NUX VOMICA (NUX-V.

)
COMMON NAME: POISON NUT
Organ/Tissue/Disease Affinity
POLYCHREST
 GI
o Dyspepsia, Constipation, Diarrhea, Vomiting, PUD, GERD, Gastritis,
o Dysentery, Hepatitis, Cholelithiasis, Cholecystitis, Dysentery,
o Hemorrhoids, Hernia (Inguinal & Umbilical)
 Nervous System
o Convulsions (Tonic & Clonic)
o Fainting, Vertigo, Lightheadedness, Dizziness
o Ataxia, Chorea, Paralysis, MS
o Neuralgias
 Respiratory
o Rhinitis, Sinusitis, Asthma
 Hangover; Overindulgence
 Genitourinary
o Cystitis, Nephritis, Urolithiasis, Cystolithiasis
o Sexual Dysfunction (impotence, emissions), Menstrual Irregularities,
Uterine Prolapse
 Eyes
o Affects both deep (optic nerve, retina) and superficial structures
o Vision: Blurred, Dim, Impaired, Diplopia, Floaters
 Headaches
 Rheumatic Conditions – especially large joints
 Circulation
o Stroke, Varicosities, Raynaud’s Phenomenon
 Sensations
 OVERSENSITIVE
o Noise, Light, Odors, Touch, Least current of air
o Pain
o Least amount of suitable medicine
o Every harmless word offends
 Ineffectual Urgings
 To stool, to urinate, to vomit
 Mental & Physical Weakness
 Red Face
SENSATIONS
 GI
o Slow & imperfect digestion
o Bloating at epigastrium; pressure as from a stone in stomach (2-3 hrs.
after eating)
o Stomach & hypochondrial regions intolerant of clothing; must loosen
clothing
 o Nausea: “If I could only vomit, I’d feel so much better.”
o Violent retching; more retching than vomiting
o Sour & bitter eructations; putrid taste in mouth in a.m.
o Constipation: Ineffectual urging & straining at stool; little is passed;
sensation as if some remained behind
o Tenesmus
o Diarrhea: Urging/straining w/o relief, as soon as a little is passed,
there is relief
o From: mental exertion; sedentary lifestyle; debauchery; abuse of
coffee, tea, drugs
 Headaches
o At occiput; above eye
o Pressing; throbbing; as if head would burst
o From mental exertion; light; noise; after eating; coffee; alcohol; sexual
excesses; sun
o Often better from cold
 Rhinitis
o Nose
 obstructed in open air, at night;
 runs in warm room, by day
o Frequent sneezing in a.m.
 Throat
o Rough, raw, scraped, scratchy
 Fever
o Chill predominates
o Worse slightest uncovering, motion
o Even during heat, must be covered
 Fainting/Light-headedness/Dizziness
o After: stool, vomiting, eating
o During: menses, labor
o From: warm room, crowded room, strong odors
 Convulsions
o Of single muscles; of whole body (Opisthotonos)
o Worse: bright light, slight noise, renewed from slightest touch
 INSOMNIA
 Wakes at 3 a.m., thinking of business so that cannot sleep again until
late morning; wakes tired & exhausted
o Unable to fall asleep due to activity of mind, especially about
concerns of the day
o From the slightest noise
MODALITIES
 WORSE:
o Morning
 o Cold (air, drinks, applications); Open Air; Drafts; Uncovering
o Dry, cold weather
o Noise, strong odors, light, touch
o High Living: overindulgence in food, alcohol, coffee, tea, tobacco,
drugs, sex; sedentary habits
o After eating (especially highly seasoned foods, fatty foods, milk)
o Motion; physical exertion, mental exertion
o Anger
 BETTER
o Warmth; Covering up; Hot Drinks
o Wet/Humid weather
o Undisturbed sleep, Rest
 GENERALS
 After abuse of allopathic medicines; coffee, tea, alcohol, stimulants, tobacco;
sexual excesses
 Chilly; disposition to catch cold
 Craves: stimulants, beer, rich foods
 Averse: meat, coffee, tobacco, water, alcohol
MENTAL/EMOTIONAL
 TEMPERAMENT
 Suits very particular, careful, zealous persons, inclined to get angry or
excited, or of a spiteful, malicious disposition
 Fiery, excited temperament; violent; sensational
 OVERSENSITIVE
 Oversensitiveness to impressions upon the senses; noise, smell, light and
music, and the most trifling symptoms are unbearable; every harmless word
offends, every little noise frightens, anxious and beside themselves, cannot
bear even the least suitable medicine
 AMBITIOUS, DRIVEN, COMPETITIVE, SELFISH
 QUICK & ACTIVE IN THEIR MOTIONS
 ANGER, IRRITABILITY
 Quick to anger; over little things; easily annoyed, displeased
 Cannot be contradicted or opposed; every harmless word offends
 Violent temper with impulses to destroy others
 Quarrels, scolds, reproaches, insults, especially if disturbed; critical &
malicious
 Impatient
 When obliged to answer, refuses
 Wishes to be alone; worse from consolation
 OBSTINATE
 SELF-REPROACHING
 FASTIDIOUS
 JEALOUS
 ANXIOUS
 o Hypochondriasis
o Every little noise frightens
o Inclination to commit suicide, but afraid to die
 COGNITIVE
o Deprive themselves of sleep & exercise in pursuit of their studies;
ailments from overwork
o Ennui, time seems intolerably long; disinclination to work
o Cannot bear reading or conversation
o Cannot read or calculate; easily confused, loses train of thought
o Easily errs in speaking & writing
o Memory fickle

