Bellis perennis
(daisy)
* It acts upon the muscular fibers of the blood-vessels.
* Much muscular soreness.
* Lameness, as if sprained.
* Venous congestion, due to mechanical causes.
* First remedy in injuries to the deeper tissues, after major surgical work.
* Results of injuries to nerves with intense soreness and intolerance of cold bathing.
* After gout, debility of limbs.
Traumatism of the pelvic organs, auto-traumatism, expresses the condition calling for this
remedy; ill effects from masturbation.
Excellent remedy for sprains and bruises.
Complaints due to cold food or drink when the bodyis heated, and in affections due to cold
wind.
Externally, in naevi.
Acne.
Exudations, stasis, swelling, come within the range of this remedy.
Rheumatic symptoms.
Does not vitiate the secretions.
"It is a princely remedy for old laborers, especially gardeners". (Burnett.)
Head
- Vertigo in elderly people.
- Headache from occiput to top of head.
- Forehead feels contracted.
- Bruised soreness.
- Itching around scalp and over back, worse from hot bath and bed.
Female
- Breasts and uterus engorged.
- Varicose veins in pregnancy.
- During pregnancy inability to walk.
- Abdominal muscles lame.
- Uterus feels sore, as if squeezed.
Sleep
- Wakes early in morning and cannot get to sleep again.
Abdomen
- Soreness of abdominal walls and of uterus.
- Stitches in spleen, sore, enlarged.
- Yellow, painless diarrhoea, foul odor, worse at night.
- Bloated; rumbling in bowels.
Skin
- Boils.
- Ecchymosis, swelling, very sensitive to touch.
- Venous congestion due to mechanical causes.
- Varicose veins with bruised sore feeling.
- Exudations and swellings.
- Acne.
Extremities
- Joints sore, muscular soreness.
- Itching on back and flexor surfaces of thighs.
- Pain down anterior of thighs.
- Wrist feels contracted as from elastic band around joint.
- Sprains feels contracted as from elastic band around joint.
- Sprains with great soreness.
- Railway spine.
Relationship
- Compare : Arnica; Arsenic; Staphis.; Hamamelis; Bryonia; Vanadium (degenerative states).
Modalities
- Worse, left side; hot bath and warmth of bed; before storms; cold bathing; cold wind.
Dose
- Tincture to third potency.
Friday, 26 September 2014
Belladonna
Belladonna
(deadly nightshade)
* Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion,
furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain.
* It has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands.
* Belladonna always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing
carotids, excited mental state, hyperaesthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive
movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic pains that come
and go suddenly. [Oxytropis.]
* Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. Great children's remedy.
* Epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting.
* Scarlet fever and also prophylactic.
* Here use the thirtieth potency.
* Exophthalmic goitre.
* Corresponds to the symptoms of "air-sickness" inaviators.
* Give as preventive.
* No thirst, anxiety or fear.
* Belladonna stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset.
* Bell. for the extreme of thyroid toxaemia.
* Use 1x (Beebe).
Mind
- Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by spectres and visions and oblivious to
surrounding realities.
- While the retina is insensible to actual objects, a host of visual hallucinations throng about
him and come to him from within.
- He is acutely alive and crazed by a flood of subjective visual impressions and fantastic
illusions.
- Hallucinations; sees monsters, hideous faces.
- Delirium; frightful images; furious; rages, bites, strikes; desire to escape.
- Loss of consciousness.
- Disinclined to talk.
- Perversity, with tears.
- Acuteness of all senses.
- Changeableness.
Head
- Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards.
- Sensitive to least contact.
- Much throbbing and heat.
- Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing.
- Pain; fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples.
- Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow.
- Sudden outcries.
- Pain worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure and semi-erect
posture.
- Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side.
- Constant moaning.
- Hair splits; is dry and comes out.
- Headache worse on right side and when lying down; ill effects, colds, etc.; from having hair
cut.
Face
- Red, bluish-red, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive motion of muscles of face.
- Swelling of upper lip.
- Facial neuralgia with twitching muscles and flushed face.
Eyes
- Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down.
- Pupils dilated. [Agnus.] Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red;
dry, burn; photophobia; shooting in eyes.
- Exophthalmus.
- Ocular illusions; fiery appearance.
- Diplopia, squinting, spasms of lids.
- Sensation as if eyes were half closed.
- Eyelids swollen.
- Fundus congested.
Ears
- Tearing pain in middle and external ear.
- Humming noises.
- Membrana tympani bulges and injected.
- Parotid gland swollen.
- Sensitive to loud tones.
- Hearing very acute.
- Otitis media. Pain causes delirium. Child cries out in sleep; throbbing and beating pain deep
in ear, synchronous with heart beat.
- Hematoma auris.
- Acute and sub-acute conditions of Eustachian tube.
- Autophony - hearing one's voice in ear.
Nose
- Imaginary odors.
- Tingling in tip of nose.
- Red and swollen.
- Bleeding of nose, with red face.
- Coryza; mucus mixed with blood.
Mouth
- Dry.
- Throbbing pain in teeth.
- Gumboil.
- Tongue red on edges.
- Strawberry tongue.
- Grinding of teeth.
- Tongue swollen and painful.
- Stammering.
Throat
- Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion [Ginseng]; red, worse on right side.
- Tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition; worse, liquids.
