• Gout: Joints stiff, swollen, with pricking sensation; wrists and ankle joints

painful and inflammed.

• Very lame and sore all over.
• Marasmus of lower extremities only.
Fever
• Great weakness and prostration and a kind of hectic fever with children;
unable to stand.
Skin
• Itching chilblains (Agar.).
Relation
• After Hepar in furuncle; after Acon. and Bry. in pleurisy, when a pressing
sensation remains in affected side impeding respiration.

ACETICUM ACIDUM
Glacial Acetic Acid
C4H3O3

Constitution
• Adapted to pale, lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy
(Ferr.).
• Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrot., Iod., Sanic.,
Tub.).
Physical Generals
• Hemorrhage: From every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach,
bowels, uterus (Ferr., Mill.); metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis
(Arn.).
• Great prostration; after injuries (Sul-ac.); after surgical shock; after
anesthetics.
• Thirst: Intense, burning, insatiable even for large quantities in dropsy,
 diabetes, chronic diarrhea; but no thirst in fever.
• Cannot sleep lying on the back (sleeps better on back, Ars.); sensation of
sinking in abdomen causing dyspnea; rests better lying on belly (Am-c.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Diarrhea: Copious, exhausting, great thirst; in dropsy, typhus, phthisis;
with night sweats.
Female Reproductive System
• Sour belching and vomiting of pregnancy, burning waterbrash and
profuse salivation, day and night (Lac-ac., salivation, < at night, Merc.).
Respiratory System
• True croup, hissing respiration, cough with the inhalation (Spong.); last
stages.
• Inhalation of vapor of cider vinegar has been successfully used in croup
and malignant diphtheria.
Fever
• Hectic fever, skin dry and hot; red spot on left cheek and drenching night
sweats.
• No thirst in fever.
Relation
• It antidotes anesthetic vapors (Aml-ns.), fumes of charcoal and gas;
Opium and Stramonium.
• Cider vinegar antidotes carbolic acid.
• Follows well: After Cinchona, in hemorrhage; after Digitalis in dropsy.
• It aggravates: The symptoms of Arn., Bell., Lach., Merc.; especially the
headache from Belladonna.

ACONITUM NAPELLUS
Monkshood
 Ranunculaceae
Constitution
• Is generally indicated in acute or recent cases occurring in young persons,
especially girls of a full, plethoric habit who lead a sedentary life;
persons easily affected by atmospheric changes; dark hair and eyes, rigid
muscular fibre.
Mental Generals
• Great fear and anxiety of mind, with great nervous excitability; afraid
to go out, to go into a crowd where there is any excitement or many
people; to cross the street.
• The countenance is expressive of fear; the life is rendered miserable by
fear; is sure his disease will prove fatal; predicts the day he will die; fear
of death during pregnancy.
• Restless, anxious, does everything in great haste; must change position
often; everything startles him.
• Hahnemann says: “Whenever Aconite is chosen homoeopathically, you
must, above all, observe the moral symptoms, and be careful that it
closely resembles them; the anguish of mind and body; the restlessness;
the disquiet not to be allayed.”
• This mental anxiety, worry, fear accompanies the most trivial ailment.
• Music is unbearable, makes her sad (Sab.—during menses, Nat-c.).
Physical Generals
• Complaints caused by exposure to dry cold air, dry north or west winds,
or exposure to draughts of cold air while in a perspiration; bad effects of
checked perspiration.
• For the congestive stage of inflammation before localization takes place.
• Pains: Are intolerable, they drive him crazy; he becomes very restless; at
night.
Female Reproductive System
• Amenorrhea in plethoric young girls; after fright, to prevent suppression
of menses.
Respiratory System
• Cough, croup; dry, hoarse, suffocating; loud, rough, croaking; hard,
ringing, whistling; on expiration (Caust., on inhalation, Spong.); from
dry, cold winds or drafts of air.
Nervous System
• On rising from a recumbent position the red face becomes deathly pale, or
he becomes faint or giddy and falls, and he fears to rise again; often
accompanied by vanishing of sight and unconsciousness.
• Convulsions: Of teething children; heat, jerks and twitches of single
muscles; child gnaws its fist, frets and screams; skin hot and dry; high
fever.
Fever
• Fever: Skin dry and hot; face red, or pale and red alternately; burning
thirst for large quantities of cold water; intense nervous restlessness,
tossing about in agony; becomes intolerable towards evening and on
going to sleep.
• Aconite should never be given simply to control the fever, never
alternated with other drugs for that purpose. If it be a case requiring
Aconite no other drug is needed; Aconite will cure the case.
• Unless indicated by the exciting cause, is nearly always injurious in first
stages of typhoid fever.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Evening and night, pains are insupportable; in a warm
room; when rising from bed; lying on affected side (Hep., Nux-m.).
• Amelioration: In the open air (Alum., Mag-c., Puls., Sab.).
Relation
• Complementary: To Coffea in fever, sleeplessness, intolerance of pain; to
Arnica in traumatism; to Sulphur in all cases. Rarely indicated in fevers
which bring out eruptions.
• Aconite is the acute of Sulphur, and both precede and follow it in acute
inflammatory conditions.
Mental Generals
• Despondent, gloomy; very irritable; loses temper easily and gains control
slowly; miserably cross (Cham.).
Physical Generals
• Fullness in various parts, as from an undue amount of blood; heart,
lungs, stomach, brain, pelvis, skin.
• Venous congestion, especially portal and hemorrhoidal.
• Mucous membranes of mouth, throat, rectum are swollen, burn, feel dry
and raw.
Nose
• Coryza: thin, watery, burning; rawness and sensitive to inhaled cold air.
Throat
• Follicular pharyngitis: Violent burning, raw sensation in throat; dryness
and roughness of throat.
• Frequent inclination to swallow, with burning, pricking, stinging and dry
constricted fauces (Apis, Bell.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Rectum: Dryness and heat of; feels as if full of small sticks; knife-like
pains shoot up the rectum (Ign., Sulph.); hemorrhoids blind, painful,
burning, purplish, rarely bleeding.
• Rectum sore, with fullness, burning and itching (Sulph.).
• Constipation: Hard, dry stool, difficult to pass; with dryness and heat of
rectum; accompanied by severe lumbo-sacral backache.
• Stool followed by fullness of rectum and intense pain in anus for hours
(Aloe, Ign., Mur-ac., Sulph.).
Female Reproductive System
• Prolapsus uteri and acrid, dark leucorrhea, with lumbo-sacral backache
and great fatigue, from walking.
Back
• Severe dull backache in lumbo-sacral articulation; more or less
constant; affecting sacrum and hips.
• Back “gives out”: During pregnancy, prolapsus, leucorrhea; when
walking or stooping; must sit or lie down.
• Sensation of heaviness and lameness in back.
Nervous System
• Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and spine.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Motion; backache and soreness by walking and stooping;
inhaling cold air.
Relation
• Similar: To, Aloe, Coll., Ign., Mur-ac., Nux-v., Sulph., in hemorrhoids.
• After Coll. has improved piles, Aesc. often cures.
• Useful after Nux-v. and Sulph. have improved, but failed to cure piles.

AETHUSA CYNAPIUM
Fool’s Parsley
Umbelliferae
Constitution
• Especially for children during dentition in hot summer weather; children
who cannot bear milk.
Mental Generals
• Idiocy in children; incapacity to think; confused.
Physical Generals
• Great weakness: Children cannot stand; unable to hold up the head
(Abrot.); prostration with sleepiness; after vomiting, after stool, after
spasm.
• Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Puls.—reverse of Ars.).
Face
• An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a drawn condition and
well-marked linea nasalis.
• Features expressive of pain and anxiety.
• Herpetic eruption on end of the nose.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Indigestion of teething children; violent, sudden vomiting of a frothy;
milk-white substance; or yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and
cheesy matter.
• Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating; copious greenish
vomiting.
• Intolerance of milk: Cannot bear milk in any form; it is vomited in large
curds as soon as taken; then weakness causes drowsiness (compare,
Mag-c.).
Nervous System
• Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned
downwards, pupils fixed and dilated; foam at the mouth, jaws locked;
pulse small, hard, quick.
Modalities
• Aggavation: After eating or drinking; after vomiting; after stool; after
spasm.
Relation
• Similar: To, Ant-c., Ars., Calc., Sanic.

AGARICUS MUSCARIUS
Toadstool
Fungi
Constitution
• Person with light hair; skin and muscles lax.
• Old people, with weak, indolent circulation.
• Drunkards, especially for their headaches; bad effects after a debauch
(Lob., Nux-v., Ran-b.).
Mental Generals
• Delirium: With constant raving; tries to get out of bed; in typhoid or
typhus.
Physical Generals
• Extremely sensitive to cold air (Calc., Kali-c., Psor.).
• Complaints appear diagonally; upper left and lower right side (Ant-t.,
Stram.—upper right, lower left, Ambr., Brom., Med., Phos., Sul-ac.).
Head
• Headaches; of those who readily become delirious in fever or with pain
(Bell.); of persons subject to chorea, twitchings or grimaces; from spinal
affections.
Male Reproductive System
• Nervous prostration after sexual debauches.
Female Reproductive System
• Prolapsus, post-climacteric; bearing-down pain almost in tolerable
(compare, Lil-t, Murx., Sep.).
Back
• Spinal irritation due to sexual excesses (Kali-p.).
• Epilepsy from suppressed eruptions (Psor., Sulph.).
• Spine sensitive to touch (Ther.); worse mornings.
• Pain; sore aching, in lumbar and sacral regions; during exertion in the day
time; while sitting (Zinc.).
• Every motion, every turn of body, causes pain in, spine. Single vertebra
sensitive to touch.
Extremities
• Uncertainty in walking, stumbling gait, stumbles over everything in the
way; feels pain as if beaten, when standing.
Nervous System
• Involuntary movements while awake, cease during sleep; chorea, from
simple motions and jerks of single muscles to dancing of whole body;
trembling of whole body (twitching of muscles of face, Myg.).
Skin
• Chilblains, that itch and burn intolerably; frostbite and all consequences
of exposure to cold, especially in face.
• Sensation as if ice touched or ice-cold needles were piercing the skin; as
from hot needles.
• Burning, itching, redness of various parts; ears, nose, face, hands and
feet; parts red, swollen, hot.
Modalities
• Aggavation: After eating; after coitus; cold air; mental application; before
a thunderstorm (Phos., Psor.).
Relation
• Similar: To, Cimic., Calc., Cann-i., Hyos., Kali-p., Lach., Nux-v., Op.,
Stram., in delirium of alcoholism; to Mygal., Tarent., Zinc., in chorea.

AGNUS CASTUS
Chaste Tree
Verbenaceae
Constitution
• For the lymphatic constitution.
• Premature old age: Melancholy, apathy, mental distraction, self-
contempt; arising in young persons from abuse of the sexual powers;
from seminal losses.
• “Old sinners,” with impotence and gleet; unmarried persons suffering
 from nervous debility:
Mental Generals
• Absent-minded, reduced power of insight; cannot recollect; has to read a
sentence twice before he can comprehend (Lyc., Phos-ac., Sep.).
Nose
• Complaints of imaginary odor before the nose, as of hering or musk.
Male Reproductive System
• Complete impotence: Relaxation, flaccidity, coldness of genitalia. No
sexual power or desire (Calad., Sel.).
• Impotence, after frequent attacks of gonorrhea.
• Gleet, with absence of sexual desire or erections.
• Bad effects from suppressed gonorrhea (Med.).
Female Reproductive System
• Leucorrhea; transparent, but staining linen yellow; passes imperceptibly
from the very relaxed parts.
• Deficient secretion or suppression of milk in nursing women (Asaf., Lac-
c., Lac-d.); often with great sadness; says she will die.
Skin
• Prevents excoriation, from walking.
Relation
• Calad. and Sel. follow well after Agnus in weakness of sexual organs or
impotence.

ALLIUM CEPA
Onion
Liliaceae
Physical Generals
• Acute catarrhal inflammation of mucous membranes, with increased
secretion.
• Bad effects from getting wet (Rhus-t.).
Head
• Catarrhal dull headache, with coryza; < in the evening, > in open air; < on
returning to a warm room (compare, Euphr., Puls.).
• Headache ceases during menses; returns when flow disappears (Lach.,
Zinc.); catarrhal dull headache.
Eyes
• Eyes: Burning, biting, smarting as from smoke, must rub them; watery
and suffused; capillaries injected and excessive lachrymation.
Nose
• Spring coryza, after damp northeasterly winds.
• Coryza; profuse, watery and acrid nasal discharge, with profuse, bland
lachrymation (profuse, full of acrid tears, bland and fluent coryza,
Euphr.); discharge burns and corrodes nose and upper lip.
• Acrid, watery discharge dropping from tip of nose (Ars., Ars-i.).
• Nasal polypus (Teucr., Sang., Sangin-n., Psor.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Colic: From cold by getting feet wet; overeating; from cucumbers; salads;
hemorrhoidal; of children; < sitting, > moving about.
Female Reproductive System
• Phlebitis, puerperal; after forceps delivery.
Respiratory System
• Hay fever; in August every year; violent sneezing on rising from bed;
from handling peaches.
• Catarrhal laryngitis; cough compels patient to grasp the larynx; seems as
if cough would tear it.
Extremities
• Sore and raw spots on feet, especially heel, from friction. “Efficacious
when feet are rubbed sore.” — Dioscorides.
• Panaritia; with red streaks up the arm; pains drive to despair; in child-bed.
Nervous System
• Neuralgic pains like a long thread; in face, head, neck, chest.
• Traumatic chronic neuritis; neuralgia of stump after amputation; burning
and stinging pains.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Predominantly in the evening and in warm room (Puls.—in
open air, Euphr.).
• Amelioration: In cold room and open air (Puls.).
Relation
• Complementary: Phos., Puls., Thuj.
• Compatible: Before, Calc. and Sil. in polypus.
• Similar: To, Euphr., but coryza and lachrymation are opposite.

ALOE SOCOTRINA
Socotrine Aloes
Liliaceae
Constitution
• Adapted to indolent, “weary” persons; averse to either mental or physical
labor; mental labor fatigues.
• Old people; especially women of relaxed, phlegmatic habit.
Mental Generals
• Dissatisfied and angry about himself or his complaints, especially when
constipated.
Physical Generals
• Diseases of mucous membranes; causes the production of mucus in jelly-
like lumps from throat or rectum; affects mucous membrane of rectum.
• Extreme prostration, with perspiration.
Head
• Headache across the forehead < by every footstep (Bell., Bry.); with
heaviness of eyes and nausea.
• Headaches: Are worse from heat, better from cold applications (Ars.);
alternating with lumbago; after insufficient stool.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Diarrhea: Has to hurry to closet immediately after eating and drinking
(Crot-t.); with want of confidence in sphincter ani; driving out of bed
early in the morning (Psor., Rumx., Sulph.).
• When passing flatus, sensation as if stool would pass with it (Olnd., Mur-
ac., Nat-m.).
• Colic; cutting, griping pain in right lower portion of abdomen;
excruciating, before and during stool; all pains cease after stool, leaving
profuse sweating and extreme weakness; attacks preceded by obstinate
constipation.
• Flatus offensive, burning, copious; much flatus with small stool (Agar.);
burning in anus after passage of flatus.
• Solid stool and masses of mucus pass involuntarily; hungry during
diarrhea.
• Before stool: Rumbling, violent sudden urging, heaviness in rectum;
during stool, tenesmus and much flatus; after stool, faintness.
• Hemorrhoids: Blue, like a bunch of grapes (Mur-ac.); constant bearing
down in rectum; bleeding, sore, tender, hot, relieved by cold water;
intense itching.
• Itching and burning in anus, preventing sleep (Indg.).
Skin
• Itch appears each year, as winter approaches (Psor.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: Early morning; sedentary life; hot, dry weather; after eating
or drinking; standing or walking.
• Amelioration: Cold water; cold weather; discharge of flatus and stool.
Relation
• Like Sulphur in many chronic diseases with abdominal plethora and
congestion of portal circulation; develops suppressed eruption.
• Similar: To, Am-m., Gamb., Nux-v., Podo.

ALUMINA
Pure Clay
Al2 O3

Constitution
• Adapted to persons who suffer from chronic diseases; “The Aconite of
chronic diseases.”
• Constitutions deficient in animal heat (Calc., Sil.).
• Spare, dry, thin subjects; dark complexion.
Mental Generals
• Mild, cheerful disposition; hypochondriacs.
• Time passes too slowly; an hour seems half a day (Cann-i.).
Physical Generals
• Abnormal appetite; craving for starch, chalk, charcoal, cloves, or tea-
grounds, acids and indigestible things (Cic., Psor.); potatoes disagree.
• Talking fatigues; faint and tired, must sit down.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Chronic eructations for years; worse in evening.
• Constipation: No desire for and no ability to pass stool until there is a
large accumulation (Meli.); great straining, must grasp the seat of
closet tightly; stool hard, knotty, like laurel berries, covered with mucus;
 or soft, clayey, adhering to parts (Plat.).
• Constipation: Of nursing children, from artificial food; bottle-fed babies;
of old people (Lyc., Op.) ; of pregnancy, from inactive rectum (Sep.).
• Inactivity of rectum, even soft stool requires great straining (Anac.,
Puls., Sil., Verat.).
• Diarrhea when she urinates.
• Has to strain at stool in order to urinate.
Female Reproductive System
• Leucorrhea: Acrid and profuse, running down to the heels (Syph.);
worse during the daytime; > by cold bathing.
• After menses: Exhausted physically and mentally, scarcely able to speak
(Carb-an., Cocc.).
Respiratory System
• All irritating things—salt, wine, vinegar, pepper—immediately produce
cough.
Nervous System
• Inability to walk, except with the eyes open, and in the daytime; tottering
and falling when closing eyes (Arg-n., Gels.).
Skin
• Dry, tettery, itching, eruption, worse in winter (Petr.); intolerable itching
of whole body when getting warm in bed (Sulph.); scratches until bleeds,
then becomes painful.
Modalities
• Aggravation: In cold air; during winter; while sitting; from eating
potatoes; after eating soups; on alternate days; at new and full moon.
• Amelioration: Mild summer weather; from warm drinks; while eating
(Psor.) ; in wet weather (Caust.).
Relation
• Alumina is one of the chief antidotes for lead poisoning; painter’s colic;
 ailments from lead.
• Complementary: To, Bryonia.
• Follows: Bry., Lach., Sulph.
• Alumina is the chronic of Bryonia.
• Similar: To, Bar-c., Con., in ailments of old people.

AMBRA GRISEA
Ambergris
A Nosode
Constitution
• For children, especially young girls who are excitable, nervous and weak;
nervous affections of old people, nerves “worn out.”
• Lean, thin, emaciated persons who take cold easily.
Mental Generals
• Great sadness, sits for days weeping.
• After business embarrassments, unable to sleep, must get up (Cimic.,
Sep.).
Mouth
• Ranula with fetid breath (Thuj.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Sensation of coldness in abdomen (Calc.).
• The presence of others, even the nurse, is unbearable during stool;
frequent, ineffectual desire, which makes her anxious.
Female Reproductive System
• Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident a long walk,
after every hard stool, etc.
• Leucorrhea: Thick, bluish-white mucus, especially or only at night
(Caust., Merc., Nit-ac.).
Respiratory System
• Violent cough in spasmodic paroxysms, with eructations and hoarseness;
worse talking or reading aloud (Dros., Phos.); evening without, morning
with expectoration (Hyos.); whooping cough, but without crowing
inspiration.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Warm drinks, warm room; music; lying down; reading or
talking aloud; the presence of many people; after waking.
• Amelioration: After eating; cold air; cold food and drinks; rising from
bed.
Relation
• Similar: To, Asaf., Cimic., Coca, Ign., Mosch., Phos., Valer.

