BELLADONNA
Violent convulsions, with great rush of blood to head, face red and hot.
Epilepsy.
Chorea.
A valuable remedy for taking cold from a slight draft of air, especially
after having the hair cut.Particularly useful for plethoricpersons.
Hysterical spasms, with red face and wild actions.
Effects of sunstroke.
Scarlatina.
Measles.
Acute inflammation of glands.
The general character of the delirium is one of great activity, tendency
to run about, to escape from the room or bed; in general with great excitement, hot head and
face, sometimes with fury, sometimes excessive fear.Terrific headaches; the head feels full of blood; violent at base of
brain, head drawn backward; violent throbbing in carotids, with red face.The headachesare almost universally aggravated by the slightest noise or
light.Headache so violent that the seems to get blind and then becomes
unconscious.Headaches greatly aggravated by bending forward the head is generally
drawn backward.Meningitis.
Meningitis from erysipelas.
Apoplexy, in the early stage.
Great congestion of eyes, but not often useful in inflammatory affections
of the external parts of the eye.Neuritis of optic nerve, haemorrhages from the retina from suppressed
menses, congestion of the head, sudden heat of head, suppressed eruptions.Pains of acute glaucoma.
(Bell. must be given only occasionally in glaucoma, and the use of
Atropine is absolutely forbidden; it brings on aggravation of acute glaucoma, though it will
not cure the chronic disorder.).Ciliary neuralgia, with great heat and throbbing pain.
Spasms of the lids and muscles.
Squinting.
Exophthalmic goitre.
Acute inflammation of the ears, terrific pain, rolling of the head,
screaming, loss of hearing.Acute inflammation of the parotid gland, erysipelatous swelling.
Acute inflammation internally and externally.
Haemorrhage from nose.
Nose swollen, red and hot.
Erysipelas of the face.
Facial neuralgia, with flushed face, etc.
Lockjaw.
Difficult dentition (acute symptoms).
Stammering.
Paralytic weakness of the organs of speech.
Inflammation of mouth and throat, all the parts are red, hot and dry,
< r. side.Adapted to the early stage of a great variety of inflammatory diseases of
the throat, characterized by the above symptoms; and especially by intense hyperaemia, with
dryness and tendency to spasmodic contraction of the pharyngeal muscles.Vomiting, cannot keep any food in the stomach.
Soreness and distention in the region of the stomach.
Neuralgia of the stomach, of the most violent character, with extreme
tenderness.Gastritis, with violent vomiting, even of food.
Nausea and vomitingare among the most persistent effects of this drug;
these symptoms are more frequently associated with other Bell. symptoms than is generally
supposed.Peritonitis.
Metroperitonitis.
In abdominal affections characterized by extreme sensitiveness to touch,
intolerance of even the clothing, with great heat.Acute inflammation of liver.
Gall-stone colic cured.
Jaundice.
Bleeding piles, with great forcing and great sensitiveness.
In dysentery the mucous membrane of the anus is swollen and everted, with
excessive tenderness.Diarrhoea of green mucus and blood.
Dysentery, especially in children.
Acute cystitis.
Dysuria, especially of children and excitable women.
Acute inflammation of the kidney.
Inflammation of pelvic viscera.
Prolapsus of uterus; inflammation of uterus; inflamed ovaries, < r,;
all with heavy dragging and forcing pain, as if the uterus were heavy with hot blood;
suppression of menses with these symptoms.Ovarian tumor, with forcing pain.
Dysmenorrhoea.
Uterine haemorrhage.
Threatened miscarriage.
Rigid os during labor.
Post partam haemorrhage .
Fibroid tumor of uterus.
Retained placenta, with hot gushes of blood.
Metrorrhagia, very offensive.
Inflammation of mammary gland, which was extremely sensitive and hot.
Violent cerebral symptoms (see mind and head) from suppressed
menstruation.Acute laryngitis, with great hoarseness or loss of voice, the larynx
feels dry and is painfully sore or feels swollen, with suffocation.Spasmodic croup.
Spasm of glottis.
Whooping cough, with hot face and head, and nosebleed.
Chronic laryngitis, with cough like the barking of a dog, without fever
and without soreness.Catarrhal croup in the first stage, the child gasps for air and tosses
about wildly (Acon).Pleurisy.
Rarely, in inflammatory diseases of thoracic organs.
