Sea Remedies

Mollusc
 Spongia Tosta
• DRYNESS of mucous membranes.
dry croupy cough. "dry as a bone" cough like saw through a pine board.
Wake after MIDNIGHT with fear suffocation and death.
Can't raise sputum, must swallow
Laryngismus-contraction of larynx as if suddenly grasped
rawness in chest
better: eating, drinking, swallowing. warm food
agg: sweets. thinking of complaint. cough worse with any excitement (talking,
cold wind)
issues with GOITRE, as if it were alive
Great inclination to SING
alternating mood (happy/angry)
Timid
tormented by mournful event in past. hold onto past experience (sponge can't
move)
 Corallium rubrum (red coral)
• Nervous coughs
Coral red erruptions
Red spots on hands, red chancres
WHOOPING cough, crowing inspiration
"minute-gun" paroxysms
post-nasal drip into throat
Grumble grumble...
Small amount of Wine makes drunk quickly
Too cold when uncovered, too hot when covered
 Badiaga (fresh water sponge)
• SORENESS, soreness skin, muscles, as if beaten
Chronic rheumatism,
< cold, <stormy weather <pressure & touch, even touch of CLOTHES
>warm room
LANCINATING pains stomach, liver, below scapula, urethra, chest
Palpitations after good emotion
<MOVING EYES, bluish purple margin of lids
Headache 2-7pm with ache in posterior eyeballs
< night h/a
severe h/a returns after breakfast.
SPASMODIC cough, strangling, face turns dark
MUCOUS flies out of mouth (contrast to Spongia)
Sore throat & Cough <sweet (like spongia)
Obese kids that cough
Cancer of breast
 Asteria Rubens
• CIRCULATION disturbances, PULSATIONS
NEURALGIA, chorea, hysteria, epilepsy
Chorea quiet only when hands in pockets
DRAWN back feeing in eyes
CA of the breast (note: puckering), NIPPLES retracted
Left
Rushes blood to the head, head surrounded by hot air
Desire COLD drinks
Shocks in brain
ACNE BLACK-tipped puncta, small red base, pimples side nose, chin, mouth
Psoriasis, herpes zoster
Coffee < all sx. And excites them anew sx.
Tears > mental state
need for independence
delusion - think they smell bad (hair, genitals)
bad self-image
• Has been successful in curing breast cancers; nightly lancinating pains. It powerfully affects the mind
and the head causing severe congestion with red face. Sexual desire increased, sexual excitement.
Related to Sep. and Murx.
 Medusa (jelly fish)
• ABNORMAL LACTATION
NETTLE rash
Extreme anxiety, speech difficult
DANCE alone (like Sepia)
Aesthetics important, beautify themselves
Redness, sting, lentil shaped elevation, nettle-like rash
PRICKLING heat
hives - more burning than itching
Desires salt. <fish intolerance
>sleep, movement, food
doesn't perform well under pressure. inability to adapt to
change.
 Homarus (lobster digestive fluid)
• Dyspepsia, sore throat, headache (TRIAD) >after eating
Frontal & temporal pain with soreness in eyes
RAW throat, burns with tough mucus
CHILLY, pain all over
ITCHING of skin, <night. Calves BURNING, BITING, itching
< milk, after sleep
<MILK (keynote). pass lots of wind.
sharp pains make him sit down
> motion, after eating
>MOVEMENT, Nervous but DREAD movement
Frequent darting on various parts < legs
Not > by rubbing or scratching
Edema of lips and throat after subsidence
 Astacus (crawfish, rivercrab)
• good antidote for Rhus Tox (poison ivy)
affects LIVER
cough will standing still, better when walking
NETTLE- RASH (like medusa) with liver complaints (e.g hepatitis), chronic urticarial.
