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RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS
Rheumatic neuralgia, < damp weather or change of temperature.
Delirium tremens.
Effects of intoxicating drinks in general.
Neuralgic headache in forehead and vertex as if forced asunder, <
evening or coming into warm room.Headache, < change of temperature.
Herpes frontalis, with violent pain.
Herpes of the forehead, involving the eyeball, with intense ciliary
pains, iritis, etc.Hay fever.
Smarting and burning in the eyes, nose stuffed, < towards evening,
pressure at root of nose, especially tingling and crawling in the nostril, patient tries in
every way to reach this sensation by hawking and blowing the nose.Dysentery, with violent inframammary pains.
Inflammation of the diaphragm, sharp shooting pains around the
hypochondria and back.Pleurodynia, especially < in changes of weather.
Pneumonia, with pleurisy, with the characteristic pains about the chest,
as from subcutaneous ulceration.Muscular rheumatism, especially about the chest.
Intercostal rheumatism, always with great soreness to touch, as if the
muscles had been pounded.Inflammation of the pleura or peritoneum.
One of our most valuable remedies for herpes zoster; the vesicles are
filled with bluish-black serum.This eruption may follow the course of the supraorbital, intercostal or
other nerves, and is always accompanied by the peculiar pains of this drug.It has also been used for vesicular eruptions, with burning itching.
RANUNCULUS SCELERATUS
Occasionally useful in fluent coryza, with sneezing, burning micturition,
etc.Superficial ulceration of the tongue , with rawness and soreness.
Sore mouth characterized by raw patches on the tongue, the rest of the
tongue being coated, sometimes indicates this drug in diphtheria or typhoid fever.Pain and soreness over the region of the liver, with frequent sensations
as though diarrhoea would set in.Bruised pain and weakness in the chest every evening, with painful
sensitiveness externally.Corns on the toes, with burning and soreness, especially painful on
letting the feet hang down.
RAPHANUS SATIVUS
Distressing twitching of the eyelids, almost prevents vision, with rotary
motion of the ball.Neuralgic toothache, shooting pulsating pain in the evening < lying,
> walking about.Toothache during the early part of pregnancy.
Spasmodic painful contraction of the throat, cannot speak a loud word.
Diarrhoea thin, brown, yellowish, frothy, forcibly expelled, with colic
and prominence of intestines like pads here and there all over the abdomen during the pains,
and especially with the characteristic absence of emission of gas either upward or downward
for a long time.Chronic diarrhoea, green liquid stools always mucous and bloody, anxiety,
pale, suffering face, small pulse, no emission of flatus for six days, chills from the back
along the arms and limbs, followed by heat, frequent efforts to vomit, great thirst, great
weakness.Chronic diarrhoea, with dropsy, great thirst, weakness in the pit of the
stomach, and pain especially on breathing, profuse urine, no gas.Abnormal sexual desire, with sleeplessness.
RATANHIA PERUVIANA
Fissure of the anus, with great constriction, terrible pain following the
stool, especially burning like fire, only temporarily relieved by cold water.Haemorrhoids, with extreme burning like fire.
Bloody stools.
Thin fetid diarrhoea, with burning like fire in the anus.
RHEUM PALMATUM
In general, there is an acid condition of the system, the whole body
smells sour, the discharges are sour and fermented.Diarrhoea, sour-smelling, brown and frothy, sometimes excoriating,
especially during teething, preceded by colic and followed by tenesmus, with desire for all
sorts of food of which one can eat but little.Diarrhoea, with colic, tenesmus, alternate chill, heat and thirst, sweat,
weakness; stools like chopped eggs, with sour odor, color green.
RHODODENDRON FERRUGINEUM
Rheumatic pains, especially in the periosteum of the bones, < cold
weather, > moving (Rhus t); these pains may affect nearly every part of the body, and are
frequently associated with coldness of the extremities, especially of the-feet, but the
general indication is aggravation before a storm.Chronic rheumatism of small joints (Led.).
Rheumatoid arthritis.
Rheumatic headache, < wet, cold weather, involving the forehead and
temples.Headache like a tearing of the bones of the skull, < wet, cold
weather, > warm wraps and from moving about, also < wine (Lyc.).Threatening glaucoma, always < the approach of a storm, > after the
storm broke, patient strongly rheumatic.Muscular asthenopia, with darting pains through the eye, < before a
storm.Ciliary neuralgia.
Otalgia, tearing pain, with roaring and buzzing.
Facial neuralgia, involving both dental nerves, pains drawing, tearing
and jerking, < change of weather, > warmth and eating.Neuralgic toothache, > while eating, caused by cold.