 Complete Symptom: Dyspepsia*

o Pain, pressure, bloating at epigastrium
o short-tempered, insulting, freq ineffectual urging to stool
o eats rich food, sedentary, chilly
o < after eatig, esp too much, touching ab,
o > loosening pants, heating pad, hot tea

 Complete Symptom Hangover*

o Head feels like it’s going to burst
o Nausea: if I could just vomit
o Horrible taste in mouth on waking
o Feels weak
o Irritable, snappy, chilly
o < motion, noise, light, morning
o > rest, lying down

 Complete Symptom: Multiple Sclerosis*

o Weakness, partial paralysis LE w/ataxia
o very critical of others, easily angered, loses train of thought while
speaking, constipated, driven, competitive, chilly
STAPHYSAGRIA

Staphysagria/Delphinium staphysagria
Organ/Dx Affinity
• GU
– Cystitis
• Honeymoon
– Prostatitis: Acute and Chronic
– BPH
– Cystocele
• Dental
– Early carries
– Tooth Pain
• Organ/Dx Affinity
• Wounds: Sharp objects
• Dermatology
– Warts
– Codylomata
– Eczema
• Opthalmic
– Recurrent Styes
• Wounds: Sharp objects
• Dermatology
– Warts
– Codylomata
– Eczema
• Opthalmic
– Recurrent Styes
• Psychological
– Depression
– Dysthymia
– Dependant Personality Disorder
– Behavior Disorder: Children
Keynotes
• GU
– Burning and smarting in urethra when NOT urinating. (Also during)
– Dyspnea and prostration after coition
• Seminal emission followed by prostration
– Honeymoon cystitis
– Sensation of drop of urine continuously rolling along urethra
• Dental
– Teeth turn black and crumble on eruption
 – Pain from extraction or surgery
• Eczema
– Yellow acrid discharge from under crusts
– Itching changes location on scratching
• Wounds
– Pain, as from sharp instruments
• Generals
• Worse from sexual excess and masturbation
• Craving for tobacco
• Better warmth and rest
• Sleeplessness at night with much sleepiness and yawning during the day.
M/E
• Indignation
• Suppressed anger
• Throws things at people who offend
• Offended easily
• Trembling after quarrels
• Tormenting sexual thoughts with tendency toward masturbation
• Ailments from disappointed love
• Shyness toward romantic interests
Case
• A 28 year old woman comes to your office for treatment of her recurring
bladder infections. She says she has been having bladder infections about
once a month for the last 6 months. Her urine cultures grows E. Coli, and she
has responded each time to antibiotic therapy but she says she is tired of
continuing to get them.
• On interview you find that 6 months ago she began a with new sexual
relationship a new partner. After gentle questioning you find out that
although she is very in love with this new man, she has been
disappointed by him as well. He can be quite rude, which she is very
sensitive to, as well as insensitive and insulting. She finds herself
becoming angry and offended at him, but has a hard time telling him,
and instead holds these feeling inside.
• With the bladder infections she has the sensation that drops of urine are
continually rolling inside her urethra.
• Finally she confesses that since being so upset in her new relationship, she
has started smoking again, but she is so embarrassed that no one knows, and
she almost didn’t tell you.

