Homeopathic Materia Medica

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Touchy - easily offended

discontented
angry
Respectful/proper - uses respectful language
Anxious about health
Ranunculus Bulbosus Restless - looks like Rhus tox but is not amel by
motion
Worse for motion but not as extreme as Bryonia
Left sides complaints
Aggravated by alcohol
Worse evening/touch/cold wet weather

Stiff - wants to move - better for motion

Better with heat applications
Rhus Toxicodendron Worse for wet weather - especially in cervical area
Desires milk
Sleeplessness

Fear of others touching them or coming close to

them
Ailments after injuries from a blow from a blunt
Arnica object
Blue and painful - must be painful to indicate arnica
Women cannot bear sexual intercourse - Have
desire but cannot stand to be penetrated.
 Fear of death - thinks death is near/that they will die
soon
Aconite Panic like that of a person's life being threatened
Fear of elevators, tunnels, crowds, airplanes,
earthquakes

Fear of Cancer + Twitchings, spasms, convulsions

Weak Character "dependent on their dr."
Everything looks like a grave
Pains diagonally left to right
Scolding a child brings on convulsions
Concerned about their health and complain a lot
Hayfever

Agaricus Tremendous ANXIETY ABOUT HEALTH, specifically

fear of cancer.
Patient is weak willed and dependent mostly on
their own doctor. Their anxiety is such that they may
drive you crazy with their complaints that they may
end up with cancer. Have morbid thoughts - i.e. that
places look like graves.
They like helping people suffering from cancer.
Fear of responsibilities (Lyc.)

Involuntary stool on passing gas

suffers 1/2 hour to 1 hour after eating
Diarrhea 5-6 am (like sulphur)
Aloe Socotrina
Hemorrhoids that look like a bunch of grapes
Better with cold applications
Lumbago alternating with hemorrhoids
 Slowness of body and mind
Cannot express physically or mentally
Fear of killing when they see a knife (like Merc) +
Alumina
Constipation
Potatoes aggravate
Multiple Sclerosis/Alzheimer's

Anxiety of health
Impulsiveness
Cannot control impulsiveness = weakness of the
mind
Impulse to jump from a height
Better for company/when in panic state company is
Argentum Nitricum a must
Will run to the bathroom with diarrhea many times
as the panic state comes on = keynote
Fear of high buildings falling on him = keynote
One of the warmest remedies in the Materia Medica
Aggravate by heat
Ameliorated by cold bathing/applications

Social Suffering cannot stand social injustice

Paralysis
Causticum Impulsive-has to check if he turned off the gas,lights
etc. even though he knows he did he just cannot
really remember.

Profound anemia
Acetic Acid (Vinegar) Gastritis
No thirst with fever

Acrid runny nose makes nose red

Lacrymation bland
Allium Cepa (red onion)
Desire for onions in chronic case
Excessive sleepiness
 Mostly female remedy
Timid and inhibited
Ambra Grisea Cannot go to the bathroom if someone can hear
Asks irrelevant questions in a quick manner
Prematurely old

Aggravated by heat of fire

Solar Plexus and stomach is affected by every
Antimonium crudum emotion
Issues alternate between head and stomach
Desire for cucumbers

Radiating pains
Especially in kidney or gall stones
Affects the geno-urinary system
Berberis Vulgaris
Lumbago pain radiates to the abdomen
Pains like Eup. Perf. muscles feel like they are beaten
Agg. by motion

Affects upper part of digestive tract

Canker sores
Borax
Fear of downward motion - going down = anxiety
Keynote=trembling after sneezing

Intense inflammation comes on quickly producing

blood
Burning pains
Very painful while urinating = pt. shouts when they
urinate
Cantharis (Spanish Fly) Great Desire for sex even though painful
Burns and extreme sunburn
A woman who hasn't ever or in a long time had sex
and then has passionate sex which she enjoys = a
few hours or days later comes down with severe
cystitis.
 Slowness
Tendency to vertigo and nausea
Cocculus Indicus Anxiety about health
Vertigo and dizziness especially after long periods
of sleeplessness