Stiff-neck from taking cold.
Torticollis, r. muscles contracted.
Acute inflammation of glands (compare Iod., Calc. c., etc.).
Spinal irritability, pressure upon the dorsal vertebrae causes screams
and distress in stomach, or violent cough and flushed face.Hyperaemia of spine, with difficulty in walking , loss of co-ordination
when walking.Lumbago , with pain in hips and thighs, cramps in legs, etc.
Sciatic nerves extremely sensitive, as if uncovered, cannot bear to have
anything press upon the affected part.Acute inflammation of hip-joint, with heat, etc.
(Symptoms of neuritis, see also arm.).
Early stage of erysipelas.
Early stage of boils.
In children a king of restless sleep, with sudden starting, twitching of
arms, with half-closed eyes, hot head, fright, dilated pupils, etc.Scarlet fever, throat red, hot and dry, nausea and vomiting, with hot
head or delirium, etc.Typhoid fever rarely.
Occasionally indicated in typhus.
Worm fever.
Fever of dentition, etc.
Very rarely, as an intercurrent, in any form of malarial fever.
BENZOICUM ACIDUM
Diarrhoea, offensive, light-colored, of a pungent, urinous odor; stools
like soap-suds, very copious, odor is similar to that of the urine, which is dark and of
very strong odor.Valuable especially for catarrh of the bladder, with offensive brown
urine.Cystitis, with extremely offensive odor.
Nocturnal eneuresis, dark offensive urine.
Kidney colic.
Offensive, acid urine in rheumatism.
Asthma , especially in rheumatic persons.
Inflammation of bronchi and lungs, with great tenderness of the chest,
cough < night, lying on r. side.Has been prescribed in valvular diseases of the heart.
Gout and rheumatism, with swelling of joints, with the peculiar urinary
symptoms.Valuable in rheumatic gout of the fingers, nodes very painful, with the
urinary symptoms (Arnica).Gouty deposits in wrists.
Swellings of the wrist (ganglion).
Gout of great toe.
BERBERIS VULGARIS
Gouty concretions in the auricle, becoming very painful, with tearing
stinging pains.Very valuable for hepatic diseases; with indigestion, eructations,
salivation, heartburn, vomiting of food, etc., after eating.Soreness in the region of the liver.
Bilious colic; colic from gall-stones, with jaundice.
Diarrhoea, painless, clay-colored, with burning and smarting in anus,
sallow complexion , tenderness over region of liver and pain extending around back and
abdomen.Renal calculi and renal colic, pain extending from kidneys along ureters
to bladder, with burning in urethra, bladder, etc.Neuralgia of spermatic cords and testicles (Clem., Cimicif., Puls.).
Uterine symptoms , with leucorrhoea, associated with painful symptoms in
urinary organs.Dysmenorrhoea , with pains radiating in every direction, down thighs,
into abdomen, etc. (Cimicif.; Berb.).Vaginismus, with inflamed kidneys, etc.
In lumbago one of our most valuable remedies; pains extend from back
around body and down leg, with red and mucous sediment in the urine, etc.Neuralgia under finger-nails, with swelling of finger-joints.
BISMUTHUM SUBNITRICUM
Violent neuralgic headaches which alternate with gastralgia, the pains in
the head involve the face and teeth, < eating, > cold, feeling as if the parts were
torn by pincers (Puls.).Gastric catarrh, with terrible gastralgia, the pain extending from the
stomach through the body to the spine.The gastric disorders requiring Bismuth vary, but usually are burning,
with a feeling of a load or hard lump in stomach (compare with Abies); vomiting of food and
of mucus; gastric symptoms > cold drinks (Puls).Very valuable for inflammation of the stomach occurring during the
progress of chronic diseases for instance, scirrhus.A marked indication for Bismuth is that while taking cold drinks there is
relief, yet when the stomach becomes full there is vomiting of enormous quantities.Painless diarrhoea, with great thirst.
Cholera infantum, with tongue thickly coated white, vomiting, etc.
BORAX VENETA
Extreme anxiety, especially in children, especially from motions which
have a downward direction, rocking, being carried down-stairs or laid down, there is
starting as in great fright; this dread of a downward motion is extremely characteristic of
the drug.Inflammation of the edges of the eyelids, which turn inward towards the
ball, so that the lids rub againstthe ball, entropium.Erysipelas of face, with feeling of cobwebs on it.
