Jalapa
Jalap.
Indicated in bowel-troubles of children.
Intestinal flatulency, with abdominal distension, pinching and griping.
Diarrhoea of thin, watery stools.
Child good all day, but is restless and troublesome at night. Screams all
night with colic.
Jatropha Curcas
Purging-Root.
Indicated in intestinal troubles, chiefly in diarrhoea of choleraic
character.
Great thirst; takes large draughts of water, immediately rejected by the
stomach.
Vomiting like the white of egg.
Diarrhoea. Stools sudden, profuse, like water with “loud noise in the
abdomen like the gurgling of water coming out the bung-hole of a barrel.”
Kali Bichromicum.
Bichromate of Potash.
Indicated in affections of the mucous membrane, with ropy, tough, secretion
(expectoration, nasal discharge, leucorrhoea, stools, etc.). In affections of the throat
(diphtheria), stubborn and neglected nasal catarrh and ozaena, gastric and intestinal
ulceration, coughs (membranous croup), pustular eruptions and ulcerations. Acts best upon
persons of light complexion, of indolent disposition, with history of syphilis of scrofulosis.
Has been used in nephritis.
Tongue mapped; broad, flat, indented; red, smooth, slimy (dysentery).
Nasal catarrh, with fetid smell and offensive, greenish-yellow, viscid
discharge. Sniffles of infants.
Sticking pain in the nose; pressure at root of nose; loss of smell.
Ulceration of nasal septum.
Tough, elastic plugs in the nose, with raw surface underneath.
Ropy, tough, stringy discharge from mouth and throat.
Throat sore, dry. Deposits of pseudo-membrane on soft parts. Bladder-like
appearance of the uvula, which is badly swollen and faintly red. Pain shooting up into the
ear.
Hard, painful swelling of the parotids.
Hoarseness, worse toward evening.
Cough, harsh and with tenacious, yellow stringy expectoration.
Dysentery; stools like jelly, brown, frothy; sensation as of a plug in the
anus.
Ropy mucus in the urine, clogging up the urethra.
Pustules and ulcers on the penis, with stitching pain, worse at night,
syphilitic.
Pustules, resembling small-pox, with burning pain.
Deep ulcers, with punched-out edges.
Bone-pains, shifting, tearing, worse in the cold; with soreness and bruised
pain.
Worse
in the open air; takes cold easily.
Better
from heat.
Kali Carbonicum.
Carbonate of Potash.
Indicated chiefly by the presence of sharp, sticking pain or a series of
sticking pains, in various parts of the body. Especially useful in persons who are sensitive
to changes in the weather and cannot bear cold weather. H. N. Guernsey thinks it one of the
best remedies following childbirth and its consequences.
Bag-like swelling over the upper eyelids.
Great general weakness and depression, with coldness and soft pulse;
sensitiveness to change in the weather.
Awakens at 3 or 4 o’clock a. m.
Stitching or jerking pains in any part of the body, at ears, throat, lungs,
bowels, joints, rectum, liver kidneys.
Nose stuffed up in warm room; nostrils sore, scurfy.
Nosebleed in the morning when washing the face.
Throat dry and rough, with difficulty of swallowing, food being forced down
slowly, and sticking pain as from a fish-bone.
Cough, dry and hard; it awakens him at 3 to 4 o’clock a. m.; with stitching
pain in right lower chest, better from bending forward, worse from lying on affected side.
Wheezing.
Expectoration must be swallowed.
Sensation as though the stomach were full of water.
Large, difficult stool, with stitching pain in the rectum before stool.
Large, painful haemorrhoids, with sticking pain in them from coughing.
Menstruation retarded, scanty, suppressed. Flow acrid.
Great sensitiveness of the soles of the feet and of the heels.
Worse
after midnight; toward morning; after sexual intercourse;
from change of weather from eating; after eating.
Better
from sitting stooped over; in the warm open air.
Kali Iodatum
Iodide of Potash.
Indicated in coryza, coughs, secondary and tertiary syphilis, scrofulous
swellings of joints (knee) with effusion; pleuritis with effusion.
Cold begins in the head and travels downward toward the chest.
Enlargement and induration of glands.
Intense pain over the eyes and root of the nose.
Coryza, with profuse, watery, hot, acrid discharge and pain in the frontal
sinus.
Pain in the chest, stitching, from the lungs to the back.
Violent cough, worse in the morning, with greenish expectoration, like
soapsuds.
