Cannot be joyful.
Consolation aggravates the melancholy, the tearfulness; often brings on anger.
Worse warm room, indoors, wants air. (China is worse cold, worse draught.).
Nitric acid.
One of the remedies of chlorosis.
For broken-down, cachectic constitutions.
Gradual emaciation; esp. upper arms and thighs.
Yellow, sickly face. The brunette type usually; dark hair, brown eyes.
Haemorrhages: acrid discharges.
Pains are splinter-like; worse touch.
Affects localities where skin and mucous membrane meet; especially anus. Hours of pain after stool.
Typical Nit. acid craves salt and fats.
Is irritable; angry; quarrelsome; indifferent; depressed; despairing; chilly.
So weak, must constantly lie down. (Mang.).
Arsenicum.
“In old chronic catarrhal troubles, with tendency to ulceration. chronic state apparently from retained secretions, a form of blood poisoning.
“Anaemia from suppressed discharges, ear, throat, leucorrhoea and ulcerations, Ars. is one of the medicines that will conform to the anaemic state that follows such suppression.
“At the present day it is fashionable to use the cautery, to make local applications to stop leucorrhoea and other discharges, and to heal up ulcers. Now when these external troubles go there is an anaemic state established, the patient becomes waxy and palid, sickly looking. . . . The doctor thinks he has done a clever thing in stopping such discharges, but he has only succeeded in damming up the secretions which are really a relief to the patient.” KENT.
Deathly pale, cadaverous face (haematemesis).
Anxious face: very pale; yellow; waxy; grey; earthy; livid.
Face cold, oedematous; in Brights disease.
Restlessness: anxiety: prostration.
Anaemia from malaria; symptoms agreeing (see Nat. mur.).
Mercurius.
Oedema, face, hands, feet, with anaemia.
Worse heat and cold.
A very offensive patient; sweat, saliva.
“Rarely give Merc. if tongue is dry”.
Tongue large, flabby, tooth-notched.
Salivation; taste bitter, salt, metallic.
“Merc. has intense thirst with salivation: Puls. has, no thirst with a dry tongue”.
Profuse, (offensive) perspiration.
Merc. is worse at night; from perspiration; on getting warm in bed; while lying right side.
“Merc. is < by heat of, but > rest in bed: Ars.> by heat of, but worse rest in bed”.
Merc. has tremor, especially of hands.
“Trembling, weakness, sweat, foetor, aggravation at night, and from heat and cold.” KENT.
Pulsatilla.
“Chlorosis: weakness; sluggishness in circulation: chilliness: cold, pale face with hot flushes and transient redness of cheeks.
Oppression of chest: shortness of breath.
Sad, tearful: usually no appetite and no thirst.
Digestion disturbed and assimilation poor”.
Anaemia: dizziness.
Amenorrhoea; or M.P. scanty; appears late.
Better in open air: worse warm room.
“Erethistic chlorosis, with depression of vital power and increased irritability”.
Chlorosis, especially after large doses of iron.
Pains shift from place to place.
Craves things which make her sick. Worse fats.
Bloating p.c. Feels stuffed: puffed.
Irritable, weepy, changeable disposition.
Imaginations in regard to foods: to opposite sex. Especially good for tearful blondes.
Natrum carb.
Pallid anaemia with great debility, with watery or milky whiteness of skin (kali cc.); from inertia and phlegmatic state.
Emaciation with pale face, dilated pupils.
Sprains easily; especially ankles.
Better from eating — “the nibblers”:.
When chilly, eats for warmth; in pain, for relief; gets out of bed to eat and relieve pain.
His bad hour is usually 5 a.m.
Worse from heat of sun; after sunstroke.
Yet chilly; worse cold; worse draught.
Very affected by music; worse from music.
Kali carb.
Anaemia; great debility; skin watery, milky white.
Pale; sickly; anaemic.
Swelling, bloating of face, especially over eyes, where he tends to swell up when coughing.
Pains stitching in character.
Tendency to obesity: to dropsy; to fatty degeneration of heart. Heart: weak, irregular action.
Chilly, but sweats much.
Wakes around 3 a.m.; most complaints worse 3 a.m.
Anxiety felt in stomach.
Sensitive to touch; especially soles of feet.
Magnesia carb.
Sickly countenance, waxy, sallow.
Muscles lax; “so tired !” sweats easily with exertion.
Curious and helpful symptom. “I known my M.P. is coming on, because I have a cold in my head”.
Phosphoric acid.
Hippocratic face; lips, tongue very pale.
Sickly, pale, or earthy complexion.
Face feels tense, as if white of egg had dried on it (sulph. acid).
Mind gives out; so tired !.
Mental apathy and confusion. (Comp. Pic acid.).
Emaciation. Levitation; feels floating while lying in bed.
Curious characteristic symptom: diarrhoea profuse, painless, and not prostrating.
Sulphuric acid.
In black type (Repertory) for anaemia.
Face deadly pale: feels swollen; dried white of egg sensation (Phos. acid).