Venous congestion
Stasis/heaviness
Hemorrhoids - severe protruding like grapes-
Aesculus Hippocastanum painful
with pain in sacral area - sacroiliac junctions
cannot stoop/bend over
metallic taste in mouth

Conflict between morality and sexuality

Snappish and nasty
prolapses
Lilium tigrinum
very religious -fear of God and sinning
Duty conscious
Cough stops when going out in open air

Emotions as if from an internal boil

Blackness
Discharges black
premature old age
Anthracinum no energy cannot remember incidences of suffering
or hurt
recurrent boils discharges dark
feel more comfortable in the house
intense burning pains
 Explosions of heat - only on face
flushes of anxiety not a constant anxiety like phos.
but short and explosive episodes of anxiety
Amyl nitrosum
mostly women
intense yawning and stretching that does not satisfy
convulsions immediately after delivery

Total exhaustion on physical level

High Blood pressure
affections of the liver
Muriatic Acid easy hemorrhoids during pregnancy
hemorrhoids in newborn - from mother
offensive secretions
organs in relaxed state

Dyspnea - psychosomatic - no pathology

anxiety with dyspnea
Sensitive to drafts and cold bathing
Lobelia Inflata meticulous like ars
agg lying down and tight clothing
suppression of discharges causes pathology
Compare to Lach/carb v/ign

Excessive awkwardness from inner anxiety no cause

for anxiety
Drops things
Manic depression
Bovista
Skin eruptions very itchy
Diarrhea before menses
Cannot wear tight clothes
Excitement and anxiety
 Disintegration
High fever with delusions and comatose state
progressed fever
with Diarrhea with offensive smell
used in Typhoid Fever
Baptisia
mental state of being scattered or separated
Extreme exhaustion
offensiveness of all discharges
can cure the progression of schizophrenia
brown strip on the tongue

Respiratory problems
Lymph nodes swollen and hard
Aggravation when getting over heated (like Puls.)
A person who is at sea has problems when they
Bromium
come ashore
Lots of mucus that can't be cleared causes rattling in
the chest when breathing
Hard/inflexible people

"open" people
"no skin" they are affected by every external
impression
fear that something will happen
The perceive the feelings of others and cannot
Phosphorus
handle seeing people suffer
Bleed easily
Great thirst for cold water
Overwhelming fear of thunderstorms/lightening
Knees are cold

Marking Nut
mental- emotional picture=Great internal conflict,
Anacardium
contradiction of will. Thinks he is possessed of two
wills, opposing each other.
 SEVERE DEPRESSIONS, RELIEVED only BY
THOUGHTS OF SUICIDE.
HOPELESS, DESPONDENT AND CONSTANTLY
DWELLING ON SUICIDE.
Profound melancholy, with a history of attempted
suicide, loathing of life.
Feels herself utterly worthless, of no value, and
Aurum metallicum
reproaches herself
Insomnia, wakes up after a few hours of sleep in
deep depression.
Physical pains make him suicidal.
Ailments from grief, business failure.
Amelioration from music.
Desires to pray.

fears: Thunderstorms, dark, being alone, something

Phosphorus will happen, death, anxiety for his health and the
health of relatives.

GREAT IRRITABILITY - ANGER - NASTY BEHAVIOUR

Restlessness.
OVER-SENSITIVE TO PAIN.
Chamomilla Ailments from Dentition.
Children want to be CARRIED and ROCKED.
Wants many things, but refuse them when given.
Child does not want to be touched, nor looked at.
 DISCHARGES are ADHESIVE, STICKY, STRINGY,
can be drawn in long strings, sticks to throat, teeth
and lips.
Pains in SMALL SPOTS (do not move, are persistent)
Rheumatic pains and/ or alternating with Affections
of Skin
DIAGONAL PAINS.
Kali bichromicum
Headache is RIGHT sided over eyebrows.
Cracking in joints. Rheumatic pains in fingers.
Tongue is very shiny.
Hair-like sensation in the back of tongue and nose
Gastric complaints alternating with rheumatic or
respiratory complaints.
Profuse PERSPIRATION while sitting quietly.

