Generalities

Nux vom.

Oversensitiveness to external impressions, cannot tolerate noise, talking, music, strong odors, bright light.

Sulph.

Unsteady gait, tremor of the hands or great debility and trembling, weariness, weakness and prostration.

Con

Especially adapted to complaints of old people of tight, rigid fibre, or for scrofulousor cancerous subjects.

Ignat.

Spasmodic affections of children consequent on being put to sleep soon after punishment.

Staph.

Incised wounds soon after surgical operations.

Verat. alb.

Attacks of pain with delirium or driving to madness.

Zinc. met.

Defective vitality, brain or nerve power too weak to develop exanthemata, or menses; to expectorate; to urinate; to comprehend; to memorize.

Kali brom.

Loss of sensibility; body generally; also fauces, larynx, urethra, etc.

Ipec.

Hemorrhages (active) from all orificies, profuse, bright red.

Kreosot

Hemorrhages, profuse, passive. Small wounds bleed much.

Silicea

Ailments following vaccination, abscesses, etc. even convulsions.

Cicuta.

Convulsions with contortions of the upper part of the body and limbs, with blue face and frequent interruptions of breathing for a few moments.

Conium.

Cancers produced by a blow, and < every menstrual period.

Ignat.

Single jerks of limbs on falling asleep.

Nux mosch.

Fainting and palpitation of heart followed by sleep.

Bell.

Pains come on suddenly and after a shorter or longer duration cease as suddenly.

Sulph.

Does not walk erect; stoops or bends over forward in walking or sitting.

China.

Profuse hemorrhage with faintness, loss of sight and ringing in the ears, and bad effects following from loss of blood.

Carbo veg.

Hemorrhage from broken down condition of the mucous membranes anywhere, attended with great paleness of the skin.

Ham.

Hemorrhages of very hard, clotted venous blood.

Croc.

Hemorrhage blood black, viscid, clotted, forming into long black strings from the bleeding orifice.

Crot. horr.

Hemorrhages of decomposed blood from every outlet of the body, even bloody sweat.

Sulph. acid.

Hemorrhages from every outlet of the body and ecchymosis under the skin.

Calc. sul.

Abscesses after they have opened to expedite the healing process.

Pic. acid.

Great mental and physical prostration < by reaching, reading, writing, or thinking.

Oxal. acid.

Pain in small circumscribed spots, or confined to small spots.

Lact. acid.

Rheumatism of the joints with frequent desire to urinate, large quantities of urine.

Secale.

Particularly useful in tall, scrawny women of lax muscular fibre, feeble, cachetic, or very old decrepit persons.

Silicea

Small foreign bodies in the skin or larynx.

Phos. ac.

Intense pain in the periosteum of all bones as if scraped with a knife.

Opium.

Twitching of the head, arms, and hands; now and then jerks as if the flexors were over-active; body cold; inclination to stupid sopor; motion of the body and uncovering the head >.

Nux mosch.

Disposition to faint; also from the pains even when slight.

Ferr.

Hemorrhages in debilitated or anaemic subjects.

Opium.

Nervous and irritable; passes nothing but hard black balls.

Cina.

Worm complaints of children; with convulsions.

Phos.

Slight wounds bleed much.

Stram.

Spasms, light of brilliant objects on contact renews them.

Rhus tox.

Complaints from getting wet in the rain when over-heated or perspiring.

Cicuta.

Violent shocks through the head, arms, and legs, which cause them to jerk suddenly.

Zinc. met.

Especially in the anaemic; brain exhausted; not able to develop exanthemata.

Lycop.

Affections going from right to left; throat, chest, abdomen, liver, ovaries.

Sulph.

Standing is the most disagreeable position.

Silicea.

Want of vital warmth even when taking exercise.

Petrol.

Itching in the tubes; “urethra, Eustachian, lachrymal and pharynx.

Sepia.

Great faintness, weakness at pit of stomach, or prostration.

Ignat.

Ailments from suppressed grief.

Nux mosch.

All the parts on which he lies ache as if sore.

Ars. alb.

Extreme prostration, sudden sinking of strength; every movement greatly increases the exhaustion.

Calc. ost.

Great weariness, not beging able to walk or especially to go up stairs without being greatly exhausted.

Bryon.

