PHYSOSTIGMA VENENOSUM
REGION:
Spinal motor nerves.
Eyes.
Muscles.
Left side.
WORSE:
Change of temperature.
Eyestrain.
Injury.
Bathing.
Heat and cold.
Descending.
Motion.
BETTER:
Lying with head low (Ver-v.).
Exerting the will.
Weakness
; muscles won’t respond or draw into knots; < cold.
Weakness in lower limbs; coming from a spot between hips. Cramp in left calf at night in
bed. Shuddering, < every draft. Horror of cold water. Averse to bathing. ……………….. Active mind,
even during sleep. Floating sensation. Nothing seems right. Brain falls to side lain on.
Pains from forehead down nose. Sensation as of a tight cap on head. Vertigo; stumbles on
ascending or descending steps. Sensation as of a band about head. Twitching
of eye muscles or of nose. Can’t bear to
raise eyelids. Accommodation affected. Seems to have swallowed a lump. Torpid bowels. Numb
womb. Flushes of heat, < in palms. Sore bloated, red navel; hypogastrium, < standing.
Tremor; in head, eyes, vision, nose, teeth, muscles, etc. Dartings, here and there. Tense
eye-lids, can’t open or close them. Blood-shot eyes. Creeping numbness from occiput down
spine. Licks lips. Teeth feel rough. Tongue feels oily; scalded. Loose skin feeling in roof
of mouth. Thick, leathery saliva. Hic-cough with short breath. Gripe in right hypochondrium.
Groins pain alternately. Abdomen, > extending legs. Numbness at womb. Offensive odor from
hands. Sweat in excitement. Heart seems to flutter in throat or over body. Sensitive spine. Jerking
limbs. Shudders from every draft of air. Attacks of overpowering sleepiness, with feeling as if to lose consciousness.Related: Agar. Gel. Nux-v.
PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA
REGION:
Glands: MAMMÆ. Naso-pharynx. Throat. Tonsils.
Muscles.
Fibrous tissues:
NECK. Back. Tendons. Joints.
Periosteum.
Kidneys.
Tongue (Root).
Digestive tract.
Right side.
WORSE:
Raising up.
Motion.
Swallowing.
Hot drinks.
Heat.
Cold: Damp. Night.
Change of weather.
BETTER:
Lying on abdomen.
Cold drinks.A remedy of long and deep action. SORE, HARD ACHE, all
over; sudden; < eyeballs, kidneys,
neck, shoulders, back,
forearms and below knees.
Restlessness. Bluish–red
parts, fauces, glands, etc. Spreading pains. Rheumatism;
after tonsilitis. Shreddy, stringy secretions; stools, menses, etc. Hard mammary
glands. Obesity. ……………….. Faint on rising. Frontal
headache. Head feels beaten sore; < brain. Hot tears. Green vision. Nose seems heavy.
Nostrils close alternately. Acrid coryza. Yellowish sickly face. Aching, malar bones. Glands
swelled at angle of jaw. Jaws ache, as in mumps. Everted lips. Clenches
teeth. Tongue, fiery
red at tip; feels burnt or pains at
root and into ear on swallowing. Much stringy saliva. White-gray spots on fauces.
Mucous patches. THROAT; very sore; very painful swallowing; dark, puffy; burning, as
of a stick, hot ball
or lump in. Like dark wash leather on tonsil.
Tonsilitis. Diphtheria. Hard throb in r. tonsil. Quinsy. Violent retching and vomiting; he
would rather die. Continuous urging to stool; even during sleep. Dysentery. Hard ache in
kidneys. Dark, red urine; chalky sediment. Albuminuria. Sore spermatic cords. Menstruation,
with flow of saliva and tears. Chronic aphonia. Dry, tickling cough. STONY HARD, HEAVY,
SWELLED (< left) OR TENDER MAMMÆ, paining during suckling, spreading
over whole body; hard nodes
in. Mastitis. Nipples cracked; inverted. Heart symptoms
go to r. arm. Fatty heart. Neck stiff.