Mental emotional: JEALOUS

LOQUACIOUS changing subjects, jumps from one
Lachesis
subject to
Fear of snakes, of heart disease.

Typical asthmatic attack: Asthmatic respiration,

worse between 2 - 4 A.M. and lying flat, is
Kali carbonicum
ameliorated by leaning forward with elbows on
knees or head.

Physical picture: Symptoms changing from one side

to the other and back again.
Shining, glazed appearance of diphtheritic deposit,
Lac caninum
chancres and ulcers.
Vertigo, as if floating in air
Craves: salt and pepper.

Fears: Fear of snakes. Has hallucinations or dreams

Lac caninum about them. Fear of fainting, death, diseases, dogs,
storms.
 Mental and emotional keynotes:
Lack of self-confidence.
Lycopodium
Fear of responsibility, cowardice.
Fears dark, ghosts, being alone in the house.

Mental and emotional keynotes:

Medorhinum Passionate, hypersexual
Fear that somebody is behind him

Mental and emotional picture:

Fear of fire, being alone, of poverty.
ANXIETY and DESPAIR ABOUT FUTURE.
Feels poor, hopelessness.
Psorinum
Fear from business failure.
Anxious about health, DESPAIR OF RECOVERY.
Religious melancholy - despair of salvation.
Nervous and restless.

CHANGING AND SHIFTING SYMPTOMS.

THIRSTLESSNESS with all complaints
Mucus discharges are profuse, bland, thick,
yellowish-green.
warm stuffy room
Pulsatilla NEEDS FRESH, OPEN AIR
Warm blooded, hot feet, uncovers them at night.
Sensation of cold water poured down the back.
Sleeps on the abdomen or on the back, arms raised
over the head or on the abdomen.
STYES esp. upper lid.

Mental picture:
JEALOUS
Lachesis LOQUACIOUS changing subjects, jumps from one
subject to another.
Fear of snakes, of heart disease.
Remedies allergic to cats... Kali-c., Ars., Dulc., Sulph., Puls., Tub.

Mental and emotional picture:

Romantic, unfulfilled "cosmopolitan" patients.
Needs change and excitement. Frequently changing
jobs.
Passionate about travel.
Malicious behaviour- breaks things.
Hyperactivity. Behaviour disorders in children.
Obstinate, disobedient, destructive children.
Tuberculinum
Exaggerated anxiety at night in children.
Moaning, groaning and whining with loquacity in
convulsions and fever.
Contradictory characteristics, mania and
melancholia, insomnia and sleepiness. Irritable
especially when awakening.
Depressed and melancholic. Easily offended.
Mental dullness and difficulty with concentration.
 Philosophical, intellectual type - reclusive, looking
for truth behind things.
Practical type - over enthusiasm, practical idealist,
social, extroverted, hopeful dreamers.
aggravations:
Standing
Warmth of bed
Washing
Sulphur Bathing
Heat
11 a.m.
Suppressed eruptions or discharges
Fasting.
Desires:
Desires: Sweets, fat, alcohol, farinaceous food, cold
drinks.
Aversions: fish, eggs, olives, acidic things.

