Natrum Muriaticum

Dropsies and edemas, anemia, leukocytosis, intermittent fever, anemia, chlorosis, many disturbances of the alimentary tract and skin. Great debility; most weakness felt in the morning in bed. Coldness. Emaciation most notable in neck. Great liability to take cold. Dry mucous membranes. Constrictive sensation throughout the body. Great weakness and weariness. Oversensitive to all sorts of influences. Hyperthyroidism. Goiter. Addison’s disease. Diabetes.

Hungry, yet loose flesh. Heartburn, with palpitation. Unquenchable thirst. Sweats while eating. Craving for salt. Aversion to bread, to anything slimy. Throbbing in pit. Sticking sensation in cardiac orifice. Cutting pain in abdomen. Distended. Pain in abdominal ring on coughing.

Rectum: Burning pains and stitching after stool. Anus contracted, torn, bleeding. Constipation; stool dry, crumbling (Am m; Mag m). Painless and copious diarrhea, preceded by pinching pain in abdomen.

Urine: Pain just after urinating (Sars). Increased, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc. Has to wait a long time for it to pass if others are present.

Tachycardia. Sensation of coldness of heart. Heart and chest feel constricted. Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse. Heart’s pulsations shake body. Intermits on lying down.

Extremities: Pain in back, with desire for some firm support. Every movement accelerates the circulation. Palms hot and perspiring. Arms and legs, but especially knees, feel weak. Hangnails. Dryness and cracking about fingernails. Numbness and tingling in fingers and lower extremities. Ankles weak and turn easily. Painful contraction of hamstrings. Cracking in joints on motion. Coldness of legs with congestion to head, chest, and stomach.

Sleep: Sleepy in forenoon. Nervous jerking during sleep. Bad dreams.

Skin: Greasy, oily, especially on hairy parts. Dry eruptions, especially on margin of hairy scalp and bends of joints. Fever blisters. Urticaria; itch and burn. Crusty eruptions in bends of limbs, margin of scalp, behind ears. Warts on palms of hands. Eczema; raw, red, and inflamed; worse, eating salt, at seashore. Affects hair follicles. Alopecia. Hives, itching after exertion. Greasy skin.

Fever: Chill in morning. Heat; violent thirst, increases with fever. Fever-blisters. Coldness of the body, and continued chilliness very marked. Hydremic in chronic malarial states with weakness, constipation, loss of appetite, etc. Sweats on every exertion.

Conium Maculate

Debility, hypochondriasis, urinary troubles, tumors, trembling, and palpitation. Cancerous diathesis. Arterio-sclerosis. Caries of sternum. Enlarged glands.

Soreness about the root of tongue. Terrible nausea, acrid heartburn and acid eructation; worse on going to bed. Painful spasms of the stomach. Amelioration from eating and aggravation a few hours after meals; acidity and burning; painful spot the level of the sternum.

Abdomen: Severe aching in and around the liver. Chronic jaundice, and pains in right hypochondrium. Sensitive, bruised, swollen, knife-like pains. Painful tightness.

Stool: Frequent urging; hard, with tenesmus. Tremulous weakness after every stool. (Verat.; Ars.; Arg. n.) Heat and burning in rectum during stool.

Urine: Much difficulty in voiding. It flows and stops again. (Ledum.) Interrupted discharge. (Clematis.) Dribbling in old men.

Respiratory: Dry cough, almost continuous, hacking; worse, evening and at night; caused by dry spot in larynx with itching in chest and throat, when lying down, talking or laughing, and during pregnancy. Oppressed breathing, constriction of chest; pains in chest. Dorsal pain between shoulders. Dull aching in lumbar and sacral region.

Trembling extremities especially lower, Muscular weakness, Putting feet on chair relieves pain.

Skin: Axillary glands pain, with numb feeling down arm. Induration after contusions. Yellow skin, with popular eruption; yellow finger-nails. Glands enlarged and indurated, also mesenteric. Flying stitches through the glands. Tumors, piercing pains; worse, at night. Chronic ulcers with fetid discharge. Sweat as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing eyes. Night and morning sweat, with offensive odor, and smarting in skin.

