DECACHORDS by A. Gladstone Clarke Presented by Dr Robert Séror

DECACHORDS

by A. Gladstone Clarke.

Presented by Dr
Robert Séror

Baptisia

1. Low, septic fevers with great
prostration and muttering delirium ; face dark red ; vacant, stupid, even
besotted expression

2

. Great
mental confusion ; sensation of divided
personality expressed in various ways, e.g. body feels scattered, tries to collect the pieces.
Concentration difficult (falls asleep while being spoken to or while
answering question).

3

. Numbness and soreness ; aching, bruised, sore feeling all over ; bed feels too
hard (Arn.).

4

. Putrescence of all discharges,
secretions and exhalations.

5

. Absence of acute pain.

6

. Drowsiness and languor ; restless
sleep.

7

. Mouth and tongue very dry in fevers ;
tongue at first white with red papillae and red edges ; later, yellow
brown centre, edges dark red and shining ; then brown, parched, cracked
and ulcerated ; sordes.

8

. Frequent, loose, dark, acrid,
offensive, debilitating stools (Ars.).

9

. Ulceration of mucous membranes
especially of fauces ; with dark-red appearance, absence of pain ; can
swallow only liquids.

10

. No marked reaction to temperature
though gen. some cold ; gen. < movement ; on waking.

Note : An acute and sub-acute remedy.

Baryta Carbonica

1. Dwarfish, ill-nourished children or
childish old people ; scrofulous subjects especially when fat.

2

. Mental and body ; weakness ; semi-imbecility.

3

. Great tendency to glandular swellings
and indurations, especially of tonsils, acute and chronic ; also fatty
tumours.

4

. Patient easily catches cold, especially
in the throat ; subject to quinsy.

5

. Paralysis and other affections arising
from impaired brain function.

6

. Degenerative changes in walls of
arteries. Atheroma, etc.

7

. Diseases peculiar to old men. Prostatic
troubles, etc.

8

. Offensive foot sweats and ailments
(especially of throat) following suppression ; one-sided sweats.

9

. Left side mostly affected.

10

. Modalities ; < cold, damp ; washing
affected parts, < when thinking of his disease.

Belladonna

1. Plethoric persons inclined to obesity
and subject to sudden congestions of the head ; happy when well, violent
when sick.

2

. Brain
symptoms predominate ; (a) wild delirium
; fantastic illusions or rage with destructive mania ; (b) constant
moaning, starting or jumping in or on going to sleep, even to springing
out of bed.

3

. Hyperaesthesia of all the senses ;
every stimulus almost intolerable.

4

. Acute local inflammations with sudden onset and rapid
course, before products have formed ; especially of peritoneum.

5

. Fevers with dry, burning hot skin,
sweat only on covered parts, smooth, shiny, scarlet surface ; flushed
face, sparkling eyes with dilated pupils ; throbbing
carotids ; pulse rapid and full but not tense.

6

. Severe, paroxysmal pains of various kinds but gen.
throbbing
; sudden onset, indefinite course, sudden decline, often < lying down
(except joint pains), < heat.

7

. Dryness of mucous membranes especially
of throat.

8

. Great bearing down in the female organs
; menses premature and profuse, flow bright red and hot.

9

. Ailments predominantly right-sided.

10

. Patient chilly. < cold but <
heat of sun ; < night or 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. ; every stimulus, least jar of bed, > wrapping
up. warmth ; resting in semi-recumbent position : lying on unaffected
side.

Notes : Chronic :

Calc. carb.

Action swift but not very prolonged.

Suitable for acute and sub-acute condition..

Do not give low potencies to nursing mothers.

Borax

1. Children at dentition period ; young
women.

2

. Excessive nervousness ; slightest
sudden noise frightens.

3

. Great
dread of downward motion in nearly all
complaints ; child clings to nurse and cries when it is being put down.

4

. Aphthous
ulcerations of mucous membranes ; of
mouth with heat, tenderness, great thirst, etc., prevents child from
nursing ; from dental plate in old people ; ulcers bleed easily, < touch, eating salty or sour food ; often assoc. diarrhoea of yellow or green stools day and
night.

S. Functional urinary troubles in children ; urine frequent, scanty,
hot, with burning, shooting pains causing child to scream before passing

(Lyc., Sanic., Sars.).

6

. Profuse, albuminous, leucorrhoea with
sensation as of warm water flowing down ; erosions of os and cervix
(internally and locally).

7

. Unhealthy skin ; every injury
suppurates ; nostrils crusty, inflamed ; tip of nose shining red. In young
women hair becomes frowsy and tangled, splits ; ingrowing eyelashes, etc.

8

. Stitching pains in various localities
especially right chest on deep inspiration or coughing.

9

. Wakes early a.m. and cannot fall asleep
again for two hours owing to heat in whole body especially head ; child
screams out in sleep as if frightened by dreams.

10

. Modalities ; < damp. cold weather ;
pains usually > pressure.

Bryonia alba

1. Dark persons of firm, fleshy fibre ;
choleric temperament ; bilious and rheumatic tendencies.

2

. Fevers. Patient lies like a log, <
least movement, resents any interference or questioning ; at night, active
delirium or broken sleep ; disturbed about immediately personal concerns ;
vague, inconstant desires ; wants to go home (Act.,
Hyos,).

3

. Inflammatory affections of serous
membranes ; when effusion is about to occur ; also mastitis, mamma heavy,
hard, hot, pale.

4

. Sharp, stitching
pains (Kali.
carb.) < motion, > rest.

5

. Excessive dryness of all mucous
membranes from lips to rectum (resulting, e.g. in 6 and 7) ; secretions scanty.

6

. Great
thirst for copious draughts at long
intervals (rev. Ars.).

7

. Constipation ; stools large, hard,
dark, dry, crumbling as if burnt ; also summer diarrhoeas from chill or
overheating.

8

. Gastric disorders ; foul, yellow-coated
tongue, capricious appetite ; sensation as of stone in stomach (Nux V., Puls.).

9

. Ailments chiefly right-sided (ovarian
troubles often an exception).

10

. Modalities ; < slightest motion of any kind ; at night especially about 9 p.m. or early a.m. even after good sleep ; < heat,
especially sun heat ; > absolute rest, mental and physical ; cool
air and applications ; lying on painful side.

Notes :Chronic remedies,

Natr. mur.,
Alumina, Lycopod.

Useful in ailments from suppression of discharges and acute exanthema.

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