Author: Urenus

Erythraea venusta-Centaury

Used extensively as a fever remedy and bitter tonic (Gentiana), antimalarial and antiseptic. Of use in severe type of intermittent fever in hot countries; also, in influenza. Sore, as if bruised all over. Sensation of drops falling from and upon different spots.

Head.–Congested. Scalp feels tight; head feels as if bound; burning in eyes; buzzing in ears.

Fever.–Chill all over; worse in bed at night. Sensitive to cold trade-winds on Pacific Coast. General sore and bruised feeling; nausea and retching.

Skin.–Wrinkled like a washer-woman’s. Scalp feels tight, as if drawn together by India-rubber.

Dose.–Tincture, in drop doses. Must be made from the fresh plant. Its medicinal properties are lost in the dry.

Mono-bromide of Camphor
(CAMPHORA MONO-BROMATA)

Nervous excitability is the guiding condition. Suppression of milk. Nightly emissions. Painful erections. Paralysis agitans. Cholera infantum, and infantile convulsions. Intensifies the action of Quinine and renders it more permanent.

Mind.–Directions appear reversed, i.e, north seems south, and east seems west. Hysteria; weeping and laughing alternately. Trance-like state.

Dose.–Second trituration.

Camphor

Hahnemann says: “The action of this substance is very puzzling and difficult of investigation, even in the healthy organism because its primary action, more frequently than with any other remedy, alternates and becomes intermixed with the vital reactions (after effects) of the organism. On this account it is often difficult to determine what belongs to the vital reactions of the body and what to the alternating effects due to the primary action of the camphor.”

Pictures a state of collapse. Icy coldness of the whole body; sudden sinking of strength; pulse small and weak. After operations, if temperature is subnormal, low blood pressure, 3 doses camph. 1x, 15-minute intervals. This condition is met with in cholera, and here it is that Camphor has achieved classical fame. First stages of a cold, with chilliness and sneezing. Subsultus and extreme restlessness. Cracking of joints. Epileptiform convulsions. Camphor has a direct relationship to muscles and fascia. In local rheumatic affections in cold climates necessary. Distention of veins. As a heart stimulant for emergency use of Camphor is the most satisfactory remedy. Drop doses on sugar as often as every five minutes.

It is characteristic of Camphor that the patient will not be covered, notwithstanding the icy coldness of the body. One of the main remedies in shock. Pain better while thinking of it. Very sensitive to cold and to touch. Sequelæ of measles. Violent convulsion, with wandering and hysterical excitement. Tetanic spasms. Scrofulous children and irritable, weakly blondes especially affected.

Head.–Vertigo, tendency to unconsciousness, feeling as if he would die. Influenza; headache, with catarrhal symptoms, sneezing, etc. Beating pain in cerebellum. Cold sweat. Nose cold and pinched. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling. Fleeting stitches in temporal region and orbits. Head sore. Occipital throbbing, synchronous with the pulse.

Eyes.–Fixed, staring; pupils dilated. Sensation as if all objects were too bright and glittering.

Nose.–Stopped; sneezing. Fluent coryza on sudden change of weather. Cold and pinched. Persistent epistaxis, especially with goose-flesh state of skin.

Face.–Pale, haggard, anxious, distorted; bluish, cold. Cold sweat.

Stomach.–Pressive pain in pit of stomach. Coldness, followed by burning.

Stool.–Blackish; involuntary. Asiatic cholera, with cramps in calves, coldness of body, anguish, great weakness, collapse, tongue and mouth cold.

Urine.–Burning and strangury, with tenesmus of the neck of the bladder. Retention with full bladder.

Male–Besire increased. Chordee. Priapism. Nightly emissions.

Respiratory.–Præcordial distress. Suffocative dyspnœa. Asthma. Violent, dry, hacking cough. Palpitation. Breath cold. Suspended respiration.

Sleep.–Insomnia, with cold limbs. Subsultus and extreme restlessness.

Extremities.–Rheumatic pain between shoulders. Difficult motion. Numbness, tingling and coldness. Cracking in joints. Cramps in calves. Icy cold feet, ache as if sprained.

Fever.–Pulse small, weak, slow. Icy coldness of the whole body. Cold perspiration. Congestive chill. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling.

Skin.–Cold, pale, blue, livid. Cannot bear to be covered (Secale).

