CROTALUS CASCAVELLA

CROTALUS CASCAVELLA

(Crot-c)

Mind – Delusion and fear of ghosts, spirits, voices. Spooky element.

Fear of being alone, agg. night; thoughts of death when alone.

Mania: Throws herself against close door, scratches it with her nails. Follows delusion of strange voice.

Mania alternating with metrorrhagia.

Generalities – 

Agg. Menopause.

Agg. Sleep.

Hemorrhage: passive, dark blood; non- coagulable.

Eight-sided symptoms more specific them left.

Intolerance of cloths.

EUPION

EUPION

( Wood-tar distillation)

Marked female symptoms, and backache. A remedy for uterine displacements. Pain in back, followed by a bland leucorrhea. Menses too early and copious; flow thin. Intense sweat from slightest exertion. Disgusting dreams. Sensation as if whole body were made of jelly.

Head – Vertigo; everything turns round on sitting up in bed. Heat at vertex; stitches from vertex down limbs into abdomen and genitals. Sore painful spots on head. Painful pulsation in forehead.

Female – Burning in right ovary. Gushing leucorrhea. Chronic tubal disease. Uterine flexions. Menses too early and copious. During menses, irritable and disinclined to talk; burning and stitches in chest and heart. After menses, yellow leucorrhea, with severe backache. When pain in back ceases, the discharge gushes out. Sore pain between labia during urination. Pruritus pudendi; labia swollen.

Extremities – Cramps in the calves; worse at night.

Back – Sacrum pains, as if broken. Severe backache; must lean against something for support. Pains extended into pelvis. 

Relationship – Kreosot.; Graph.; Lach.

EPIGEA REPENS

EPIGEA REPENS

(Trailing Arbutus)

Chronic cystitis, with dysuria;  tenesmus after micturition; muco-pus and uric-acid deposit, gravel, renal calculi. Fine sand in urine of a brown color. Burning in neck of bladder whilst urinating and tenesmus afterward. Pyelitis, incontinence of urine. Croaking noise and rumbling in bowels.

Relationship:–  Compare: Uva; Chimaph.; Lyc.; Pareira. Epigea contains Arbutin, also Formic acid.

ARANEA DIADEMA

ARANEA DIADEMA

Papal- Cross Spider

      All spider poisons powerfully affect the nervous system (See tarentula, Mygale, etc).

      All symptoms of Aranea are characterized by periodicity, and coldness, and great susceptibility to dampness. It is the remedy for the constitution favorable to malarial poisoning, where every damp day or place favors chilliness. Patient feels cold to the very bones. Coldness not relieved by anything. Feeling as if parts were enlarged and heavier. Wake up at night with hands feeling twice their natural size. Spleen swollen. Hydrogenoid Constitution, i.e, Abnormal sensitiveness to damp and cold, inability to live near fresh water, lakes, rivers, etc, or in damp, chilly places (Nat. Sulph. Thuja).

 Head:- Pain in right trifacial nerve from periphery inwards. Confusion; better by smoking in open air. Heat and flickering in eyes; worse in damp weather. Sudden violent pain in teeth at night immediately after lying down.

 Female:- Menses too early, too copious. Distention of abdomen. Lumbo-abdominal neuralgia.

 Chest:- Pain in intercostal nerve from nerve endings to spine. Bright red hæmorrhage from lungs (Millefol; Ferr phos).

      

 Stomach:- Cramps after eating a little; epigastrium painful to pressure.

      

 Abdomen:- Enlarged spleen. Colic returns same hours. Heaviness in lower abdomen, as of a stone. Diarrhœa. Arms and legs feel as if asleep.

     

Extremities:- Bone-pains in extremities. Pain in os calcis. Sensation of swelling, and of parts going to sleep.

   Sleep:- Restless and waking, as if hands and forearms were swollen and heavy.

   Fever:- Coldness, with pain in long bones, and feeling of stone in abdomen at the same hour daily. Chilly day and night; always worse during rain.

   Modalities:-

      Worse:- damp weather; late in afternoon, and at midnight.

      Better:-  smoking tobacco.

