Aconitum napellus

Aconitum napellus
(monkshood)
* A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body.
* Physical and mental restlessness, fright, is themost characteristic manifestation of Aconite.
Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever, call for it.
* Does not want to be touched.
* Sudden and great sinking of strength.
* Complaints and tension caused by exposure to dry, cold weather, draught of cold air,
checked perspiration, also complaints from very hotweather, especially gastro-intestinal
disturbances, etc.
* First remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers.
* Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly.
* Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and numbness.
* Influenza.
* Tension of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms.
* When prescribing Aconite remember Aconite causesonly functional disturbance, no
evidence that it can produce tissue change - its action is brief and shows no periodicity.
* Its sphere is in the beginning of an acute disease and not to be continued after pathological
change comes.
* In Hyperaemia, congestion not after exudation has set in.
* Influenza [Influenzin]
Mind
- Great fear, anxiety, and worry accompany every ailment, however trivial.
- Delirium is characterized by unhappiness worry, fear, raving, rarely unconsciousness.
- Forebodings and fears. Fears death but believes that he will soon die; predicts the day.
- Fears the future, a crowd, crossing the street.
- Restlessness, tossing about.
- Tendency to start.
- Imagination acute, clairvoyance.
- Pains are intolerable; they drive him crazy.
- Music is unbearable; makes her sad. [Ambra.]
- Thinks his thoughts come from the stomach - thatparts of his body are abnormally thick.
- Feels as if what had just been done was a dream.
Head
- Fullness; heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning undulating sensation.
- Intercranial pressure. (Hedera Helix.)
- Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water [Indigo.].
- Vertigo; worse on rising [Nux. Opium] and shaking head.
- Sensation on vertex as if hair were pulled or stood on end.
- Nocturnal furious delirium.
Eyes
- Red, inflamed.
- Feel dry and hot, as if sand in them.
- Lids swollen, hard and red.
- Aversion to light.
- Profuse watering after exposure to dry, cold winds, reflection from snow, after extraction of
cinders and other foreign bodies.
Ears
- Very sensitive to noises; music is unbearable.
- External ear hot, red, painful, swollen.
- Earache. [Cham.].
- Sensation as of drop of water in left ear.
Nose
- Smell acutely sensitive. Pain at root of nose.
- Coryza much sneezing; throbbing in nostrils.
- Haemorrhage of bright red blood.
- Mucous membrane dry, nose stopped up; dry or with but scanty watery coryza.
Face
- Red, hot, flushed, swollen.
- One cheek red, the other pale (Cham., Ipec.). Onrising the red face becomes deathly pale,
or he becomes dizzy. Tingling in cheeks and numbness.
- Neuralgia, especially of left side, with restlessness, tingling, and numbness.
- Pain in jaws.
Mouth
- Numb, dry, and tingling.
- Tongue swollen; tip tingles.
- Teeth sensitive to cold.
- Constantly moves lower jaw as if chewing.
- Gums hot and inflamed. Tongue coated white. [Antim. crud.].
Throat
- Red, dry, constricted, numb, prickling, burning,stinging.
- Tonsils swollen and dry.
Stomach
- Vomiting, with fear, heat, profuse sweat and increased urination.
- Thirst for cold water.
- Bitter taste. of everything except water.
- Intense thirst.
- Drinks, vomits, and declares he will die.
- Vomiting, bilious mucous and bloody, greenish.
- Pressure in stomach with dyspnoea.
- Haematemesis.
- Burning from stomach to oesophagus.
Abdomen
- Hot, tense, tympanitic.
- Sensitive to touch. Colic, no position relieves.
- Abdominal symptoms better after warm soup.
- Burning in umbilical region.
Rectum
- Pain with nightly itching and stitching in anus.
- Frequent, small stool with tenesmus; green, likechopped herbs.
- White with red urine.
- Choleraic discharge with collapse, anxiety, and restlessness.
- Bleeding haemorrhoids. [Hamam.]
- Watery diarrhoea in children.
- They cry and complain much, are sleepless and restless.
Urine
- Scanty, red, hot, painful.
- Tenesmus and burning at neck of bladder.
- Burning in urethra.
- Urine suppressed, bloody.
- Anxiety always on beginning to urinate.
- Retention, with screaming and restlessness, and handling of genitals.
- Renal region sensitive.
- Profuse urination, with profuse perspiration anddiarrhoea.
Male
- Crawling and stinging in glans.
- Bruised pain in testicles, swollen, hard.
- Frequent erections and emissions.
- Painful erections.
Female
- Vagina dry, hot, sensitive.
- Menses too profuse, with nosebleed, too protracted, late.
- Frenzy on appearance of menses.
- Suppressed from fright, cold, in plethoric subjects.
- Ovaries congested and painful.
- Sharp shooting pains in womb.
- After-pains, with fear and restlessness.
Respiratory
- Constant pressure in left chest; oppressed breathing on least motion.
- Hoarse, dry, croupy cough; loud, labored breathing.
- Child grasps at throat every time he coughs.
- Very sensitive to inspired air.
- Shortness of breath.
- Larynx sensitive.
- Stitches through chest.
- Cough, dry, short, hacking; worse at night and after midnight.
- Hot feeling in lungs.
- Blood comes up with hawking.
- Tingling in chest after cough.
Heart
- Tachycardia.
- Affections of the heart with pain in left shoulder.
- Stitching pain in chest.
- Palpitation, with anxiety, fainting, and tingling in fingers.
- Pulse full, hard; tense and bounding; sometimes intermits.
- Temporal and carotid arteries felt when sitting.
Back
- Numb, stiff, painful.
- Crawling and tingling, as if bruised.
- Stiffness in nape of neck.
- Bruised pain between scapulae.
Extremities
- Numbness and tingling; shooting pains; icy coldness and insensibility of hands and feet.
- Arms feel lame, bruised, heavy, numb.
- Pain down left arm [Cact., Crotal., Kalmia, Tabac.] Hot hands and cold feet.
- Rheumatic inflammation of joints; worse at night; red shining swelling, very sensitive.
- Hip-joint and thigh feel lame, especially after lying down.
- Knees unsteady; disposition of foot to turn. [Aescul.]
- Weak and lax ligaments of all joints.
- Painless cracking of all joints.
- Bright red hypothenar eminences on both hands.
- Sensation as if drops of water trickled down thethigh.
Sleep
- Nightmare.
- Nightly ravings.
- Anxious dreams.
- Sleeplessness, with restless and tossing about. [Use thirtieth potency].
- Starts up in sleep.
- Long dreams, with anxiety in chest.
- Insomnia of the aged.
Skin
- Red, hot, swollen, dry, burning.
- Purpura miliaris.
- Rash like measles.
- Gooseflesh.
- Formication and numbness.
- Chilliness and formication down back.
- Pruritus relieved by stimulants.
Fever
- Cold stage most marked.
- Cold sweat and icy coldness of face.
- Coldness and heat alternate.
- Evening chilliness soon after going to bed.
- Cold waves pass through him. Thirst and restlessness always present.
- Chilly if uncovered or touched.
- Dry heat, red face.
- Most valuable febrifuge with mental anguish, restlessness, etc.
- Sweat drenching, on parts lain on; relieving allsymptoms.
Modalities
- Better in open air; worse in warm room, in evening and night; worse lying on affected side,
from music, from tobacco-smoke, dry, cold winds.
- Vinegar in large doses is antidotal to poisonouseffects.
Relationship
- Acids, wine and coffee, lemonade, and acid fruits modify its action.
- Not indicated in malarial and low fevers or hectic and pyaemic conditions, and in
inflammations when they localize themselves.
- Sulphur often follows it.
- Compare Cham and Coffea in intense pain and sleeplessness.
- Agrostis acts like Acon. in fever and inflammations, also Spiranthes.
- Complementary : Coffea; Sulph.
- Sulphur may be considered a chronic Aconite.
- Often completes a cure begun with Aconite.
- Compare ; Bellad.; Cham.; Coffea; Ferr., phos.
- Aconitine.
- -(Heavy feeling as of lead; pains in supraorbital nerve; ice-cold sensations creep up;
hydrophobia symptoms. Tinnitus aurium 3x.) Tinglingsensation.
- Aconitum Lycotonum.
- -Great yellow wolfsbane.
- -(Swelling of glands; Hodgkin's disease. Diarrhoea after eating pork. Itching of nose, eyes,
anus and vulva. Skin of nose cracked; taste of blood).
- Aconitum Cammarum.
- -(Headache with vertigo and tinnitus. Catalepticsymptoms. Formication of tongue, lips and
face).
- Aconitum ferox.
- -Indian Aconite.
- -Rather more violent in its actions than A. napellus.
- It is more diuretic and less antipyretic.
- It has proved valuable in cardiac dyspnoea, neuralgia, and acute gout.
- Dyspnoea. Must sit up. Rapid respiration.
- Anxiety, with suffocation from feeling of paralysis in respiratory muscles.
- Cheynes-Stokes breathing.
- Quebracho (cardiac dyspnoea). (Achyranthes.-A Mexican drug - very similar to Aconite in
fevers, but of larger range, being also adapted to typhoidal states and intermittents. Muscular
rheumatism. A great diaphoretic. Use 6x).
- Eranthis hymnalis-(Winter Aconite - acts on solar plexus and works upwards causing
dyspnoea. Pain in occiput and neck).
Dose
- Sixth potency for sensory affections; first to third for congestive conditions.
- Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases.
- Acon. is a rapid worker.
- In Neuralgias tincture of the root often preferable, one drop doses (poisonous), or again, the
30th according to susceptibility of patient.