Ferrum Metalicum

Best adapted to young weakly persons, anemic and chlorotic, with pseudo-plethora, who flush easily; cold extremities; over sensitiveness; worse after any active effort. Weakness from mere speaking or walking though looking strong. Pallor of skin, mucous membranes, face, alternating with flushes. Pseudo-plethora. Muscles flabby and relaxed. Chest oppressed; breathing difficult.

Voracious appetite, or absolute loss of appetite. Loathing of sour things. Attempts to eat bring on diarrhea. Spits up food by the mouthful. Eructation of food after eating, without nausea. Nausea and vomiting after eating. Vomiting immediately after eating. Vomiting after midnight. Intolerance of eggs. Distention and pressure in the stomach after eating. Heat and burning in stomach. Soreness of abdominal walls. Flatulent dyspepsia.

Heart: Palpitation; worse, movement. Sense of oppression. Anemic murmur. Pulse full, but soft and yielding; also, small and weak. Heart suddenly bleeds into the blood vessels, and as suddenly draws a reflux, leaving pallor of surface.

Skin: Pale; flushes readily; pits on pressure. General coldness of extremities; head and face hot.

Stool: Undigested, at night, while eating or drinking, painless. Ineffectual urging; stool hard, followed by backaches or cramping pain in rectum; prolapses recti; itching of anus, especially young children.

Urine: Involuntary; worse daytime. Tickling in urethra extending to bladder.

Phosphorus

Phosphorus is a destructive metabolism. Causes yellow atrophy of the liver and sub-acute hepatitis, jaundice in patients with Cirrhosis of Liver, stool very offensive, vomiting of blood, desire for cold drinks, juices and ice creams.

Hunger soon after eating. Sour taste and sour eructation after every meal. Belching large quantities of wind, after eating. Throws up ingest by the mouthfuls. Vomiting; water is thrown up as soon as it gets warm in the stomach. Postoperative vomiting. Cardiac opening seems contracted, too narrow; the food scarcely swallowed, comes up again. Pain in stomach; relieved by cold food, ices. Region of stomach painful to touch, or on walking. Inflammation of stomach, with burning extending to throat and bowels. Bad effects of eating too much salt.

Abdomen feels cold. Sharp, cutting pains. A very weak, empty, gone sensation felt in whole abdominal cavity. Liver congested. Acute hepatitis. Fatty degeneration (Carbon tetrachloride; Ars. Chlorof). Jaundice. Pancreatic disease. Large, yellow spots on abdomen.

Stool: Very fetid stools and flatus. Long, narrow, hard, like a dog’s and difficult to expel. Desire for stool on lying especially on left side. Painless, copious debilitating diarrhea. Green mucus with grains like sago. Involuntary; seems as if anus remained open. Great weakness after stool. Discharge of blood from rectum, during stool. White, hard stools. Bleeding hemorrhoids.

Urine: Hematuria, especially in acute Bright’s disease. Turbid, brown, with red sediment.

Acid Sulphuricum

Heartburn; sour eructation; sets teeth on edge, Water causes coldness of stomach, Sour vomiting. Desire for fresh food. Hiccough. Coldness of stomach relieved by applied heat Nausea with chilliness, Weak feeling, with dragging into the hips and small of back. Feeling as if hernia would protrude, especially left side (increased pressure).

Piles; oozing dampness. Rectum feels as if it had a big ball. Diarrhea, fetid, black, with sour odor of body, and empty faint feeling in abdomen.

Female: Menstruation early and profuse. Erosion of cervix in the aged; easily bleeding. Acrid, burning leucorrhoea, often of bloody mucus.

Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises and livid skin. Ecchymosis. Petechiae. Purpura hemorrhagic. Livid, red, itching blotches. Hemorrhage of black blood from all outlets. Cicatrices turn red and blue and become painful. Chilblains with gangrenous tendency. Carbuncles, boils and other staphylococcus and streptococcus infections.

