MILLEFOLIUM
Haemorrhages, with profuse flow of bright red blood, which is thin;
bleeding piles; haemorrhage, with chilliness; brightred haemorrhages from uterus; bright red
haemoptysis, with oppression, palpitation, not much cough, especially during the progress of
tuberculosis, raised without cough; the haemorrhage is only distinguished from that of
Aconite by the absence of anxiety.Painful varicose veins during pregnancy.
MORPHINUM
Brain feels shrunken.
Piercing pain in region of heart, with difficulty in breathing.
Icy coldness of l. sole, as if it were on oil-cloth.
MOSCHUS
Hysteria, with easy fainting, faints dead away from the least excitement,
even from eating (Asaf., Nux mos.).Hysterical spasm ushered in by contraction of throat and suffocation.
Globus hystericus.
Frequently recurring syncope.
Violent neuralgic headache, with feeling of coldness, the pain > open
air, < warmth of the room.Suppression of menses, with hysterical spasms, choking in throat,
fainting.Laryngisimus stridulous, erowing inspiration, attacks excited by eating
or laughing.A large proportion of the cases requiring Mosch. are associated with
spasmodic constriction of the larynx and chest and sense of impending suffocation.Spasmodic asthma.
Attacks of sudden dyspnoea, with violent cough, the chest filled with
mucus, with great rattling and with cramplike, suffocative constriction of chest.Threatening paralysis of the lungs, with great collection of mucus and
great difficulty in expectorating it.Angina pectoris, with extreme tightness of the chest and constant desire
to take a long breath.Whooping cough, with extreme suffocation and rattling of mucus.
Extrme palpitation, with dyspnoea and deathly anxiety.
Dyspnoea.
MURIATICUM ACIDUM
In a general way it is adapted to a low typhoid state, the patient slides
down in bed and mutters, with sordes on the teeth and offensive odor from the mouth.General muscular debility following typhoid, diphtheria or the use of
opium, with restlessness.It is particularly to be compared with Rhus.
Inflammation and ulceration of the tongue and mouth, sometimes with hard
lumps in the tongue, always with easy bleeding, tendency to slough.Epithelioma of the tongue, the edges of a bluish-red color (Carbol.ac.).
Aphthous mouth in nursing children.
It has been found useful in aphthous sore mouth occurring in the last
stages of wasting diseases, sometimes with watery diarrhoea and irritable stomach.Ulceration of the throat, diphtheritic, the lips are sore, cracked and
scabby (Arum tri.), sordes on the teeth, fetid breath, haemorrhage from the nose, false
membrane covering uvula and tonsils.There have been several cures of diphtheria, with more or less oedema,
excoriating discharge from the nose, hawking up of tough, fetid phlegm, general typhoid
condition, sordes on the teeth, great prostration, not much fever.Haemorrhoids < cold water, > warmth, extremely painful, with
prolapsus of rectum, accompanied by sticking, biting; especially useful in the haemorrhoids
of pregnancy, bluish-red, hot and very sore.Haemorrhoids in children, bluish, with violent stitches and great
sensitiveness.Thin offensive diarrhoea in typhoid or in old people who are debilitated
and skin down in bed, but are restless and inclined to delirium, with dry, burnt tongue,
sordes on lips, etc.Dysentery, with low typhoid state.
Carbuncles, with scorbutic appearance of the gums.
Foul-smelling ulcers on the lower extremities, with chilliness and
weakness.Papular and vesicular eruptions, with great itching (Rhus t.).
Malignant scarlet fever, profound prostration, mouth full of ulcers,
intermittent pulse, involuntary discharges.Typhoid fever of a low, stupid type, haemorrhages, dry tongue, ,
sometimes spasms, involuntary discharges, restlessness, or sometimes in typhoid fever, when
the patient is very quiet, has involuntary discharges, bed sores, aphthae in mouth and
sinking down in bed.Low types of remittent fever.