Modalities.–Worse, motion, night, contact, cold air. Better, warmth.

Relationship.–Camphor antidotes or modifies the action of nearly every vegetable medicine–tobacco, opium, worm medicines, etc. Laffa acutangula (whole body ice-cold, with a restlessness and anxiety; burning thirst). Camphoric acid–(a prophylactic against catheter fever; cystitis 15 grains three times a day; also for prevention of night sweats).

Incompatible: Kali nit.

Complementary: Canth.

Antidotes: Opium; Nitr sp dulc; Phos.

Compare: Carbo; Cuprum; Arsenic; Veratr.

Dose.–Tincture, in drop doses, repeated frequently, or smelling of Spirits of Camphor. Potencies are equally effective.

Cowslip

Pain in abdomen, vomiting, headache, singing in ears, dysuria and diarrhœa. Anasarca.

Skin.–Pemphigus. Bullæ are surrounded by a ring. Much itching. Face much swollen, especially around the eyes. Itching eruption on thighs. Pustules. Uterine cancer.

Dose.–Tincture.

Madar Bark
(CALOTROPIS)

Has been used with marked success in the treatment of syphilis following Mercury; also, in elephantiasis, leprosy, and acute dysentery. Pneumonic phthisis. Tuberculosis.

Increases the circulation in the skin; has powerful effects as a sudorific. In the secondary symptoms of syphilis, where Mercury has been used but cannot be pushed safely any farther, it rapidly recruits the constitution, heals the ulcers and blotches from the skin, and perfects the cure. Primary anæmia of syphilis. Heat in stomach is a good guiding symptom. Obesity, while flesh decreases, muscles become harder and firmer.

Relationship.–Compare: Merc; Potass iod; Berb aqui; Sarsap; Ipecac.

Dose.–Tincture, one to five drops; three times a day.

Marigold

A most remarkable healing agent, applied locally. Useful for open wounds, parts that will not heal, ulcers, etc. Promotes healthy granulations and rapid healing by first intention. Hæmostatic after tooth extraction. Deafness. Catarrhal conditions. Neuroma. Constitutional tendency to erysipelas. Pain is excessive and out of all proportion to injury. Great disposition to take cold, especially in damp weather. Paralysis after apoplexy. Cancer, as an intercurrent remedy. Has remarkable power to produce local exudation and helps to make acrid discharge healthy and free. Cold hands.

Head.–Extremely nervous; easily frightened; tearing headache; weight on brain. Submaxillary glands swollen, painful to touch. Pain in right side of neck. Lacerated scalp wounds.

Eyes.–Injuries to eyes which tend to suppuration; after operations; blenorrhœa of lachrymal sac.

Ears.–Deafness; worse in damp surroundings and with eczematous conditions. Hears best on a train, and distant sounds.

Nose.–Coryza in one nostril; with much green discharge.

Stomach.–Hunger immediately after nursing. Bulimia. Heartburn with horripilations. Nausea in chest. Vomiting. Sinking sensation. Epigastric distention.

Respiratory.–Cough, with green expectoration, hoarseness; with distention of inguinal ring.

Female.–Warts at the os externum. Menses suppressed, with cough. Chronic endocervicitis. Uterine hypertrophy, sensation of weight and fullness in pelvis; stretching and dragging in groin; pain on sudden movements. Os lower than natural. Menorrhagia.

Skin.–Yellow; goose-flesh. Promotes favorable cicatrization, with least amount of suppuration. Slough, proud flesh, and raised edges. Superficial burns and scalds. Erysipelas (use topically).

Fever.–Coldness, great sensitiveness to open air; shuddering in back, skin feels warm to touch. Heat in evening.

Modalities.–Worse, in damp, heavy, cloudy weather.

Relationship.–Compare: Hamamel; Hyperic; Symph; Arn.

Compare in deafness: Ferr pic; Kal iod; Calc; Mag c; Graph.

Antidote: Chelidon; Rheum.

Complementary: Hepar.

Dose.–Locally. Aqueous Calendula (Marigoldin) for all wounds, the greatest healing agent. Also as an injection in leucorrhœa; internally, tincture, to third potency. For burns sores, fissures, and abrasions, etc, use Calendula Cerate.