Arthiritic rheumatism (knee) with pale swelling of the joint and stitching
pain.
Severe bone pains, with great sensitiveness to touch (tibia), worse at
night and during damp weather. Nodes.
Hard lumps on the skull. Bony tumors of the orbits of the eyes.
Worse
at night; during damp weather.
Better
in the open air; on motion.
Kali Phosphoricum.
Phosphate of Potash.
Indicated in conditions due to lack of nerve force, as neurasthenia, and in
adynamic states.
Anxious, apprehensive; dreads to meet any one, even old friends. Very
despondent, shy, irritable.
Headache (occipital), with inclination to vertigo; with
“goneness” at the stomach; better from gentle motion. After too protracted mental
effort.
Diminution of sexual energy with great prostration after sexual
intercourse.
Paralytic lameness in the back and extremities, worse from exertion.
Gums spongy, receding, bleeding easily.
Urine very yellow.
Kalmia Latifolia
Mountain Laurel
Indicated in rheumatic affections, neuralgia and cardiac disease.
Pains shoot downward and are accompanied with numbness.
Pain following the course of nerves or affecting a large area, with sense
of numbness, coldness and pricking in affected parts.
Heat, swelling and redness of joints.
Fluttering sensation a the heart, causing apprehension.
Pain through the heart, extending into the shoulder blades.
Palpitation, worse from leaning forward.
Exceedingly rapid action of the heart, with difficulty of breathing.
Kreosotum (Creosotum)
Creosote.
Indicated in diseases of the genito-urinary system and in affections of the
skin, with tendency to haemorrhage and decomposition, hence putridity of discharges. There is
much restlessness and burning pain as from a red hot coal. Used in lupus of the nose and face,
with burning pain; in choleraic conditions with fetid bloody stools, great prostration and
gastric irritability; cholera infantum; many diseases of the female genital organs, as
inflammations, cervical ulceration, malignant diseases of the uterus, cauliflower excresences,
leucorrhoea, pruritus, etc., characterized by burning pain, putridity and tendency to erosion.
Also useful in gangrenous conditions.
Cough, with feeling as if the sternum were being crushed in.
Very rapid decay of teeth; they are dark and crumbly, with spongy, bleeding
gums.
Diarrhoea; stools undigested, putrid, dark brown; with nausea and vomiting,
restlessness and prostration.
Incontinence of urine; dreams he is out of bed, urinating.
Profuse menstruation, black, acrid; flow stops then returns. Followed by
corrosive leucorrhoea, dark brown and thick, later yellow. Stitches from abdomen into vagina,
better from walking, worse from lying down. Bleeding after sexual intercourse.
Leucorrhoea, thick, staining the linen yellow and stiffening it like
starch; with dragging backache and pressure toward the vulva, better from motion, worse from
rest. Odor of green corn.
Skin itching; festers, bleeds easily.
Itching eruptions with violent biting and burning pain after scratching.
Worse
in the open air; from rest; after menses.
Better
from warmth and motion.
Lachesis
Lance-Headed Viper.
Indicated in low fevers, septic states, and in all conditions characterized
by utter prostration and blood deterioration. In diphtheria, purpura, low fevers, malignant
scarlet fever. Has the reputation of great usefulness in all climacteric troubles, in the
treatment of diseases arising from suppressed discharges. Chronic sore throat, with tenacious
mucus sticking to the throat.
Symptoms always worse when first awaking from sleep.
Trembling of the tongue when it is protruded; the tongue catches behind the
teeth.
Tongue dry, cracked, blistered at the tip.
Flushes of heat during climacteric.
Haemorrhages of dark, decomposed blood from the orifices of the body.
Delirium, mumbling, loquacious; worse when waking from sleep. Suspicious,
even of friends.
Intolerance of pressure about throat and abdomen. Cannot bear anything
tight.
Attacks return in spring or fall, or yearly.
Worse on left side; disease extends from left to right.
Fluids swallowed return through the nose.
Headache left-sided, deep-seated, undulating, frontal.
Sensation of a lump in the left throat, which disappears when swallowing,
but returns.
Constant desire to swallow; when swallowing sharp pain into the ear.
Throat swollen, dark red, with gangrenous spots; worse from hot drinks.
Accompanied by constitutional symptoms which are far more severe than seems warranted by the
local condition.
Constipation like the excrements of sheep. Stool difficult to expel on
account of constriction of sphincter ani.
