Author: Urenus

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried glandular secretion of the beaver, Castor fiber L. or Castor canadense Kuhl. N.O. Castoridae.

The main indications are: Nerve remedy. Hysteria. Slimy green or whitish diar- rhoea. Lassitude and prostrating sweats following feverish illness.

All the symptoms point to emotional overloading, with a great sensitivity to a wide variety of external impressions. Many complaints arise or are aggravated by toxic overloading, e.g. during menses. Generally there is amelioration from rubbing the affected parts and from warm applications.

The mood alternates between peevishness in the morning and light-hearted exu- berance in the evening; in between there are melancholy episodes.

Sleep is generally restless with anxious dreams.

The picture of Castoreum includes rheumatic and neuralgic conditions with spas- modic tension in the intercostal region and the musculature of the neck, shoulders and back, neuralgias of the arm, ameliorated by rubbing, painful sensations along the sciatic nerve with great fatigue of the lower limbs and feeling of heaviness in the head. There may also be lack of clarity of vision with increased lachrymation, and tinnitus with tearing, ringing and roaring sounds.

In the circulatory system there are distended veins with slow pulse and a sensation of constriction in the heart and cold shudders, none of these complaints having any essential objective cause.

In the respiratory organs there are also catarrhal conditions with coughing and stabbing pains in the chest. These pains are also found in the digestive system, along with stomatitis and glossitis, eructations, disgust for food, nausea, feeling of fullness with pressure in the stomach, with the symtpom: “as if a feeling of coldness domi- nated the stomach”, which can point to Castoreum.

The menses usually come on too early with pains in the sacrum and many nervous complaints, the menses recurring again after a few days.

Thus Castoreum is particularly suited to inflammatory and spasmodic conditions of various organs, especially in emotionally overcharged cases.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Castoreum, published the fol- lowing indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for castoreum: nervous disorders and emotional discord or upset; spasmodic condi- tions of the gastrointestinal tract; paramenia.

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from the fresh cartilage of the knee and hip joints and the intervertebral discs of a healthy pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

Diseases of the cartilage. Tenosynovitis. Rheumatoid arthritis. Coxalgia. Frozen shoulder. The rheumatoid arthritis (deformans) may be intra-articular or periarticu- lar/infiltrative.

A proving of this substance was conducted in the spring and summer of 1994 by Dr. David Riley which confirmed its usefulness in diseases of the joints.

The most important symptoms from David Riley’s drug proving were:

Essential Characteristics

The musculoskeletla system is strongly affected by this remedy with stiffness of the muscles, joints, and bones. Headaches and lightheadedness are also associated. Anxiety and mental dullness and restlessness are also prominent.

Anxiety. Mental dullness with irritability. Mental restlessness. Angry. Weeping with sad thoughts. Muscle, joint, and bone pain. Generally worse in the morning. Tired and fatigued. Feeling lightheaded and faintlike. Dull headaches. Forehead headaches. Tingling all over the head. Sore throat pain. Frequent burping. Nausea. Abdominal distention and flatulence. Cramping abdominal pain. Rectal pain. Flatus. Painful joints. Heaviness, restlness, or awkwardness of the extremities.

Mind

ANGER and dreams of anger. ANXIETY worse in the morning on wakening. Aversion to company and slowness of thoughts. Difficult concentration. Mental confusion es- pecially on waking in the morning. DULLNESS associated with irritability. Mental ex- citement. Fear that something bad will happen, fear of death, and fear of insects. In-

difference, particularly to things that usually bring pleasure like reading. Irresolution. IRRITABILITY. MENTAL and physical RESTLESSNESS. Sadness and weeping. Sensitive to noise. Screaming during sleep from anxious dreams. Suicidal thoughts. Clarity of thoughts as if head is full of energy. WEEPING at sad thoughts, after drinking, or from anxious dreams. Dreams of falling into an abyss and being in an earthquake. Night- mares and dreams of blood and parts of the body that have been mangled.

Generalities

Incoordination while dancing. ENERGY is increased, decreased or improves espe- cially at 3 p.m. Better with physical exercise like walking or an increase of physical irritability. Food desires of eggs, lemonade, and melons. Heat, either the sensation of or feeling chilly. LASSITUDE in the afternoon or improvement of fatigue and tiredness especially at 3 p.m. Pain in the bones, joints, or muscles. SENSATION OF HEAVINESS or feeling lighter. Weakness.

Vertigo

LIGHTHEADED SENSATION. FEELING OF FAINTNESS.

Head

Tight or constricting sensation on the occiput. Head feels heavy. Pulsating and throbbing of the head. TINGLING or sparking sensation in the forehead, vertex, or oc- ciput. DULL HEAD PAIN. Head pain in the afternoon at 3 p.m. improves. Head pain in the morning on waking. HEADACHE IN THE FOREHEAD, vertex, temples, or extending from the vertex to the forehead. Pressing pain on motion or on waking.

Eye

Throbbing pain in the eyes associated with a feeling of heaviness.

Vision

Blurry vision.

Ear

Stopped sensation in the left ear. Deep itching in the right ear unrelieved by bor- ing.

Nose

Congestion of the nose and sinuses improves. Discharges sometimes bloody, sometimes thick and viscid. Dry discharge improves. Dryness inside the nose but with the usual nasal congestion. Sneezing worse in the daytime.

Mouth

Dry mouth in the morning on waking. Dryness associated with increased thirst. Heat in the throat. Sore pain on the lower inside lip. Prickling sensation.

Taste

Metallic taste in the mouth.