AMMONIUM CARBONICUM
Smelling Salts
2NH4O. 3CO2

Constitution
• Stout, fleshy women with various troubles in consequence of leading a
sedentary life; delicate women who must have the “smelling bottle”
continually at hand; readily catch cold in winter.
Mental Generals
• Ill-humor during wet, stormy weather.
Physical Generals
• Hemorrhagic diathesis, fluid blood and degeneration of red blood
corpuscles; ulcerations tend to gangrene.
• Children dislike washing (Ant-c., Sulph.).
Head
• Headache; sensation of fullness, as if forehead would burst (Bell., Glon.).
Nose
• Nosebleed: When washing the face (Arn., Mag-c.) and hands in the
morning, from left nostril; after eating.
• Ozena, blowing bloody mucus from the nose frequently; blood rushes to
tip of nose, when stooping.
• Stopping of nose, mostly at night; must breathe through the mouth, a
keynote even in diphtheria; long lasting coryza; “snuffles” of infants
(Hep., Nux-v., Samb., Stict.).
Throat
• Putrid sore throat; tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils; glands
engorged.
• In diphtheria or scarlatina when the nose is stopped up; child cannot sleep
because it cannot get its breath.
Female Reproductive System
• Cholera-like symptoms at the commencement of menstruation (Bov.,
Verat.).
• Menses: Too early, profuse, preceded by griping colic; acrid, makes the
thighs sore; copious at night and when sitting (Zinc.); with toothache,
colic, sadness; fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness.
• Leucorrhea: Watery, burning from the uterus; acrid, profuse from the
vagina; excoriation of vulva.
Respiratory System
• Dyspnea with palpitation, worse by exertion or on ascending even a few
steps; worse in a warm room.
• One of the best remedies in emphysema.
• Cough: Dry, from tickling in throat as from dust, every morning from 3 to
4 a.m. (Kali-c.).
• Loses breath when falling asleep, must awaken to get breath (Grin.,
Lach.).
Extremities
• Panaritium: Deep-seated periosteal pain (Dios., Sil.).
Skin
• Body red, as if from scarlatina (compare, Ail.).
• Malignant scarlatina with deep sleep; stertorous breathing. Miliary rash or
faintly developed eruption from defective vitality; threatened paralysis of
brain (Tub., Zinc.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: Cold, wet weather; wet poultices; from washing; during
menses.
• Amelioration: Lying on abdomen (Acet-ac.); on painful side (Puls.); in
dry weather.
Relation
• It antidotes poisoning with Rhus-t. and stings of insects.
• Affects the right side most.
• Inimical: To, Lachesis.

AMMONIUM MURIATICUM
Sal Ammoniac
NH4Cl

Constitution
• Especially adapted to those who are fat and sluggish; or body large and
fat, but legs too thin.
Nose
• Watery, acrid coryza, corroding the lip (All-c.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Obstinate constipation accompanied by much flatus.
• Hard, crumbling stools require great effort in expulsion; crumble from the
verge of anus (Mag-m.), vary in color, no two stools alike (Puls.).
• Hemorrhoids: Sore and smarting; with burning and stinging in the rectum
• The cure more frequently depends upon the strength of the potency than
many who have not put it to the curative test imagine.

ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE
Marking Nut
Anacardiaceae
Mental Generals
• Sudden loss of memory; everything seems to be in a dream; patient is
greatly troubled about his forgetfulness; confused, unfit for business.
• Disposed to be malicious, seems bent on wickedness.
• Irresistible desire to curse and swear (Lac-c., Lil-t., Nit-ac.—wants to
pray continually, Stram.).
• Lack of confidence in himself and others.
• Feels as though he had two wills, one commanding him to do what the
other forbids.
• When walking, is anxious, as if someone were pursuing him; suspects
everything around him.
• Hypochondriac, with hemorrhoids and constipation.
• Strange temper, laughs at serious matters and is serious over laughable
things. Thinks herself a demon; curses and swears.
• Sensation: As of a hoop or band around a part (Cact., Carb-ac., Sulph.);
or as of a dull, blunt instrument pressing; as of a plug in inner parts.
Physical Generals
• Weakness of all the senses.
Head
• Headache: Relieved entirely when eating (Psor.); when lying down in bed
at night, and when about falling asleep; worse during motion and work.
• Gastric and nervous headaches of sedentary persons (Arg-n., Bry., Nux-
v.).
 ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM
Sulphide of Antimony
SbS3

Constitution
• For children and young people inclined to grow fat (Calc.); for the
extremes of life.
• Old people with morning diarrhea, suddenly become constipated, or
alternate diarrhea and constipation; pulse hard and rapid.
Mental Generals
• Child is fretful, peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at; sulky;
does not wish to speak or be spoken to (Ant-t., Iod., Sil.); angry at every
little attention.
• Great sadness, with weeping.
• Loathing life.
• Anxious, lachrymose mood, the slightest thing affects her (Puls.); abject
despair, suicide by drowning.
• Irresistible desire to talk in rhymes or repeat verses.
• Sentimental mood in the moonlight, especially ecstatic love; bad effects
of disappointed affection (Calc-p.).
Physical Generals
• Sensitive to the cold, < after taking cold.
• Longing for acids and pickles.
• Cannot bear the heat of sun; worse from over-exertion in the sun (Lach.,
Nat-m.) ; < from over-heating near the fire; exhausted in warm weather;
ailments from sunburn.
• When symptoms reappear they change locality or go from one side of the
body to the other.
• Aversion to cold bathing; child cries when washed or bathed with cold
water; cold bathing causes violent headache; causes suppressed menses;
colds from swimming or falling into the water (Rhus-t.).
Head
• Headache: After river bathing; from taking cold; alcoholic drinks;
deranged digestion, acids; fat, fruit; suppressed eruption.
Throat
• Mucus: In large quantities from posterior nares by hawking.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Gastric complaints from over-eating; stomach weak, digestion easily
disturbed; a thick milky-white coating on the tongue, which is the red
strand of the remedy; very subject to canker sores in the mouth (Arg-n.,
Sulph. ).
• Gastric and intestinal affections; from bread and pastry; acids, especially
vinegar; sour or bad wine; after cold bathing; over-heating; hot weather.
• Constant discharge of flatus, up and down, for years; belching, tasting of
ingesta.
• Mucus from anus, ichorous, oozing, staining yellow; mucus piles.
Respiratory System
• Loss of voice from becoming over-heated.
• Whooping cough: < by being over-heated in the sun or in a warm room;
from cold washing.
Extremities
• Large horny corns on soles of feet (Ran-b.); very sensitive when walking,
especially on stone pavements.
• Nostrils and labial commissures sore, cracked and crusty.
Skin
• Disposition to abnormal growths of the skin; fingernails do not grow
rapidly; crushed nails grow in splits like warts with horny spots.
Modalities
• Aggravation: After eating; cold baths; acids or sour wine; after heat of
sun or fire; extremes of cold, or heat.
• Amelioration: In the open air; during rest; after a warm bath.
Relation
• Complementary: Squilla.
• Similar: To , Bry., Ip., Lyc., Puls., in gastric complaints.
• Follows well: After, Ant-c., Puls., Merc., Sulph.

ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM
Tartar Emetic
Constitution
• Persons; the hydrogenoid constitution (of Grauvogl).
Mental Generals
• Child clings to those around; wants to be carried; cries and whines if
anyone touches it; will not let you feel the pulse (Ant-c., Sanic.).
Physical Generals
• Great sleepiness or irresistible inclination to sleep, with nearly all
complaints (Nux-m., Op.).
• Diseases originating from exposure in damp basements or cellars (Ars.,
Aran., Ter.).
Face
• Face cold, blue, pale, covered with cold sweat (Tab.).
Mouth
• Tongue coated, pasty, thick, white, with reddened papillae and red edges;
red in streaks; very red, dry in the middle; extraordinary craving for
apples (Aloe—for acids, pickles, Ant-c.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Vomiting: In any position except lying on right side; until he faints;
followed by drowsiness and prostration; of cholera morbus with diarrhea
 and cold sweat, a dose after each attack (Verat.).
Respiratory System
• Through the pneumogastric nerve it depresses the respiration and
circulation, thus producing the keynote of the remedy, viz., when the
patient coughs there appears to be a large correction of mucus in the
bronchi; it seems as if much would be expectorated, but nothing comes
up.
• Asphyxia: Mechanical, as apparent death from drowning; from mucus in
bronchi; from impending paralysis of lungs; from foreign bodies in
larynx or trachea; with drowsiness and coma.
• Child at birth pale, breathless, gasping; asphyxia neonatorum. Relieves
the “death-rattle” (Tarent.).
• Icterus with pneumonia, especially of right lung.
• In spring and autumn, when damp weather commences, cough of children
gets worse.
Modalities
• Aggravation: In damp, cold weather; lying down at night; warmth of
room; change of weather in spring (Kali-s., Nat-s.),
• Amelioration: Cold open air; sitting upright; expectorating; lying on right
side (Tab.).
Relation
• Similar: To, Lycopodium, but spasmodic motion of alae is replaced by
dilated nostrils; to Veratrum, both have diarrhea, colic, vomiting,
coldness and craving for acids; to Ipecac., but more drowsiness from
defective respiration, nausea, but > after vomiting.
• When lungs seem to fail, patient becomes sleepy, cough declines or
ceases, it supplants Ip.
• For bad effects of vaccination when Thuja fails and Silicea is not
indicated.
• Before Silicea in dyspnea from foreign bodies in the larynx or trachea;
Puls. in suppressed gonorrhea; Ter. from damp basements.
• Children not esily impressed when Ant-t. seems indicated in coughs,
require Hepar.

APIS MELLIFICA
Poison of the Honey Bee
Apium Virus
Constitution
• Adapted to the strumous constitution; glands enlarged, indurated; scirrhus
or open cancer.
• Women, especially widows; children and girls who, though generally
careful, become awkward, and let things fall while handling them (Bov.).
Mental Generals
• Ailments from jealousy, fright, rage, vexation, bad news.
• Irritable; nervous; fidgety; hard to please.
• Weeping disposition; cannot help crying; discouraged, despondent
(Puls.).
• Sudden, shrill, piercing screams from children while waking or sleeping
(Hell.).
Physical Generals
• Extreme sensitiveness to touch (Bell., Lach.).
• Pain: Burning, stinging, sore; suddenly migrating from one part to
another (Kali-bi., Lac-c., Puls.).
• Thirstlessness; in anasarca; ascites (Aceticum acidum, but face more
waxy and great thirst).
• Affects right side; enlargement or dropsy of right ovary; right testicle.
Eyes
• Edema; bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes (over the eyes, Kali-c.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Constipation: Sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if
much effort were used.
• Diarrhea: Of drunkards; in eruptive diseases, especially if eruption be
suppressed; involuntary from every motion, as though anus was wide
open (Phos.).
Urinary System
• Incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the parts; can scarcely retain
the urine a moment, and when passed scalds severely; frequent, painful,
scanty, bloody.
Extremities
• Edema; of the hands and feet, dropsy, without thirst (with thirst, Acet-ac.,
Apoc.).
Fever
• Intermittent fever; chill 3 p.m, with thirt, always (Ign.); < warm room and
from external heat (Thuj. 3 a.m. and at 3 p.m.).
Skin
• Bad effects of acute exanthema imperfectly developed or suppressed
(Zinc.); measles, scarlatina, urticaria.
Modalities
• Aggravation: After sleeping (Lach.); closed, especially warmed and
heated rooms are intolerable; from getting wet (Rhus-t.), but better from
washing or moistening the part in cold water.
• Amelioration: Open air; cold water or cold bathing; uncovering; pains by
coughing, walking or changing position; when sitting erect.
Relation
• Complementary: Nat-m.
• Disagrees, when used either before or after Rhus-t.
• Ars. and Puls. follow Apis well.
• Has cured scarlatina albuminuria after Canth., Dig., Hell., failed.
 APOCYNUM CANNABINUM
Indian Hemp
Apocynaceae
Physical Generals
• Excretions diminished, especially urine and sweat.
• Dropsy of serous membranes; acute, inflammatory.
• Dropsy: With thirst (Acet-ac.), water disagrees or is vomited (Ars.); most
cases uncomplicated with organic diseases; after typhus, typhoid,
scarlatina, cirrhosis; after abuse of quinine.
Head
• Acute hydrocephalus, with open sutures; stupor, sight of one eye lost;
constant and voluntary motion of one arm and one leg (left arm and leg,
Bry.); forehead projected.
Female Reproductive System
• Amenorrhea in young girls, with bloating or dropsical extension of
abdomen and extrimities.
• Metrorrhagia: Continued or paroxysmal flow; fluid or clotted; nause,
vomiting, palpitation; pulse quick, feeble, when moved; vital depression,
fainting, when raising head from pillow.
Respiratory System
• Cough, short and dry, or deep and loose, during pregnancy (Con.).
Relations
• Similar: To, Aceticum acidum, Apis (no thirst), Ars., Chin., Dig., in
dropsical affections.
• Blatta orientalis has cured bad cases of general dropsy, after Apis, Apoc.,
and Dig. failed.—Haynes.

ARGENTUM METALLICUM
The Metal
Pure Silver
Constitution
• Constitutional effects of onanism.
• Tall, thin, irritable persons.
Physical Generals
• Ailments from abuse of mercury.
• Affects the cartilages, tarsal, ears, nose, eustachian; structures entering
into joints.
Nose
• Exhausting, fluent coryza with sneezing.
• Hoarseness; of professional singers, public speakers (Alum., Arum-t.).
• Total loss of voice with professional singes.
• Throat and larynx feel raw or sore on swallowing or coughing.
• Laughing excites cough (Dros., Phos., Stann.) and produces profuse
mucus in larynx.
• When reading aloud has to hem and hawk; cough with easy expectoration
of gelatinous, visxid mucus, looking like boiled starch.
• Great weaknes of the chest (Stann.); worse left side.
• Alteration in timbre of voice with singers and public speakers (Arum-t.).
• Raw spot over bifurcation of the trachea; worse when using voice, talking
or singing.
Male Reproductive System
• Seminal emissions: After onanism; almost every night; without erection;
with atrophy of penis.
• Crushed pain in the testicles (Rhod.).
Female Reproductive System
• Prolapsus; with pain in left ovary and back, extending forward and
downward (right ovary, Pall.); climacteric hemorrhage.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Riding in a carriage (Cocc.); when touched or pressed
upon; talking, singing, reading aloud.
Relations
• Follows well: After, Alum.
• Similar: To, Stann. in cough excited by laughing.

ARGENTUM NITRICUM
Silver Nitrate
AgO, NO5

Constitution
• Always think of Argentum nit. on seeing withered, dried up, old-looking
patients (thin, scrawny, Sec.).
Mental Generals
• Apprehension when ready for church or opera, diarrhea sets in (Gels.).
• Time passes slowly (Cann-i.); impulse, wants to do things in a hurry; must
walk fast; is always hurried; anxious, irritable, nevous (Aur., Lil-t.).
Physical Generals
• Acute or chronic diseases from unusual; or long-continued mental
exertion.
• Emaciation, progressing every year; most marked in lower extremities
(Am-m.); marasmus.
• Great longing for fresh air (Aml-ns., Puls., Sulph.).
• Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up; craves fresh
air.
• Craves sugar.
Head
• Headache: Congestive, with fullness and heaviness; with sense of
 expansion; habitual gastric, of literary men; from dancing; hemicrania,
pressive, screwing in frontal eminence of temple; ending in bilious
vomiting; < from any exhaustive mental labor; > by pressure or tight
bandaging (Apis, Puls.).
Eyes
• Acute granular conjunctivitis; scarlet-red, like raw beef; discharge
profuse, muco-purulent.
• Ophthalmia neonatorum: Profuse, purulent discharge; cornea opaque,
ulcerated; lids sore, thick, swollen; agglutinated in morning (Apis, Merc-
c., Rhus-t.).
• Eye strain from sewing, < in warm room, > in open air (Nat-m., Ruta);
diseases due to defective accommodation.
• The 200th or 1000th potency in watery solution as a topical application in
ophthalmia neonatorum has relieved when the crude silver nitrate failed.
Throat
• Sensation of a splinter in throat when swallowing (Dol., Hep., Nit-ac.,
Sil.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Craves sugar; child is fond of it, but diarrhea results from eating (craves
salt or smoked meat, Calc-p.).
• Belching accompanies most gastric ailments.
• Flatulent dyspepsia: Belching after every meal; stomach, as if it would
burst with wind; belching difficult, finally air rushes out with great
violence.
• Diarrhea; green mucus, like chopped spinach in flakes; turning green
after remaining on diaper; after drinking; after eating candy or sugar;
masses of mucolymph in shreddy strips or lumps (Asar.); with much
noisy flatus (Aloe).
• Diarrhea as soon as he drinks (Ars., Crot-t., Trom.).
Urinary System
• Urine passes unconsciously day and night (Caust.).
Male Reproductive System
• Inpotence; erection fails when coition is attempted (Agn., Calad., Selen.).
Female Reproductive System
• Sensation of a splinter in or about uterus when walking or riding.
• Coition; painful in both sexes; followed by bleeding from vagina (Nit-
ac.).
• Metrorrhagia: In young widows; in sterility; with nervous erethism at
change of life (Lach.).
Respiratory System
• Chronic laryngitis of singers; the high notes cause cough (Alum., Arg-
met., Arum-t.).
Nervous System
• Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when he thinks himself
unobserved.
• Convulsions preceded by great restlessness.
• Great weakness of lower extremities, with trembling; cannot walk with
the eyes closed (Alum.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: Cold foods; cold air; eating sugar; ice cream; unusual
mental exertion.
• Amelioration: Open air; craves the wind blowing in his face; bathing with
cold water.
Relation
• Natrium mur. for the bad effects of cauterizing with nitrate of silver.
• Coffea increases nervous headache.
• Boys’ complaints after using tobacco (Ars., Verat.).
• Similar: To, Nat-m., Nit-ac., Lach., Aur., Cupr.
• After Verat.; Lyc. follows well in flatulent dyspepsia.
 ARNICA MONTANA
Leopard’s Bane
Compositae
Constitution
• Nervous women, sanguine plethoric persons, lively expression and very
red face.
• Especially adapted to those who remain long impressed by even slight
mechanical injuries.
Mental Generals
• Unconsciousness: When spoken to answers correctly, but
unconsciousness and delirium at once return (falls asleep in the midst of
a sentence, Bapt.).
• Says there is nothing the matter with him.
Physical Generals
• Sore, lame, bruised feeling all through the body, as if beaten;
traumatic affections of muscles.
• Nervous, cannot bear pain; whole body over-sensitive (Cham., Coff.,
Ign.).
• Everything on which he lies seems too hard; complains constantly of it
and keeps moving from place to place in search of a soft spot (the parts
rested upon feel sore and bruised, Bapt., Pyrog; must move continually
to obtain relief from the pain, Rhus-t.).
Head
• Hydrocephalus; deathly coldness in forearm of children (in diarrhea,
Brom.).
• Meningitis after mechanical or traumatic injuries; from falls, concussion
of brain, etc. When suspecting exudation of blood, to facilitate
absorption.
Eyes
• Conjunctival or retinal hemorrhage, with extravasation, from injuries or
 cough (Led., Nux-v.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Belching; eructations; foul, putrid, like rotten eggs.
• Dysentery; with ischuria, fruitless urging; long interval between the
stools.
• Constipation: Rectum loaded, feces will not come away; ribbon-like
stools from enlarged prostate or retroverted uterus.
Female Reproductive System
• Soreness of parts after labor; prevents post-partum hemorrhage and
puerperal complications.
• Retention or incontinence of urine after labor (Op.).
Extremities
• Gout and rheumatism, with great fear of being touched or struck by
persons coming near him.
• Cannot walk erect on account of a bruised sort of feeling in pelvic region.
Nervous System
• Mechanical injuries, especially with stupor from concussion; involuntary
feces and urine.
• Apoplexy: Loss of consciousness, involuntary evacuation from bowels
and bladder; in acute attack, controls hemorrhage and aids absorption;
should be repeted and allowed to act for days or weeks unless symptoms
call for another remedy.
• Paralysis (left-sided); pulse full, strong; stertor, sighing, muttering.
Fever
• Heat of upper part of body; coldness of lower.
• The face or head and face alone is hot, the body cool.
Injuries
• For the bad effects resulting from mechanical injuries; even if received
years ago.
• After injuries with blunt instruments (Symph.).
• Compound fractures and their profuse suppuration (Calend.).
• Concussions and contusions, results of shock or injury; without laceration
of soft parts; prevents suppuratin and septic conditions and promotes
absorption.
Skin
• Tendency to small, painful boils, one after another, extremely sore (small
boils in crops, Sulph.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: At rest; when lying down; from wine.
• Amelioation: From contact; motion (Rhus-t., Ruta).
Relations
• Complementary: To, Acon., Hyper., Rhus-t.
• Similar: To, for soreness as if bruised, Bapt., Chin., Phyt., Pyrog., Rhus-
t., Staph.
• Arnica follows well: After, Acon., Apis, Ham., Ip., Verat., is followed by
Sul-ac.
• In ailments from spirituous liquors or from charcoal vapors, Arn. is often
indicated (Am-c., Bov.).
• In spinal convulsions, compare with Hyper.