MUREX PURPUREA
Polyuria, < night; one case in which , associated with other troubles,
there was frequent need to pass urine, but it was scanty and very fetid, with the odor of
Valerian.This drug has been used almost solely for prolapsus of the uterus, with
pressure and bearing-down pains and with the particularly characteristic sensation of sharp
pain extending upward to the breasts; some cases < lying down, with aching in the sacrum;
other cases with much leucorrhoea, green or bloody, with unnatural sexual excitement and
enlarged, indurated uterus; other cases with great soreness of the uterus felt on sitting
down; sensation of prolapsus so great that the patient wants to keep the legs tightly
crossed in order to relieve the tendency to protrusion.Dysmenorrhoea, with uterine displacement.
Chronic inflammation of the uterus following miscarriage or labor, with
tenderness, also with soreness over r. ovary, which extends up into r. chest.Subinvolution after confinement, heavy pressure upon rectum, swelling of
the haemorrhoids, greenish-yellow leucorrhoea, sometimes bloody, sometimes discharge of
blood from the vagina when at stool, great weariness in the loins and pain in the loweextremities, sharp, lancinating pains in uterus, etc.
Pulsation in neck of uterus (compare Sepia, Lilium tig., etc.).
MYRICA CERIFERA
Dull headache in morning on rising, associated with pain in nape of neck
and small of back, > open air.Hunger, with great fulness in stomach and abdomen, > open air.
In jaundice, with thick tenacious mucus from mouth, though the mouth and
pharynx are painfully dry, as if they would crack, constant efforts to clear the mucus from
the mouth, with feeble pulse, in an old man.In jaundice, with dull, heavy headache in morning, yellow color of the
sclerotic and face, tongue yellow, very heavy and drowsy, general soreness and aching in the
muscles, slow pulse, dark, turbid urine.
N
NAJA TRIPUDIANS
In a general way, it is indicated when organs seem to be drawn together,
especially ovary and heart.Hay fever, with asthmatic complications, after the stage of coryza and
sneezing has mostly subsided, especially with a feeling of dryness inthe larynx,
suffocation, especially on lying down, has to be held erect in order to breathe; the
suffocative spells occur after sleeping (Lach.).In diphtheria it is similar to Lach., the patient grasps at his throat,
has a feeling of choking, fauces dark red, breath fetid, hoarse cough, with rawness in
larynx and upper part of chest.Neuralgia of l. ovary, with palpitation and pain about heart.
After diphtheria, threatening paralysis of the heart, the patient becomes
blue, gasps for breath on waking, pulse intermittent and feeble.A kind of angina pectoris, acute pain, with loss of breath.
After articular rheumatism, severe pain in heart, extending to shoulder,
neck and arm, with deathly anxiety, the attacks wake from sleep, palpitation, constriction,
dry cough, etc.Persistent palpitation for nearly a year, without organic disease of the
heart.
NAPHTHALINUM
It has been found a valuable remedy for hay fever, many inveterate cases
seeming to have been entirely arrested; sneezing, eyes inflamed and painful, head hot; also
spasmodic bronchitis and asthma, > open air, with soreness in chest and stomach, has to
loosen the clothing; also pulmonary emphysema, with great dyspnoea, sighing inspiration,
> violent motion, it seems as if she could not get air out of the chest; it is also
valuable in whooping cough, with long-continued paroxysms, cannot get na inspiration.Dysmenorrhoea.
For gonnorhoea, following the acute stage.
NATRUM ARSENICOSUM
Chronic conjunctivitis, membrane very rough, eye dry and painful;
granular lids.Nasal catarrh, with supraorbital headache, burning in eyes, watery
discharge, dry throat, < morning.Nasal catarrh, with pain at root of nose, the discharge passes into the
throat and has to be hawked up.Nasal catarrh, the nose constantly feels stuffed, with more or less
affection of the eyes.In diphtheria, with excessive swelling and great prostration, throat dark
purple, uvula excessively swollen, like a sac of water, body coll and sweaty, great
oppression of heart, feeble, intermittent pulse.In tuberculosis, hectic fever, night-sweats, emaciation, etc., greenish
profuse expectoration with racking cough.Eruption on the chest, with dark brown spots, scaly, on a red base,
without itching.
NATRUM CARBONICUM
General debility during the summer, especially with headache, worse from
heat (Phos.). Glands swollen and indurated.Failure of memory.
General mental impairment, inability to perform any mental work, stupid
feeling in head.Effects of everstudy.