Throat

Painful and swollen cervical glands. Dry throat. SORE THROAT worse in the morning on waking.

Stomach

Appetite that is decreased or increased. Eructations that are acrid and burning and extend up to the throat and mouth and are worse in the evening. Heartburn. Sensa- tion of fullness. Gurgling, rumbling, and bubbling. NAUSEA, with heartburn. PAIN

that is burning, cramping, or occurs with hunger. Burning pain in the stomach ex- tending to the chest. Cramping stomach pain during the menses. Thirst. Thirstless- ness.

Abdomen

FLATULENCE and abdominal distension that is painful or occurs in the evening and prevents sleep. Gurgling and rumbling. Cramping abdominal pain in the hypochon- dria or the left lower quadrant abdominal muscles. Pain as if diarrhea would come on while eating breakfast. Pain in the iliac region.

Rectum

Constipation with ineffectual urging and straining. Diarrhea with sudden, strong urge. FLATUS that is difficult and worse in the evening. RECTAL PAIN with burning dur- ing stools. Urging for stool that is sudden, ineffectual, or with the diarrhea.

Stool

Many different stools. Soft, covered with blood, clay colored, dark, dry, hard, heavy, sticky, and thing. Stools occur earlier in the day.

Bladder

Burning pain at night before and during urination. Increased urging at night or improvement of that symptom.

Genitalia, Female

Itching of the vulva. Short menstrual cycle.

Chest

Fluttering of the heart. Crampy chest pain under the sternum and ribs. Sharp pain in the anterior chest and on the inferior border of the ribs. Breast pain and soreness before menses improves or is worse from the touch of clothing.

Back

Back pain before menses improves.

Extremities

Awkwardness, ataxia, and incoordination while dancing. Cracking of the wrist and elbow joints. Calf cramps in the morning. PAINFUL JOINTS. Pain in the joints of the upper limbs and knees. Pain in the elbow and wrist. UPPER LIMB and lower limb heaviness. Restlessness, particularly of the upper limbs and knee. Tingling and prickling and warm sensation in the upper arm, hand, fingers, and feet. Weakness in the upper and lower limbs. Aching pain in the forearm and wrist. Burning pain in the elbow and wrist. Joint pain. Sore pain in the elbow and forearm. Sore wrist pain.

Sleep

SLEEPINESS during the morning, afternoon, or daytime. Overpowering sleepiness.

Perspiration

Perspiration, worse in the afternoon.

Skin

Prickling sensation to the skin. Warm skin.

The mother tincture is prepared from the dried ripe seeds of Silybum marianum [L.] Gaertn. N.O. Compositae.

The total symptomatology of Carduus Marianus focusses on conditions of the liver, both feverish and otherwise, with diarrhoea or constipation, also icterus, gall- stone colics and as a supplementary remedy in ascites.

Carduus Marianus has also been used empirically with success in coughing with stitches in the side, in affections of the pleura and peritoneum, and in congestive states and abnormal bleeding of the uterus.

The German Monograph-Preparation Commission for the Homoeopathic Field of Therapy has, under the Preparation Monograph for Silybum marianum, published the following indication(s) in the German Bundesanzeiger (German Federal Gazette) for carduus marinus: affections of the liver and gallbladder; haemorrhoids and spasmodic contractions (cramps); rheumatism of the shoulders and hips.

The attenuations of this sarcode are prepared from the fresh cardiac sphincter of a healthy pig (Sus scrofa domesticus).

By means of the potentised sarcodes, the body’s defences (major defensive sys- tem) are directed towards the human tissue in question. The healing action is ac- complished through the stimulative strengthening of the body’s propensity for self- healing, and in this way a wide variety of phases, including impregnation phases, can be influenced.

Essentially, the following are the indications: Cardiospasm, Heartburn, Hiccough, Chronic gastritis, Ulcerative diathesis.

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from tissue obtained from cancer of the womb.

For auxiliary/additional therapy in uterine carcinoma (also, and in particular, post- operatively as well as after irradiation, insertions of radium etc.).

Although hysteromyomas only rarely degenerate neoplastically, this nosode preparation is also indicated for hysteromyomas.

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from tissue taken from cancer of the human mammary gland.

In early cases of mammary carcinoma, and in breast-tumours and suspicious fibromas in the context of other anti-homotoxic therapy (see Neoplasm phases), as an intermediate injection with catalysts, quinones and preparations of the carbonyl groups etc.

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from surgically removed cancerous laryngeal tissue.

The indications are as for Carcinosin. Protracted hoarseness without obvious or- ganic cause. Laryngitis of speakers and singers.

Carcinoma Hepatis Metastasis – Nosode of Cancer of the Liver

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from surgically removed human liver-cancer tissue.

Liver damage and pre-cancerous conditions of the liver. May also be used as an in- termediate injection in various kinds of impregnation and degeneration phases. Also in early cases of cancer with a tendency to metastasis.

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from surgically removed tissue of in- testinal cancer.

Carcinoma Coli is used in pre-cancerous states of the tissue concerned, or accord- ing to the Law of Similars in similar indications, e.g. in carcinoma uteri. However, the Carcinoma Coli nosode can also be used in cancer of the large intestine itself, isopathically, in which case violent reactions may occur.

The attenuations of this nosode are prepared from material obtained during sur- gery: excised bronchial carcioma.

For auxiliary/additional therapy in bronchial carcinoma (particularly post-opera- tive); chronic bronchitis and smoker’s catarrh (in this connection bronchial carcino- ma should not be over-looked).