Right arm numb and fuzzy. Hips and thighs pain on change of weather.
Aching tibiæ. Syphilis. Aching heels, > elevating feet. Bone pains. Dry, harsh skin.Complementary: Sil.
Related: Bry. Kali-bi. Kali–io.
Merc. Rhus-t.
PICRICUM ACIDUM
REGION:
Nerves: Brain.
Occiput. Cord. Lumbar
region.
Kidneys.
Sexual organs.
WORSE:
Exertion; mental
or physical.
Seminal losses.
Heat.
BETTER:
Rest.
Cold.
Bandaging.
In sun.
Weak
, tired and heavy, in mind and
body. Profound anæmia. Easily prostrated. Burning, in
many parts; along spine;
in legs, etc. Numbness. Formication. ……………….. Weak will. Heavy
occiput; down spine and in lower
limbs. Brain-fag. Headache, < mental exertion, >
nose-bleed (Fer-p.). Neurasthenia. Oily burning stool. Ammoniacal, dribbling urine.
Priapism, or sexual erethism. Backache with languor; from mental exertion. Writers’ cramp.
Aching, legs. Small, painful boils, < nape. Sleepiness.Related: Gel. Ox-ac. Pho. Pho-ac.
PLANTAGO MAJOR
REGION:
Nerves: Ears. Teeth.
Kidneys and bladder.
WORSE:
Night.
Warm room.
BETTER:
Sleep.
Eating.
Sharp
, shifting pains. Soreness.
Neuralgia. As of a body between ears; in groins, etc. ……………….. As if brain
turned over. As of a hair before (l), eye. Pains center in ears and teeth or alternate between them. Earache. Saliva flows with the pains. Toothache. Dirty taste. Bowels seem cold. Brown, frothy stools. Polyuria. Enuresis. Throbbing between scapulæ. Cold sweat on
sacrum. Numb, tremulous legs. Sensitive skin. Gloomy dreams, exciting tears.Related: Arn. Fer-p. Pul.
PLATINA
REGION:
FEMALE ORGANS.
Nerves: Vagus. Sensory. Trifacial.
WORSE:
EMOTIONS: Sexual. Coition. Chagrin.
TOUCH.
Nerve exhaustion.
BETTER:
Walking in cool air.
Sunshine.A remedy of pains. For prim old maids. Oversensitive mind and nerves. Violent cramping,
squeezing, thrusting or numbing pains,
and then spasms. Neuralgia. Many and various ovarian or uterine reflexes. Irregular spasm, congestion of blood or coldness of single
parts, eyes, ears, etc. Tremor. Alternate mental and physical or sexual
symptoms. Numbness;
scalp, face, coccyx, calves, etc. Bandaged feeling. Sticky; tears,
stool, menses, etc. ……………….. Laughs at wrong time. Unkind, abrupt and
quarrelsome. Disordered sense
of proportion; objects seem smaller, strange, frightful, etc. Hysteria. Horrors; fears
death. CONTEMPT. Hauteur. Proud
and erotic (Aur.).
Alone, deserted feeling. Mentally < in twilight. Bad humor, yet weeps. Gradually
increasing, then slowly lessening headache. Clavus. Tense scalp. Cramp at root of nose.
Grimaces. Boring in jaws. Congestion to abdomen. Colic. Hard,
black, scant or soft, difficult stools; of
tourists; of pregnancy. Crawling itching anus in evening. Painfully
sensitive genitals,
with itching, tickling or crawling. Dark, thick, profuse menses, with dragging. Heat in
ovaries. Ovarian irritation. Vaginismus. Dysmenorrha, with shrieks and jerks. Eroticism. Onanism. Spasmodic yawning. Bruised backache, <
pressure or bending backward. Knees drawn up and spread apart. Cramp in calves. In sleep
wants to uncover entirely.Related: Cup. Ign. Plb. Stan.
PLUMBUM METALLICUM
REGION:
CORD AND NERVES: MUSCLES. ABDOMEN. Kidneys.
Navel.
