It would be alike impossible and unsuitable in a paper of this character to include the whole range of action of the remedies proposed for study. Their contrasts in many respects are so marked as hardly to be better expressed than by saying that one has that which the other has not. But there are certain points of resemblance, if not lines of parallelism, and it is not seldom, I believe, that in prescribing we have to say mentally why one is more suitable to the case than the other. And then I believe the study by comparison is the most effective way of approaching the mastery of the multitude of medicines which the law of homoeopathy makes available for cure.
It is, perhaps, needless to say what will so soon be evident that I have attempted little more than a complication from various accredited sources of the knowledge already in our hands. The beneficent works of Gross and of Boenninghausen have so often made clear the course through a maze of symptoms that I would indulge the hope that the guide to the student, but also humbly serve for trustworthy reference in the presence of disease and pain.
BELLADONNA
Upper left, lower right.
BELLADONNA
Upper left, lower right (Sulph. has the same)
Dark hair
Obesity predominant
Rending pain upwards
Constriction internal
Moist eruptions
Induration of cellular tissue
Sweat lessened indoors
Chill generally without thirst
Drinks often, without at once
Changeable mood
Anxiety and fretfulness
Delirium and activity of mind
Memory active or weak
Vertigo falling to left side or backward
Averse especially to candle light
Eruption on upper lip
Averse to acids; craves lemonade
Nausea more in throat
Nausea in abdomen
Odorless flatus
Diarrhoea generally painless
Complaints most in upper chest
Complaints most on shin of leg
Generally better bending diseased limb
Worse at the full moon
Worse in the twilight
Worse sitting erect
Generally better stooping
Generally better sitting bent forward
Generally better sitting bent forward
Generally better stretching out diseased limb
Generally better from change of position.
Cough with constriction and redness in throat
In eyes superficial inflammations, suddenness of attack, violence of symptoms
Uterine flow bright, or it dark offensive, with sudden pains and sense as if all would come out of the forehead
In fever startings, delirium violent
Meningitis as primary disease
Intense cerebral pain and irritation
Mastitis, with redness in radii from central point and throbbing pains
In measles sweat attends the heat
Scarlatina with smooth skin and hallucinations
Tongue red at tip
Peritonitis with sthenic symptoms
In typhoid in beginning, with violence of symptoms, as delirium, headache, startings and jerkings
Fluent coryza
Alternating color of face
Eruption in corners of mouth and on upper lip
Tongue white with red edges, striped with white
Acid taste in mouth; acid vomiting
Eructations, spasmodic or incomplete
Constipation with distended abdomen
Stool small in size
Painful affections of the kidney
Sexual desire diminished or sometimes increased
Urine turbid when passed
Breathing oppressed, irregular
Cough with sneezing and fluent coryza
Expectoration of bright blood
Affections of the larynx
Acts on external throat more than on the nape
Acts especially on the patella and hollow of the knee
Generally relief while standing
Tenesmus after stool
Relief from walking.
BRYONIA
Upper right, lower left (Calc.carb. has the same)
Light hair
Emaciation predominant
Rending pain downward
Constriction external
Dry eruptions
Suppuration of cellular tissue
Sweat increased indoors
Thirst predominant, not constant
Drinks rarely, much at once
Peevish, sad
Anxiety and mistrust
Delirium and difficult comprehension
Memory weak
Vertigo falling backward
Averse especially to sunlight
Eruption on lower lip
Desire for acids
Nausea more in the stomach
Also nausea in the abdomen
Foetid flatus
Diarrhoea generally painful
Complaints most in lower chest
Complaints most in calf of leg
Worse bending diseased limb
Worse before a thunder storm
Better in the twilight
Better sitting erect
Generally worse stooping
Generally worse sitting bent forward
Generally worse bending head backward
Generally worse stretching out diseased limb
Generally worse from change of position
Cough with irritation in the epigastrium and sharp, stitching and aching pains
In eyes the deeper affections and from metastasis of rheumatism
Uterine flow dark or suppressed with vicarious haemorrhages
In fever lies quiet, delirium mild
Meningitis from suppressed eruption
Shrieking from pain at slightest movement, benumbed sensorium, the face alternately red and pale-after Belladonna.