Arnica montana

Arnica montana
(leopard's bane)
* Produces conditions upon the system quite similar to those resulting from injuries, falls,
blows, contusions.
* Tinnitus aurium.
* Putrid phenomena.
* Septic conditions; prophylactic of pus infection.
* Apoplexy, red, full face.
It is especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems to have caused the
present trouble.
Arnica is disposed to cerebral congestion.
Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated withimpoverished blood, cardiac dropsy with
dyspnoea.
A muscular tonic.
Traumatism of grief, remorse or sudden realizationof financial loss.
Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained.
Bed feels too hard.
Marked effect on the blood.
Affects the venous system inducing stasis.
Echymosis and haemorrhages.
Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots.
Tendency to haemorrhage and low-fever states.
Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not mature.
Neuralgias originating in disturbances of pneumo-gastric.
Rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders.
Aversion to tobacco.
Thrombosis.
Haematocele.
Mind
- Fears touch, or the approach of anyone.
- Unconscious; when spoken to answers correctly, but relapses.
- Indifference; inability to perform continuous active work; morose, delirious.
- Nervous; cannot bear pain; whole body oversensitive.
- Says there is nothing the matter with him.
- Wants to be let alone.
- Agoraphobia (fear of space).
- After mental strain or shock.
Head
- Hot, with cold body; confused; sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching pains.
- Scalp feels contracted.
- Cold spot on forehead.
- Chronic vertigo; objects whirl about especially when walking.
Eyes
- Diplopia from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal haemorrhage.
- Bruised, sore feeling in eyes after close work.
- Must keep eyes open.
- Dizzy on closing them.
- Feel tired and weary after sight-seeing, moving pictures, etc.
Ears
- Noises in ear caused by rush of blood to the head.
- Shooting in and around ears.
- Blood from ears.
- Dullness of hearing after concussion.
- Pain in cartilages of ears as if bruised.
Nose
- Bleeding after every fit of coughing, dark fluidblood.
- Nose feels sore; cold.
Mouth
- Fetid breath.
- Dry and thirsty.
- Bitter taste. [Colocy.]
- Taste as from bad eggs.
- Soreness of gums after teeth extraction. [Sepia.]
- Empyema of maxillary sinus.
Face
- Sunken; very red.
- Heat in lips.
- Herpes in face.
Stomach
- Longing for vinegar.
- Distaste for milk and meat.
- Canine hunger.
- Vomiting of blood.
- Pain in stomach during eating.
- Repletion with loathing.
- Oppressive gases pass upward and downward.
- Pressure as from a stone.
- Feeling as if stomach were pressing against spine. Fetid vomiting.
Abdomen
- Stitches under false ribs.
- Distended; offensive flatus.
- Sharp thrusts through abdomen.
Stool
- Straining of tenesmus in diarrhoea. Offensive, brown, bloody, putrid, involuntary.
- Looks like brown yeast.
- Must lie down after every stool.
- Diarrhoea of consumption; worse lying on left side.
- Dysenteric stools with muscular pains.
Urine
- Retained from over-exertion.
- Dark brick-red sediment.
- Vesical tenesmus with very painful micturition.
Female
- Bruised parts after labor.
- Violent after-pains.
- Uterine haemorrhage from mechanical injury aftercoition.
- Sore nipples.
- Mastitis from injury.
- Feeling as if foetus were lying crosswise.
Respiratory
- Coughs depending on cardiac lesion, paroxysmal, at night, during sleep, worse exercise.
- Acute tonsillitis, swelling of soft palate and uvula.
- Pneumonia; approaching paralysis.
- Hoarseness from overuse of voice.
- Raw, sore feeling in morning.
- Cough produced by weeping and lamenting.
- Dry, from tickling low down in trachea.
- Bloody expectoration.
- Dyspnoea with haemoptysis.
- All bones and cartilages of chest painful.
- Violent spasmodic cough, with facial herpes.
- Whooping cough, child cries before coughing.
- Pleurodynia [Ranunc.; Cimicif.]
Heart
- Angina pectoris; pain especially severe in elbowof left arm.
- Stitches in heart.
- Pulse feeble and irregular.
- Cardiac dropsy with distressing dyspnoea.
- Extremities distended, feel bruised and sore.
- Fatty heart and hypertrophy.
Extremities
- Gout.
- Great fear of being touched or approached.
- Pain in back and limbs, as if bruised or beaten.
- Sprained and dislocated feeling.
- Soreness after overexertion.
- Everything on which he lies seems too hard.
- Deathly coldness of forearm.
- Cannot walk erect, on account of bruised pain inpelvic region.
- Rheumatism begins low down and works up. [Ledum.]
Skin
- Black and blue.
- Itching, burning, eruption of small pimples.
- Crops of small boils. [Ichthyol; Silica.] Ecchymosis.
- Bed sores. [Bovinine locally.]
- Acne indurata, characterized by symmetry in distribution.
Sleep
- Sleepless and restless when overtired.
- Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious
and terrible.
- Horrors in the night.
- Involuntary stools during sleep.
Fever
- Febrile symptoms closely related to typhoid.
- Shivering over whole body.
- Heat and redness of head, with coolness of rest of body.
- Internal heat; feet and hands cold.
- Nightly sour sweats.
Modalities
- Worse, least touch; motion; rest; wine; damp cold.
- Better, lying down, or with head low.
Relationship
- Antidotes : Camph.
- Vitex trifolia.
- - Indian Arnica. (Sprains and pains, headache intemples, pain in joints; pain in abdomen;
pain in testicles.)
- Complementary : Acon.; Ipec.
- Compare : Acon.; Bapt.; Bellis; Hamam; Rhus.; Hyperic.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- Locally, the tincture, but should never be applied hot or at all when abrasions or cuts are
present.

Aurum metallicum

Aurum metallicum
(metallic gold)
* Given full play, Aurum develops in the organism,by attacking the blood, glands, and bone,
conditions bearing striking resemblance to mercurial and syphilitic infections; and it is just for
such deteriorations of the bodily fluids and alterations in the tissues, that Aurum assumes
great importance as a remedy.
* Like the victim of syphilis, mental states of great depression are produced by it.
* Hopeless, despondent, and great desire to commitsuicide.
* Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction.
* Exostosis, caries, nightly bone-pains, especially cranial, nasal, and palatine.
* Glands swollen in scrofulous subjects.
* Palpitation and congestions.
* Ascites often in conjunction with heart affections.
* Frequently indicated in secondary syphilis and effects of mercury.
* This use of gold as an anti-venereal and anti-scrofulous remedy is very old, but has been
well-nigh forgotten by the old school until rediscovered and placed on its scientific basis by
homoeopathy, and now it can never be lost again.
* When syphilis is implanted on the scrofulous constitution, we have one of the most
intractable morbid conditions, and gold seems to beespecially suited to the vile combination.
* Ennui.
* Ozaena; sexual hyperaesthesia.
* Arterio-sclerosis, high blood pressure; nightly paroxysms of pain behind sternum.
* Sclerosis of liver, arterial system, brain.
* Pining boys; low spirited, lifeless, weak memory.
Mind
- Feeling of self-condemnation and utter worthlessness.
- Profound despondency, with increased blood pressure, with thorough disgust of life, and
thoughts of suicide.
- Talks of committing suicide.
- Great fear of death.
- Peevish and vehement at least contradiction.
- Anthropophobia.
- Mental derangements.
- Constant rapid questioning without waiting for reply.
- Cannot do things fast enough.
- Oversensitiveness; [Staph.] to noise, excitement, confusion.
Head
- Violent pain in head; worse at night, outward pressure.
- Roaring in head.
- Vertigo.
- Tearing through brain to forehead.
- Pain in bones extending to face.
- Congestion to head.
- Boils on scalp.
Eyes
- Extreme photophobia.
- Great soreness all about the eyes and into eyeballs.
- Double vision; upper half of objects invisible.
- Feel tense.
- Sees fiery objects.
- Violent pains in bones around eye. [Asaf.]
- Interstitial keratitis.
- Vascular cornea.
- Pains from without inward.
- Sticking pains inward.
- Trachoma with pannus.
Ears
- Caries of ossicula and of mastoid.
- Obstinate fetid otorrhoea after scarlatina.
- External meatus bathed in pus.
- Chronic nerve deafness; Labyrinthine disease dueto syphilis.
Nose
- Ulcerated, painful, swollen, obstructed.
- Inflammation of nose; caries; fetid discharge, purulent, bloody.
- Boring pains in nose; worse at night.
- Putrid smell from nose.
- Sensitive smell. [Carbol. ac.]
- Horrible odor from nose and mouth.
- Knobby tip of nose.
Mouth
- Foul breath in girls at puberty.
- Taste putrid or bitter.
- Ulceration of gums.
Face
- Tearing in zygoma.
- Mastoid and other facial bones inflamed.
Throat
- Stitches when swallowing; pain in glands.
- Caries of the palate.
Stomach
- Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness.
- Swelling of epigastrium.
- Burning at stomach and hot eructations.
Abdomen
- Right hypochondrium hot and painful.
- Incarcerated flatus.
- Swelling and suppuration of inguinal glands.
Urine
- Turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment.
- Painful retention.
Rectum
- Constipation, stools hard and knotty.
- Nocturnal diarrhoea, with burning in rectum.
Male
- Pain and swelling of testicles.
- Chronic induration of testicles.
- Violent erections.
- Atrophy of testicles in boys.
- Hydrocele.
Female
- Great sensitiveness of vagina.
- Uterus enlarged and prolapsed.
- Sterility; vaginismus.
Heart
- Sensation as if the heart stopped beating for two or three seconds, immediately followed by
a tumultuous rebound, with sinking at the epigastrium.
- Palpitation.
- Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular.
- Hypertrophy.
- High Blood Pressure - Valvular lesions of arterio-sclerotic nature (Aurum 30)
Respiratory
- Dyspnoea at night.
- Frequent, deep breathing; stitches in sternum.
Bones
- Destruction of bones, like secondary syphilis.
- Pain in bones of head, lumps under scalp, exostosis with nightly pains in bones.
- Caries of nasal, palatine and mastoid bones.
- Soreness of affected bones, better in open air, worse at night.
Extremities
- All the blood seems to rush from head to lower limbs.
- Dropsy of lower limbs.
- Orgasm, as if blood were boiling in all veins.
- Paralytic, tearing pains in joints.
- Knees weak.
Sleep
- Sleepless.
- Sobs aloud in sleep.
- Frightful dreams.
Modalities
- Worse, in cold weather when getting cold.
- Many complaints come on only in winter; from sunset to sunrise.
Relationship
- Compare : Aur. ars. (chronic aortitis; lupus, phthisis in syphilitic headaches; also in anaemia
and chlorosis. It causes rapid increase of appetite.)
- Aur. brom. (in headaches with neurasthenia, megrim, night terrors, valvular diseases).
- Aur. mur. (Burning, yellow, acrid leucorrhoea; heart symptoms, glandular affections; warts
on tongue and genitals; sclerotic and exudative degeneration of the nervous system. Multiple
sclerosis. Morvan's disease. Second trituration. Aur. mur. is a sycotic remedy, causing
suppressed discharges to reappear. Valuable in climacteric haemorrhages from the womb.
Diseases of frontal sinus. Stitching pain in left side of forehead. Weariness, aversion to all
work. Drawing feeling in stomach. Cancer, tongue ashard as leather; induration after
glossitis).
- Aur. mur. kali.
- -Double chloride of Potassium and gold. (In uterine induration and haemorrhage.)
- Aur. iod.(Chronic pericarditis, valvular diseases, arterio-sclerosis ozaena, lupus, osteitis,
ovarian cysts, myomata uteri, are pathological lesions, that offer favorable ground for the
action of this powerful drug. Senile paresis.)
- Aur. sulph. (Paralysis agitans; constant noddingof the head; affections of mammae;
swelling, pain, cracked nipples with lancinating pains.)
- Also, Asafaet. (in caries of bones of ears and nose).
- Syphilin : Kali iod.; Hep.; Merc.; Mez.; Nit. ac.; Phosph.
- Antidotes : Bell.; Cinch.; Cupr.; Merc.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- Latter potency especially for increased blood pressure.

Angustura vera

Angustura vera
(bark of galipea cusparia)
* Rheumatic and paralytic complaints - great difficulty in walking.
* Crackling in all joints.
The greatest craving for coffee is a characteristic symptom.
Caries of long bones.
Paralysis.
Tetanus.
Stiffness of muscles and joints.
Principal action on spinal motor nerves and mucousmembranes.
Head
- Oversensitive.
- Headache, with heat of face.
- Acute pain in cheeks.
- Drawing in facial muscles.
- Pain in temporal muscles, when opening the jaws.
- Pain in articulation of jaw, in masseter muscles, as if fatigued by chewing too much.
- Cramp-pain on the zygomatic arch.
Stomach
- Bitter taste.
- Irresistible desire for coffee.
- Pain from navel into sternum.
- Atonic dyspepsia.
- Belching, with cough. [Ambra.]
Abdomen
- Diarrhoea and colic.
- Tenesmus with soft stool; chronic diarrhoea, with debility and loss of flesh.
- Burning in anus.
Back
- Itching along back.
- Pain in cervical vertebrae.
- Drawing in the neck.
- Pain in spine, at nape of neck and sacrum, worseon pressure.
- Twitching and jerking along back.
- Bends backward.
Extremities
- Stiffness and tension of muscles and joints.
- Pain in limbs on walking.
- Arms tired and heavy.
- Caries of long bones.
- Coldness of fingers.
- Pain in knees.
- Cracking in joints.
Skin
- Caries, very painful ulcers which affect the bone.
Relationship
- Compare : Nux; Ruta; Mercur.; Brucea.
- -Bark of Nux vomica or angustura falsa. (Tetanicspasms with undisturbed consciousness,
worse noise, liquids, paralyzed lower extremities, worse least touch, cries for fear of being
touched. Painful jerking of legs; cramp-like pain in knees; rigid and lame limbs of paralytics.
For pain in the passing of calculus.)
Dose
- Sixth potency.

