“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.