Mental and emotional picture

Immaturity and dwarfishness
Lack of self confidence
Irresolution
Baryta Carbonica
Timidity
Mostly used in children who are physically and
mentally retarded and also in senility of old age
Children keep usually keep their mouths open

Physical:
Baldness in children/adults
Chronic hypertrophy of tonsils, huge tonsils
Baryta Carbonica Swelling and indurations, or incipient suppuration of
glands, especially cervical and inguinal.
Diseases of old men; hypertrophy or induration of
prostate and testes; mental and physical weakness.
 Mental and emotional picture:
JEALOUS. Ailments from jealousy
SUSPICIOUS that he will be poisoned, that there is
some plot against him.
LOQUACITY, SHAMELESS, obscene behavior.
Hyoscyamus Talks about feces urine, genitalia, with no shame at
all, but with pleasure.
Obsessive behavior, counting all the time one, two,
three, one, two, three etc. repeating words etc.
Twitching, jerkings, spasms. Grimaces of face
Fear of water.

Mental and emotional picture:

Disappointed love leading to SILENT GRIEF
SIGHING after GRIEF
Changeable moods, erratic, inconstant, paradoxical
symptoms.
High expectations, idealistic, easily disappointed.
Highly sensitive persons, excitable, hysterical .
Sensation of constriction or a lump in the throat
Ignatia
after grief, when trying to express emotions.
Romantic idealism.
Aversion to consolation.
Physical Pathology:
Cramps
Spasmodic effects
Chorea
Convulsions.

Fears:
Dark, violence, Dogs, Tunnels, Water, Shining
Stramoninum
Objects, Injuries, Narrow places, Animals,
Suffocation, Death, Being alone.

Fear of insanity Cann-i., puls., calc.

remedies tend to call their Cann-i., agar., nit-ac., phos., ars.
doctor all the time because of
their great anxiety for their
health?

3 main remedies mostly Calc., caust. & cupr.

indicated for cramps in the
lower extremities during the
night in bed

Mental and emotional picture of cina child:

Ill-humored children, capricious to the extreme

Does not want to be touched
Cina
Cannot bear you to come near
Desires many things but rejects everything offered
Dissatisfaction (cham., calc-p.)
Don't like others looking at them.

2 main remedies indicated for Gels, Arg-n

diarrhea from anticipation

Which remedies are mostly Gratiola, med., origanum, staph., plat.

indicated for masturbation in
young girls?

Physical picture:
Pain in umbilical region extending through to back.
Malignancy of uterus, ovaries, testes, external
genitalia.
Platina
Sexual organs are extremely sensitive.
Menses dark clotted, offensive with bearing down
spasms.
Chilliness during urination
 Physical picture:

SLUGGISHNESS of mental functions.

SLOWNESS of perceiving external impressions,
comprehension, and response.
Plumbum
Loss of memory - esp. words.
Apathetic, no vitality, no emotional movements.
People that like good living, having the best of
everything.
Dread that someone is trying to poison them.

difference in the colicky pains Colocynthis is ameliorated by bending double and

of the abdomen between Dioscorea is ameliorated by stretching.
Colocynthis and Dioscorea

Physical pathology:

Over-sensitivy of all SENSES.

Painful sensitiveness of the skin.
Pains are felt INTENSELY, esp. with noise.
SLEEPLESSNESS from physical and mental
Coffea
excitement.
HEADACHE: from over-mental exertion, thinking,
talking.
ONE-SIDED as if nail driven into the brain.
Congestion of head after a surprise or excitement.
Toothache relieved by holding ice-water in mouth.
 Main complaint = exhaustion and a feeling of
hurriedness at the same time. Not enough time to
do anything. Cannot finish anything. Get irritable
and excited because they cannot do enough.
Asthma that is worse in city pollution.
Sensation as if the brain is loose in their head. They
feel like their brain moves within their heads.
They like stimulants.
They eat fast. They also want others to do things
quickly. Tarentula will want to hit people who don't
do things quickly enough for them. It is a matter of
intensity.
Sulphuric acid
They don't like water
They perspire quite a lot - sour smell.
Digestive problems
Ulcers in the mouth, aphae
Ecchymosis
They do not develop fears.
Diarrhea is smelly like sulphur
Desire for sweets and alcohol.
Compare the anxiety of Sulphur to sulphuric acid.
Sulphur it revolves around his health not so much
with the sulphuric acid.
Speech is hasty but their articulation is good.
 Two areas of concentration - Kidneys - heavy smell
of urine strong color.
Joints - inflammation - end up with problems in the
heart.
History of Ghonorrea - treated and then symptoms
of arthritis and then it settles in the heart. (Med)
Heart symptoms alternate with kidney problems
When there are heart problems the urine is clear.
cold wet weather makes the pains in the joints
worse.
Benzoic Acid
trembling of the left side of the lumbar region -
strange and rare symptom.
mental = like nat m symptoms - people who have
kidney issues are holding emotions and not
expressing emotions concerning the sexual sphere.
Forgetful of words
Fear of becoming deformed. like calcareas.
Fear that they are being followed like med. but med
doesn't have the heavy smelling urine.
Med. is always better in the night.