Arsenicum sulphuratum flavum

Arsenicum sulphuratum flavum
(yellow sulphuret of arsenic. orpiment)
* Needle pricks from within outwards in chest; also on forehead, right side.
* Sticking behind ear.
* Difficult respiration.
* Skin chafed about genitals.
Leucoderma and squamous syphilides.
Sciatica and pain around the knee.
Relationship
- Arsenic sulph. rub. (influenza with intense catarrhal symptoms, great prostration and high
temperature, purulent discharges, psoriasis, acne, and sciatica. Chilly even before a fire.
Itching in various parts. Pellagra.)
Dose
- Third trituration.

Arsenicum metallicum

Arsenicum metallicum
(metallic arsenic)
* Arouses latent syphilis.
* Periodicity very marked; symptoms recur every two and three weeks.
* Weakness.
* Swollen feeling of parts.
Head
- Low spirited, memory weak.
- Desire to be alone.
- Annoyed by visions, causing her to cry.
- Head feels too large.
- Left-sided headache up to eyes and into ears.
- Headache worse stooping and lying down.
- Oedematous swelling of forehead.
Face
- Red, itching, burning and bloated.
- Eyes swelled and watery, burn with coryza.
- Eyes weak, day and gas light unpleasant.
Mouth
- The tongue coated white, and shows imprint of the teeth.
- Mouth sore and ulcerated.
Abdomen
- Sore pain in liver goes through to shoulders andspine.
- Pain in spleen down to groin.
- Pain in breast extends to hip and spleen.
- Diarrhoea, burning watery stools with relief of pain.
Dose
- Sixth potency.

Arsenicum iodatum

Arsenicum iodatum
(iodide of arsenic)
* Is to be preferred for persistently irritating, corrosive discharges.
* The discharge irritates the membrane from which it flows and over which it flows.
* The discharge may be fetid, watery, and the mucous membrane is always red, angry,
swollen; itches and burns.
* Influenza, hay-fever, old nasal catarrhs, and catarrh of middle ear.
* Swelling of tissues within the nose.
* Hypertrophied condition of eustachian tube and deafness.
* Senile heart, myocarditis and fatty degeneration.
* Pulse shotty.
* Chronic aortitis.
* Epithelioma of the lip.
* Cancer of breast after ulceration has set in.
It seems probable that in Arsenic iod., we have a remedy most closely allied to
manifestations of tuberculosis.
In the early stages of tuberculosis, even though there is an afternoon rise in temperature, Ars.
jod. is very effective.
It will be indicated by a profound prostration, rapid, irritable pulse, recurring fever and
sweats, emaciation; tendency to diarrhoea.
Chronic pneumonia, with abscess in lung.
Hectic; debility; night sweats.
This remedy is also to be remembered in phthisis with hoarse, racking cough and profuse
expectoration of a purulent nature, and attended with cardiac weakness, emaciation and
general debility; in chronic, watery diarrhoea in phthisical subjects; in cases of emaciation
with good appetite; in amenorrhoea, with anaemic palpitation and dyspnoea.
In chronic pneumonia, when abscess is about to form.
Great emaciation.
Arteriosclerosis, myocardial degeneration and senile heart.
Threatened pyaemia. [Pyrog.; Methyl. blue.]
Head
- Vertigo, with tremulous feeling, especially in aged.
Nose
- Thin, watery, irritating, excoriating discharge from anterior and posterior nares; sneezing.
- Hay-fever.
- Irritation and tingling of nose constant desire to sneeze. [Pollanin.]
- Chronic nasal catarrh; swollen nose; profuse, thick, yellow discharge; ulcers; membrane
sore and excoriated.
- Aggravation by sneezing.
Throat
- Burning in pharynx.
- Tonsils swollen.
- Thick membrane from fauces to lips.
- Breath fetid, glandular involvement.
- Diphtheria.
- Chronic follicular pharyngitis.
Eyes and ears
- Scrofulous ophthalmia.
- Otitis, with fetid, corrosive discharge.
- Thickening of tympanum.
- Burning, acrid coryza.
Stomach
- Pain and pyrosis.
- Vomiting an hour after food.
- Nausea distressing.
- Pain in epigastrium.
- Intense thirst; water is immediately ejected.
Respiratory
- Slight hacking cough, with dry and stopped-up nostrils.
- Pleuritis exudativa.
- Chronic bronchitis.
- Pulmonary tuberculosis.
- Pneumonia that fails to clear up.
- Broncho-pneumonia after grippe.
- Cough dry, with little difficult expectoration.
- Aphonia.
Fever
- Recurrent fever and sweats.
- Drenching night-sweats.
- Pulse rapid, feeble, weak, irregular.
- Chilly, cannot endure cold.
Skin
- Dry, scaly, itching.
- Marked exfoliation of skin in large scales, leaving a raw exuding surface beneath.
- Ichthyosis. Enlarged scrofulous glands. Venerealbubo.
- Debilitating night-sweats.
- Eczema of the beard; watery, oozing, itching; worse, washing.
- Emaciation.
- Psoriasis.
- Acne hard, shotty, indurated base with pustule at apex.
Relationship
- Compare : Tuberculinum; Antimon. iod.
- In hay-fever, compare : Aralia; Naphthalin; Rosa; Sang. nit.
Dose
- Second and third trituration.
- Ought to be prepared fresh and protected from light.
- Continued for some time.

Arsenicum hydrogenisatum

Arsenicum hydrogenisatum
(arseniuretted hydrogen)
* The general action of Arsenic more accentuated.
* Anaemia.
* Anxiety; despair.
* Haematuria, with general blood disorganization.
* Haemorrhages from mucous membranes.
* Urine suppressed, followed by vomiting.
* Prepuce and glans covered with pustules and round superficial ulcers.
* Collapse.
* Coldness; prostration.
* Sudden weakness and nausea.
* Skin becomes dark brown.
Head
- Violent vertigo on going upstairs.
- Eyes sunken; broad, blue circles around.
- Violent sneezing.
- Nose cold.
- Must be wrapped up with warm cloths.
Mouth
- Tongue enlarged; deep, irregular ulcer; nodular swelling.
- Mouth hot and dry; little thirst.
Dose
- Third potency.

Arsenicum bromatum

Arsenicum bromatum
(bromide of arsenic)
* Has proven a great anti-psoric and anti-syphilitic remedy.
* Herpetic eruptions, syphilitic excrescences, glandular tumors and indurations, carcinoma,
locomotor ataxia, and obstinate intermittents, and diabetes are all greatly influenced by this
preparation.
Face
- Acne rosacea, with violet papules on nose; worsein the spring.
- Acne in young people.
Dose
- Tincture, two to four drops daily in water.
- In diabetes, three drops three times a day in a glass of water.

Antimonium tartaricum

Antimonium tartaricum
(tartar emetic. tartrate of antimony and potash)
* Has many symptoms in common with Antimonium Crudum but also many peculiar to
itself.
* Clinically, its therapeutic application has beenconfined largely to the treatment of
respiratory diseases, rattling of mucus with littleexpectoration has been a guiding symptom.
* There is much drowsiness, debility and sweat characteristic of the drug, which group
should always be more or less present, when the drug is prescribed.
* Gastric affections of drunkards and gouty subjects.
* Cholera morbus.
* Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels.
* Bilharziasis.
* Antimonium tart is homoeopathic to dysuria, strangury, haematuria, albuminuria, catarrh of
bladder and urethra, burning in rectum, bloody mucous stools, etc.
* Antimon. tart. acts indirectly on the parasites by stimulating the oxidizing action of the
protective substance.
* By-effects following injection for Bilharziasis.
* Chills and contractures and pain in muscles.
Trembling of whole body, great prostration and faintness.
Lumbago.
Chills, contractures and muscular pains.
Warts on glans penis.
Mind and head
- Vertigo alternates with drowsiness.
- Great despondency.
- Fear of being alone.
- Muttering, delirium, and stupor.
- Vertigo, with dullness and confusion.
- Band-like feeling over forehead.
- Face pale and sunken.
- Child will not be touched without whining.
- Headache as from a band compressing. [Nit. ac.]
Tongue
- Coated, pasty, thick white, with red edges.
- Red and dry, especially in the center.
- Brown.
Face
- Cold, blue, pale; covered with cold sweat. Incessant quivering of chin and lower
jaw.[Gelsem.]
Stomach
- Difficult deglutition of liquids.
- Vomiting in any position, excepting lying on right side.
- Nausea, retching, and vomiting, especially afterfood, with deathly faintness and
prostration.
- Thirst for cold water, little and often, and desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally.
- Nausea produces fear; with pressure in praecordial region, followed by headache with
yawning and lachrymation and vomiting.
Abdomen
- Spasmodic colic, much flatus.
- Pressure in abdomen, especially on stooping forward.
- Cholera morbus.
- Diarrhoea in eruptive diseases.
Urinary
- Burning in urethra during and after urinating.
- Last drops bloody with pain in bladder.
- Urging increased.
- Catarrh of bladder and urethra.
- Stricture.
- Orchitis.
Respiratory organs
- Hoarseness.
- Great rattling of mucus, but very little is expectorated.
- Velvety feeling in chest.
- Burning sensation in chest, which ascends to throat.
- Rapid, short, difficult breathing; seems as if he would suffocate; must sit up.
- Emphysema of the aged.
- Coughing and gaping consecutively.
- Bronchial tubes overloaded with mucus.
- Cough excited by eating, with pain in chest and larynx.
- Oedema and impending paralysis of lungs.
- Much palpitation, with uncomfortable hot feeling.
- Pulse rapid, weak, trembling.
- Dizziness, with cough.
- Dyspnoea relieved by eructation.
- Cough and dyspnoea better lying on right side - (opposite Badiaga).
Back
- Violent pain in sacro-lumbar region.
- Slightest effort to move may cause retching and cold, clammy sweat.
- Sensation of heavy weight at the coccyx, dragging downward all the time.
- Twitching of muscles; limbs tremulous.
Skin
- Pustular eruption, leaving a bluish-red mark.
- Small-pox.
- Warts.
Fever
- Coldness, trembling, and chilliness.
- Intense heat.
- Copious perspiration.
- Cold, clammy sweat, with great faintness.
- Intermittent fever with lethargic condition.
Sleep
- Great drowsiness.
- On falling asleep electric-like shocks.
- Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all complaints.
Modalities
- Worse, in evening; from lying down at night; from warmth; in damp cold weather; from all
sour things and milk.
- Better, from sitting erect; from eructation and expectoration.
Relationship
- Antidotes : Puls.; Sepia.
- Compare : Kali sulph.; Ipecac.
Dose
- Second and sixth trituration.
- The lower potencies sometimes aggravate.

