Alumen

Alumen
(common potash alum)
* The clinical application of this remedy points to its bowel symptoms, both in obstinate
constipation and in haemorrhage from bowels in the course of typhoid - one phase of the
paralytic weakness of the muscles in all parts of the body.
* Tendency to induration is also marked, a low form of tissue-making is favored.
* Hardening of tissues of tongue, rectum, uterus, etc.; ulcers with indurated base.
* Adapted to old people, especially bronchial catarrhs.
* Sensation of dryness and constriction.
* Mental paresis; dysphagia especially to liquids.
* Tendency to induration, Scirrhus of the tongue.
Head
- Burning pain as of weight on top of lead better by pressure of hand.
- Vertigo, with weakness in pit of stomach.
- Alopecia.
Throat
- Throat relaxed.
- Mucous membrane red and swollen.
- Cough.
- Tickling in throat.
- Tendency to throat colds.
- Enlarged and indurated tonsils.
- Burning pain down the oesophagus.
- Complete aphonia.
- Every cold settles in throat.
- Constriction of oesophagus.
Heart
- Palpitation, from lying down on right side.
Rectum
- Constipation of the most aggravated kind.
- No desire for stool for days.
- Violent ineffectual urging to stool.
- No ability to expel stool.
- Marble-like masses pass, but rectum still feels full.
- Itching after stool.
- Itching in anus.
- Long lasting pain and smarting in rectum after stool; also haemorrhoids.
- Yellow, like an infant's.
- Haemorrhage from bowels.
Female
- Tendency to induration of neck of uterus and mammary glands. [Carb. an.; Con.]
- Chronic yellow vaginal discharge.
- Chronic gonorrhoea, yellow, with little lumps along urethra.
- Aphthous patches in vagina. [Caul.]
- Menses watery.
Respiratory
- Haemoptysis, great weakness of chest; difficult to expel mucus.
- Copious, ropy morning expectoration in old people.
- Asthma.
Skin
- Ulcers, with indurated base.
- To be thought of in indurated glands, epithelioma, etc.; veins become varicose and bleed.
- Indurations resulting from long-continued inflammatory irritations.
- Glands inflame and harden.
- Alopecia, Scrotal eczema and on back of penis.
Extremities
- Weakness of all muscles, especially arms and legs.
- Constricted feeling around limbs.
Modalities
- Worse, cold except headache, which is relieved by cold.
Dose
- First to thirtieth potency.
- The very highest potencies have proved efficacious.
- Powdered alum, 10 grains, placed on tongue, saidto arrest an attack of asthma.

Ambra grisea

Ambra grisea
(ambergis - a morbid secretion of the whale)
* Suitable to excitable, nervous children and thin, nervous patients.
* Extreme nervous hypersensitiveness.
* External numbness of whole body in the morning and weakness.
* Nervous bilious temperament.
* Thin, scrawny women.
* Adapted to hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with convulsive
cough, eructation, etc.
* Also for patients weakened by age or overwork, who are anaemic and sleepless.
* Great remedy for the aged, with impairment of all functions, weakness, coldness and
numbness, usually of single parts, fingers, arms, etc.
* One-sided complaints call for it.
* Music aggravates symptoms.
* Ebullitions and pulsations after walking in openair.
* One-sided complaints.
Mind
- Dread of people, and desire to be alone.
- Cannot do anything in presence of others.
- Intensely shy, blushes easily.
- Music causes weeping.
- Despair, loathing of life.
- Fantastic illusions.
- Bashful.
- Loss of love of life.
- Restless, excited, very loquacious.
- Time passes slowly.
- Thinking, difficult in the morning with old people.
- Dwells upon unpleasant things.
Head
- Slow comprehension.
- Vertigo, with weakness in head and stomach.
- Pressure on front part of head with mental depression.
- Tearing pain in upper half of brain. Senile dizziness.
- Rush of blood to head, when listening to music.
- Hearing impaired.
- Epistaxis, especially in the morning.
- Profuse bleeding from teeth.
- Hair falls out.
Stomach
- Eructations, with violent, convulsive cough.
- Acid eructations, like heartburn.
- Distention of stomach and abdomen after midnight.
- Sensation of coldness in abdomen.
Urinary
- Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time.
- Burning in orifice of urethra and anus.
- Feeling in urethra as if a few drops passed out.
- Burning and itching in urethra while urinating.
- Urine turbid, even during emission forming a brown sediment.
Female
- Nymphomania, Itching of pudendum, with soreness and swelling.
- Menses too early.
- Profuse, bluish leucorrhoea.
- Worse at night.
- Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident.
Male
- Voluptuous itching of scrotum.
- Parts externally numb; burn internally.
- Violent erections without voluptuous sensations.
Respiratory
- Asthmatic breathing with eructation of gas.
- Nervous, spasmodic cough, with hoarseness and eructation, on waking in morning; worse in
presence of people.
- Tickling in throat, larynx and trachea, chest oppressed, gets out of breath when coughing.
- Hollow, spasmodic, barking cough, coming from deep in chest.
- Choking when hawking up phlegm.
Heart
- Palpitation, with pressure in chest as from a lump lodged there, or as if chest was
obstructed.
- Conscious of the pulse.
- Palpitation in open air with pale face.
Sleep
- Cannot sleep from worry; must get up.
- Anxious dreams.
- Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during sleep.
Skin
- Itching and soreness, especially around genitals.
- Numbness of skin.
- Arms "go to sleep".
Extremities
- Cramps in hands and fingers, worse grasping anything.
- Cramps in legs.
Modalities
- Worse, music; presence of strangers; from any unusual thing; morning, warm room.
- Better, slow motion in open air; lying on painful part; cold drinks.
Relationship
- Do not confound with Amber - Succinum.q. v.
- Moschus frequently follows advantageously.
- Compare : Oleum succinum (hiccough).
- Sumbul; Castor.; Asaf.; Crocus.; Lilium.
Dose
- Second and third potencies; may be repeated withadvantage.

Ammonium benzoicum

Ammonium benzoicum
(benzoate of ammonia)
* One of the remedies for albuminuria, especially in the gouty.
* Gout, with deposits in joints.
* Urinary incontinence in the aged.
Head
- Heavy, stupid.
Face
- Bloated, swollen eyelids.
- Swelling under tongue like ranula.
Urine
- Smoky, scanty.
- Albuminous and thick deposits.
Back
- Pain across sacrum, with urgency to stool.
- Soreness in region of right kidney.
Relationship
- Compare : Terebinth.; Benz. ac.; Ammonia salts.;Caust.
- In albuminuria compare : Kalmia; Helon; Merc. cor.; Berb.; Canth.
Dose
- Second trituration.

Ammonium bromatum

Ammonium bromatum
(bromide of ammonia)
* Indicated in chronic laryngeal and pharyngeal catarrh, neuralgic headaches, and obesity.
* Constrictive pain in head, chest, legs, etc.
* Irritable feeling under finger nails; relieved only by biting them.
Head
- Cerebral congestion.
- Feeling of a band above ears.
- Sneezing; thick nasal discharge.
Eyes
- Edges of lids red and swollen, also Meibomian glands.
- Eyeballs feel large and pain around eyes into head.
Throat
- Smarting in mouth.
- Tickling in throat, with inclination to dry, spasmodic cough, especially at night.
- Burning in fauces.
- White, sticky, mucus.
- Chronic speakers' catarrh.
Respiratory
- Sudden, short cough, strangling.
- Tickling in trachea and bronchial tubes.
- Wakes at 3 a.m. with cough.
- Feels suffocated; continuous cough, when lying down at night; sharp pain in lungs.
- Whooping Cough.
- -Dry, spasmodic cough on lying down.
Relationship
- Hyos.; Con.; Arg. nit.; Kali bich.
Dose
- First potency.

Ammonium carbonicum

Ammonium carbonicum
(carbonate of ammonia)
* The diseased conditions met by this remedy are such as we find often in rather stout women
who are always tired and weary, take cold easily, suffer from cholera-like symptoms before
menses, lead a sedentary life, have a slow reactiongenerally, and are disposed to frequent use
of the smelling-bottle.
* Too frequent and profuse menses.
* Mucous membranes of the respiratory organs are especially affected.
* Fat patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel suffocated.
* Very sensitive to cold air.
* Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it.
* Malignant scarlatina, with somnolence, swollen glands, dark red sore throat, faintly
developed eruption.
* Uraemia.
* Heaviness in all organs.
* Uncleanness in bodily habits.
* Swelling of parts, glands, etc.
* Acid secretions.
* Prostration from trifles.
Mind
- Forgetful, ill-humored, gloomy during stormy weather. Uncleanliness.
- Talking and hearing others talk affects greatly.
- Sad, weepy, unreasonable.
Head
- Pulsating forehead; better, pressure and in warmroom.
- Shocks through head.
Eyes
- Burning of eyes with aversion to light.
- Eye-strain. [Nat. mur.]
- Asthenopia.
- Sore canthi.
Ears
- Hardness of hearing.
- Shocks through ears, eyes, and nose, when gnashing teeth.
Nose
- Discharge of sharp, burning water.
- Stoppage at night, with long-continued coryza.K Cannot breathe through nose. Snuffles of
children.
- Epistaxis after washing and after eating.
- Ozaena, blows bloody mucus from nose .
- Tip of nose congested.
Face
- Tetters around mouth.
- Boils and pustules, during menses.
- Corners of mouth sore, cracked, and burn.
Mouth
- Great dryness of mouth and throat.
- Toothache.
- Pressing teeth together sends shocks through head, eyes, and ears.
- Vesicles on tongue.
- Taste sour; metallic.
- Cracking of jaw on chewing.
Throat
- Enlarged tonsils and glands of neck.
- Burning pain all down throat.
- Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils.
- Diphtheria when nose is stopped up.
Stomach
- Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, waterbrash, and chilliness.
- Great appetite, but easily satisfied.
- Flatulent dyspepsia.
Abdomen
- Noise and pain in abdomen.
- Flatulent hernia.
- Stools difficult, hard, and knotty.
- Bleeding piles; worse during menses.
- Itching at anus.
- Protruding piles, worse after stool, better lying down.
Urine
- Frequent desire; involuntary at night.
- Tenesmus of bladder.
- Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid and fetid.
Male
- Itching and pain of scrotum and spermatic cords.
- Erection without desire.
- Seminal emissions.
Female
- Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum.
- Leucorrhoea burning, acrid, watery.
- Aversion to the other sex.
- Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard,
difficult stool, with fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness.
Respiratory
- Hoarseness.
- Cough every morning about three o'clock, with dyspnoea, palpitation, burning in chest;
worse ascending.
- Chest feels tired.
- Emphysema.
- Much oppression in breathing; worse after any effort, and entering warm room, or
ascending even a few steps.
- Asthenic Pneumonia.
- Slow labored, stertorous breathing; bubbling sound.
- Winter catarrh, with slimy sputum and specks of blood.
- Pulmonary oedema.
Heart
- Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat, lachrymation, inability to speak, loud breathing
and trembling hands.
- Heart weak, wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation.
Extremities
- Tearing in joints relieved by heat of bed; inclination to stretch limbs.
- Hands cold and blue; distended veins.
- Fingers swell when arm is hanging down.
- Panaritium, deep-seated periosteal pain.
- Cramps in calves and soles.
- Big toe painful and swollen.
- Felons in the beginning.
- Heel painful on standing.
- Tearing in ankle and bones of feet, better when warm in bed.
Sleep
- Sleepiness during the day.
- Starts from sleep strangling.
Skin
- Violent itching and burning blisters.
- Scarlet rash.
- Miliary rash.
- Malignant scarlatina.
- Faintly developed eruptions from defective vitality.
- Erysipelas in the aged, with brain symptoms.
- Eczema in the bends of extremities, between legs, about anus and genitals.
Modalities
- Worse, evenings, from cold, wet weather, wet applications, washing, and during 3 to 4 a.m.
, during menses.
- Better, lying on painful side and on stomach; indry weather.
Relationship
- Inimical to Lachesis.
- Similar in action.
- Antidotes : Arnica; Camphor.
- Compare : Rhus; Muriatic acid; Tartar emet.
- Of use in poisoning by charcoal fumes.
Dose
- Lower potencies deteriorate with age.
- Sixth potency best for general use.