ARSENICUM ALBUM
White Oxide of Arsenic
As2O3

Mental Generals
• The disposition is:
(a) Depressing, melancholic, despairing, indifferent.
(b) Anxious, fearful, restless, full of anguish.
 (c) Irritable, sensitive, peevish, easily vexed.
• The greater the suffering, the greater the anguish, restlessness and fear of
death.
• Mentally restless but physically too weak to move; cannot rest in any
place; changing places continually; wants to be moved from one bed to
another, and lies now here, now there.
• Anxious fear of death; thinks it useless to take medicine, is incurable, is
surely going to die; dread of death when alone, on going to bed.
• Attacks of anxiety at night driving out of bed, < after midnight.
• Teething children are pale, weak, fretful, and want to be carried rapidly.
Physical Generals
• Great prostration, with rapid sinking of the vital forces; fainting.
• Burning pains; the affected parts burn like fire, as if hot coals were
applied to parts (Anthraci.), > by heat, hot drinks, hot applications.
• Cannot bear the smell or sight of food (Colch., Sep.).
• Great thirst for cold water; drinks often, but little at a time; eats seldom,
but much.
• Rapid emaciation: With cold sweat and great debility (Tub., Verat.); of
affected parts; marasmus.
• Excessive exhaustion from least exertion.
• Exhaustion is not felt by the patient while lying still; when he moves he is
surprised to find himself so weak.
• Symptoms generally worse from 1-2 p.m., 12-2 a.m.
• Bad effects from decayed food or animal matter, whether by inoculation,
olfaction or ingestion.
• Complaints return annually (Carb-v., Lach., Sulph., Thuj.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Burning thirst without special desire to drink; the stomach does not seem
to tolerate, because it cannot assimilate, cold water; lies like a stone in
the stomach. It is wanted, but he cannot or dare not drink it.
• Gastric derangements; after cold fruits; ice cream; ice water; sour beer;
 bad sausage; alcoholic drinks; strong cheese.
• Diarrhea, after eating or drinking; stool scanty; dark-colored, offensive,
and whether small or large, followed by great prostration.
• Hemorrhoids: With stitching pain when walking or sitting, not at stool;
preventing sitting or sleep; burning pain < by heat; fissures make
voiding urine difficult.
Respiratory System
• Breathing, asthmatic; must sit or bend forward; springs out of bed at
night, especially after twelve o’clock; unable to lie down for fear of
suffocation; attacks like croup instead of the usual urticaria.
Skin
• Anasarca, skin pale, waxy, earth-colored (Acet-ac.).
• Skin: Dry and scaly; cold, blue and wrinkled; with cold, clammy
perspiration; like parchment; white and pasty; black vesicles and burning
pain.
Modalities
• Aggravation: After midnight (1 to 2 a.m. or p.m.); from cold; cold drinks
or food; when lying on affected side or with the head low.
• Amelioration: From heat in general (reverse of Sec.) except headache,
which is temporarily > by cold bathing (Spig.); burning pain > by heat.
Relation
• Complementary: All-s., Carb-v., Phos., Pyrog.
• Ars. should be thought of in ailments from: Chewing tobacco;
alcoholism; sea bathing; sausage poisoning; dissecting wounds and
anthrax poison; stings of venomous insects.

ARUM TRIPHYLLUM
Indian Turnip
Araceae
Physical Generals
• Children refuse food and drink on account of soreness of mouth and
throat (Merc.); are sleepless.
Nose
• Coryza; acrid, fluent; nostrils raw.
• Nose feels stopped up inspite of the watery discharge (compare, Am-c.,
Samb., Sin-n.); sneezing < at night.
• Acrid, ichorous discharge, excoriating inside of nose, alae, and upper lip
(Ars., All-c.).
• Constant picking at the nose until it bleeds; boring with the finger into
the side of the nose.
Face
• Patients pick and bore into the raw bleeding surfaces though very painful;
scream with pain but keep up the boring (in diphtheria, scarlatina,
typhoid).
• Pick lips until they bleed; corners of mouth sore, cracked, bleeding
(with malignant tendency, Cund.); bites nails until fingers bleed.
• The sore mouth and nose are guiding in malignant scarlatina and
diphtheria.
Throat
• Aphonia: Complete, after exposure to north-west winds (Acon., Hep.);
from singing (Arg-n., Caust., Phos., Sel.).
• Clergyman’s sore throat; voice hoarse, uncertain, uncontrollable,
changing continually; worse from talking, speaking or singing; orators,
singers, actors.
Mouth
• Saliva profuse, acrid, corodes the mucous membrane; tongue and buccal
cavity raw and bleeding.
Fever
• Typhoid scarlatina, with apathy, scanty or suppressed urine; threatened
 about the future.
• Old people; weak vision; corpulent; tired of life.
• Pining boys; low-spirited, lifeless, weak memories, lacking in “boyish
go”; testes undeveloped, mere pendent shreds.
• Headache of people with dark olive-brown complexion; sad, gloomy,
taciturn, disposed to constipation; from least mental exertion.
Mental Generals
• Ailments from fright, anger, contradictions, mortification, vexation,
dread, or reserved displeasure (Staph.).
• Constantly dwelling on suicide (Naja—but is afraid to die, Nux-v.).
• Profound melancholy: Feels hateful and quarrelsome; desire to commit
suicide; life is a constant burden; after abuse of mercury; with nearly all
complaints.
• Uneasy, hurried, great desire for mental and physical activity; cannot do
things fast enough (Arg-n.).
• Oversensitive; least contradiction excites wrath (Con.); to pain; to smell,
taste, hearing, touch (Anac.).
Physical Generals
• Syphilitic and mercurial affections of the bones.
• Caries: Of the nasal palatine and mastoid bones; ozena, otorrhea,
excessively fetid discharge, pains worse at night; drive to despair; of
mercurial or syphilitic origin (Asaf.).
Head
• Falling of the hair, especially in syphilis and mercurial affections.
Eyes
• Hemiopia; sees only the lower half (sees only the left half, Lith-c., Lyc.).
Mouth
• Foul breath; in girls at puberty.
Female Reproductive System
• Prolapsed and indurated uterus; from over-reaching or straining (Podo.,
Rhus-t.); from hypertrophy (Con.).
• Menstrual and uterine affections, with great melancholy; < at menstrual
period.
Cardio-vascular System
• Sensation as if the heart stood still; as though it ceased to beat and then
suddenly gave one hard thump (Sep.).
• Violent palpitation; anxiety, with congestion of blood to head and chest
after exertion; pulse small, feeble, rapid, irregular visible beating of
carotid and temporal arteries (Bell., Glon.).
• Fatty degeneration of heart (Phos.).
Motdalities
• Aggravation: In cold air; when getting cold; while lying down; mental
exertion; many complaints come on only in winter.
• Amelioration: In warm air, when growing warm, in the morning, and
during summer.
Relation
• Aurum follows, and is followed well by Syphilinum.
• Similar: To, Asaf., Calc., Plat., Sep., Tarent., Ther., in bone, uterine
disease.

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BAPTISIA TINCTORIA
Wild Indigo
Leguminoseae
Constitution
• For the lymphatic temperament.
Mental Generals
• Aversion to mental exertion; indisposed, or want of power to think.
• Perfect indifference, dosen’t care to do anything, inability to fix the mind
on work.
• Stupor; falls asleep while being spoken to or in the midst of his answer
(when spoken to, answers correctly, but delirium returns at once, Arn.).
• Cannot go to sleep because she cannot get herself together; head or body
feels scattered about the bed. Tosses about to get the pieces together;
thought she was three persons, could not keep them covered (Petr.).
Physical Generals
• In whatever position the patient lies, the parts rested upon feel sore
and bruised (Pyrog.—compare, Arn.).
• Great prostration, with disposition to decomposition of fluids (Pyrog.);
ulceration of mucous membranes.
• All exhalations and discharges fetid, especially in typhoid or other acute
disease; breath, stool, urine, perspiration, ulcers (Psor., Pyrog.).
Face
• Face flushed, dusky, dark red, with a stupid, besotted, drunken expression
(Gels.).
Mouth
• Tongue: At first coated white with red papillae; dry and yellow-brown in
centre; later dry, cracked, ulcerated.
Throat
• Can swallow liquids only (Bar-c.); least solid food gags (can swallow
liquids only, but has aversion to them, Sil.).
• Painless sore throat; tonsils, soft palate and parotids dark red, swollen;
putrid, offensive discharge (Diph.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Dysentery of old people; diarrhea of children, especially when very
offensive (Carb-v., Podo., Psor.).
Fever
• Decubitus in typhoid (Arn., Mur-ac., Pyrog.).
Relation
• Similar: To, Arn., Ars., Bry., Gels., in the early stages of fever with
malaise, nervousness, flushed face, drowsiness, and muscular soreness.
• When Ars. has been improperly given or too often repeated in typhoid of
typhus.
• After Baptisia: Crot-h., Ham., Nit-ac., and Ter. act well in hemorrhage of
typhoid and typhus.

BARYTA CARBONICA
Barium Carbonate
BaCO3

Constitution
• Especially adapted to complaints of first and second childhood; the psoric
or tubercular.
• Persons subject to quinsy, take cold easily, even the least cold precipitates
an attack of tonsillitis, prone to suppuration (Hep., Psor.).
• Scrofulous, dwarfish children who do not grow (children who grow too
rapidly, Calc.); scrofulous ophthalmia, cornea opaque; abdomen swollen;
frequent attacks of colic; face bloated; general emaciation.
• Children both physically and mentally weak.
• Dwarfish, hysterical women and old maids with scanty menses; deficient
heat, always cold and chilly.
• Old, cachetic people; scrofulous, especially when fat; or those who suffer
from gouty complaints (Fl-ac.).
• Diseases of old men; hypertrophy or induration of prostate and testes;
mental and physical weakness.
• Apoplectic tendency in old people; complaints of old drunkards;
headache of aged people, who are childish.
Mental Generals
• Memory deficient; forgetful, inattentive; child cannot be taught for it
cannot remember; threatened idiocy.
Physical Generals
• Swelling and indurations, or incipient suppuration of glands, especially
cervical and inguinal.
• Offensive foot sweat; toes and soles get sore; of the heels; throat
affections after checked foot sweat (compare, Graph., Psor., Sanic., Sil.).
• Great sensitiveness to cold (Calc., Kali-c., Psor.).
Throat
• Inability to swallow anything but liquids (Bapt., Sil.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Hemorrhoids protrude every time he urinates (Mur-ac.).
Respiratory System
• Chronic cough in psoric children; enlarged tonsils or elongated uvula; <
after slight cold (Alum.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: When thinking of his disease (Ox-ac.); lying on painful
side; after meals; washing affected parts.
Relation
• Frequently useful before or after Psor., Sulph. and Tub.
• After Bar-c., Psor. will often eradicate the constitutional tendency to
quinsy.
• Similar: To, Alum., Calc-i., Dulc., Fl-ac., Iod., Sil.
• Incompatible: After Calc. in scrofulous affections.

BELLADONNA
Deadly Nightshade
Solanaceae
Constitution
• Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions; persons who are
lively and entertaining when well, but violent and often delirious when
sick.
• Women and children with light hair and blue eyes, fine complexion,
delicate skin; sensitive, nervous, threatened with convulsions; tubercular
patients.
Mental Generals
• Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects (Stram.);
black animals, dogs, wolves.
• Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them; hallucinations.
• Violent delirium; disposition to bite, spit, strike and tear things; breaks
into fits of laughter and gnashes the teeth; wants to bite and strike the
attendants (Stram.); tries to escape (Hell.).
Physical Generals
• Great liability to take cold; sensitive to drafts of air, especially when
uncovering the head; from having the hair cut; tonsils become inflammed
 after riding in a cold wind (Acon., Hep., Rhus-t. takes cold from
exposure of feet, Con., Cupr., Sil.).
• Quick sensation and motion; eyes snap and move quickly; pains come
suddenly, last indefinitely and cease suddenly (Mag-p.).
• Pains usually in short attacks; cause redness of face and eyes; fullness
of head and throbbing of carotids.
Head
• Vertigo when stooping, or when rising after stooping (Bry.); on every
change of position.
• Rush of blood to head and face (Aml-ns., Glon., Meli.).
• Headache, congestive, with red face, throbbing of brain and carotids
(Meli.); < from slight noise, jar, motion, light, lying down, least exertion;
> pressure, tight bandaging, wrapping up, during menses.
• Boring the head into the pillow (Apis, Hell., Podo.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Abdomen tender, distended < by least jar, even of the bed. obliged to
walk with great care for fear of a jar.
• Pain in right ileo-caecal region, < by slightest touch, even of the bed
cover.
• The transverse colon protrudes like a pad.
Female Reproductive System
• Pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen would issue from the
vulva; > standing and sitting erect; worse mornings (Lil-t., Murx., Sep.).
Nervous System
• Convulsions during teething, with fever (without fever, Mag-p.); comes
on suddenly, head hot, feet cold.
Fever
• Head hot and painful; face flushed; eyes wild, staring, pupils dilated;
pulse full and bounding, globular, like buckshot striking the finger;
mucous membrane of mouth dry; stool tardy and urine suppressed;
 sleepy, but cannot sleep (Cham., Op.).
Skin
• Skin: Of a uniform, smooth, shining scarlet redness; dry, hot, burning;
imparts a burning sensation to examining hand; the true Sydenham
scarlet fever, where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly scarlet.
Modalities
• Aggravation: From touch, motion, noise, draft of air, looking at bright
shining objects (Lys., Stram.); after 3 p.m., night, after midnight; while
drinking; uncovering the head; summer sun; lying down.
• Amelioration: Rest; standing or sitting erect; warm room.
Relation
• Complementary; Calcarea.
• Belladonna is the acute of Calcarea, which is often required to complete a
cure.
• Similar: To, Acon., Bry., Cic., Gels., Glon., Hyos., Meli., Op., Stram.

BENZOICUM ACIDUM
CH6H5CO. OH

Constitution
• A gouty, rheumatic diathesis engrafted on a gonorrheal or syphilitic
patient.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Diarrhea of children; white, very offensive, exhausting liquid stools
running “right through diaper” (Podo.); urine offensive and of a deep red
color.
Urinary system
• Urine dark brown, and the urinous odor highly intensified.
• Enuresis nocturna of delicate children; dribbling urine of old men with
 enlarged prostate; strong characteristic odor; excess of uric acid.
• Catarrh of bladder after suppressed gonorrhea.
Respiratory System
• Cough; with expectoration of green mucus (Nat-s.); extreme weariness,
lassitude.
Extremities
• Gouty concretions; arthritis vaga; affects all the joints, especially the
knee, cracking on motion; nodosities (Berb., Lith-c., Lys.).
• Pains tearing, stitching, in large joints of big toe; redness and swelling of
joints; gout < at night.
Relation
• Similar: To Cop., Kali-n., Ferr., Thuj., especially in enuresis after Kali-n.
has failed; Berb., Lith-c. in arthritic complaints.
• Useful after Colch. fails in gout; after abuse of Cop. in suppression of
gonorrhea.
• Incompatible: Wine, which aggravates urinary, gouty and rheumatic
affections.

BERBERIS VULGARIS
Barberry
Berberidaceae
Physical Generals
• Rheumatic and gouty complaints, with diseases of the urinary organs.
Face
• Pale, earthy complexion, with sunken cheeks and hollow, blue-encircled
eyes.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Colic from gall-stones.
• Bilious colic, followed by jaundice; clay-colored stools; fistula in ano,
with bilious symptoms and itching of the parts; short cough and chest
complaints, especially after operations for fistulae (Calc-p., Sil.).
Urinary System
• The renal or vesical symptoms predominate.
• Burning and soreness in region of kidneys.
• Stitching, cutting pain from left kidney following course of ureter into
bladder and urethra (Tab., right kidney, Lyc.).
• Renal colic, < left side (Tab., either side, with urging and strangury,
Canth.).
• Bubbling sensation in kidneys (Med.).
• Urine: Greenish, blood-red, with thick, slimy mucus; transparent, reddish
or jelly-like sediment.
• Movement brings on or increases urinary complaints.
Back
• Pain in small of back; very sensitive to touch in renal region; < when
sitting and lying, from jar, from fatigue.
• Numbness, stiffness, lameness with painful pressure in renal and lumbar
regions.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Motion, walking or carriage riding; any sudden jarring
movement.
Relation
• Similar: To, Canth., Lyc., Sars., Tab., in renal colic.
• Acts well: After, Arn., Bry., Kali-bi., Rhus-t., Sulph., in rheumatic
affections.

BISMUTHUM
Hydrated Oxide of Bismuth
 BiI2O3OH2

Mental Generals
• Solitude is unbearable: desires company, child holds on to its mother’s
hand for company (Kali-c., Lil-t., Lyc.).
• Anguish; he sits, then walks, then lies, never long in one place.
Head
• Headache returning every winter; alternating with, or attended by
gastralgia.
Face
• Face, deathly pale, blue rings around the eyes.
Mouth
• Toothache > by holding cold water in mouth (Bry., Coff., Puls.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Vomiting: Of water as soon as it reaches the stomach, food retained
longer (vomits food and water, Ars.); of enormous quantities, at intervals
of several days when food has filled the stomach; of all fluids as soon as
taken; and purging, offensive stools (watery stools, Verat.); with
convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain, after laparotomy (Nux-v.,
Staph.).
• Stomach: Pressure as from a load in one spot; alternating with burning;
pain crampy, spasmodic; with irritation, cardialgia and pyrosis.
• Cholera morbis and summer complaint, when vomiting predominates;
stool foul; papescent, watery, offensive, very prostrating (Ars., Verat.).

BORAX VENETA
Biborate of Soda
Mental Generals
• Dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints.
• Great anxiety from downward motion; when laying the child down on a
couch or in the crib, cries and clings to the nurse; when rocking, dancing,
swinging; going down stairs, or rapidly down hill; horse back-riding
(compare, Sanic.).
• Excessively nervous, easily frightened by the slightest noise or an unusual
sharp sound, a cough, sneeze, a cry, lighting a match, etc. (Asar., Calad.).
• Children awake suddenly, dreaming and graping sides of cradle, without
apparent cause (Apis, Cina, Stram.).
Head
• Hair becomes frowsy and tangled; splits, sticks together at the tips; if
these bunches are cut off, they form again, cannot be combed smooth
(Fl-ac., Lyc., Psor., Tub.).
Eyes
• Eyelashes: Loaded with dry, gummy exudation; agglutinated in morning;
turn inward and inflame the eye, especially at outer canthus; tendency to
“wild hairs.”
Nose
• Nostrils crusty, inflammed; tip of nose shining red; red noses of young
women.
• Stoppage of right nostril, or first right then left with constant blowing of
nose (Am-c., Lac-c., Mag-m.).
Mouth
• Aphthe: In the mouth, on the tongue, inside of the cheek; easily bleeding
when eating or touched; prevents child from nursing; with hot mouth,
dryness and thirst (Ars.); cracked and bleeding tongue (Arum);
salivation, especially during dentition.
• Aphthous sore mouth; is wore from touch; eating salty or sour food; of
old people, often from plate of teeth (Alumn.).
Urinary System
• Child has frequent urination and screams before urine passes (Lys.,
Sanic., Sars.).
Female Reproductive System
• Leucorrhea: Profuse, albuminous, starchy with sensation as if warm water
were flowing down; for two weeks between the catamenia (compare,
Bov., Con.).
Skin
• Skin: Unhealthy, slight injuries suppurate (Calen., Hep., Merc., Sil.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: Downward motion; from sudden slight noises; smoking,
which may bring on diarrhea; damp, cold weather; before urinating.
• Amelioration: Pressure; holding painful side with hand.
Relation
• Borax follows: Calc., Psor., Sanic., Sulph.
• Is followed: By, Ars., Bry., Lyc., Phos., Sil.
• Incompatible; should not be used before or after, Aceticum acidum,
vinegar, wine.