- Sensation of a lump.
- Oesophagus dry; feels contracted.
- Spasms in throat.
- Continual inclination to swallow.
- Scraping sensation.
- Muscles of deglutition very sensitive.
- Hypertrophy of mucous membrane.
Stomach
- Loss of appetite.
- Averse to meat and milk.
- Spasmodic pain in epigastrium.
- Constriction; pain runs to spine.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Great thirst for cold water.
- Spasms of stomach.
- Empty retching.
- Abhorrence of liquids.
- Spasmodic hiccough.
- Dread of drinking.
- Uncontrollable vomiting.
Abdomen
- Distended, hot.
- Transverse colon protrudes like a pad.
- Tender, swollen.
- Pain as if clutched by a hand; worse, jar, pressure.
- Cutting pain across; stitches in left side of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching
it.
- Extreme sensitiveness to touch, bed-clothes, etc. [Laches.]
Stools
- Thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk.
- Shuddering during stool.
- Stinging pain in rectum; spasmodic stricture.
- Piles more sensitive with backache.
- Prolapsus ani. [Ignatia; Podoph.]
Urine
- Retention.
- Acute urinary infections.
- Sensation of motion in bladder as of a worm.
- Urine scanty, with tenesmus; dark and turbid, loaded with phosphates.
- Vesical region sensitive.
- Incontinence, continuous dropping.
- Frequent and profuse.
- Haematuria where no pathological condition can be found.
- Prostatic hypertrophy.
Male
- Testicles hard, drawn up, inflamed.
- Nocturnal sweat of genitals.
- Flow of prostatic fluid.
- Desire diminished.
Female
- Sensitive forcing downwards, as if all the viscera would protrude at genitals.
- Dryness and heat of vagina.
- Dragging around loins.
- Pain in sacrum.
- Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse. Haemorrhage hot.
- Cutting pain from hip to hip.
- Menses and lochia very offensive and hot.
- Labor-pains come and go suddenly.
- Mastitis pain, throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from nipple.
- Breasts feel heavy; are hard and red.
- Tumors of breast, pain worse lying down.
- Badly smelling haemorrhages, hot gushes of blood.
- Diminished lochia.
Respiratory
- Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea.
- Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night.
- Larynx feels sore.
- Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal.
- Cheyne-Stokes respiration [Cocain; Opium.] Hoarse; loss of voice.
- Painless hoarseness.
- Cough with pain in left hip.
- Barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with expectoration of
blood.
- Stitches in chest when coughing.
- Larynx very painful; feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough.
- High, piping voice. Moaning at every breath.
Heart
- Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, withlabored breathing.
- Palpitation from least exertion.
- Throbbing all through body.
- Dichrotism.
- Heart seemed too large.
- Rapid but weakened pulse.
Extremities
- Shooting pains along limbs.
- Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating.
- Tottering gait.
- Shifting rheumatic pains.
- Phlegmasia alba dolens.
- Jerking limbs.
- Spasms.
- Involuntary limping.
- Cold extremities.
Back
- Stiff neck.
- Swelling of glands of neck.
- Pain in nape, as if it would break.
- Pressure on dorsal region most painful.
- Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs.
Skin
- Dry and hot; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth.
- Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading.
- Erythema; pustules on face.
- Glands swollen, tender, red.
- Boils.
- Acne rosacea.
- Suppurative wounds.
- Alternate redness and paleness of the skin.
- Indurations after inflammations.
- Erysipelas.
Fever
- A high feverish state with comparative absence of toxaemia.
- Burning, pungent, steaming, heat.
- Feet icy cold.
- Superficial blood-vessels, distended.
- Perspiration dry only on head.
- No thirst with fever.
Sleep
- Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth.
- Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels.
- Screams out in sleep.
- Sleeplessness, with drowsiness.
- Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep.
- Sleeps with hands under head. [Ars.; Plat.]
Modalities
- Worse, touch, jar, noise, draught, after noon, lying down.
- Better, semi-erect.
Relationship
- Compare : Sanguisorba officinals 2x - 6x, a member of the Rosaceae family, (Profuse, longlasting menses, especially in nervous patients withcongestive symptoms to head and limbs.
Passive hemorrhages at climacteric. Chronic metritis. Hemorrhage from lungs. Varices and
ulcers).
- Mandragora - (Mandrake).
- A narcotic of the ancients - Restless excitability and bodily weakness.
- Desire for sleep.
- Has antiperiodic properties like China and Aranea.
- Useful in epilepsy and hydrophobia, also Cetonia(A.E. Lavine).
- Hyos. (less fever, more agitation)
- ; Stram. (more sensorial excitement, frenzy)
- ; Hoitzia - A Mexican drug, similar in action toBellad. (Useful in fever, scarlatinal
eruption, measles, urticaria, etc. High fever with eruptive fevers. Dry mouth and throat, red
face, injected eyes, delirium).
- Calcar is often required after Bell.; Atropia.
- Alkaloid of Belladonna covers more the neurotic sphere of the Belladonna action. (Great
dryness of throat, almost impossible to swallow. Chronic stomach affections, with great pain
and vomiting of all food. Peritonitis. All kind of illusions of sight. Everything appears large.
Platina opposite.)
- Hypochlorhydria; pyrosis.
- Motes over everything.
- On reading, words run together; double vision, all objects seem to be elongated.