Carbolicum Acidum

Stomach pains are terrible; come and go suddenly. Physical exertion brings on abscess. Putrid discharges. Scarlet fever, with marked tendency to destruction of tissue internally, and fetid odor. Spasmodic coughs. Arthritis. Constant belching, nausea, vomiting, dark olive green. Heat rises up esophagus. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Painful flatulence, low apatite, Fermentative dyspepsia with bad taste and breath.  Puerperal fever, with offensive vaginal discharge. Irritating leucorrhoea, causing itching and burning. Itching vesicles, with burning pain. Burns tend to ulcerate.

Constipation, with very offensive breath. Bloody, like scrapings of intestines. Great tenesmus. Diarrhea; stools thin, black, putrid.

Urine: Almost black. Diabetes. Irritable bladder in old men with frequent urination at night, of probable prostatic nature.

Ferrum Arsenic0sum

Enlarged liver and spleen, with fever ( Enlarged spleen with high fever of a continued type); albuminuria. Simple and pernicious anemia and chlorosis, pale, jaundiced, emaciated; abdomen filled with enlarged and indurated liver and spleen, slightly tender to pressure. Skin dry. Eczema, psoriasis, impetigo.

Constipation, or, sometimes, colliquative diarrhea, the stools consisting of undigested matter and mucus, no thirst during any stage of the fever; heat intense and prolonged with slight burning of the whole body, emaciation, and debility.

Ferrum Iodatum

Scrofulous affections, glandular enlargements, and tumors call for this remedy. Crops of boils. Acute nephritis following eruptive diseases. Uterine displacements. Body emaciated Anemia Exophthalmic goiter following suppression of menses. Debility following drain upon vital forces. Impetigo of the cheek.

Stomach: Food seems to push up into throat, as if it had not been swallowed.

Abdomen: Fullness, even after a little food; stuffed feeling, as if she could not lean forward.

Throat: Sore, as if of a splinter, shooting in different directions. Hoarse.

Respiratory: Coryza; discharge of mucus from nose, trachea, and larynx. Pressure beneath sternum. Scrofulous swelling of nose. Chest feels oppressed. Hemoptysis.

Urinary: Urine dark. Sweet smelling. Crawling sensation in urethra and rectum. Sensation as if urine were stopped at fossa naviculars. Difficulty in retaining urine. Incontinence in anemic children.

Female: On sitting, feeling as if something pressed upward in vagina. Much bearing down. Retroversion and prolapse of uterus. Leucorrhoea like boiled starch. Menses suppressed or scanty. Itching and soreness of vulva and vagina.

Urtica Urens

Profuse discharge from mucous surfaces. Enuresis and urticaria. Spleen affections. Antidotes ill-effects of eating shellfish. Symptoms return at the same time every year. Gout and uric acid diathesis. Favors elimination. A remedy for agalactia and lithalsas.

Rheumatism associated with urticaria-like eruptions. Neuritis.

Head: Vertigo, headache with spleen pains.

Abdomen: Diarrhea chronic disease of large intestine characterized by large secretion of mucus.

Male: Itching of scrotum, keeps him awake; scrotum swollen.

Female: Diminished secretion of milk. Uterine hemorrhage. Acid and excoriating leucorrhoea. Pruritus vulvae, with stinging, itching, and edema. Arrests flow of milk after weaning. Excessive swelling of breasts.

Extremities: Pain in acute gout deltoid; pain in ankles, wrists.

Skin: Itching blotches. Urticaria, burning heat, with formication; violent itching. Consequences of suppressed nettle rash. Rheumatism alternates with nettle-rash. Burn confined to skin. Urticaria nodose. Erythema, with burning and stinging. Burns and scalds. Chicken-pox. Angioneurotic edema. Herpes labialis with sensation of heat and itching. Itching and stinging of scrotum.

Fever: General heat in bed with soreness over abdomen. Fever of gout. Tropical fever.