Ammonium causticum

Ammonium causticum
(hydrate of ammonia - ammonia water)
* This is a powerful cardiac stimulant.
* As such in syncope, thrombosis, haemorrhage, snake-bites, chloroform narcosis, may be
given by inhalation.
The oedema and ulceration of mucous membranes produced by this powerful drug have been
utilized as guiding symptoms for its use; hence in membranous croup with burning in
oesophagus.
Aphonia.
See Causticum.
Respiratory
- Difficult respiration.
- Accumulation of mucus with incessant coughing.
- Loss of voice. Burning rawness in throat.
- Spasm of the glottis with suffocation; patient gasps for breath.
- Pain in oesophagus on breathing deeply.
- Scraping and burning in throat and oesophagus.
- Uvula covered with white mucus.
- Nasal diphtheria, with burning excoriating discharge.
Extremities
- Excessive exhaustion and muscular debility.
- Rheumatism of shoulders.
- Skin hot and dry.
Dose
- First to third potency; also five to ten minims,well diluted with water

Ammonium iodatum

Ammonium iodatum
(iodide of ammonia)
* Indicated when iodine has but partially relievedits cases of laryngitis and bronchitis,
catarrhal pneumonia, oedema of lungs.
Head
- Dull headache, especially in young people, face stupid, heavy; vertigo, Meniere's disease.
Dose
- Second and third trit.
- Compare : Ammonium tartaricum (Dry hacking coughafter every cold).

Ammonium muriaticum

Ammonium muriaticum
(sal ammoniac)
* A state of prostration bordering on a typhoid state is produced by this remedy.
* All mucous secretions are increased and retained.
* It is especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles.
* Coughs associated with catarrhs and affections of liver.
* A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seemsto be in constant turmoil, pulsations, etc.
* Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough, profuse glairy secretions.
* Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected; thus the
head and chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the
limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings.
* "Boiling" sensation.
Mind
- Melancholy, apprehensive; like from internal grief.
- Desire to cry, but cannot.
- Consequences of grief.
Head
- Hair falls out, with itchings and dandruff.
- Feels full, compressed; worse mornings.
Eyes
- Mist before eyes, optical illusions in incipientcataract; capsular cataract.
Nose
- Free acrid, hot watery discharge corroding the lip.
- Sneezing.
- Nose sore to touch; ulcerative pain in nostrils.
- Loss of smell. Obstructed, stuffy feeling; constant and unavailing efforts to blow it out.
- Itching.
Face
- Inflammatory face-ache.
- Mouth and lips sore and excoriated.
Throat
- Throbbing in, and swelling of tonsils, can scarcely swallow.
- Sore spot behind uvula, relieved by eating.
- Internal and external swelling of throat with viscid phlegm.
- So touch, it cannot be hawked up.
- Tonsillitis.
- Stricture of oesophagus.
Stomach
- Thirst for lemonade, regurgitation of food, bitter waterbrash.
- Nausea.
- Gnawing in stomach.
- Epigastric pain immediately after eating.
- Cancer of stomach.
Abdomen
- Splenic stitches, especially in the morning, with difficult breathing.
- Pain around navel.
- Abdominal symptoms appear during pregnancy.
- Chronic congestion of liver.
- Excessive fatty deposit around abdomen.
- Much flatus.
- Strained feeling in groin.
Rectum
- Itching and haemorrhoids, soreness with pustules.
- Hard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus.
- Stinging in perinaeum.
- Green mucus stools alternate with constipation.
- During and after stool, burning and smarting in rectum.
- Haemorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhoea.
Female
- Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted; flow more at night.
- Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during pregnancy.
- Diarrhoea, greenish mucous stools, and navel pain during menses.
- Leucorrhoea, like white of an egg [Alum.; Bor.; Calc.p. ]; with pain about the navel; brown,
slimy after every urination.
Respiratory
- Hoarseness and burning in larynx.
- Dry, hacking, scraping cough; worse lying on back or right side.
- Stitches in chest.
- Cough loose in afternoon, with profuse expectoration and rattling of mucus.
- Oppression of chest.
- Burning at small spots in chest.
- Scanty secretion.
- Cough with profuse salivation.
Back
- Icy coldness between shoulders; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching.
- Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting.
- Backache, as if in a vise when sitting.
Extremities
- Pain as from ulceration in finger tips.
- Shooting and tearing in tips of finger and toes.
- Ulcerative pain in heels.
- Contraction of hamstring tendons.
- Sciatica, worse sitting, better lying.
- Neuralgic pain in amputated limbs.
- Offensive sweaty feet.
- Pain in feet during menses.
Skin
- Itching, generally evenings.
- Blisters on various parts.
- Intense burning better cold applications.
Fever
- Chilliness evenings after lying down and on awakening, without thirst.
- Heat in palms and soles.
- Sub acute, low fevers due to unhealthy climate.
- Lowest potencies.
Modalities
- Better, open air.
- Worse, head and chest symptoms in the morning; abdominal symptoms in the afternoon.
Relationship
- Antidotes : Coffea; Nux; Caust.
- Compare : Calcarea; Senega; Caustic.
Dose
- Third to sixth potency.

Ammonium phosphoricum

Ammonium phosphoricum
(phosphate of ammonia)
* A remedy for chronic gouty patients uric acid diathesis, indicated in bronchitis and
nodosities of the joints of the fingers and backs of the hands.
* Facial paralysis.
* Pain in shoulder-joint.
* Tightness around chest.
* Heaviness of limbs, unsteady, tottering gait.
* Coldness from least draft of air.
Head
- Sneezing with excessive running from nose and eyes, only in morning.
Respiratory
- Deep rough cough with greenish expectoration.
Urine
- Rose-colored sediment.
Dose
- Third decimal trituration.

Ammonium picricum

Ammonium picricum
(pictrate of ammonia)
* A remedy for malarial fever and neuralgias and so-called, bilious headaches.
* Pain in occiput and mastoid region.
* Whooping cough.
Head
- Periodical neuralgia in right side of occiput; boring extends to ear, orbit, and jaw.
- Vertigo on rising.
- Periodic bilious headaches. [Sanguin.]
Dose
- Third trituration.

Ammonium valerianicum

Ammonium valerianicum
(valerianate of ammonia)
* A remedy for nervous, hysterical people, suffering with neuralgia headaches and insomnia.
* Great nervous erethism is always present.
Heart
- Pains in cardiac region.
- Functional disturbances, tachycardia.
Dose
- Lower triturations.

Ampelopsis quinquefolia

Ampelopsis quinquefolia
(virginia creeper)
* Renal dropsies, hydrocele, and chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients have been
benefited by this drug.
* Choleric symptoms.
* Generally worse about 6 p.m.
* Dilated pupils.
* Left costal region sore and sensitive.
* Elbow joints pain, back sore.
* Soreness of all limbs.
* Vomiting, purging with tenesmus.
* Rumbling in abdomen.
Dose
- Second to third potency.

Amygdalus persica

Amygdalus persica
(peach tree)
* A most valuable remedy in vomiting of various kinds; morning sickness.
* Irritation of eyes.
* Ischuria and haematuria.
Haemorrhage from the bladder.
Gastric irritation of children; no form of food tolerated.
Loss of smell and taste.
Gastric and intestinal irritation when the tongue is elongated and pointed, tip and edges red.
Constant nausea and vomiting.
Relationship
- Compare : Amygd. amara - Bitter Almond. (Pains through tonsils, throat dark, difficult
swallowing, vomiting, cough with sore chest.)
Dose
- Fresh infusion or mother tincture.

Amylenum nitrosum

Amylenum nitrosum
(amyl nitrite)
* On inhaling this drug, it rapidly dilates all arterioles and capillaries, producing flushings of
face, heat, and throbbing in the head.
* -Superficial arterial hyperaemia.
* Palpitation of the heart and similar conditions are readily cured by it, especially the
flushings and other discomforts at climacteric.
* Hiccough and yawning.
* Often relieves temporarily epileptic convulsions.
* Seasickness.
Head
- Anxiety, as if something might happen; must havefresh air. Surging of blood to head and
face; sensation as if blood would start through skin, with heat and redness.
- Flushings, followed by sweat at climacteric.
- Ears hyperaemic.
- Throbbing.
Throat
- Constriction; collar seems too tight.
Chest
- Dyspnoea and asthmatic feelings.
- Great oppression and fullness of chest; spasmodic, suffocative cough.
- Praecordial anxiety.
- Tumultous action of heart.
- Pain and constriction around heart.
- Fluttering at slightest excitement.
Female
- After-pains; haemorrhage associated with facial flushing.
- Climacteric headache and flushes of heat, with anxiety and palpitation.
Fever
- Much flushing of heat; sometimes followed by cold and clammy skin and profuse sweat.
- Throbbing throughout whole body.
- Abnormal sweat after influenza.
Extremities
- Constant stretching for hours.
- Veins of hands dilated; pulsations felt in tips of fingers.
Relationship
- Compare : Glonoine; Lachesis.
- Antidotes : Cactus; Strychn.; Ergot.
Dose
- Third potency.

Anagallis arvensis

Anagallis arvensis
(scarlet pimpernel)
* Marked action on skin, characterized by great itching and tingling everywhere.
* Favors expulsion of splinters.
* An old medicine for hydrophobia and dropsy.
* Possesses power of softening flesh and destroying warts.
Head
- Great hilarity; headache over supra-orbital ridges, with rumbling in bowels and eructations;
better from coffee.
- Sick headache.
- Pain in facial muscles.
Extremities
- Rheumatic and gouty pains.
- Pain in shoulder and arm.
- Cramp in ball of thumbs and fingers.
Urine
- More or less irritation in urethra, inclining tocoition.
- Burning pain on urinating, with agglutination oforifice.
- Urine passes in several streams; must press before it passes.
Skin
- Itching. dry, bran-like eruption, especially on hands and fingers. Palms especially affected.
- Vesicles in groups.
- Ulcers and swellings on joints.
Relationship
- Anagallis contains Saponin, q.v.
- Compare : Cyclamen; Primula obcon.
Dose
- First to third potency.

