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CHAPTER 2

ESSENTIALS MODALITIES OF
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES
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ABOUT THE CHAPTER

Modality means those conditions on which the symptoms of a drug are aggravated and
ameliorated.

It is an essential part of Homoeopathic prescribing. The busy prescriber of today selects

his medicine on the name of the malady and one or two symptoms. He has no time to ask
for the modalities. The patient too generally does not help him in this respect. He does
not observe whether his pain is relieved by heat or cold, by covering or uncovering,
by pressure or otherwise, by movement or rest etc. The result is generally a failure.

Kent has said, "Suppose the patient always avoided warm things and much clothing and
wanted the cold open air, and still had a dozen keynotes, you would find every time that
Calcarea would fail."

It is hoped that this little chapter will encourage the prescriber and through him his
patient not to overlook the modalities.

A.N. Chatterji
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ACONITE
Agg. 1. Dry cold air. 2. Fright.

AESCULUS
Agg. Walking or stooping (Backache).

AETHUSA
Agg. Milk.

ALLIUM CEPA
Agg. 1. Evening. 2. In warm room (Coryza).
AmeI. Open air (Coryza).

ALOE
Agg. Walking, standing, eating or drinking (Diarrhoea).
Amel. Cold water (Hemorrhoids).

ALUMINA
Agg. Potato.
Amel. Warm food or drink (Throat).

AMMONIUM CARB.
Agg. Washing face (Epistaxis).
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AMMONIUM MUR.
Agg. Sitting (Sciatica).
Amel. Lying down (Sciatica).

ANACARDIUM
Agg. When stomach is empty.
Amel. By eating (Stomach pain).

ANTIM CRUDE
Agg. 1. Hot weather, sunshine, radiant heat, going into warm room from
cold.
2. Cold bathing.
3. Over- eating, sour wine. Vinegar.

APIS MEL.
Agg. 1. Sudden suppression of skin disease (Affections of brain).
2. Heat, warm room.
3. Touch (Erysipelas, Meningitis).
Amel. Cold and cold application (Urticaria).

ARGENTUM NITRICUM
Agg. I. When rising from seat (Backache).
2. Sugar.
3. Anticipation.
4. High houses (Vertigo).
Amel. When head is tied up tight (Headache).
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ARSENIC ALBUM
Agg. 1. 12-2 A.M. or P.M.
2. Eating or drinking ice water, cold drink.
3. Climbing, exertion.
4. Lying (Respiratory trouble).
5. Suppression of eruption.
6. Abuse of quinine.
Amel. Warm room, hot application.

BARYTA CARB.
Agg. 1. Exposure to cold (Tonsillitis).
2. Cold about the head.
3. Damp weather.
4. Suppressed fool sweat (Tonsillitis).

BELLADONNA
Agg. 1. Draft of air — uncovering head.
2. Hair cut.
3. Stooping forward or lying down (Headache). 4. Motion or jar.
Amel. Covering head. Keeping head high, bending headache.

BERBERIS
Agg. 1. Lying in bed in morning (Backache).
2. Stepping or jarring motion (Kidney pain).
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BISMUTH
Agg. 1. Drinking water (Vomiting).
2. Solitude (Child wants mother to hold his hand).

BORAX
Agg. 1. Downward motion.
2. Noise—coughing, sneezing.
3. While urinating.

BRYONIA
Agg. 1. Motion—rising up, stooping, coughing, moving eyes.
2. Hot weather, ironing.
Amel. 1. Rest.
2. Pressure — lying on painful side.

CACTUS.
Agg. Lying on left side (Palpitation, constriction of heart)

CALCAREA CARB.
Agg. 1. Cold.
2. Ascending (Shortness of breath).

CALCAREA PHOS.
Agg. 1. Cold and dampness from melting snow (Rheumatism).
2. When thinking of complaints (Also Oxalic Acid, Caust.).
CAMPHOR
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Agg. Covering (Coldness and collapse).