Antimonium sulphuratum auratum

Antimonium sulphuratum auratum
(golden sulphuret of antimony)
* A remarkable remedy for many forms of chronic nasal and bronchial catarrh.
* Acne.
* Amaurosis.
Nose and throat
- Nosebleed on washing.
- Increased secretion in nose and throat.
- Rough and scrapy feeling.
- Loss of smell.
- Metallic styptic taste.
Respiratory
- Tickling in larynx.
- Increased mucus with fullness in bronchi.
- Respiration difficult, pressure in bronchi, withconstriction.
- Tough mucus in bronchi and larynx.
- Dry hard cough.
- Congestion of upper lobe of left lung.
- Winter coughs patient is sore all over.
- Pneumonia, when hepatization occurred and resolution failed to take place.
Skin
- Acne(pustular variety).
- Itching on hands and feet.
Dose
- Second or third trituration.

Antimonium crudum

Antimonium crudum
(black sulphide of antimony)
* For homoeopathic employment, the mental symptomsand those of the gastric sphere,
determine its choice.
* Excessive irritability and fretfulness, togetherwith a thickly-coated white tongue, are true
guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy.
* All the conditions are aggravated by heat and cold bathing.
* Cannot bear heat of sun.
* Tendency to grow fat.
* An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable.
* Gout with gastric symptoms.
Mind
- Much concerned about his fate.
- Cross and contradictive; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction.
- Sulky; does not wish to speak.
- Peevish; vexed without cause.
- Child cannot bear to be touched or looked at.
- Angry at every little attention.
- Sentimental mood.
Head
- Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, from bathing, from disordered stomach, especially
from eating candy or drinking acid wines.
- Suppressed eruptions.
- Heaviness in forehead with vertigo; nausea, and nosebleed.
- Headache with great loss of hair.
Eyes
- Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated.
- Canthi raw and fissured.
- Chronic blepharitis.
- Pustules on cornea and lids.
Ears
- Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube.
- Ringing and deafness.
- Moist eruption around ear.
Nose
- Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts. Eczemaof nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy.
Face
- Pimples, pustules, and boils on face.
- Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin.
- Sallow and haggard.
Mouth
- Cracks in corners of mouth.
- Dry lips.
- Saltish saliva.
- Much slimy mucus.
- Tongue coated thick white, as if whitewashed.
- Gums detach from teeth; bleed easily.
- Toothache in hollow teeth.
- Rawness of palate, with expectoration of much mucus.
- Canker sores.
- Pappy taste.
- No thirst.
- Subacute eczema about mouth.
Throat
- Much thick yellowish mucus from posterior nares.
- Hawking in open air.
- Laryngitis.
- Rough voice from over use.
Stomach
- Loss of appetite. Desire for acids, pickles.
- Thirst in evening and night.
- Eructation tasting of the ingesta.
- Heartburn, nausea, vomiting.
- After nursing, the child vomits its milk in curds, and refuses to nurse afterwards, and is very
cross.
- Gastric and intestinal complaints from bread andpastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing,
overheating, hot weather.
- Constant belching.
- Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels.
- Sweetish waterbrash.
- Bloating after eating.
Stool
- Anal itching. [Sulpho-calc. Alum.]
- Diarrhoea alternates with constipation, especially in old people.
- Diarrhoea after acids, sour wine, baths, overeating; slimy, flatulent stools.
- Mucous piles, continued oozing of mucus. Hard lumps mixed with watery discharge.
Catarrhal proctitis.
- Stools composed entirely of mucus.
Urine
- Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid andfoul odor.
Male
- Eruption on scrotum and about genitals.
- Impotence.
- Atrophy of penis and testicles.
Female
- Excited; parts itch.
- Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse.
- Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in
ovarian region.
- Leucorrhoea watery; acrid, lumpy.
Respiratory
- Cough worse coming into warm room, with burning sensation in chest, itching of chest,
oppression.
- Loss of voice from becoming overheated.
- Voice harsh and badly pitched.
Back
- Itching and pain of neck and back.
Extremities
- Twitching of muscles.
- Jerks in arms.
- Arthritic pain in fingers.
- Nails brittle; grow out of shape.
- Horny warts on hands and soles.
- Weakness and shaking of hands in writing followed by offensive flatulence.
- Feet very tender; covered with large horny places.
- Inflamed corns.
- Pain in heels.
Skin
- Eczema with gastric derangements.
- Pimples, vesicles, and pustules.
- Sensitive to cold bathing.
- Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs.
- Urticaria; measle-like eruption.
- Itching when warm in bed.
- Dry skin.
- Warts. [Thuja; Sabina; Caust.] Dry gangrene.
- Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.
Sleep
- Continual drowsiness in old people.
Fever
- Chilly even in warm room.
- Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhoea.
- Hot sweat.
Modalities
- Worse, in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing.
- Wet poultices.
- Better, in open air, during rest.
- Moist warmth.
Relationship
- Compare : Antimonium Chloridum.
- Butter of Antimony. (A remedy for cancer. Mucousmembranes destroyed. Abrasions. Skin
cold and clammy. Great prostration of strength. Dose - third trituration.)
- Antimon. iodat. (Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia and bronchitis; loss of
strength, and appetite, yellowish skin, sweaty, dull and drowsy.)
- In sub-acute and chronic colds in chest which have extended downwards from head and
have fastened themselves upon the bronchial tubes in the form of hard, croupy cough with a
decided wheeze and inability to raise the sputum, especially in the aged and weak patients
(Bacmeister).
- Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow and delayed.
- Compare : Kermes mineral - Stibiat sulph. rub.(Bronchitis.)
- Also Puls, Ipecac, Sulph.
- Complementary : Sulph.
- Antidote : Hepar.
Dose
- Third to sixth potency.

Antimonium arsenicosum

Antimonium arsenicosum
(arsenite of antimony)
* Found useful in emphysema with excessive dyspnoea and cough, much mucous secretion.
* Worse on eating and lying down.
* Catarrhal pneumonia associated with influenza.
* Myocarditis and cardiac weakness.
* Pleurisy, especially of left side, with exudation and pericarditis, with effusion.
* Sense of weakness.
* Inflammation of eyes and oedema of face.
Dose
- Third trituration.

Antipyrinum

Antipyrinum
(phenazone - a coal-tar derivative)
* Antipyrine is one of the drugs that induce leucocytosis, similar to ergotin, salicylates, and
tuberculin.
* Acts especially on the vaso-motor centers, causing dilation of capillaries of skin and
consequent circumscribed patches of hyperaemia and swelling.
* In large doses causes profuse perspiration, dizziness, cyanosis, and somnolence, albumen
and blood in urine.
* Acute erythema multiforme.
Mind
- Fear of becoming insane; nervous anxiety; hallucinations of sight and hearing.
Head
- Throbbing headache; sensation of constriction.
- Flashes of heat.
- Headache under ears with earache.
Eyes
- Puffiness of lids.
- Conjunctiva red and oedematous, with lachrymation.
- Red spots. [Apis.]
Ears
- Pains and buzzing.
- Tinnitus.
Face
- Oedema and puffiness.
- Red and swollen.
Mouth
- Swelling of lips.
- Burning of mouth and gums.
- Ulceration of lips and tongue; vesicles and bullae.
- Small lump in cheek.
- Tongue swollen.
- Bloody saliva.
- Toothache along lower jaw.
Throat
- Pain on swallowing.
- Expectoration of fetid pus.
- Abscess, white false membrane.
- Sensation of burning.
Stomach
- Nausea and vomiting; burning and pain.
Urine
- Diminished.
- Penis black.
Female
- Itching and burning in vagina.
- Menses suppressed.
- Watery leucorrhoea.
Respiratory
- Fluent coryza.
- Nasal mucous membrane swollen.
- Dull pains in frontal sinus.
- Aphonia.
- Oppression and dyspnoea.
- Cheyne-Stokes respiration.
Heart
- Faintness, with sensation of stoppage of heart.
- Throbbing throughout the body.
- Rapid, weak, irregular pulse.
Nerves
- Epileptiform seizures.
- Contractures.
- Trembling and cramps.
- Crawling and numbness.
- General prostration.
Skin
- Erythema, eczema, pemphigus.
- Intense pruritus. Urticaria, appearing and disappearing suddenly, with internal coldness.
- Angioneurotic-oedema.
- Dark blotches on skin of penis, sometimes with oedema.
Dose
- Second decimal potency.