Extreme melancholy and apprehensiveness.
Headache from exposure to the sun or from working under gaslight.
Vertigo from exposure to the sun’s rays.
Ulceration of the cornea, with great photophobia and stinging pains.
Lachrymal abscess.
Dry catarrh of the conjunctiva (Alumina).
Chronic deafness and roaring in ears, pain in the face, etc.
Sharp piercing stitches in ears, ears feel closed.
Catarrh, with thick yellow mucus.
Acute coryza, with violent sneezing and profuse discharge of thin mucus,
< slightest draught on undressing.In general, the catarrhs are < slightest draught, discharge through
the day and stoppage at night, > free perspiration, and, as in Nat. mur., there is
absence of smell and taste.Indigestion, mostly acid, with palpitation and distress about the heart.
Watery, gray diarrhoea, < during the day, after eating, gushing,
preceded by cutting in upper abdomen, stools sudden, followed by burning and soreness in
anus and great weakness, sinking in hypogastrium (compare Nat. sulf.).Induration of cervix uteri, with pressing towards the genitals as if
everything would come out (Sep.), metrorrhagia, offensive leucorrhoea, etc.Cough on entering a warm room, short and dry.
Cough, with greenish expectoration of salty taste.
Cough, with burning soreness in r. chest.
Palpitation and violent beating of the heart, after eating or with
general dyspeptic symptoms, especially acidity.Weakness of ankles, with gastric symptoms.
Pain tendo-achillis, with dyspnoea and palpitation.
Soreness of the soles, with swelling.
The skin on the dorsal aspects of the extremities, hands and feet become
dry, rough and chapped.Coldness between scapulae.
NATRUM MURIATICUM
Marasmus in children, with ravenous appetite (Iod.), especially with
emaciation of the neck, thirst, dry mouth, hard stools, fissures at anus, etc.General anaemia, with great depression of spirits, palpitation, coldness
about the heart.Brain fag, with impaired memory and irritability, inability to fix the
attention, sometimes with numbness of the extremities (Pic. ac.).Melancholia, with frequent weeping, pain in occiput, chilliness,
restlessness, etc.Melancholia during pregnancy, fear that the child will be marked.
Despairing melancholia, hopeless of the future, with dry mouth,
constipation, anaemia, palpitation, etc.Melancholia, constant dwelling on past events, weeping if looked at
(Puls.).Melancholia at the age of puberty, wakes with headache, patchy tongue,
palpitation, etc.Hysterical alternations of laughing and weeping (Ign.).
A large number of affections of the eye, resulting from muscular
asthenopia; it is curative when the symptoms are aggravated by any use of the eye,
especially when there is burning or smarting as from salt, when the vision becomes blurred
after reading a little, or if the patient wakes in the morning with headache and soreness of
the eyes from having read the night before.Blepharitis ciliaris.
Ulcers on the cornea.
Pustules on the cornea and conjunctiva.
Granulations of the lids.
Ciliary neuralgia.
Insufficiency of the internal recti muscles, even amounting to
strabismus.It has been indicated in a number of cases which have been abused by the
local application of nitrate of silver, especially in entropium and pannus.It seems to have cured dermoid tumors of the margins of the lids.
Stricture of lachrymal ducts and fistula.
Styes.
Morbus Basedowii.
Chronic catarrh of the ear, with deafness and various noises, especially
cracking when chewing.Coryza, fluent or changing to stopped, with feeling of dryness or with
occasional sudden discharge of clear water, also with constant lachrymation from obstruction
of nasal duct.Loss of smell and taste.
Nasal catarrh, with very profuse, thick, yellow, mucous discharge
(puls.), with complete loss of smell and taste (cured after Puls. had entirely failed), the
complete absence of taste seems to be decisive.Coryza with dry, cracked lips, especially swelling, with eruptions around
mouth of vesicles or of hydroa (a good symptom, but not characteristic in intermittent
fever).Hay fever, with watery discharge from eyes and nose, loss of taste, etc.