Anantherum muricatum

Anantherum muricatum
(cuscus - an east indian grass)
* A skin remedy of high order.
Painful swelling of various parts, going on to suppuration.
Glandular inflammation.
Head
- Pains pierce brain like pointed arrows; worse inafternoon.
- Herpes, ulcers, and tumors on scalp.
- Wartlike growth on eyebrows.
- Boils and tumors on tip of nose.
- Tongue fissured, as if cut on edges; copious salivation.
Urine
- Turbid, thick, full of mucus.
- Constant urging.
- Bladder cannot hold smallest quantity.
- Involuntary.
- Cystitis.
Sexual
- Chancre-like sores.
- Scirrhus-like swelling of cervix.
- Breasts swollen, indurated, nipples excoriated.
Skin
- Diseased and deformed nails.
- Offensive foot-sweat.
- Abscesses. boils, ulcers.
- Erysipelas.
- Pruritus, herpes.
Relationship
- Compare : Staphisag.; Mercur.; Thuja.
Dose
- Third potency.

Anhalonium lewinii

Anhalonium lewinii
(mescal button)
* Mescal is a strong intoxicating spirit distilledfrom Pulque fuerte.
* Pulque is made from the Agave Americana of Mexico, locally known as Maguey and is the
national beverage of Mexico.
* Indians call it Peyote.
* It weakens the heart, produces insanity.
* Its most striking effects appear in the auditorynerve for it makes each note upon the piano
a center of melody which seems to be surrounded by a halo of color pulsating to the rhythm of
the music". (Hom. World.)
Causes a form of intoxication accompanied by wonderful visions, remarkably beautiful and
varied kaleidoscopic changes, and a sensation of increased physical ability.
Also visions of monsters and various gruesome forms.
A cardiac tonic and respiratory stimulant.
Hysteria and insomnia.
A remedy for brainfag, delirium, megrim, hallucinations, with colored brilliant visions.
Motor inco-ordination.
Extreme muscular depression; increased patellar reflex.
Paraplegia.
Mind
- Loss of conception of time.
- Difficult enunciation.
- Distrust and resentment.
- Lazy contentment.
Head
- Aches, with disturbed vision.
- Fantastic, brilliant, moving colored objects.
- Affected by beating time.
- Pupils dilated, vertigo, brain tired.
- Polychrome spectra.
- Exaggerated reverberation of ordinary sounds.
Dose
- Tincture.

Allium sativum

Allium sativum
(garlic)
* Acts directly on intestinal mucous membrane increasing peristalsis.
* Colitis, with pathological flora.
* Has vaso-dilatory properties.
* Arterial hypotension begins usually in 30 to 45 minutes after twenty to forty drop doses of
the tincture.
Adapted to fleshy subjects with dyspepsia and catarrhal affections.
High livers.
Patients who eat a great deal more, especially meat, than they drink.
Cough and expectoration diminishes, temperature becomes normal, weight is gained, and
sleep becomes regular.
Head
- Heavy; pulsation in temples; catarrhal deafness.
Mouth
- Much sweetish saliva after meals and at night.
- Sensation of a hair on tongue or throat.
Stomach
- Voracious appetite.
- Burning eructations.
- Least change in diet causes trouble.
- Constipation, with constant dull pains in bowels.
- Tongue pale, red papillae.
Respiratory
- Constant rattling of mucus in bronchi.
- Cough in the morning after leaving bedroom, withmucous expectoration, which is
tenacious and difficult to raise.
- Sensitive to cold air.
- Dilated bronchi, with fetid expectoration.
- Darting pain in chest.
Female
- Pain in swelling of breasts.
- Eruption in vagina and on breasts and vulva during menses.
Relationship
- Allium Sat. according to Dr. Teste, belongs to the Bryonia group, including Lycopod.
- Nux.
- Colocy, Digital and Ignatia which affect deeply all flesh eating animals and hardly at all
vegetarians.
- Hence their special applicability to meat eatersrather than to exclusive vegetarians.
- Compare : Capsicum; Arsenic; Senega; Kali nit.
- Complementary : Arsenic.
- Antidote : Lycopod.
Dose
- Third to sixth potency.
- In tuberculosis, dose, four to six grammes in moderate state of dessication daily, in divided
doses.

Acidum Tartaricum

Acidum Tartaricum
Tartaricum acidum
(tartaric acid)
* Found in grapes, pineapple, sorrel and other fruits.
* It is an antiscorbutic antiseptic, stimulating the mucous and salivary secretions.
Dullness and lassitude.
Great weakness, with diarrhoea, with dry and browntongue.
Pain in heels. [Phytol.]
Stomach
- Excessive thirst, continued vomiting burning in throat and stomach.
- Dyspepsia with copious secretions of mucus.
Abdomen
- Pain around umbilicus and region of loins.
- Stool color of coffee-grounds (worse at night), with brown and dry tongue, and dark-green
vomiting.
Dose
- Third trituration.
- The pure acid 10-30 grains dissolved in water.

Acidum Sulphuricum

Acidum Sulphuricum
Sulphuricum acidum
(sulphuric acid)
* The "debility" common to acids shows itself here, especially in the digestive tract, giving a
very relaxed feeling in the stomach, with craving for stimulants.
* Tremor and weakness; everything must be done in a hurry.
* Hot flushes, followed by perspiration, with trembling.
* Tendency to gangrene following mechanical injuries.
* Writer's cramp.
* Lead poisoning.
* Gastralgia and hypochlorrhydria.
* Purpura haemorrhagia.
Mind
- Fretful, impatient.
- Unwilling to answer questions; hurried.
Head
- Right-sided neuralgia; painful shocks; skin feels pinched.
- Sensation as if brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to side. [Bell.; Rhus.]
- Concussion of brain where skin is cold, body bathed in cold sweat.
- Compressive pain in side of occiput; relieved by holding the hands near the head.
- Pain of outer parts, as if there were subcutaneous ulceration; painful to touch.
- Thrust in right temple as if plug were pressed in.
Eyes
- Intra-ocular haemorrhage following traumatism.
- Great chemosis of conjunctiva, with aching and sharp pain.
Mouth
- Aphthae; gums bleed readily.
- Offensive breath.
- Pyorrhoea.
Stomach
- Heartburn; sour eructations; sets teeth on edge.[Robin.] Craving for alcohol. Water causes
coldness of stomach; must be mixed with liquors.
- Relaxed feeling in stomach.
- Averse to smell of coffee.
- Sour vomiting.
- Desire for fresh food.
- Hiccough.
- Coldness of stomach relieved by applied heat Nausea with chilliness.
Abdomen
- Weak feeling, with dragging into the hips and small of back.
- Feeling as if hernia would protrude, especially left side.
Rectum
- Piles; oozing dampness.
- Rectum feels as if it had a big ball.
- Diarrhoea, fetid, black, with sour odor of body,and empty faint feeling in abdomen.
Female
- Menstruation early and profuse.
- Erosion of cervix in the aged; easily bleeding.
- Acrid, burning leucorrhoea, often of bloody mucus.
Respiratory
- Respiration rapid with shooting in cervical muscles and movement of wings of nose; larynx
moves up and down violently.
- Bronchitis in children with short, teasing cough.
Extremities
- Cramp-like paralytic contraction in arms, hands;jerking of fingers while writing.
Skin
- Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises and livid skin.
- Ecchymosis.
- Petechiae.
- Purpura haemorrhagica.
- Livid, red, itching blotches.
- Haemorrhage of black blood from all outlets.
- Cicatrices turn red and blue and become painful.
- Chilblains with gangrenous tendency.
- Carbuncles, boils and other staphylococcic and streptococcic infections.
Modalities
- Worse, from excess of heat or cold in forenoon and evening.
- Better, from warmth, and lying on affected side.
Relationship
- Complementary : Puls.
- Compare : Arn.; Calend.; Led.; Sep.; Calc.
Dose
- Sulphuric acid mixed with three parts of alcohol, ten to fifteen drops three times daily for
several weeks, has been successfully used to subduethe craving for liquor.
- For homoeopathic purposes second to thirtieth potency.

Acidum Salicylicum

Acidum Salicylicum
Salicylicum acidum
(salicylic acid)
* The symptoms point to its use in rheumatism, dyspepsia, andMeniere's disease.
* Prostration after influenza; also tinnitus aurium and deafness.
* Haematuria.
Head
- Vertigo; tendency to fall to left side.
- Headache; confusion in head on rising suddenly.
- Incipient coryza.
- Piercing pain in temples.
Eyes
- Retinal haemorrhage.
- Retinitis after influenza, also albuminuric.
Ears
- Roaring and ringing in ears.
- Deafness, with vertigo.
Throat
- Sore, red and swollen.
- Pharyngitis; swallowing difficult.
Stomach
- Canker sores, with burning soreness and fetid breath.
- Flatulence; hot, sour belching.
- Putrid fermentation.
- Fermentative dyspepsia.
- Tongue purplish, leaden-colored; foul breath.
Stools
- Putrid diarrhoea; gastro-intestinal derangements, especially in children; stools like green
frog's spawn. [Magn. carb.]
- Pruritus ani.
Extremities
- Knees swollen and painful.
- Acute articular rheumatism; worse, touch and motion, profuse sweat.
- Pain shifts.
- Sciatica, burning pain; worse at night.
- Copious foot-sweat and ill affects where suppressed.
Skin
- Itching vesicles and pustules; better by scratching.
- Sweat without sleep.
- Urticaria.
- Hot and burning skin.
- Purpura.
- Herpes zoster.
- Necrosis and softening of bones.
Relationship
- Compare : Salol (rheumatic pain in joints, with soreness and stiffness, headache over eyes;
urine violet-smelling); Colch.; China; Lact. ac.
- Spiraea and Gaultheria contain salicyl. acid.
Dose
- Third decimal trituration.
- In acute articular rheumatism, 5 grains every 3 hours. (Old school dose.)

Acidum Picricum

 Acidum Picricum
Picricum acidum
(picric acid) (trinitrophenol)
* Causes degeneration of the spinal cord, with paralysis.
* Brainfag and sexual excitement.
* Acts upon the generative organs probably throughthe lumbar centers of the spinal cord;
prostration, weakness and pain of back, pins and needle sensation in extremities.
* Neurasthenia. [Oxal. ac.] Muscular debility.
* Heavy tired feeling.
* Myelitis with spasms and prostration.
* Writer's palsy.
* Progressive, pernicious anaemia.
* Uraemia with complete anuria.
* A one per cent. solution applied on lint, is thebest application for burns until granulations
begin to form.
* Sallow complexion.
Mind
- Lack of will-power; disinclined to work.
- Cerebral softening.
- Dementia with prostration, sits still and listless.
Head
- Head pains; relieved by bandaging tightly. Occipital pain; worse, slightest mental exertion.
- Vertigo and noises in ear.
- Boils within ears and back of neck.
- After prolonged mental strain, with anxiety and dread of failure at examination.
- Brain fag.
Eyes
- Chronic catarrhal conjunctivitis with copious, thick yellow discharge.
Stomach
- Bitter taste.
- Aversion to food.
Urinary
- Scanty; complete anuria.
- Dribbling micturition.
- Urine contains much indican, granular cylinders and fatty degenerated epithelium.
- Inflammation of kidneys with profound weakness, dark, bloody, scanty urine.
- Nightly urging.
Male
- Emissions profuse, followed by great exhaustion,without sensual dreams.
- Priapism; satyriasis.
- Hard erections, with pain in testicles and up cord.
- Prostatic hypertrophy, especially in cases not too far advanced.
Female
- Pain in left ovary and leucorrhoea before menstruation.
- Pruritus vulvae.
Extremities
- Burning along spine.
- Great weakness. Tired, heavy feeling all over body, especially limbs; worse, exertion.
- Feet cold.
- Cannot get warm.
- Acute descending paralysis.
Modalities
- Worse, least exertion, especially mental, after sleep, wet weather.
- A summer or hot weather remedy; patient is worsethen.
- Better, from cold air, cold water, tight pressure.
Relationship
- Compare : Oxal. ac.; Gels.; Phos.; Sil.; Arg. nit.
- Compare : Zinc. pic. (facial palsy and paralysisagitans)
- ; Ferr. pic. (buzzing in ears, deafness; chronicgout; epistaxis; prostatic troubles)
- ; Calc. pic. (boils in and around ears).
Dose
- Sixth potency.