Silicate of Lime

A deep, long acting medicine for complaints which come on slowly and reach their final development after long periods. Hydrogenoid constitution (Nat sulph). Very sensitive to cold. Patient is weak, emaciated, cold and chilly, but worse from being overheated; sensitive generally. Atrophy of children.

Mind.–Absent-minded, irritable, irresolute, lacks self-confidence. Fearful.

Head.–Vertigo, head cold, especially at vertex; catarrh of nose and posterior nares, discharge thick, yellow, hard crusts. Corneal exudation.

Stomach.–Sensation of coldness, especially when empty. Sinking sensation at pit. Great thirst. Flatulence and distention after eating. Vomiting and eructations.

Female.–Uterus heavy, prolapsed. Leucorrhœa, painful and irregular menses. Flow between periods.

Respiratory.–Sensitive to cold air. Difficult respiration. Chronic irritation of air passages. Copious, yellow-green mucus. Coughs with coldness, weakness, emaciation, sensitiveness and peevishness, worse from cold air. Pain in chest walls.

Skin.–Itching, burning, cold and blue, very sensitive. Pimples, comedones, wens. Psoric eruptions.

Relationship.–Compare: Arsenic; Tubercul; Baryt carb; Iod.

Dose.–All potencies from lowest to high.

Sulphate of Lime-Plaster of Paris

Eczema and torpid glandular swellings. Cystic tumors. Fibroids. Suppurative processes come within the range of this remedy, after pus has found a vent. Mucous discharges are yellow, thick and lumpy. Lupus vulgaris.

Head.–Scald-head of children, if there be purulent discharge, or yellow, purulent crusts.

Eyes.–Inflammation of the eyes, with discharge of thick, yellow matter. Sees only one-half an object. Cornea smoky. Ophthalmia neonatorum.

Ears.–Deafness, with discharge of matter from the middle ear, sometimes mixed with blood. Pimples around ear.

Nose.–Cold in the head, with thick, yellowish, purulent secretion, frequently tinged with blood. One-sided discharge from nose. Yellowish discharge from posterior nares. Edges of nostrils sore.

Face.–Pimples and pustules on the face. Herpes.

Mouth.–Inside of lips sore. Tongue flabby, resembling a layer of dried clay. Sour, soapy, acrid taste. Yellow coating at base.

Throat.–Last stage of ulcerated sore throat, with discharge of yellow matter. Suppurating stage of tonsillitis, when abscess is discharging.

Abdomen.–Pain in region of liver, in right side of pelvis, followed by weakness, nausea, and pain in stomach.

Stool.–Purulent diarrhœa mixed with blood. Diarrhœa after maple sugar and from change of weather. Pus-like, slimy discharge from the bowels. Painful abscesses about the anus in cases of fistula.

Female.–Menses late, long-lasting, with headache, twitching great weakness.

Respiratory.–Cough, with purulent and sanious sputa and hectic fever. Empyæma, pus forming in the lungs or pleural cavities. Purulent, sanious expectoration. Catarrh, with thick, lumpy, white-yellow or pus-like secretion.

Extremities.–Burning-itching of soles of feet.

Fever.–Hectic fever, caused by formation of pus. With cough and burning in soles.

Skin.–Cuts, wounds, bruises, etc, unhealthy, discharging pus; they do not heal readily. Yellow, purulent crusts or discharge. Purulent exudations in or upon the skin. Skin affections with yellowish scabs. Many little matterless pimples under the hair, bleeding when scratched. Dry eczema in children.

Relationship.–Compare: Hepar; Silica.

Dose.–Second and third trituration. The twelfth potency has been found effective in Lupus.

Phosphate of Lime

One of the most important tissue remedies, and while it has many symptoms in common with Calcarea carb, there are some differences and characteristic features of its own. It is especially indicated in tardy dentition and troubles incident to that period, bone disease non-union of fractured bones, and the anćmias after acute diseases and chronic wasting diseases. Anćmic children who are peevish, flabby, have cold extremities and feeble digestion. It has a special affinity where bones form sutures or symphyses, and all its symptoms are worse from any change of weather. Numbness and crawling are characteristic sensations, and tendency to perspiration and glandular enlargement are symptoms it shares with the carbonate. Scrofulosis, chlorosis and phthisis.

Mind.–Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation (Ignat; Phos ac). Always wants to go somewhere.