Diarrhoea looking like charred straw and of cadaverous odor.
Drawing and hammering in the anus.
Copious, smarting leucorrhoea, stiffening the linen and coloring it green.
Glandular enlargements and tumors, with pain which is sharp and
lancinating, and becomes burning when touched.
Skin dark, mottled (mastitis).
Eruptions, appearing slowly, turning livid or black.
Old scars redden, hurt, break open and bleed.
Leptandra
Culver’s Root.
Indicated in bilious affections with tar-like stools.
Tongue coated yellow.
Aching distress in the liver.
Stools mushy, fetid, black like tar, with sense of faintness at the stomach
and weight and distress in the liver.
Lilium Tigrinum
Tiger Lily.
Indicated in affections of the pelvic viscera of (unmarried) women (as
displacements) and in reflex symptoms caused by them; useful in cardiac disturbances
associated with pelvic diseases of women.
Profound mental depression, with a restlessness which makes her move about
constantly in an aimless, nervous, hurried manner.
Wild, crazy feeling in the head; on the top of the head.
Heart feels as though grasped in a vise; as though pressed between two
hard, flat substances; waves of distress at the heart, as if it would burst; suffocating
feeling about the heart; rapid action of the heart.
Weak feeling in the pelvis, as though uterus and ovaries were being dragged
down, relieved by upward pressure and support.
Menses early, dark, offensive, scanty; flowing freely only while moving
about.
Great sexual desire, which she seeks to control by keeping “on the
go.”
Acrid, thin leucorrhoea.
Pain through the groin, shooting down the leg.
Constant pressure in the rectum, as though she must do to stool at once.
Worse
from expressions of sympathy.
Better
in the open air.
Lobelia Inflata
Indian Tobacco.
Indicated in gastric affections with deathly nausea, vomiting and great
prostration; in asthma.
Cannot bear taste or smell of tobacco.
Headache, dull, heavy, with deathly nausea and vomiting with great
prostration.
Epigastric faintness and goneness; deathly nausea and vomiting.
Dyspnoea; sense of great constriction in the chest; pressure and weight
upon the chest, better from walking.
Urine of deep red color, with copious red sediment.
Worse
from tobacco, from motion, form cold.
Better
from rapid walking, from warmth.
Lycopodium
Club Moss.
Indicated in deep-seated, chronic diseases, especially of persons who are
weak muscularly, but have a keen, active brain; who are subject to digestive disturbances with
much flatulency; catarrhal conditions; hepatic involvements, with tenderness and stitches in
the liver, swallow complexion, yellowish sports on the abdomen; dropsy dependent upon disease
of the liver; uric acid diathesis; tonsilitis; diphtheria; chronic pneumonia, especially of
old people; indigestion, with flatulency and colic, of babies.
Fan-like motion of alae-nasi.
After eating, even very little, sense of repletion and epigastric fulness;
cannot eat more because he is “so full.”
Ulcers under the tongue, near the fraenum.
Pains begin in the right side, spreading to the left (throat, chest,
abdomen, ovaries); preference for the right side.
Tongue, when protruded, sways from side to side, like a pendulum.
Sensation of coldness in inner parts.
Deep furrow on the forehead, making face look aged.
Sore throat, with stitching pain when swallowing, better from warm drinks;
ulceration of right tonsil.
Cough deep, hollow, with rattling of mucus, copious expectoration of mucus
or of gray, purulent matter of salty taste.
Sour taste of everything; heartburn; waterbrash; sour vomiting.
Aversion to bread.
Canine hunger; eating does not satisfy; headache if he does not eat when he
feels like it.
Sense of hunger awakens him at night.
Excessive accumulation of flatulence in stomach and bowels (right
hypochondriac region), with loud rumbling in the bowels; not relieved by belching.
Diarrhoea of thin, yellow stools, with much flatulency.
Constipation of hard, lumpy stools, with feeling after stool as though the
evacuation had been incomplete. Intestinal flatulency.
Inclination to stool; at stool, spasmodic pain or constriction at anus,
making the evacuation difficult.
Before urinating, intense pain in the back; red sand in the urine.
Child cries before urinating; napkin stained yellowish or reddish; sand in
the napkin.
Leucorrhoea blood-red in spells, with cutting pains across the body, from
right to left.
Worse
from 4 to 8 p. m.; from cold food and drinks; from starchy
food.
Better
from warm food and drinks; from escape of flatus; from
loosening garments.