   Relationship:- Tela aranearum-Spider's web.--Cardiac sleeplessness, increased muscular energy. Excitement and nervous agitation in febrile states. Dry asthma, harassing coughs; periodic headaches with extreme nervous erethism. Obstinate intermittents. Acts immediately on arterial system, pulse full, strong, compressible.

      Lowers pulse rate frequency. Masked periodical diseases, hectic, broken down patients. Symptoms come on suddenly with cool, clammyskin. Numbness of hands and legs when at rest. Continued chilliness.

      Aranea Scinencia-Grey Spider--(constant twitching of under eyelids. Sleepiness. Worse in warm room).

      Heloderma; Cedron; Arsenic.

INFLUENZINUM

INFLUENZINUM

General ill feeling with chill, headache, diffused pains. General stiffness. Hyperthermia(Fever) at 39 degree to 40 degree Celsius. Asthenia and anorexia. Neurotic depressive person. Chronic mesenchymatosis. Predisposition to hydrolipopexia by disthroidia with the tendency to hypotension.

Head:- Meningitis syndrome. Encephalitic syndrome with vomiting. Headache of influenza.

Eyes:- Eyes are heavy and sensitive to movements, stiffness.

Throat:- Pharyngo-Laryngitis. Nasal voice. Stridulous conjunctivitis of influenza. Laryngitis of children. Chronic laryngitis.

Nose:- Oculo-nasal catarrh. Coryza of influenza. Polysinusitis.

Ears:- Otitis of influenza.

Stomach:- Gastro-intestinal pain.

Rectum:- Weakening diarrhea. Weakness of the anal sphincter.

Respiratory:- Dry painful cough. Bronchitis, broncho-alveolitis. Broncho-Pneumonia of influenza. Bronchial asthma. Subacute oedema of babies.

Extremities:- Rheumatoid pains during humid and cold weather.   

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Note:- H1N1 Influenza or Swine flu may be prevented by this medicine. Recommended doses is take Influenzinum 200 CH potency 2 doses with an hourly interval and then repeat after 5 days.  

By - Dr R. S. Mann

THYMOL

THYMOL

(Thyme Camphor)

A remedy having a wide field in genito-urinary diseases. It is indicated in pathological emissions, priapism and prostatorrhoea. The provings show an action limited to the sexual organs, producing a typical sexual neurasthenia. Specific for hookworm disease. [Chen-a.]

Mind:- Irritable, arbitrary, must have his own way. Craves company. Energy gone.

Male:- Profuse, nightly, seminal emissions with lascivious dreams of a perverted character. Priapism. Urinary burning and subsequent dribbling of urine. Polyuria. Urates increased. Phosphates decreased.

Back:- Tired, aching throughout lumbar region. Worse, mental and physical labor.

Sleep:- Awakes tired and unrefreshed. Lascivious and fantastic dreams.

Modalities:- Worse, Mental and physical labor.

KREOSOTUM

KREOSOTUM

(Beechwood Kreosote)

Kreosotum is a mixture of phenols obtained from this distillation.

Pulsation all over the body and profuse bleeding from small wounds. Very severe, old neuralgic affections; pains rather aggravated by rest. Excoriating, burning and offensive discharges. Hemorrhages, ulcerations, cancerous affections.

Rapid decomposition of fluids and secretions and burning pains. Overgrown, poorly developed children. Post-climacteric diseases. Tumefaction, puffiness, gangrene. Ailings of teething children.

Mind:- Music causes weeping and palpitation. Vanishing of thought; stupid, forgetful, peevish, irritable. Child wants everything but throws it away when given.

Head:- Dull pain, as from a board pressing against forehead. Menstrual headache. Occipital pain. [Gels.; Zinc.pic]

Eyes:- Salty lachrymation. Lids red and swollen.

Ears:- Eruptions around and pimples within. Difficult hearing and buzzing.

Face:- Sick, suffering expression; hot cheeks red.

Mouth:- Lips red, bleeding. Very painful dentition; child will not sleep. Very rapid decay of teeth, with spongy, bleeding gums; teeth dark and crumbly. [Staph.; Ant-c.] Putrid odor and bitter taste.

Nose:- Offensive smell and discharge. Chronic catarrh of old people. Acrid rawness. Lupus. [Ars.]

Throat:- Burning, choking sensation. Putrid odor.

