Author: Urenus

Blue Cohosh
(CAULOPHYLLUM)

This is a woman’s remedy. Want of tonicity of the womb. During labor, when the pains are deficient and the patient is exhausted and fretful. Besides, it has a special affinity for the smaller joints. Thrush, locally and internally.

Stomach.–Cardialgia, spasms of stomach. Dyspepsia with spasmodic symptoms.

Female.–Extraordinary rigidity of os (Bell; Gels; Ver v). Spasmodic and severe pains, which fly in all directions; shivering, without progress; false pains. Revives labor pains and furthers progress of labor. After pains. Leucorrhśa, with moth-spots on forehead. Habitual abortion from uterine debility (Helon; Puls; Sab). Needle-like pains in cervix. Dysmenorrhśa, with pains flying to other parts of body. Lochia protracted; great atony. Menses and leucorrhśa profuse.

Skin.–Discoloration of skin in women with menstrual and uterine disorder.

Extremities.–Severe drawing, erratic pain and stiffness in small joints, fingers, toes, ankles, etc. Aching in wrists. Cutting pains on closing hands. Erratic pains, changing place every few minutes.

Relationship.–Incompatible: Coffea.

Compare: Viol. Odor (rheumatic carpal and metacarpal joints); Cimicif; Sepia; Pulsat; Gels.

Dose.–Tincture to third attenuation.

Catnip

Children’s remedy for Colic, also for nervous headache and hysteria, abdominal complaints, pain, flexing of thighs, twisting of body, crying. Similar to chamomilla and magnes phosph.

Dose.–5 to 10 drops of the tincture.

Rudimentary Thumb-nail of the Horse

General action on thickening of the skin and epithelium. Psoriasis linguæ. The clinical experience of Hering and his fellow-provers has shown this to be highly useful remedy in cracked and ulcerated nipples. Affects principally female organs. Acts on the nails and bones; pain in right tibia and coccyx. Warts on forehead. Warts on breast. Chapped hands.

Chest.–Cracked, sore nipples, excessively tender. Swelling of mammæ. Violent itching in breasts; areola reddened.

Relationship.–Compare: Graphites; Hippomanes; Calc. Oxal.

Dose.–Sixth and twelfth potency.

Chestnut Leaves

A useful remedy in whooping-cough, especially in the early stage, with dry, ringing, violent, spasmodic cough. Desire for warm drinks. Very thirsty. Loss of appetite. Diarrhœa. Thick urine.

Lumbago, weak back, can hardly straighten up.

Relationship.–Compare: Pertussin-Whooping-cough (when symptoms return again after being allayed). Dros; Mephitis; Naphthal; Ammon brom.

Dose.–Tincture.

The Beaver
(CASTOREUM)

A great remedy for hysteria. Prostration marked.

Hysterical symptoms. Day-blindness; cannot endure the light. Nervous women who do not recover fully, but are continually irritable, and suffer from debilitating sweats. Spasmodic affections after debilitating diseases. Constant yawning. Restless sleep with frightful dreams and starts.

Tongue.–Swollen. Rounded elevation size of a pea in center, with drawing sensation from center to hyoid bone.

Female.–Dysmenorrhœa; blood discharged in drops with tenesmus. Pain commences in middle of thighs. Amenorrhœa, with painful tympanites.

Fever.–Predominant chilliness. Attacks of chilliness with ice-coldness in back.

Relationship.–Compare: Ambra; Moschus; Mur acid; Valeriana.

Antidote: Colch.

Dose.–Tincture, and lower potencies.

Sacred Bark
(RHAMNUS PURSHIANA)

Introduced as a palliative for constipation (non-homeopathic), fifteen drops of fluid extract here it restores normal function by its tonic effects, but it has a wider sphere of action, as careful provings will show. Chronic indigestion, cirrhosis and jaundice. Hæmorrhoids and constipation. Gastric headache. Broad, flabby tongue; foul breath.

Urine.–Must wait for minute before flow starts then first in drops.

Extremities.–Rheumatism of muscles and joints, with obstinate constipation.

Relationship.–Compare: Hyd; Nux; Rhamnus Californica (tincture for constipation; tympanites and appendicitis and especially rheumatism).

Dose.–Tincture to sixth potency.

Sweet Bark

Acts on the digestive tract; constipation. Aversion to smell of tobacco. Inclination to vomit very marked.