Answer:

Severe Constipation, no desire for stool

Narcolepsy, falls into a heavy, stupid sleep
Opium - Describe the physical
Tremendous sleepiness; falls asleep while talking,
picture of a typical Opium
sitting, etc.
case.
Snoring; Breathing stops on going to and during
sleep
Difficult, slow and intermittent respiration
Aggravated during and after sleep.
Which is the first remedy the
homeopath should think of
when treating a delusional
patient?
What is the first remedy the
homeopath should think of for
a patient in coma?
Agaricus - Describe the
mental- emotional picture of
Agaricus muscarius.
Which remedies share mostly
the fear of insanity?
Which remedies tend to call
their doctor all the time
because of their great anxiety
for their health?
Which remedies are mostly
indicated for masturbation in
young girls?
Answer:
Cann-i.
Answer:
Opium.
Answer:
Tremendous ANXIETY ABOUT HEALTH, specifically
fear of cancer.
Patient is weak willed and dependent mostly on
their own doctor. Their anxiety is such that they may
drive you crazy with their complaints that they may
end up with cancer. Have morbid thoughts - i.e. that
places look like graves.
They like helping people suffering from cancer.
Fear of responsibilities (Lyc.)
Answer:
Cann-i., puls., calc.
Answer:
Cann-i., agar., nit-ac., phos., ars.
Answer:
Grat., med., orig., staph., plat.
 Answer:

Pain in umbilical region extending through to back.

Malignancy of uterus, ovaries, testes, external
Platina - Describe the physical
genitalia.
picture of Platina.
Sexual organs are extremely sensitive.
Menses dark clotted, offensive with bearing down
spasms.
Chilliness during urination

Answer:

SLUGGISHNESS of mental functions.

SLOWNESS of perceiving external impressions,
Plumbum - Which are the
comprehension, and response.
keynotes of Plumbum mental
Loss of memory - esp. words.
and emotional picture?
Apathetic, no vitality, no emotional movements.
People that like good living, having the best of
everything.
Dread that someone is trying to poison them.

Colocynthis - Which is the Answer:

difference in the colicky pains Colocynthis is ameliorated by bending double and
of the abdomen between Dioscorea is ameliorated by stretching.
Colocynthis and Dioscorea?

Coffea - Describe the physical
pathology of Coffea.
Lac Caninum - Name the major
fears of a typical Lac caninum
patient.
Ledum - Describe the action of
Ledum upon the joints.
Answer:
Over-sensitivy of all SENSES.
Painful sensitiveness of the skin.
Pains are felt INTENSELY, esp. with noise.
SLEEPLESSNESS from physical and mental
excitement.
HEADACHE: from over-mental exertion, thinking,
talking.
ONE-SIDED as if nail driven into the brain.
Congestion of head after a surprise or excitement.
Toothache relieved by holding ice-water in mouth.
Answer:
Fear of snakes, diseases, dog, storms, fainting and
death.
Answer:
Rheumatic complaints. Gout. Rheumatism begins in
lower limbs and ascends.
Left shoulder joint affected.
Pains are shooting upwards
Pains are better by ice-cold applications.
Coldness of affected part.