Neuralgic colic in various parts of the abdomen, < l. hypochondrium.
Chronic pain in the left side under the short ribs, > eating.
Diarrhoea in wet, cold weather; after fruit, with general rheumatic
pains.Catarrh of the bladder, with frequent urging to urinate and drawing
pains, urine offensive.Hydrocele, several cases.
Orchitis , testicle indurated with a feeling as though it were being
crushed.
RHUS AROMATICA
Diabetes.
Incontinence of urine; both diurnal and nocturnal.
Haematuria, with general debility.
Catarrh of the bladder, with excruciating pain on urinating.
Sometimes useful in enlarged prostate.
It has been found useful in the summer diarrhoea of children, with
weaknes, pale tongue, general moisture, etc.
RHUS TOXICODENDRON
Valuable for effects of strain on muscles, especially from lifting or
from working in water.Muscular and neuralgic pains, > moving about.
In muscular rheumatism, generally useful when there is not much
inflammation or fever, every part seems sore, general aggravation from cold air; especially
valuable for ailments resulting from checked perspiration.Neuritis of almost every nerve in the body, characterized by the peculiar
symptoms of the drug, especially numbness and paralytic stiffness.Rheumatic paralysis from getting wet or lying on damp ground.
Generally indicated in low types of diseases or when acute diseases
assume a typhoid type.Generally indicated in cellular inflammations, which assume a purulent
character.Hemiplegia of the r. side after apoplexy.
Chorea.
General aggravation during wet weather, at rest, on rising from a seat
and cold, amelioration from motion, warmth.During low fever there is frequently delirium, rather mild, especially
with fear of being poisoned.Usually there is extreme nervous restlessness, both mental and physical;
it is sometimes difficult to say whether the mental anguish or the physical suffering causes
the restlessness.Headache < in wet weather.
Headache < morning from lying and from cold, > heat and motion.
Neuralgic headache only > taking rapidly.
Occipital headache, with rheumatic stiffness in napeof neck (Dulc.).
Meningitis, with stiff neck, generally > lying upon something hard,
restlessness, etc.Moist eruptions on the head, formed in crusts, offensive, itching <
night.Eruptions, with great sensitiveness of the scalp, < warmth of bed.
Erysipelas of the head, with vesicles.
This drug is valuable for numerous affections of the eye, in a general
way characterized by great external swelling of the lids and sub-mucous cellular tissue.Paralysis of the upper lid from cold.
Erysipelas of the lids.
Pustular conjunctivitis.
Scrofulous ophthalmia in general, intense photophobia, yellow, purulent
discharge, pains < at night.Affections from getting wet.
Conjunctivitis and iritis.
Granulated lids, with saclike swelling of the conjunctiva and heavy
feeling of the lids.Panophthalmitis, suppurative, with much swelling externally.
Orbital cellulitis; one case of most rapid progress had destroyed one eye
in forty-eight hoursand attacked the other, was making rapid progress, immediately checked
by Rhus t.Occasionally useful in glaucoma.
Inflammation of the middle ear; inflammation of the external ear, with
thick, yellow discharge.Erysipelas of the auricle.
Nasal catarrh, with severe aching in all the bones, caused by dampness.
Catarrh, with green discharge, offensive.
Frightful attacks of sneezing all night.
Facial neuralgia, with chilliness, < evening.
Rheumatism of the jaws, feeling as though they would break or crack
always on chewing; the jaw dislocate easily.Facial erysipelas.
Toothache, < cold,> warmth; (occasionally relieves a jumping
toothache, momentarily > a cold hand).Sometimes useful for inflammation at root of a tooth, with pain, <
night from cold.The tongue is dry, red and cracked, in fever.
Sometimes used for sore throat, with oedema of the fauces, great
restlessness, swelling of the parotid glands.Occasionally useful in diphtheria, with bloody saliva, swollen parotids,
restlessness, etc.Mumps.
Peritonitis and enteritis, with restlessness, dry, red tongue, putrid,
slimy diarrhoea, sometimes involuntary.Typhlitis, painful swelling of the whole r. side of the abdomen, <
lying on l. side, > lying on the back and by gentle pressure from below upward.Colic, > bending double and moving.
Numerous inflammatory symptoms of the r. side of the abdomen, with
feeling of heavy weight pressing in the groin, could not stand.Haemorrhoids, blind, protruding after every stool, with backache and
pressure outward in the rectum.Fissure of the anus, with sore protruding piles.
Inflammation of the cellular tissue around anus, especially traumatic.