Chronic naso-pharyngeal catarrh, especially with morning aggravation,
loss of taste, general weakness, elongated uvula.Naso-pharyngeal catarrh, which is generally worse at the seaside (this,
however, is true only in persons who are very susceptible to the actionof salt).A great variety of chronic nasal and pharyngeal catarrhs which have been
abused by local applications, especially of nitrate of silver.Neuralgia of face occurring periodically in place of the ague paroxysm
(Nux.v.).Gums scorbutic, bleeding.
General dryness and heat of mouth, with catarrh of the pharynx,
fluttering of heart, etc.Vesicles on tongue and mouth.
Aphthae of mouth and cheek, with burning; relaxed uvula (compare
Alumina).Folicular catarrh of pharynx.
Thirst is a general accompaniment of Nat. mur symptoms; there are
generally sour eructations, heartburn, especially waterbrash, sometimes vomiting of food.There is very frequently a feeling of great weakness and sinking in
stomach (Sep.).General weakness and sinking of the abdominal muscles and viscera,
extending down into pelvis; women have to sit down, apparently to prevent prolapsus (Sep.).Haemorrhoids, painful, stinging, oozing glutinous moisture.
Herpetic eruption about anus.
Dry and hard stools, which fissure the anus and cause bleeding.
Constipation, with feeling of constriction of the anus, stool is
difficult to expel and causes fissure, bleeding and soreness (compare Sil.).Chronic diarrhoea, watery, profuse, with burning in anus during the
passage, general emaciation,especially of the neck, and greasy appearance of the skin.Ascarides.
Polyuria.
Involuntary micturition on coughing or sneezing.
Haematuria.
Gleet, especially after injections of nitrate of silver, with cutting and
burning after micturition, with glutinous moisture from urethra; the whole of the urethra is
sore.Pruritus of vulva.
In vagina, feeling of dryness and soreness, with great weakness, etc.
Sterility, with early and profuse menses, prolapsus, great weakness of
abdominal muscles.Delayed menstruation in girls.
Dysmenorrhoea from getting feet wet.
Profuse acrid, greenish leucorrhoea, with itching, smarting,
constipation,etc.Chlorosis in girls, with delayed menstruation and dysmenorrhoea preceded
and accompanied by headache, weakness and soreness in abdomen, sometimes with diarrhoea,
colic, thirst, dry mouth, etc.Subinvolution.
With the uterine troubles of this drug the patient is generally relieved
by lying on her back, on a pillow.Bronchitis from tickling behind sternum, extending up to pit of throat;
the cough causes bursting headache (Bry.), involuntary micturition, lachrymation and
palpitation; it may be < night in bed.Cough, with stitches in chest and sides.
Palpitation, the pulsationsare violent, shaking the body.
Particularly valuable in hypertrophy of the heart, attacks < lying
down, especially on l.side, the patient is weak, has cold hands and numb extremities.Backache, with general weariness, > lying down; the back feels broken.
Backache between the paroxysms of intermittent fever.
Paralytic condition of the lower extremities after fever, diphtheria or
excesses.Greasy skin.
Eczema of eyebrows; behind ears.
Purpura haemorrhagica.
It has cured wartsin palms of hands.
Herpes circinatus (Sep.).
Eczema on hands, < water (Sul.).
Urticaria in intermittent fever sometimes indicates this drug.
Hang-nails, skin around the nails dry and cracked.
Eruption in the bend of the knee, with itching and smarting, skin very
sore from the oozing of an acrid fluid, which forms crusts and cracks.Intermittent fever, chill beginning at 10 A.M., with thirst, pains, fever
with thirst, drinking does not relieve; profuse sweat relieving all symptoms; throbbing
frontal headache generally accompanies the chill and fever.In malaria there is sometimes profuse watery stools, with great
oppression of breath, coldness about the heart, headache, great prostration, irregular
pulse.Intermittent fever, the onset of the paroxysms characterized by intense
itching over the whole body, during the chill the patient shakes violently.Intermittent fever, sometimes the chill begins in hands and feet, without
much shaking, preceded by headache, which grows worse during the chill.Malarial fever characterized by stitches in hepatic region during the
apyrexia.
NATRUM PHOSPHORICUM
This drug has been used empirically according to Schussler for ailments
resulting from excessive acidity, diseases of infants, diabetes, etc.Ophthalmia, with yellow, creamy discharge.