Joints red, swollen, stiff, with sticking pains, < from slightest motion.

Ars. alb.

Complaints caused by chewing tobacco.

Cup. met.

Spasms begin in fingers and toes and spread all over.

Cicuta.

Convulsions which are exceedingly violent, epileptic, cataleptic, tonic, or clonic.

Acon.

Excessive restlessness and agonized tossing about for hours.

Ant. tart.

Beating and throbbing through the whole body, particularly in belly or pit of stomach, with great concern about the future.

Cham.

With the pains hot and thirsty.

Apis.

Stinging pains like bee stings occurring occasionally.

Ars. alb.

Poisoning from decayed or morbid animal matter by inoculation, inhaling, or swallowing.

Acon.

Numbness and tingling in the left side, tongue, lips, spine, and left arm, and fingers.

Bryon.

Sensation in bed as if she was sinking deep down.

Hep. sulph.

Fainting with the pains.

Puls.

Chilliness with the pains.

Verat. alb.

Delirium with the pains.

Cham.

Sweating with the pains.

Thuja.

Frequent micturition with the pains.

Lach.

Left-sided affections generally, but particularly throat, ovaries, and paralytic troubles.

Bryon.

Dropsical swelling increase during the day and diminish at night.

Ars. alb.

From climbing heights or other muscular exertions, want of breath, prostration, cannot sleep, and other ailments.

Lach.

Bluish color of the affected part.

Acon.

Bad effects from dry, cold air, suppressed perspiration, excitement, fright, anger, chagrin.

Apis.

Stinging and burning pains in the face, throat, urethra, ovaries, piles, panaritium, carbuncles, indurations. schirrus, or open cancers.

Lach.

Blood dark, uncoagulable; small woulds bleed much.

Hepar sul.

Great sensitiveness to cold air; cannot bear to be uncovered; coughs when any part of the body is uncovered or cold air strikes him.

Puls.

Wandering pains shift rapidly from one part to another, also with redness and swelling of the joints.

Calc. phos.

Fractured bones are slow in uniting, hastens the promotion of callus.

Tuberc.

Symptoms ever changing from one organ to another, beginning suddenly, ceasing suddenly.

Baryta. c.

Scrofulous, atrophic, dwarfish children, inclined to glandular swellings; mind and body weak.

Apis.

Oedema or dropsy without thirst.

Arn.

Bruised pain and sensitiveness over the whole body; the bed upon which he lies seems too hard.

Ars. alb.

Burning internal or external, in ulcers, eruptions, etc., > by external heat.

Acon.

Cannot bear the pain, nor to be touched, nor to be covered.

Kali carb.

Stitching pains everywhere, not < on movement.

Hepar sul.

Fainting with the pains.

Puls.

Chilliness with the pains.

Dulc.

From taking cold the neck becomes stiff, the back painful, the loins lame.

China.

Debility and other complaints after loss of blood and other fluids, particularly by nursing, salivation, bleeding, cupping, etc., or the whites, night sweats, seminal emissions.

Ferr.

General hemorrhagic tendency.

Kali bich.

Pains attack one part then subside and reappear in another or alternate with other complaints like diarrhoea or dysentery with rheumatism.

Arnica.

Uneasiness in the painful parts; has to change position often, every place seems too hard.

Arg. met.

Pains increase gradually, disappear suddenly.

Bell.

Spasm of all the spincters, the oesophagus, os uteri, glottis and rectum; hour-glass contraction of the uterus.

Cham.

Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night, and compel him to walk about (Freedley).

Carbo veg.

Collapse, cold sweat, cold breath, cold tongue, voice lost, extreme pallor or greenish color of face.

Fluor. ac.

Cannot bear the extremes of heat and cold in summer and winter.

Kali bich.

Pains in small spots which can be covered with the point of the finger.

Kali sulph.

Wandering rheumatism, passing from joint to joint, with serous exudation.

Cactus.

Hemorrhages from nose, lungs, rectum, stomach or anywhere, in connection with heart disease.

Calc. ost.

Sensation of coldness as prominent as is burning for Sulphur.

Caust.

Sensation of shortening of muscles, contracting the ligaments of the joints, bending the limbs.

Cham.

Oversensitiveness of the nerves, cant bear pain, gets mad at them, especially in those who have abused coffee or narcotics.