Argentum nitricum

Argentum nitricum
(nitrate of silver)
* In this drug the neurotic effects are very marked, many brain and spinal symptoms
presenting; themselves which give certain indications for its homoeopathic employment.
* Symptoms of inco-ordination, loss of control andwant of balance everywhere, mentally
and physically; trembling in affected parts.
* Is an irritant of mucous membranes, producing violent inflammation of the throat, and a
marked gastro-enteritis.
* Very characteristic is the great desire for sweets, the splinter-like pains, and free mucopurulent discharge in the inflamed and ulcerated mucous membranes.
* Sensation as if a part were expanding and other errors of perception are characteristic.
* Withered up and dried constitutions present a favorable field for its action, especially when
associated with unusual or long continued mental exertion.
* Head symptoms often determine the choice of thisremedy.
* Pains increase and decrease gradually.
* Flatulent state and prematurely aged look.
* Explosive belching especially in neurotics.
* Upper abdominal affections brought on by undue mental exertion.
* Paraplegia Myelitis and disseminated sclerosis of brain and cord.
* Intolerance of heat.
* Sensation of a sudden pinch. (Dudgeon).
* Destroys red blood corpuscles, producing anemia.
Mind
- Thinks his understanding will and must fail.
- Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window.
- Faintish and tremulous.
- Melancholic; apprehensive of serious disease.
- Time passes slowly. [Cann. ind.] Memory weak.
- Errors of perception.
- Impulsive; wants to do things in a hurry. [Lilium.] Peculiar mental impulses.
- Fears and anxieties and hidden irrational motives for actions.
Head
- Headache with coldness and trembling.
- Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemi-cranial attacks.
- Sense of expansion.
- Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling.
- Headache from mental exertion, from dancing.
- Vertigo, with buzzing in ears and with nervous affections.
- Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged feeling in corresponding eye.
- Boring pain; better on tight bandaging and pressure.
- Itching of scalp.
- Hemi-crania; bones of head feel as if separated.
Eyes
- Inner canthi swollen and red.
- Spots before the vision.
- Blurred vision.
- Photophobia in warm room.
- Purulent ophthalmia.
- Great swelling of conjunctiva; discharge abundant and purulent.
- Chronic ulceration of margin of lids; sore, thick, swollen.
- Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily.
- Eye-strain from sewing; worse in warm room.
- Aching, tired feeling in eyes, better closing orpressing upon them.
- Useful in restoring power to the weakened ciliary muscles.
- Paretic condition of ciliary muscle.
- Acute granular conjunctivitis.
- Cornea opaque.
- Ulcer in cornea.
Nose
- Loss of smell.
- Itching.
- Ulcers in septum.
- Coryza, with chilliness, lachrymation, and headache.
Face
- Sunken, old, pale, and bluish.
- Old man's look; tight drawing of skin over bones.
Mouth
- Gums tender and bleed easily.
- Tongue has prominent papillae; tip is red and painful.
- Pain in sound teeth.
- Taste coppery, like ink.
- Canker sores.
Throat
- Much thick mucus in throat and mouth causes hawking.
- Raw, rough and sore.
- Sensation of a splinter in throat on swallowing.
- Dark redness of throat.
- Catarrh of smokers, with tickling as of hair in throat.
- Strangulated feeling.
Stomach
- Belching accompanies most gastric ailments.
- Nausea, retching, vomiting of glairy mucus.
- Flatulence; painful swelling of pit.
- Painful spot over stomach that radiates to all parts of the abdomen.
- Gnawing ulcerating pain; burning and constriction.
- Ineffectual effort at eructation.
- Great craving for sweets.
- Gastritis of drunkards.
- Ulcerative pain in left side under ribs.
- Trembling and throbbing in stomach.
- Enormous distention.
- Ulceration of stomach, with radiating pain.
- Desire for cheese and salt.
Abdomen
- Colic, with much flatulent distention.
- Stitchy ulcerative pain on left side of stomach,below short ribs.
Stool
- Watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like chopped spinach, with shreddy mucus and enormous
distention of abdomen; very offensive.
- Diarrhoea immediately after eating or drinking.
- Fluids go right through him; after sweets.
- After any emotion with flatulence.
- Itching of anus.
Urine
- Urine passes unconsciously, day and night.
- Urethra inflamed, with pain, burning, itching; pain as from a splinter.
- Urine scanty and dark.
- Emission of a few drops after having finished.
- Divided stream.
- Early stage of gonorrhoea; profuse discharge andterrible cutting pains; bloody urine.
Male
- Impotence.
- Erection fails when coition is attempted.
- Cancer-like ulcers.
- Desire wanting.
- Genitals shrivel.
- Coition painful.
Female
- Gastralgia at beginning of menses.
- Intense spasm of chest muscles.
- Orgasms at night.
- Nervous erethism at change of life.
- Leucorrhoea profuse, with erosion of cervix. bleeding easily.
- Uterine haemorrhage, two weeks after menses; Painful affections of left ovary.
Respiratory
- High notes cause cough.
- Chronic hoarseness.
- Suffocative cough, as if from a hair in throat.
- Dyspnoea.
- Chest feels as if a bar were around it.
- Palpitation, pulse irregular and intermittent; worse lying on right side; [Alumen.] Painful
spots in chest.
- Angina pectoris, nightly aggravation.
- Many people in a room seem to take away his breath.
Back
- Much pain.
- Spine sensitive with nocturnal pains, [Oxal. acid.] paraplegia; posterior spinal sclerosis.
Extremities
- Cannot walk with eyes closed.
- Trembling, with general debility.
- Paralysis, with mental and abdominal symptoms.
- Rigidity of calves.
- Debility in calves especially.
- Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when unobserved.
- Numbness of arms.
- Post-diphtheritic paralysis (after Gelsem.)
Skin
- Brown, tense, and hard.
- Drawing in skin, as from a spider-web, or dried albuminous substance, withered and dried
up.
- Irregular blotches.
Sleep
- Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination; horrible dreams of snakes, and of sexual
gratification.
- Drowsy stupor.
Fever
- Chills with nausea.
- Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up.
Modalities
- Worse, warmth in any form; at night; from cold food; sweets; after eating; at menstrual
period; from emotions, left side. Better, from eructation; fresh air; cold; pressure.
Relationship
- Antidote : Nat. mur.
- Compare : Ars.; Merc.; Phos.; Pulsat. Argent. cyanatum (angina pectoris, asthma, spasm of
oesophagus) Argent. iodat. (throat disorders, hoarseness, gland affected.)
- Protargol (gonorrhoea after acute stage 2 per cent. solution; syphilitic mucous patches,
chancres and chancroids, 10 per cent. solution applied twice a day; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2
drops of 10 per cent. solution).
- Argent. phosph. (An excellent diuretic in dropsy.)
- Argent. oxyd. (Chlorosis with menorrhagia and diarrhoea.)
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- Best form an aqueous solution 1 to 9, 2 or 3 drops doses.
- This solution in water preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh, these readily decompose
into the oxide.

Argentum metallicum

Argentum metallicum
(silver)
* Emaciation, a gradual drying up, desire for fresh air, dyspnoea, sensation of expansion and
left-sided pains are characteristic.
* The chief action is centered on the articulations and their component elements, bones,
cartilages, and ligaments.
* Here the small blood vessels become closed up orwithered and carious affections result.
* They come on insidiously, lingering, but progress.
* The larynx is also a special center for this drug.
Mental
- Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy.
Head
- Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually increasing and ceasing suddenly.
- Scalp very tender to touch.
- Vertigo, with intoxicated feeling, on looking atrunning water.
- Head feels empty, hollow.
- Eyelids red and thick.
- Exhausting coryza, with sneezing.
- Pain in facial bones.
- Pain between left eye and frontal eminence.
Throat
- Raw, hawking, gray, jelly-like mucus, and throatsore on coughing.
- Profuse and easy morning expectoration.
Respiratory
- Hoarseness Aphonia.
- Raw, sore feeling when coughing.
- Total loss of voice of professional singers.
- Larynx feels sore and raw.
- Easy expectoration, looking like boiled starch. Feeling of raw spot near supra sternal fossa.
Worse from use of voice. Cough from laughing.
- Hectic fever at noon.
- On reading aloud, must hem and hawk.
- Great weakness of chest; worse left side.
- Alteration in timbre of voice.
- Pain in left lower ribs.
Back
- Severe backache; must walk bent, with oppressionof chest.
Urine
- Diuresis.
- Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor.
- Frequent urination.
- Polyuria.
Extremities
- Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbowand knee.
- Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs.
- Involuntary contractions of fingers, partial paralysis of forearm; writer's cramp.
- Swelling of ankles.
Male
- Crushed pain in testicles.
- Seminal emissions, without sexual excitement.
- Frequent micturation with burning.
Female
- Ovaries feel too large.
- Bearing-down pain.
- Prolapse of womb.
- Eroded spongy cervix. Leucorrhoea foul, excoriating.
- Palliative in scirrhus of uterus.
- Pain in left ovary.
- Climateric haemorrhage.
- Sore feeling; throughout abdomen; worse by jarring.
- Uterine disease with pain in joints and limbs.
Modalities
- Worse from touch, toward noon.
- Better in open air; cough at night when lying down (opposite Hyoscy.)
Relationship
- Antidotes : Mercur.; Puls.
- Compare : Selen.; Alum.; Platina.; Stannum; Ampelopsis. (Chronic hoarseness in
scrofulous patients).
Dose
- Sixth trituration and higher.
- Not too frequent repetition.

Arsenicum album

Arsenicum album
(arsenious acid) - arsenic trioxide
* A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue.
* Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease
make its homoeopathic employment constant and certain.
* Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful application.
* Among these the all-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly
aggravation, are most important.
* Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion.
* This, with the peculiar irritability of fibre, gives the characteristic irritable weakness.
Burning pains.
* Unquenchable thirst.
* Burning relieved by heat.
* Seaside complaints [Nat. mur.; Aqua Marina].
* Injurious effects of fruits, especially more watery ones.
* Gives quiet and ease to the last moments of lifewhen given in high potency.
* Fear fright and worry.
* Green discharges.
* Infantile Kala-azar. (Dr. Neatby).
Anaemia and chlorosis.
Degenerative changes.
Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition.
Reduces the refractive index of blood serum (also China and Ferr. phos.).
Maintains the system under the stress of malignancy regardless of location.
Malarial cachexia.
Mind
- Great anguish and restlessness. Changes place continually. Fears, of death, of being left
alone.
- Great fear, with cold sweat.
- Thinks it useless to take medicine.
- Suicidal.
- Hallucinations of smell and sight.
- Despair drives him from place to place.
- Miserly, malicious, selfish, lacks courage.
- General sensibility increased [Hep.].
- Sensitive to disorder and confusion.
Head
- Headaches relieves by cold, other symptoms worse.
- Periodical burning pains, with restlessness; with cold skin.
- Hemicrania, with icy feeling of scalp and great weakness.
- Sensitive head in open air.
- Delirium tremens; cursing and raving; vicious.
- Head is in constant motion.
- Scalp itches intolerably; circular patches of bare spots; rough, dirty, sensitive, and covered
with dry scales; nightly burning and itching; dandruff.
- Scalp very sensitive; cannot brush hair.
Eyes
- Burning in eyes, with acrid lachrymation.
- Lids red, ulcerated, scabby, scaly, granulated.
- Oedema around eyes.
- External inflammation, with extreme painfulness;burning, hot, and excoriating
lachrymation.
- Corneal ulceration.
- Intense photophobia; better external warmth.
- Ciliary neuralgia, with fine burning pain.
Ears
- Skin within, raw and burning.
- Thin, excoriating, offensive otorrhoea.
- Roaring in ears, during a paroxysm of pain.
Nose
- Thin, watery, excoriating discharge.
- Nose feels stopped up.
- Sneezing without relief.
- Hay-fever and coryza; worse in open air; better indoors.
- Burning and bleeding.
- Acne of nose.
- Lupus.
Face
- Swollen, pale, yellow, cachectic, sunken, cold, and covered with sweat. [Acetic acid.]
- Expression of agony.
- Tearing needle-like pains; burning.
- Lips black, livid.
- Angry, circumscribed flush of cheeks.
Mouth
- Unhealthy, easily-bleeding gums.
- Ulceration of mouth with dryness and burning heat.
- Epithelioma of lips.
- Tongue dry, clean, and red; stitching and burning pain in tongue, ulcerated with blue color.
- Bloody saliva.
- Neuralgia of teeth; feel long and very sore; worse after midnight; better warmth.
- Metallic taste.
- Gulping up of burning water.
Throat
- Swollen, oedematous, constricted, burning, unable to swallow.
- Diphtheritic membrane, looks dry and wrinkled.
Stomach
- Cannot bear the sight or smell of food. Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time.
- Nausea, retching, vomiting, after eating or drinking.
- Anxiety in pit of stomach.
- Burning pain.
- Craves acids and coffee.
- Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat.
- Long-lasting eructations.
- Vomiting of blood, bile, green mucus, or brown-black mixed with blood.
- Stomach extremely irritable; seems raw, as if torn.
- Gastralgia from slightest food or drink.
- Dyspepsia from vinegar, acids, ice-cream, ice-water, tobacco.
- Terrible fear and dyspnoea, with gastralgia; also faintness, icy coldness, great exhaustion.
- Malignant symptoms.
- Everything swallowed seems to lodge in the oesophagus, which seems as if closed and
nothing would pass.
- Ill effects of vegetable diet, melons, and watery fruits generally.
- Craves milk.
Abdomen
- Gnawing, burning pains like coals of fire; relieved by heat.
- Liver and spleen enlarged and painful.
- Ascites and anasarca.
- Abdomen swollen and painful.
- Pain as from a wound in abdomen on coughing.
Rectum
- Painful, spasmodic protrusion of rectum.
- Tenesmus.
- Burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus.
Stool
- Small, offensive, dark, with much prostration. Worse at night, and after eating and drinking;
from chilling stomach, alcoholic abuse, spoiled meat.
- Dysentery dark, bloody, very offensive.
- Cholera, with intense agony, prostration, and burning thirst.
- Body cold as ice. [Verat.]
- Haemorrhoids burn like fire; relieved by heat.
- Skin excoriated about anus.
Urine
- Scanty, burning, involuntary.
- Bladder as if paralyzed.
- Albuminous.
- Epithelial cells; cylindrical clots of fibrin and globules of pus and blood.
- After urinating, feeling of weakness in abdomen.
- Bright's disease.
- Diabetes.
Female
- Menses too profuse and too soon.
- Burning in ovarian region.
- Leucorrhoea, acrid, burning, offensive, thin.
- Pain as from red-hot wires; worse least exertion; causes great fatigue; better in warm room.
- Menorrhagia.
- Stitching pain in pelvis extending down the thigh.
Respiratory
- Unable to lie down; fears suffocation.
- Air-passages constricted.
- Asthma worse midnight.
- Burning in chest.
- Suffocative catarrh.
- Cough worse after midnight; worse lying on back.
- Expectoration scanty, frothy. Darting pain through upper third of right lung.
- Wheezing respiration.
- Haemoptysis with pain between shoulders; burningheat all over.
- Cough dry, as from sulphur fumes; after drinking.
Heart
- Palpitation, pain, dyspnoea, faintness.
- Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers.
- Pulse more rapid in morning. [Sulph.] Dilatation.
- Cyanosis.
- Fatty degeneration.
- Angina pectoris, with pain in neck and occiput.
Back
- Weakness in small of back.
- Drawing in of shoulders.
- Pain and burning in back. [Oxal. ac.]
Extremities
- Trembling, twitching, spasms, weakness, heaviness, uneasiness.
- Cramps in calves.
- Swelling of feet.
- Sciatica.
- Burning pains.
- Peripheral neuritis.
- Diabetic gangrene.
- Ulcers on heel [Cepa; Lamium].
- Paralysis of lower limbs with atrophy.
Skin
- Itching, burning, swellings; oedema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and
scratching.
- Malignant pustules.
- Ulcers with offensive discharge.
- Anthrax.
- Poisoned wounds.
- Urticaria, with burning and restlessness.
- Psoriasis.
- Scirrhus.
- Icy coldness of body.
- Epithelioma of the skin.
- Gangrenous inflammations.
Sleep
- Disturbed, anxious, restless.
- Must have head raised by pillows.
- Suffocative fits during sleep.
- Sleeps with hands over head.
- Dreams are full of care and fear.
- Drowsy, sleeping sickness.
Fever
- High temperature.
- Periodicity marked with adynamia.
- Septic fevers.
- Intermittent. Paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion. Hay-fever.
- Cold sweats.
- Typhoid, not too early; often after Rhus.
- Complete exhaustion.
- Delirium; worse after midnight.
- Great restlessness.
- Great heat about 3 a.m.
- Sordes.
Modalities
- Worse, wet weather, after midnight; from cold, cold drinks, or food.
- Seashore.
- Right side.
- Better from heat; from head elevated; warm drinks.
- Complementary : Rhus; Carbo; Phos. Thuja; Secale.
- Antidotal to lead poison.
- Antidotes : Opium; Carbo; China; Hepar; Nux.
- Chemical Antidotes : Charcoal; Hydrated Peroxideof Iron; Lime Water.
- Compare : Arsenic. stibatum 3x (Chest inflammations of children, restlessness with thirst
and prostration, loose mucous cough, oppression, hurried respiration, crepitant rales).
- Cenchris contortrix; Iod.; Phosph.; China; Verat. alb.; Carbo; Kali phos. Epilobium
(intractable diarrhoea of typhoid).
- Hoang Nan. Atoxyl.
- -Sodium arseniate 3x, sleeping sickness; commencing optic atrophy.
- Levico Water - (containing Ars., Iron and Copperof South Tyrol).
- Chronic and dyscratic skin diseases, chorea minor and spasms in scrofulous and anaemic
children.
- Favors assimilation and increases nutrition.
- Debility and skin diseases, especially after theuse of higher potencies where progress
seems suspended.
- Dose.
- Ten drops in wine glass of warm water 3 times a day after meals. (Burnett).
- Sarcolatic acid (influenza with violent vomiting).
Dose
- Third to thirtieth potency.
- The very highest potencies often yield brilliantresults.
- Low attenuations in gastric, intestinal, and kidney diseases; higher in neuralgias, nervous
diseases, and skin.
- But if only surface conditions call for it, givethe lowest potencies, 2x to 3x trit.
- Repeated doses advisable.