Stomach:- Nausea; vomiting of food several hours after eating; of sweetish water in the morning. Feeling of coldness, as of ice water in stomach. Soreness; better eating. Painful hard spot. Haematemsis. Bitter taste after a swallow of water.

Abdomen:- Distended. Burning hemorrhoids. Diarrhoea; very offensive; dark brown. Bloody, fetid stools. Cholera infantum in connection with painful dentition, green stools, nausea, dry skin, exhaustion, etc.

Urinary:- Offensive. Violent itching of vulva and vagina, worse when urinating. Can urinate only when lying; cannot get out of bed quick enough during first sleep. Dreams of urinating. Enuresis in the first part of night. Must hurry when desire comes to urinate.

Female:- Corrosive itching within vulva, burning and swelling of labia; violent itching between labia and thighs. During menses, difficult hearing; buzzing and roaring; eruption after. Burning and soreness in external and internal parts. Leucorrhea, yellow, acrid; odor of green corn; worse between periods. Hemorrhage after coition. Menses too early, prolonged. Vomiting of pregnancy, with ptyalism. Menstrual flow intermits [Puls.]; ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on lying down. Pain worse after menses. Lochia offensive; intermits.

Respiratory:- Hoarse, with pain in larynx. Cough; worse evening, with efforts to vomit, with pain in chest. Raw burning in chest; pains and oppression. Cough after influenza. [Eriodyction.] Winter coughs of old people, with heavy pressure on sternum. Gangrene of lungs. After every cough, copious, purulent expectoration. Hemoptysis; periodic attacks. Sternum feels pressed in.

Back:- Dragging backache, extending to genitals and down thighs. Great debility.

Extremities:- Pain in joints, hip and knee. Boring pain in hip-joints. Scapulae sore.

Skin:- Itching, worse towards evening. Burning in soles. Senile gangrene. Small wounds bleed freely.[ Crot.; Lach.; Phos.] Pustules and herpes. Ecchymosis; dorsal surface of fingers and hands eczematous.

Sleep:- Disturbed with tossing. Paralytic sensation in limbs on waking. Anxious dreams of pursuit, fire, erections, etc.

Modalities:-  Worse, in open air, cold, rest, when lying; after menstruation. Better, from warmth, motion, warm diet.

Relationship:-

Antidote: Nux.

Inimical: Carbo.

Complementary in malignant diseases: Ars.; Phos; Sulph.

  

CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA

CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA

(Pipsissewa)

Acts principally on kidneys, and genitor-urinary tract; affects also lymphatic and mesenteric glands and female mammae. Plethoric young women with dysuria. Women with large breasts. Hepatic and renal dropsies; chronic alcoholics. Incipient and progressive cataracts.

One of the remedies whose symptoms point to its employment in bladder affections, notably catarrh, acute and chronic. Scanty urine, and loaded with ropy, muco-purulent sediment. Prostatic enlargement.

Head:- Pain in left frontal protuberance. Halo about the light. Itching of eyelids. Stabbing pain in left eye with lachrymation.

Mouth:- Toothache, worse after eating and exertion, better cool water. Pain as if tooth was being gently pulled.

Urinary:- Urging to urinate. Urine turbid, offensive, containing ropy or bloody mucus, and depositing a copious sediment. Burning and scalding during micturition, and straining afterwards. Must strain before flow comes. Scanty urine. Acute prostatitis, retention, and feeling of a ball in perineum. [Cann.ind.] Fluttering in region of kidney. Sugar in urine. Unable to urinate without standing with feet wide apart and body inclined forward.

Female:- Labia inflamed, swollen. Pain in vagina. Hot flashes. Painful tumor of mammae, not ulcerated, with undue secretion of milk. Rapid atrophy of breasts. Women with very large breasts and tumor in the mammary gland with sharp pain through it.

Male:- Smarting in urethra from neck of bladder to meatus. Gleet. Loss of Prostatic fluid. Prostatic enlargement and irritation.

Skin:- Scrofulous ulcers. Glandular enlargments.

Extremities:- Feeling of a band above left knee.

Modalities:-

Worse, in damp weather; from sitting on cold stones or pavements; left side.