Diarrhoea of thin, red mucus, or of bloody water like meat-washings,
sometimes a jelly-like mucus, with lumps of transparent mucus, sometimes involuntary; it may
be without odor or very offensive, frequently associated with tenesmus and tearing pains
down the thighs; this may occur during typhoid fever or may result from getting wet.Dysentery, with many of the above symptoms; craving for cold milk said to
be very marked.Pain and soreness over the region of the kidneys, with symptoms of
inflammation, oedema, etc.Paralysis of the bladder.
Inflammation of the bladder, with tenesmus.
Oxaluria.
Erysipelatous inflammation of the penis.
Persistent painful erections, > lying on the back, with tenderness in
the spine, apparently the result of a strain.Erysipelas of the external genitals, moist eruptions.
Eczema of the pudenda, with great swelling, intense itching, < night
on undressing, followed by soreness and smarting.Prolapsus uteri.
Ovarian cyst.
Leucorrhoea.
Retroversion.
Erosions of the cervix, resulting from distended follicles.
Membranous dysmenorrhoea, always < dampness.
Puerperal fever of a typhoid character.
Paralysis of the muscles of the larynx.
Cough racking, < before midnight in wet weather, with pains in the
back and limbs, restlessness.Typhoid pneumonia.
Haemoptysis.
Palpitation from over-exertion.
Hypertrophy of the heart in a rheumatic diathesis.
Rheumatism of the heart from getting wet, violent palpitation, pains
extend into the left arm.Muscular rheumatism in the back, especially umbago, great pain on
attempting to rise, > warmth, < cold, > bending backward.Muscular pains in the back from strain .
It seems to have cured locomotor ataxia.
Loss of co-ordination in lower extremities.
Various forms of rheumatism and rheumatoid pains.
Acne rosacea.
Indicated in numerous vesicular and pustular affections of the skin, with
symptoms characteristic of the drug.Facial erysipelas, with formation of vesicles, burning, tearing pain,
great restlessness.Urticaria.
Erythema.
Valuable when glandular inflammations threaten to suppurate.
It is indicated in skin eruptions of a vesicular type, especially when
the vesicles tend to form scabs, intense itching, < warmth.Eczema, which tends to a assume an erysipelatous condition.
Boils, carbuncles, abscesses, in short, all sorts and conditions of skin
diseases which threaten to suppurate or which are characterized by the general restless
fever and prostration of the drug.Particularly valuable in the typhoid forms of scarlatina, with enlarged
glands, mild delirium, restlessness, etc; the eruption calling for Rhus is usually not
uniform, and causes great irritability.Smallpox, the pustules are blackish or bloody, with diarrhoea.
Purpura haemorrhagica, with dry tongue, tremulous pulse, numbness of the
extremities, restlessness.Intermittent fever, chill begins in one leg, with dry, teasing cough,
external chill, with internal heat.Malarial fever; paroxysm preceded by stretching and yawning, sometimes by
cough; during the fever there is frequently urticaria.Very frequently indicatedin typhoid fever.
ROBINIA PSEUDACACIA
Acid dyspepsia, with constant weight in the stomach, eructations of sour
liquid, sometimes with vomiting.Indigestion, with severe lancinating pains extending from side of the
chest to top of shoulder-blade.Intensely acid vomiting; this symptom has been relieved, even when
associated with cancer of the stomach; and numerous cases of acid eructations and vomiting
have been cured.Burning in stomach and between the shoulder-blades.
Indigestion, constant squeezing pain in the stomach after eating, can
only eat once a day on account of the distress, backache, weakness, etc.
RUMEX CRISPUS
Catarrh of the pharynx.
Gastric disorder, shooting from pit of the stomach into chest and throat,
with flatulence.Affections from excessive tea-drinking.
Gastralgia, aching extending through to the back, obliged to take a long
breath.Gastralgia, pains extend to the chest, < motion, > quiet rest.
Early morning diarrhoea, hurrying the patient out of bed, characterized
by a dry cough from tickling in the throat, < night.Chronic diarrhoea, of brown water from 5 till 9 A.M.
Aphonia.
Incessant dry cough, with soreness in the chest, < cold air, cough
seems to come from the pit of the throat, > warm air.Paroxysmal cough from taking a deep breath, < evening after lying,
must keep his mouth covered on account of aggravation from cold air.Night-cough in phthisis.
Sympathetic gastric cough.
Cough causes pain behind the sternum.
Asthma, with violent spasm of coughing, sense of suffocation, especially
< 2 A.M.It has been indicated in rheumatism of the muscles of l. side of the
chest, < lying in bed at night.Prurigo, < cold, > warmth; excessive itching on undressing.