Avena sativa

Avena sativa
(common oat)
* Has a selective action on brain and nervous system, favorably influencing their nutritive
function.
Nervous exhaustion, sexual debility, and the morphine habit call for this remedy in rather
material dosage.
Best tonic for debility after exhausting diseases.
Nerve tremors of the aged; chorea, paralysis agitans, epilepsy.
Post-diphtheritic paralysis.
Rheumatism of heart.
Acute coryza (20 drop doses in hot water hourly for a few doses).
Alcoholism.
Sleeplessness, especially of alcoholics.
Bad effects of Morphine habit.
Nervous states of many female troubles.
Mind
- Inability to keep mind on any one subject.
Head
- Nervous headache at menstrual period, with burning at top of head.
- Occipital headache, with phosphatic urine.
Female
- Amenorrhoea and dysmenorrhoea, with weak circulation.
Male
- Spermatorrhoea; impotency; after too much indulgence.
Extremities
- Numbness of limbs, as if paralyzed.
- Strength of hand diminished.
Relationship
- Compare : Alfalfa. (General tonic similar to avena - also in scanty and suppressed urine.)
Dose
- Tincture ten to twenty drop doses, preferably inhot water.

Anacardium orientale

Anacardium orientale
(marking nut)
* The Anacardium patient is found mostly among theneurasthenics; such have a type of
nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food; impaired memory, depression, and irritability;
diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing).
* Syphilitic patients often suffer with these conditions.
* Intermittency of symptoms.
* Fear of examination in students.
* Weakening of all senses, sight, hearing, etc.
* Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse.
* Sensation of a plug in various parts - eyes, rectum, bladder, etc.; also of a band.
* Empty feeling in stomach; eating temporarily relieves all discomfort.
* This is a sure indication, often verified.
* Its skin symptoms are similar to Rhus, and it has proved a valuable antidote to Poison-Oak.
Mind
- Fixed ideas.
- Hallucinations; thinks he is possessed of two persons or wills.
- Anxiety when walking, as if pursued.
- Profound melancholy and hypochondriasis, with tendency to use violent language. Brainfag. Impaired memory. Absent mindedness. Very easily offended.
- Malicious; seems bent on wickedness.
- Lack of confidence in himself or others.
- Suspicious [Hyos.].
- Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead.
- Senile dementia.
- Absence of all moral restraint.
Head
- Vertigo.
- Pressing pain, as from a plug; worse after mental exertion - in forehead; occiput, temples,
vertex; better during a meal.
- Itching and little boils on scalp.
Eyes
- Pressure like a plug on upper orbit.
- Indistinct vision.
- Objects appear too far off.
Ears
- Pressing in the ears as from a plug.
- Hard of hearing.
Nose
- Frequent sneezing.
- Sense of smell perverted.
- Coryza with palpitation, especially in the aged.
Face
- Blue rings around eyes.
- Face pale.
Mouth
- Painful vesicles; fetid odor.
- Tongue feels swollen, impending speech and motion, with saliva in mouth.
- Burning around lips as from pepper.
Stomach
- Weak digestion, with fullness and distention.
- Empty feeling in stomach.
- Eructation, nausea, vomiting.
- Eating relieves the Anacardium dyspepsia.
- Apt to choke when eating or drinking.
- Swallows food and drinks hastily.
Abdomen
- Pain as if dull plug were pressed into intestines.
- Rumbling, pinching, and griping.
Rectum
- Bowels inactive.
- Ineffectual desire; rectum seems powerless, as if plugged up; spasmodic constriction of
sphincter ani; even soft stool passes with difficulty.
- Itching at anus; moisture from rectum.
- Haemorrhage during stool.
- Painful haemorrhoids.
Male
- Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams.
- Prostatic discharge during stool.
Female
- Leucorrhoea, with soreness and itching.
- Menses scanty.
Respiratory
- Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug.
- Oppression of chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air.
- Cough excited by talking, in children, after fitof temper.
- Cough after eating with vomiting of food and pain in occiput.
Heart
- Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the aged; stitches in heart region.
- Rheumatic pericarditis with double stitches.
Back
- Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight.
- Stiffness at nape of neck.
Extremities
- Neuralgia in thumb.
- Paralytic weakness.
- Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged.
- Cramps in calves.
- Pressure as from a plug in the glutei.
- Warts on palms of hands.
- Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption.
Sleep
- Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights.
- Anxious dreams.
Skin
- Intense itching, eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular eruption; swelling, urticaria;
eruption like that of Poison-Oak. [Xerophyl.; Grindel.; Croton.]
- Lichen planus; neurotic eczema.
- Warts on hands.
- Ulcer formation on forearm.
Modalities
- Worse, on application of hot water.
- Better, from eating.
- When lying on side, from rubbing.
Relationship
- Antidote : Grindeleia; Coffea; Juglans; Rhus; Eucalyptus.
- Compare : Anacard. occidentale (cashew nut) (erysipelas, vesicular facial eruptions),
(anaesthetic variety of leprosy; warts, corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet).
- Rhus; Cypriped.; Chelidon.; Xerophyl.
- Platina follows well.
- Cereux serpentina (swearing).
Dose
- Sixth to two hundredth potency.