Magnesia muriatica - Describe
the mental and emotional
picture of Magnesia muriatica.
Lillium tigrinum - Describe the
physical picture of Lillium
tigrinum.
Lyssinum - Name the major
fears of Lyssinum.
Answer:
Pacifist, intolerant of aggression, tries to resolve
conflicts.
Adapted to diseases of women; spasmodic and
hysterical complaints
Restlessness and anxiety on lying down and closing
eyes has to get up and walk.
Sauer temperament due to chronic liver and
digestion dysfunction.
Answer:
BEARING DOWN, AS IF WHOLE ABDOMINAL
CONTENT WOULD ESCAPE, in abdomen and pelvis
< on standing.
Full, heavy FORCED OUTWARD feeling.
Main action upon the venous circulation of the heart
and female organs.
Menses flow only when moving about.
Sexual desire increased or repressed,
Tendency for Nymphomania.
Frequent urging to urinate - if they do not urinate à
congestion in the chest.
Sensation of lump, or pressure in the rectum, with
constant desire for stool.
Alternating symptoms.
Angina pectoris with feeling of heart being in a vice.
Answer:
Agoraphobia, claustrophobia, fear of running water
(stram), glistening surfaces, animals, being alone,
something will happen.

Carbo animalis - What are the
keynotes of Carbo animalis
mental- emotional picture?
Capsicum - Describe the
mental- emotional picture of
Capsicum.
Which are the 3 most indicated
symptoms for flaccid penis
with sexual desire and
excitement?
Answer:
Homesickness - lost in meditative-like thoughts.
Avoids conversation. Desire to be alone.
Sympathetic towards suffering of others - cannot
say no if someone needs help.
Illusions of hearing- as if tone came from another
direction, or another world. Cannot tell from what
direction sound comes from.
Fear of dark, aggravation from closing eyes. Fear of
heights.
Answer:
Homesickness.
Sleeplessness and Depression from Homesickness.
Prostration of mind, mental exhaustion, brain fag,
slow thinking.
Desire to be alone, wants to lie down and sleep.
Startled easily. Sensitive to noises during chill.
Awkward, easily exhausted, dreads any kind of
exercise.
Wakes up after a few hours of sleep, overwhelmed
by anxiety - especially about their social insecurity.
Easily offended - takes everything badly. Irritability.
Alcoholism.
Answer:
Calad., Lyc., Sel.
What are the differences Euphrasia produces profuse acrid lachrymation and
between a typical Allium cepa bland coryza while Allium cepa produces bland
hay fever picture and a typical lachrymation and acrid coryza.
Euphrasia hay fever picture?

Answer:

Domineering, materialistic with strong sexual desire.

Lascivious thoughts.
Fluoric acid - Describe the
Hurried, rapid speech, rapid eating. Mistakes in
mental and emotional picture
speaking, putting right for left and vice versa.
of Fluoric acid.
Isolated from others, indifferent to loved ones,
inability to realise responsibility.
Strong anxiety about health. Fear of cancer.
Fear of suffering, but endures it well.

Carcinosinum - What are the
keynotes of Carcinosinum
mental and emotional picture?
Kali arsenicosum - In which
pathological cases is Kali
arsenicosum mostly indicated?
Sabina - Describe the physical
picture of a typical Sabina
case.
Answer:
Sympathetic, compassionate, feels acutely the pain
of others. Passionate and longing patients who
over-extend themselves on many levels.
Lack of self-confidence, wants to please everybody.
Craving for affection.
Fastidious.
History of suppression and guilty feelings. Silent
grief.
Sad but cannot weep.
Desires dancing and music.
The patient loves the excitement of thunderstorms.
Timidity. Obstinacy. Consolation aggravates.
Easily offended, cannot stand any kind of
reprimand, with a tendency to destructive outbursts.
Fears: Health and cancer. Exams. Crowds.
Humiliation.
Horrible things, sad stories affect her profoundly.
Difficult concentration. Mental retardation.
Anxiety and anticipatory worries.
Answer:
In cases of asthma, chronic eczema, psoriasis, skin
diseases, epithelioma and panic attacks.
Answer:
Mostly indicated to women with problems in
reproductive organs.
Tremendous hemorrhages from the uterus with
black clots which cannot stop.
Miscarriages especially in the 3rd month.
< warmth, > cold
Pain lower back extending to pubis and thighs.