Acidum Oxalicum

Acidum Oxalicum
Oxalicum acidum
(sorrel acid)
* Although certain oxalates are constant constituents of vegetable food and of the human
body, the acid itself is a violent poison when taken internally, producing gastro-enteritis,
motor paralysis, collapse, stupor and death.
Influences the spinal cord, and produces motor paralysis.
Pains very violent, in spots (Kali bich.) worse, motion, and thinking of them. Periodical
remissions.
Spasmodic symptoms of throat and chest.
Tuberculosis.
Head
- Sense of heat.
- Confusion and vertigo.
- Headache, before and during stool.
Eyes
- Severe pain in eyes; feel expanded.
- Hyperoesthesia of retina.
Stomach
- Violent pain in epigastrium, discharge of flatusrelieves.
- Gastralgia, pyrosis, sensation of coldness belowepigastrium.
- Burning pain, extending upwards; slightest touchcauses excruciating pain.
- Bitter and sour eructation, worse at night.
- Cannot eat strawberries.
Abdomen
- Pain in upper part and region of navel two hoursafter eating, with much flatulence.
- Stitches in liver.
- Colic.
- Burning in small spots in abdomen.
- Diarrhoea from coffee.
Male
- Terrible neuralgic pains in spermatic cord.
- Testicles feel contused and heavy.
- Seminal vesiculitis.
Urinary
- Frequent and copious.
- Burning in urethra and pain in glans when urinating.
- Must urinate when thinking of it.
- Urine contains oxalates.
Respiratory
- Nervous aphonia with cardiac derangement. [Coca;Hydrocy. ac.]
- Burning sensation from throat down.
- Breathing spasmodic, with constriction of larynxand chest.
- Hoarseness. Left lung painful. Aphonia.
- Paralysis of the tensors of vocal cord.
- Dyspnoea; short, jerking inspirations.
- Sharp pain through lower region of left lung, extending down to epigastrium.
Heart
- Palpitation and dyspnoea in organic heart disease; worse, when thinking of it.
- Pulse feeble.
- Heart symptoms alternate with aphonia, angina pectoris; sharp, lancinating pain in left lung
coming on suddenly, depriving of breath.
- Praecordial pains which dart to the left shoulder.
- Aortic insufficiency.
Extremities
- Numb, weak, tingling.
- Pains start from spine and extend through extremities.
- Drawing and lancinating pains shooting down extremities.
- Backache; numb, weak, Myelitis.
- Muscular prostration.
- Wrist painful, as if sprained. [Ulmus.]
- Lower extremities blue, cold, insensible.
- Sensation of numbness.
- Multiple cerebral and posterior spinal sclerosis.
- Lancinating pains in various parts; jerking pains.
Skin
- Sensitive, smarting and soreness, worse shaving;mottled, marbled in circular patches.
- Perspires easily.
Modalities
- Worse, left side; slightest touch; light; shaving.
- Aroused about 3 a.m. with gastric and abdominal pain.
- All conditions made worse by thinking about self.
Relationship
- Compare : Ars.; Colch.; Arg.; Pic. ac.; Cicer arietinum-Chick-pea-(Lithiasis, jaundice, liver
affections; diuretic).
- Scolopendra-Centipede-(terrible pains in back and loins, extending down limbs; return
periodically, commencing in head, to toes. Angina pectoris. Inflammation, pain and gangrene.
Pustules and abscesses).
- Coesium-(Pain in lumber region and testicle. Headache, darting through temples. Diarrhoea
and colic. Languor.)
- Lime Water-Antidote to poisoning of Oxal. acid.
Dose
- Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Acidum nitricum

Acidum nitricum
Nitricum acidum
(nitric acid)
* Selects for its special seat of action the outlets of the body where the mucous membrane
and skin meet; these pain as from splinters. Sticking pains.
* Marked improvement of all symptoms while riding in a carriage.
* Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life.
* Syphilis, after abuse of Mercury.
* Pains appear and disappear quickly. [Bell.]
* Hydrogenoid constitution.
* Sycotic remedy.
Blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue, genitals; bleed easily.
Fissures, with pain during stool, as if rectum were torn.
All discharges very offensive, especially urine, faeces, and perspiration.
Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold easily and disposed to diarrhoea.
Excessive physical irritability.
Cachexia, due to syphilis, scrofula, intermittent fever with liver involvement and anaemia,
etc.
Gravel ; arthritis.
Capillary bleeding after curettage.
Mind
- Irritable, hateful, vindictive, headstrong.
- Hopeless despair.
- Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar.
- Fear of death.
Head
- Sensation of a band around head.
- Headache from pressure of hat; full feeling; worse from street noises.
- Hair falls out.
- Scalp sensitive.
Ears
- Difficult hearing; better by riding in carriage or train.
- Very sensitive to noise, as the rattle of wagonsover pavements. [Coff.; Nux.]
- Cracking in ears when chewing.
Eyes
- Double vision; sharp, sticking pains.
- Ulceration of cornea.
- Gonorrhoeal ophthalmia, photophobia, constant lachrymation.
- Syphilitic iritis.
Nose
- Ozaena.
- Green casts from nose every morning.
- Coryza, with sore and bleeding nostrils.
- Tip red.
- Stitches, as of a splinter in nose.
- Caries of mastoid. Nosebleed, with chest affections.
- Chronic nasal catarrh, with yellow, offensive, corrosive discharge.
- Nasal diphtheria, with watery and exceedingly excoriating discharge.
Mouth
- Putrid breath.
- Salivation.
- Bleeding of gums.
- Painful pimples on the sides of the tongue.
- Tongue clean, red and wet with center furrow.
- Teeth become loose; gums soft and spongy.
- Ulcers in soft palate, with sharp, splinter-likepains.
- Salivation and fetor oris.
- Bloody saliva.
Throat
- Dry.
- Pain into ears.
- Hawks mucus constantly.
- White patches and sharp points, as from splinters, on swallowing.
Stomach
- Great hunger, with sweetish taste.
- Longing for indigestible things-chalk, earth, etc.
- Pain in cardiac orifice.
- Dyspepsia with excess of oxalic acid, uric acid and phosphates in urine and great mental
depression.
- Loves fat and salt. [Sulph.]
Abdomen
- Great straining, but little passes, Rectum feelstorn.
- Bowels constipated, with fissures in rectum.
- Tearing pains during stools.
- Violent cutting pains after stools, lasting for hours. [Ratanh.] Haemorrhages from bowels,
profuse, bright.
- Prolapsus ani.
- Haemorrhoids bleed easily.
- Diarrhoea, slimy and offensive.
- After stools, irritable and exhausted.
- Colic relieved from tightening clothes.
- Jaundice, aching in liver.
Urine
- Scanty, dark, offensive.
- Smells like horse's urine.
- Cold on passing.
- Burning and stinging.
- Urine bloody and albuminous.
- Alternation of cloudy, phosphatic urine with profuse urinary secretion in old prostatic cases.
Male
- Soreness and burning in glans and beneath prepuce.
- Ulcers; burn and sting; exude, offensive matter.
Female
- External parts sore, with ulcers. [Hep.: Merc.; Thuja.]
- Leucorrhoea brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive.
- Hair on genitals falls out. [Natr.m. , Zinc.]
- Uterine haemorrhages.
- Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with pain in back, hips and thighs.
- Stitches through vagina.
- Metrorrhagia after parturition.
Respiratory
- Hoarseness.
- Aphonia, with dry hacking cough, from tickling in larynx and pit of stomach.
- Soreness at lower end of sternum.
- Short breath on going upstairs. [Ars.; Calc.] Cough during sleep. [Cham.]
Extremities
- Fetid foot-sweat, causing soreness of toes, withsticking pain; chilblains on toes.
- Sweating of palms, hands; cold, blue nails.
- Offensive sweat in axillae at night.
Skin
- Warts, large jagged; bleed on washing.
- Ulcers bleed easily, sensitive; splinter-like pains; zigzag, irregular edges; base looks like
raw flesh.
- Exuberant granulations.
- Black pores on face, papules worse on forehead.
Modalities
- Worse, evening and night, cold climate, and alsohot weather.
- Better, while riding in carriage. [Reverse : Cocculus.]
Relationship
- Complementary : Ars.; Calad.; Lac can.; Sepia.
- Inimical : Lach.
- Compare : Merc.; Kali.; Thuja; Hepar; Calc.
Dose
- Sixth potency.

Acidum lacticum

Acidum lacticum
Lacticum acidum
(lactic acid)
* Morning sickness, diabetes, and rheumatism offera field for this remedy.
* Troubles in the breasts.
* Locally, in the tuberculous ulceration of vocal cords.
Stomach
- Tongue dry, parched.
- Thirst; voracious hunger.
- Canker, copious salivation and water-brash. Nausea; morning sickness, especially in pale
anaemic women.
- Hot, acrid eructation.
- Nausea; better, eating.
- Burning, hot gas from stomach to throat, causingprofuse secretion of tenacious mucus,
worse smoking.
Throat
- Fullness or lump like a puff ball.
- Keeps swallowing.
- Constricted low down.
Chest
- Pain in breasts, with enlargement of axillary glands, and pain extends into hand.
Extremities
- Rheumatic pain in joints and shoulders, wrists, knees, with much weakness.
- Trembling of whole body while walking.
- Limbs feel chilly.
Urine
- Large quantities passed, frequently.
- Saccharine.
Relationship
- Compare : Sarcolactic acid q.v. Lithia; Phos. ac.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- Six to ten drops in a small glass of water in acute gastro-enteritis (Cartier.).