Agaricus muscarius

Agaricus muscarius
(toad stool-bug agaric)
* This fungus contains several toxic compounds, the best known of which is Muscarin.
* The symptoms of poisoning do not develop at once, usually twelve to fourteen hours elapse
before the initial attack.
* There is no antidote, treatment, entirely symptomatic (Schneider).
* Agaricus acts as an intoxicant to the brain, producing more vertigo and delirium than
alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.
Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications.
Incipient phthisis; is related to the tubercular diathesis, anaemia, chorea, twitching ceases
during sleep.
Various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles are pictured
in the symptomatology of this remedy.
It corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion.
Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice.
Thus, in delirium of fevers, alcoholism, etc.
General paralysis.
Sensitive to pressure and cold air.
Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg.
Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.
Mind
- Sings, talks, but does not answer.
- Loquacity.
- Aversion to work.
- Indifference.
- Fearlessness. Delirium characterized by singing,shouting, and muttering; rhymes and
prophesies.
- Begins with paroxysm of yawning.
- The provings bring out four phases of cerebral excitement.
- 1. Slight stimulation - shown by increased cheerfulness, courage, loquacity, exalted fancy.
- 2. More decided intoxication - great mental excitement and incoherent talking, immoderate
gaity alternates with melancholy.
- Perception of relative size of objects is lost, takes long steps and jumps over small objects
as if they were trunks of trees - a small hole appears as a frightful chasm, a spoonful of water
an immense lake.
- Physical strength is increased, can lift heavy loads.
- With it much twitching.
- 3. Third stage produces a condition of furious or raging delirium, screaming, raving, wants
to injure himself, etc.
- 4. Fourth stage - mental depression, languor, indifference, confusion, disinclination to work,
etc.
- We do not get the active cerebral congestion of Belladonna, but a general nervous
excitement such as is found in delirium tremens, delirium of fevers, etc.
Head
- Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking.
- Head in constant motion.
- Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput.
- Lateral headache, as if from a nail. [Coff.; Ignat.]
- Dull headache from prolonged desk-work.
- Icy coldness, like icy needles, or splinters.
- Neuralgia with icy cold head.
- Desire to cover head warmly. [Silica.]
- Headache with nose-bleed or thick mucous discharge.
Eyes
- Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim.
- Vibrating specters.
- Double vision [Gels.], dim and flickering.
- Asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation.
- Twitching of lids and eyeballs. [Codein.] Margins of lids red; itch and burn and agglutinate.
- Inner angles very red.
Ears
- Burn and itch, as if frozen.
- Twitching of muscles about the ear and noises.
Nose
- Nervous nasal disturbances.
- Itching internally and externally.
- Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sensitiveness; watery non-inflammatory discharge.
- Inner angles very red.
- Fetid, dark, bloody discharge.
- Nosebleed in old people.
- Sensation of soreness in nose and mouth.
Face
- Facial muscles feel stiff; twitch; face itches and burns.
- Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters.
- Neuralgia, as if cold needles ran through nervesor sharp ice touched them.
Mouth
- Burning and smarting on lips.
- Herpes on lips.
- Twitching.
- Taste sweet.
- Aphthae on roof of mouth.
- Splinter like pains in tongue.
- Thirsty all the time.
- Tremulous tongue. [Lach.]
- Tongue white.
Throat
- Stitches along eustachian tube to ear.
- Feels contracted.
- Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up.
- Dryness of pharynx, swallowing difficult.
- Scratching in throat; cannot sing a note.
Stomach
- Empty eructations, tasting of apples.
- Nervous disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hiccough.
- Unnatural hunger.
- Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen.
- Profuse inodorous flatus.
- Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure.
- Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region.
Abdomen
- Stitching pains in liver, spleen [Ceanothus] andabdomen.
- Stitches under short ribs, left side.
- Diarrhoea with much fetid flatus.
- Fetid stools.
Urinary
- Stitches in urethra.
- Sudden and violent urging to urinate.
- Frequent urination.
Female
- Menses, increased, earlier.
- Itching and tearing, pressive pains of genitals and back.
- Spasmodic dysmenorrhaea.
- Severe bearing-down pains, especially after menopause.
- Sexual excitement.
- Nipples itch, burn.
- Complaints following parturition and coitus.
- Leucorrhoea, with much itching.
Respiratory organs
- Violent attacks of coughing that can be suppressed by effort of will, worse eating, pain in
head while cough lasts.
- Spasmodic cough at night after falling asleep, with expectoration of little balls of mucus.
- Labored, oppressed breathing.
- Cough ends in a sneeze.
Heart
- Irregular, tumultuous palpitation, after tobacco.
- Pulse intermittent and irregular.
- Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax were narrowed.
- Palpitation with redness of face.
Back
- Pain, with sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in dorsal region.
- Lumbago; worse in open air.
- Crick in back.
- Twitching of cervical muscles.
Extremities
- Stiff all over.
- Pain over hips.
- Rheumatism better motion.
- Weakness in loins.
- Uncertain gait.
- Trembling.
- Itching of toes and feet as if frozen.
- Cramp in soles of feet.
- Pain in shin-bone.
- Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia.
- Paralysis of lower limbs, with spasmodic condition of arms.
- Numbness of legs on crossing them.
- Paralytic pain in left arm followed by palpitation.
- Tearing painful contractions in the calves.
Skin
- Burning, itching, redness, and swelling, as fromfrostbites.
- Pimples, hard, like flea-bites.
- Miliary eruption, with intolerable itching and burning.
- Chilblains.
- Angioneurotic oedema; rosacea.
- Swollen veins with cold skin.
- Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustularand oedematous lesions.
Sleep
- Paroxysms of yawning.
- Restless from violent itching and burning.
- On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often.
- Vivid dreams.
- Drowsy in daytime.
- Yawning, followed by involuntary laughter.
Fever
- Very sensitive to cool air.
- Violent attacks of heat in evening.
- Copious sweat.
- Burning spots.
Modalities
- Worse, open cold air, after eating, after coitus.
- In cold weather, before a thunder-storm.
- Worse, pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter.
- Better, moving about slowly.
Relationship
- Compare : Muscarine, the alkaloid of Agaricus (has much power over secretions, increasing
lachrymal, salivary, hepatic, etc., but diminishingrenal; probably neurotic in origin,
stimulating the terminal fibres of the secretory nerves of all these structures, hence salivation,
lachrymation and excessive perspiration. Atropin exactly opposes Muscarine. Resembles
Pilocarpin in action).
- Amanita vernus-spring mushroom - a variety of Agar Phalloides - Death cup - active
principle is Phallin, active like Muscarine.
- Amanita phalloides (Death Cup - Deadly Agaric.) The poison is a toxalbumin, resembling
the poison in the rattle snake and the poison excreted by the cholera and diphtheria germs.
- It acts on the red blood corpuscles, dissolving them so that blood escapes into the
alimentary canal and the whole system is drained.
- The amount of this toxic principle is small, even handling of specimens and breathing of
spores affects some people unpleasantly.
- The poison is slow in development.
- Even 12 to 20 hours after taking it the patient feels all right, but vertigo violent choleraic
symptoms with rapid loss of strength with death thesecond or third day, preceded by stupor
and spasms.
- Fatty degeneration of liver, heart and kidneys, hemorrhages in lungs, pleura and skin (Dr.J.
Schier).
- Vomiting and purging.
- Continuous urging to stool, but no gastric, abdominal or rectal pain.
- Intense thirst for cold water, dry skin.
- Lethargic but mentally clear.
- Sharp changes from rapid to slow and from slow to rapid breathing, extreme collapse,
suppressed urine, but no cold extremities or cramps.
- Agaric. emet. (severe vertigo; all symptoms better, cold water; longing for ice-water;
gastritis cold sweat, vomiting sensation as if stomach was suspended on a string).
- Tamus.(chilblains and freckles).
- Cimicif.; Cann. ind.; Hyos.; Tarantula.
- Antidote : Absinth.; Coffea; Camphor.
Dose
- Third to thirtieth and two hundredth potency.
- In skin affections and brain exhaustions give the lower attenuations.

Aloe socotrina

Aloe socotrina
(socotrine aloes)
* An excellent remedy to aid in re-establishing physiological equilibrium after much dosing,
where disease and drug symptoms are much mixed.
* There is no remedy richer in symptoms of portal congestion and none that has given better
clinical results, both for the primary pathologicalcondition and secondary phenomena.
* Bad effects from sedentary life or habits.
* Especially suitable to lymphatic and hypochondriacal patients.
* The rectal symptoms usually determine the choice.
* Adapted to weary people, the aged, and phlegmatic, old beer-drinkers.
* Dissatisfied and angry about himself, alternating with lumbago.
* Heat internally and externally.
* Has been used successfully in the treatment of consumption by giving the pure juice.
Head
- Headache alternates with lumbago, with intestinal and uterine affections.
- Disinclination to mental labor.
- Aches above forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them.
- Headache after stool.
- Dull, pressive pain; worse from heat.
Eyes
- Compelled to make small during pain in forehead.
- Flickering before eyes.
- Redness of eyes with yellow vision.
- Pain deep in orbits.
Face
- Marked redness of lips.
Ears
- Cracking when chewing.
- Sudden explosion and clashing in left ear.
- Tinkling as of some thin, shivered, metallic globe in head.
Nose
- Coldness of tip.
- Bleeding in morning on awakening.
- Full of crusts.
Mouth
- Taste bitter and sour.
- Tasteless eructations.
- Lips cracked and dry.
Throat
- Thick lumps of tough mucus.
- Varicose condition of veins in pharynx.
- Dry, scrapy feeling.
Stomach
- Aversion to meat.
- Longing for juicy things.
- After eating, flatulence, pulsation in rectum. and sexual irritation.
- Nausea, with headache.
- Pain in pit when making false step.
Abdomen
- Pain around navel, worse pressure.
- Fullness in region of liver, pain under right ribs.
- Abdomen feels full, heavy, hot, bloated.
- Pulsating pain around navel.
- Weak feeling, as if diarrhoea would come on.
- Great accumulation of flatus, pressing downwards, causing distress in lower bowels.
- Sensation of plug between symphysis pubis and oscoccygis. with urging to stool.
- Colic before and during stool.
- Burning, copious flatus.
Rectum
- Constant bearing down in rectum; bleeding, sore,and hot; relieved by cold water.
- Feeling of weakness and loss of power of sphincter ani.
- Sense of insecurity in rectum. when passing flatus.
- Uncertain whether gas or stool will come.
- Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed.
- Lumpy, watery stool.
- Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum afterstool.
- A lot of mucus, with pain in rectum after stool.
- Haemorrhoids protrude like grapes; very sore andtender; better cold water application.
- Burning in anus and rectum.
- Constipation, with heavy pressure in lower part of abdomen.
- Diarrhoea from beer.
Urinary
- Incontinence in aged, bearing-down sensation andenlarged prostate.
- Scanty and high colored.
Female
- Bearing down in rectum, worse standing and during menses.
- Uterus feels heavy, cannot walk much on that account.
- Labor-like pains in loins; extend down legs.
- Climacteric haemorrhage.
- Menses too early and too profuse.
Respiratory
- Winter coughs, with itching.
- Difficult respiration, with stitches from liver to chest.
Back
- Pain in small of back; worse moving.
- Stitches through sacrum.
- Lumbago alternating with headache and piles.
Extremities
- Lameness in all limbs.
- Drawing pains in joints.
- Soles pain when walking.
Modalities
- Worse early morning; summer; heat; in hot, dry weather; after eating or drinking.
- Better. from cold, open air.
Relationship
- Complementary : Sulphur. compare : Kali bich.; Lycop.; Allium sat.
- Antidotes : Opium; Sulph.
Dose
- Sixth potency and higher.
- In rectal conditions, a few doses of the third, then wait.

Allium cepa

Allium cepa
(red onion)
* A picture of coryza, with acrid nasal discharge and laryngeal symptoms, eye secretion
bland; singers' cold, worse in warm room and towardevening; better in open air is presented
by this remedy.
* Specially adapted to phlegmatic patients; colds in damp cold weather.
* Neuralgic pains, like a fine thread, following amputations or injuries to nerves.
* Traumatic chronic neuritis.
* Burning in nose, mouth, throat, bladder and skin.
* Sensation of glowing heat on different parts of the body.
Head
- Catarrhal headache, mostly in forehead; worse inwarm room towards evening.
- Thread-like pains in face.
- Headache ceases during menses; returns when flowdisappears.
Eyes
- Red.
- Much burning and smarting lachrymation.
- Sensitive to light.
- Eyes suffused and watery; profuse, bland lachrymation, better in open air.
- Burning in eyelids.
Ears
- Earache, shooting in eustachian tube.
Nose
- Sneezing, especially when entering a warm room.
- Copious, watery and extremely acrid discharge.
- Feeling of a lump at root of nose.
- Hay-fever. [Sabad.; Sil.; Psor.]
- Fluent coryza with headache, cough, and hoarseness.
- Polypus.
Stomach
- Canine hunger.
- Pain in pyloric region.
- Thirst.
- Belching.
- Nausea.
Abdomen
- Rumbling, offensive flatus.
- Pains in left hypogastrium.
- Colic sitting, moving about.
Rectum
- Diarrhoea with very offensive flatus.
- Stitches in rectum; itching and rhagades in anus.
- Glowing heat in rectum.
Urinary
- Sensation of weakness in bladder and urethra.
- Increased secretion of urine with coryza.
- Urine red with much pressure and burning in urethra.
Respiratory
- Hoarseness. Hacking cough on inspiring cold air.Tickling in larynx. Sensation as if larynx
is split or torn. Oppressed breathing from pressurein middle of chest.
- Constricted feeling in region of epiglottis.
- Pain extending to ear.
Extremities
- Lame joints.
- Ulcers on heel.
- Painful affections of fingers about nails. neuralgia of stump.
- Bad effects from getting feet wet.
- Limbs, especially arms, feel sore and tired.
Sleep
- Yawning with headache and drowsiness.
- Gaping in deep sleep.
- Dreams.
- Wakes at 2 a.m.
Modalities
- Worse, in the evening, in warm room.
- Better, in open air, and in cold room.
Relationship
- Compare : Gels.; Euph.; Kali hyd.; Aconite; Ipecac.
- Complementary : Phosphor.; Thuja; Puls.
- Antidotes : Arn.; Cham.; Verat.
Dose
- Third potency.

