ESSENTIALS OF
HOMOEOPATHIC THERAPEUTICS.
Pr Willis Alonzo Dewey.
Presented by Dr Robert Séror.M : Mammary_gland,
Marasmus,
Measles,
Menstruation,
Mental_conditions,
Miscarriage,
Mouth_diseases,
Mumps.
MAMMARY GLAND, AFFECTIONS
OF.Q. : Where do the pains of Croton tiglium extend when child is nursing
?A. :
To the back.
Q. : What are the symptoms calling for Phytolacca in affections of the
mammary gland ?A. :
When the
breasts show a tendency to cake and suppuration threatens, pain goes from
nipple all over body, and there is excessive flow of milk.Q. : What other drug has nodosities in the female breast, and how is it
distinguished from Phytolacca ?A. :
Conium, here
there is stony hardness, and it is less acute than Phytolacca
;
in Conium
the breasts are
exceedingly sensitive, cannot bear the touch of clothes, and walking or
jarring is painful.Q. : Mention two other remedies that have nodes in the breast.
A. :
Calcarea
fluorica and Silicea.
Q. : What is a symptom calling for Phellandrium ?
A. :
When the pain
courses along the milk ducts when child is not nursing.Q. : What is the action of Pulsatilla on the mammary gland ?
A. :
It is indicated
when mechanical irritation excites flow of milk.It is also indicated where the flow of milk is scanty or absent, and
where the patient is gloomy and tearful.Q. : Mention some other drugs useful in abscess of the mammary gland.
A. :
Bryonia,
Belladonna and Phosphorus.
MARASMUS.
Q. : Give indications for Calcarea phosphorica in defective nutrition
or marasmus.A. :
Thin, emaciated
children, predisposed to glandular and osseous diseases ; large head and
open fontanelles ; the teeth develop tardily ; there is curvature of the
spine, it is so weak it cannot support the body ; the neck is very slim ;
the child vomits persistently ; there is a diarrhoea of green, slimy and
undigested stools.Q. : Give indications for Iodine in marasmus.
A. :
Extreme hunger,
but in spite of this the patient emaciates ; the function of the glands is
interfered with ; there is great torpidity and sluggishness of the system.Q. : What are the indications of Magnesia carbonica in marasmus ?
A. :
Puny, sickly
children, in whom milk causes pain when taken into the stomach, and is
vomited undigested ; there are griping, colicky pains ; the stools are
sour and green as grass ; the child is improperly nourished ; its mouth is
full of ulcers.Q. : How is Calcarea carbonica distinguished ?
A. :
By the sweat on
head, by the damp, cold feet, and by the swollen abdomen.Q. : When is Hepar sulphur the remedy ?
A. :
It stands
between Sulphur and
Calcarea.
There is weakness of digestion.
Diarrhoea, worse during day and after eating ; stools undigested and
sour.The whole body smells sour.
Q. : What are the indications for Natrum muriaticum ?
A. :
Thin necked
children with ravenous appetite, yet they grow thin ; great thirst ; a
constant heat and dryness of the mouth and throat, which water relieves.MEASLES.
Q. : When should Bryonia be given in measles ?
A. :
When the rash
appears late, and when it is apt to run a balky course, and when
inflammatory diseases of the chest accompany.Dry, hard, painful cough.
Q. : What are the indications for Gelsemium in measles ?
A. :
The catarrhal
symptoms, great prostration, stupor and absence of thirst ; itching and
redness of the skin.Q. : Give indications for Aconite.
A. :
Best remedy at
commencement ; fever, restlessness, photophobia, coryza, sneezing and
hard, croupy cough will indicate it.Q. : What are three remedies for non-appearance or repercussion of the
rash ?A. :
Stramonium :
Child cries out,
frightened, is convulsed, has bright red face.
Cuprum
:
Bluish face, violent symptoms, convulsive cramps, etc.
Zincum
: Cries
out in sleep ; too debilitated to develop an eruption.Q. : Give symptoms calling for Pulsatilla in measles.
A. :
Coryza and
profuse lachrymation.Cough dry at night, loose by day ; child sits up to cough.
Not in first stage of disease.
Q. : When does Kalium bichromicum come in ?
A. :
After Pulsatilla,
with pustules on
cornea ; swelling of glands ; shootings from ears into glands.Diarrhea ; symptoms in general are worse than those calling for
Pulsatilla.
MENINGITIS.