Stomach.–Hunger after meals. Desire for hot drinks. Nausea and vomiting. Pain in stomach as from a shock. Pressing colic.

Rectum.–Constipation; stools hard, covered with mucus (Graph). Bright blood with stool. Diarrhœa alternating with hard, lumpy stool, with backache and lassitude, preceded by griping. Gnawing pain high up in rectum.

Dose.–First to third potency.

The Waters of the Sprudel Springs
(CARLSBAD)

Famous for its action on the liver and in the treatment of obesity, diabetes, and gout. In homeopathic potencies useful in weakness of all organs, constipation, great liability to take cold. Periodicity, effects repeated after from two to four weeks (Oxal ac; Sulph). Flashes of heat all over. Itching on various parts.

Mind.–Discouraged and anxious about domestic duties.

Head.–Aches, with swollen temporal veins (Sang); better, motion, in open air.

Face.–Yellow; sallow; red and hot; pain in zygomatic process; feels as if cobwebs were on it.

Stomach.–Tongue coated white. Offensive smell from mouth. Furry sensation. Sour or salty taste. Hiccough and yawning. Heartburn (Carbo).

Urine.–Stream weak and slow; only passed by pressing abdominal muscles.

Rectum.–Feces held back. Stool slow, and only passed by much abdominal pressure. Burning in rectum and anus. Bleeding piles.

Relationship.–Compare: Nat sulph; Nux.

Dose.–Lower potencies.

St. Mary’s Thistle

The action of this drug is centered in the liver, and portal system, causing soreness, pain, jaundice. Has specific relation to the vascular system. Abuse of alcoholic beverages, especially beer. Varicose veins and ulcers. Diseases of miners, associated with asthma. Dropsical conditions depending on liver disease, and when due to pelvic congestion and hepatic disease. Disturbs sugar metabolism. Influenza when liver is affected. Debility. Hæmorrhages, especially connected with hepatic disease.

Mind.–Despondency; forgetful, apathetic.

Head.–Contractive feeling above eyebrows. Dull heavy, stupid, with foul tongue. Vertigo, with tendency to fall forward. Burning and pressure in eyes. Nose-bleed.

Stomach.–Taste bitter. Aversion to salt meat. Appetite small; tongue furred; nausea; retching; vomiting of green, acid fluid. Stitches in left side of stomach, near spleen (Ceanoth). Gallstone disease with enlarged liver.

Abdomen.–Pain in region of liver. Left lobe very sensitive. Fullness and soreness, with moist skin. Constipation; stools hard, difficult, knotty; alternates with diarrhœa. Stools bright yellow. Swelling of gall bladder with painful tenderness. Hyperæmia of liver, with jaundice. Cirrhosis, with dropsy.

Rectum.–Hæmorrhagic piles, prolapse or rectum, burning pain in anus and rectum, hard and knotting, clayey stools. Profuse diarrhœa due to rectal cancer. 10 drops doses (Wapler).

Urine.–Cloudy; golden-colored.

Chest.–Stitching pains in lower right ribs and front; worse, moving, walking, etc. Asthmatic respiration. Pain in chest, going to shoulders, back, loins and abdomen, with urging to urinate.

Skin.–Itching on lying down at night. Varicose ulcers (Clematis vitalba). Eruption on lower part of sternum.

Extremities.–Pain in hip-joint, spreading through buttocks and down thigh; worse from stooping. Difficult rising. Weakness felt in feet, especially after sitting.

Relationship.–Compare: Card benedictus (strong action on eyes, and sensation of contraction in many parts; stomach symptoms similar); Chelidon; Chionanthes; Merc; Podophyl; Bry; Aloe.

Dose.–Tincture and lower potencies.

A nosode from Carcinoma
(CARCINOSIN)

It is claimed the Carcinosin acts favorably and modifies all cases in which either a history of carcinoma can be elicited, or symptoms of the disease itself exist (J. H. Clarke, M. D).

Carcinoma of the mammary glands with great pain and induration of glands; of uterus, the offensive discharge, hæmorrhage and pain are greatly relieved.

Indigestion, accumulation of gas in stomach and bowels; rheumatism-Cancerous cachexia.

Relationship.–Compare: Bufo; Conium; Phytolacca, Asterias.

Dose.–Thirtieth and 200th potency, a dose at night or less frequently.