Cardus Marianus

The action of Cardus Marianus is centered in the liver, and portal system, causing soreness, pain, jaundice. Has specific relation to the vascular system. Abuse of alcoholic beverages, especially beer. Varicose veins and ulcers. Diseases of miners, associated with asthma. Dropsical conditions depending on liver disease, and when due to pelvic congestion and hepatic disease. Disturbs sugar metabolism. Influenza when liver is affected. Debility. Hemorrhages, especially connected with hepatic disease, dropsical accumulation of water in abdomen (ascites).

The next field is bleeding consequent to liver damage, liver pain and sensitiveness, feel fatigued or tired and have bouts of nausea and vomiting due to Liver Cirrhosis. Taste bitter. Aversion to salt meat. Appetite small; tongue furred; nausea; retching; vomiting of green, acid fluid. Stitches in left side of stomach, near spleen (Ceanothus). Gallstone disease with enlarged liver.

Pain in region of liver. Left lobe very sensitive. Fullness and soreness, with moist skin. Constipation; stools hard, difficult, knotty; alternates with diarrhea. Stools bright yellow. Swelling of gallbladder with painful tenderness. Hyperemia of liver, with jaundice. Cirrhosis, with dropsy.

Rectum: Hemorrhagic piles, prolapse or rectum, burning pain in anus and rectum, hard and knotting, clayey stools. Profuse diarrhea due to rectal cancer. 10 drops doses (Wapler).

Urine: Cloudy; golden-colored.

Skin: Itching on lying down at night. Varicose ulcers (Clematis vitalba). Eruption on lower part of sternum.

Extremities: Pain in hip-joint, spreading through buttocks and down thigh; worse from stooping. Difficult rising. Weakness felt in feet, especially after sitting.

Calceria Carbonica

The keynote of its action, the glands, skin, and bones, being instrumental in the changes wrought. Increased local and general perspiration, swelling of glands, scrofulous and rachitic conditions. It covers the tickling cough, fleeting chest pains, nausea, acidity and dislike of fat. Gets out of breath easily.

Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets. Milk disagrees. Frequent sour eructation; sour vomiting. Dislike of fat. Loss of appetite when overworked. Heartburn and loud belching. Cramps in stomach; worse, pressure, cold water. Ravenous hunger. Swelling over pit of stomach, like a saucer turned bottom up. Repugnance to hot food. Pain in epigastric region to touch. Thirst; longing for cold drinks. Aggravation while eating. Hyperchlorhydria (Phos).

Abdomen: Sensitive to slightest pressure. Liver region painful when stooping. Cutting in abdomen; swollen abdomen. Incarcerated flatulence. Inguinal and mesenteric glands swollen and painful. Cannot bear tight clothing around the waist. Distention with hardness. Gall-stone colic. Enlarged Spleen (Splenomegaly). Increase of fat in abdomen. Umbilical hernia. Trembling; weakness, as if sprained. Children are late in learning to walk.

Stool: Crawling and constriction in rectum. Stool large and hard (Bry); whitish, watery, sour. Prolapse anis, and burning, stinging hemorrhoids. Diarrhea of undigested, food, fetid, with ravenous appetite. Children’s diarrhea. Constipation; stool at first hard, then pasty, then liquid.

Urine: Dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody. Irritable bladder. Enuresis

Cutting pains in uterus during menstruation. Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet. Palpitation at night and after eating. Palpitation with feeling of coldness, with restless oppression of chest; after suppressed eruption. Pain as if sprained; can scarcely rise.

Chill at 2 pm begins internally in stomach region. Fever with sweat. Pulse full and frequent. Chilliness and heat. Partial sweats. Night sweats, especially on head, neck and chest. Hectic fever. Heat at night during menstruation, with restless sleep.

Skin: Unhealthy; readily ulcerating; flaccid. Small wounds do not heal readily. Glands swollen. Nettle rash; better in cold air. Warts on face and hands. Petechial eruptions. Chilblains. Boils.

Iodum

All glandular structures, respiratory organs, circulatory system are especially affected. Abnormal vasoconstriction, capillary congestion followed by edema, ecchymosis, hemorrhages, and nutritive disturbances.

Throbbing at pit of stomach. Ravenous hunger and much thirst. Empty eructation, as if every particle of food were turned into gas. Anxious and worried if he does not eat (Cina; Sulph). Loss flesh, yet hungry and eating well (Abrot).