Psor.

Psoric constitutions; lack of reaction, after diseases; scrofulous skin eruptions, with tendency to suppurate.

Sulph.

Sensation of burning in many parts.

Sulph.

Extreme disgust of the effuvia of his own body.

Conium.

Indurations in the breasts or other glands after injuries.

Rhus tox.

Pains as if sprained; ailments from spraining or straining, lifting, particularly from reaching up high for things.

Baryta carb.

Weak sight and other complaints of old people, especially when inclined to get fat.

Calc. phos.

Children loose flesh; will not stand; do not learn to walk; slow dentition.

China.

Great debility; sensitiveness of the nervous system; special senses too acute; very sensitive to pain; light touch and drafts of air.

Bryonia.

Rheumatic and gouty tension; drawing, tearing, and sticking, mostly in the limbs, especially when moving the parts, with intolerance to contact.

Calc. ost.

Often indicated after Sulphur , and if the pupils incline to dilate.

Caps.

Sense of constriction in different parts, as, for instance, in the throat (diphtheria), chest (in asthma and cough), urethra (gonorrhoea), rectum (in dysentery), etc.

Chelid.

Jaundice when the sclerotic, face, urine, and stool are all very yellow.

Hyper.

Punctured wounds feel very sore; from treading on nails, needles splinters.

Iod.

Marasmus, atrophy, or general emaciation. Especially mammae, in dark complexioned persons.

Iris.

Burning in mucous membranes; internal canthi; at anus; in mouth and fauces; oesophagus and stomach; in urethra.

Caps.

Burning pungent pains, worse by cold water.

Kali sulph.

Old catarrh affections; discharges yellow or green and bland.

Iod.

Great emaciation with good appetite; always hungry, but growing poor no matter how much he eats; mammae dwindle and hand down.

Sars.

Great emaciation; the skin shrivels and lies in folds.

Nat. mur.

Great emaciation while living well, especially seen in the neck.

Abrotan.

Marasmus of children with marked emaciation, especially of legs; the skin is flabby and hangs loose in folds.

Cider Vinegar.

Antidote to carbolic acid.

Pyrogen.

The bed feel hard ( Arn. ); parts lain on feel sore and bruised.

Medorr.

Burning of hands and feet; wants them uncovered and fanned.

Psor.

Body has a filthy smell even after bathing.

Sympth.

Mechanical injuries; blows, bruises, or thrusts on the globe of the eye.

Psor.

Great sensitiveness to cold air or change of weather; wears a fur cap or overcoat in hot weather.

Syphil.

Pains from dark till daylight (reverse Medorr. ).

Tuberc.

Emaciation rapid and pronounced, while he eats well loses flesh rapidly

Verat. vir.

Spasms or convulsions attended by exceedingly quick pulse.

Lac. can.

Erratic pains, they fly from one part to another, especially change sides of the body.

Psorin.

All excretions have a carrion-like odor.

Cocc.

Sense of emptiness in head, abdomen, bowels, chest; heart, stomach, internal parts generally.

Hyper.

Injuries to nerves attended with great pains – tetanus; punctured, incised, lacerated wounds.

Ignat.

Chorea following fright, grief, punishment and other mental shock, sometimes convulsions.

Phos. acid.

Growing pains – grows too tall ( Calc. c. too fat.).

Stann.

Pains begin lightly and increase gradually to the highest points, and gradually decline.

Tuberc.

Takes cold easily, without knowing when or where.

Psorin.

Dates his chronic trouble back to some former disease; has suffered ever since that time.

Sulph. acid.

Pain of gradually and slowly increasing intensity which ceases suddenly when at its height, often repeated.

Petrol.

Ailments from riding in a carriage, railroad car or ship.

Opium.

Want of susceptibility to remedies, lack of vital reaction; the apparently well chosen remedy does not react.

Psor.

When carefully selected remedies fail in psoric subjects; if Sulph fails, think of Psorinium

Calc. phos.

Rheumatic affections < spring and fall, especially when air is cold and damp from melting snow.

Borax.

Dread of downward motion, child springs as if falling when nurse undertakes to lay it down in the cradle ( Gels. ).

Sulph.

All the orifices of the body are red as if pressed full of blood.