- Eustachian tube and tympanic congestion.
- Affinity for the pancreas.
- Hyperacidity of stomach.
- Paroxysms of gastric pain; ovarian neuralgia.
Non-homoeophatic uses
- Atropia and its salts are used for ophthalmic purposes, to dilate the pupil and paralyze the
accommodation.
- Given internally or hypodermically, it is antagonistic to Opium and Morphine.
- Physostigma and Prussic Acid.
- Narcotic poisons and mushroom poisoning.
- Renal colic 1-200 of a grain hypodermically.
- Atropin injected subcutaneously in doses from a milligram upwards for intestinal
obstruction threatening life.
- Hypodermically 1-80 gr. night sweats in phthisis.
- Atropia 1-20 gr. is antagonistic to 1 gr. Morphine.
- Also used as a local anaesthetic, antispasmodic,and to dry up secretions, milk, etc.
- Hypodermically 1-80 gr. night sweats in phthisis.
Dose
- Atropia Sulph., 1-120 to 1-60 grain.
- Antidotes to Belladonna : Camph.; Coff.; Opium; Acon.
- Complementary : Calc.
- Bellad. (contains lime).
- Especially in semi-chronic and constitutional diseases.
- Incompatible : Acet. ac.
Dose
- First to thirtieth potency and higher.
- Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases.
(deadly nightshade)
* Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion,
furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain.
* It has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands.
* Belladonna always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing
carotids, excited mental state, hyperaesthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive
movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic pains that come
and go suddenly. [Oxytropis.]
* Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. Great children's remedy.
* Epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting.
* Scarlet fever and also prophylactic.
* Here use the thirtieth potency.
* Exophthalmic goitre.
* Corresponds to the symptoms of "air-sickness" inaviators.
* Give as preventive.
* No thirst, anxiety or fear.
* Belladonna stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset.
* Bell. for the extreme of thyroid toxaemia.
* Use 1x (Beebe).
Mind
- Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by spectres and visions and oblivious to
surrounding realities.
- While the retina is insensible to actual objects, a host of visual hallucinations throng about
him and come to him from within.
- He is acutely alive and crazed by a flood of subjective visual impressions and fantastic
illusions.
- Hallucinations; sees monsters, hideous faces.
- Delirium; frightful images; furious; rages, bites, strikes; desire to escape.
- Loss of consciousness.
- Disinclined to talk.
- Perversity, with tears.
- Acuteness of all senses.
- Changeableness.
Head
- Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards.
- Sensitive to least contact.
- Much throbbing and heat.
- Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing.
- Pain; fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples.
- Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow.
- Sudden outcries.
- Pain worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure and semi-erect
posture.
- Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side.
- Constant moaning.
- Hair splits; is dry and comes out.
- Headache worse on right side and when lying down; ill effects, colds, etc.; from having hair
cut.
Face
- Red, bluish-red, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive motion of muscles of face.
- Swelling of upper lip.
- Facial neuralgia with twitching muscles and flushed face.
Eyes
- Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down.
- Pupils dilated. [Agnus.] Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red;
dry, burn; photophobia; shooting in eyes.
- Exophthalmus.
- Ocular illusions; fiery appearance.
- Diplopia, squinting, spasms of lids.
- Sensation as if eyes were half closed.
- Eyelids swollen.
- Fundus congested.
Ears
- Tearing pain in middle and external ear.
- Humming noises.
- Membrana tympani bulges and injected.
- Parotid gland swollen.
- Sensitive to loud tones.
- Hearing very acute.
- Otitis media. Pain causes delirium. Child cries out in sleep; throbbing and beating pain deep
in ear, synchronous with heart beat.
- Hematoma auris.
- Acute and sub-acute conditions of Eustachian tube.
- Autophony - hearing one's voice in ear.
Nose
- Imaginary odors.
- Tingling in tip of nose.
- Red and swollen.
- Bleeding of nose, with red face.
- Coryza; mucus mixed with blood.
Mouth
- Dry.
- Throbbing pain in teeth.
- Gumboil.
- Tongue red on edges.
- Strawberry tongue.
- Grinding of teeth.
- Tongue swollen and painful.
- Stammering.
Throat
- Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion [Ginseng]; red, worse on right side.
- Tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition; worse, liquids.
- Sensation of a lump.
- Oesophagus dry; feels contracted.
- Spasms in throat.
- Continual inclination to swallow.
- Scraping sensation.
- Muscles of deglutition very sensitive.
- Hypertrophy of mucous membrane.
Stomach
- Loss of appetite.
- Averse to meat and milk.
- Spasmodic pain in epigastrium.
- Constriction; pain runs to spine.
- Nausea and vomiting.
- Great thirst for cold water.
- Spasms of stomach.
- Empty retching.
- Abhorrence of liquids.
- Spasmodic hiccough.
- Dread of drinking.
- Uncontrollable vomiting.
Abdomen
- Distended, hot.
- Transverse colon protrudes like a pad.
- Tender, swollen.
- Pain as if clutched by a hand; worse, jar, pressure.
- Cutting pain across; stitches in left side of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching
it.
- Extreme sensitiveness to touch, bed-clothes, etc. [Laches.]
Stools
- Thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk.
- Shuddering during stool.
- Stinging pain in rectum; spasmodic stricture.
- Piles more sensitive with backache.