Q. : When is Aconite the remedy in meningitis ?
A. :
When caused by
exposure to the sun.Q. : When is Apis the remedy ?
A. :
The case is apt
to commence with fidgetiness, there are shrill outcries in sleep.The eruption is either suppressed or undeveloped ; stage of effusion.
Squinting, grinding of teeth, violent fever.
Q. : Give in brief the indications for Belladonna.
A. :
The symptoms
are severe and violent.There is intense congestion, throbbing, grinding of teeth and crying
out in sleep ; it pictures acute meningitis before exudation.Sharp pains, red face and acuteness of symptoms will call for this
remedy.Q. : When does Bryonia come in ?
A. :
In the stage of
effusion.Face flushes and pales alternately ; child screams if moved the least.
Has a hastiness in manner.
White tongue and is thirsty.
Q. : Give indications for Cuprum in meningitis.
A. :
When it arises
from a suppressed eruption.There is violent delirium, blue face, convulsions, with clenched hands,
rolling of eyeballs, grinding of teeth, followed by deep sleep.Q. : What are the indications for Helleborus ?
A. :
Stage of
exudation.Shooting pains in head ; bores head into pillow ; automatic motion of
an arm and foot ; eyeballs turned upwards ; is hasty in manner.Q. : Give indications for Zincum.
A. :
Sharp pains
through head ; especially in meningitis arising from non-development of an
eruption ; constant fidgety motions of feet.Little or no fever, and hyper-aesthesia of all the senses and skin.
Q. : What remedies are useful in tubercular meningitis ?
A. :
Artemesia
vulgaris, Baryta carbonica and
Calcarea carbonica.
MENSTRUATION.
(See Women, Diseases of )
MENTAL CONDITIONS AND
DERANGEMENTS.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Aconite ?
A. :
There is
extreme restlessness, anxiety, tossing about and fear of death, even
predicting the hour of death.There is an intolerance of music and there is a peculiar aversion to
busy streets.Q. : What other drug has the symptom that the patient predicts the hour
of death ?A. :
Coffea.
Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Belladonna ?
A. :
There is mental
irritability, hasty speech and hasty action.There is a great deal of delirium.
The patient desires to escape.
He strikes those about him and tries to get out of bed.
There is a desire to cut and tear the clothing, and is associated with
a red face, throbbing carotids.Veratrum album has almost the same symptoms.
Q. : How is it distinguished from Belladonna ?
A. :
There is
coldness of surface of the body under Veratrum
album and cold
sweat on forehead.Q. : What other drugs have hasty speech and hasty drinking ?
A. :
Lachesis and
Dulcamara and
Sulphur.
Q. : Give, in general, the mental symptoms of Hyoscyamus.
A. :
The patient is
full of imaginations.Thinks he is about to be poisoned and refuses to take the medicine, and
imagines that he is pursued by some one who is trying to take his life.The patient talks and mutters all the time, and jumps from one subject
to another.There is delirium with involuntary passages and picking at the bed
clothes and objects in the air.It is also a remedy for jealousy.
Nymphomania, patient makes lewd gestures, throws off bed clothes,
uncovers genitals.Q. : What other drug has jealousy and great loquacity, the patient
jumping from one subject to another ?A. :
Lachesis.
Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Stramonium ?
A. :
There is wild
delirium and a bright red face.The eyes have a suffused and wild look.
The hallucinations terrify the patient ; objects jump up from every
corner ; he sees all sorts of animals.At one moment he is laughing, singing and making faces and at another
praying.There is constant loquacity, the talk being foolish and non sensical.
There is fear of the dark.
He imagines that he hears voices.
During delirium there are frequent attempts to escape.
Bright objects cause delirium and spasms.
Q. : How is Stramonium distinguished from Lachesis in loquacity ?
A. :
The Stramonium
patient does not
jump from one subject to another, but talks continually and foolishly, and
it is distinguished also by the red face and other signs of sensorial
excitement.Q. : What drug causes a garrulity very much like that caused by tea, a
sort of vivacity with love of prattling ?A. :
Paris
quadrifolia.
Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Lachesis ?
A. :
Loquacity,
patient jumps from one subject to another ; jealousy and a low muttering
delirium with tendency of the lower jaw to drop, the patient being worse
on waking ; the mind is weakened ; the patient thinks only with difficulty
; ideas also crowd upon the mind rapidly ; the patient thinks that he is
under the control of some superhuman power.Q. : What drug has the symptom that the patient thinks he has two
wills, one commanding him to do what the other forbids ?A. :
Anacardium.