Graphites - Describe the
mental and emotional picture
of Graphites.
Answer:
Dullness, Slowness, Irresolution.
Anxiety about trifles; trifles seem important
Sensitive to music; weeping from music.

Answer:

Which remedies are mostly

Anthrac.
indicated for blackish ulcers?
Lach. (esp. all around the ulcer)
Carb-v.

Which remedies are mostly Answer:

indicated for eruption or ulcer Ledum and Pulsatilla.
> cold application, cold water

Answer:

Which remedies are mostly Graph.

indicated for keloids? Sil.
Calc-s.
Calc.

Answer:
Which remedies are especially
affected by drafts at the Rhus-t
cervical region? Calc-p
Cimic

Which is the main remedy for Answer:

amelioration in wet weather? Caust.

Which remedies are more likely
to commit suicide?
Lachesis - What's the main
difference between the suicidal
disposition of Lachesis and of
Natrum sulphuricum?
Collinsonia Canadensis
Equisetum
Answer:
Aurums, Arsenicum and Natrums (especially Natrum
sulphuricum)
Answer:
Lach. thinks of committing suicide as a punishment
to others.
Nat-s. think of committing suicide all the time but at
the same time they think of the suffering of their
people. This holds them from committing it.
hemorrhoids/constipation/excitable personality
sensation of swelling
Very excitable people Their feelings are overflowing
= lots of feelings
Main symptomatology - feeling of swelling - feeling
of enlargment of certain parts.
predisposition to hemorrhoids. Especially
connected to menses.
hemorrhoids alternating with heart symptoms =
especially palpitations one of the main remedies for
obstinate constipation.
Feeling of swelling and then relaxation ie prolapse
Sleepy feeling during headache.
Convulsions during menses - hysterical convulsions
not real convulsions.
inner irritability - do not like to be touched.
People who are tired - they are restless at the same
time. with an aversion to mental work
Persistent enuresis in children after all other
remedies have failed to act.
cystitis - frequent and painful urination. pain after
urination that continues for some time.
 Sepia Enjoys Thunderstorms

History of Tuberculosis with Extreme tiredness

Stannum
especially when talking

Thuja Dripping of nose when having stool

Ears affected
Graphites extreme tiredness
lungs affected

Weeping after anger

Nux Vomica Restlessness
Desire for stimulants

Easily excitable - over flowing with emotions

feeling of swelling/enlargment on physical body
Collinsonia especially on the urogenital - not actual swelling
hemorrhoids with constipation/no urging
alternates between hemorrhoids and palpitations
 Colic - Stomach cramping-stitching-tearing pains =
tendency to double up but pain is worse so the best
position is stretching back - arching back.
while in pain the pains may suddenly go away and
pain appears in fingers or toes.
pains extend downwards and upwards - anywhere
If there is diarreah it is thin yellowish and frequent.
Stool does not relieve colic
pains in the back and then go to the extremities
Dioscorea individual is tired in mind and soul - avoids social
events and discussions
Begin to forget words or use the wrong words
orgasm during sleep - leaves the person mentally
and emotionally disturbed - after emissions they
don't want to do any mental work. After stool they
feel confused
Gas from drinking tea
Generally relieved by walking - agg in the evening
and the night especially towards midnight

Inflammation around the nail bed.