- Prolapsus ani. [Ignatia; Podoph.]
Urine
- Retention.
- Acute urinary infections.
- Sensation of motion in bladder as of a worm.
- Urine scanty, with tenesmus; dark and turbid, loaded with phosphates.
- Vesical region sensitive.
- Incontinence, continuous dropping.
- Frequent and profuse.
- Haematuria where no pathological condition can be found.
- Prostatic hypertrophy.
Male
- Testicles hard, drawn up, inflamed.
- Nocturnal sweat of genitals.
- Flow of prostatic fluid.
- Desire diminished.
Female
- Sensitive forcing downwards, as if all the viscera would protrude at genitals.
- Dryness and heat of vagina.
- Dragging around loins.
- Pain in sacrum.
- Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse. Haemorrhage hot.
- Cutting pain from hip to hip.
- Menses and lochia very offensive and hot.
- Labor-pains come and go suddenly.
- Mastitis pain, throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from nipple.
- Breasts feel heavy; are hard and red.
- Tumors of breast, pain worse lying down.
- Badly smelling haemorrhages, hot gushes of blood.
- Diminished lochia.
Respiratory
- Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea.
- Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night.
- Larynx feels sore.
- Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal.
- Cheyne-Stokes respiration [Cocain; Opium.] Hoarse; loss of voice.
- Painless hoarseness.
- Cough with pain in left hip.
- Barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with expectoration of
blood.
- Stitches in chest when coughing.
- Larynx very painful; feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough.
- High, piping voice. Moaning at every breath.
Heart
- Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, withlabored breathing.
- Palpitation from least exertion.
- Throbbing all through body.
- Dichrotism.
- Heart seemed too large.
- Rapid but weakened pulse.
Extremities
- Shooting pains along limbs.
- Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating.
- Tottering gait.
- Shifting rheumatic pains.
- Phlegmasia alba dolens.
- Jerking limbs.
- Spasms.
- Involuntary limping.
- Cold extremities.
Back
- Stiff neck.
- Swelling of glands of neck.
- Pain in nape, as if it would break.
- Pressure on dorsal region most painful.
- Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs.
Skin
- Dry and hot; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth.
- Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading.
- Erythema; pustules on face.
- Glands swollen, tender, red.
- Boils.
- Acne rosacea.
- Suppurative wounds.
- Alternate redness and paleness of the skin.
- Indurations after inflammations.
- Erysipelas.
Fever
- A high feverish state with comparative absence of toxaemia.
- Burning, pungent, steaming, heat.
- Feet icy cold.
- Superficial blood-vessels, distended.
- Perspiration dry only on head.
- No thirst with fever.
Sleep
- Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth.
- Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels.
- Screams out in sleep.
- Sleeplessness, with drowsiness.
- Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep.
- Sleeps with hands under head. [Ars.; Plat.]
Modalities
- Worse, touch, jar, noise, draught, after noon, lying down.
- Better, semi-erect.
Relationship
- Compare : Sanguisorba officinals 2x - 6x, a member of the Rosaceae family, (Profuse, longlasting menses, especially in nervous patients withcongestive symptoms to head and limbs.
Passive hemorrhages at climacteric. Chronic metritis. Hemorrhage from lungs. Varices and
ulcers).
- Mandragora - (Mandrake).
- A narcotic of the ancients - Restless excitability and bodily weakness.
- Desire for sleep.
- Has antiperiodic properties like China and Aranea.
- Useful in epilepsy and hydrophobia, also Cetonia(A.E. Lavine).
- Hyos. (less fever, more agitation)
- ; Stram. (more sensorial excitement, frenzy)
- ; Hoitzia - A Mexican drug, similar in action toBellad. (Useful in fever, scarlatinal
eruption, measles, urticaria, etc. High fever with eruptive fevers. Dry mouth and throat, red
face, injected eyes, delirium).
- Calcar is often required after Bell.; Atropia.
- Alkaloid of Belladonna covers more the neurotic sphere of the Belladonna action. (Great
dryness of throat, almost impossible to swallow. Chronic stomach affections, with great pain
and vomiting of all food. Peritonitis. All kind of illusions of sight. Everything appears large.
Platina opposite.)
- Hypochlorhydria; pyrosis.
- Motes over everything.
- On reading, words run together; double vision, all objects seem to be elongated.
- Eustachian tube and tympanic congestion.
- Affinity for the pancreas.
- Hyperacidity of stomach.
- Paroxysms of gastric pain; ovarian neuralgia.
Non-homoeophatic uses
- Atropia and its salts are used for ophthalmic purposes, to dilate the pupil and paralyze the
accommodation.
- Given internally or hypodermically, it is antagonistic to Opium and Morphine.
- Physostigma and Prussic Acid.
- Narcotic poisons and mushroom poisoning.
- Renal colic 1-200 of a grain hypodermically.
- Atropin injected subcutaneously in doses from a milligram upwards for intestinal
obstruction threatening life.
- Hypodermically 1-80 gr. night sweats in phthisis.
- Atropia 1-20 gr. is antagonistic to 1 gr. Morphine.
- Also used as a local anaesthetic, antispasmodic,and to dry up secretions, milk, etc.
- Hypodermically 1-80 gr. night sweats in phthisis.
Dose
- Atropia Sulph., 1-120 to 1-60 grain.