Q. : What other symptoms has Anacardium ?
A. :
It produces a
weak memory ; he imagines he hears voices, and another condition is a
propensity to swear ; It is a mental condition and it does not exist as a
result of low morals.The patient is also suspicious.
Q. : What other drug produces a disposition to swear ?
A. :
Nitricum
acidum
Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Nux vomica ?
A. :
The patient is
irritable and ugly, easily put out ; over-taxing of the mental powers
aggravate the symptoms ; disinclination to mental work ; useful in
over-worked, fidgety business men of sedentary habits.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Bryonia ?
A. :
It is a useful
remedy for abdominal symptoms resulting from fits of anger ; the patient
is irritable and easily angered ; delirium in which the patient thinks he
is away from home and wants to go home ; talks about his business.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Chamomilla ?
A. :
There is a
peculiar excitability ; the patient is cross and excitable, and slight
impressions produce mental anguish ; pains often result in fainting ; it
is a remedy for the effect of anger ; children want to be carried about,
and want different things, and when they get them throw them away
dissatisfied ; especially sensitive to pain, snappish, uncivil.Q. : What drug has colic in children following fits of anger ?
A. :
Staphisagria.
Q. : What are some other mental symptoms of Staphisagria ?
A. :
It is a remedy
for the affections of suppressed indignation.There is a hypochondriacal condition ; the patient is apathetic and
gloomy ; he prefers solitude and is shy of the opposite sex.The
Staphisagria child
is impetuous and irritable, reminding one of Chamomilla.
Q. : What other drug is closely allied to both Chamomilla and
Staphisagria in the bad effects of anger ?A. :
Colocynthis.
Q. : What drugs, like Chamomilla, produce fainting from pains ?
A. :
Valeriana,
Hepar sulphur and Veratrum
album.
Q. : Give the mental symptoms of Aurum.
A. :
There is
melancholy, with disposition to weep ; feeling as if he were not fit to
live, and a consequent tendency to suicide ; often there is a religious
mania ; he prays all the time ; the mind is full of suicidal thoughts ;
contradiction or dispute excites the patient, and there is great weakness
of the memory ; patient thinks he is damned.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Sepia ?
A. :
The patient is
low-spirited, cries readily ; weak memory ; there is sadness and
irritability ; it will not do to find fault with her ; there is also
perfect indifference, especially to household affairs and to her own
family ; the patient is easily offended ; she dreads to be alone, wants
company, but has an aversion to her own friends.Q. : How is Sepia distinguished from Pulsatilla ?
A. :
Both have
weeping, anxiety, peevishness, and are ill-humored ; but Pulsatilla,
only, has the mild,
clinging disposition calling for consolation ; she makes her grief known
and seeks sympathy.The
Sepia patient
is worse from gentle exercise, but is relieved by violent exercise.Q. : How does Ignatia differ from both Pulsatilla and Sepia ?
A. :
There is a
tearful mood with melancholy under Ignatia,
but the patients
nurse their sorrows, and keep them from others.Q. : Give some other mental symptoms of Ignatia.
A. :
It is
especially a remedy for the effects of grief, particularly if the patient
dwells upon her sorrows in secret, and especially if the cause of the
grief be recent ; change-able mood ; introspective, given to sighing, full
of disappointments ; weeping.Q. : What drug is useful for chronic or long-lasting effects of grief ?
A. :
Phosphoricum
acidum
Q. : What are some mental symptoms of Phosphoricum acidum ?
A. :
There is great
indifference and torpidity of mind ; the patient is disinclined to answer
questions ; he is in a stupor, unconscious of all that goes on around him,
but when roused he is fully conscious ; it is also a remedy for
home-sickness ; the patient is ill from the effects of grief.Q. : Give some of the mental symptoms that would indicate Ignatia in
hysteria.A. :
The patient
alternately laughs and cries, and there is great sensitiveness to external
impressions ; changeableness is characteristic ; the patient sighs a great
deal.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Platina ?
A. :
The patient is
proud and haughty ; looks down upon others with disdain ; everybody seems
beneath her ; objects seem unfamiliar to her — even familiar objects ;
she does not know where she is ; there is often with this a condition of
vision in which objects really look smaller ; there is a great dread of
death, which the patient believes to be near at hand.The proud, haughty feeling is the main characteristic.
Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Lycopodium ?