Aphthous sore mouth, the ulcers bleed on eating or on touch; mouth very
tender in nursing children; mouth is very hot, with thirst and vomiting.Diarrhoea in nursing infants, offensive, preceded by colic, stools
mucous, with aphthous sore mouth, screaming before urinating, etc.Children are afraid to urinate, almost have convulsions when the desire
to urinate comes.Dysmenorrhoea, extreme pain during the menses ; membranous dysmenorrhoea
(Acetic ac.).Leucorrhoea preceding and following the menses, albuminous and acrid.
Very valuable for inflammation of the vagina and uterus, endocervitis.
Pleurodynia or true pleurisy in upper part of r. chest, with cough,
expectoration of a mouldy smell.
BOVISTA LYCOPERDON
Metrorrhagia, blood flows at night or early in morning, easily from a
little overexertion between the menses, blood dark; can bear a nothing tight around the
body; menses preceded and followed by diarrhoea.Leucorrhoea follows the menses, acrid, corrosive; discharge only at
night.Cyst in the broad ligament.
Urticaria, itching on getting warm.
Eczema of external ear.
Red eczema, burning and itching disturbing sleep.
Eczema, moist, formation of thick crusts.
BRACHYGLOTTIS REPENS
Bright’s disease, the result of overwork.
Dysmenorrhoea, with chronic basic peritonitis and fluttering in abdomen;
the fluttering in the abdomen and fluttering in r. ovary are the keynotes to its use.
BROMIUM
For scrofulous children with enlarged parotids.
Migraine of leftside, < stooping, especially after drinking milk.
Coryza, with pressure at root of nose, internal soreness, watery,
excoriating discharges, nose seems stopped.Diphtheria and enlarged parotids, which finally suppurate.
In diphtheria, symptoms of the disease invading the larynx.
Goitre.
Intensely painful haemorrhoids.
Membranous dysmenorrhoea; spasmodic contractions.
Loud emissions of flatus from the vagina, with dysmenorrhoea.
Chronic inflammation of the ovaries.
Tumors in mammary gland.
Croup, diphtheritic; croup idiopathic.
In croup Brom. is rarely indicated in the early stage; but when the
febrile symptoms have subsided, the patient is weak, perspiring, has a hard, tight cough,
which is spasmodic, with suffocative attacks and sometimes rattling of mucus in larynx; the
element of spasm generally indicates the drug.It follows well after Iodine.
The choice is generally between Kali bich., and Brom.; these are adapted
to the same stage of the disease.Spasmodic croup symptoms, starting up as if choked, > drinking; every
inspiration provokes cough.Asthma in suffocative attacks, it seems as if the breathing were hindered
by spasmodic constriction.In pneumonia, for suffocative attacks, cannot expectorate.
Asthma > at sea.
Hypertrophy of heart, palpitation, suffocation.
Ful ulcers.
BRYONIA ALBA
The headaches of Bryonia are all agrravated by motion, even of eyeballs.
The pains either begin in the occiput or finally become seated in the
occiput, frequently associated with dryness of the mouth, thirst and coated tongue; the
headaches are rarely neuralgic, but are generally sympathetic with gastric disorders or with
inflammatory affections.Meningitis from suppressed eruptions.
Congestion and soreness of the eye (sympathetic).
Inflammation of the eye, especially of internal parts, iritis,
choroiditis, glaucoma, etc., the eyeball very painful, full feeling, pains extending to back
of head.Catarrh, with dryness, sudden suppression of the discharge and headache.
Bleeding from suppressed menstruation, occurring regularly every day.
Neuralgia of one side of the face, cannot even speak or eat, because it
is so much aggravated by motion.Dryness of lips, mouth and throat.
Tongue dry, rough (in low fevers).
Tongue heavily coated white (in gastric derangements).
An extremely valuable remedy for catarrhal inflammation of the stomach
(dyspepsia), with thirst, white-coated tongue, nausea and vomiting, < warm drinks, which
are vomited; feeling of a hard lump, which makes the stomach sore.Gastric derangements, which recur often in persons who have been in the
habit of taking mercury, the attacks frequently preceded by great hunger and apparently
caused by overeating; the patient becomes very irritable, tongue thickly coated, etc.In all gastric derangements there are usually great sensitiveness of
epigastrium to touch and vomitingof food.Symptoms of inflammation of the liver, which seems swollen, very sore to
touch, pains sharp, greatly < motion, > warmth and pressure, typhlitis, peritonitis,
gastro-enteritis; a frequently indicated remedy for these diseases, characterized by extreme
soreness, thirst, fever, coated tongue, etc.Diarrhoea in summer, brought on by cold drinks or from vegetables or
being overheated, movements in the morning on moving around; diarrhoea from suppressed
eruptions; during typhoid fever (of putrid odor), brown.Constipation, stool large and hard.