Acidum Chromicum

 Acidum Chromicum
Chromicum acidum
(chromic acid)
* Diphtheria, post-nasal tumors, and epithelioma of the tongue have been benefited by this
drug.
* Bloody, foul-smelling lochia.
* Symptoms come and go suddenly, and return periodically; offensive discharges.
Nose
- Ulcer and scabs in nose.
- Offensive smell.
- Corrosive pain.
- Ozaena. [Aur.]
Throat
- Diphtheria; sore throat.
- Tough mucus, with inclination to swallow it; worse, causing hawking.
- Post-nasal tumors.
Extremities
- Uneasiness in limbs.
- Pain in shoulder-blades and back of neck.
- Pain in knees and balls of feet.
- Drawing pain in soles while walking.
Stool
- Watery, frequent, copious, with nausea and vertigo.
- Haemorrhoids, internal and bleeding.
- Weakness in small of back.
Relationship
- Compare : Kali bich.; Rhus; Chromium Sulphate (in locomotor ataxia, goitre, prostatic
hypertrophy. Herpes preputialis. Wry neck. Also exophthalmic, inhibits the vagus, relieving
tachycardia. Acts like a nerve tonic where there islack of nervous tone. Fibroid tumors.
Infantile paralysis. Dose for adults, 3 to 5 grainsafter meals and at bedtime).
Dose
- Homoeopathically, third to sixth trituration.

Acidum Carbolicum

 Acidum Carbolicum
Carbolicum acidum
(phenol-carbolic acid)
* Carbolic Acid is a powerful irritant and anaesthetic.
* A languid, foul, painless, destructive remedy.
* Stupor, paralysis of sensation and motion, feeble pulse and depressed breathing, death due
to paralysis of respiratory centres.
* Acts primarily on the central nervous system.
* Increased olfactory sensibility.
Produces mental and bodily languor, disinclinationto study, with headache like a band.
Very marked acuteness of smell is a strong guidingsymptom.
Stomach symptoms are also important.
Pains are terrible; come and go suddenly.
Physical exertion brings on abscess somewhere.
Putrid discharges. [Bapt.]
Scarlet fever, with marked tendency to destructionof tissue internally, and fetid odor.
Spasmodic coughs.
Arthritis. (See Dose).
Head
- Disinclined to mental work.
- Tight feeling, as if compressed by a rubber band. [Gels.; Mahonia.]
- Orbital neuralgia over right eye.
- Headache, better, by green tea; while smoking.
Nose
- Smell very acute.
- Putrid discharge.
- Ozaena, with fetor and ulceration.
- Influenza and resulting debility.
Throat
- Ulcerated patches on inside of lips and cheeks.
- Burning in mouth to stomach.
- Fauces red, and covered with exudation.
- Uvula whitened and shriveled.
- Putrid discharge.
- Almost impossible to swallow.
- Diphtheria, fetid breath, regurgitation on swallowing liquids, but little pain. [Bapt.]
- Face dusky red; white about mouth and nose.
- Rapid sinking of vital forces.
Stomach
- Appetite lost.
- Desire for stimulants and tobacco.
- Constant belching, nausea, vomiting, dark olive green.
- Heat rises up oesophagus.
- Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen.
- Painful flatulence often marked in one part of the bowel. [Sulpho-Carbolate of Soda.]
- Fermentative dyspepsia with bad taste and breath.
Stool
- Constipation, with very offensive breath.
- Bloody, like scrapings of intestines.
- Great tenesmus.
- Diarrhoea; stools thin, black, putrid.
Urine
- Almost black.
- Diabetes.
- Irritable bladder in old men with frequent urination at night, of probable prostatic nature.
- Use 1x.
Female
- Discharges always offensive. [Nitr. ac.; Nux.; Sep.]
- Pustules about vulva containing bloody pus.
- Agonizing backache across loins, with dragging-down thighs.
- Pain in left ovary; worse walking in open air.
- Erosions of cervix; fetid, acrid discharge.
- Leucorrhoea in children. [Cann.s. ; Merc.; Puls.; Sep.]
- Puerperal fever, with offensive discharge.
- Irritating leucorrhoea, causing itching and burning. [Kreos.]
Extremities
- Cramps in fore part of leg, close to tibia during walking.
- Gnawing pains in shin bones.
- Arthritis.
Skin
- Itching vesicles, with burning pain.
- Burns tend to ulcerate.
Relationship
- Compare : Chrysarobin (local in ringworm of the scalp 5-10 per cent. in glycerine and
alcohol. Equal parts).
- Ars; Kreosot.; Carbo; Guano. (Violent headache as from a band around head. Itching of
nostrils, back, thighs, genitals. Symptoms like hay-fever).
- Antidote : Alcohol; Vinegar; Chalk; Iod.
- Glauber's Salt in watery solution.
- Incompatible : Glycerine and vegetable oils.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.

Acidum Benzoicum

Acidum Benzoicum
(Benzoicum Acidum)
(benzoic acid)
* The most marked characteristic pertains to the odor and color of the urine.
* It has a marked action on metabolism.
* It produces and cures symptoms of a uric acid diathesis, with urine highly colored and very
offensive, and gouty symptoms.
* Renal insufficiency.
* Child wants to be nursed in the arms, will not be laid down.
* Pains suddenly change their locality.
* Anti-sycotic.
* Gouty and asthmatic.
Mind
- Prone to dwell on unpleasant things in the past.
- Omits words in writing.
- Depression.
Head
- Vertigo inclination to fall sideways.
- Throbbing in temporal arteries, causes puffing around ears.
- Noises when swallowing.
- Ulceration of tongue.
- Swelling behind ears. [Caps.]
- Cold sweat on forehead.
- Pricking, puckered constriction of mouth, bluishand bleeding gums.
- Wens.
Nose
- Itching of septum.
- Pain in nasal bones.
Face
- Copper-colored spots.
- Red, with little blisters.
- Circumscribed redness of cheeks.
Stomach
- Sweat while eating; pressure in stomach, sensation of a lump.
Abdomen
- Cutting about navel.
- Stitching in liver region.
Rectum
- Stitches and constricted feeling.
- Puckering constriction of rectum.
- Itching and watery elevations around anus.
Stool
- Frothy, offensive, liquid, light-colored, like soapsuds, bowel movements, mostly windy.
Urine
- Repulsive odor; changeable color; brown, acid.
- Enuresis; dribbling, offensive urine of old men.
- Excess of uric acid.
- Vesical catarrh from suppressed gonorrhoea.
- Cystitis.
Respiratory
- Hoarse in morning.
- Asthmatic cough; worse at night; lying on right side.
- Chest very tender.
- Pain in region of heart.
- Expectoration, green mucus.
Back
- Pressure on spinal column.
- Coldness in sacrum.
- Dull pain in region of kidneys; worse, wine.
Extremities
- Joints crack on motion.
- Tearing with stitches.
- Pain in tendo Achillis.
- Rheumatic gout; nodes very painful.
- Gouty deposits.
- Ganglion; swelling of the wrist.
- Pain and swelling in knees.
- Bunion of great toe.
- Tearing pain in great toe.
Fever
- Cold hands, feet, back, knees.
- Chilliness; cold sweat.
- Internal heat on awakening.
Skin
- Red spots.
- Itching in spots.
Modalities
- Worse, in open air; by uncovering.
Relationship
- Useful after Colchic. fails in gout; after Copavia in gonorrhoea.
- Compare : Nitric acid; Ammon. benz.; Sabina; Tropoeolum.
- Garden Nasturtium - (fetid urine).
- Antidote : Copaiva.
- Incompatible : Wine.
Dose
- Third to sixth potency

Acidum Boricum

Acidum Boricum
(Boricum acidum )
(boracic acid)
* Used as an antiseptic disinfectant, since it arrests fermentation and putrefaction.
Pain in region of ureters, with frequent urging tourinate.
Cold saliva.
Skin
- Multiform erythema of trunk and upper extremities.
- Oedema around eyes.
- Exfoliating dermatitis.
- Oedema of tissues around eyes.
Female
- Climacteric flushings. [Lach.; Amyl. nit.]
- Vagina cold, as if packed with ice.
- Frequent urination with burning and tenesmus.
Dose
- Third trituration.

Acidum Aceticum

 Acidum Aceticum
(glacial acetic acid)
* This drug produces a condition of profound anaemia, with some dropsical symptoms, great
debility, frequent fainting, dyspnoea, weak heart, vomiting, profuse urination and sweat.
* Haemorrhage from any part.
* Especially indicated in pale, lean persons, withlax, flabby muscles.
* Wasting and debility.
* Acetic acid has the power to liquify albuminous and fibrinous deposits.
* Epithelial cancer, internally and locally (W. Owens).
* Sycosis with nodules and formations in the joints.
* Hard chancre.
* The 1x solution will soften and cause formation of pus.
Mind
- Irritable, worried about business affairs.
Head
- Nervous headache, from abuse of narcotics.
- Blood rushes to head with delirium.
- Temporal vessels distended.
- Pain across root of tongue.
Face
- Pale, waxen, emaciated.
- Eyes sunken, surrounded by dark rings.
- Bright red.
- Sweaty.
- Epithelioma of lip.
- Cheeks hot and flushed.
- Aching in left jaw-point.
Stomach
- Salivation. Fermentation in stomach.
- Intense burning thirst.
- Cold drinks distress.
- Vomits after every kind of food.
- Epigastric tenderness.
- Burning pain as of an ulcer.
- Cancer of stomach.
- Sour belching and vomiting.
- Burning waterbrash and profuse salivation.
- Hyperchlorhydria and gastralgia.
- Violent burning pain in stomach and chest, followed by coldness of skin and cold sweat on
forehead.
- Stomach feels as if she had taken a lot of vinegar.
Abdomen
- Feels as if abdomen was sinking in.
- Frequent watery stools, worse in morning.
- Tympanitic.
- Ascites.
- Haemorrhage from bowels.
Urine
- Large quantities of pale urine.
- Diabetes, with great thirst and debility. [Phos.ac.]
Female
- Excessive catamenia.
- Haemorrhages after labor.
- Nausea of pregnancy.
- Breasts painfully enlarged, distended with milk.
- Milk impoverished, bluish, transparent, sour.
- Anaemia of nursing mothers.
Respiratory
- Hoarse, hissing respiration; difficult breathing; cough when inhaling.
- Membranous croup.
- Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes.
- False membrane in throat.
- Profuse bronchorrhaea.
- Putrid sore throat (gargle).
Back
- Pain in back, relieved only by lying on abdomen.
Extremities
- Emaciation.
- Oedema of feet and legs.
Skin
- Pale, waxen, oedematous.
- Burning, dry, hot skin, or bathed in profuse sweat.
- Diminished sensibility of the surface of body.
- Useful after stings, bites, etc.
- Varicose swellings.
- Scurvy; anasarca.
- Bruises; sprains.
Fever
- Hectic, with drenching night-sweats. Red spot onleft cheek. No thirst in fever.
- Ebullitions.
- Sweat profuse, cold.
Relationship
- Acetic acid is antidotal to all anaesthetic vapors.
- Counteracts sausage poisoning.
- Compare : Ammon. acet. (Profuse saccharine urine, patient is bathed in sweat.) Benzoin
oderiferum - Spice-wood (night sweats.) Ars.; China; Digitalis; Liatris. (General anasarca in
heart and kidney disease, dropsy, and chronic diarrhoea.)
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- Not to be repeated too often, except in croup.