Mag. phos

Severe cramping pains, especially in stomach, abdomen and pelvis, > by hot applications.

Nat. carb.

Great debility, caused by heat of summer, exhaustion from least effort; chronic effects of sun stroke.

Eupat. perf.

Bruised feeling, as if broken, all ver the body ( Arn. , [Bellis], Pyr. ).

Kreosot.

Profuse, excoriating and offensive secretion or discharges of mucous surfaces generally in debilitated subjects.

Nit. acid.

Affects particularly the mucous outlets of the body, where skin and mucous membrane join, mouth, nose, rectum anus, urethra, vagina, etc.

Sulph.

Child cannot bear to be washed or bathed.

Mag. phos.

Pains lightning-like coming and going.

Mur. acid.

Great debility; as soon as he sits down his eyes close, lower jaw hangs down; slides down in bed.

Puls.

Symptoms ever changing, no two chills alike, no two stools, no two attacks alike, well one hour, miserable the next.

Tarant. hisp.

Restlessness; could not keep quiet in any position; must keep in motion though walking aggravated all the symptoms.

Sulph.

Discharge from every outlet acrid, excoriating and reddening.

Rheum.

Sour smell of the whole body; child smells sour even after washing or bathing.

Ignat.

The remedy of great contradictions (paradoxicalities), roaring in ears > by music, piles > when walking, sore throat feels > when swallowing, empty feeling in stomach not > by eating, cough < more he coughs, cough standing still, > walking, spasmodic laughter from grief, thirst during chill, none during fever, color changes in the face, etc.

Tarant. Cub.

Swellings of any kind that put on a bluish color and there are intense burning pains.

Caust.

Chronic rheumatism, contraction of flexors, stiff joints.

Lach.

Complaints begin on left and go to right side or left sided complaints generally.

Lach.

Relief from the onset of discharge.

Zinc.

Twitching and jerking of single muscles ( Agar , Ignat , Hyos ).

Therid.

Extreme sensitiveness to noise; aggravated by least noise; sounds penetrate the teeth.

Asaf.

Affections; especially hysterical caused by suppressed discharges.

Anac.

Sensation of a plug in different parts.

Sulph.

Chronic local congestions in many parts, with burning sensation.

Ledum.

Cold all the time, lack of animal or vital heat (Helod.).

Calc ost.

Sensation of coldness in many parts.

Aesc. hip.

Sensation of fullness in various parts, as heart, lungs, stomach, anus, brain, pelvis, etc.

Sulph. ac.

Haemorrhage of black blood from all the outlets of the body.

Sulph.

Weak, faint spells during the day.

Calc. ost.

The patient is generally better when constipated.

Agaric.

Burning, itching redness of various parts, eyelids, ears, nose, face, hands and feet; parts red, swollen, hot.

Asarum.

Oversensitiveness of nevers; scratching of linen or silk, crackling of paper is unbearable.

Baptisia

All exhalations and discharges fetid, especially in typhoid, breath, stool, urine, perspiration, ulcers, etc.

Psor.

All excretions – diarrhoea, leucorrhoea, menses, perspiration – have a carrion-like odor.

Cactus.

Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tight.

Ferr.

Red parts become white, face, lips, tongue, mucous membranes of the mouth.

Caul.

Rheumatism of women, especially of small joints, painful stiffness, erratic pains.

Sulph.

To promote absorption of effusions with Sulphur symptoms present.

Calc. ost.

Easily strained from a generally weak, relaxed condition of the muscles.

Hydrast.

Mucous membranes; secretions increased, tenacious, ropy, erosions.

Lac can.

Pains going from one part of the body to the other, especially alternating sides.

Carbo veg.

Vital powers low, venous system predominates.

Lach.

Great physical and mental exhaustion – sinks down from weakness. Worse a.m. and after sleep.

Sanicula.

Emaciation progressive; child looks old; dirty, greasy and brownish; skin about neck wrinkled, hangs in folds.

Cactus.

Sense of constriction of throat, chest, heart, bladder, rectum, uterus, vagina ( Caps. ).

Caust.

Sensation of rawness or soreness of scalp, throat, respiratory tract, rectum anus, urethra, vagina, etc.

Sulph. ac.

Sensation of trembling all over, without actual trembling.