- Antidotes to Belladonna : Camph.; Coff.; Opium; Acon.
- Complementary : Calc.
- Bellad. (contains lime).
- Especially in semi-chronic and constitutional diseases.
- Incompatible : Acet. ac.
Dose
- First to thirtieth potency and higher.
- Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases.
Baptisia tinctoria
Baptisia tinctoria
(wild indigo)
* The symptoms of this drug are of an asthenic type, simulating low fevers, septic conditions
of the blood, malarial poisoning and extreme prostration.
* Indescribable sick feeling.
* Great muscular soreness and putrid phenomena always are present.
* All the secretions are offensive - breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc.
* Epidemic influenza.
* Chronic intestinal toxaemias of children with fetid stools and eructations.
Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of anti-bodies to the bac. typhosus, viz., the
agglutinins. [Mellon.]
Thus it raises the natural bodily resistance to the invasion of the bacillary intoxication, which
produces the typhoid syndrome.
Typhoid carriers.
After inoculation with anti-typhoid serum.
Intermittent pulse, especially in the aged.
Mind
- Wild, wandering feeling.
- Inability to think.
- Mental confusion.
- Ideas confused.
- Illusion of divided personality.
- Thinks he is broken or double, and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together.
[Cajeput.] Delirium, wandering, muttering.
- Perfect indifference.
- Falls asleep while being spoken to.
- Melancholia, with stupor.
Head
- Confused, swimming feeling.
- Vertigo; pressure at root of nose.
- Skin of forehead feels tight; seems drawn to back of head.
- Feels too large, heavy, numb.
- Soreness of eyeballs.
- Brain feels sore.
- Stupor; falls asleep while spoken to.
- Early deafness in typhoid conditions.
- Eyelids heavy.
Face
- Besotted look.
- Dark red.
- Pain at root of nose.
- Muscles of jaw rigid.
Mouth
- Taste flat, bitter.
- Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated.
- Breath fetid. Tongue feels burned; yellowish-brown; edges red and shining.
- Dry and brown in center, with dry and glisteningedges; surface cracked and sore.
- Can swallow liquids only; least solid food gags.
Throat
- Dark redness of tonsils and soft palate.
- Constriction, contraction of oesophagus. [Cajeput.] Great difficulty in swallowing solid
food.
- Painless sore throat, and offensive discharge.
- Contraction at cardiac orifice.
Stomach
- Can swallow only liquids, vomiting due to spasm of oesophagus.
- Gastric fever.
- No appetite.
- Constant desire for water.
- Sinking feeling at stomach.
- Pain in epigastric region.
- Feeling of hard substance. [Abies nig.]
- All symptoms worse from beer. [Kali bich.]
- Cardiac orifice contracted convulsively and ulcerative inflammation of stomach and bowels.
Abdomen
- Right side markedly affected.
- Distended and rumbling.
- Soreness over region of gall-bladder, with diarrhoea.
- Stools very offensive, thin, dark, bloody.
- Soreness of abdomen, in region of liver.
- Dysentery of old people.
Female
- Threatened miscarriage from mental depression, shock, watching, low fevers.
- Menses too early, too profuse.
- Lochia acrid, fetid.
- Puerperal fever.
Respiratory
- Lungs feel compressed, breathing difficult; seeks open window.
- Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare andsense of suffocation.
- Constriction of chest.
Back and extremities
- Neck tired.
- Stiffness and pain, aching and drawing in arms and legs.
- Pain in sacrum, around hips and legs.
- Sore and bruised.
- Decubitus.
Sleep
- Sleepless and restless.
- Nightmare and frightful dreams.
- Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed.
- Falls asleep while answering a question.
Skin
- Livid spots all over body and limbs.
- Burning and heat in skin. [Arsenic.]
- Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration.
Fever
- Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body.
- Heat all over, with occasional chills.
- Chill about 11 a.m.
- Adynamic fevers.
- Typhus fever.
- Shipboard fever.
Modalities
- Worse; Humid heat; fog; indoors.
Relationship
- Compare : Bryonia and Arsenic may be needed to complete the favorable reaction.
- Ailanthus differs, being more painful.
- Baptisia more painless.
- Rhus; Muriat. acid; Arsenic; Bryon.; Arnica; Echinac. Pyrogen.
- Baptisia confusia. (Pain in right jaw and oppression in left hypochondrium, producing
dyspnoea and necessity to assume erect position).
Dose
- Tincture, to twelfth attenuation.
- Has rather short action.
(wild indigo)
* The symptoms of this drug are of an asthenic type, simulating low fevers, septic conditions
of the blood, malarial poisoning and extreme prostration.
* Indescribable sick feeling.
* Great muscular soreness and putrid phenomena always are present.
* All the secretions are offensive - breath, stool, urine, sweat, etc.
* Epidemic influenza.
* Chronic intestinal toxaemias of children with fetid stools and eructations.
Baptisia in low dilutions produces a form of anti-bodies to the bac. typhosus, viz., the
agglutinins. [Mellon.]
Thus it raises the natural bodily resistance to the invasion of the bacillary intoxication, which
produces the typhoid syndrome.
Typhoid carriers.
After inoculation with anti-typhoid serum.
Intermittent pulse, especially in the aged.
Mind
- Wild, wandering feeling.
- Inability to think.
- Mental confusion.
- Ideas confused.