Squinting from worms.
Granular lids.
Scrofulous ophthalmia.
Offensive discharge from nose.
Naso-pharyngeal catarrh, with thick, yellow mucus.
Yellowish, creamy look on soft palate.
Thin moist coat on tongue.
Moist, creamy, golden-yellow coat at root of tongue and on palate.
Sour eructations and vomiting.
Acid dyspepsia, with flatulence.
Greenish diarrhoea.
Diarrhoea from acidity.
NATRUM SULPHURICUM
All conditions are < dampness.
It corresponds, in a general way, to the “hydrogenoid”
constitution.A great remedy for lithaemia.
Aggravation from lying on l. side, especially of the hepatic symptoms.
Granular conjunctivitis, with burning lachrymation, with maculae on the
cornea.Granulations of the lids, with general sycotic constitution, tendency to
warts (about anus, on scalp, forehead, chest, neck, etc.), stiffness of knees, cracking of
joints, etc. (compare Thuja).Earache, lightning-like stitches, always < damp weather or from wet
ground.Nasal catarrh, with thick, yellow discharges, sometimes scabs blood, and
offensive odor, the patient always hawks up salty mucus, also symptoms of oppression of
chest.Toothache > holding cold water in the mouth (Puls., Coff.).
Dirty grayish-green coat at root of tongue.
Pharyngeal catarrh, profuse, thick, tenacious, white mucus.
Bilious vomiting.
Acid dyspepsia, with heartburn and flatulence.
Sensitiveness of the region of the liver, < lying on l.side.
Sometimes used in jaundice, with brown tongue and loose stools.
Lead colic.
Typhlitis.
Diarrhoea, thin yellow, liquid, gushing, often involuntary, < morning,
after moving about (Bry.), preceded by rumbling in abdomen, accompanied by profuse
flatulence, often associated with soreness and pain over the region of the liver, which
hurts on every jar, sometimes with inflammation and suppuration around the roots of the
nails.Diarrhoea, with pain around the shoulders, sometimes blood with the
stools.Diarrhoea after rising in the morning, with great desire for ice-water;
greatly > kneading abdomen, stitches running up into l. side of chest.Chronic diarrhoea; stools sudden, scanty, light red or bloody, forcible,
occasionally involuntary when passing gas, aggravation from cold food or drink, eating or
damp weather, in tolerance of tight clothing, of rheumatic habit, especially with discharges
from the ear.Uric acid deposits.
Enlarged prostate.
Chronic gonorrhoea.
Bronchial catarrh, cough < 3 or 4 A.M. (Ka.c.), glairy expectoration,
vomiting after eating, < damp weather.Asthma, cough at night, sits up and holds his chest, < cold, damp
weather.During damp weather dyspnoea and oppression, > open air.
Useful in affections of the hip-joint, with pain at night, > turning
over.
NITRICUM ACIDUM
Epileptiform convulsions at night on going to be, during the day frequent
vertigo, always felt well when driving in a carriage, a long drive would keep off the
paroxysm, promptly cured.In general, indicated for the bad effects of Mercury, to which it is
similar.General aggravation from water, on washing (Phos.).
Foul odor of all excretions; foul breath, offensive salivation, etc.
The pains are almost always splinter-like (Hep.).
Headache as if in the bones, feeling as if constricted by a band, <
night (Merc.).Falling of the hair, with humid eruptions.
Moist, burning eruptionson the scalp.
Ulcerations of the cornea.
Syphilitic iritis, < lying down, feeling as if water were running from
both eyes.Opacities of the cornea.
Difficult hearing and obstruction of the Eustachian tube.
Caries of the mastoid process, syphilitic or mercurial.
Nasal catarrh, the discharge mostly passing into the pharynx, with a
feeling of obstruction.Herpetic eruption on the wings or tip of the nose, the tip is red and
covered with vesicles.The nasal discharges are mostly fetid, associated with a feeling of
obstruction, or sometimes with dropping of water from the nostrils.Caries of the bones of the face, especially of the malar-bones, which
become sore and painful as from splinters.Gums become unhealthy and bleed easily; the teeth are loose and the
saliva is bloody, and there isa putrid odor from the mouth; with these conditions the drug
is frequently indicated in a mercurial cachexia.Ulceration of the mouth, with great fetor, the ulcers spread rapidly,
like mercurial ulcers, but when touched they have sharp splinter-like pains; these ulcers
extend intothe throat and simulate diphtheria.Ulceration of the sides of the tongue, with tough, stringy mucus.