Relationship:- Compare: Chimaphila maculate (intense gnawing hunger; burning fever; sensation of swelling in arm pits); Uva.; Ledum; Epigaea.

   

HYDRANGEA

HYDRANGEA

(Seven-barks)

A remedy for gravel, profuse deposit of white amorphous salts in urine. Calculus, renal colic, bloody urine. Acts on ureter. Pain in lumbar region. Dizziness. Oppression of chest.

Urinary:- Burning in urethra and frequent desire. Urine hard to start. Heavy deposit of mucus. Sharp pain in loins, especially left. Great thirst, with abdominal symptoms and enlarged prostate. [Ferr.pic.,Sabal.] Gravelly deposits. Spasmodic stricture. Profuse deposit of white amorphous salts.

Relationship:-

Compare: Lyc.; Chim.; Berb.; Pareir.; Uva.; Sabal.; Oxyd.; Geum – Water-Avens – (Severe jerking pains from deep in the abdomen to end of urethra; affections of bladder, with pains in penis; worse, eating; relaxed mucous membranes, with excessive and depraved secretions; imperfect digestion and assimilation.)

PAREIRA BRAVA

PAREIRA BRAVA

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CHONDRODENDRON TOMENTOSUM

(Virgin-vine)

The urinary symptoms are most important. Useful in renal colic, prostatic affections, and catarrh of bladder. Sensation as if bladder were distended, with pain. Pain going down thigh.

Urinary:- Black, bloody, thick mucous urine. Constant urging; great straining; pain down thighs during efforts to urinate. Can emit urine only when he goes on his knees, pressing head firmly against the floor. Feeling of the bladder being distended and neuralgic pain in the anterior crural region. [ staph.] Dribbling after micturition.[Sel.] Violent pain in glans penis. Itching along urethra; urethritis, with prostatic trouble. Inflammation of urethra; becomes almost cartilaginous.

Relationship:-

Compare: Parietaria (renal calculi; nightmare, patient dreaming of being buried alive); Chim.(chronic catarrhal congestion following cystitis; acute prostatitis; feeling of a ball in perineum when sitting); Fabiana, see Pichi (dysuria; post-gonorrheal complications; gravel; vesical catarrh); Uva.; Hydrangea; Berb.; Oci.; Hedeom.  

AMBRA GRIESEA

 AMBRA GRIESEA

(Amberis- A Mrobid Secretion of the Whale)

Suitable to excitable, nervous children and thin nervous patients. Extreme nervous hypersensitiveness. External numbness of whole body in the morning and weakness. Nervous bilious temperament. Thin, scrawny women. Adapted to hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with convulsive cough, eructation, etc. Also for patients weakened by age or overwork, who are anemic and sleepless. Great remedy for the aged, with impairment of all functions, weakness, coldness and numbness, usually of single parts, fingers, arms, etc. One-sided complaints call for it. Music aggravates symptoms. Ebullitions and pulsations after walking in open air. One-sided complaints.

Mind:- Dread of people, and desire to be alone. Cannot do anything in presence of others. Intensely shy, blushes easily. Music causes weeping. Despair, loathing of life. Fantastic illusions. Bashful. Loss  of love of life. Restless, excited, very loquacious. Time passes slowly. Thinking, difficult in the morning with old people dwells upon unpleasant things.

Head:- Slow comprehension. Vertigo, with weakness in head and stomach. Pressure on front part of head with mental depression. Tearing pain in upper half of brain. Senile dizziness. Rush of blood to head, when listening to music. Hearing impaired. Epistaxis, especially in the morning. Profuse bleeding from teeth. Hair falls out.

Stomach:- Eructations, with violent, convulsive cough. Acid eructations, like heartburn. Distention of stomach and abdomen after midnight. Sensation of coldness in abdomen.

Urinary:- Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time. Burning in orifice of urethra and anus. Feeling in urethra as if a few drop passed out. Burning and itching in urethra while urinating. Urine turbid, even during emission, forming a brown sediment.

Female:- Nymphomania, itching of pudendum, with soreness and swelling. Menses too early. Profuse, bluish leucorrhea. Worse at night. Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident.

Male:- Voluptuous itching of scrotum. Parts externally numb; burn internally. Violent erections without voluptuous sensations.

