Constitution and Temperament
- Nux vom.
- Fiery, excited temperament, thin, irritable, choleric persons, with dark hair, and those who have made prolonged mental exertions, or those of sedentary habits.
- Silicea.
- Scrofulous children, large bellies and weak ankles, and much sweat about the head.
- Calc. ost.
- Scrofulous, tubercular and rachitic subjects, inclined to be fat.
- Phos. ac.
- In children and young people who grow too fast.
- Acon.
- Especially applicable to plethoric persons, sanguine, with tendency to congestions to head, heart or chest, dark hair, rigid fibre.
- Phos.
- Haemorrhagic diathesis.
- Calc. ost.
- Growing too fat and thick, with young persons.
- Kali carb.
- Suitable for aged persons, anaemic, rather obese, with lax fibre.
- Ignat.
- Especially suitable to nervous hysterical females, of a mild but easily excited nature; also, nervous children.
- Arg. nit.
- We think of this remedy on seeing a withered, dried-up person made so by disease.
- Asaf.
- Hypersensitiveness, particularly of those in whom the nervous system predominates; hysterical women.
- Sulph.
- For lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and sit stooped; walk stooping like old men.
- Cina.
- Especially suitable to children with worm affections.
- Nit. ac.
- Lean persons of rigid fibre, dark swarthy complexion, dark hair and eyes.
- Ferr. met.
- In persons who, though weak and nervous, have a fiery red face, or the pale face flushes easily; chlorotic women.
- Sepia.
- Adapted to women with dark hair, rigid fibre, but mild and easy disposition, particularly during pregnancy, child-bed or while nursing.
- Agn. cast.
- In “old sinners” who have frequently had clap and are impotent.
- Carbo. veg.
- In persons whose vital powers are low, from bad effects of exhausting diseases; who have never fully recovered since; venous system predominant.
- Alumina.
- Dry, thin, withered subjects and in old people, infancy (constipation), puberty (chlorosis).
- Amm. carb.
- Delicate women who must always have a smelling bottle at hand.
- Zinc. met.
- In anaemic subjects, brain exhaustion; not able to develop; exanthema.
- Nat. sul.
- Hydrogenoid constitution; always worse in wet weather.
- Conium.
- Suitable for old men, old maids, women with tight, rigid fibre; scrofulous and cancerous people; children prematurely old.
- Actea rac.
- In rheumatic, neuralgic, choreic, and other affections of hysterical females; from irritation of the generative organs.
- Puls.
- Sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, inclined to shedding of tears.
- Baryta Carb.
- Especially suitable for old people, dwarfs, scrofulous children, especially those who have swelling and inflammations, acute or chronic, from the least cold.
- Bell.
- In plethoric lymphatic constitutions, who are jovial and happy when well,but violent when sick.
- Kali bich.
- Especially useful in fat, light haired persons, fat chubby children.
- Agaric.
- In old people with indolent circulation, or drunkards, especially of their headaches.
- Berb.
- Arthiritic and rheumatic affections, particularly with urinary complications.
- Psor.
- Psoric constitutions, especially when other remedies fail to permenantly improve; lack of reaction.
- Silicea.
- Over-sensitive; imperfectly nourished, not from want of food taken, but from imperfect assimilation.
- Nux vom.
- Debauchers who are think and irritable.
- Phos.
- Tall, slender, slim women, fair skin, blonde.
- Calc. ost.
- Children, self-willed, inclined to grow very fat; adapted to scrofulous, weakly, and debilitated constitutions, with yellow complexions; psoric.
- Spong.
- Light hair, lax fibre, fleshy, fat, croupy tendency.
- Nux vom.
- With very particular, careful, zealous persons inclined to get excited and angry, or of a spiteful, malacious disposition.
- Calc. ost.
- Leucophlegmatic temperament.
- Secale.
- Women of thin, scrawny, feeble, cachetic appearance, lax muscular fibre, everything seems loose and open, vessels flabby, passive haemorrhages.
- Nit. ac.
- Persons suffering from chronic disease who take cold easily, and are disposed to diarrhoea.
- Crotalus.
- Haemorrhagic diathesis; blood flows from eyes, ears, nose and every orifice of the body; bloody sweat.
- Eupat. perf.
- Adapted to diseases of old people, worn out constitutions, especially of inebriates.
- Lycop.
- Persons of keen intellect, but feeble muscular development; upper part of body wasted, lower part semi-dropsical.
- Kali carb.
- Adapted to aged people of lax fibre, dropsy or paralysis.
- Iodine.
- Scrofulous diathesis; dark hair and eyes; low cachetic condition, with profound debility and great emaciation.
- Kali iod.
- Scrofulous patients, especially if syphilis or mercurialization is super-added.
- Lach.
- Women at climacteric, haemorrhoids, haemorrhages, hot flushes, burning vertex, headaches, especially after cessation of the flow.
- Graph.
- Inclined to unhealthy corpulence, with sometimes deformed nails, and eruptions on the skin exuding a thick, glutinous fluid.
- Caust.
- Dark haired persons with rigid fibre, psoric constitutions, suffering from long ago suppressions of skin diseases.
- Aurum. met.
- Broken down constitutions from syphilis and Mercury.
- Sulph.
- The leading anti-psoric.
- Merc.
- The leading anti-syphilitic.
- Thuja.
- The leading anti-sycotic.