BOVISTA LYCOPERDON
Puffball
Fungi
Constitution
• Adapted to old maids with palpitation.
• Stammering children (Stram.).
Mental Generals
• Awkwardness, inclined to drop things from hands (Apis); objects fall
from powerless hands.
Physical Generals
• Discharge from nose and all mucous membranes very tough, stringy,
tenacious (Kali-bi.).
• Sweat in axilla, smells like onion.
• Hemorrhage: After extraction of teeth (Ham.); from wounds; epistaxis.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Intolerance of tight clothing around the waist (Calc., Lach., Sulph.).
Female Reproductive System
• Menses: Flow only at night, not in the daytime (Mag-c., only during day,
ceases lying, Cact., Caust., Lil-t.); diarrhea before and during menses
(Am-c.); occasional show every few days between periods (Borx.); every
two weeks dark and clotted; with painful bearing down (Sep.).
Extremities
• Usually deep impression on finger, from using blunt instruments,
scissors, knife, etc.
• Great weakness of joints and weariness of hands and feet.
Skin
• Intolerable itching at tip of coccyx, must scratch till parts become raw and
sore.
• Persons who suffer from tettery eruptions, dry or moist.
Relation
• Compare: Am-c., Bell., Calc., Mag-s., Sep. in menstrual irregularities.
• Bovista antidotes, effects of local applications of tar; suffocation from
gas.
• When Rhus-t. seems indicated but fails to cure, in chronic urticaria.

BROMIUM
Bromine
The Element
Constitution
• It acts best, but not exclusively, on persons with light blue eyes, flaxen
 hair, light eyebrows, fair, delicate skin; blonde, red-cheeked, scrofulous
girls.
Physical Generals
• Stony, hard, scrofulous or tuberculous swelling of glands, especially on
lower jaw and throat (thyroid, submaxillary, parotid, testes).
Nose
• Fan-like motion of alae nasi (Ant-t., Lyc.).
Face
• Sensation of cobweb on the face (Bar-c., Borx., Graph.).
Throat
• Diphtheria: Where the membrane forms in pharynx; beginning in bronchi,
trachea or larynx, and extending upwards; chest pains running upwards.
• Membranous and diphtheritic croup; much rattling of mucus during
cough, but no choking (as in Hepar); sounds loose, but no expectoration
Ant-t.).
Female Reproductive System
• Physometra; loud emission of flatus from the vagina (Lyc.); membranous
dysmenorrhea (Lac-c.).
Respiratory System
• Sailors suffer from asthma “on shore”.
• Croupy symptoms with hoarseness during whooping cough; gasping for
breath.
• Dyspnea: Cannot inspire deep enough; as if breathing through a sponge
or the air passages were full of smoke or vapor of sulphur; rattling,
sawing; voice inaudible; danger of suffocation from mucus in larynx (in
bronchi, Ant-t.).
• Cold sensation in larynx on inspiration (Rhus-t., Sulph.); > after shaving
(< after shaving, Carb-an.).
Cardio-vascular System
• Hypertrophy of heart from: Gymnastics in growing boys (from
calisthenics in young girls, Caust.).
Relation
• Compare: In croup and croupy affections, Chlor., Hep., Iod., Spong.
• Hard goitre cured after Iod. failed.
• Brom. has cured in croup after failure of Iod., Phos., Hep., Spong.,
especially in relapses after Iod.
• “The chief distinction between Brom. and Iod. is, the former cures the
blue-eyed and the latter the black-eyed patients.” — Hering.

BRYONIA ALBA
White Bryony, Wild Hop
Cucurbitaceae
Constitution
• It is best adapted to persons of a gouty or rheumatic diathesis; prone to
so-called bilious attacks.
• Bryonia patients are irritable, inclined to be vehement and angry.
Dark or black hair, dark complexion, firm muscular fibre; dry,
nervous, slender people (Nux-v.).
Mental Generals
• Ailments from chagrin, mortification, anger (Coloc., Staph.); violence,
with chilliness and coldness; after anger chilly, but with head hot and
face red (Aur.).
• Delirium: Talks constantly about his business; desire to get out of bed and
go home (Cimic., Hyos.).
• Desires things immediately which can’t be had, or which when offered
are refused.
• Children dislike to be carried, or to be raised.
Physical Generals
• Complaints: When warm weather sets in, after cold days; from cold
drinks or ice in hot weather; after taking cold or getting hot in summer;
from chilling when overheated; kicks the covers off; from exposure to
draft, cold wind (Acon., Hep.); suppressed discharges, of menses, milk
or eruption of acute exanthema.
• Pains: Stitching, tearing, worse at night; < by motion, inspiration,
coughing; > by absolute rest, and lying on painful side (Ptel., Puls.—
stitching pain, but < and > are opposite, Kali-c.).
• Excessive dryness of mucous membranes of entire body; lips and tongue
dry, parched, cracked; stool, dry as if burnt; cough dry, hard, racking,
with scanty expectoration; urine, dark and scanty; great thirst.
• One of the chief characteristics of Bryonia is aggravation from any
motion, and corresponding relief from absolute rest, either mental or
physical.
• Great thirst for large quantities at long intervals.
Head
• Headache: When stooping, as if brain would burst through forehead; from
ironing (Sep.); on coughing; in morning after rising or when first
opening the eyes; commencing in the morning, gradually increasing until
evening; from constipation (Aloe, Coll., Op.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Patient cannot sit up from nausea and faintness.
• Pressure as from stone at pit of the stomach; relieved by eructation (Nux-
v., Puls.).
• Constipation: Inactive, no inclination; stool large, hard, dark, dry, as if
burnt; on going to sea (Plat.).
• Diarrhea: During a spell of hot weather; bilious, acrid with soreness of
anus; like dirty water; of undigested food; from cold drinks when
overheated, from fruit or sour krout; < in morning, on moving, even a
hand or foot.
Female Reproductive System
• Mammae heavy, of a stony hardness; pale but hard; hot and painful;
Respiratory System
• Oppression of chest, as from a great weight; as if an iron band prevented
normal motion.
• Sensation of a cord tightly tied around lower part of chest, marking
attachment of diaphragm.
Cardio-vascular System
• Heart feels as if clasped and unclasped rapidly by an iron hand; as if
bound, “had no room to beat.”
• Palpitation: Day and night; worse when walking and lying on left side
(Lach.); at approach of menses.
Fever
• Fever paroxysm returns at 11 a.m. and 11 p.m.
Relation

Compare: Acon., Dig., Gels., Kalm., Lach., Tab.

CALADIUM SEGUINUM
American Arum
Araceae
Physical Generals
• Sweet sweat attracts the flies.
• Aversion to motion; dreads to move (Bry.).
• Destroys craving for tobacco.
Ears
• Very sensitive to noise; slightest noise startles from sleep (Asar., Nux-v.,
Tarent.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Eructations, frequent, of very little wind, as if stomach were full of dry
food.
Male Reproductive System
• Impotence: With mental depression; relaxed penis, with sexual desire and
excitement (Lyc., Sel.).
• No erections, even after caress; no emission, no orgasm during an
embrace (Calc., Sel.).
Female Reproductive System
• Pruritus vaginae; induces onanism (Orig., Zinc.); during pregnancy;
with mucus discharge.
Fever
• Falls asleep during evening fever and wakes when it stops.
Skin
• Mosquito and insect bites burn and itch intensely.

CALCAREA ARSENICOSA
Arsenite of Lime
Constitution
• Complaints of drunkards, after abstaining; craving for alcohol (Asar., Sul-
ac.).
• Complaints of fleshy women when approaching the menopause.
Mental Generals
• Great mental depression.
• The slightest emotion causes palpitation of heart (Lith-c.).
Cardio-vascular System
• Rush of blood to head and left chest (Aml-ns., Glon.).
Nervous System
• Epilepsies, from valvular diseases of the heart.
Relation
• Compare; Con., Glon., Lith-c., Puls., Nux-v.
• Follows well: After, Conium, in lymphatic, psoric or tuberculous persons.

CALCAREA OSTREARUM
Middle Layer of Oyster Shell
Calcium Carbonate
Constitution
• Leucophlegmatic, blonde hair, light complexion, blue eyes, fair skin;
tendency to obesity in youth.
• Psoric constitutions; pale, weak, timid, easily tired when walking.
• Disposed to grow fat, corpulent, unwieldy.
• Children with red face, flabby muscles, who sweat easily and take cold
readily in consequence.
• Large heads and abdomens; fontanelles and sutures open; bones soft,
develop very slowly.
• Girls who are fleshy, phethoric, and grow too rapidly.
• Difficult and delayed dentition with characteristic head sweats, and open
fontanelles.
Mental Generals
• Fears she will lose her reason or that people will observe her mental
confusion (Cimic.).
Physical Generals
• Profuse perspiration, mostly on back of head and neck, or chest and upper
part of body (Sil.).
• During either sickness or convalescence, great longing for eggs; craves
indigestible things (Alum.); aversion to meat.
• Diseases: Arising from defective assimilation; imperfect ossification;
difficulty in learning to walk or stand; children have no disposition to
 walk and will not try; suppressed sweat.
• Longing for fresh air (when in a room) which inspires, benefits,
strengthens (Puls., Sulph.).
• Coldness: General; of single parts (Kali-bi.); head, stomach, abdomen,
feet and legs; aversion to cold open air, “goes right through her”;
sensitive to cold, damp air; great liability to take cold (opposite of
Sulph.).
• Sweat: Of single parts; head, scalp wet, cold; nape of neck; chest, axille,
sexual organs; hands, knees; feet (Sep.).
• Uremic or other diseases brought on by standing on cold, damp
pavements, or working while standing in cold water; modelers or
workers in cold clay.
• Desire to be magnetised (Phos.).
• Curvature of bones, especially spine and long bones; extremities crooked,
deformed; bones irregularly developed.
Head
• Head sweats profusely while sleeping, wetting pillow far around (Sil.,
Sanic.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Acidity of digestive tract; sour eructation, sour vomiting sour stool; sour
odor of the whole body (Hep., Rheum).
• Pit of stomach swollen like an inverted saucer, and painful to pressure.
• Stool has to be removed mechanically (Aloe, Sanic., Sel., Sep., Sil.).
• Feels better in every way when constipated.
Female Reproductive System
• Menstruation too early, too profuse, too long lasting; with subsequent
amenorrhea and chlorosis with menses scanty or suppressed.
• Women: Menses too early, too profuse; feet habitually cold and damp, as
if they had on cold damp stockings; continually cold in bed.
• The least mental excitement causes profuse return of menstrual flow
(Sulph., Tub.).
Respiratory System
• Lung disease of tall, slender, rapidly growing youth; upper third of right
lung (Ars., upper left, Myric., Sulph.); oftener the guide to the
constitutional remedy than Phosphorus (compare, Tub.).
• Painless hoarseness, < in the morning.
Extremities
• Rawness of soles of feet from perspiration (Graph., Sanic.); blisters and
offensive foot sweat.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Cold air; wet weather; cold water; from washing (Ant-c.);
morning; during full moon.
• Amelioration: Dry weather; lying on painful side (Bry., Puls.).
Relation
• Complementary: to, Bell., which is the acute of Calc.
• Calcarea acts best: Before, Lyc., Nux-v., Phos., Sil.
• It follows: Nit-ac., Puls., Sulph. (especially if pupils are dilated); is
followed by, Kali-bi. in nasal catarrh.
• According to Hahnemann, Calc. must not be used before Nit-ac. and
Sulph.; may produce unnecessary complications.
• In children it may be often repeated.
• In aged people it should not be repeated; especially if the first dose
benefited, it will usually do harm.

CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA
Phosphate of Lime
Calcium Phosphate
Constitution
• For persons anemic and dark complexioned, dark hair and eyes; thin
spare subjects, instead of fat.
• Girls at puberty, tall, growing rapidly; tendency of bones to soften or
spine to curve (Ther.).
• During first and second dentition of scrofulous children; diarrhea and
great flatulence.
• Children: Emaciated, unable to stand; slow in learning to walk (Calc.,
Sil.); sunken, flabby abdomen.
• At puberty; acne in anemic girls with vertex headache and flatulent
dyspepsia, > by eating.
Mental Generals
• Ailments from grief, disappointed love (Aur., Ign., Ph-ac.).
• Feels complaints more when thinking about them (Helon., Ox-ac.).
• Involuntary sighing (Ign.).
Head
• Rachitis: Cranial bones thin and brittle; fontanelles and sutures remain
open too long, or close and re-open; delayed or complicated teething.
• Headache of school girls (Nat-m., Psor.); diarrhea.
• Non-union of bones; promotes callous (Symph.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Oozing of bloody fluid from navel of infants (of urine, Hyos.).
• At every attempt to eat, colicky pains in abdomen.
• Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms (Berb.); lack of animal
heat; cold sweat and general coldness of body.
• Diarrhea.
Back and Extremities
• Spine weak; disposed to curvatures, especially to the left; unable to
support body; neck weak, unable to support head (Abrot.).
• Rheumatism of cold weather; getting well in spring and returning in
autumn.
Modalities
 vital force; often a remedy in congestive chill; pernicious intermittent
(Verat.); pulse weak, externally small, scarcely perceptible.
Mouth
• Tongue cold, flabby, trembling.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhea; nose cold and pointed; anxious
and restless; skin and breath cold (Verat., Jatr-c.).
• In first stages of cholera morbus and Asiatic cholera; severe, long-lasting
chill (Verat.).
Skin
• Measles and scarlatina when eruption does not appear; with pale or cold
blue, hippocratic face; child will not be covered (Sec.).
• All sequelae of measles.
Modalities
• Amelioration: When thinking of existing complaint; warm air; drinking
cold water.
Relation
• Camphora antidotes nearly every vegetable medicine; also tobacco, fruits
containing prussic acid, poisonous mushrooms; should not be allowed in
the sick room in its crude form.
• Compare: Carb-v., Op., Verat., Sec.
Note for thought: All our progress as a school depends on the right
view of the symptoms obtained by proving with Camphora and
Opium. — Hering.

CANNABIS INDICA
Indian Hemp
Urticaceae
Mental Generals
• Very forgetful: Forgets his last words and ideas; begins a sentence;
forgets what he intends to speak; inability to recall any thought or event
on account of other thoughts crowding his brain (Anac., Lac-c.).
• Constantly theorizing.
• Laughs immoderately at every trifling word spoken to him.
• Full of fun and mischief, then perhaps moaning and crying.
• Great apprehension of approaching death.
• Delirium tremens; excessive loquacity; exaggeration of time and distance.
• Time seems too long (Arg-n.); a few seconds seem ages.
• Distance seems immense; a few rods seem miles.
Head
• Sensation as if the calvarium was opening and shutting (Cimic.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Sensation of swelling in the perineum or near the anus, as if sitting on a
ball (with great quantities of ropy mucus in urine, Chin.).
Relation
• Compare: Bell., Hyos., Stram.

CANNABIS SATIVA
Hemp
Urticaceae
Physical Generals
• Sensation as of drops of water falling on or from single parts; on the
head, from the anus, stomach, heart.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Choking in swallowing, things go down “the wrong way” (Anac.).
• Obstinate constipation, causing retention of the urine; constriction of
 anus.
Urinary System
• Urethra very sensitive to touch or pressure; cannot walk with legs close
together, it hurts the urethra.
• Tearing pains along urethra in a zigzag direction.
• Pain extending from orifice of urethra backward, burning-biting,
posteriorly more sticking, while urinating.
Male Reproductive System
• Acute, inflammatory stage of gonorrhea (second stages, burning after
urination, discharge thick, yellow, pus-like, Cub.).
Respiratory System
• Dyspnea or asthma, where the patient can only breathe by standing up.
Extremities
• Contraction of fingers after a sprain.
• Dislocation of patella on going up stairs.
Relation
• Similar: To, Canth., Caps., Gels., Petros., in early stages of specific
urethritis.

CANTHARIS VESICATORIA
Spanish Flies
Cantharideae
Physical Generals
• Oversensitiveness of all parts.
• Hemorrhages from nose, mouth, intestines, genital and urinary organs.
• Pain; raw, sore, burning in every part of body, internally and externally;
with extreme weakness.
• Disgust for everything; drink, food, tobacco.
• Drinking even small quantities of water increases pain in the bladder.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Stool: Passages of white or pale red, tough mucus, like scrapings from the
intestines, with streaks of blood (Carb-an., Colch.).
Urinary System
• Constant urging to urinate, passing but a few drops at a time, which is
mixed with blood (sudden desire to urinate and intense itching in
urethra, Petros.).
• Intolerable urging, before, during, and after urination; violent pains in
bladder.
• Burning, cutting pains in urethra during micturation; violent tenesmus
and strangury.
• The burning pain and intolerable urging to urinate, is the red strand of
Cantharis in all inflammatory affections.
Male Reproductive System
• Bloody, nocturnal emission (Led., Merc., Petr.).
• Sexual desire; increased both sexes; preventing sleep; violent priapism,
with excessive pain (Pic-ac.).
Respiratory System
• Tenacious mucus in the air passages (Bov., Kali-bi.); compare Cantharis
if vesical symptoms correspond.
Skin
• Skin: Vesicular erysipelas; vesicles all over body which are sore and
suppurating.
• Erythema from exposure to sun’s rays (sunburn).
• Burns and scalds, relieved by cold applications; burns before blisters
form and when they have formed. If the skin be unbroken, apply an
alcoholic solution of any potency and cover with cotton; this will
promptly relieve pain and often prevent vesication. If skin be broken use
Vegetable Charcoal
Constitution
• For the bad effects of exhausting diseases, whether in young or old
(Chin., Phos., Psor.); cachectic persons whose vitality has become
weakened or exhausted.
• Persons who have never fully recovered from the exhausting effects of
some previous illness; asthma dates from measles or pertussis of
childhood; indigestion from a drunken debauch; bad effects of a long ago
injury; has never recovered from effects of typhoid (Psor.).
Mental Generals
• Weakness of memory and slowness of thought.
Physical Generals
• Ailments: From quinine, especially suppressed intermitents; abuse of
mercury, salt, salt meats; spoiled fish, meats or fats; from getting
overheated (Ant-c.).
• Bad effects from loss of vital fluids (Caust.); hemorrhage from any
broken down conditions of mucous membranes (Chin., Phos.).
• Patients crave things that make them sick; old topers crave whiskey or
brandy; want clothing loose around abdomen.
• Vital powers nearly exhausted; desire to be constantly fanned.
• In the last stages of disease, with copious cold sweat, cold breath, cold
tongue, voice lost, this remedy may save a life.
• Hemorrhage from any mucus outlet; in systems broken down, debilitated;
blood oozes from weakened tissues; vital force exhausted.
Nose
• Epistaxis in daily attacks, for weeks, worse from exertion; face pale
before as well as after a hemorrhage.
Face
• Hippocratic face; very pale, grayish-yellow, greenish, cold with cold
sweat; after hemorrhage.
Mouth
• Looseness of teeth, easily bleeding gums.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Weak digestion; simplest food disagrees; excessive accumulation of gas
in stomach and intestines < lying down; after eating or drinking,
sensation as if stomach would burst; effects of a debauch, late suppers,
rich food.
• Eructations give temporary relief.
• Frequent, involuntary, cadaverous smelling stools, followed by burning;
soft stool voided with difficulty (Alum.).
Respiratory System
• Hoarseness: < evenings; damp evening air; warm, wet weather; fails
when exerted (< morning, Caust.).
Cardio-vascular System
• Diseases of the venous system predominate (Sulph.); symptoms of
imperfect oxidation (Arg-n.).
• Deficient capillary circulation causes blueness of skin and coldness of
extremities.
Extremities
• Awakens often from cold limbs and suffers from cold knees at night
(Apis).
Modalities
• Aggravation: From butter, pork, fat food; abuse of quinine bark and
mercury; from singing or reading aloud; in warm, damp weather.
• Amelioration: From eructation; being fanned.
Relation
• Complementary: Kali-c.
• Want of susceptibility to well-selected remedies (Opium, Valer.).
• Compare: Chin., Plb. in neglected pneumonia, especially in “old topers;”
 abdomen, right hip and leg; right foot cold as ice, left natural (Lyc.).
• Ailments;brought on or renewed by change of weather (Merc.); all lessen
after dinner.
• Desire for very hot drinks, unless almost boiling, stomach will not retain
them (Ars., Casc.).
Eyes
• Periodic orbital neuralgia (right side), with excessive lachrymation; tears
fairly gush out (Rhus-t.).
Face
• Face, forehead, nose, cheeks remarkably yellow.
Mouth
• Tongue coated thickly yellow, with red edges, showing imprint of teeth
(Podo.—large, flabby, with imprint of teeth, Merc.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Constipation: Stool, hard, round balls like sheep’s dung (Op., Plb.);
alternate constipation and diarrhea.
• Diarrhea: At night; slimy, light-gray; bright-yellowish; brown or white,
watery, pasty; involuntary.
• Hepatic diseases; jaundice, pain in right shoulder.
• Gall-stones, with pain under the right shoulder blade (terrible attacks of
gall-stone colic, Card-m.).
Respiratory System
• Pneumonia of right lung, liver complications (Merc.).
• Spasmodic cough; small lumps of mucus fly from mouth when coughing
(Bad., Kali-c.).
Back
• Constant pain under the lower and inner angle of right scapula (Kali-
c., Merc., under the left, Chen-g., Sang.).
Skin
• Is frequently to be thought of, in children, as an epidemic remedy, when
adults require other drugs.
• Santoninum sometimes cures worm affections when Cina seems
indicated, but fails (Teucr., Spig.).