Abdomen: Liver and spleen sore and enlarged, Enlarged Spleen (Splenomegaly). Jaundice. Mesenteric glands enlarged. Pancreatic disease. Cutting pain in abdomen.

Stool: Hemorrhage at every stool. Diarrhea, whitish, frothy, fatty. Constipation, with ineffectual urging; better by drinking cold milk. Constipation alternating with diarrhea (Ant cr).

Urine: Frequent and copious, dark yellow-green (Bovista), thick, acrid with cuticle on surface.

Menstruation irregular. Uterine hemorrhage. Skin hot, dry, yellow and withered. Glands enlarged. Nodosities. Anasarca of cardiac disease. Flushes of heat all over body. Marked fever, restlessness, red cheeks, apathetic. Profuse sweat.

Capsicum

Burning in tip of tongue. Atonic dyspepsia. Much flatulence, especially in debilitated subjects. Intense craving for stimulants. Vomiting, sinking at pit of stomach. Much thirst; but drinking causes shuddering. Enlarged Spleen (Splenomegaly).

Stool: Bloody mucus, with burning and tenesmus; drawing pain in back after stool. Thirsty after stool, with shivering. Bleeding piles, with soreness of anus. Stinging pain during stool.

Urine: Strangury, frequent, almost ineffectual urging. Burning in orifice. Comes first in drops, then in spurts; neck of bladder spasmodically contracted. Ectropion of meatus. Uterine hemorrhage near the menopause, with nausea. Sticking sensation in left ovarian region. Coldness, with ill-humor. Shivering after drinking. Chill begins in back; better, heat. Must have something hot to back. Thirst before chill.

Ceanothus Americanus

Best medicine for the spleen. Enlarged Spleen (Splenomegaly). Ague cake of malaria. A left-sided remedy generally. Anemic patients where liver and spleen are at fault. Diarrhea and dysentery. Heart, disordered. Intermittent fever. Jaundice. Marked blood pressure, reducing powers. Active hemostatic, materially reducing the clotting of blood, palpitation and dyspnea on exertion along with splenomegaly. Insomnia, nightmares. Intermittent fever with splenic enlargements. Cheeks and ears hot, with cold fingers, pulse 120; throbbing carotid arteries.

Congested feelings in lungs, Palpitation and dyspnea, with enlarged spleen.-Pulse full and very strong, heart’s pulsations visible through the clothes. Heart beat so hard it shook him all over. Chest feels too small for heart.

Abdomen: Enlarged Spleen (Splenomegaly). Splenetic pain all up the left side, deep-seated pain in left hypochondrium; pain and fullness in left side; cutting pain. Pain, inflammation, enlargement of spleen, deep-seated pain in left hypochondrium, hypertrophy of spleen. Leukemia. Violent dyspnea. Menses profuse, and yellow weakening leucorrhoea. Unable to lie on left side. Pain in liver and back.

Stool and Rectum. Diarrhea. Dysentery. Stool light brown, with loud flatus. Continual bearing down in rectum with constricting sensation.

Urine: Constant urging to urinate. Green; frothy; contains bile, sugar.

Quercus Robur

Quercus Robur (Var. Pedunculate and sessilifera)/Oak. N. O (genus Quercus)/Corylaceae or Cupuliferae. Tincture of acorns (peeled and crushed or shredded). Spirit distilled from the tincture is called “Spiritus glandium Quercus”. Water extract of acorns with addition of alcohol is called “Aqua glandium Quercus”.

Clinical symptoms: Alcoholism. Breath, offensive. Constipation. Diarrhea. Dropsy (splenic). Fistula. Giddiness. Gout. Intermittent fever. Leucocythemia splenic. Spleen affections, ascites and dropsy of lower extremities, intermittent fevers, gnawing at pit of stomach.-Flatulent dyspepsia, diarrhea, polyuria, Fluttering and irregular heart (Bradycardia). Gouty eczema. Dropsy. Tottering gait. Varicose veins.