Respiratory:- Asthmatic breathing with eructation of gas. Nervous, spasmodic cough, with hoarseness and eructation, on waking in morning worse in presence of people. Tickling in throat, larynx and trachea, chest oppressed, gets out of breath when coughing. Hollow, spasmodic, barking cough, coming from deep in chest. Choking when hawking up phlegm.

Heart:- Palpitation, with pressure in chest as from a lump lodged there, or as if chest was obstructed. Conscious of the pulse. Palpitation in the open air with pale face.

Sleep:- Cannot sleep from worry; must get up. anxious dreams. Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during sleep.

Skin:- Itching and soreness, especially around genitals. Numbness of skin. Arms “go to sleep”.

Extremities:- Cramps in hands and fingers, worse grasping anything. Cramps in legs.

Modalities:-

Worse, music; presence of strangers; from any unusual thing; morning, warm room.

Better, slow motion in air, lying on painful part; cold drinks.

Relationships:-

Do not confound with Amber – Succinum.

q.v. Moschus frequently follows advantageously.

Compare: Oleum Succinum (hiccough). Sumbul; Castm.; Asaf.; Croc.      

VALERIANA

 VALERIANA

(Valerian)

Hysteria, over-sensitiveness, nervous affections, when apparently well-chosen remedies fail. Hysterical spasms and affections generally. Hysterical flatulency.

Mind:- Changeable disposition. Feels light, as if floating in air. Over-sensitiveness. [Staph.] Hallucinations at night. Irritable. Tremulous.

Head:- Sensation of great coldness. Pressure in forehead. Feeling of intoxication.

Ears:- Earache from exposure to draughts and cold. Nervous noises. Hyperesthesia.

Throat:- Sensation as if a thread were hanging down throat. Nausea felt in throat. Pharynx feels constricted.

Stomach:- Hunger, with nausea. Eructations foul. Heartburn with gulping of rancid fluid. Nausea, with faintness. Child vomits curdled milk in large lumps after nursing.

Abdomen:- Bloated. Hysterical cramps. Thin, watery diarrhea, with lumps of coagulated milk, with violent screaming in children. Greenish, papescent, bloody stool. Spasms in bowels after food and at night in bed.

Respiratory:- Choking on falling asleep. Spasmodic asthma; convulsive movements of the diaphragm.

Female:- Menses late and scanty. [Puls.]

Extremities:- Rheumatic pain in limbs. Constant jerking. Heaviness. Sciatica; pain worse standing and resting on floor [Bell.]; better walking. Pain in heels when sitting.

Sleep:- Sleepless, with nightly itching and muscular spasms. Worse on waking.

Fever:- Long lasting heat; often with sweat on face. Heat predominates. Sensation of icy coldness. [Heloderma; Camp.; Abies c.]

NUX MOSCHATA

 NUX MOSCHATA

(Nutmeg)

Marked tendency to fainting fits, with heart failure. Cold extremities, extreme dryness of mucous membranes and skin. Strange feeling, with irresistible drowsiness. Indicanuria. General inclination to become unconscious during acute attacks. Lypothymia. [Ign.] staggers on trying to walk.

Mind:- Changeable; laughing and crying. Confused, impaired memory. Bewildered sense, as in a dream. Thinks she has two heads.

Head:- Vertigo when walking in open air; aches from eating a little too much. Feeling of expansion, with sleepiness. Pulsating in head. Cracking sensation in head. Sensitive to slightest touch, in a draught air. Bursting headache; better hard pressure.

Eyes:- Objects look larger, very distant, or vanish. Motes before eyes. Mydriasis.

Nose:- Oversensitive to smell; nosebleed, dark blood; dry, stopped up.

Mouth:- Very dry. Tongue adheres to roof of mouth; but no desire for water. Saliva like cotton.[Berb.] Toothache in pregnancy. Tongue numb, paralyzed. Dryness of throat.

Stomach:- Excessively bloated. Flatulent dyspepsia. Hiccough, and craving for highly-seasoned food. Retrocession gout to stomach.

Abdomen:- Paralytic weakness of intestines. Enormously distended. Stool is soft, and yet is unable to expel it, even with long straining.[Alum.] Faintness during or after stool. Protruding piles.