CINCHONA OFFICINALIS
Peruvian Bark, China officinalis
Rubiaceae
Constitution
• For stout, swarthy persons; for systems, once robust, which have become
debilitated, “broken down” from exhausting discharges (Carb-v.).
Mental Generals
• Apathetic, indifferent, taciturn (Ph-ac.); despondent, gloomy, has no
desire to live, but lacks courage to commit suicide.
Physical Generals
• Ailments; from loss of vital fluids, especially hemorrhages, excessive
lactation, diarrhea, suppuration (Chinin-s.); of malarial origin, with
marked periodicity; return every other day.
• Disposition to hemorrhage from every orifice of the body with ringing in
ears, fainting, loss of sight, general coldness, sometimes convulsions
(Ferr., Phos.).
• Pains: Drawing or tearing; in every joint, all the bones. Periosteum, as if
strained, sore all over; obliged to move limbs frequently, as motion gives
relief; renewed by contact, and then gradually increase to a great height.
• Unrefreshing sleep or constant spoor; < after 3 a.m., wakes early.
• Hemorrhages: of mouth, nose, bowels or uterus; long continued.
• Longing for sour things.
• Pains are < by slightest touch, but > by hard pressure (Caps., Plb.).
Head
• Headache; as it the skull would burst; intense throbbing of head and
carotids, face flushed; from occiput over whole head; < sitting or lying,
must stand or walk; after hemorrhage or sexual excesses.
Face
• Face pale, hippocratic; eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins;
pale, sickly expression as after excesses; toothache while nursing the
child.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Excessive flatulence of stomach and bowels; fermentation, borborygmus;
belching gives no relief (belching relieves, Carb-v.); < after eating fruit
(Puls.).
• Colic: At a certain hour each day; periodical, from gall-stones (Card-m.);
worse at night and after eating; better bending double (Coloc.).
Female Reproductive System
• After climacteric with profuse hemorrhages; acute diseases often result in
dropsy.
Nervous System
• Great debility, trembling, aversion to exercise; sensitive to touch, to
pain, to drafts of air; entire nervous system extremely sensitive.
Extremities
• One hand icy cold, the other warm (Dig., Ip., Puls.).
Fever
• Intermittent fever; paroxysm anticipates from two to three hours each
attack (Chinin-s); returns every seven or fourteen days; never at night;
sweat profusely all over on being covered, or during sleep (Con.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: From slightest touch; draft of air; every other day; mental
emotions; loss of vital fluids.
• Amelioration: Hard pressure; bending double.
 from a nail driven into the brain (Ign., Nux-v.); as if brain were torn or
dashed to pieces; worse in open air.
Mouth
• Toothache: Intermittent, jerking, relieved by holding ice-water in the
mouth, but returns when water becomes warm (Bism., Bry., Puls.,
Caust., Sep., Nat-s.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: Sudden mental emotion; excessive joy; cold, open air;
narcotic medicines.
Relation
• Compare: Acon., Cham., Ign., Sulph.
• Incompatible: Canth., Caust., Cocc., Ign.

COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE
Meadow Saffron
Liliaceae
Constitution
• Adapted to the rheumatic, gouty diathesis; persons of robust vigorous
constitution; diseases of old people.
Mental Generals
• Ailments: From grief or misdeeds of others (Staph.).
• External impressions, light, noise, strong odors, contact, bad manners,
make him almost beside himself (Nux-v.); his sufferings seem
intolerable.
Physical Generals
• Pains are drawing, tearing, pressing; light or superficial during warm
weather; affect the bones and deeper tissues, when air is cold; pains go
from left to right (Lach.).
• Bad effects from night watching (Cocc.).
• Aversion to food; loathing even the sight or still more the smell of it.
• Affected parts very sensitive to contact and motion.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Smell painfully acute; nausea and faintness from the odor of cooking
food, especially fish, eggs or fat meat (Ars., Sep.).
• The abdomen is immensely distended with gas, feeling as if it would
burst
• Burning, or icy coldness in stomach and abdomen.
• Autumnal dysentery, discharges from bowels contain white shreddy
particles in large quantities; white mucus; “scrapings of intestines”
(Canth., Carb-ac.).
Urinary System
• Urine: Dark, scanty or suppressed; in drops, with white sediment; bloody,
brown, black, inky; contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin,
sugar.
Extremities
• Arthritic pains in joints; patient screams with pain on touching a joint or
stubbing a toe.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Mental emotion or exhaustion; effects of hard study; odor
of cooking food.
• Motion; if the patient lies perfectly still, the disposition to vomit is less
urgent. Every motion renews it (Bry.).
Relation
• Compare: Bry. in rheumatic gout with serous effusions; in rheumatism in
warm weather.
• Often cures dropsy after Apis and Ars. fail.
 COLOCYNTHIS
Squirting Cucumber
Cucurbitaceae
Mental Generals
• Affections from anger, with indignation — colic, vomiting, diarrhea and
suppression of menses (Cham., Staph.).
• Extremely irritable, impatient; becomes angry or offended on being
questioned.
• Irritable; throws things out of his hands.
Head
• Vertigo: when quickly turning head, especially to the left, as if he would
fall; from stimulants.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Agonizing pain in abdomen causing patient to bend double, with
restlessness, twisting and turning to obtain relief > by hard pressure (<
by heat, Mag-p.).
• Pain: Are worse after eating or drinking; compel patent to bend double
(Mag-p., < by bending double, Dios.).
Female Reproductive System
• Menses, suppressed by chagrin, colic pains.
Extremities
• Sciatica: Crampy pain in hip, as though screws in a vise; lies upon
affected side.
• Shooting pain, like lightning shocks, down the whole limb, left hip, left
thigh, left knee, into popliteal fossa.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Anger and indignation; mortification caused by offense
(Staph., Lyc.); cheese < colic.
• Amelioration: From doubling up; hard pressure.
Relation
• Complementary: Merc. in dysentery, with great tenesmus.
• Compare: Gnaph. intense pain along right sciatic nerve, darting, cutting,
from right hip joint down to foot; < lying down, motion, stepping; > by
sitting.
• Compare: With Staph. in ovarian or other diseases from bad effects of
anger, reserved indignation or silent grief.

CONIUM MACULATUM
Poison Hemlock
Umbelliferae
Constitution
• The “Balm of Gilead” for diseases of old maids and women during and
after climacteric.
• Especially for diseases of old men; old maids; old bachelors; with rigid
muscular fibre; persons with light hair who are easily excited; strong
persons of sedentary habits.
• Cancerous and scrofulous persons with enlarged glands; rigid fibre.
Mental Generals
• No inclination for business or study; indolent, indifferent, takes no
interest in anything.
• Memory weak, unable to sustain any mental effort.
• Morose; easily vexed; domineering, quarrelsome, scolds, will not bear
contradiction (Aur.); excitement of any kind causes mental depression.
• Dreads being alone, yet avoids society (Kali-c., Lyc.).
Physical Generals
• Debility of old people; complaints caused by a blow or fall.
• Sweat day and night, as soon as one sleeps, or even when closing the eyes
(Chin.).
• Glandular induration of stony hardness; of mammae in persons of
cancerous tendency; after bruises and injuries of glands (compare,
Aster.).
Head
• Vertigo; especially when lying down or turning in bed; moving the
head slightly, or even the eyes; must keep head perfectly still; in turning
the head to the left (Coloc.); of old people; with ovarian and uterine
complaints.
Eyes
• Aversion to light without inflammation of eyes; worse from using eyes in
artificial light; often the students’ remedy for night work; intense
photophobia (Psor.).
Urinary System
• Great difficulty in voiding urine; flow intermits, then flows again;
prostatic or uterine affections.
Male Reproductive System
• Stony, hard induration of the testicles.
Female Reproductive System
• Bad effects: Of suppressed sexual desire, or suppressed menses; non-
gratification of sexual instinct, or from excessive indulgence.
• Breasts sore, hard and painful before and during menstruation (Lac-c.,
Kali-c.).
• Menses: Feeble, suppressed; too late, scanty, of short duration; with rash
of small red pimples over body which ceases with the flow (Dulc.);
stopped by taking cold; by putting hands in cold water (Lac-d.).
• Leucorrhea; ten days after menses (Borx., Bov.); acrid; bloody; milky;
profuse; thick; intermits.
Respiratory System
• Cough; in spasmodic paroxysms caused by dry spot in larynx (in throat,
Cimic.); with itching chest and throat (Iod.); worse at night, when lying
 down, and during pregnancy (Caust., Kali-br.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: At night; lying down; turning or rising up, in bed; celibacy.
Relation
• Patients requiring Conium often improve from wine or stimulants; though
persons susceptible to Conium cannot take alcoholic stimulants when in
health.
• Compare: Arn., Rhus-t., in contusions; Ars., Aster. in cancer; Calc., Psor.
in glandular swellings.
• Is followed well: By Psor., in tumors of mammae with threatening
malignancy.

CROCUS SATIVUS
Saffron
Iridaceae
Mental Generals
• Frequent and extreme changes in sensations; sudden, from the greatest
hilarity to the deepest despondency (Ign., Nux-m.).
• Excessively happy, affectionate, wants to kiss everybody; the next moment
in a rage.
Physical Generals
• Hemorrhage from any part, blood black, viscid, clotted, forming into long
black strings hanging from the bleeding surface (Elaps).
• Sensation as if something alive were moving in the stomach, abdomen,
uterus, arms or other parts of the body (Sabad., Thuj., Sulph.); with
nausea and faintness.
Head
• Headache: During climacteric, throbbing, pulsating. < during two or three
days of accustomed menstrual flow; nervous or menstrual headache
 before, during, or after flow (Lach., Lil-t., Sec.).
Eyes
• Eyes: Sensation, as if room were filled with smoke; as if had been
weeping; as of cold wind blowing across the eyes; closing lids tightly
gives >.
Nose
• Nosebleed: Black, tenacious, stringy, every drop can be turned into a
thread; with cold sweat in large drops on forehead (cold sweat, but
wants to be fanned; with bright red blood, Carb-v.); in children who
develop too rapidly (Calc., Phos.).
Female Reproductive System
• Dysmenorrhea; flow black; stringy, clotted (Ust.).
Nervous System
• Chorea and hysteria with great hilarity, singing and dancing (Tarent.);
alternating with melancholy and rage.
• Spasmodic contractions and twitchings of single sets of muscles (Agar.,
Ign., Zinc.).
Relation
• Nux-v., Puls., or Sulph. follow Crocus well in nearly all complaints.
• Compare: In menstrual derangements (Ust.).

CROTALUS HORRIDUS
Poison of Rattlesnake
Crotalidae
Constitution
• Is indicated in strumous, debilitated, hemorrhagic, broken-down
constitutions, during zymotic diseases; in inebriates.
Physical Generals
• Diseases caused by a previous low state of the system; low septic typhoid
or malarial fever, chronic alcoholism, exhausted vital force; genuine
collapse.
• Hemorrhagic diathesis; blood flows from eyes, ears, nose, and every
orifice of the body; bloody sweat.
• Prostration of vital force; pulse scarcely felt; blood poisoning (Pyrog.).
• Bad effects of vaccination.
Eyes
• Yellow color of conjunctiva; clears up vision after keratitis, or kerato-
iritis.
Mouth
• Tongue fiery red, smooth and polished (Pyrog.); intensely swollen.
Throat
• Malignant diphtheria or scarlatina; edema or gangrene of fauces or
tonsils; pain < from empty swallowing; if vomiting or diarrhea come on.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Vomiting: Bilious, with anxiety and weak pulse; every month after
menstruation; cannot lie on right side or back without instantly
producing dark, green vomiting; black or coffee grounds, of yellow
fever.
• Diarrhea; stools black, thin, like coffee-grounds; offensive; from noxious
effluvia or septic matters in food or drinks; from “high game” (Pyrog.);
during yellow fever, cholera, typhoid, typhus.
• Intestinal hemorrhage when occurring in typical septic or zymotic
disease; blood dark, fluid, non-coagulable.
• Malignant jaundice; hematic rather than hepatic.
Female Reproductive System
• Vicarious menstruation; in debilitated constitutions (Dig., Phos.).
• Menopause; intense and drenching perspirations; faintness and sinking at
stomach; prolonged metrorrhagia, dark, fluid, offensive; profound
 anemia.
• Malignant diseases of uterus, great tendency to hemorrhage, blood dark,
fluid, offensive.
Respiratory System
• Malignancy diphtheria or scarlatina; edema or gangrene of fauces or
tonsils; pain < from empty swallowing; if vomiting or diarrhea come on.
Cardio-vascular System
• Purpura hemorrhagica; comes on suddenly from all orifices, skin, nails,
gums.
Nervous system
• Apoplexy: apoplectic convulsions in inebriates, hemorrhagic or broken
down constitutions.
Skin
• Dissecting wounds; insect stings.
• Tendency to carbuncles or blood boils (Anthr.).
Relation
• Compare: Elaps, Lach., Naja, Pyrog.
• In Lach. skin cold clammy; Crot-h. cold and dry; Elaps, affections of
right lung, expectoration of black blood.

CROTON TIGLIUM
Croton Oil Seeds
Euphorbiaceae
Gastro-intestinal System
• Affects mucous membrane of intestinal tract, producing transudations of
watery portions of blood, a copious, watery diarrhea (Verat.).
• The bowels are moved as if, by spasmodic jerks, “coming out like a shot”
(Gamb.); as soon as patient eats, drinks, or even while eating; yellow
 watery stool.
• Constant urging to stool followed by sudden evacuation, which is shot out
of the rectum (Gamb., Grat., Podo., Thuj.).
• Swashing sensation in intestines, as from water, before stool (rumbling
before stool, Aloe).
Male Reproductive System
• Intense itching of genitals of both sexes (Rhus-t.), vesicular eruption on
male; so sensitive and sore is unable to scratch.
Female Reproductive System
• Drawing pain through the chest from breast to scapula, of same side
every time the child nurses; nipple very sore.
Respiratory System
• Cough; as soon as the head touches the pillow a spasmodic paroxysm of
cough set in; suffocated, must walk about the room or sleep in a chair.
Skin
• Intense itching of skin, but so tender is unable to scratch; > by gentle
rubbing; eczema over whole body.
• Develops an acute eczema over whole body (Rhus-t.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: Diarrhea; every motion; after drinking; while eating or
nursing (Arg-n., Ars.); during summer; from fruit and sweetmeats
(Gamb.); the least food or drink.
Relation
• Compare: Kali-br., Phos. in chronic infantile diarrhea; Sil. pain from
nipple through to back when nursing.

CUPRUM METALLICUM
Copper, Cu.
Mental Generals
• Ailments: From suppressed grief and terrors of conscience; from duty not
done or bad act committed.
• Great sadness and peevishness, irritable, morose, ill-humored; inclined to
weep; desire for solitude; aversion to open air (reverse of Puls.).
Physical Generals
• Pains; pressive, drawing or tearing of parts where bones lie near the
surface.
Head
• Headache in anemic patients, with flickering before eyes or dim vision,
on rising in morning.
Eyes
• Flickering before eyes, fiery sparks, as of various colors, glittering
needles, dim vision of fog or smoke.
Mouth
• Saliva and all food has a salty taste; pork disagrees.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Satiety after a few mouthfuls (Lyc.) food then becomes repugnant, causes
nausea in throat and palate.
Female Reproductive System
• Pale, chlorotic; deranged menses (Ferr., Puls.); accompanied by vertigo,
headache, dim vision.
• Menses: Too early; too profuse, black and clotted; membranous (too late,
pale, scanty, Puls.); better during flow (worse, Cimic., Puls.).
Extremities
• Burning sore pain in heels, when sitting standing or walking in open air
(Agar., Caust., Valer., Phyt.).
Modalities
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DIGITALIS PURPUREA
Foxglove
Scrophulariaceae
Face
• Face pale, death-like appearance and bluish-red.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Faintness or sinking at the stomach; exhaustion; extreme prostration;
feels as if he were dying.
• Stools; very light, ash-colored; delayed, chalky (Chel., Podo.); almost
white (Calc., Chin.); pipe-stem stool; involuntary.
Urinary System
• Dropsy: Post-scarlatinal; in Bright’s disease; with suppression of urine; of
internal and external parts; with fainting when there are organic
affections of the heart (with soreness in uterine region, Conv.).
Male Reproductive System
• Nightly emissions, with great weakness of genitals after coitus.
Respiratory System
• Great weakness of chest, cannot bear to talk (Stann.).
• Respiration irregular, difficult, deep sighing.
Cardio-vascular System
• Sudden flushes of heat, followed by great nervous weakness and irregular
intermitting pulse, occurring at the climacteric; < by least motion.
• Weak heart without valvular complications.
• Sensation as if heart would stop beating if she moved (Cocaine-fears that
 unless constantly on the move heart will cease beating, Gels.).
• Pulse full, irregular, very slow and weak; intermitting every third,
fifth or seventh beat.
• Blueness of skin, eyelids, lips, tongue; cyanosis.
• Distended veins on lids, ears, lips and tongue.
• Fatal syncope may occur when being raised to upright position.
Extremities
• The fingers “go to sleep” frequently and easily.
Modalities
• Aggravation: When sitting, especially when sitting erect; motion.
Relation
• Cinchona antidotes the direct action of Digitalis and increases the anxiety.

DIOSCOREA VILLOSA
Wild Yam
Dioscoreaceae
Constitution
• Persons of feeble digestive powers, old or young.
• Colic pains < from bending forward and while lying; > on standing erect
or bending backwards (reverse of Coloc.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Flatulence after meals or after eating, especially of tea drinkers; are often
subject to violent colic.
• Griping pains in abdomen about umbilicus.
• Violent twisting colic, occurring in regular paroxysms, as if intestines
were grasped and twisted by a powerful hand.
Male Reproductive System
• Emissions during sleep; vivid dreams of women all night (Staph.); knees
weak; genitals cold, great despondency (Staph.).
Extremities
• Felons; early when pains are sharp and agonizing, when pricking is first
felt; nails brittle.
• Disposition to paronychia (Hep).
Modalities
• Aggravation: Lying; sitting; bending double.
• Amelioration: Motion; walking difficult; compelled to walk even though
tired.
Relation
• Compare: Coloc., Phos., Podo., Rhus-t., Sil.