Blood-vessels.
Blood.
WORSE:
Clear weather.
Open air.
Exertion.
Motion.
Company.
Grasping smooth objects.
Touch.
BETTER:
Hard pressure.
Rubbing.
Slow
, insidious processes, having violent side symptoms; often of very
changeable or incoherent character; coming in single parts, etc. Paralysis. Atrophied limbs with plump body;
paralysed parts < touch. Sensitive to open air. Impulse to stretch. Exaggerates her
condition. Retraction; anus, testes, navel, etc. Increasing slowness and apathy. Deep,
bluish red sclerotic. Abdomen is drawn into uneven lumps (Ars. Ign.). Abdominal distress
that impels her to stretch. Urination slow, yet profuse. VIOLENT CONTRACTION. Retraction. Lightning pains that extort cries. Boring. Cramps
(periodical), convulsions or (flaccid) paralysis; with
hæmorrhage or hyperæsthesia. Chronic epilepsy, with marked aura. Wasting of single (upper)
parts, or of paralysed parts. Sclerosis. Gout. ……………….. Taciturn.
Timid, restless and anxious. Fears assassins. Physical labor exhausts the mind. Stupidity.
Melancholy. Delirium; nocturnal; alternating with colic or pains in limbs. Twitching of r.
face. Yellow sclerotic and inside of mouth. Trembling tongue. Sticky saliva. Sweet taste.
Aphthæ. Dysphagia. Foul or fecal eructations. NAVEL FEELS RETRACTED. Colic;
accompanies many symptoms. Radiating abdominal pains, or
boring, or as if forced through a narrow place. Tense
abdomen. Hernia at navel. Anus feels
drawn up, or painfully contracted. Stool, granular; of
hard, black balls, like sheep dung; passed with an
urging cramp. Stubborn constipation
or colics of infants. Retracted
testes. Pollutions. Bluish, red spots. Dry oversensitive skin. Dry,
burning ulcers. Takes odd positions during sleep. Wiry pulse. Coldness from exertion.
General cold sweat during stool. Feet cold, when walking only.Complementary: Rhus-t. Thallium.
Related: Op.
PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM
REGION:
Liver: Duodenum. Intestines.
RECTUM.
Right side: Ovary. Scapula. Throat.
WORSE:
EARLY MORNING.
Eating.
Hot weather.
Dentition.
Drinking.
Motion.
Mercury.
BETTER:
Stroking liver.
Lying on abdomen.
Biliousness
. ……………….. Whining. Rolls head. Eyes
half open. Bad breath. Burning rough or flabby, indented tongue. Bites
gums together;
grinds teeth. Bitter taste. As of a lump in sophagus. Craves acids which <. Vomits hot
froth. Constant gagging.
Sore, painful liver. Weak, empty sinking or sick feeling in abdomen. Rubs abdomen for >. GURGLING THROUGH BOWELS, THEN
PROFUSE, PUTRID STOOLS GUSH OUT PAINLESSLY. Summer diarrha. White
stools; like dirty water; foaming; with meal–like sediment; runs right through diaper; then weakness. Cholera
morbus. Diarrha, alternating with other symptoms, head, etc. Pale, hard, chalky stools. Rectum; raw, sore; weak; prolapsed, before stool. Moist, foul piles. Numb ache in
ovaries; radiating to r. crural nerve, etc.; < stretching legs. Ischias antica.
Generative organs threaten to prolapse, during stool. Rectum, prolapsed after confinement.
Burning in small of back. Jaundice, < face and eyes. Moaning and whining during sleep.
Loquacity during the fever (Pyro.). Sleepy after the paroxysm (malaria).Complementary: Nat-m.
Related: Alo. Chin. Merc.
POLYGONUM SAGITTATUM
REGION:
Genito-urinary organs.
Intestines.
WORSE:
Cold.
Dampness.CUTTING; along ureters; along Fallopian tubes, with bearing down; up
spine. Pulsative pain;
wandering; in prostate. Smarting discharges. ……………….. Puff under r. eye.