Female:- Uterine hemorrhage. Menses too long, dark thick. Leucorrhea muddy and bloody. Suppression, with persistent fainting attacks and sleepiness. [Kali c.] Variableness of menstruation, irregularity of time and quantity.

Respiratory:- Loss of voice from walking against the wind [Hep.]. Cough when getting warm in bed.

Heart:- Trembling, fluttering. Sensation as if something grasped heart. Palpitation; pulse intermits.

Extremities:- Pain in right hip to knee; worse, motion, especially going upstairs. Rheumatism from getting feet wet, from exposure to draughts. Rheumatism relieved by dry, warm clothes. Fatigue on slight exertion.

Sleep:- Great drowsiness. [Indol.] Complaints cause sleepiness. Coma.

Fever:- Chill begins in left hand. [Carb-v.] Chilliness and heat without thirst; want of perspiration. Dry skin and of inner parts, also of eyes, nose, lips, mouth, tongue, throat, etc.

Modalities:-

Worse, cold moist wind, cold food, cold washing, lying on painful side, motion, jar.

Better, warmth, dry weather.

     

MOSCHUS

 MOSCHUS

(Musk)

A remedy for hysteria and nervous paroxysms, fainting fits and convulsions, catalepsy, etc . The characteristic condition being aggravation by cold; there is great sensitiveness to air. Much nervous trembling and frequent fainting. Great flatulence. Diseases do no follow a normal course. Coldness. Tension in muscles, skin and mind.

Mind:- Uncontrollable laughter. Scolding. Anxiety, with palpitation; starting as if frightened. Sexual hypochondriasis.

Head:- Compressive pain over root of nose. Pressure on top of head. Vertigo on least motion; sensation as if falling from a great height. Scalp sensitive. Sounds in ears as from the report of a cannon.

Stomach:- Desire for black coffee, stimulants. Aversion to food. Everything tastes flat. With stomach symptoms, anxiety in chest. Distended. Faints with eating. Abdomen greatly distended. Spasmodic, nervous hiccough. [ Hydr-ac.;Sul-ac.;Ign.;Caj. ]

Urinary:- Profuse urination. Diabetes.

Male:- Violent desire; involuntary emissions. Impotence, associated with diabetes. [Coca.] Premature senility. Nausea and vomiting after coition.

Female:- Menses too early, too profuse, with disposition to faint. [Nux. M.; Verat. ] Sexual desire, with intolerable titillation in parts. Drawing and pushing in the direction of the genitals; sensation as if menses would appear.

Respiratory:- Tightness of chest, is obliged to take deeper breath. Sudden constriction of larynx and trachea. Difficult respiration; chest oppressed; hysterical spasm of chest; asthma. Spasm of glottis. Impending paralysis of lungs. Asthma, with intense anxiety, fear and smothering sensation. Cough ceases, mucus cannot be expectorated. Globus hystericus.

Heart:- Hysterical palpitation. Trembling around heart. Weak pulse and fainting.

Modalities:-

 Better, in open air, rubbing.

Worse, cold.

The open air is felt very, very cold.

Relationship:-

Compare: Nux m.; Asaf.; Valer.; Sumb.; Ign.; Castm.

Compatible: Ambr.

Antidotes: Camph.; Coff.

Sinapis Nigra: Short Notes On Hay Fever

An important notes about use of Sinapis Nigra in cases of Hay Fever was published in "The Homoeopathic Recorder, Vol. XXV, No. 3, February, 1910".


Sinapis Nigra for the All Bunged Up Condition.
Dr. H. M. Bunting, of Norris town, read a model little paper
on  “Some Clinical Experience with Sinapis Nigra”

Here is the gist of it :

“Given a condition of acute coryza, with sneezing, lachrymation,
itching, smarting, soreness and pressure of eyeballs, dryness
of nostrils with stoppage, especially of left, and a scanty thin
acrid discharge, with hot, dry feeling in the pharynx, hacking
cough, and rawness in the throat with desire to clear it, hoarseness,
a tired feeling all over, lassitude, and general
done up feeling. I know of no more efficient remedy than Sinapis Nigra.”