- Illusion of divided personality.
- Thinks he is broken or double, and tosses about the bed trying to get pieces together.
[Cajeput.] Delirium, wandering, muttering.
- Perfect indifference.
- Falls asleep while being spoken to.
- Melancholia, with stupor.
Head
- Confused, swimming feeling.
- Vertigo; pressure at root of nose.
- Skin of forehead feels tight; seems drawn to back of head.
- Feels too large, heavy, numb.
- Soreness of eyeballs.
- Brain feels sore.
- Stupor; falls asleep while spoken to.
- Early deafness in typhoid conditions.
- Eyelids heavy.
Face
- Besotted look.
- Dark red.
- Pain at root of nose.
- Muscles of jaw rigid.
Mouth
- Taste flat, bitter.
- Teeth and gums sore, ulcerated.
- Breath fetid. Tongue feels burned; yellowish-brown; edges red and shining.
- Dry and brown in center, with dry and glisteningedges; surface cracked and sore.
- Can swallow liquids only; least solid food gags.
Throat
- Dark redness of tonsils and soft palate.
- Constriction, contraction of oesophagus. [Cajeput.] Great difficulty in swallowing solid
food.
- Painless sore throat, and offensive discharge.
- Contraction at cardiac orifice.
Stomach
- Can swallow only liquids, vomiting due to spasm of oesophagus.
- Gastric fever.
- No appetite.
- Constant desire for water.
- Sinking feeling at stomach.
- Pain in epigastric region.
- Feeling of hard substance. [Abies nig.]
- All symptoms worse from beer. [Kali bich.]
- Cardiac orifice contracted convulsively and ulcerative inflammation of stomach and bowels.
Abdomen
- Right side markedly affected.
- Distended and rumbling.
- Soreness over region of gall-bladder, with diarrhoea.
- Stools very offensive, thin, dark, bloody.
- Soreness of abdomen, in region of liver.
- Dysentery of old people.
Female
- Threatened miscarriage from mental depression, shock, watching, low fevers.
- Menses too early, too profuse.
- Lochia acrid, fetid.
- Puerperal fever.
Respiratory
- Lungs feel compressed, breathing difficult; seeks open window.
- Fears going to sleep on account of nightmare andsense of suffocation.
- Constriction of chest.
Back and extremities
- Neck tired.
- Stiffness and pain, aching and drawing in arms and legs.
- Pain in sacrum, around hips and legs.
- Sore and bruised.
- Decubitus.
Sleep
- Sleepless and restless.
- Nightmare and frightful dreams.
- Cannot get herself together, feels scattered about bed.
- Falls asleep while answering a question.
Skin
- Livid spots all over body and limbs.
- Burning and heat in skin. [Arsenic.]
- Putrid ulcers with stupor, low delirium and prostration.
Fever
- Chill, with rheumatic pains and soreness all over body.
- Heat all over, with occasional chills.
- Chill about 11 a.m.
- Adynamic fevers.
- Typhus fever.
- Shipboard fever.
Modalities
- Worse; Humid heat; fog; indoors.
Relationship
- Compare : Bryonia and Arsenic may be needed to complete the favorable reaction.
- Ailanthus differs, being more painful.
- Baptisia more painless.
- Rhus; Muriat. acid; Arsenic; Bryon.; Arnica; Echinac. Pyrogen.
- Baptisia confusia. (Pain in right jaw and oppression in left hypochondrium, producing
dyspnoea and necessity to assume erect position).
Dose
- Tincture, to twelfth attenuation.
- Has rather short action.
Balsamum peruvianum
Balsamum peruvianum
(peruvian balsam from myroxylon pereirae)
* Useful in bronchial catarrh, with copious, purulent expectoration.
* Debility; hectic fever.
Nose
- Profuse, thick discharge.
- Eczema, with ulceration.
- Chronic, fetid, nasal catarrh.
Stomach
- Vomiting of food and mucus.
- Catarrh of stomach.
Chest
- Bronchitis, and phthisis, with muco-purulent, thick, creamy expectoration.
- Loud rales in chest. [Kali sulph.; Ant. tar.]
- Very loose cough.
- Hectic fever and night-sweats, with irritating, short cough and scanty expectoration.
Urine
- Scanty; much mucus sediment.
- Catarrh of bladder. [Chimaph.]
Relationship
- Balsamum Tolutanum - the balsam of Myroxylon toluifera - (chronic bronchitis with
profuse expectoration). (Oleum caryophyllum - oil of cloves - in profuse septic expectoration
- 3 to 5 minims in milk or capsules).
Dose
- First attenuation : In hectic 6x.
- Extra homoeopathic uses locally.
- As a stimulant to raw surfaces in indolent ulcers, scabies, cracked nipples, rhagades, itch.
- Promotes granulation, removes fetor.
- A one per cent. solution in alcohol or ether maybe used with the atomizer in respiratory
affections.
- Internally, as an expectorant, in chronic bronchitis.
- Dose, 5 to 15 M., made into an emulsion with mucilage or yolk of egg.
(peruvian balsam from myroxylon pereirae)
* Useful in bronchial catarrh, with copious, purulent expectoration.
* Debility; hectic fever.
Nose
- Profuse, thick discharge.
- Eczema, with ulceration.
- Chronic, fetid, nasal catarrh.
Stomach
- Vomiting of food and mucus.