CAPSICUM
Agg. 1. After drinking (Chill).
2. Coughing (Pain in distant parts).

CARBO VEG.
Agg. 1. Lying (Stomach pain from flatulence).
2. In damp air, in evening (Hoarseness).

CAUST1CUM
Agg. 1. Dry weather.
2. Walking, thinking of them, straining the voice (Hemorrhoid).
3. Grief, son-ow, care.
4. Morning (Hoarseness).
5. When rising from a seal (Backache). 6. Suppression of skin diseases.
Amel. 1. Wet weather.
2. Swallowing cold water (Cough).
3. Standing (Stool).

CHAMOMILLA
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Agg. 1. Fit of anger.

2. Warm room or drink (Toothache).
3. Night, when asleep, in winter (Cough).
4. After measles (Cough and sleeplessness).
5. Coffee.
Amel. Being carried in arms.

CHELIDONIUM
Amel. Hot drinks.

CHINA
Agg. 1. Loss of vital fluid (Hemorrhage, diarrhoea, suppuration, semen, nursing etc.).
2. Slight touch.
3. Eating fruit (Diarrhoea).
4. Not relieved by eructation or flatus.
Amel. Hard pressure.

CLEMATIS
Amel. Holding cold water in mouth (Toothache).

COCCULUS
Agg. 1. Riding in carriage or boat.
2. Night watching, loss of sleep.

COLCHICUM
Agg. Smell of cooking food (Nausea).
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COLOCYNTH
Agg- Anger.
Amel. Bending double or pressure (Colic).

CONIUM
Agg. 1. Turning or looking sideways (Vertigo).
2. During menses, least jar (Breast).

CROTON TIGLIUM
Agg. Least food or drink. (Diarrhoea.)

CUPRUM
Agg. 1. Suppressed skin trouble.
2. Over exertion of mind or loss of sleep.

DULCAMARA
Agg. Damp cold (Stiff neck, backache, asthma, sore throat, colic, diarrhoea).

EUPETORIUM PERFOLIATUM
Agg. 7 to 9 A.M. (Chill).

EUPHRASIA
Agg. Worse during day (Cough).
FERRUM MET.
Agg. 1. Abuse of quinine.
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2. Eating or drinking.
Amel. Walking slowly about.

GELSEMIUM
Agg. Mental labour, smoking, lying with head low. Heat of the sun.

GLONOINE
Agg. 1. Bending head backward.
2. Least jar (Headache).
3. Hat (Covering head).
4. Over heating in sun.
Amel. Keeping head uncovered.

GRAPHITES
Amel Noise or rumbling sound (Hears belter).

HEPAR SULPHUR
Agg. 1. Dry cold weather.
2. Uncovering part of body (Cough). 3. Early moming (Croup).
4. Suppressed skin disease (Respiratory trouble).
5. Touch (Swelling).
Amel. Moist wet weather (Asthma).

HYOSCYAMUS
Agg. On lying down (Cough).
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Amel. Sitting up.

IGNATLA
Agg. 1. Coffee, smoking, pressing at stool.
2. Fright and grief.
Amel, 1. Profuse urine (Headache).
2. Swallowing solid (Throat pain).
3. Walking (Pain in Hemorrhoids).
4. Noise or music (Roaring in ear).

IODINE
Agg. 1. Fasting.
2. Going upstairs (Loss of breath).
3. Warm room.
Amel. While eating, not after. 4

JALAPA
Agg. Night (Baby cries the whole night). Amel. Day. (Sleeps).

KALI CARB.
Agg. 1. 3 to 4 A.M.
2. Lying on painful side.
3. Touching the feet.
Amel Sitting up and bending forward (Asthma).

KALI BICIIROMICUM
Agg. 1. Beer drinking.
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2. Immediately after eating (Weight in stomach).

KALI IOD.
Agg. I. Abuse of mercury (Syphilis).
2. At night (Bone pain).
Amel. Constant walking in open air.

KALI SULP1IURIC.UM
Agg. I. Warm room.
2. Evening (Fever).
Amel. Open air.