Alfalfa

Alfalfa
(medicago sativa. california clover or lucerne)
* From its action on the sympathetic, Alfalfa favorably influences nutrition, evidenced in
"toning up" the appetite and digestion resulting ingreatly improved mental and physical
vigor, with gain in weight.
* Disorders characterized by malnutrition are mainly within its therapeutic range, for
example, neurasthenia, splanchnic blues, nervousness, insomnia, nervous indigestion, etc.
* Acts as a fat producer, corrects tissue waste.
* Deficient lactation.
* Increases quality and quantity of milk in nursing mothers.
* Its pronounced urinary action suggests it clinically in diabetes insipidus and phosphaturia;
and it is claimed to allay vesical irritability of prostatic hypertrophy.
* The rheumatic diathesis seems especially amenable to its action.
Mind
- It induces mental exhilaration of buoyancy, i.e., a general feeling of well being; clear and
bright, so that all blues are dissipated.
- Dull, drowsy, stupid [Gels.]; gloomy and irritable, worse during evening.
Head
- Dull, heavy feeling in occiput, in and above theeyes, worse toward evening.
- Pain in left side of head.
- Violent headache.
Ears
- Stuffed feeling in eustachian tubes [Kali mur.] at night; patulous in morning.
Stomach
- Increased thirst.
- Appetite impaired, but chiefly increased even tobulimia.
- He must eat frequently, so that he cannot wait for regular meals; hungry in forenoon. [Sul.]
- Much nibbling of food and craving for sweets.
Abdomen
- Flatulence with distention.
- Shifting, flatulent pain along colon several hours after meals.
- Frequent, loose, yellow, painful stools, with burning of flatulence.
- Chronic appendicitis.
Urine
- Kidneys inactive; frequent urging to urinate.
- Polyuria. [Phos. ac.]
- Increased elimination of urea, indican and phosphates.
Sleep
- Slept better than usual, especially in early morning; it induces quiet, reposeful and
refreshing sleep.
Relationship
- Compare : Avena sat.; Dipodium punct.; Gels.; Hydr.; Kali phos.; Phos. ac.; Zinc.
Dose
- The best results are elicited with material doses (5-10) drops of tincture, several times daily.
- Continue its use until tonic effects ensue.

Aletris farinosa

Aletris farinosa
(stargrass)
* An anaemic, relaxed condition, especially of thefemale organism, is portrayed by this
remedy.
* The patient is tired all the time, and suffers from prolapsus, leucorrhoea, rectal distress, etc.
* Marked anaemia.
* Chlorotic girls and pregnant women.
Mind
- Power and energy weakened.
- Confused feelings.
- Cannot concentrate mind.
- Fainting, with vertigo.
Mouth
- Much frothy saliva.
Stomach
- Disgust for food.
- Least food causes distress.
- Fainting spells, with vertigo.
- Vomiting during pregnancy.
- Nervous dyspepsia.
- Flatulent colic.
Rectum
- Loads up with faeces - paretic condition.
- Stool large, hard, difficult, great pain.
Female
- Premature and profuse menses, with labor-like pains.[Bell.; Cham.; Kali c.; Plat.] Retarded
and scanty flow. (Senecio.)
- Uterus seems heavy.
- Prolapse, with pain in right inguinal region.
- Leucorrhoea due to weakness and anemia.
- Habitual tendency to abortion.
- Muscular pains during pregnancy.
Relationship
- Compare : Helonias.; Hydrastis.; Tanacet.; China.
Dose
- Tincture to third potency.

Agnus castus

Agnus castus
(the chaste tree)
* The most effective point of attack of Agnus uponthe organism is the sexual organism.
* It lowers sexual vitality, with corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy.
* It shows this distinctive influence in both sexes, but is more pronounced in men.
* Premature old age from abuse of sexual power.
* History of repeated gonorrhoea.
* A prominent remedy for sprains and strains.
* Gnawing itching in all parts, especially eyes.
* Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men.
Mind
- Sexual melancholy.
- Fear of death.
- Sadness with impression of speedy death.
- Absentminded, forgetful, lack of courage.
- Illusion of smell - herrings, musk.
- Nervous depression and mental forebodings.
Eyes
- Pupils dilated. [Bell.] Itching about eyes; photophobia.
Nose
- Odor of herring or musk.
- Aching in dorsum better pressure.
Abdomen
- Spleen swollen, sore.
- Stools soft, recede, difficult.
- Deep fissures in anus.
- Nausea with sensation as if intestines were pressed downwards; wants to support bowels.
Male
- Yellow discharge from urethra.
- No erections.
- Impotence. Parts cold, relaxed. Desire gone. [Selen.; Con.; Sabal.] Scanty emission without
ejaculation.
- Loss of prostatic fluid on straining.
- Gleety discharge.
- Testicles, cold, swollen, hard, and painful.
Female
- Scanty menses.
- Abhorrence of sexual intercourse.
- Relaxation of genitals, with leucorrhoea.
- Agalactia; with sadness.
- Sterility.
- Leucorrhoea staining yellow; transparent.
- Hysterical palpitation with nose bleed.
Relationship
- Compare :Selenium; Phosph. ac.; Camphor; Lycop.
Dose
- First to sixth potency.

Apis mellifica

Apis mellifica
(the honey-bee)
* Acts on cellular tissues causing oedema of skin and mucous membranes.
The very characteristic effects of the sting of the bee furnish unerring indications for its
employment in disease.
Swelling or puffing up of various parts, oedema, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness,
intolerance of heat, and slightest touch, and afternoon aggravation are some of the general
guiding symptoms.
Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acute, inflammation of
kidneys, and other parenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding
to Apis.
Apis acts especially on outer parts, skin, coatings of inner organs, serous membranes.
It produces serous inflammation with effusion, membranes of brain, heart, pleuritic effusion,
etc.
Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general soreness is marked.
Sensation of stiffness and as of something torn off in the interior of the body.
Much prostration.
Mind
- Apathy, indifference, and unconsciousness.
- Awkward; drops things readily.
- Stupor, with sudden sharp cries and startings.
- Stupor alternating with erotic mania.
- Sensation of dying.
- Listless; cannot think clearly.
- Jealous, fidgety, hard to please.
- Sudden shrill, piercing screams.
- Whining. Tearfulness.
- Jealously, fright, rage, vexation, grief.
- Cannot concentrate mind when attempting to read or study.
Head
- Whole brain feels very tired.
- Vertigo with sneezing, worse on lying or closingeyes.
- Heat, throbbing, distensive pains, better on pressure, and worse on motion.
- Sudden stabbing pains.
- Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as from a blow, extending to neck (better on pressure),
accompanied with sexual excitement.
- Bores head into pillow and screams out.
Eyes
- Lids swollen, red, oedematous, everted, inflamed; burn and sting.
- Conjunctiva bright red, puffy.
- Lachrymation hot.
- Photophobia.
- Sudden piercing pains.
- Pain around orbits.
- Serous exudation, oedema, and sharp pains. Suppurative inflammation of eyes.
- Keratitis with intense chemosis of ocular conjunctiva.
- Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation.
- Styes, also prevents their recurrence.
Ears
- External ear red, inflamed, sore; stinging pains.
Nose
- Coldness of tips of nose.
- Red, swollen, inflamed, with sharp pains.
Face
- Swollen, red, with piercing pain.
- Waxy, pale, oedematous.
- Erysipelas with stinging burning oedema.
- Extends from right to left.
Mouth
- Tongue fiery red, swollen, sore, and raw, with vesicles.
- Scalding in mouth and throat.
- Tongue feels scalded, red hot, trembling.
- Gums swollen.
- Lips swollen, especially upper.
- Membrane of mouth and throat glossy, as if varnished.
- Red, shining, and puffy, like erysipelas.
- Cancer of the tongue.
Throat
- Constricted, stinging pains.
- Uvula swollen, sac-like.
- Throat swollen, inside and out; tonsils swollen,puffy, fiery red.
- Ulcers on tonsils.
- Fiery red margin around leathery membrane.
- Sensation of fishbone in throat.
Stomach
- Sore feeling.
- Thirstless.
- Vomiting of food.
- Craving for milk. [Rhus.]
Abdomen
- Sore, bruised on pressure, when sneezing.
- Extremely tender.
- Dropsy of abdomen.
- Peritonitis.
- Swelling in right groin.
Stool
- Involuntary on every motion; anus seems open.
- Bloody, painless.
- Anus feels raw.
- Haemorrhoids, with stinging pain, after confinement.
- Diarrhoea watery, yellow; cholera infantum type.
- Cannot urinate without a stool.
- Dark, fetid, worse after eating.
- Constipation; feels as if something would break on straining.
Urine
- Burning and soreness when urinating.
- Suppressed, loaded with casts; frequent and involuntary; stinging pain and strangury;
scanty, high colored.
- Incontinence.
- Last drops burn and smart.
Female
- Oedema of labia; relieved by cold water.
- Soreness and stinging pains; ovaritis; worse in right ovary.
- Menses suppressed, with cerebral and head symptoms, especially in young girls.
- Dysmenorrhoea, with severe ovarian pains.
- Metrorrhagia profuse, with heavy abdomen, faintness , stinging pain.
- Sense of tightness.
- Bearing-down, as if menses were to appear.
- Ovarian tumors, metritis with stinging pains.
- Great tenderness over abdomen and uterine region.
Respiratory
- Hoarseness; dyspnoea, breathing hurried and difficult.
- Oedema of larynx.
- Feels as if he could not draw another breath.
- Suffocation; short, dry cough, suprasternal.
- Hydrothorax.
Extremities
- Oedematous.
- Synovitis.
- Felon in beginning.
- Knee swollen, shiny, sensitive, sore, with stinging pain.
- Feet swollen and stiff.
- Feel too large.
- Rheumatic pain in back and limbs; Tired, bruisedfeeling.
- Numbness of hands and tips of fingers.
- Hives with intolerable itching.
- Oedematous swellings.
Skin
- Swellings after bites; sore, sensitive.
- Stinging.
- Erysipelas, with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue.
- Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pain. [Ars.; Anthrac.]
- Sudden puffing up of whole body.
Sleep
- Very drowsy.
- Dreams full of care and toil.
- Screams and sudden starting during sleep.
Fever
- Afternoon chill, with thirst; worse on motion and heat.
- External heat, with smothering feeling.
- Sweat slight, with sleepiness.
- Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently.
- Sleeps after the fever paroxysm.
- After perspiration, nettle rash, also with shuddering.
Modalities
- Worse, heat in any form; touch; pressure; late in afternoon; after sleeping; in closed and
heated rooms.
- Right side.
- Better, in open air, uncovering, and cold bathing.
Relationship
- Complementary.
- : Nat. mur.
- The "chronic", Apis.; also Baryta carb., if lymphatics are involved.
- Inimical.
- Rhus.
- Compare : Apium virus (auto-toxaemia, with pus products);Zinc.; Canth.; Vespa; Lachesis.
Dose
- Tincture to thirtieth potency.
- In oedematous conditions the lower potencies.
- Sometimes action is slow; so several days elapsebefore it is seen to act, and then urine is
increased.
- Apium virus, sixth trituration.