Acidum Phosphoricum

 Acidum Phosphoricum
 (phosphoricum acidum)

(phosphoric acid)
* The common acid "debility" is very marked in this remedy, producing a nervous
exhaustion.
* Mental debility first; later physical.
* A congenial soil for the action of Phos. acid isfound in young people who grow rapidly,
and who are overtaxed, mentally or physically.
* Whenever the system has been exposed to the ravages of acute disease, excesses, grief, loss
of vital fluids, we obtain conditions calling for it.
* Pyrosis, flatulence, diarrhoea, diabetes, rhachitis and periosteal inflammation.
* Neurosis in stump, after amputation.
* Haemorrhages in typhoid.
* Useful in relieving pain of cancer.
Mind
- Listless.
- Impaired memory. [Anac.]
- Apathetic, indifferent.
- Cannot collect his thoughts or find the right word.
- Difficult comprehension.
- Effects of grief and mental shock.
- Delirium, with great stupefaction.
- Settled despair.
Head
- Heavy; confused.
- Pain as if temples were crushed together.
- Worse, saking or noise. Crushing headache. Pressure on top.
- Hair gray early in life; falls out.
- Dull headache after coition; from eye-strain. [Nat.m. ]
- Vertigo toward evening, when standing or walking.
- Hair thins out, turns gray early.
Eyes
- Blue rings around.
- Lids inflamed and cold.
- Pupils dilated.
- Glassy appearance.
- Averse to sunlight; sees colors as if a rainbow.
- Feel too large.
- Amblyopia in masturbators.
- Optic nerves seem torpid.
- Pain as if eyeballs were forcibly pressed together and into head.
Ears
- Roaring, with difficult hearing.
- Intolerant of noise.
Nose
- Bleeding.
- Bores fingers into nose.
- Itching.
Mouth
- Lips dry, cracked.
- Bleeding gums; retract from teeth.
- Tongue swollen, dry, with viscid, frothy mucus.
- Teeth feel cold.
- At night, bites tongue in voluntarily.
Face
- Pale, earthy; feeling of tension as from dried albumen.
- Sensation of coldness of one side of face.
Stomach
- Craves juicy things.
- Sour risings.
- Nausea.
- Symptoms following sour food and drink.
- Pressure as from a weight, with sleepiness aftereating. [Fel tauri.]
- Thirst for cold milk.
- Abdomen.
- -Distention and fermentation in bowels.
- Enlarged spleen. [Ceanoth.]
- Aching in umbilical region.
- Loud rumbling.
Stool
- Diarrhoea, white, watery, involuntary, painless,with much flatus; not specially exhausting.
- Diarrhoea in weakly, delicate rachitic children.
Urine
- Frequent, profuse, watery, milky. Diabetes.
- Micturition, preceded by anxiety and followed byburning.
- Frequent urination at night.
- Phosphaturia.
Male
- Emissions at night and at stool.
- Seminal vesiculitis. [Oxal. acid.]
- Sexual power deficient; testicles tender and swollen.
- Parts relax during embrace. [Nux.]
- Prostatorrhoea, even when passing a soft stool.
- Eczema of scrotum.
- Oedema of prepuce, and swollen glans-penis.
- Herpes preputialis.
- Sycotic excrescences. [Thuja.]
Female
- Menses too early and profuse, with pain in liver.
- Itching; yellow leucorrhoea after menses.
- Milk scanty; health deteriorated from nursing.
Respiratory
- Chest troubles develop after brain-fag.
- Hoarseness.
- Dry cough from tickling in chest.
- Salty expectoration.
- Difficult respiration.
- Weak feeling in chest from talking.[Stann.] Pressure behind the sternum, rendering
breathing difficult.
Heart
- Palpitation in children who grow too fast; aftergrief, self-abuse.
- Pulse irregular, intermittent.
Back
- Boring pain between scapulae.
- Pain in back and limbs, as if beaten.
Extremities
- Weak.
- Tearing pains in joints, bones, and periosteum.
- Cramps in upper arms and wrists.
- Great debility.
- Pains at night, as if bones were scraped.
- Stumbles easily and makes missteps.
- Itching, between fingers or in folds of joints.
Skin
- Pimples, acne, blood-boils.
- Ulcers, with very offensive pus.
- Burning red rash.
- Formication in various parts.
- Falling out of the hair. [Nat. mur.; Selen.] Tendency to abscess after fevers.
Fever
- Chilliness.
- Profuse sweat during night and morning.
- Low types of fever, with dull comprehension and stupor.
Modalities
- Better, from keeping warm.
- Worse, exertion, from being talked to; loss of vital fluids; sexual excesses.
- Everything impeding circulation causes aggravation of symptoms.
Relationship
- Compare : Oenothera biennis-Evening primrose-(Effortless diarrhoea with nervous
exhaustion. Incipient hydrocephaloid. Whooping-cough and spasmodic asthma).
- Nectranda amare. (Watery diarrhoea, dry tongue, colic, bluish ring around sunken eyes,
restless sleep.)
- China; Nux. Pic. ac.; Lactic ac.; Phos.
- Antidotes : Coffea.
Dose
- First potency.

Abies nigra

Abies nigra
(black spruce)
* A powerful and long-acting remedy, in various forms of disease, whenever the
characteristic stomach symptoms are present.
* Most of the symptoms are associated with the gastric disturbances.
* In dyspeptic troubles of the aged, with functional heart symptoms; also after tea or tobacco.
* Constipation.
* Pain in external meatus.
Head
- Hot, with flushed cheeks.
- Low-spirited.
- Dull during the day, wakeful at night.
- Unable to think.
Stomach
- Pain in stomach always comes on after eating.
- Sensation of a lump that hurts, as if a hard-boiled egg had lodged in cardiac end of stomach;
continual distressing constriction just above the pit of the stomach, as if everything were
knotted up.
- Total loss of appetite in morning, but great craving for food at noon and night.
- Offensive breath.
- Eructations.
Chest
- Painful sensation, as if something were lodged in the chest and had to be coughed up; lungs
feel compressed.
- Cannot be fully expanded.
- Worse coughing; waterbrash succeeds cough.
- Chocking sensation in throat.
- Dyspnoea; worse lying down; sharp, cutting pain in heart; heart's action heavy and slow;
tachycardia, bradycardia.
Back
- Pain in small of back.
- Rheumatic pains and aching in bones.
Sleep
- Wakeful and restless at night, with hunger.
- Bad dreams.
Fever
- Alternate heat and cold; chronic intermittent fever, with pain in stomach.
Modalities
- Worse after eating.
Relationship
- Compare : (Lump in stomach - China, Bryon. Pulsat.) also other Conifers - Thuja, Sabina,
Cupressus (painful indigestion) also Nux vom, Kali carb.
Dose
- First to thirtieth potency.

Abies canadensis

Abies canadensis
(hemlock spruce)
* Mucous membranes are affected by Abies Canadensis and gastric symptoms are most
marked; and a catarrhal condition of the stomach isproduced.
* There are peculiar cravings and chilly sensations that are very characteristic; especially for
women with uterine displacement, probably due to defective nutrition with debility.
* Respiration and heart action labored.
* Wants to lie down all the time; skin cold and clammy, hands cold; very faint.
* Right lung and liver feel small and hard.
* Gleet.
Head
- Feels light-headed, tipsy.
- Irritable.
Stomach
- Canine hunger with torpid liver.
- Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium.
- Great appetite, craving for meat, pickles, radishes, turnips, artichokes, coarse food.
- Tendency to eat far beyond capacity for digestion.
- Burning and distention of stomach and abdomen with palpitation.
- Flatulence disturbs the heart's action.
- Pain in right shoulder-blade, and constipation, with burning in rectum.
Female
- Uterine displacements.
- Sore feeling at fundus of uterus, relieved by pressure.
- Prostration; wants to lie down all the time.
- Thinks womb is soft and feeble.
Fever
- Cold shivering, as if blood were ice-water. [Acon.]
- Chills run down back.
- Cold water feeling between shoulders. [Ammon. mur.]
- Skin clammy and sticky.
- Night-sweat. [China.]
Dose
- First to third potency.

Acalypha indica

Acalypha indica
(indian nettle)
* A drug having a marked action on the alimentary canal and respiratory organs.
* It is indicated in incipient phthisis, with hard, racking cough, bloody expectoration, arterial
haemorrhage, but no febrile disturbance.
* Very weak in the morning, gains strength during day.
* Progressive emaciation.
* All pathological haemorrhages having notably a morning aggravation.
Chest
- Cough dry, hard, followed by hoemoptysis; worse in morning and at night.
- Constant and severe pain in chest.
- Blood bright red and not profuse in morning; dark and clotted in afternoon.
- Pulse soft and compressible.
- Burning in pharynx, oesophagus, and stomach.
Abdomen
- Burning in intestines.
- Spluttering diarrhoea with forcible expulsion ofnoisy flatus, bearing down pains and
tenesmus.
- Rumbling distention, and griping pain in abdomen.
- Rectal haemorrhage; worse in morning.
Skin
- Jaundice.
- Itching and circumscribed furuncle-like swellings.
Modalities
- Worse in morning.
Relationship
- Compare : Millefol.; Phosphor.; Acetic acid; Kali nit.
Dose
- Third to sixth potency.

Absinthium

Absinthium
(common wormwood)
* A perfect picture of epileptiform seizure is produced by this drug.
* Nervous tremors precede attacks.
* Sudden and severe giddiness, delirium with hallucinations and loss of consciousness.
* Nervous excitement and sleeplessness.
* Cerebral irritation, hysterical and infantile spasms come within range of this remedy.
* Poisoning by mushrooms.
* Chorea.
* Tremor.
* Nervousness, excitement, and sleeplessness in children.
Mind
- Hallucinations.
- Frightful visions.
- Kleptomania.
- Loss of memory.
- Forgets what has recently happened.
- Wants nothing to do with anybody.
- Brutal.
Head
- Vertigo, with tendency to fall backward.
- General confusion.
- Wants head low.
- Pupils dilated unequally.
- Face blue.
- Spasmodic facial twitching.
- Dull occipital headache. [Gelsem. Picric ac].
Mouth
- Jaws fixed.
- Bites tongue; trembles; feels as if swollen and too large; protruding.
Throat
- Scalded sensation; as of a lump.
Stomach
- Nausea; retching; eructation.
- Bloated around waist and abdomen.
- Wind colic.
Urine
- Constant desire.
- Very strong odor; deep yellow color.[Kali phos.]
Sexual
- Darting pain in right ovary.
- Spermatorrhoea, with relaxed, enfeebled parts.
- Premature menopause.
Chest
- Sensation of weight on chest.
- Irregular, tumultuous action of heart can be heard in back.
Extremities
- Pain in limbs.
- Paralytic symptoms.
Relationship
- Compare : Alcohol; Artemisia; Hydrocy. acid; Cina; Cicuta.
Dose
- First to sixth potency.