Myristica
really only used for this symptom.
 Marsimus mind becomes weak - cannot finish
anything even if they have the strength to start.
conversation jumps around
feeling like something bad is going to happen.
children are easily upset - become aggressive and
they throw things - looks like calc carb. but sticks
their feet out of the covers.
perspiration of the scalp like calc carb.
Sanicula
lacrymation from eyes like calc carb only calc carb
is only from one eye
discharges are offensive like fish
acne especially around the chin
desires salt,sweets and fat
thirst = small quantities frequently
vomiting after eating or drinking milk - forcible
fear of the dark.

Right sided
affects the liver and the skin
intense itching without an erruption because of bile
salts
nervous sensitivity will build until the patient
screams
Dolichos last stages of cancer
itching moves around despair from the itching
itching starts as soon as it gets dark
days and days without sleep - they want to die
because of the itching
irritated gums and inflammation
restless

Calc-carb Fear of insanity

Canni-ind
Puls
Mancinella
 fears and phobias
Mostly women and weak willed - no will power.
weak intellect like arg-n but doesn't have the
impulsiveness.
fixed ideas take hold of the mind and torment it-
obsessive eventually they feel like they are going
crazy. they battle within themselves.
fear of going out at night alone
In darkness they imagine things that aren't there like
phos.
Aggravation at night especially thoughts of going
crazy (like Merc) - they need to get up and turn on
a light.
They worry about being crazy enough to kill their
own child (arg n, sulph, nux v, thea) (Plat & Merc =
impulse to kill in general)
darkness pervades the whole person - this darkness
will come through when they describe their inner
state.
this darkness also affects their sexual state and
there is perversion in their sexual desire.
Fear of being taken by the devil. - like anacardium
(fight between good and evil) Man = fight between
Mancinella
myself and the devil.
They pray that God will save them from being crazy.
Like aurum but aurum has the need to pray but not
for anything specific. It is an obsession to pray.
When they have had a depression that disconnects
them from everything in the world - everything
material has vanished there is now no meaning
anymore and then he turns to God and prays. When
they give up on holding on to something material
they turn to the spiritual.
tendency to commit suicide. They tire of the internal
struggle.
Manc. state can start from a shock where evil forces
are involved.
 sometimes there is a great thirst before menses
respiratory system/hay fever/bronchitis/skin
eruptions
mostly indicated for this mental emotional state.
May confuse with puls because they tend to be
warm and cry a lot.
Optical illusions
They feel like they are going crazy and that it is the
work of the devil.

Want to wet the mouth but they don't want to drink

Nux-m They will spit out the water.
tongue sticks to the roof of the mouth

Phosphorous Most thirsty remedy in the materia medica

Sulph., Chin., Lyc., Calc., Arg-n. Which are the 6 remedies with the greatest desire
& Phos. for sweets?

Capsicum ...

Extreme love and connection with animals

They live inside and have very strong emotions that
they do not express or communicate.
Eruption on tip of nose - very indicative of this
remedy
irritability and no desire for sex just before menses
Aethusa
because of darkness they feel like they can't breathe
and they will jump up to open a window - not really
physically driven
don't usually drink milk if they do they get upset
stomach
Bothered by the heat of summer

Calcarea Carbonica Fear of rats

 Lachesis Relief from start of menses

Anacardium Feeling of a band around the head

Causticum & Colocynthis Complimentary remedies

Cocculus Vertigo on rising, numbness, occipital headache.

Aurum Better in evening

Spigelia Neuralgia

Antimonium Crudum Desires cucumbers

Mezereum and Zincum Suppressed eruptions

metalicum

Right shoulder pain, aversion eggs, diarrhea while

Ferrum Metallicum
eating.

Allium Cepa Dullness

Bovista Akwardness

Baptista Diarrhoea, offensive discharges, sore pains

Lobelia and Ammonium The respiratory tract

carbonicum

Amelioration sleeping on the right side, desire for

Antimonium tartaricum
fruit, severe rattling respiration
Borax Fear of downward motion