Chronic urticaria.
Compare Rhus tox., Caust.)
RUTA GRAVEOLENS
General feeling of soreness as from a bruise.
General lameness after sprains, especially of wrists and ankles.
Periostitis, the result of bruises.
Neuralgias; sciatic and other forms.
Pains especially in the wrist, in cold, wet weather, > motion (Rhus
t:).Valuable in weakness of accommodation, especially in near-sighted people
when there are heat and aching in and over the eyes, eyes feeling like balls of fire.Asthenopia from sewing and reading.
Dyspepsia resulting from straining the muscles across the stomach.
Dyspepsia, every attempt to eat meat is followed by distress and eruption
like nettle-rash (Puls.).Prolapsus of the rectum.
Pruritus of the rectum.
Irritable bladder, constant urgingto urinate, forcible retention seems to
paralyse the bladder.Incontinence at night (Puls.).
Rheumatism of the dorsal muscles.
Rheumatism of the wrists and ankles, with puffy swellings.
Dislocation of the bones of the wrist and of the tarsus.
Synovitis from strains.
Ganglion on flexor tendons.
Bursa of the wrist.
Glanglia on wrist (Benz.ac).
S
SABADILLA
Convulsive symptoms, especially in children with worms.
General aggravation at the same hour each day.
General sensitiveness to cold, which aggravates.
It has been found useful for imaginary diseases, that is to say, a mental
condition in which the patient imagines he has various troubles.Sudden vertigo on waking at night, sometimes when rising from stooping.
Headaches > eating.
Influenza, with violent spasmodic sneezing and lachrymation on being in
the open air, with symptoms of tonsillitis beginning on l.side and extending to r., pains
< empty swallowing.Rose-cold or hay-fever, with burning and stinging and complete
obstruction, watery discharge, itching and tingling in nose, nose swollen, eyes watery
(Verat. alb.).Neuralgic toothache.
Tonsillitis beginning in l. side, > warm drinks.
Cardialgia, with distention.
The gastric symptoms are generally characterized by absence of thirst and
longing for sweats, general relief after eating.Cutting colic, especially from worms.
Vomiting of round worms, feeling of worm in pharynx.
Thread-worms.
Numerous symptoms of worms, especially in children, with irritation of
the external genitals.Ovaritis, with cutting pain (Coloc.).
Has been used for cough, < lying down.
Cough, associated with coryza and lachrymation.
Reflex cough from worms.
Measles, with violent sneezing, headache, sticking in the chest.
It has been used for intermittent fever, which recurs at the same hour;
chills in evening, commencing in extremities, running up the body; heat in head and face,
interrupted by chills; sweat commencing during the fever; hot sweat on the face.
SABINA
General rush of blood to the head, with alternating flushes to head and
face.Facial neuralgia, > open air.
Uterine pains, pressure towards the groins, extending into the thighs.
Dysmenorrhoea, pains shooting down the thighs; pain in the small of the
back, extending around the pelvis, drawing, aching pains extending through from sacrum to
pubis.Uterine haemorrhage, bright red flow, < every motion, pain extending
from sacrum through to pubis.Uterine haemorrhage in plethoric women; the haemorrhage sometimes ceases
on walking about, especially with the characteristic pains from the small of the back to
genitals and down the thighs; adapted to gouty temperaments.Occasionally called for in dark haemorrhage, with the characteristic
pain.Irregular menstruation, becoming almost incessant.
Threatening miscarriage; with pains from back to pubis.
Amenorrhoea, especially with pain in extremities, etc.
After-pains, with tendency to haemorrhage.
Acrid leucorrhoea, with much biting and itching, during pregnancy.
Offensive leucorrhoea after profuse menstruation.
Chronic arthritis and gout, > open air, < warmth, with general
depression; the pains involve the shoulders, elbows, hips and knees; often accompanied by
pulsation in different bloodvessels.Arthritis nodes.
SALICYLICUM ACIDUM
Vertigo, tendency to fall to l. side, surrounding objects seem to fall to
the right, headache.Meniere’s disease.
Nasal catarrh, with persistent sneezing.
Flatulent dyspepsia, with hot, sour belching.
Indigestion, with headache and putrid fermentation.
Dysentery, stools like green frogs’ spawn.
Putrid diarrhoea in children.
Sciatica, with burning pain, < night.
SAMBUCUS NIGRA
Suffocating nasal catarrh in children, with sudden starting up.
Urine becomes changed in character and deposits a heavy sediment;
Boenninghausen emphasizes the increased watery urine.It is found clinically that the American Sambucus (and also the European)
is of great value in acute inflammation of the kidneys, with dropsy, especially for vomiting
of bile, distress in stomach after eating.Profuse urine, with dry heat of the skin.