LAC CANINUM
Agg. 1. Least jar or stepping on floor (Mastitis).
2. During menses (Soreness of breast, throat).

LACHESIS
Agg. 1. After sleep or in morning.
2. Constriction or pressure. (Throat, abdomen, uterus).
3. Sun heat (Headache).
4. At climacteric.
5. Empty swallowing or swallowing of saliva or liquid.
6. Hot drink (Throat pain).
Amel. After menses.
LEDUM
Agg. 1. At night and from heat of bed. (Rheumatism).
2. Blow (Black eye). Amel. From cold.
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LYCOPODIUM
Agg. 1. 4 to 8 P.M.
2. After eating.

MAGNESIA CARB.
Agg. At night (Pain in decayed tooth).
Amel. 1. After stool (Doubling up colic).
2. Walking about (Toothache).

MAGNESIA MUR.
Agg. 1. When quite (Palpitation of heart).
2. At night (Menses).
3. Milk (During dentition).
4. Lying on right side (Liver trouble).
Amel. 1. Pressure (Headache).
2. Wrapping head warmly (Hcadachc).
3. When moving (Palpitation).

MAGNESIA PHOS.
Agg. Cold.
Amel. 1. Heat or warmth.
2. Pressure.
3. Flow of menses (Painful menstruation).
MEDORRHINUM
Agg. Day time (Rheumatic pain).
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MELILOTUS
Amel. Epistaxis. (Head trouble).

MERCURIUS
Agg. 1. At night.
2. Warmth of bed.
3. Not relieved by profuse sweat.
4. Not relieved by stool.
5. Lying on right side (Liver trouble).

NATRUM CARB.
Agg. 1. Mental labor (Headache, Vertigo).
2. Sun heat, under gas light. (Headache).

NATRUM MUR.
Agg. 1. 10 to 11 AM.
2. Heat of sun
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3. Abuse of quinine.
4. Consolation (Weeping).
5. After menses (Headache).
6. Eye strain, study.
7. Lying on left side (Palpitation).
8. Bread (Aversion).
9. Morning (Bearing down pain).
10. Going upstairs or by physical exertion.
Amel. 1. Lying upon back or something hard (Backache).
2. By sweating (Fever, headache).

NATRUM SULPH.
Agg. 1. Morning on beginning to move (Diarrhoea).
2. Cold damp weather (Asthma, Diarrhoea).
3. Injury to head, blow, fall etc.
Amel. Cold water (Toothache)

NITRIC AC I D
Agg. After stool, even after soft stool.
Amel. Riding in a carriage

NUX MOSCHATA
Agg. Immediately after eating. (Distress in stomach).

NUX VOMICA
Agg. 1. Mental exertion, anger.
2. Morning after awaking.
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3. After eating.
4. In cold open air.
5. Uncovering (Chill of fever).
6. Masturbation, Debauchery.
7. High living and highly seasoned food.
8. Abuse of coffee, alcoholic drink.
9. Long night watching or loss of sleep.
10. Sedentary habit.
11. Turning in bed. (Backache).
Amel. 1. Warmth and warm food.
2. Covering (Fever).
3. Sleep.
4. After stool.

OPIUM
Agg. Fright.

PETROLEUM
Agg. 1. Winter. (Eruption).
2. Riding in a boat or carriage. (Headache, Nausea)

PHOSPHORUS
Agg. 1. In dark and when alone.
2. Before thunderstorm.
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3. Lying on left side, speaking, reading aloud (Cough).

4. Evening to midnight (Hoarseness, cough).
Amel. 1. By eating.
2. Lying on right side. 3. Cold water (Thirst).
4. On being magnetized.

PHOSPHORIC ACID
Agg. 1. Loss Of friend, lover, property etc.
2. Talking (Weakness of chest).
3. Onanism and too rapid growth.
4. Eye strain (Headache of school girls).