A. :
The patient is
impatient and irritable, gets angered easily and is apt to be domineering
; at other times there is sadness and tearfulness ; the memory is weak ;
they make mistakes in speech and forget words or syllables ; afraid to be
left alone.Q. : What other drugs have the symptom that the patient has to think
how words are spelled ?A. :
Sulphur and
Lachesis.
Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Sulphur ?
A. :
The patient has
insane ideas ; thinks she is wealthy ; tears up her clothes and plays with
old rags with pleasure, thinking that they are objects of beauty ; there
is also melancholy and restlessness ; there is also a religious mania ;
patient fears she will not be saved ; there is anxiety about her own soul,
but perfectly indifferent about the souls of others ; children are apt to
be irritable and peevish.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Hepar sulphur ?
A. :
The patient is
low-spirited, and at times there is a tendency to suicide ; the patient
feels discouraged and cross, and annoyed by the recollection of past
unpleasantnesses in his life ; the memory is weakened ; he forgets words
or localities ; he is over-sensitive, and speech is hasty ; he is
especially sad in the evening, and does not wish to see members of his own
family.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Calcarea carbonica ?
A. :
There is one
peculiar symptom : the patients see persons and objects on closing the
eyes ; these disappear as soon as the eyes are open ; there is an
apprehensive state of the mind and fear that the patient will go crazy.Q. : What other drugs have the first of these symptoms ?
A. :
Belladonna and
Cinchona.
Q. : What drugs have the symptom that the patient fears that he will go
crazy ?A. :
Alumina and
Iodine.
Q. : What are some of the other symptoms of Alumina ?
A. :
The patient is
law-spirited and inclined to weep, and there is a suicidal tendency when
the patient sees blood or a knife.Then there is hypochondriasis and indifference to work ; time passes
slowly.Q. : What mental symptoms call for Cannabis Indica ?
A. :
There are great
delusions as to time and distances.Time and space seem greatly extended.
Objects a few feet off appear many yards away and seconds seem like a
century.Q. : What are the mental conditions of Apis ?
A. :
The patient
feels strange, as if about to die, but there is no fear of death.There is delirium and the mind is weak, but especially is there
awkwardness.Patients let fall what they are carrying and run against furniture,
etc., in a clumsy, awkward way.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Arsenic ?
A. :
Here we have
great fear of death also.There is great restlessness and desire to change position.
They do not want to be left alone for fear they will die.
The patient has fear of ghosts and fanciful figures.
Q. : How does the restlessness of Rhus toxicodendron differ ?
A. :
It is to
relieve pain, not an anxious restlessness.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Natrum muriaticum ?
A. :
The patient is
sad and tearful.There is a low, depressed condition of the mind.
The patient is worse from consolation.
There is an intense degree of hypochodriasis.
Then, too, the patient is irritable ; every little trifle angers him,
and unpleasant events trouble his mind and keep him awake.This melancholic condition is apt to flow excitement,
Q. : How does Natrum muriaticum differ from Pulsatilla in this tearful
disposition ?A. :
Consolation
under Natrum mur. aggravates,
while under Pulsatilla
the patient seeks
consolation.Q. : What drugs are useful for the bad effects of fright ?
A. : Opium,
Gelsemium, Pulsatilla and
Veratrum album.
Q. : What drugs are useful for chronic effects of fright ?
A. :
Natrum
muriaticum, Silicea and
Phosphoricum acidum
Q. : Give the mental symptoms of Palladium.
A. :
The patient is
easily put out of humor.Imagines herself neglected.
Is proud, but the pride is easily wounded.
She suffers from mental excitement, especially in company.
Her symptoms are worse after an evening’s excitement.
Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Antimonium crudum ?
A. :
The children
are cross and peevish ; will not allow any to look at them.Adults are sulky and sad.
In children this crossness is increased by washing them in water.
Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Gelsemium ?
A. :
There is a
tremor of the body and a great desire to be held still, and it is also a
useful remedy for children after a fright.The patient is apathetic ; does not seem to care ” whether school
keeps or not.”Ailments from emotional excitement, such as bad news, fright, grief,
etc.Q. : Give the mental symptoms of Graphites.
A. :
The patient is
full of grief, anxious and apprehensive, and this apprehensiveness compels
her to move about from place to place.Has forebodings of accidents or mishaps which are about to take place.
This makes her anxious and restless and she cannot keep still.
Q. : What is the Graphites temperament in general ?
A. :
Sad, fat, fair
and constipated.Q. : What is the peculiar mental symptom of Argentum nitricum ?