- Catarrh of stomach.
Chest
- Bronchitis, and phthisis, with muco-purulent, thick, creamy expectoration.
- Loud rales in chest. [Kali sulph.; Ant. tar.]
- Very loose cough.
- Hectic fever and night-sweats, with irritating, short cough and scanty expectoration.
Urine
- Scanty; much mucus sediment.
- Catarrh of bladder. [Chimaph.]
Relationship
- Balsamum Tolutanum - the balsam of Myroxylon toluifera - (chronic bronchitis with
profuse expectoration). (Oleum caryophyllum - oil of cloves - in profuse septic expectoration
- 3 to 5 minims in milk or capsules).
Dose
- First attenuation : In hectic 6x.
- Extra homoeopathic uses locally.
- As a stimulant to raw surfaces in indolent ulcers, scabies, cracked nipples, rhagades, itch.
- Promotes granulation, removes fetor.
- A one per cent. solution in alcohol or ether maybe used with the atomizer in respiratory
affections.
- Internally, as an expectorant, in chronic bronchitis.
- Dose, 5 to 15 M., made into an emulsion with mucilage or yolk of egg.
Badiaga
Badiaga
(fresh-water sponge)
* Soreness of muscles and integuments; worse motion and friction of clothes, with
sensitiveness to cold.
* Glands swollen.
* General paresis.
* Basedow's disease.
* Lues, bubo, roseola.
Head
- Sensation of enlargement and fullness.
- Pain in forehead and temple, extending to eyeballs, worse in afternoon.
- Blueness under eyes.
- Dandruff; scalp sore, dry, tetter-like.
- Dull, dizzy feeling in head.
- Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge, with asthmatic breathing and suffocative cough.
- Influenza.
- Slight sounds are greatly accentuated.
Eyes
- Twitching of left upper lid; eyeballs tender; aching in eyeballs.
- Intermittent sore pain in eyeball, coming on at 3 p.m.
Respiratory
- Cough; worse in afternoon, better in warm room.
- The mucus flies out of mouth and nostrils.
- Whooping-cough, with thick yellow expectoration;flies out.
- Hay-fever, with asthmatic breathing.
- Pleuritic stitches in chest, neck, and back.
Stomach
- Mouth hot.
- Much thirst.
- Lancinating pain in pit of stomach extending to vertebra and scapula.
Female
- Metrorrhagia; worse at night, with feeling of enlargement of head. [Arg.]
- Cancer of breast. [Asterias; Con.; Carbo an.; Plumb. iod.]
Heart
- Indescribable bad feeling about the heart with soreness and pain, flying stitches all over.
Skin
- Sore to touch.
- Freckles. Rhagades.
Back
- Stitches in nape, scapulae.
- Pain in small of back, hips and lower limbs.
- Very stiff neck.
- Muscles and skin sore, as if beaten.
Modalities
- Worse by cold.
- Better, by heat.
Relationship
- Compare : Merc. similar but opposite modalities.
- Spongia; Kali hyd.; Phytol.; Conium.
- Complementary : Sulph.; Merc.; Iod.
Dose
- First to sixth attenuation.
(fresh-water sponge)
* Soreness of muscles and integuments; worse motion and friction of clothes, with
sensitiveness to cold.
* Glands swollen.
* General paresis.
* Basedow's disease.
* Lues, bubo, roseola.
Head
- Sensation of enlargement and fullness.
- Pain in forehead and temple, extending to eyeballs, worse in afternoon.
- Blueness under eyes.
- Dandruff; scalp sore, dry, tetter-like.
- Dull, dizzy feeling in head.
- Coryza, sneezing, watery discharge, with asthmatic breathing and suffocative cough.
- Influenza.
- Slight sounds are greatly accentuated.
Eyes
- Twitching of left upper lid; eyeballs tender; aching in eyeballs.
- Intermittent sore pain in eyeball, coming on at 3 p.m.
Respiratory
- Cough; worse in afternoon, better in warm room.
- The mucus flies out of mouth and nostrils.
- Whooping-cough, with thick yellow expectoration;flies out.
- Hay-fever, with asthmatic breathing.
- Pleuritic stitches in chest, neck, and back.
Stomach
- Mouth hot.
- Much thirst.
- Lancinating pain in pit of stomach extending to vertebra and scapula.
Female
- Metrorrhagia; worse at night, with feeling of enlargement of head. [Arg.]
- Cancer of breast. [Asterias; Con.; Carbo an.; Plumb. iod.]
Heart
- Indescribable bad feeling about the heart with soreness and pain, flying stitches all over.
Skin
- Sore to touch.
- Freckles. Rhagades.
Back
- Stitches in nape, scapulae.
- Pain in small of back, hips and lower limbs.
- Very stiff neck.
- Muscles and skin sore, as if beaten.
Modalities
- Worse by cold.
- Better, by heat.
Relationship
- Compare : Merc. similar but opposite modalities.
- Spongia; Kali hyd.; Phytol.; Conium.
- Complementary : Sulph.; Merc.; Iod.
Dose
- First to sixth attenuation.