Tongue coated yellow as a rule, though sometimes white in the morning.
Sore throat, with pain as from splinters on swallowing, with much
salivation.Syphilitic ulceration of the mouth and throat.
Enlargement of the parotid glands.
Diphtheritic sore throat, with high fever, nausea and vomiting, deposit
on tonsils and posterior walls of the pharynx, feeling of a foreign substance on swallowing,
with cutting pain.Diphtheria, with excoriating discharge from nose or corners of mouth;
sometimes it seems as if the discharge from the throat affected the stomach, on account of
the taste, uneasiness and aversion to food.Rheumatic soreness of palate muscles following severe influenza.
Chronic enlargement of the liver.
Ulceration of the rectum, with severe pain after stool.
Extensive ulceration of the rectum, following dysentery which had been
badly treated by local injections.Fissure of the anus, with constant oozing of fetid moisture, frequently
burning stools, raw smarting as if cut with a knife.Stricture of the anus, with accumulation of pus in fistulous ulcers.
Haemorrhoids that have ceased to bleed, but are very painful and
pendulous.Dysentery, with exceedingly painful discharges, great tenesmus and
frequent unsuccessful efforts at stool.Diarrhoea, with burning, slimy stools and violent colic; the discharge
are usually offensive, dark green or watery, with pieces of membrane varying in size, like
scrapings of the intestines, sometimes streaked with blood.Diarrhoea, with most violent cutting pain lasting for hours after the
stool (during typhoid).Constipation; stools hard, scanty, with painful burning in rectum (Iris,
Sil., Sul.).Ulceration of the urethra, with smarting and burning when urinating.
Albuminuria, with pressing pain in the region of the kidneys, fetid
breath, scanty urine.Frequent micturition, the urine has a strong odor.
Cystitis, with violent pain in the region of the bladder and passage of
almost clear blood, with urging to urinat.Oxaluria.
The strong-smelling urine, which the patients requiring Nit. ac. usually
have, is to be compared with Benzoic acid.Syphilitic ulcerations and erosions of the penis and prepuce.
It is particularly useful for venereal ulcers when the ulcers bleed
easily and there are sharp, splinter-like pains.Condylomata on the prepuce, with offensive oozings.
Inflammation and swelling of the testicles, with pain in the cords,
extending to the abdomen.Herpes of the prepuce.
Leucorrhoea yellow and acrid.
Inflammation of the cervix uteri, with warty excrescences and excoriating
discharge, general tendency to uterine haemorrhage.Erosions and ulcerations of the cervix, with yellow discharge.
Obstinate haemorrhage from the uterus, with pressure in the hypogastrium,
pain in thighs, strong-smelling urine; aching in rectum after stool, general anaemia.Cough < forepart of night, with feeling as if the chest were too full,
pain as if bound with an iron band, with tendency to tuberculosis.Chronic cough from the larynx, with stinging and smarting as if
ulcerated.Phthisis of the larynx, with extensive ulceration.
Night cough, fatiguing, paroxysmal, cough caused by laughing or crying,
great weakness.Pneumonia in old people.
Useful in some stages of phthisis, with hecti, soreness of the chest,
haemorrhages from the lungs, offensive, bloody and purulent expectoration (Cap.).Dermoid swellings of various sorts.
Eczema.
Crusts, scabs and soreness of angles of eyes, mouth, etc. (Grap.).
Warts on hands.
Bleeding ulcers, spreading rapidly and oozing offensive pus.
Carbuncles.
Urticaria.
It is said that freckles have been removed by this drug.
It has been prescribed occasionally in scarlet fever, with red tongue and
foul discharges, also in typhoid fever, with offensive, purulent, bloody stools, great
prostration, especially with sore tongue, intermittent pulse, herpetic eruptions between
fingers.Foul-smelling perspiration of the feet (Sil.).
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