A. :
There is a
sensation as if parts of the body were enormously large.The patient is impulsive, always busy yet accomplishes nothing.
He makes mistakes in estimating distances.
He is full of apprehension that he has some disease of the brain.
There is a fear of being poisoned.
Q. : What are the peculiar mental symptoms of Baptisia ?
A. :
The patient
imagines that his body is scattered about in different places and that he
has to move himself to get them together.There is a sensation as if the body were double or triple or scattered
about in the bed ; an indicative symptom to be found typhoid fever.Q. : What drug has the symptoms that the patient imagines herself
double or that she is glass and is in constant fear of being touched lest
she be broken ?A. :
Thuja.
Q. : What drugs have the sensation as though something were alive in
the abdomen ?A. :
Thuja and
Crocus saliva.
Q. : What other drugs have the symptoms besides Baptisia that the body
is scattered about and the patient tries to get the pieces together ?A. :
Petroleum and
Thuja.
Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Phosphorus ?
A. :
The patient is
susceptible to external impressions ; can neither bear light, sounds nor
odors ; he is easily angered ; has fanciful notions ; sees faces in every
part of the room, and symptoms are aggravated by mental exertion ;
thoughts rush through his mind or else he has inability and remember.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Causticum ?
A. :
The patient is
low-spirited, nervous and anxious and fanciful ; feels as though something
were going to happen if he were going to commit a crime ; it is also a
remedy for the remote effects of anger ; there is sadness, especially
before the menses ; she dreads the possibility of is to herself and others
; afraid to go to bed in the dark.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Coffea ?
A. :
It produces an
ecstatic state of mind ; unusual activity of mind and body ; full of
fancies ; acuteness of all senses ; great flow of thought.Q. : What drug has the symptom that children wake at night unnaturally
bright and playful, evincing no desire to go to sleep again ?A. :
Cypripedium.
Q. : What are the mental conditions of Glonoin ?
A. :
There is
forgetfulness ; the patient loses her way in well-known streets ;
confusion of place.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Iodine ?
A. :
There is a
great dread of people ; he shuns every one ; the patient is excitable and
restless, moves about from place to place.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Kalium bromatum ?
A. :
There are
strange imaginations ; the patient imagines that he will be poisoned ;
that he is hated by everybody.He will often imagine that he is pursued by some demon and will try to
commit suicide to avert danger ; there is also fear of being poisoned.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Kalium carbonicum ?
A. :
The patient is
peevish and nervous and easily startled ; imagines that someone is in the
room ; this anxiety is excited by any noise, such as shutting of a door or
a window, and it sends them into a violent fit of trembling ; there is
great indifference ; the patient does not know what she wants, and this
condition is associated with great bodily exhaustion.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Lilium tigrinum ?
A. :
There is a
depressed mood ; fears she will go crazy, and the patient feels relieved
by diverting her mind or busying herself.Q. : Mention two important drugs in home-sickness.
A. :
Pulsatilla and
Mercurius.
Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Nux moschata ?
A. :
There is a
changeful mood ; the patient laughs and jests about serious subjects, and
then she changes to sadness, weeping and low crying ; objects seem to grow
smaller as looks at them ; there are errors in perception ; bewilderment ;
there is a fanciful condition of the mind.Q. : What are the mental conditions of Rhus toxicodendron ?
A. :
There is
delirium and restlessness ; patient is indifferent ; fears that he will be
poisoned and will not take the medicine on that account ; there may be a
desire to jump out of bed and try to escape, but it is not common.Q. : What drug has a great deal of depression referable to the chest,
is tearful and discouraged, and fears that he will go into decline ?A. :
Stannum.
Q. : What drug has the symptom that the soul feels as though it were
free from the body ?A. :
Anacardium
orientale.
Q. : What drug has the symptom that patient fears that he will be run
over in the street ?A. :
Phosphorus.
Q. : What are the mental conditions calling for the use of Kalium
phosphoricum ?A. :
There is a
gloomy, depressed irritable mental state ; trifles annoy ; the patient
looks on the dark side of every thing ; there is a loss of memory,
crossness and fretfulness in children.Q. : What mental disease is Kalium phosphoricum useful in ?
A. :
Melancholia and
mania ; somnambulistic states, or any state where there is mental
aberration ; hallucinations and illusions, puerperal mania and delirium
tremens.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Natrum carbonicum ?