PHYTOLACCA
Agg. 1. On motion (bruised sore feeling).
2. In wet weather (Periosteal rheumatism).
3. When child nurses (pain in mamme).

PODOPHYLLUM
Agg. Morning, hot weather, during dentition (Diarrhoea).

PSORINUM
Agg. 1. Cold weather.
2. Warmth of bed (Itching).
3. Suppressed eruption, imperfectly cured acute disease.
PULSATILLA
Agg. 1. Warm room, food etc.
2. Heat of bed (Itching, chilblain).
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3. Fat food, pastries etc.

Amel. 1. Cold air and cold application.
2. Walking slowly about in open air.
3. Tying up tightly (Headache).

PTELEA
Agg. Lying on left side (Liver pain).

RHODODENDRON
Agg. 1. Wet stormy weather—before a thunderstorm. 2. Rest.
Amel. Motion.

RHUS TOX.
Agg. 1. Rest or on beginning to move.
2. Getting wet when perspiring, lying on damp ground. Wet cold.
3. Putting hand from under bed cover (Cough).
4. Lifting or straining.
Amel. 1. Continued motion.
2. Warmth.

RUMEX
Agg. 1. Inhaling cold air, at night and from talking (Cough).
2. Undressing (Itching).
3. Morning (Diarrhoea)
RUTA
Agg. 1. Stooping, lifting or at stool (Prolapses of rectum).
2. Eye strain.
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3. Cold wet weather (Wrist pain).

Amel. Motion (Wrist pain).

SANGUINARIA
Agg. 1. At night in bed, raising the arm (Rheumatism).
2. At climacteric.
Amel. Dark room, quietness (Headache).

SARSAPARILLA
Agg. 1. Suppressed gonorrhoea (Headache).
2. At conclusion of urine.

SEPIA
Agg. 1. Laundry work, kneeling at church, standing, mental labour.
2. During first sleep (Bed wetting).
3. Milk (Diarrhoea).
Amel. Sitting with legs crossed (Prolapses of uterus).

SILICEA
Agg. 1. Cold.
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2. At new moon. ^
3. Before and during menses (Constipation).
4. Looking up (Vertigo).
5. Suppressed foot sweat.
6. Vaccination.
Amel. 1. Warm room, wrapping up head.
2. On being magnetized.

SPONGIA
Agg. 1. Exposure to dry cold wind (Cough).
2. Talking, reading, lying with head low (Cough).
3. Awakening out of sleep (Cough).

SPIGELIA
Agg. 1. Noise, jar, rising sun (Headache).
2. Motion, cold damp rainy weather.
Amel. 1. Setting sun (Headache).
2. Lying on right side with head high (Palpitation).

STANNUM
Agg. 1. Going downward.
2 Talking (Weakness).
Amel. Pressure (Pain of abdomen).

STAPHISAGRIA
Agg. 1. Indignation or vexation, reserved displeasure.
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2. Least food or drink.

3. At night in bed and in the morning before rising (Backache).
4. Sexual abuse.
5. When not urinating. (Burning in urethra).

STRAMONIUM
Agg. 1. Bright light (convulsion). Darkness and when alone.
2. Water.
Amel. Light and company.

SULPHUR
Agg. 1. 5 A.M. (Diarrhoea).
2. Standing.
3. 11 A.M. (Faint feeling in stomach).
4. Closed room.
5. Bathing.
6. After scratching (Burning in itching eruption).
7. Suppression of skin trouble.
Amel. 1. Doors and windows opened at night.
2. Scratching at first relieves (Itching).

SYPHILINUM
Agg. Night (Rheumatic pain).

THUJA
Agg. 1. Vaccination.
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2. Suppressed gonorrhoea.
3. Cold damp air.

VERATRUM ALBUM
Agg. 1. In damp weather (Rheumatism).
2. Suppressed menses or puerperal state (Mania).

ZINCUM
Agg. 1. Stimulants —Wine.
2. Sitting (Backache).
Amel. 1. Moving (Backache).
2. Discharges— expectoration, menses etc.