DIPHTHERINUM
Homoeopathic Antitoxin
A Nosode
Constitution
• Especially adapted to the strumous diathesis; scrofulous, psoric or
tuberculous persons, prone to catarrhal affections of throat and
respiratory mucous membranes.
• Patients with weak or exhausted vitality hence are extremely susceptible
to the diphtheritic virus; when the attack from the onset tends to
malignancy (Lac-c., Merc-cy.).
Throat and Respiratory System
• Painless diphtheria; symptoms almost or entirely objective; patient too
weak, apathetic or too prostrated to complain; sopor or stupor, but easily
aroused when spoken to (Bapt., Sulph.).
• Dark red swelling of tonsils and palatine arches; parotid and cervical
glands greatly swollen; breath and discharges from throat, nose and
 Droseraceae
Throat
• Clergyman’s sore throat; with rough, scraping, dry sensation deep in the
fauces; voice horse, deep, toneless, cracked, requires exertion to speak
(Arum-t.).
Respiratory System
• Whooping cough with violent paroxysms which follow each other
rapidly, is scarcely able to get breath (wakes at 6-7 a.m. and does not
cease coughing until a large quantity of tenacious mucus is raised, Coc-c.
—profuse epistaxis during every paroxysm, Ind.; “minute gun” during
the day whooping at night, Cor-r.).
• Deep sounding, hoarse barking cough (Verb.), < after midnight, during or
after measles; spasmodic, with gagging, retching and vomiting (Bry.,
Kali-c.).
• Constant, titillating cough in children, begins as soon as head touches
pillow at night (Bell., Hyos., Rumx.).
• Nocturnal cough of young persons in phthisis; bloody or purulent sputa.
• Cough: < by warmth, drinking, singing, laughing, weeping, lying down,
after midnight.
• During cough; vomiting of water; mucus, and often bleeding from the
nose and mouth (Cupr.).
• Sensation of feather in larynx, exciting cough.
• Diseases prevailing during epidemic pertussis.
• Constriction and crawling in larynx; hoarseness, and yellow or green
sputa.
• Laryngeal phthisis following whooping cough (bronchial catarrh
following, Coc-c.).
Relation
• Complementary: To Nux-vomica.
• Follows well: After Samb., Sulph., Verat.
• Is followed: By, Calc., Puls., Sulph.
Urinary System
• Catarrhal ischuria in grown-up children, with milky urine; from wading
with bare feet in cold water; involuntary.
Skin
• Skin is delicate, sensitive to cold, liable to eruptions, especially urticaria;
every time patient takes cold or is long exposed to cold.
• Rash before the menses (Con.—during profuse menses, Bell., Graph.).
• Urticaria over whole body, no fever; itching burns after scratching; < in
warmth, > in cold.
• Thick brown-yellow crusts on scalp, face, forehead, temples, chin; with
reddish borders, bleeding when scratched.
• Warts, fleshy, large, smooth; on face or back of hands and fingers (Thuj.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: From cold in general; cold air; cold wet weather;
suppressed menstruation, eruptions, sweat.
• Amelioration: From moving about (Ferr., Rhus-t.).
Relation
• Complementary: To, Bar-c., Kali-s.
• Incompatible: With Acet-ac., Bell., Lach. should not be used before or
after.
• Follows well: After, Calc., Bry., Lyc., Rhus-t., Sep.
• Similar: To Merc. in ptyalism, glandular swellings, bronchitis, diarrhea;
susceptibility to weather changes; night pains; to Kali-s. the chemical
analogue.
• For the bad effects or abuse of mercury.
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EQUISETUM HYEMALE
Scouring Rush
Equisetaceae
Urinary System
• Severe dull pain in the bladder, as from distention, not > after urinating.
• Frequent and intolerable urging to urinate, with severe pain at close of
urination (Berb., Sars., Thuj.).
• Constant desire to urinate; large quantity of clear, watery urine, without >
(scanty, a few drops, Apis, Canth.).
• Sharp, burning, cutting pain in urethra while urinating.
• Paralysis of bladder in old women.
• Enuresis diurna et nocturna; profuse watery urine, where habit is the only
ascertainable cause.
Relation
• Compare: Apis, Canth., Ferr-p., Puls., Squil.

EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM
Boneset
Compositae
Constitution
• Adapted to diseases of old people; worn-out constitutions, especially from
inebriety; cachexia, from prolonged or frequent attacks of bilious or
intermittent fevers.
Physical Generals
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FERRUM METALLICUM
Iron
The Element
Constitution
• Persons of sanguine temperament; pettish, quarrelsome, disputative,
easily excited, least contradiction angers (Anac., Cocc., Ign.); > from
mental exertion.
• Women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have a fiery red face.
Mental Generals
• Irritability; slight noises like crackling of paper drive him to despair
(Asar., Tarent.).
Physical Generals
• Extreme paleness of the face, lips and mucous membranes which
become red and flushed on the least pain, emotion or exertion. Blushing
(Aml-ns., Coca).
• Erethitic chlorosis, worse in winter.
• Red parts become white; face, lips, tongue and mucous membrane of
mouth.
• Hemorrhagic diathesis; blood bright red, coagulates easily (Ferr-p., Ip.,
Phos.).
• Always feels better by walking slowly about, although weakness obliges
the patient to lie down.
• Dropsy: After loss of vital fluids; abuse of quinine; suppressed
intermittent (Carb-v., Chin.).
• Canine hunger, or loss of appetite, with extreme dislike for all food.
Head
• Vertigo: With balancing sensation, as if on water; on seeing flowing
water; when walking over water, as when crossing a bridge (Lys.); on
descending (Borx., Sanic.).
• Headache: Hammering, beating, pulsating pains, must lie down; with
aversion to eating or drinking. For two, three or four days every two or
three weeks.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Regurgitation and eructation of food in mouthfuls (Alum.) without
nausea.
• Vomiting: Immediately after midnight; of ingesta, as soon as food is
eaten; leaves table suddenly and with one effort vomits everything eaten,
can sit down and eat again; sour, acid (Lyc., Sul-ac.).
• Diarrhea: Undigested stools at night, or while eating or drinking (Crot-
t.); painless with a good appetite; of consumptives.
• Constipation: From intestinal atony; ineffectual urging; stools hard,
difficult, followed by backache or cramping pain in rectum; prolapsus
recti of children; itching of anus at night.
Female Reproductive System
• Menses: Too early, too profuse, too long lasting, with fiery red face;
ringing in the ears; intermit two or three days and then return; flow pale,
watery, debilitating.
Respiratory System
• Cough only in the day time (Euphr.); relieved by lying down; > by eating
(Spong.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: At night; at rest, especially while sitting still.
• Amelioration: Walking slowly about; in summer.
Relation
• Complementary: To, Alum., Chin.
G

GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRENS
Yellow Jasmine
Loganiaceae
Constitution
• For children, young people, especially women of a nervous hysterical
temperament (Croc., Ign.).
• Excitable, irritable, sensitive; for the nervous affections of onanists of
both sexes (Kali-p.).
Mental Generals
• Bad effects from fright, fear, exciting news and sudden emotions (Ign.—
from pleasant surprise, Coff.).
• Fear of death (Ars.); utter lack of courage.
• The anticipation of any unusual ordeal preparing for church, theatre, or to
meet an engagement, brings on diarrhea; stage fright, nervous dread of
appearing in public (Arg-n.).
• Desire to be quiet, to be let alone; does not wish to speak or have any one
near her, even in the person be silent (Ign.).
• Children: Fear of falling, grasp the crib or seize the nurse (Borx., Sanic.).
Physical Generals
• General depression from heat of sun or summer.
• Weakness and trembling; of tongue, hands, legs; of the entire body.
Head
• Vertigo, spreading from the occiput (Sil.); with diplopia, dim vision, loss
of sight; seems intoxicated when trying to move.
• Headache: Preceded by blindness (Kali-bi.), > by profuse urination.
• Headache: Beginning in the cervical spine; pains extend over the head,
causing a bursting sensation in forehead and eye (Sang., Sil.—begins in
same way, but semi-lateral); < by mental exertion; from smoking; heat of
sun; lying with head low.
• Sensation of band around the head above eyes (Carb-ac., Sulph.); scalp
sore to touch.
Eyes
• Great heaviness of the eyelids; cannot keep them open (Caust., Graph.,
Sep.).
Cardio-vascular System
• Fears that unless on the move heart will cease beating (fears it would
cease beating if she moved, Dig.).
• Slow pulse of old age.
Nervous System
• Lack of muscular co-ordination; confused; muscles refuse to obey the
will.
• Complete relaxation and prostration of the whole muscular system with
motor paralysis.
Fever
• Chill without thirst, especially along the spine, running up and down the
back in rapid, wave-like succession from sacrum to occiput.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Damp weather; before a thunderstorm; mental emotion or
excitement bad news; tobacco smoking; when thinking of his ailments;
when spoken to of his loss.
Relation
• Compare: Bapt. in threatening typhoid fever; Ip. in dumb ague, after
suppression by quinine.
Physical Generals
• Takes cold easily, sensitive to draft of air (Borx., Calc., Hep., Nux-v.).
Suffering parts emaciate.
Head
• Sensation of cobwebs on forehead, tries hard to brush it off (Bar-c.,
Borx., Brom., Ran-s.).
• Burning round spot on vertex (Calc., Sulph. — cold spot, Sep., Verat.).
Eyes
• Eczema of lids; eruption moist and fissured; lids red and margins covered
with scales or crusts.
Ears
• Hears better when in a noise; when riding in a carriage or car, when there
is a rumbling sound (Nit-ac.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Diarrhea: Stools brown, fluid, mixed with undigested substances, and of
an intolerable odor often caused by suppressed eruptions (Psor.).
• Chronic constipation; stool difficult, large, hard, knotty, with lumps
united by mucus threads; too large (Sulph.); smarting sore pain in anus
after stool.
Male Reproductive System
• Decided aversion to coition (both sexes).
• Sexual debility from sexual abuse.
Female Reproductive System
• Menses: Too scanty, pale, late with violent colic; irregular; delayed from
getting feet wet (Puls.).
• Morning sickness during menstruation; very weak and prostrated
(Alumn., Carb-an., Cocc.).
• Leucorrhea; acrid, excoriating; occurs in gushes day and night; before
and after menses (before Sep.; after Kreos.).
• Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary abscess, retarding the flow of
milk; cancer of breast, from old scars and repeated abscesses.
Extremities
• The nails are brittle, crumbling, deformed (Ant-c.); painful, sore, as if
ulcerated; thick and crippled.
• Cracks or fissures, in ends of fingers, nipples, labial commissures; of
anus; between the toes.
• Phlegmonous erysipelas: Of face, with burning, stinging pain;
commencing on right side, going to left; after application of iodine.
Nervous System
• Cataleptic condition; conscious, but without power to move or speak.
Skin
• Unhealthy skin; every injury suppurates (Hep.); old cicatrices break open
again; eruptions upon the ears, between fingers and toes and on various
parts of body, from which oozes a watery, transparent, sticky fluid.
Modalities
• Aggravation: At night, during and after menstruation.
Relation
• Complementary: Caust., Hep., Lyc.
• Graphites follows well: After Lyc., Puls.; after Calc. in obesity of young
women with large amount of unhealthy adipose tissue; follows Sulph.
well in skin affections; after Sepia in gushing leucorrhea.
• Similar: To Lyc., Puls., in menstrual troubles.

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 Ranunculaceae
Constitution
• Weakly, delicate, psoric children; prone to brain troubles (Bell., Calc.,
Tub.); with serous effusion.
Mental Generals
• Melancholy; woeful; despairing; silent with anguish; after typhoid; in
girls at puberty, or when menses fail to return after appearing.
• Irritable, easily angered; consolation < (Ign., Nat-m., Sep., Sil.); does not
want to be disturbed (Gels., Nat-m.).
• Unconscious; stupid; answers slowly when questioned; a picture of acute
idiocy (of chronic, Bar-c.).
Physical Generals
• Soporous sleep, with screams, shrieks, starts.
• Greedily swallows cold water; bites spoon, but remains unconscious.
• Constantly pricking his lips, clothes, or boring into his nose with his
finger (while perfectly conscious, Arum-t.).
• Dropsy: Of brain, chest, abdomen; after scarlatina, intermittents; with
fever, debility, suppressed urine; from suppressed exanthemata (Apis,
Zinc.).
Head
• Brain symptoms during dentition (Bell., Podo.); threatening effusion
(Apis, Tub.).
• Hydrocephalus, post-scarlatinal or tubercular which develops rapidly
(Apis, Sulph., Tub.); automatic motion of one arm and leg.
• Boring head into pillow; rolling from side to side; beating head with
hands.
Eyes
• Vacant, thoughtless starting; eye wide open; insensible to light; pupils
dilated, or alternately contracted and dilated.
Mental Generals
• Oversensitive, physically and mentally; the slightest cause irritates him;
quick, hasty speech and hasty drinking.
• Patient is peevish, angry at the least trifle; hypochondriacal; unreasonably
anxious.
Physical Generals
• Diseases where the system has been injured by the abuse of Mercury.
• Extremely sensitive to cold air, imagines he can feel the air if a door is
opened in the next room; must be wrapped up to the face even in hot
weather (Psor.); cannot bear to be uncovered (Nux-v.—cannot bear to be
covered, Camph., Sec.); takes cold from slightest exposure to fresh air
(Tub.).
• Sweats: Profusely day and night without relief; perspiration sour;
offensive; easily, on every mental or physical exertion (Psor., Sep.).
Eyes
• Eyeballs: Sore to touch; pain as if they would be pulled back into head
(Olnd., Par.).
Face
• Middle of lower lip cracked (Am-c., Nat-m.—cracks in commissures,
Cund.).
Throat
• Sensation of a splinter, fish bone or plug in the throat (Arg-n., Nit-ac.);
quinsy, when suppuration threatens; chronic hypertrophy, with hardness
of hearing (Bar-c., Lyc., Plb., Psor.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Diarrhea: Of children with sour smell (Calc., Mag-c.—child and stool
have a sour smell, Rheum); clay-colored stool (Calc., Podo.).
Urinary System
• Urine: Flow impeded, voided slowly, without force, drops vertically; is
obliged to wait awhile before it passes; bladder weak, is unable to finish,
 seems as if some urine always remains (Alum., Sil.).
Respiratory System
• Cough: When any part of the body is uncovered (Rhus-t.); croupy,
choking, strangling; from exposure to dry west wind, the land wind
(Acon.).
• Asthma: Breathing, anxious, wheezing, rattling; short, deep breathing,
threatens suffocation; must bend head back and sit up; after suppressed
eruption (Psor.).
• Croup: After exposure to dry cold wind (Acon.); deep, rough, barking
cough, with hoarseness and rattling of mucus; < cold air, cold drinks,
before midnight or towards morning.
Skin
• The slightest injury causes suppuration (Graph., Merc.).
• In diseases where suppuration seems inevitable, Hepar may open the
abscess and hasten the cure
• The skin is very sensitive to touch, cannot bear even clothes to touch
affected parts (Lach.—sensitive to slightest touch, but can bear hard
pressure, Chin.).
• Skin affections extremely sensitive to touch, the pain often causing
fainting.
• Ulcers, herpes, surrounded by little pimples or pustules and spread by
coalescing.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Lying on painful side (Kali-c., Iod.); cold air; uncovering;
eating or drinking cold things; touching affected parts; abuse of mercury.
• Amelioration: Warmth in general (Ars.); wrapping up warmly, especially
the head (Psor., Sil.); in damp, wet weather (Caust., Nux-v., reverse of,
Nat-s.).
Relation
• Complementary: To, Calendula in injuries of soft parts.
• Hepar antidotes: Bad effects of mercury and other metals; iodine, iodide
Henbane
Solanaceae
Constitution
• Persons of sanguine temperament; who are irritable, nervous, hysterical.
Mental Generals
• Intense sleeplessness of irritable, excitable persons from business
embarrassments, often imaginary.
• Diseases with increased cerebral activity, but non-inflammatory in type;
hysteria or delirium tremens; delirium, with restlessness, jumps out of
bed, tries to escape; makes irrelevant answers; thinks he is in the wrong
place; talks of imaginary doings, but has no wants and makes no
complaints.
• In delirium, Hyoscyamus occupies a place midway between Belladonna
and Stramonium; lacks the constant cerebral congestion of the former
and the fierce rage and maniacal delirium of the latter.
• Fears: Being alone; poison; being bitten; being sold; to eat or drink; to
take what is offered; suspicious, of some plot.
• Bad effects of unfortunate love; with jealousy, rage, incoherent speech or
inclination to laugh at everything; often followed by epilepsy.
• Lascivious mania: immodesty, will not be covered, kicks off the clothes,
exposes the person; sings obscene songs; lies naked in bed and chatters.
Urinary System
• Paralysis of bladder; after labor, with retention or incontinence of urine;
no desire to urinate in lying - in women (Arn., Op.).
Respiratory System
• Cough: Dry, nocturnal, spasmodic; < when lying down, relieved by sitting
up (Dros.); < at night, after eating, drinking, talking, singing (Dros.,
Phos. — > when lying down, Mang-met.).
Nervous System
• Convulsions: Of children, from fright or the irritation of intestinal worms
(Cina); during labor; during the puerperal stage; after meals, child
 vomits, sudden shriek, then insensible.
• Spasms: Without consciousness, very restless; every muscle in the body
twitches, from the eyes to the toes (with consciousness— Nux-v.).
Fever
• Fever: Pneumonia, scarlatina, rapidly becomes typhoid; sensorium
clouded, staring eyes, grasping at flocks or picking bed clothes, teeth
covered with sordes, tongue dry and unwieldy; involuntary stool and
urine; subsultus tendinum.
Modalities
• Aggravation: At night; during menses; mental affections; jealousy,
unhappy love; when lying down.
Relation
• Compare: Bell., Stram. and Verat.
• Phos. often cures lasciviousness when Hyos. fails.
• Nux-v. or Opium in hemoptysis of drunkards.
• Follows: Bell. well in deafness after apoplexy.

HYPERICUM PERFORATUM
St. John’s Wort
Hypericaceae
Head
• Vertigo: Sensation as if head became suddenly elongated; at night, with
urging to urinate.
• Headache: After a fall upon the occiput, with sensation as if being lifted
up high into the air; great anxiety lest she fall from this height.
Back
• Spine: After a fall; slightest motion of arms or neck extorts cries; spine
very sensitive to touch.
Extremities
• Bunions and corns when pain is excruciating, showing nerve
involvement.
Nervous System
• Tetanus after traumatic injuries (compare, Phys.).
• Nervous depression following wounds or surgical operations; removes
bad effect of shock, of fright, of mesmerism.
• Convulsions; after blows on head or concussion.
Injuries
• Mechanical injuries of spinal cord; bad effects of spinal concussion;
pains, after a fall on coccyx.
• Punctured, incised or lacerated wounds; sore, painful (Led.—contused
wounds, Arn., Ham.), especially if of long duration.
• Injuries from treading on nails, needles, pins, splinters (Led.); from rat-
bites; prevents lockjaw.
• Preserves integrity of torn and lacerated member when almost entirely
separated from body (Calen.).
• Injury to parts rich in sentient nerves – fingers, toes, matrices of nails,
palms or soles—where the intolerable pain shows nerves are severely
involved; of tissues of animal life, as hands and feet.
Skin
• Always modifies and sometimes arrests ulceration and sloughing
(Calen.). Crushed, mashed fingertips.
Relation
• Compare: Arn., Calen., Ruta, Staph.
• In wounds where formerly Acon. and Arn. were given alternately,
Hypericum cures.