“For two years it has met a condition of beginning cold in
cases where Aconite, Capsicum, Cepa, Gelsemium, Nux Vomica
and other remedies closely allied in their symptomatology failed to
relieve, and in failing the catarrhal condition would extend to the
mucosa of the larynx and bronchi, with the condition designated
by my patients as the ‘Cold has gone down and settled on my
chest.’ ”

“In the period before mentioned. I have repeatedly checked
what would, in my experience, have otherwise resulted in a cold
and cough which, in many instances, would have taken many
weeks to cure.”

“I have relieved and cured more cases with this remedy, where
the symptoms above indicated were complained of together with
heat and fullness of the head, general tired feeling all over, and
the complete and very common picture of a beginning coryza,
than with any three other remedies.”

“I believe it to have a sphere of action closely allied to Aconite,
Capsicum, Gelsemium and Nux vomica, but it will be found to
benefit cases where we have fallen into the too common habit of
administering these or other better known remedies.”

CINA

CINA

(Worm-seed)

This is a children’s remedy – big, fat, rosy, scrofulous, corresponding to many conditions that may be referred to intestinal irritation, such as worms and accompanying complaints. An irritability of temper, variable appetite, grinding of teeth, and even convulsions, with screams and violent jerkings of the hands and feet, are all within its range of action. The Cina patient is hungry, cross, ugly and wants to be rocked. Pain in shocks. Skin sensitive to touch.

Mind :- Ill-humor. Child very cross; does not want to be touched, or crossed, or carried. Desires many things, but rejects everything offered. Abnormal consciousness, as if having committed some evil deed.

Head :- Headache, alternating with pain in abdomen. Relieved by stooping. [ Mezer.] Pain in head when using eyes.

Eyes :- Dilated pupils; yellow vision. Weak sight from masturbation. Strabismus from abdominal irritation. Eyestrain, especially when presbyopia sets in. Pulsation of superciliary muscle.

Ears :- Digging and scratching in ears.

Nose :- Itching of nose all the time. Wants to rub it and pick at it. Bores at nose till it bleeds.

Face :- Intense, circumscribed redness of cheeks. Pale, hot, with dark rings around eyes. Cold perspiration. White and bluish about the mouth. Grits teeth during sleep. Choreic movements of face and hands.

Stomach :- Gets hungry soon after a meal. Hungry, digging, gnawing sensation. Epigastric pain; worse, first waking in morning and before meals. Vomiting and diarrhoea immediately after eating or drinking. Vomiting with a clean tongue. Desires many and different things. Craving for sweets.

Abdomen :- Twisting pain about naval. [Spig.] Bloated and hard abdomen.

Stool :- White mucus, like small pieces of popped corn, preceded by pinching colic. Itching of anus. [Teuc.] Worms. [Sabad., Naphth.,Nat.Phos]

Urine :- Turbid, white; turns milky on standing. Involuntary at night.

Female :- Uterine hemorrhage before puberty.

Respiratory :- Gagging cough in the morning. Whooping cough. Violent recurring paroxysms, as of down in throat. Cough ends in a spasm. Cough so violent as to bring tears and sternal pains; feels as if something had been torn off. Periodic; returning spring and fall. Swallows after coughing. Gurgling from throat to stomach after coughing. Child is afraid to speak or move for fear of bringing on paroxysm of coughing. After coughing, moaning, anxious, gasps for air and turns pale.

Extremities :- Twitching and jerking distortion of limbs, trembling. Paralyzed shocks; patient will jump suddenly, as though in pain. Child throws arms from side to side. Nocturnal convulsions. Sudden inward jerking of fingers of right hand. Child stretches out feet spasmodically. Left foot in constant spasmodic motion.

Sleep :- Child gets on hands and knees in sleep; on abdomen. Night terrors of children; cries out, screams, wakes frightened. Troubles while yawning. Screams and talks in sleep. Grits teeth.

Fever :- Light chill. Much fever, associated with clean tongue. Much hunger; colicky pains; chilliness, with thirst. Cold sweat on forhead, nose and hands. In Cina fever, face is cold and hands warm.

Modalities :- Worse, looking fixedly at an object, from worms, at night, in sun, in summer.