Itching, burning palate; wants to scratch it. Tongue feels swelled. Nausea in abdomen.
Painful affections of urinary tract. Grinding, griping, cutting bellyache, with kidney symptoms. Nephritic colic. Urine
scanty; dribbling; dark or calcareous, adherent sediment. Nephritis; suppurative. Cystitis.
Excoriated scrotum. Itching pimples within anus. Hips feel drawn together. Aching lower
limbs. Sore pains in heels. Urticaria.Related: Calc-c.
PRUNUS SPINOSA
REGION:
Nerves: Respiratory.
Orbital.
Bladder.
WORSE:
Stooping.
Ascending.
Pains
causing SHORT
BREATH, shooting or pressing outward; lightning like;
wandering. Neuralgia. Cramp. Nerve paralysis. Compensatory effects. ………………..
Pains from forehead (r), to occiput. Bursting in eyeballs. Eyes feel
pressed apart. Teeth feel pulled out. Cramp in bladder; he doubles up to urinate
(reverse-Alu.); urine reaches glans and then goes back again. Strangury. Glans pains on
urinating. Pulsating pudendum. Leucorrha; watery, purulent and acrid. Dropsy; cardiac; of feet. Air hunger. As of a lump below l.
scapula. Heart disease. Night-sweat.Related: Laur.
PSORINUM
REGION:
SKIN: FOLDS OF. Sebaceous glands.
EARS.
BOWELS.
Respiration.
Right side.
WORSE:
COLD: Open air.
Washing.
Weather; stormy; changing.
Winter.
Heat: Of bed. Exertion. Woolens.
SUPPRESSIONS.
Yearly.
Contact of his own limbs.
BETTER:
Lying with head low, or quietly.
Eating.
Washing.
Nosebleed.
Hard pressure.
Profuse sweating.Feels sick all over. Lack of reaction,
in chronic diseases. After-effects of infectious diseases, lasting for years. Enfeebled.
RECURRENCE. Clears up confused cases. Migraine. Quinsy. FOUL; discharges;
stools; eruptions; sweat; stubborn footsweat; odor of body. Thick
secretions. Weak, tender and thin, easily
chilled; takes cold; clothing seems large or he feels pushed down. Joints
seem loose. HUNGRY or unusually well BEFORE AN ATTACK; but
debilitated and reacts badly, and chronicity threatens. Wants to wash parts. ………………..
ANXIETY. Forebodings. Despair, of recovery. Gloomy. Feels good and bad by turns. Horrid thoughts. Averse
to work. Feels himself poor (reverse-Sul.). Mind dull, clouded, difficult thinking. Head
feels separated from body. Headache, follows visual disturbances; alternates with other troubles. Twitching in
temples. Sensitive to
drafts about head; wants it covered, in hot water.
Dull, dry, tangled hair. Gummy, everted eyelids. Humid sores behing ears. Putrid otorrha. Hay
fever. Face pale, sickly, dirty,
fuzzy or puffy. Loose teeth. Tip of tongue feels burnt (Ign.). Hawks out foul, cheesy
masses. Filthy taste. Anorexia; with great thirst.
Flatus like bad eggs. DARK, GUSHING, HORRIBLY PUTRID STOOLS; of
penetrating odor,
going through whole house (Pod.); < at night. Cholera infantum. Stool soft, but
difficult. Bed-wetting; at full moon. Offensive genitals. Griping in testes. Chronic
gonorrha. Breathes > lying down or spreading arms apart. Breathing; < open air.
Cough, < lying. Gurgling at heart. Panaris. Lumbar ache, < standing or walking. Hot,
itching soles. Skin breaks
out; < flexures; is
dirty, rough or scabby, greasy. Condylomata, on edges of
skin. Intolerable itching;
< heat (of bed); he scratches it raw or until it bleeds. Heat, with steaming sweat. Sweat; profuse; < night; on palms; cold; easy.Complementary: Sep. Sul. Tub.
Related: Grap. Mang. Pho. Sul.
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