A. :
Depressed and
irritable, especially after a meal ; this hypochondriasis decreases as the
food gets out of the stomach into the bowels.Q. : Give mental symptoms of Cimicifuga.
A. :
Mental
depression ; delirium tremens ; visions of rats, mice, etc.A sensation as if there were a pall or gloom, or a horrible sadness
settling over her — a feeling as if she were going crazy.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Cina ?
A. :
The child wakes
in a fright, screams, trembles and can-not be quieted ; they are proof
against all caresses ; they are cross, irritable, nervous and peevish ;
they want to be rocked.Q. : What is the mental condition of the Digitalis patient in heart
affections calling for that remedy ?A. :
Anxious,
low-spirited, gloomy and apprehensive, and a desire to be alone.Q. :
What are the
mental symptoms of Conium ?A. :
Mental
depression, hypochondriasis and hysteria, dread society and of being
alone.Q. : What are the mental symptoms of Ambra ?
A. :
Forgetfulness
and hurry ; the patient does everything a hurry ; time passes slowly.Q. : What mental conditions has Colocynthis ?
A. :
Disturbances
caused by mental emotions, violent anger or fright, vexation or mortified
feelings.Q. : What is the mental condition of the Pulsatilla patient ?
A. :
A changeable
disposition ; first mild, tearful and yield – and then irritable and
peevish.MISCARRIAGE.
Q. : What symptoms indicate Sabina ?
A. :
Threatened
abortion about the third month, with pains small of the back, going down
thighs ; bruised sensation along the anterior surface of the thighs.Pains from sacrum to pubis is also a characteristic symptom.
Q. : What are the indications for Viburnum opulus ?
A. :
Threatened
miscarriage, with pains from lower abdomen into thighs.Q. : When should Cimicifuga be thought of ?
A. :
When the pains
fly across the abdomen, from side to doubling the patient up ; fainting
spells.Q. : What is an indication for the local use of Hamamelis in threatened
miscarriage ?A. :
Great soreness
in the abdomen.Q. : What drugs may be useful in threatened miscarriage from anger ?
A. :
Aconite and
Chamomilla.
Q. : When is Secale indicated ?
A. :
Threatened
abortion during the later months ; copious flow of black liquid blood,
especially if the patient be thin and scrawny.MOUTH, DISEASES OF.
Q. : What is the character of the sore mouth of Borax ?
A. :
Aphthae form on
the inside of the cheeks, on the tongue and in the fauces ; the mouth is
hot ; the membrane around these aphthae bleeds easily, and the child lets
g o of the nipple and cries with vexation or refuses to nurse.Q. : When is Mercurius indicated in this condition ?
A. :
When there is
salivation ; the water dribbles from the child’s mouth ; diarrhoea with
tenesmus.Q. : What is a symptom of Bryonia which is sometimes useful in sore
mouth ?A. :
The child
refuses to nurse until mouth has been moistened, the mouth is so dry.Q. : Give symptoms indicating Baptisia in affections of the mouth.
A. :
Fetor,
salivation.Stomacace in last stages of phthisis.
Q. : When is Nitricum acidum indicated ?
A. :
Pricking pains
in mouth ; aphthae ; gums whitish.Q. : And Muriaticum acidum ?
A. :
Deep ulcers
with dark edges.Mucous membrane denuded and dotted with aphthae.
Q. : Give indications for Arsenicum in sore month.
A. :
Burning in
mouth ; gangrene of the mouth ; bluish or sloughing ulcers.Gums bleed, tongue blistered.
Q. : Mention some remedies for common canker sores.
A. :
Lycopodium, when
near fraenum of the tongue.
Lachesis
when at
tip of the tongue.
Nitricum acidum, Phytolacca
and
Natrum hydrochlor., when
on side of cheeks.
Salicylicum acidum,
with
burning soreness and fetid breath.MUMPS.
Q. : In what diseases about the throat is Rhus toxicodendron often
indicated ?A. :
Mumps or
swelling of parotid glands, with sticking when swallowing ; they are dark
red and worse on the left side.Q. : When is Pulsatilla indicated ?
A. :
When there is a
threatened metastasis to the breasts or testicles.Q. : Give indications for Belladonna.
A. :
Bright red
swelling, especially on right side, or where the swelling suddenly
disappears and cerebral symptoms ensue.Q. : What are the indications for Mercurius ?
A. :
Swelling is
pale ; the jaws are stiff ; much pain and salivation.Copyright © Robert
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