IGNATIA
Ignatia (ign.)
Common Name: St. Ignatius Bean
Organ/Tissue/Disease Affinity
 NERVOUS SYSTEM
Neuroses (hysteria)
 Convulsions (Tonic & Clonic); Fainting
Headaches
Eyes
Throat
Pharyngitis, Tonsillitis, Diptheria
 GI
Dyspepsia, Vomiting, Diarrhea, Hiccough, Rectal Prolapse
Female Reproductive
 Sensations
Paradoxical, Contradictory, & Alternating Complaints
Headache > lying on painful side
Roaring in ears > music
Toothache, more between meals than when eating
Sore throat > when swallowing
Cough, the more he coughs the more irritated to cough
Emptiness in stomach, not > by eating
Retching > by eating
Vomits simple food, but retains such things as cabbage
Thirst during chill, thirstless during heat
Sensations
Nervous System
Convulsions
After strong emotions: fright, grief, disappointed love, punishment (in
children)
During dentition
With deathly pale, contorted face
Twitching (eyelids, mouth), spasm, chorea
Trembling, quivering
Paralysis (functional): after strong emotions
Fainting
In a crowded room, during menses, from excitement, from tobacco smoke,
grief, fright
Insomnia
Sensations
Headache
Stitching; as from a nail
> Lying on painful side; heat
< Noise, Light
Terminates with profuse flow of clear urine
From: strong emotions (fright, grief, disappointment), mental overexertion,
strong odors
Throat
Sensation of a LUMP (globus hystericus)
Rising from stomach to throat
> Swallowing, but immediately returns
Sore throat
 < When NOT swallowing
> Swallowing solid food
Sensations
GI
EMPTY sensation, goneness, sinking in stomach;
not > by eating
Sour taste in mouth
Sharp, stabbing pains in rectum shooting upward
Constriction at anus < after stool, > sitting
Sensation of stomach & intestines hanging down, relaxed
Fever
Chill
THIRST
> Warmth (room, stove, covering up)
Heat
Thirstless
Must uncover
Modalities
Worse
Strong Emotions
Mental Overexertion
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, sweets
Strong odors
Consolation
Better
Change of position (pains)
Lying on painful side
Warmth
While Eating
Being Alone
Generals
Ailments from:
Strong Emotions:
GRIEF, Fright, DISAPPOINTMENT, DISAPPOINTED LOVE, Anger, Mental
Shock, Excitement, MORTIFICATION, being offended, homesickness,
Anticipation
Mental Overexertion
Chilly
Averse: warm food & drink, fruit
Desire: rye bread
Mental/Emotional
Suited to sensitive, excitable, nervous temperaments
Melancholy
Tearful mood yet smothers his or her grief; nurses his or her sorrows,
keeps them from others
From grief, especially of recent origin
 Dwells upon troubles in secret
Long, deep, involuntary sighing; sobs
Desires to be alone
< Consolation, will not be comforted
Taciturn, introspective
 Mental/Emotional
o Rapidly alternating moods
o At one moment laughing and merry, at the next weeping and sobbing
o Laughs over serious matters
o Mental disturbance
o From mental overexertion; at menstrual period
o Confusion; weakness of memory
o Trembling of hands while writing
o Delirium
o Impatient, quarrelsome
o Slight blame or contradiction excites him to anger, which makes him
angry at himself
 Indecisive
 Guilty
o As if she had committed a crime or neglected her duty

Complete Symptom: *Depression

Sad, melancholy
Only shows it in private
Recent Onset
Ever since mother passed
Sighs deeply
Lump in Throat
Wants to be alone
Moods alternate rapidly
< Consolation

Complete Symptom: Headaches*

Like a Nail Driven into Side of Head
Ever since being dumped by lover
Wants to be alone
Does not want consolation
Frequent, involuntary sighs
Lump in throat
> Lying on Painful Side
< Tobacco Smoke, Coffee

o Complete Symptom: Tonsillitis* (THROAT)

o Stabbing Pain
o Small ulcerations on tonsils
 o Fever: Thirsty during chill, not during heat
o < When not swallowing
 Swallowing food

CHAMOMILLA
• Chamomilla matricaria
• Roman Chamomile
• Chamomilla
Organ/Dx Affinity
• Respiratory
– AOM
– URI
• Neuro
– H/A
– Neuralgia/Neuritis
– Chronic pain syndromes
• GI
– Gastroenteritis
• Gyn
– Transition stage of labor
– Dysmennorhea
– Mastitis
– Metrorrhagia
• Pediatric
– Colic
– Teething problems
– Behavior disorder
– ADD/ADHD
• Pain
–
Chronic pain syndromes
– Keynotes
• Respiratory
– Cough or Asthma from anger
• GI
– Hot, green, watery, slimy, offensive stool
• Sulphur smell
• Like chopped spinach
Generals
• Hot and thirsty
• Numbness after or with the pain
 • Ailments from anger
• Hypersensitive to pain
• Ailments from overuse of (coffee) caffeine and other drugs
• One cheek pale, the other red
• Restlessness
• Convulsions in nursing children from anger in mother
Modalities
• Worse from
– Night
– Heat
– Coffee
– Narcotics
– Being looked at
• Better
– Being carried and rocked
– Mild weather
Sensations
• Griping/ Cramping
• Tearing pain
• Intolerable pain
M/E
• Capriciousness
• Irritability
• Impatient
• Rude
• Aversion to touch
• Aversion to be looked at
• Aversion to be spoken to