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IGNATIA AMARA
St. Ignatius Bean
Loganiaceae
Constitution
• Especially suited to nervous temperament; women of a sensitive, easily
excited nature; dark hair and skin but mild disposition, quick to perceive,
rapid in execution (in striking contrast with the fair complexion,
yielding, lachrymose, but slow and indecisive, Pulsatilla).
Mental Generals
• Bad effects of anger, grief, or disappointed love (Calc-p., Hyos.); broods
in solitude over imaginary trouble.
• Mental conditions rapidly, in an almost incredibly short time, change
from joy to sorrow, from laughing to weeping (Coff., Croc., Nux-m.);
moody.
• Persons mentally and physically exhausted by long-concentrated grief.
• Desire to be alone.
• Finely sensitive mood, delicate consciousness.
• Inconstant, impatient, irresolute, quarrelsome.
• Amiable in disposition if feeling well, but easily disturbed by very slight
emotion; easily offended.
• The slightest fault finding or contradiction excites anger, and this makes
him angry with himself.
• Children, when reprimanded, scolded, or sent to bed, get sick or have
convulsions in sleep.
• Ill-effects, from bad news; from vexation with reserved displeasure; from
suppressed mental sufferings; of shame and mortification (Staph.).
• Involuntary sighing (Lach.).
Physical Generals
• The remedy of great contradictions: The roaring in ears > by music; the
piles > when walking; sore throat feels > when swallowing; empty
feeling in stomach not > by eating; cough < the more he coughs; cough
on standing still during a walk (Astac.); spasmodic laughter from grief;
sexual desire with impotency; thirst during a chill, no thirst in the fever;
the color changes in the face when at rest.
• Cannot bear tobacco; smoking, or being in tobacco smoke, produces or
aggravates headache.
• Sweat on the face on a small spot only while eating.
• Oversensitiveness to pain (Coff., Cham.).
• Pain in small, circumscribed spots.
• Complaints return at precisely the same hour.
Head
• Headache, as if a nail was driven out through the side, relieved by lying
on it (Coff., Nux-v., Thuj.).
Mouth
• In talking or chewing, bites inside of cheek.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Weak, empty feeling at pit of stomach; not > by eating (Hydr., Sep.), with
involuntary sighing (Lach.).
• Constipation: From carriage riding; of a paralytic origin; with excessive
urging, felt more in upper abdomen (Verat.); with great pain, dreads to
go to closet; in women who are habitual coffee drinkers.
• Prolapsus ani from moderate straining at stool, stooping or lifting (Nit-
ac., Podo., Ruta); < when the stool is loose.
• Hemorrhoids: Prolapse with every stool, have to be replaced; sharp
stitches shoot up the rectum (Nit-ac.); < for hours after stool (Rat.,
Sulph.).
Nervous System
• Twitching jerkings, even spasms of single limbs or whole body, when
falling asleep.
Fever
• Fever: Red face during chill (Ferr.); chill, with thirst during chill only; >
by external heat; heat without thirst, < by covering (> by covering, Nux-
v.).
Note: Ignatia bears the same relation to the diseases of women that Nux does
to sanguine, bilious men.
There are many more Ignatia persons in North America than Nux
vomica persons. – Hering.
Modalities
• Aggravation: From tobacco, coffee, brandy, contact, motion, strong
odors, mental emotions, grief.
• Amelioration: Warmth, hard pressure (Chin.); swallowing, walking.
Relation
• Incompatible: Coff., Nux-v., Tab.
• The bad effects of Ign. are antidoted by Puls.

IODIUM
Iodine
The Element
Constitution
• Persons of scrofulous diathesis, with dark or black hair and eyes; a low
cachetic condition, with profound debility and great emaciation
(Abrot.).
• Hard goitre, in dark-haired persons (light-haired, Brom.); feels > after
eating.
Physical Generals
Modalities
• Aggravation: Warmth; wraping up the head (reverse of, Hep., Psor.).
Relation
• Complementary: To, Lycopodium.
• Compare: Acet-ac., Brom., Con., Kali-bi., Spong. in membranous croup
and croupy affections; especially in overgrown boys with scrofulous
diathesis.
• Follows well: After; Hep., Merc.; is followed by Kali-bi. in croup. Acts
best in goitre when given after full moon, or when the moon is waning.
—Lippe.
• Should not be given during lying-in period, except in high potencies.—
Hering.

IPECACUANHA
Ipecac
Rubiaceae
Physical Generals
• In all diseases with constant and continual nausea.
• Hemorrhage: active or passive, bright red from all the orifices of the
body (Erig., Mill.).
• Oversensitive to heat and cold.
• Pains as if bones were all torn to pieces (as if broken, Eup-per.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Adapted to cases where the gastric symptoms predominate (Ant-c., Puls.);
tongue clean or slightly coated.
• Nausea; with profuse saliva; vomiting of white, glairy mucus in large
quantities, without relief; sleepy afterwards; worse from stooping; the
primary effects of tobacco; of pregnancy.
• Stomach: Feels relaxed as if hanging down (Ign., Staph.); clutching,
squeezing, griping, as from a hand, each finger sharply pressing into
 intestines; worse from motion.
• Flatulent, cutting colic about umbilicus.
• Stool: Grassy-green; of white mucus (Colch.); bloody; fermented, foamy,
slimy, like frothy molasses.
• Autumnal dysentery; cold nights, after hot days (Colch., Merc.).
• Asiatic cholera, first symptoms, where nausea and vomiting predominate
(Colch.).
• Cutting pains across abdomen from left to right (Lach.—from right to
left, Lyc.).
• Intermittent dyspepsia, every other day at same hour; fever, with
persistent nausea.
Female Reproductive System
• Hemorrhage, active or passive, bright red, from the uterus; profuse,
clotted; heavy, oppressed breathing during; stitches from naval to uterus.
Respiratory System
• Cough; dry spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic.
• Difficulty breathing from least exercise; violent dyspnea with wheezing
and anxiety about the stomach.
• Whooping cough; child loses breath, turns pale, stiff and blue; strangling,
with gagging and vomiting of mucus; bleeding from nose or mouth
(Indg.).
• Cough, with rattling of mucus in bronchi when inspiring (Ant-t.);
threatened suffocation from mucus.
Fever
• Intermittent fever; in beginning of irregular cases; with nausea, or from
gastric disturbance; after abuse of, or suppression from quinine.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Winter and dry weather; warm, moist, south winds
(Euphr.); slightest motion.
Relation
K

KALIUM BICHROMICUM
Potassium Bichromate
K2Cr2O7

Constitution
• Fat, light-haired persons who suffer from catarrhal syphilitic or psoric
affections.
• Fat, chubby, short-necked children disposed to croup and croupy
affections.
Physical Generals
• Affections of the mucous membranes—eyes, nose, mouth, throat,
bronchi; gastro-intestinal and genito-urinary tracts—discharge of a
tough, shringy mucus which adheres to the parts and can be drawn
into the long strings (compare, Hydr., Lys.).
• Complaints occurring in hot weather.
• Liability to take cold in open air.
• Rheumatism alternating with gastric symptoms, one appearing in the fall
and the other in the spring; rheumatism and dysentery alternate (Abrot.).
• Pains; In small spots, can be covered with point of finger (Ign.); shift
rapidly from one part to another (Kali-s., Lac-c., Puls.); appear and
disappear suddenly (Bell., Ign., Mag-p.).
• Neuralgia everyday at same hour (Chinin-s.).
Head
• Headache: Blurred vision or blindness precedes the attack (Gels., Lac-d.);
must lie down; aversion to light and noise; sight returns as headache
increases (Iris, Nat-m., Lac-d.).
Nose
• Nose: Pressive pain in root of nose (in forehead and root of nose, Stict.);
discharge of plugs, “clinkers”; tough, ropy, green fluid mucus; in clear
masses, and has violent pain from occiput to forehead if discharge
ceases.
• Ulceration of septum, with bloody discharge or large flakes of hard
mucus (Alum., Sep., Teucr.).
Throat
• Edematous, bladder-like appearance of uvula; much swelling, but little
redness (Rhus-t.).
• Diphtheria: Pseudo-membranous deposit, firm, pearly, fibrinous, prone to
extend downwards to larynx and trachea (Lac-c., reverse of, Brom.).
• Deep-eating ulcers in fauces; often syphilitic.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Gastric complaints: Bad effects of beer; loss of appetite; weight in pit of
stomach; flatulence; < soon after eating; vomiting of ropy mucus and
blood; round ulcer of stomach (Gymno.).
Male Reproductive System
• Sexual desire absent in fleshy people.
Female Reproductive System
• Prolapsus uteri, seemingly in hot weather.
Respiratory System
• Cough: Violent, rattling, with gagging from viscid mucus in the throat; <
when undressing (Hep.).
• Croup: Hoarse, metallic, with expectoration of tough mucus or fibro-
elastic casts in morning on awakening with dyspnea, > by lying down
(worse when lying down, Aral., Lach.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: Heat of summer; hot weather.
• Amelioration: Skin symptoms are better in cold weather (reverse of,
 Alum. and Petr.).
Relation
• Compare: Brom., Hep., Iod. in croupy affections.
• After: Canth. or Carb-ac. has removed the scrapings in dysentery.
• After; Iod. in croup, when hoarse cough, with tough membrane, general
weakness and coldness are present; Calc. in acute or chronic nasal
catarrh.
• Ant-t. follows well in catarrhal affections and skin diseases.

KALIUM BROMATUM
Potassium Bromide
K. Br.
Constitution
• Adapted to large persons inclined to obesity; acts better in children than
in adults.
Mental Generals
• Fits of uncontrollable weeping and profound melancholic delusions.
• Loss of memory; forgets how to talk; absentminded; has to be told the
word before he could speak it (Anac.).
• Depressed, low spirited, anxious, “feel as if they would lose their minds.”
• Restlessness and sleeplessness due to worry and grief, loss of property or
reputation, from business embarrassments (Hyos.).
Physical Generals
• Night terrors of children (Kali-p.); grinding teeth in sleep, screams,
moans, cries; horrible dreams, cannot be comforted by friends.
Somnambulism (Sil.).
Head
• First stage of hydrocephaloid.
Mouth
• Stammering; slow, difficult speech (Bov., Stram.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Cholera infantum, with reflex irritation of brain, before effusion.
• Daily colic in infants about 5 a.m. (at 4 p.m., Coloc., Lyc.).
Female Reproductive System
• Nervous cough during pregnancy; dry, hard, almost incessant, threatening
abortion (Con.).
Nervous System
• Nervous, restless; cannot sit still, must move about or keep occupied;
hands and fingers in constant motion; fidgety hands (fidgety feet, Zinc.);
twitching of fingers.
• Loss of sensibility, fauces, larynx, urethra, entire body; staggering,
uncertain gait; feels as if legs were all over sidewalk.
• Incoordination of muscles (Gels.); nervous weakness or paralysis of
motion and numbness.
• Spasms: From fright, anger or emotional causes in nervous plethoric
persons; during parturition, teething, whooping cough, Bright’s disease.
• Epilepsy: Congenital, syphilitic, tubercular; usually a day or two before
menses; at new moon; headache follows attack.
Skin
• Acne: Simplex, indurata, rosacea; bluish-red, pustular, on face, chest,
shoulders; leaves unsightly scars (Carb-an.); in young fleshy persons of
gross habits.
Relation
• One of the antidotes for lead poisoning.
• Often curative after Eugenia jambos in acne.

KALIUM CARBONICUM
Potassium Carbonate
K2O2CO2

Constitution
• For diseases of old people, dropsy and paralysis; with dark hair, lax fibre,
inclined to obesity (Am-c., Graph.).
• After loss of fluids or vitality, particularly in the anemic (Chin., Ph-ac.,
Phos., Psor.).
Mental Generals
• Great aversion to being alone (Ars., Bism., Lyc.— desires to be alone,
Ign., Nux-v.).
Physical Generals
• Cannot bear to be touched; starts when touched ever so lightly,
especially on the feet.
• Pains stitching, darting, worse during rest and lying on affected side
(stitching, darting, better during rest and lying on painful side, Bry.).
• Very much inclined to take cold.
Eyes
• Bag-like swelling between the upper eyelids and eyebrows.
• Weak eyes; after coition, pollution, abortion, measles.
Nose
• Nosebleed when washing the face in the morning (Am-c., Arn.).
Mouth
• Toothache only when eating; throbbing; < when touched by anything
warm or cold.
Throat
• Difficult swallowing; sticking pain in pharynx as of a fishbone (Hep.,
Nit-ac.); food easily gets into the windpipe; pain in back when
swallowing.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Stomach: Distended, sensitive; feels as if it would burst; excessive
flatulency, everything she eats or drinks appears to be converted into gas
(Iod.).
• Constipation: Stool large, difficult, with stitching, colic pains an hour or
two before.
Female Reproductive System
• Feels badly, week before menstruation; backache, before and during
menses.
• Labor pains insufficient; violent backache; wants the back pressed
(Caust.).
Respiratory System
• Cough: Dry, paroxysmal, loosens viscid mucus or pus which must be
swallowed; spasmodic with gagging or vomiting of ingesta; hard, white
or smoky masses fly from throat when coughing (Bad., Chel.).
• Asthma, relieved when sitting up or bending forward or by rocking;
worse from 2 to 4 a.m.
• Persons suffering from ulceration of the lungs can scarcely get well
without this anti-psoric – Hahnemann.
Cardio-vascular System
• Heart: Tendency to fatty degeneration (Phos.); as if suspended by a thread
(Lach.).
Back
• Backache, sweating, weakness; after abortion, labor, metrorrhagia; when
eating; while walking feels as if she must give up and lie down.
Relation
• Complementary: Carb-v.
• Compare: Bry., Lyc., Nat-m., Nit-ac., Stann.
• Follows well: After, Kali-s., Phos., Stann. in loose, rattling cough.
• Will bring on the menses, when Nat-m., though apparently indicated,
 fails.—Hahnemann.

KALMIA LATIFOLIA
Mountain Laurel
Ericaceae
Constitution
• Adapted to acute neuralgia, rheumatism, gouty complaints, especially
when heart is involved as a sequele of rheumatism or gout.
Physical Generals
• Pains sticking, darting, pressing, shooting in a downward direction (Cact.
—upward, Led.); attended or succeeded by numbness of affected part
(Acon., Cham., Plat.).
Head
• Vertigo when stooping or looking down (Spig.).
Eyes
• Severe stitching pain in right eye and orbit (left eye, Spig.); stiffness in
muscles, pain < when turning the eyes (Spig.); begins at sunrise, < at
noon and leaves at sunset (Nat-m.).
Cardio-vascular System
• In heart diseases that have developed from rheumatism, or alternate with
it.
• Pulse slow, scarcely perceptible (35 or 40 per minute); pale face and cold
extremities.
Extremities
• Rheumatism: Pains intense, change places suddenly, going from joint to
joint; hot, red, swollen; worse from least movement.
Relation
• Similar: To, Led., Rhod., Spig., in rheumatic affections and gout.
• It follows Spig. well in heart disease.

KREOSOTUM
Kreosote
A Distillation of Wood Tar
Constitution
• Dark complexion, slight, lean, ill-developed, poorly nourished,
overgrown.; very tall for her age (Phos.).
• Children: Old looking, wrinkled (Abrot.); scrofulous or psoric affections;
rapid emaciation (Iod.).
Physical Generals
• Hemorrhage diathesis; small wounds bleed freely (Crot-h., Lach., Phos.);
flow passive, in epistaxis, hemoptysis, hematuria; in typhoid, followed
by great prostration; dark, oozing, after the extraction of a tooth (Ham.).
• Corrosive, fetid, ichorous discharges from mucous membranes; vitality
greatly depressed.
Head
• Severe headache before and during menses (Sep.).
Ears
• Roaring and humming in ears, with deafness, before and during menses.
Mouth
• Painful dentition; teeth begin to decay as soon as they appear; gums
bluish-red, soft, spongy, bleeding, inflammed, scorbutic, ulcerated.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Vomiting: Of pregnancy, sweetish water with ptyalism; of cholera, during
painful dentition; incessant with cadaverous stool; in malignant
affections of stomach.
Urinary System
• Incontinence of urine; can only urinate when lying; copious, pale; urging,
cannot get out of bed quick enough (Apis, Petros.); during first sleep
(Sep.), from which child is roused with difficulty.
• Smarting and burning during and after micturition (Sulph.).
Female Reproductive System
• Post-climacteric diseases of women (Lach.).
• Menses: Too early, profuse, protracted; pain during, but < after it; flow
on lying down, cease on sitting or walking about; cold drinks relieve
menstrual pains; flow intermits, at times almost ceasing, then
commencing again (Sulph.).
• Leucorrhea acrid, corrosive, offensive; worse between periods (Bov.,
Borx.); has the odor of green corn; stiffens like starch, stains the linen
yellow.
• Lochia: Dark, brown, lumpy, offensive, acrid; almost ceases, then
freshens up again (Con., Sulph.).
• Violent corrosive itching of pudenda and vagina.
Skin
• Itching, so violent towards evening as to drive one almost wild (itching,
without eruption, Dolichos).
Modalities
• Aggravation: In the open air, cold weather; when growing cold; from
washing or bathing with cold water; rest, especially when lying.
• Amelioration: Generally better from warmth.
Relation
• Kreosotum is followed well by Ars., Phos., Sulph., in cancer and disease
of a malignant tendency.
• Carb-v. and Kreos. are inimical.

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 milk, by Donkin, was the hint which led Dr. Swan to potentize and
prove it. Every symptom here given has been verified in the cure of the
sick.

LACHESIS MUTUS
Surukuku Snake Poison
Ophidia
Constitution
• Persons of a less melancholy temperament, dark eyes, and a disposition to
low spirits and indolence.
• Women of choleric temperament, with freckles and red hair (Phos.).
• Better adapted to thin and emaciated than to fleshy persons; to those who
have been changed, both mentally and physically, by their illness.
• Climacteric ailments; hemorrhoids, hemorrhages; hot flushes and hot
perspiration; burning vertex headache, especially at or after the
menopause (Sang., Sulph.).
• Women who have not recovered from the change of life “have never felt
well since that time.”
• Drunkards with congestive headaches and hemorrhoids; prone to
erysipelas or apoplexy.
• All symptoms, especially the mental, worse after sleep, or the
aggravation wakes him from sleep; sleeps into the aggravation, unhappy,
distressed, anxious, sad < in morning on waking.
Mental Generals
• Ailments from long lasting grief; sorrow, fright, vexation, jealousy or
disappointed love (Aur., Ign., Ph-ac.).
• Mental excitability; ecstasy with almost prophetic perceptions; with a
vivid imagination; great loquacity (Agar., Stram.); wants to talk all the
time; jumps from one idea to another; one word often leads into another
story.
Physical Generals
• Left side principally affected; diseases begin on the left and go to the
right side – left ovary, testicle, chest.
• Great sensitiveness to touch; throat, stomach, abdomen; cannot bear
bed-clothes or night-dress to touch throat or abdomen, not because sore
or tender as in Apis or Bell., but clothes cause an uneasiness, make her
nervous.
• Intolerance of tight bands about neck or waist.
• Extremes of heat and cold cause great debility.
• Great physical and mental exhaustion; trembling in whole body, would
constantly sink down from weakness; worse in the morning (Sulph.,
Tub.).
• Hemorrhagic diathesis; small wounds bleed easily and profusely (Crot-h.,
Kreos., Phos.); blood dark, non-coagulable (Crot-h., Sec.).
• Bad effects of poison wounds; post-mortem (Pyrog.).
Head
• Headache: Pressing or bursting pain in temples < from motion, pressure,
stooping, lying, after sleep; dreads to go to sleep because she wakens
with such a headache.
• Rush of blood to head; after alcohol; mental emotions; suppressed or
irregular menses; at climaxis; left-sided apoplexy.
• Weight and pressure on vertex (Sep.); like lead in occiput.
Throat
• Diphtheria and tonsillitis, beginning on the left and extending to right side
(Lac-c., Sabad.); dark purple appearance (Naja); < by hot drinks, after
sleep; liquids more painful than solids when swallowing (Bell., Bry.,
Ign.); prostration out of all proportion to appearance of throat.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Constipation: Inactivity, stool lies in rectum, without urging; sensation of
constriction of sphincter (Caust., Nit-ac.).
• Piles; with scanty menses; at climaxis; strangulated; with stitches
 shooting upward (Nit-ac.).
Urinary System
• Sensation as of a ball rolling in the bladder.
Female Reproductive System
• Menses at regular time; too short, scanty, feeble; pains all relieved by
the flow; always better during menses (Zinc.).
Respiratory System
• The least thing coming near mouth or nose interferes with breathing;
wants to be fanned, but slowly and at a distance (rapidly, Carb-v.).
• As soon as he falls asleep the breathing stops (Am-c., Grim., Lac-c., Op.).
Nervous System
• Epilepsy; comes on during sleep (Bufo); from loss of vital fluids;
onanism, jealousy.
Fever
• Fever annually returning; paroxysm every spring (Carb-v., Sulph.); after
suppression by quinine the previous autumn.
• Fever: Typhoid, typhus; stupor or muttering delirium, sunken
countenance, falling of lower jaw; tongue dry, black, trembles, is
protruded with difficulty or catches on the teeth when protruding;
conjunctiva yellow or orange color; perspiration cold, stains yellow,
bloody (Lyc.).
Skin
• Boils, carbuncles, ulcers with intense pain (Tarent-c.); malignant
pustules; decubitus; dark, bluish, purple appearance; tend to
malignancy.
Modalities
• Aggravation: After sleep; contact; extremes of temperature; acids;
alcohol; cinchona; mercury; pressure or constriction; sun’s rays; spring;
summer.
Relation
• Complementary: Hep., Lyc., Nit-ac.
• Incompatible: Acet-ac., Carb-ac.
• In intermittent fever Nat-m. follows Lach. well when type changes.