Relationship :-

Compare : Santonin – (often preferable in worm affections; same symptoms as Cina; corresponding to the “pain in shocks” produced by Cina. Visual illusions, yellow sight; violent light not recognized, colors not distinguishable. Urine deep saffron color. Spasms and twitchings, chronic gastric and intestinal troubles sometimes removed by a single does (physiological) os Santonin. Dahlke.) 

Helmintochortos – Worm-moss (acts very powerfully on intestinal worms, especially the lumbricoid.) Teucrimum; Ignat.; Cham.; Spig.

Antidote: Camph.; Caps.

CHELONE

CHELONE

(Snakehead)

A remedy in liver affections with pain or soreness of the left lobe of the liver and extending downwards. Dumb ague. Soreness of external parts, as if skin were off; debility. Malaise, following intermittents. Dyspepsia with hepatic torpor. Jaundice. Round and threadworms. It is an enemy to every kind of worm infesting the human body.

FERRUM PICRICUM

FERRUM PICRICUM

(Picrate of Iron)

Is considered a great remedy to complete the action of other medicines. The symptom that specially calls for it is failure of the function of an organ under exertion: e.g., the voice fails after public speaking. Acts best in dark-haired patients, plethoric with sensitive livers. Warts and epithelial growths; corns with yellowish discoloration. Senile hypertrophy of the prostate. Epstaxis. Chronic deafness and tinnitus due to gout. Meatus dry. Pseudo-leucaemia.

Ears :- Deafness before menses. Crackling in ears and low-pitched voice. Vascular deafness. Dental neuralgia, radiating towards ears and eyes. Humming in ears as from telegraph wires. Tinnitus.

Stomach :- Indigestion, furred tongue, headache after meals, especially in bilious, dark-haired persons.

Urinary :- Pain along entire urethra. Frequent micturation at night, with full feeling and pressure in rectum. Smarting at neck of bladder and penis. [Barosma.] Retention of urine.

Extremities :- Pain in right side of neck and down right arm. Locomotar ataxia, ocular stage. Hands covered with warts.

Dose:- Second and third trituration. 

FERRUM IODATUM

FERRUM IODATUM

(Iodide of Iron)

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 navicularis. 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.

Dose :- Third trituration. Does not keep long.

FAGOPYRUM

                                                     FAGOPYRUM

(Buckwheat)

Its action on the skin, producing Pruritus, is very marked. Visible pulsation of arteries. Fluent Coryza. Offensive excretions. Itching erythema. Pruritus senilis. Post-nasal catarrh; dry crusts, granular appearance of posterior nares with itching.

Head:- Inability to study or remember. Depressed and irritable. Itching of eyes and ears. Pains deep in head, with upward pressure. Itching in and around eyes and ears. Head hot, better bending backward, with tired neck. Occipital headache. Bursting pains. Cerebral hyperaemia.

Nose:- Sore, red, inflamed. Fluent Coryza, with sneezing, followed by dryness and crust formation.

Eyes:- Itching and smarting, swelling, heat and soreness.

Throat:- Soreness and feeling of excoriation, deep down pharynx. Uvula elongated, tonsils swollen.

Stomach:- Eructations of scalding, hot, acid, watery substance; better, coffee. Bad taste in the morning. Persistent, morning nausea. Drooling.

Heart:- Pain around heart, better lying on back, extending to left shoulder and arm. Throbbing in all arteries after retiring. Palpitation with oppression. Pulse irregular, intermittent, rapid. Light feeling in chest.

Female: - Pruritus vulvae, with yellow leucorrhoea worse, rest. Burning in right ovary.

Extremities:- Stiffness and bruised sensation in the muscles of the neck, with sensation as if nape of neck could not support head. Pain in shoulder, with pain along fingers. Vehement itching in arms and legs; worse towards evening. Feet numb and pricking. Streaking pains in arms and legs.   

Skin:- Itching; better by bathing in cold water; worse scratching, touch and retiring. Sore red blotches. Blind boils. Itching of knees and elbows and hairy portions. Itching of hands, deep in. Vesicular, pustular, phlegmonous dermatitis. Skin hot, swollen.

Modalities:- Better, cold water, coffee; Worse, in afternoon; from sunlight, scratching.

Relationship:- Compare: Dol.; Bov.; Urt-u.

Dose:- Third potency and 12X.