CINA
• Artemisia cina/Wormseed
Organ/Dx Affinity
• Neurologic
– Seizure disorder
– H/A
• Allergies
– Food
– Inhalant
• Respiratory
– Pertusis
– Asthma
Keynotes
• Allergic
– Rubs nose frequently
• Grinds teeth
 • Arches back when angry
• Cyanosis around mouth
• Respiratory
– Cough
• Gagging cough in the evening
• Violent cough
Generals
• Genupectoral sleep position
• Night Terrors
• Burning heat in face with glowing red cheeks with pallor or cyanosis around
mouth and eyes.
• Great hunger even after a meal
• Desire to be carried or rocked
Modalities
• Worse
– Touch
– Being looked at
• Better
– Rocking
– Lying on abdomen
Sensations
M/E
• Irritable and cross
• Stiffens out when looked at
• Temper tantrums
• Desire to be carried without relief
• Striking and kicking
HEPAR SULP

STRAMONIUM
 Stramonium (stram.)
Common Name: Thorn Apple
 Organ/Tissue/Disease Affinity
 Nervous System
 Produces irritation & congestion of nervous tissue
 Psychotic states, Manic states, Delirium, Tremens, Dementia
 Convulsions, Chorea, Ataxia, Paralysis
 Stroke
 Febrile Conditions
 Skin Conditions
 Measles, Scarlet Fever, Erysepilas
 Abscesses
Sensations & Modalities
 Painlessness of complaints usually painful
 Jerking, twitching, trembling
  Involuntary motions, especially of hands (constant)
 Numbness, Paralysis Particularly of lower limbs (Alternating with spasm)
 One side paralyzed, the other convulsed
 Following stroke
 Generally only partial paralysis
Sensations & Modalities
 Loss of voluntary control of muscles; will not obey will
 Convulsions
 Clonic & Tonic
 Gyratory, graceful motions
 Opisthotonos
 From bright, shiny objects
 Accompanied by hiccough
 Fever - High-grade
 Hot & red face with coldness of hands & feet
 Often with delirium, Grinding of teeth, Oily perspiration
 Dilated pupils, Difficulty swallowing
 Great thirst, yet dread of water
 Retention of urine & stool; stream flows slowly
 Exanthemas where rash fails to appear
 Hip pain Severe, driving to despair
 Due to abscess; with suppuration
 Affinity for left side
Modalities
 < In dark, When alone, Bright/shining objects (mirror, surface of water)
 < After fright, After sleep
 > Light, With company, Warmth
Generals
 Violence, intensity of complaints
 Painlessness of complaints
 Hurry in movements, speech
 Aversion to water (but can be thirsty)
 Jerking, twitching, convulsions
Mental/Emotional
 Ailments from fright
 Delusions, Often fearful
 Sees animals, insects, people not present, evil spirits, black images
 Devoured by, attacked by dogs
 Grasps at imaginary objects; picks at the bedclothes (carphologia)
 That he is God, then he is the devil
 As to the shape & size of his body parts and objects
 As to distance; reaches for things that are across the room
 Wants to escape
 Loquacity
  Incoherent, rapid, incomprehensible, foolish, babbling, prattling
 Devout, beseeching
 Speaks in foreign languages, Tends to stick to one topic
 Stuttering, stammering speech
 Exerts himself a long time before uttering a word
 Religious mania, Prays, Fears for her salvation, Implores others to repent
 Violence, Threatening; unmanageable rage, Desire to kill
 Biting, striking, scratching, kicking those around
Lewd & Foolish Behaviors
 Laughing, amorous singing
 Obscene talk & gestures
 Nymphomania, Melancholia, Doleful weeping, Thoughts of death, suicide
 Fears: of the dark, of being alone; imagines he is alone in the wilderness
 of animals; dogs (black dogs); of water
 Child awakens terrified, knows no one, screams with fright, clings to those
near
 Complete Symptom:
Fever*
 Complete Symptom:
Behavior Problems in Children*
 Complete Symptom:
Epilepsy*

TUBERCULINUM