Suffocative respiration, with stitches in the chest Laryngismus
stridulus, starts up in great suffocation, cannot exhale the breath, face grows purple
(compare Chlorine).Acute laryngitis, with spasmodic cough and attacks of suffocation.
Croup, with spasm of the glottis, wheezing respiration, < after
midnight.Violent dry cough, with hoarseness and tough mucus in the larynx, <
night.Whooping cough, with suffocative spasm, expectoration of the tough mucus
during the day; cough, < after midnight on from lying with the head low.The suppression of the ordinary perspiration during sleep is very marked;
the skin becomes perfectly dry and burning when the patient falls asleep, but he breaks into
profuse sweat immediately on waking.
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS
Extremely valuable remedy for headaches of various sorts; periodic
neuralgia, pain commencing in the occiput and settling over r. eye, with nausea and
vomiting, photophobia, etc; the attacks commence in the forehead and vertex of r. side,
begin in the morning and last till evening, < every motion, > sleep, passing off with
profuse flow of urine.headache at the climacteric, with rush of blood to the head, buzzing in
the ears, nausea and chilliness, sometimes vomiting of bile, shivering, > open air and
sleep.Conjunctivitis, especially of r. eye.
Blepharadenitis, with dryness under the upper lid, neuralgia about the
eye.Polypus of the ear.
Humming and roaring in the ears, with painful sensitiveness to sudden
sounds, in women at the climacteric.Gelatinous tumor of l. nostril, polypus.
Nasal catarrh, with pain over the root of nose, sore throat, dry cough.
Facial neuralgia spreading all over the head, bends over and holds head
tightly towards floor to get relief (Ign.).Soreness of the roof of the mouth, extending through the pharnyx, feeling
as if it had been burnt or scalded, sore throat on r. side, pains extending to the ear and
to the chest, with burning of the stomach, nausea and vomiting.Rheumatic soreness of the muscles of palate after influenza.
Ulcerated sore throat, with dryness, loss of smell and taste, etc.
Gastric derangements, with nausea, not > vomiting.
Nausea during pregnancy, with salivation, constant spitting.
Ulcer in the stomach, vomiting burning pain, > vomiting, tenderness,
flushes of heat rising into the head; the characteristics were the rising of heat into the
head and the amelioration from vomiting.Has been used for dysentery from taking cold, or for diarrhoea especially
associated with cough (Ipec.).Polypus of the uterus.
Metrorrhagia, with cough, sick headache, flush of the face, etc.
Delayed menstruation, or amenorrhea, with cough, periodical neuralgia on
r. side, with flushing of face.Sore, painful nipples.
Croup, with a whistling cough.
Swelling of the larynx, dryness of the throat.
Aphonia.
Laryngitis, with soreness, dryness, swelling, sometimes expectoration of
thick mucus.Whooping cough, < night, with diarrhoea.
Oedema of the glottis, great dyspnoea, respiration sawing or rasping,
voice lost, cough dry and harsh, < lying down, scanty, glairy expectoration.(Compare Rumex).
Not infrequently indicated in pneumonia of a subacute type, > lying on
the back.Typhoid pneumonia, face livid and dark red.
Particularly valuable in hypostatic pneumonia (compare Verat. viride).
Phthisis, with hectic fever, burning in the chest and sensation of
congestion, soreness of the muscles.Ulceration of the lung, with hectic flush, circumscribed redness of the
cheeks, haemoptysis.Rheumatism in r. arm and shoulder, < night in bed (Mag.car.).
SANGUINARINUM NITRICUM
Sang. nit. has been used quite extensively for polypus of the nose,
chronic catarrh, with sneezing and burning, laryngitis, hoarseness, dry, hollow cough.Soreness behind the sternum, violent convulsive cough.
Irritation at the bifurcation of the bronchi, with expectoration of
blood-streaked mucus; also in general for catarrhal inflammation of mucous membranes, with
great irrritability of them.Rawness and soreness in posterior nares and hawking of thick yellow,
sometimes bloody mucus.
SANTONINUM
It is said to have cured epilepsy.
Hyperaesthesia of the retin, then the sight becomes suddenly dim.
Amblyopia.
Retinal anaemia; after eating, the eyesight becomes suddenly dim, rubbing
clears the eye for a few moments.After diphtheria, flashes of ligh, etc.
Chronic inflammation of the bladder, with incontinence of urine, or dysuria, emission of
only few drops at a time, urine has a peculiar green color.
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