Haemorrhages of black blood. Petechiae: purpura haemorrhagica (Crot., Ter., etc.).
Pains: gradual onset, cease suddenly (Puls.).
Breath offensive. Aphthous mouth and gums; bleed readily.
Tremulous sensation all over: internal.
Everything must be done in a hurry.
Lachesis.
Haemorrhages; blood dark; incoagulable.
“Venous stasis with a direct paralytic-like affection of the medulla, combined with a general anaemia”.
Purpura.
“Face may be jaundiced and very sallow”.
“May take on the appearance of chlorosis: a condition of anaemia, with a greenish colour. Or it is livid and puffed”.
Characteristics: relieved by discharges.
Aggravation from sleep; from hot bath.
Nothing must touch throat.
Mentally: jealous; suspicious; loquacity.
N.B.– The other snake poisons, Crotalus, etc., may come in for the anaemias of blood disintegration and destruction.
Helleborus.
Anemia: red parts become white.
Skin pale, yellow, cold and clammy.
Especially in dropsical conditions.
Thirstless. Apathetic. Benumbed and stupefied.
Medorrhinum.
“Pernicious anaemia often has gonorrhoea as its base.”.
General aggravation from daylight to sunset.
Better at sea-shore. Better damp weather.
Characteristics. Sleeps on face: or knee-elbow position.
N.B.– With later and progressive knowledge, we would suggest that where the anaemia follows attacks of measles, diphtheria etc., the nosodes of such diseases should be considered.
Graphites.
“Chronic diseases with changes in skin, hair, nails, glands, mucous membranes; patient anaemic, waxy, with dropsies.” “The blood seems to be thin”.
Graph. has sticky, oozing eruptions; and tends to obesity; is chilly; sensitive to cold.
In stomach conditions, relief from eating; from lying, from hot foods and drinks.
Sulphur.
Anaemia: face bloodless; ears and lips white.
M.P. delayed; scanty; of short duration.
Cramps: jerkings in legs at night.
Starving between meals; at about 11 a.m.
Worse heat. Craves fat.
Argumentative and theorizing. Untidy.
A desperate case of anaemia. Frequent blood transfusions did no more than hold her alive. “She was not making blood;” supplied blood just kept her going. At last, after a dose of Sulph. in homoeopathic potency, given because she was a typical Sulph. patient, the picture suddenly changed; she rapidly regained strength and started making her own healthy blood. To-day, many months later, she continues well and normal as regards laboratory tests. Now, it is interesting to know that Sulph. at her worst, and before transfusion, did not appear to help; nor did the transfusions, in the slightest degree, till the potentized Sulph. was given.
In these pointers one tries to give indications for drugs that have been found useful in this or that complaint; but one must never forget that any remedy may be curative in any disease, provided that it can, by its s “likeness” stimulate the individual patient to self-cure.
$ LACHESIS 30
[Lachesis].
Homoeopathy By Dr M L Tyler.
# 1938 Oct Vol VII No 10.
^ Donald Macfarlan.
~ Materia Medica.
` Lach.
A RECENT PROVING.
“For the last year or so, Drs. Donald and Douglas Macfarlan (Philadelphia) have made a re-proving of Lachesis, in the 30th potency, on a host of male and female provers. Frequent, reliable symptoms are herein recorded”.
(1) APPREHENSIVE IRRITABILITY. LACHRYMOSE.
Trembling states. Censorious. DAYTIME VERTIGO WORSE ON WALKING, BETTER CLOSING THE EYES.
(2) WORSE AFTER SLEEP in.
(a) PALPITATION OF THE HEART.
(b) SWEATING (often in head area).
(C) DULL HEADACHE.
(d) CHILLINESS.
(e)STIFF EXTREMITIES.
(f) Belly pain.
Sleep is prevented by frontal, sharp, intermittent headache, by sneezing and by mental activity.
AMELIORATION BY BODY DISCHARGES, as.
(a) Rhinorrhoea betters the pressure in the face.
(b) AMELIORATION BY STOOL PASSAGE, as regards pain in the intestines.
(c) Urine betters puffiness under eyes.
(d) Amelioration by vomiting.
(e) Amelioration by epistaxis of the headache, the cardiac palpitation, and the shoulder pain.
(3) CLIMACTERIC MIMICRY, as in.
(a) Flooding menses.
(b) Hypogastric cramps.
(c) Exhausting heat flashes.
(d) Severe sweats at any time.
(e) Thin and pale leucorrhoea.
Frequent DAYTIME URINATION, in small or large amounts.
(4) A DESCENDING SCALE FREQUENCY of the headache proclivity. It is.
(a) FRONTAL.
Hahnemann's three major publications chart the development of homeopathy. In the Organon of Medicine, we see the fundamentals laid out. Materia Medica Pura records the exact symptoms of the remedy provings. In his book, The Chronic Diseases, Their Peculiar Nature and Their Homoeopathic Cure, he showed us how natural diseases become chronic in nature when suppressed by improper treatment.