JAUNDICE in children
ITCHING Crusta lacteal, large lymph glands of neck (cradle cap)
enlarged neck in children/elderly
yellow - eyes, mucous membranes
PIPE-CLAY colored stool
< uncovering
violent fever, h/a, glowing red face
NERVOUS CRAWLS over body (like a crayfish)
GOUT- in alcoholics
STINGING pain
Dyspnea, fear
Weeping >sx. (like Asteria)
Unprotected at the mercy of the world
TRANSITION (shed old shell and look for new)
No desire to be around people, want calm, clarity
Fishy taste in mouth, fishy urine
LIPS chapped, tension, pain when laughing, peeling
FLUSHES of heat- as if room were hot
 Limulus
• Frequent rush of blood to the face
<meditating
Painful fullness of whole RIGHT half of the body, especially
lower limbs.
Heat and burning constriction in abdomen.
GI sx.
Cramp like pain with watery stools
Bodily and mental exhaustion, drowsiness after sea bathing.
Mental depression
Can't remember names, confused with heat of face.
Skin-itching spots and vesicles on face and hands. Burning in
palms.
 Oleum jecoris (cod liver oil)
• hirutism = abnormal hair growth in women.
PCOS
Pains in liver with great soreness.
PALPITATION. concomitant of other symptoms
cough - dry, hacking, with yellow expectorant.
feet always cold. sensitive to draft.
 Gadus Morrhua (cod)
• Powerful action on the RESPIRATORY system
Flapping alae nasi (flare nostrils)
Affects the bones
Heat in hands (Limulus in palms)
Hopelessness and desire death.
Subclinical thyroid issues
 Ambra Grisea (sperm whale glandular
secretion)
• A/F EMBARRASSMENT -blushing easily in the presence of strangers. Timid. Especially
stool, urine. wants to go exclusively to own toilet
Hysteria.
TALKING agg all complaints. Anxiety when speaking.
cough , trembling < company of people < room full of people
MUSIC cause weeping & trembling. <music. headaches
prematurely old people
aversion to smiling faces. Aversion to laugh.
ONE sided complaints (either left or right)
brain feels loose and falls on one side when leaning that way.
numbness
Grey discharges
Asthma in old people aggr. coition
hollow spasmodic barking cough, coming from deep within chest
can't sleep from worry. goes to bed tired, but wakeful when head touches pillow.
 Venus mercinaria (American scallops, round
clam)
• HEADACHES - Frontal and occipital
H/a with vertigo, nausea, vomiting.
Migraine h/a with digestive and urinary sx.
RIGHT sided
Furred tongue, flatulence, diarrhea
Feels like a bruise when pressed (bruised pain)
Desired cold drinks and cold food
Sensation coldness in mouth and throat
Delusions separated from the world, cut off from the world. don't belong.
Indifference, dull mood.
irritable from noise and people
 Murex purpura (purple fish)
• Sensitive, nervous, lively, affectionate women who are tired and run down, weak
MUST LIE DOWN, BUT AGG.
DIAGONAL PAINS (from left ovary to right breast)
*Consciousness of the womb
sore pain in the uterus
cutting pain of the cervix and os
frantic sexual desire with tendency to hemorrhage with large clots
Resp-wheezing in the chest. In evening
Bruised pain in the chest
Lancinating and burning pain below false ribs, esp left side towards the back.
Sensation-snake creeping over entire region of small ribs
Slightest touch cause excoriation and bleeding
 Pecten Jacobis (scallop)
• Humid asthma
Quick labored breathing- cannot lie flat or on
left side
COUGH < 6PM.
ALL SX WORSE AT NIGHT
 Helix tosta (toasted snail)
• traditionally used for TB
Hoarseness
DRY TICKLING COUGH < NIGHT PREVENTING
SLEEP
TB after pregnancy
 Acqua Marina (sea water)
• Constant hawking and raising of phlegm, tough and white like cotton
(Kali- bic)
< seaside or in the sea. headaches.
Sea sickness
Sensation hair or fishbone in throat, ticking and urging to swallow-
causes coughing which does not relieve.
fears others are watching them, being spyed on
fear of robbers
fear of becoming mad
tormented by sexual thoughts
unable to pass urine in front of others (like Ambr)
inflammation of cervical glands
crack in lower lip