Head.–Headache, worse near the region of sutures, from change of weather, of school children about puberty. Fontanelles remain open too long. Cranial bones soft and thin. Defective hearing. Headache, with abdominal flatulence. Head hot, with smarting of roots of hair.

Eyes.–Diffused opacity in cornea following abscess.

Mouth.–Swollen tonsils; cannot open mouth without pain. Complaints during teething; teeth develop slowly; rapid decay of teeth. Adenoid growths.

Stomach.–Infant wants to nurse all the time and vomits easily. Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats. Much flatulence. Great hunger with thirst flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations. Heartburn. Easy vomiting in children.

Abdomen.–At every attempt to eat, colicky pain in abdomen. Sunken and flabby. Colic, soreness and burning around navel.

Stool.–Bleeding after hard stool. Diarrhśa from juicy fruits or cider; during dentition. Green, slimy, hot, sputtering, undigested, with fetid flatus. Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms.

Urine.–Increased, with sensation of weakness. Pain in region of kidneys when lifting or blowing the nose.

Female.–Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls. If late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with violent backache. During lactation with sexual excitement. Nymphomania, with aching, pressing, or weakness in uterine region (Plat). After prolonged nursing. Leucorrhśa, like white of egg. Worse morning. Child refuses breast; milk tastes salty. Prolapsus in debilitated persons.

Respiratory.–Involuntary sighing. Chest sore. Suffocative cough; better lying down. Hoarseness. Pain through lower left lung.

Neck and Back.–Rheumatic pain from draught of air, with stiffness and dullness of head. Soreness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if broken (Aesc hip).

Extremities.–Stiffness and pain, with cold, numb feeling, worse any change of weather. Crawling and coldness. Buttocks, back and limbs asleep. Pains in joints and bones. Weary when going upstairs.

Relationship.–Complementary: Ruta; Hepar.

Compare: Calcar hypophosphorosa (is to be preferred when it seems necessary to furnish the organism with liberal doses of phosphorus in consequence of continued abscesses having reduced the vitality. Give first and second decimal trits. Loss of appetite, rapid debility, night sweats; Acne pustulosa.–Pallor of skin, habitually cold extremities. Phthisis-diarrhśa and cough; acute pains in chest. Mesenteric tuberculosis. Bleeding from lungs; angina pectoris; asthma; affection of arteries. Veins stand out like whipcords. Attacks of pain occurring two hours after meals (relieved by a cup of milk or light food). Cheiranthus (effects of cutting wisdom teeth). Calcarea renalis-Lapis renalis–(arthritic nodosities. Rigg’s disease; lessens tendency to accumulation of tartar on teeth; gravel and renal calculi). Conchilion.–Meter perlarum.–Mother of pearl (Osteitis.–Has a wide range of action in bone affections, especially when the growing ends are affected. Petechić). Silica; Psorin; Sulph.

Modalities.–Worse, exposure to damp, cold weather, melting snow. Better, in summer; warm, dry atmosphere.

Dose.–First to third trituration. Higher potencies often more effective.

Iodide of Lime

It is in the treatment of scrofulous affections, especially enlarged glands, tonsils, etc, that this remedy has gained marked beneficial results. Thyroid enlargements about time of puberty. Flabby children subject to colds. Secretions inclined to be profuse and yellow. Adenoids. Uterine fibroids. Croup.

Head.–Headache while riding against cold wind. Lightheaded. Catarrh; worse at root of nose; sneezing; very little sensation. Polypi of nose and ear.

Throat.–Enlarged tonsils are filled with little crypts.

Respiratory.–Chronic cough; Pain in chest, difficulty breathing after syphilis and mercurialization (Grauvogl). Hectic fever; green purulent expectoration. Croup. Pneumonia.

Skin.–Indolent ulcers, accompanying varicose veins. Easy perspiration. Copper-colored and papulous eruptions, tinea, favus, crusta lactea, swelling of the glands, skin cracked, falling out of hair.

Relationship.–Compare: Agraphis-Bluebell (adenoids with enlarged tonsils). Here Sulph iod follows both Agraphis and Calc iod. Acon lycotonum (swelling of glands, Hodgkin’s disease).

Compare also: Calc fluor; Sil; Merc iod.

Dose.–Second and third trituration.