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Kali nitricum has produced conditions simulating sinus trouble on the right side of the face with sense of pressure and hypersensitiveness to touch. The Aranea diadema patient has a sensation as if the hands and forearms were intensely swollen and heavy, and he will rise from his bed and get a light to see what happened to them.

Dioscorea has wind colic, ameliorated by stretching out: Veratrum album has colic ameliorated by bending double, always accompanied with cold sweat.

Ranking high among the group of remedies having the symptoms, nausea from thinking of food, are Arsenicum, Cocculus, Colchicum, Sepia, Thuja.

In the erysipelas of old people, with a tendency to gangrenous conditions, consider Ammonium carb.

It has been pointed out that Ledum is just as appropriate to the remote as to the recent effects of punctured wounds.

Dark speck on the teeth; teeth begin to decay as soon as they appear, Kreosotum.

Gums bleed after extraction of teeth; Kreosotum, Lachesis, Pulsatilla.

Kali mur. has a sensation as if the eyes would be forced out of the head when coughing.

Ignatia is useful in the delayed menstrual periods of girls away at school.

The Staphisagria child with his decayed and blackened teeth has chronic tendency to colic.

In erysipelas of the joints, where there is sudden recession of the eruption, bear in mind Bryonia.

Think of Ledum in traumatic tetanus where the wound becomes as cold as ice and spasms begin in the wound.

Kali nitricum has produced conditions simulating sinus trouble on the right side of the face with sense of pressure and hypersensitiveness to touch.

The Aranea diadema patient has a sensation as if the hands and forearms were intensely swollen and heavy, and he will rise from his bed and get a light to see what happened to them.

There is a marked amaurosis (with little dilation of the pupils) in Bothrops lan.; the patient cannot see after sunrise.

Crotalus hor. imagines himself surrounded by enemies: Lachesis fears an enemy behind him.

If you have a patient who has a horror of rain study Elaps.

Ambra grisea is wonderfully well adapted to old people, and young people prematurely old, especially after worries and much care.

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  1. POINTERS Lachesis has many symptoms like Merc., abscesses aggravated by heat, sadness, despondency, hypersensitiveness, weakness, trembling, worse touch and light pressure, constriction, sun, heat and sleep. Physical and mental exhaustion, loquacity, left sided, hot perspiration. Abscesses dark, dusky, purplish. Tissues surrounding have a purple, mottled appearance. Pus thin, dark, ichorous, offensive....
  2. POINTERS Most violent aggravation when keeping still, like Rhus; great aching that increases so long as he keeps still; he is very often compelled to keep to the bed, and then the constantly moves and turns. Now Rhus is of no more value than cold water, and why? Because Rhus does not ave the nature of the disease; it will not bring back the discharge and will not control the disease satisfactorily; it will not bring relief in a few hours time....
  3. POINTERS Varicose veins of the thighs and legs have been cured by Aesculus (Fluoric acid). The varicose tendency is a striking feature of Aesculus; engorged veins after the sore throat has been cured; varicose, engorged veins in the eye after eye trouble has been cured; varicose veins with rheumatic complaints, varicosities of the rectum....
  4. POINTERS When a patient complains of a feeling as if the heart were swollen to enormous size, as if the whole chest were distended, and as if the heart suddenly fell into the abdomen, think of Cenchris contortrix. This patient will also complain of a profuse, bland foot-sweat, corns that are troublesome in wet weather, and his hands chap very easily....
H.A. Roberts
Dr. H.A.Roberts (1868-1950) attended New York Homoeopathic Medical College and set up practrice in Brattleboro of Vermont (U.S.). He eventually moved to Connecticut where he practiced almost 50 years. Elected president of the Connecticut Homoeopathic Medical Society and subsequently President of The International Hahnemannian Association. His writings include Sensation As If and The Principles and Art of Cure by Homoeopathy.