Abrotanum

Abrotanum
(southernwood)
* A very useful remedy in marasmus, especially of lower extremities only, yet with good
appetite.
* Metastasis.
* Rheumatism following checked diarrhoea.
* Ill effects of suppressed conditions especially in gouty subjects.
* Tuberculous peritonitis. Exudative pleurisy and other exudative processes.
* After operation upon the chest for hydrothorax or empyaemia, a pressing sensation
remains.
* Aggravation of haemorrhoids when rheumatism improves.
* Nosebleed and hydrocele in boys.
Great weakness after influenza. [Kali phos.]
Mind
- Cross, irritable, anxious, depressed.
Face
- Wrinkled, cold, dry, pale.
- Blue rings around dull-looking eyes.
- Comedones, with emaciation.
- Nosebleed.
- Angioma of the face.
Stomach
- Slimy taste.
- Appetite good, but emaciation progresses.
- Food passes undigested.
- Pain in stomach; worse at night; cutting, gnawing pain.
- Stomach feels as if swimming in water; feels cold.
- Gnawing hunger and whining.
- Indigestion, with vomiting of large quantities of offensive fluid.
Abdomen
- Hard lumps in abdomen.
- Distended.
- Alternate diarrhoea and constipation.
- Haemorrhoids; frequent urging; bloody stools; worse as rheumatic pains abate.
- Ascarides.
- Oozing from umbilicus.
- Sensation as if bowels were sinking down.
Respiratory
- Raw feeling.
- Impeded respiration.
- Dry cough following diarrhoea.
- Pain across chest; severe in region of heart.
Back
- Neck so weak cannot hold head up.
- Back lame, weak, and painful.
- Pain in lumbar region extending along spermatic cord.
- Pain in sacrum, with haemorrhoids.
Extremities
- Pain in shoulders, arms, wrists, and ankles.
- Pricking and coldness in fingers and feet.
- Legs greatly emaciated.
- Joints stiff and lame.
- Painful contraction of limbs. [Amm. mur.]
Skin
- Eruptions come out on face; are suppressed, and the skin becomes purplish.
- Skin flabby and loose.
- Furuncles.
- Falling out of hair.
- Itching chilblains.
Modalities
- Worse, cold air, checked secretions.
- Better, motion.
Relationship
- Compare : Scrophularia; Bryonia; Stellaria; Benzoic acid, in gout.
- Iodine, Natr. mur. in marasmus.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.

Aethiops mineralis

Aethiops mineralis
(sulph. and quicksilver, or black sulphide mercury)
* This preparation is of use in scrofulous affections, ophthalmia, otorrhoea, painful, irritating,
scabby eruptions, hereditary syphilis.
Skin
- Eruptions.
- Favus-like, scrofulous, herpetic and eczematous.
Dose
- The lower triturations, especially the second decimal.
Relationship
- Aethiops antimonialis - (Hydrargyrum stibiato sulfuratum.) - (often more effective than the
above in scrofulous eruptions, glandular swellings,otorrhoea and scrofulous eye affections,
corneal ulcers. Third trituration.) Compare : Calc.; Sil.; Psorin.

Brachyglottis repens

Brachyglottis repens
(puka-puka)
* Fluttering sensation. [Caladium.] Kidney and bladder symptoms predominate.
* Produces symptoms of albuminuria.
* Itching in ears and nostrils.
* Bright's disease.
* Oppression of chest.
* Writer's cramp.
Abdomen
- Feeling as if something rolling about.
- Fluttering in region of ovary.
Urinary
- Pressure in neck of bladder; urging to urinate.
- Sense of swashing in bladder.
- Soreness in urethra; feeling as if urine could not be retained.
- Urine contains mucous corpuscles and epithelium,albumen and casts.
Extremities
- Cramp in fingers, thumb, and wrist when writing - soreness extending along flexor carpi
ulnaris.
Relationship
- Compare : Apis; Helonias; Merc. cor.; Plumbum.
Dose
- Third potency.

Bryonia alba

Bryonia alba
(wild hops)
* Acts on all serous membranes and the viscera they contain.
* Aching in every muscle.
* The general character of the pain here produced is a stitching, tearing; worse by motion,
better rest.
* These characteristic stitching pains, greatly aggravated by any motion, are found
everywhere, but especially in the chest; worse pressure.
* Mucous membranes are all dry.
* The Bryonia patient is irritable; has vertigo from raising the head, pressive headache; dry,
parched lips, mouth; excessive thirst, bitter taste, sensitive epigastrium, and feeling of a stone
in the stomach; stools large, dry, hard; dry cough;rheumatic pains and swellings; dropsical
effusions into synovial and serous membranes.
Bryonia affects especially the constitution of a robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with
tendency to leanness and irritability.
It prefers the right side, the evening, and open air, warm weather after cold days, to manifest
its action most markedly.
Children dislike to be carried or raised.
Complaints apt to develop slowly.
Mind
- Exceedingly irritable; everything puts him out of humor.
- Delirium; wants to go home; talks of business.
Head
- Vertigo, nausea, faintness on rising, confusion.
- Bursting, splitting headache, as if everything would be pressed out; as if hit by a hammer
from within; worse from motion, stooping, opening eyes.
- Headache becomes seated in occiput.
- Drawing in bones towards zygoma.
- Headache; worse on motion, even of eyeballs.
- Frontal headache, frontal sinuses involved.
Nose
- Frequent bleeding of nose when menses should appear.
- Also in the morning, relieving the headache.
- Coryza with shooting and aching in the forehead.
- Swelling of tip of nose, feels as if it would ulcerate when touched.
Ears
- Aural vertigo. [Aur.; Nat. sal.; Sil.; Chin.]
- Roaring, buzzing.
Eyes
- Pressing, crushing, aching pain.
- Glaucoma.
- Sore to touch and when moving them.
Mouth
- Lips parched, dry, cracked. Dryness of mouth, tongue, and throat, with excessive thirst.
- Tongue coated yellowish, dark brown; heavily white in gastric derangement.
- Bitter taste. [Nux; Col.]
- Burning in lower lip in old smokers.
- Lip swollen, dry, black, and cracked.
Throat
- Dryness, sticking on swallowing, scraped and constricted. [Bell.]
- Tough mucus in larynx and trachea, loosened onlyafter much hawking; worse coming into
warm room.
Stomach
- Nausea and faintness when rising up.
- Abnormal hunger, loss of taste.
- Thirst for large draughts.
- Vomiting of bile and water immediately after eating.
- Worse, warm drinks, which are vomited.
- Stomach sensitive to touch. Pressure in stomach after eating, as of a stone.
- Soreness in stomach when coughing.
- Dyspeptic ailments during summer heat.
- Sensitiveness of epigastrium to touch.
Abdomen
- Liver region swollen, sore, tensive.
- Burning pain, stitches; worse, pressure, coughing, breathing.
- Tenderness of abdominal walls.
Stool
- Constipation; stools hard, dry, as if burnt; seem too large.
- Stools brown, thick, bloody; worse in morning, from moving, in hot weather, after being
heated, from cold drinks, every spell of hot weather.
Urine
- Red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot.
Female
- Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion, with tearing pains in legs; suppressed,
with vicarious discharge or splitting headache.
- Stitching pains in ovaries on taking a deep inspiration; very sensitive to touch.
- Pain in right ovary as if torn, extending to thigh. [Lilium.; Croc.]
- Milk fever.
- Pain in breasts at menstrual period.
- Breasts hot and painful hard.
- Abscess of mammae.
- Frequent bleeding of nose at appearance of menses.
- Menstrual irregularities, with gastric symptoms.
- Ovaritis.
- Intermenstrual pain, with great abdominal and pelvic soreness. [Ham.]
Respiratory
- Soreness in larynx and trachea.
- Hoarseness; worse in open air.
- Dry, hacking cough from irritation in upper trachea.
- Cough, dry, at night; must sit up; worse after eating or drinking, with vomiting, with
stitches in chest, and expectoration of rust-colored sputa.
- Frequent desire to take a long breath; must expand lungs.
- Difficult, quick respiration; worse every movement; caused by stitches in chest.
- Cough, with feeling as if chest would fly to pieces; presses his head on sternum; must
support chest.
- Croupous and pleuro-pneumonia.
- Expectoration brick shade, tough, and falls likelumps of jelly.
- Tough mucus in trachea, loosened only with much hawking.
- Coming into warm room excites cough. [Nat. carb.] Heaviness beneath the sternum
extending towards the right shoulder.
- Cough worse by going into warm room.
- Stitches in cardiac region.
- Angina pectoris (use tincture).
Back
- Painful stiffness in nape of neck.
- Stitches and stiffness in small of back.
- From hard water and sudden changes of weather.
Extremities
- Knees stiff and painful.
- Hot swelling of feet.
- Joints red, swollen, hot, with stitches and tearing; worse on least movement.
- Every spot is painful on pressure.
- Constant motion of left arm and leg. [Helleb.]
Skin
- Yellow; pale, swollen, dropsical; hot and painful.
- Seborrhoea.
- Hair very greasy.
Sleep
- Drowsy; starting when falling asleep.
- Delirium; busy with business matters and what hehad read.
Fever
- Pulse full, hard, tense, and quick.
- Chill with external coldness, dry cough, stitches.
- Internal heat.
- Sour sweat after slight exertion.
- Easy, profuse perspiration.
- Rheumatic and typhoid marked by gastro-hepatic complications.
Modalities
- Worse, warmth, any motion, morning, eating, hot weather, exertion, touch.
- Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick.
- Better, lying on painful side, pressure, rest, cold things.
Relationship
- Complementary : Upas when Bryonia fails.
- Rhus; Alumina. Illecebrum.
- -A Mexican drug.
- -(Fever with catarrhal symptoms, gastric and typhoid fever symptoms.)
- Antidotes : Acon.; Cham.; Nux.
- Compare : Asclep. tub.; Kali mur.; Ptelia.
Dose
 First to twelfth attenuation.

Bothrops lanceolatus

Bothrops lanceolatus
Lanciolatus
(yellow viper)
* Its venom is most coagulating, (also Lachesis).
* We should expect to find under these remedies the symptomatology of thrombosis, also
thrombotic phenomena, as hemiplegia, aphasia, inability to articulate. (Linn J. Boyd.)
Broken-down, haemorrhagic constitutions; septic states.
Great lassitude and sluggishness; haemorrhages from every orifice of the body; black spots.
Hemiplegia with aphasia.
Inability to articulate, without any affection of the tongue.
Nervous trembling.
Pain in right big toe.
Diagonal course of symptoms.
Pulmonary congestion.
Eyes
- Amaurosis; blindness from hemorrhage into retina.
- Hemoralopia, day blindness, can hardly see her way after sunrise; conjunctivial
haemorrhage.
Face
- Swollen and puffy.
- Besotted expression.
Throat
- Red, dry, constricted; swallowing difficult, cannot pass liquids.
Stomach
- Epigastric distress.
- Black vomiting.
- Intense haematemesis.
- Tympanitis and bloody stools.
Skin
- Swollen, livid, cold with haemorrhagic infiltration.
- Gangrene.
- Lymphatics swollen.
- Anthrax.
- Malignant erysipelas.
Modalities
- Worse, right side.
Relationship
- Compare : Toxicophis.
- -Moccasin Snake (pain and fever recur annually, after bite from this snake, and sometimes
change location with disappearance of first symptoms. An unusual dryness of skin follows the
bite. Oedematous swellings and periodical neuralgia. Pain travels from one part to another.)
Other snake poisons, notably Lachesis.
- Trachinus, -Stingfish (intolerable pains, swelling, acute blood, poisoning, gangrene.)
Dose
- Sixth to thirtieth potency.