Suppression of menses, with the characteristic gastric derangements, or
with periodical discharge of blood elsewhere, nose, throat, etc.Inflamed ovaries.
Puerperal fever in the early stage, with headache, pains in limbs,
weakness.Suppressed lochia.
Pelvic peritonitis.
Inflammation of mammary glands, breasts much swollen, hot, sharp pains.
Laryngitis and bronchits (the cough in these diseases is generally dry,
hacking, with soreness of abdominal muscles, < night and motion, < coming into a warm
room, < after eating or drinking, > heat).Pneumonia in the early stage; Bryonia follows immediately after Aconite,
high fever, sharp pains, > lying on the affected side, thirst, profuse sweat, headache,
etc.In pleurisy it is most frequently required (the Bryonia patient sweats
easily and freely), extremely sharp pain, > pressure and warmth, cannot tolerate the
slightest motion.Sometimes useful in pleuritic exudation, when the sharp pains continue.
Pericarditis, endocarditis (very frequently called for).
Great oppression over the region of the heart.
Severe muscular pains in back, lumbago, etc.
Acute inflammation of numerous joints, especially of the large joints,
characterized by swelling, heat, shiny redness, > warm wraps, intolerance of slightest
motion, etc.Sciatica > lying on the affected side.
Muscular rheumatism.
In all forms of rheumatism, acute chronic, muscular or articular, there
is generally the additional indication of easy, profuse perspiration.It is frequently indicated in scarlet fever, when the eruption does not
develop well and the general symptoms of the drug are present; the same is true of measles.In typhoid fever it is very frequently indicated in the early stage with
the occipital headache, furred tongue, thirst, abdominal soreness, etc.In a great variety of fevers not eruptive.
For febrile states, which are the accompaniment of inflammatory processes
in various organs and tissues, always with headache, thirst and intolerance of motion
(closely allied to Iod.).
BUFO RANA
Epilepsy ushered in by a cry, livid face.
Epilepsy, the result of sexual excitement.
Epilepsy coming on at the time of the menses.
Indurations in the mammary gland.
Bullae, which open and leave a raw surface, exuding an ichorous fluid.
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CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS
Intermittent neuralgia, < fasting.
Congestive headaches.
Threatening apoplexy.
Neuralgic headaches, especially in r. side and on vertex, periodical.
Dyspepsia, with heart symptoms, palpitation, constriction, etc.
Haemorrhage from the bowels in malarial fevers and with heart symptoms.
Haemorrhage from the bladder.
Inflammation of the ovaries, with constriction.
Vaginismus.
Dysmenorrhoea, pains occur periodically, menses cease on lying down, with
heart symptoms.Inflammation of diaphragm, with feeling of pain and soreness marking the
attachments of the diaphragm.Cardiac dropsy, with labored breathing, oedematous extremities, inability
to lie down.Nosebleed, with hard, violent action of the heart and constriction.
Acute inflammation of heart, pericardium and endocardium.
Hypertrophy of heart.
Violent palpitation.
Angina pectoris.
In all these diseases there is present the characteristic feeling as if
an iron hand prevented the normal action of the heart, with suffocation, cold sweat, etc.Intermittent fever, paroxysms about midday (11 A.M.), the paroxysms may
be incomplete in their stages, accompanied by haemorrhages, especially from the bowels;
coldness predominates, not > heat; it may be followed immediately by cold sweat, with
terrible anguish; in one case (a child) the paroxysm was accompanied by convulsions and
haemorrhage from the bowels.
CADMIUM SULPHURATUM
Opacities of cornea, with sluggish inflammation (scrofulous).
Facial paralysis from cold.
Black vomit of yellow fever or of other diseases.
Persistent vomiting of drunkards.
CAJUPUTUM
Has proved valuable in obstinate hiccough on the slightest provocation, talking,
laughing, eating or any motion.
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