if the part would become sore, obliging rubbing. Roaring before. Humming. Hearing sometimes acute, sometimes feeble.

Clinical Deafness, with loss of memory.

Nose

      Red sore pustules in r. nostril, on septum. Pain as from too great cold, causing lachrymation, also in fore part. Bruised feeling in l. bone. Obstruction of posterior nares. Sneezing. Coryza; in evening; with inability to get warm, heat in head, coldness of hands and feet, afterwards dry heat, tension in tendons of legs, cramp of calves and uneasiness about heart; dry; fluent, with frequent sneezing and lachrymation. Bleeding after violent blowing. Illusory smell, as from burning tinder, morning on rising; like pigeon or chicken dung, (<) smelling his clothes or his own body; almost lost.

Face

      Pale. Swelling, beginning at the eyes. Look sickly, hollow-eyed, with blue rings around eyes. Squeezing in middle of cheeks. Pressure upon l. cheek-bone; P. extending upward upon l. side of chin, with external burning of chin. Drawing pain in r. cheek- bone. Twitching of mouth and fingers in sleep. Dryness of lips and their corners; burning dryness of external borders of lips. Drawing pain in lower jaw, (<) evening. Tearing in joints of jaws; T. in r. joint.

Mouth

      Teeth. Tearing in l.; intermittent T. Aching in a lower incisor as from stirring a tooth-pick in it, (<) contact of tongue and open air; jerking. A., more pressive than drawing, on taking something warm into mouth; drawing, in roots and gums of l. lower molars; cramplike drawing, in r. lower, reaching to ear; tensive and drawing, in a hollow molar, extending to ear, several days at 10 P.M. Elongated feeling at night in bed, with aching. Gums bleed on slight rubbing. Gums swell.

Tongue – White and rough; heavy and swollen feeling. Difficulty in speaking certain words, as if tongue were too heavy. Speech firmer and surer in afternoon than in forenoon. Painful vesicles in mouth. Liquid comes into mouth and throat, causing nausea in chest. Bitter dryness. Taste bitter to bread; B. after smoking. Tobacco does not relish, it only causes biting. Everything tastes like herring-brine. Insipid taste; to beer; insipid, foul taste to food.

Throat

      Firm and tough mucus, at same time obstructing posterior nares. Stitches here and there externally. Slow thrusts coming from both sides of the ears and in their cavities, as if two blunt plugs were penetrating to meet in centre. Scraping. Roughness; after eating, with a deep tone to the voice. Rawness and soreness. Pressure in pit; on both sides of larynx, sometimes interfering with deglutition; sudden, in l. side. Dryness in forenoon, (>) eating; bitter D. Itching.

Stomach

      Appetite great, pressure at stomach and nausea unto vomiting, after eating; lost; lost for dinner, yet he relishes it; violent at times, none at all at other times. Thirst; after eating; constant T. Eructations in morning; after drinks and liquid food; after stool; with spasmodic pain at stomach; burning the throat, after eating; of fluid, choking him. Hiccough.

Nausea in morning; in morning, with a fasting sensation; towards evening, with salivation, then vomiting followed by great acidity in mouth; from food of which he is generally very fond; with retching, returning after drinking cold water, then vomiting of this water, with a sensation as if the oesophagus were pressed as under by a large ball. Qualmishness at pit between meals, with anxiety as from a sprain, but without real nausea, and with good taste and good appetite.

Rumbling and fermenting in pit. Compressive stitches in pit, on inspiration and expiration. Contractive pain, (>) stooping, (<) lifting arm and turning body. Drawing and pressive pain below pit, when walking. Pressure after eating; from mental effort; in pit when walking in open air, (>) after eating, with drawing; after eating, with weakness and thirst; on pit after every meal, with tension; intermittent, over and near pit, when eating; slowly coming and going in pit; in region towards abdomen after a slight breakfast, as if he had eaten too much. Fasting sensation in pit, then pressure in stomach and feeling as of obstructed emission of flatus both above and below, with want of appetite. Burning rising into throat. Heartburn after soup, like sour air in oesophagus, with a constricted sensation. Shaking in pit at every step after eating. Tickling beneath pit, obliging laughing when occupied with serious things, but when occupied with ludicrous things he can refrain from laughing.

Clinical Morning sickness of pregnancy, relieved while eating; but the symptoms soon return.

Abdomen

      Inflation after dinner. Rumbling, with pinching. Flatus moving about, as from a purgative, after eating. Wavelike shooting, like lightning. Cutting and pinching, as from flatulence or cold, with tenesmus. Pinching. Griping; in morning. Pain more cutting than pinching, when flatus is incarcerated; P. as if intestines were spasmodically shortened, in forenoon on bending backward; as if something would twist together, then pressure; P. twisting and turning transversely across, with the tenesmus.

Hypochondriac dejection after a meal, there is pressure upward in abdomen, with weakness of body and mind. Stitches in region of spleen, seeming to be partly in chest and partly in abdominal cavity; S. in l. hypochondrium; S. sometimes in r., sometimes in l. hypochondrium, when inspiring; pulsating burning S. externally below r. short ribs; short stitches in muscles below l. short ribs. Pressure in liver region after eating.

Cutting suddenly once in r. side. Intermittent pressure outward over ring.

Umbilical region – Rumbling. Stitches in cavity; S. on r. side over umbilicus; S. l. side; intermittent S. at umbilicus. Thrusts as from a blunt tool in r. Pressure in a small spot above and below U., and in l. side of abdomen; below U. after eating, (<) pressure and breathing; in muscles below umbilicus during stool, and especially after it, (<) inspiration; as if something hard had formed, with a sensation when breathing, speaking, and especially when coughing, as if the abdomen would burst, and when touched pain like a pressure and tension; around umbilicus as if a blunt plug were squeezed into intestines. Pinching contraction in l. when breathing.

Hypogastrium – Stitches; deeply penetrating, at spinous processes of l. iliac bones. Pinching during stool. Griping.

Rectum and Anus

      Tenesmus, but he cannot expel anything, and the rectum seems plugged up; frequent T. during the day, without ability to expel anything. Urging to stool after eating, more in upper part of intestines; frequent urging, with scanty, first soft, then hard stools. Straining at stool, even when soft. Itching at anus; after an embrace.

Stool

      Diarrhoea at night, then constipation; frequent D., watery, but difficult. Pale. Frequent but difficult S. Constipation.

Clinical Stools very sluggish, the rectum seems plugged up; the attempt to have a stool causes distress in abdomen.

Urinary Organs

      Discharge of prostatic fluid after micturition; D. during stool. Constant desire to urinate; frequent desire, but little passes. Irritability of bladder. Micturition at night. Itching in urethra. Frequent, clear, watery urine, before breakfast; frequent, clear, watery urine, in small quantities. Dark green urine. Urine turbid when emitted, depositing a dirty sediment.

Sexual Organs

      Tearing in mons veneris. Cutting along penis. Desire; morning after waking; D. from voluptuous itching on scrotum; lack of D. Emission at night without amorous dreams.

TF Allen
Dr. Timothy Field Allen, M.D. ( 1837 - 1902)

Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.