Blatta americana

Blatta americana
(cockroach)
* Ascites.
* Various forms of dropsy.
* Yellow complexion.
* Extreme weariness.
* Pain in urethra on urinating.
* Weariness on going upstairs.
Dose
- Sixth potency.
Blatta orientalis
(indian cockroach)
* A remedy for asthma.
* Especially when associated with bronchitis.
* Indicated after arsenic when this is insufficient.
Cough with dyspnoea in bronchitis and phthisis.
Acts best in stout and corpulent patients.
Much pus-like mucus.
Dose
- Lowest potencies during an attack.
- After the spasm, for the remaining cough, use the higher.
- Stop with improvement to prevent return of aggravation.

Berberis vulgaris

Berberis vulgaris
(barberry)
* Rapid change of symptoms - pains change in regard to place and character - thirst alternates
with thirstlessness, hunger, and loss of appetite, etc.
* Acts forcibly on the venous system, producing pelvic engorgements and haemorrhoids.
Hepatic, and rheumatic affections, particularly with urinary, haemorrhoidal and menstrual
complaints.
Old gouty constitutions.
Pain in region of kidneys is most marked; hence its use in renal and vesical troubles, gallstones, and vesical catarrh.
It causes inflammation of kidneys with haematuria.
Pains may be felt all over body, emanating from small of back.
It has also marked action on the liver, promoting the flow of bile.
Often called for in arthritic affections with urinary disturbances.
Wandering, radiating pains.
Acts well in fleshy persons, good livers, but withlittle endurance.
Spinal irritation.
All Berberis pains radiate, are not worse by pressure, but worse in various attitudes,
especially standing and active exercise.
Head
- Listless, apathetic, indifferent.
- Puffy sensation, feeling as if becoming larger.
- Vertigo with attacks of fainting.
- Frontal headache.
- Chilliness in back and occiput.
- Tearing pain in auricle, and gouty concretions.
- Sensation of a tight cap pressing upon the wholescalp.
Nose
- Dry; obstinate catarrh of left nostril.
- Crawling in nostrils.
Face
- Pale, sickly.
- Sunken cheeks and eyes, with bluish circles.
Mouth
- Sticky sensation.
- Diminished saliva.
- Sticky, frothy saliva, like cotton. [Nux mosch.]
- Tongue feels scalded, vesicles on tongue.
Stomach
- Nausea before breakfast.
- Heartburn.
Abdomen
- Stitches in region of gall-bladder; worse, pressure, extending to stomach.
- Catarrh of the gall-bladder with constipation and yellow complexion.
- Stitching pain in front of kidneys extending to liver, spleen, stomach, groins, Poupart's
ligament.
- Sticking deep in ilium.
Stool
- Constant urging to stool.
- Diarrhoea painless, clay-colored, burning, and smarting in anus and perineum.
- Tearing around anus.
- Fistula in ano.
Urinary
- Burning pains.
- Sensation as if some urine remained after urinating.
- Urine with thick mucus and bright-red, mealy sediment.
- Bubbling, sore sensation in kidneys.
- Pain in bladder region.
- Pain in the thighs and loins on urinating.
- Frequent urination; urethra burns when not urinating.
Male
- Neuralgia of spermatic cord and testicles.
- Smarting, burning, stitching in testicles, in prepuce and scrotum.
Female
- Pinching constriction in mons veneris, vaginismus, contraction and tenderness of vagina.
- Burning and soreness in vagina.
- Desire diminished, cutting pain during coition.
- Menses scanty, gray mucus, with pain in kidneys and chilliness, pain down thighs.
- Leucorrhoea, grayish mucus, with painful urinarysymptoms.
- Neuralgia of ovaries and vagina.
Respiratory
- Hoarseness; polypus of larynx.
- Tearing stitches in chest and region of heart.
Back
- Stitches in neck and back; worse, respiration.
- Sticking pain in region of kidneys radiating thence around abdomen, to hips and groins.
- Numb, bruised sensation.
- Stitches from kidneys into bladder.
- Tearing, sticking with stiffness, making rising difficult, involving hips, nates, limbs, with
numbness.
- Lumbago. [Rhus; Tart. em.]
- Metatarsus and metacarpus feel sprained.
- Post-operative pain in lumbar region; soreness with sharp pain following course of
circumflex iliac nerve to bladder with frequent urination.
Extremities
- Rheumatic paralytic pain in shoulders, arms, hands and fingers, legs and feet.
- Neuralgia under finger-nails, with swelling of finger-joints.
- Sensation of cold on outside of thighs.
- Heels pain, as if ulcerated.
- Stitching between metatarsal bones as from a nail when standing.
- Pain in balls of feet on stepping.
- Intense weariness and lameness of legs after walking a short distance.
Skin
- Flat warts.
- Itching, burning and smarting; worse, scratching; better, cold applications.
- Small pustules over whole body.
- Eczema of anus and hands. Circumscribed pigmentation following eczematous
inflammation.
Fever
- Cold sensation in various parts, as if spatteredwith cold water.
- Warmth in lower part of back, hips, and thighs.
Modalities
- Worse, motion, standing.
- It brings on, or increases, urinary complaints.
Relationship
- Compare : Ipomoea - Convolvulus Duratinus - Morning Glory.
- -(Pain in left lumbar muscles on stooping. Kidney disorders with pain in back. Much
abdominal flatulence. Aching in top of right shoulder renal colic; aching in small of back and
extremities), Aloe.; Lycopod.; Nux.; Sarsap. Xanthorrhoea arborea (severe pain in kidneys,
cystitis and gravel. Pain from ureter to bladder and testicles; pain in small of back returns
from least chill or damp).
- Xanthoriza apifolia - Shrub Yellow Root - contains Berberine.
- Dilatation of stomach and intestines, atony, enlarged spleen.
- Antidotes : Camphor; Bell.
Dose
- Tincture, to sixth potency.

Berberis aquifolium

Berberis aquifolium
(mountain grape)
* A remedy for the skin, chronic catarrhal affections, secondary syphilis.
* Hepatic torpor, lassitude and other evidences ofincomplete metamorphosis; stimulates all
glands and improves nutrition.
Head
- Sensation of a band just above ears.
- Bilious headache.
- "Scald head".
- Scaly eczema.
Face
- Acne.
- Blotches and pimples.
- Clears the complexion.
Stomach
- Tongue thickly coated, yellowish-brown; feels blistered.
- Burning in stomach.
- Nausea and hunger after eating.
Urine
- Stitching, crampy pains; thick mucus, and bright-red, mealy sediment.
Skin
- Pimply, dry, rough, scaly.
- Eruption on scalp extending to face and neck.
- Tumor of breast, with pain.
- Psoriasis.
- Acne.
- Dry eczema.
- Pruritus.
- Glandular induration.
Relationship
- Carbol. acid; Euonym.; Berb. vulg.; Hydr.
Dose
- Tincture in rather material doses.

Borax

Borax
(borate of sodium)
* Gastro-intestinal irritation.
* Salivation, nausea, vomiting, colic, diarrhoea, collapse, albuminuria, casts and vesical
spasm.
* Delirium, visual changes, haematuria, and skin eruptions have all been observed from overdosing.
For homoeopathic purposes, the peculiar nervous symptoms are very characteristic, and have
frequently been verified, especially in the therapeutics of children.
Of much value in epilepsy.
Aphthous ulceration of mucous membranes.
Mind
- Extreme anxiety, especially from motions which have a downward direction, rocking, being
carried downstairs, laid down.
- Anxious expression of face during the downward motions, starts and throws up hands on
laying patient down, as if afraid of falling.
- Excessively nervous; easily frightened.
- Sensitive to sudden noises.
- Violent fright from report of a gun, even at a distance.
- Fear of thunder.
Head
- Aches, with nausea and trembling of whole body.
- Hair tangled at tips, cannot be separated, as inPlica Polonica. [Vinca min.]
Eyes
- Lashes turn inward.
- Visions of bright waves.
- Eyelids inflamed, lids cut against eyeball.
- Entropium.
Ears
- Very sensitive to slightest noise; not so much disturbed by louder ones.
Nose
- Red nose, of young women. [Nat. carb.]
- Red and shining swelling, with throbbing and tensive sensation.
- Tip swollen and ulcerated.
- Dry crusts.
Face
- Pale, earthy, with suffering expression.
- Swollen, with pimples on nose and lips.
- Feeling of cobwebs.
Mouth
- Aphthae.
- White fungous like growth.
- Mouth hot and tender; ulcers bleed on touch and eating.
- Painful gumboil.
- Crying when nursing.
- Taste bitter. [Bry.; Puls.; Cup.]
- Taste of "cellar mould".
Stomach and abdomen
- Distention after eating; vomiting.
- Gastralgia, depending upon uterine disturbance.
- Pain as if diarrhoea would result.
Stool
- Loose, pappy, offensive stools in children.
- Diarrhoea, offensive, preceded by colic; stools mucous, with aphthous sore mouth.
Urine
- Hot, smarting pain in orifice.
- Pungent smell.
- Child afraid to urinate, screams before urinating. [Sarsap.]
- Small red particles on diaper.
Female
- Labor pains with frequent eructations.
- Galactorrhoea. [Cal.; Con.; Bell.] In nursing, pain in opposite breast.
- Leucorrhoea like white of eggs, with sensation as if warm water was flowing.
- Menses too soon, profuse, with griping, nausea and pain in stomach extending into small of
back.
- Membranous dysmenorrhoea.
- Sterility.
- Favors easy conception.
- Sensation of distention in clitoris with sticking.
- Pruritus of vulva and eczema.
Respiratory
- Hacking and violent cough; expectoration, mouldytaste and smell.
- Stitches in chest, with inspiration and cough.
- Cough with mouldy taste - breath smells mouldy.
- Pleurodynia; worse upper part of right chest.
- Arrest of breathing when lying; is obliged to jump and catch breath, which causes pain in
right side.
- Out of breath on going up stairs.
Extremities
- Feeling as of cobwebs on hands.
- Itching on back of finger-joints and hands.
- Throbbing pain in tip of thumb.
- Stitches in sole.
- Pain in heel.
- Burning pain in great toe; inflammation of ballsof toes.
- Eczema of toes and fingers with loss of nails.
Skin
- Psoriasis.
- Erysipelas in face.
- Itching on back of finger-joints.
- Unhealthy skin; slight injuries suppurate.
- Herpes. [Rhus.]
- Erysipelatous inflammation with swelling and tension.
- Chilblains relieved in open air.
- Trade eruptions on fingers and hands, itching and stinging.
- Ends of hair become tangled.
Sleep
- Voluptuous dreams.
- Cannot sleep on account of heat, especially in head.
- Cries out of sleep as if frightened. [Bell.]
Modalities
- Worse, downward motion, noise, smoking, warm weather, after menses.
- Better, pressure, evening, cold weather.
Relationship
- Acetic acid, vinegar, and wine are incompatible.
- Antidote : Cham.; Coffea.
- Compare : Calc.; Bryon.; Sanicula; Sulph. ac.
Dose
- First to third trituration.
- In skin diseases continue its use for several weeks.
- Locally, in pruritus pudendi.
- A piece of borax, the size of a pea, dissolved in the mouth, acts magically in restoring the
voice, in cases of sudden hoarseness brought on by cold, and frequently for an hour or so, it
renders the voice silvery and clear.