Betaine Hydrochloride
Betaine Hydrochloride
(Hydrochloric Acid)
What does it do? The digestive process takes place as food passes
through the mouth, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine. One of the most
important parts of digestion occurs in the stomach, where gastric (stomach) acid helps
break down proteins for further digestion in the small intestine. (Hydrochloric Acid)
A low level of gastric acid increases the likelihood and severity of certain bacterial and parasitic intestinal infections. A normal stomach’s level of gastric acid is sufficient to destroy bacteria.1 In one study, most fasting patients who had normal gastric acid in the stomach had virtually no bacteria in the small intestine. In those with low hydrochloric acid levels, there was some bacterial colonization of the stomach.2
Where is it found? Gastric acid is produced by the parietal cells of the stomach. The acidity is quite strong in a normal stomach. In fact, the stomach can be between 100,000 and almost 1,000,000 times more acidic than water.
In what conditions might betaine hydrochloride be supportive?
| • allergy•
anemia • asthma • atherosclerosis |
• diarrhea
• gallstones • indigestion and heartburn |
• rheumatoid arthritis• thyroid conditions • tic douloureaux • vitiligo • yeast infection |
How much should I take? Betaine hydrochloride (HCl) is the most common hydrochloric acid-containing supplement. Normally it comes in tablets or capsules measured in grains or milligrams. Some nutritionally oriented doctors recommend taking one or more tablets or capsules each 5-10 grains (325-650 mg), with a meal that contains protein.
Occasionally, betaine is recommended to reduce blood levels of a substance called homocysteine, which is associated with heart disease. This form of betaine is different from betaine HCl.
Are there any side effects or interactions? Large amounts of HCl can burn the lining of the stomach. If a burning sensation is experienced, HCl should be immediately discontinued. The normal stomach produces about the same amount of HCl as is found in twenty 10-grain tablets or capsules. However, people should not take more than 10 grains (650 mg) of HCl without the recommendation of a nutritionally oriented physician. All people with gastrointestinal symptoms —particularly heartburn— should see a nutritionally oriented doctor before taking HCl.
HCl helps make some minerals and other nutrients more absorbable.6 7 8 Aspirin-containing compounds and other anti-inflammatory medicines, such as cortisone, can cause the stomach to bleed. People taking such medicines should discontinue taking HCl.
References:
1. Giannella RA, Broitman SA, Zamcheck N. Influence of gastric acidity on bacterial and parasitic enteric infections. Ann Int Med 1973;78:271-6.
2. Giannella RA, Broitman SA, Zamcheck N. Influence of gastric acidity on bacterial and parasitic enteric infections. Ann Int Med 1973;78:271-6.
3. Kokkonen J, Simila S, Herva R. Impaired gastric function in children with cow’s milk intolerance. Eur J Ped 1979;132:1-6.
4. Gillespie M. Hypochlorhydria in asthma with specific reference to the age incidence. Quart J Med 1935;4:397-405.
5. Fravel RC. The occurrence of hypochlorhydria in gall-bladder disease. Am J Med Sci 1920;159:512-7.
6. Murray MJ, Stein N. A gastric factor promoting iron absorption. Lancet 1968;1:614.
7. Russell RM et al. Correction of impaired folic acid (Pte Glu) absorption by orally administered HCl in subjects with gastric atrophy. Am J Clin Nutr 1984;39:656.
8. Ivanovich P et al. The absorption of calcium carbonate. Ann Intern Med 1967;66:917.
Boletus laricis
Boletus laricis
(white agaric)
* Quotidian intermittent fever.
* Sweat is light, and without relief.
* Night-sweat in phthisis.
Head
- Feels light and hollow with deep frontal headache.
- Thick, yellow coating of tongue; teeth indented.
- Constant nausea.
Fever
- Chilliness along spine, with frequent, hot flashes.
- Yawns and stretches when chilly.
- Severe aching in shoulders and joints and small of back.
- Profuse perspiration at night, with hectic chills and fever.
Skin
- Hot and dry, especially in palms.
- Itching more between scapulae and on forearms.
Relationship
- Compare : Agaricin, active constituent of Polyporus officinale (phthisical and other
enervating nightsweats 1-4 to 1-2 gr. doses; also in chorea, in dilatation of heart with
pulmonary Emphysema, fatty degeneration, profuse perspiration and erythema).
- Boletus luridus. (Violent pain in epigastrium, urticaria tuberosa.)
- Boletus satanus (dysentery, vomiting, great debility, cold extremities, spasm of extremities
and face).
Dose
- First attenuation.
(white agaric)
* Quotidian intermittent fever.
* Sweat is light, and without relief.
* Night-sweat in phthisis.
Head
- Feels light and hollow with deep frontal headache.
- Thick, yellow coating of tongue; teeth indented.
- Constant nausea.
Fever
- Chilliness along spine, with frequent, hot flashes.
- Yawns and stretches when chilly.
- Severe aching in shoulders and joints and small of back.
- Profuse perspiration at night, with hectic chills and fever.
Skin
- Hot and dry, especially in palms.
- Itching more between scapulae and on forearms.
Relationship
- Compare : Agaricin, active constituent of Polyporus officinale (phthisical and other
enervating nightsweats 1-4 to 1-2 gr. doses; also in chorea, in dilatation of heart with
pulmonary Emphysema, fatty degeneration, profuse perspiration and erythema).
- Boletus luridus. (Violent pain in epigastrium, urticaria tuberosa.)
- Boletus satanus (dysentery, vomiting, great debility, cold extremities, spasm of extremities
and face).
Dose
- First attenuation.
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