LEDUM PALUSTRE
Marsh Tea
Ericaceae
Constitution
• Adapted to the rheumatic, gouty diathesis; constitutions abused by
alcohol (Colch.).
• Complaints of people who are cold all the time; always feel cold and
chilly; lack of animal or vital heat (Sep., Sil.); the wounded parts
especially are cold to touch.
• Parts cold to touch, but not cold subjectively to patient.
• In some affections, warmth of bed intolerable on account of heat and
burning of limbs.
Physical Generals
• Emaciation of affected parts (Graph.).
• Pains are sticking, tearing, throbbing; rheumatic pains are < by motion; <
at night, by warmth of bed and bed covering (Merc.); > only when
holding feet in ice-water (Sec.).
Eyes
• Hemorrhage into anterior chamber after iridectomy.
• Contusions of eye and lids, especially if much extravasation of blood;
ecchymosis of lids and conjunctiva.
Face
• Red pimples or tubercles on forehead and cheeks, as in brandy drinkers,
stinging when touched.
Extremities
• Rheumatism or gout; beings in lower limbs and ascends (descends,
Kalm.); especially if brought to a low asthenic condition by abuse of
Colchicum; joints become the seat of nodosities and “gout stones” which
are painful; acute and chronic arthritis.
• Affects left shoulder and right hip joint (Agar., Ant-t., Stram.).
• Swelling: Of feet, up to knees; of ankle with unbearable pain when
walking, as from a sprain or false step; ball of great toe swollen, painful;
in heels as if bruised.
• Intense itching of feet and ankles, < from scratching warmth of bed.
(Puls. Rhus-t.).
• Easy spraining of ankles and feet (Carb-an.).
Injuries
• Punctured wounds by sharp, pointed instruments, as awls, nails (Hyper.);
rat bites, stings of insects, especially mosquitoes.
• Long-remaining discoloration after injuries; “black and blue” places
become green.
Relation
• Compare: Arn., Crot-t., Ham., Bell-p., Ruta, in traumatism; Con. in long-
lasting effects of injuries.

LILIUM TIGRINUM
Tiger Lily
Liliaceae
Mental Generals
• Tormented about her salvation (Lyc., Sulph., Verat.), with ovarian or
uterine complaints; consolation <.
• Wild, crazy feeling on vertex; confused ideas.
• Profound depression of spirits, can hardly avoid weeping; is very timid,
fearful and weeps much; indifferent about what is being done for her.
 LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM
Wolf’s Foot, Club Moss
Lycopodiaceae
Constitution
• For persons intellectually keen, but physically weak; upper part of body
emaciated, lower part semi-dropical; predisposed to lung and hepatic
affections (Calc., Phos., Sulph.); especially in extremes of life, children
and old people.
• Children, weak, emaciated; with well developed head but puny, sickly
bodies.
Mental Generals
• Ailments from fright, anger, mortification, or vexation with reserved
displeasure (Staph.).
• Avaricious, greedy, miserly, malicious, pusillanimous.
• Irritable; peevish and cross on waking; ugly, kick and scream; easily
angered; cannot endure opposition or contradiction; seeks disputes; is
beside himself.
• Weeps all day, cannot calm herself; very sensitive, even cries when
thanked.
• Dread of men; of solitude, irritable and melancholy; fear of being alone
(Bism., Kali-c., Lil-t.).
Physical Generals
• Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases.
• Pains: Aching-pressure, drawing; chiefly right-sided, < four to eight
p.m.
• Affects right side, or pain goes from right to left, throat, chest, abdomen,
liver, ovaries.
• Canine hunger; the more he eats, the more he craves; head aches if he
does not eat.
• Waking at night feeling hungry (Cina, Psor.).
• Baby cries all day, sleeps all night (Jal., Psor.).
Nose
• Catarrh: Dry nose stopped at night, must breathe through the mouth (Am-
c., Nux-v., Samb.); snuffles, child starts from sleep rubbing its nose; of
root of nose and frontal sinuses; crusts and elastic plugs (Kali-bi.,
Teucr.).
Face
• Complexion pale, dirty; unhealthy; sallow, with deep furrows, look older
than he is; fan-like motion of alae nasi (Ant-t.).
Throat
• Diphtheria: Fauces brownish-red, deposit spreads from right tonsil to left,
or descends from nose to right tonsils; < after sleep and from cold
drinks (from warm drinks, Lach.).
• Pneumonia; neglected or maltreated, base of right lung. Involved
especially; to hasten absorption or expectoration.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Everything tastes sour; eructations, heartburn, waterbrash, sour vomiting
(between chill and heat).
• Gastric affections: Excessive accumulation of flatulence; constant
sensation of satiety; good appetite, but a few mouthfuls fill up to the
throat, and he feels bloated; fermentation in abdomen, with loud
grumbling, croaking, especially lower abdomen (upper abdomen, Carb-
v.—entire abdomen, Chin.); fullness, not relieved by belching (Chin.).
• Constipation: Since puberty; since last confinement; when away from
home; of infants; with ineffectual urging, rectum contracts and protrudes
during stool, developing piles.
• Discharge of blood from genitals during every stool.
• Hernia: Right sided, has cured many cases especially in children.
Urinary System
• Red sand in urine, on child’s diaper (Phos.); child cries before urinating
(Borx.); pain in back, relieved by urinating; renal colic, right side (left
 side, Berb.).
Male Reproductive System
• Impotence: Of young men, from onanism or sexual excess; penis small,
cold, relaxed; old men, with strong desire but imperfect erections; falls
asleep during an embrace; premature emission.
Female Reproductive System
• Dryness of vagina; burning in, during and after coition (Lys.);
physometra.
• Fetus appears to be turning somersaults.
Respiratory System
• Pneumonia; neglected or maltreated, base of right lung, involved
especially; to hasten absorption or expectoration.
• Cough deep, hollow, even raising mucus in large quantities affords little
relief.
Extremities
• One foot hot and the other cold (Chin., Dig., Ip.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: Nearly all diseases from 4 to 8 p.m. (Hell.—from 4 to 9
p.m., Coloc., Mag-p.).
• Amelioration: Warm foods and drinks; from uncovering the head;
loosening the garments.
Relation
• Complementary: Iodine.
• Bad effects: Of onions, bread; wine, spirituous liquors; tobacco smoking
and chewing (Ars.).
• Follows well: After, Calc., Carb-v., Lach., Sulph.
• It is rarely advisable to begin the treatment of a chronic disease with Lyc.
unless clearly indicated; it is better to give first another anti-psoric.
• Lyc. is a deep-seated, long-acting remedy, and should rarely be repeated
 MAGNESIUM PHOSPHORICUM
Constitution
• Is best adapted to thin, emaciated persons of a highly nervous
organization; dark complexion.
Physical Generals
• Affections of right side of body; head, ear, face, chest, ovary, sciatic
nerve (Bell., Bry., Chel., Kali-c., Lyc., Podo.).
• Pains: Sharp, cutting, stabbing; shooting, stitching; lightning-like in
coming and going (Bell.); intermittent paroxysm becoming almost
unbearable, driving patient to frenzy; rapidly changing place (Lac-c.,
Puls.), with a constricting sensation (Cact., Iod., Sulph.), cramping, in
neuralgic affections of stomach, abdomen and pelvis (Caul., Coloc.).
• Great dread: Of cold air; of uncovering; of touching affected part; of
cold bathing or washing; of moving.
• Languid, tired, exhausted; unable to sit up.
• Complaints from standing in cold water or working in cold clay (Calc.).
Head
• Headache: Begins in occiput and extends over head (Sang., Sil.); of
school girls; face red, flushed; from mental emotion, exertion or hard
study; < 10 to 11 a.m. or 4 to 5 p.m.; > by pressure and external heat.
Face
• Neuralgia: Of face, supra or infra-orbital; right side; intermittent, darting,
cutting; < by touch, cold air, pressure; > by external heat.
Mouth
• Ailments of teething children; spasms during dentition, no fever (with
fever, hot head and skin, Bell.).
• Toothache: At night; rapidly shifting; < eating, drinking, especially cold
things; > by heat (> by cold, Bry., Coff., Ferr-p.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Spasms or cramp of stomach, with clean tongue, as if a band was drawn
tightly around the body.
• Colic; flatulent, forcing patient to bend double; > by heat, rubbing and
hard pressure (Coloc., Plb.); of horses and cows when Colocynthis fails
to >.
Urinary System
• Enuresis: Nocturnal; from nervous irritation; urine, pale, copious; after
catheterization.
Female Reproductive System
• Menses: Early; flow dark, stringy; pains < before, > when flow begins
(Lach., Zinc.); pains darting, like lightning, shooting, < right side, > by
heat and bending double; vaginismus.
Nervous System
• Cramps: Of extremities; during pregnancy; of writers, piano or violin
players.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Cold air; a draft of cold air or cold wind; cold bathing or
washing; motion; touch.
• Amelioration: Bending double; heat; warmth; pressure (burning pain > by
heat, Ars.).
Relation
• Compare: Bell., Caul., Coloc., Lyc., Lac-c., Puls.; Cham. is its vegetable
analogue.
• Sometimes acts best when given in hot water.

MEDORRHINUM
The Gonorrheal Virus
A Nosode
Constitution
 edges red; right side of throat and neck most affected.
Throat
• Diphtheritic and throat affections where the cervical and parotid glands
are enormously swollen; membrane begins on or is < on right side; < by
warm drinks, and empty swallowing (Lach.).

MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS
Hahnemann’s Soluble Mercury
Black Oxide
Constitution
• Nervous affections after suppressed discharges especially in psoric
patients (Asaf.).
• Glandular and scrofulous affections of children.
Ears
• Otorrhea: Bloody, offensive discharge, with stabbing, tearing pain; <
right side, at night and lying on affected side.
• Furuncles and boils in external meatus (Pic-ac.).
• Polypi and fungus excrescences in external meatus (Teucr., Thuj.).
Nose
• Epistaxis: When coughing; at night during sleep; hangs in a dark clotted
string from the nose, like an icicle.
• Acrid nasal secretion, having odor of old cheese; nostrils, red, raw,
ulcerated.
Male Reproductive System
• Gonorrhea: With phimosis or chancroids; green discharge, < at night;
urging to urinate; intolerable burning in fore part of urethra when passing
last few drops; prepuce hot, swollen, edematous and sensitive to touch;
of a torpid character, with threatening or suppurating bubo.
• Chancre: Primary; regular indurated Hunterian, with lardaceous base;
 with cheesy bottom and inverted red edges; with phimosis or
paraphimosis; deep, round, penetrating, eating through fraenum and
prepuce; bleeding, painful; yellowish, fetid discharge.
• Hahnemann’s remedy for syphilis and diseases of the genito-urinary tract.
Is rarely indicated if the tongue is dry.
Extremities
• Weakness and weariness of limbs: sore, bruised.
Skin
• Diseases of the skin; intolerable biting, itching, over body, as from insect
bites, < in evening and from warmth of bed; becomes pleasant on
scratching.

MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS
Sulphate of Mercury
HgSO4

Cardio-vascular System
• Hydrothorax, if occurring from heart or liver diseases; dyspnea, has to sit,
cannot lie down. Extremities swollen; stool loose, watery, causing severe
burning and soreness; burning in chest.
Relation
• Compare: Ars., Cinnb., Dig., Sulph.
Note: “When it acts well it produces a profuse, watery diarrhea with great
relief to the patient; it is as important as Arsenicum in hydrothorax.” –
Lippe.

MEZEREUM
Daphne Mezereum
Thymelaceae
• Hemoptysis: After injury; in incipient phthisis; in hemorrhoidal patients;
from a ruptured blood vessel.
• Cough: With raising of bright blood; in suppressed menses or
hemorrhoids; with oppression and palpitation; after a fall from a height
(Arn.); after violent exertion; with blood, daily at 4 p.m. (Lyc.).
Relation
• Compare: Erech. in epistaxis and hemoptysis, blood bright red.
• Follows well: After, Acon. and Arn. in hemorrhages.

MUREX PURPUREA
A Mollusc
Muricidae
Constitution
• Persons of a melancholy temperament.
• For the sufferings during climacteric (Lach., Sep., Sulph.). Great
depression of spirits.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Sinking, all gone sensation, in stomach (Sep.).
Female Reproductive System
• Least contact of parts causes violent sexual excitement (excessive sexual
irritation driving to self abuse, Orig., Zinc.).
• Violent excitement in sexual organs, and excessive desire for an embrace
(reverse of, Sep.).
• Sore pain in uterus; a distinct sensation of a womb (Helon., Lys.)
• Bearing down sensation, as if internal organs would be pushed out, must
sit down and cross limbs to > pressure (but no sexual desire, Sep.).
• Menses: Irregular, early, profuse, protracted, large clots.
• Leucorrhea: < mental depression, happier when leucorrhea is worse.
Relation
• Compare: Lil-t., Plat., in nymphomania; Sep. in bearing down sensation,
but has no sexual erethism.

MURIATICUM ACIDUM
Hydrochloric Acid
HCl
Constitution
• Adapted to persons with black hair, dark eyes, dark complexion.
Mental Generals
• Irritable, peevish, disposed to anger and chagrin (Nux-v.); restlessness
and vertigo.
• Diseases of an asthenic type, with moaning, unconsciousness, fretfulness.
Physical Generals
• Great debility; as soon as he sits down his eyes close; lower jaw hangs
down; slides down in bed.
• Cannot bear the thought or sight of meat (Nit-ac.).
Mouth
• Malignant affections of mouth; studded with ulcers, deep, perforating;
having a black or dark base; offensive, foul breath; intense prostration;
diphtheria, scarlatina, cancer.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Ulceration with fungus-like growths and pseudo-like membranous
deposits of intestinal tract.
• Mouth and anus are chiefly affected; the tongue and sphincter ani are
paralyzed.
• If the anus be very sensitive either with or without hemorrhoids; anus
sore during menses.
• Hemorrhoids: Swollen, blue, sensitive and painful to touch; appear
suddenly in children; too sore to bear least touch, even the sheet is
uncomfortable. Prolapse while urinating.
• Diarrhea: Stool involuntary while urinating; on passing wind (Aloe);
cannot urinate without having the bowels move at the same time.
Urinary System
• Urine passes slowly; bladder weak, must wait a long time; has to press so
that anus protrudes.
Female Reproductive System
• Cannot bear least touch, not even of sheet on genitals (Murx.).
Cardio-vascular System
• Palpitation of heart is felt in the face.
Fever
• Typhoid or typhus; deep stupid sleep; unconscious while awake; loud
moaning or muttering; tongue coated at edges, shrunken, dry, leather-
like, paralyzed; involuntary fetid stools while passing urine; sliding
down in bed; pulse intermits every third beat.
Skin
• Freckles; eczema solaris.
Relation
• Follows well: After, Bry., Merc., Rhus-t.
• Cures the muscular weakness following excessive use of opium and
tobacco.

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NAJA TRIPUDIANS
Cobra Virus
Elapidae
Mental Generals
• Suicidal insanity, broods constantly over imaginary troubles (Aur.).
Cardio-vascular System
• Simple hypertrophy of heart.
• For restoring a heart damaged by acute inflammation, or from relief of
sufferings of chronic hypertrophy and valvular lesions.
• Irritating, dry, sympathetic cough in the acute stage of rheumatic carditis,
or chronic organic lesions (Spong.).
• Threatened paralysis of heart, post-diphtheritic.
• Pulse irregular in force, but regular in rhythm.
• Inability to speak with choking, nervous, chronic palpitation, especially
after public speaking; pain < by carriage riding or lying on side.
• Severe stitching pain in region of heart.
Relation
• Compare: Ars., Cact., Crot-h., Lach., Mygal., Spig.

NATRIUM CARBONICUM
Carbonate of Soda
Na2CO3.10H2O

Constitution
• Constitutions with aversion to open air and dislike to exercise, mental or
physical.
Mental Generals
• Inability to think or to perform any mental labor; causes headache; feels
stupefied if he tries to exert himself; comprehension slow, difficult;
imbecility.
• Intolerable melancholy and apprehension; is wholly occupied with sad
thoughts.
• Attacks of anxiety and restlessness during a thunderstorm (Phos.); < from
music (Sabad.).
Physical Generals
• Great debility; caused by heat of summer (Ant-c.); exhaustion from
least effort, mental or physical; ready to drop after a walk; chronic
effects of sunstroke.
• Chronic effects of sunstroke; now, with return of hot weather, suffers
from headaches.
• Emaciation with pale face and blue rings around the eyes, dilated pupils;
dark urine; anemic; milky, watery skin and great debility.
• Aversion to milk; diarrhea from it.
Head
• Headache: From slightest mental exertion; from sun or working under
gaslight (Glon., Lach.); with tension in nape or occiput before menses;
head feels too large, as if it would burst.
Face
• Face pale, with blue rings around the eyes; eyelids swollen.
Throat
• Catarrh: Extends to posterior nares and throat; hawking much thick
mucus from throat; profuse discharge during day, stopped at night (Nux-
v.); droppings into the throat from posterior nares.
• Thick, yellow, green offensive, musty, hard discharge from nose; often
 ceasing after a meal.
Female Reproductive System
• Bearing down as if everything would come out (Agar., Lil-t., Murx.,
Sep.); heaviness, < sitting, > by moving.
• Discharge of mucus from vagina after an embrace, causing sterility.
Extremities
• Easy dislocation and spraining of ankle (Led.); so weak that it gives way;
foot bends under (Carb-an., Nat-m.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: From music; in the sun; excessive summer heat; mental
exertion; a thunderstorm.
Relation
• Compare: Nat-s., for yeast-like vomiting; Calc., Sep.
• Follows well: After, Sep. in bearing down.

NATRIUM MURIATICUM
Common Salt
NaCl
Constitution
• For the anemic and cathectic; whether form loss of vital fluids – profuse
menses, seminal losses—or mental affections.
Mental Generals
• For the bad effects: Of anger (caused by offence); of grief, fright,
vexation, mortification or reserved displeasure (Staph.)
• Irritability: Child cross when spoken to; crying from slightest cause; gets
into a passion about trifles, especially when consoled with.
• Awkward, hasty, drops things from nervous weakness (Apis, Bov.).
• Marked disposition to weep; sad weeping mood, without cause (Puls.),
 but consolation from other < her troubles.
• Dreams: Of robbers in the house, and on waking will not believe to the
contrary until search is made (Psor.); of burning thirst.
Physical Generals
• Great emaciation; losing flesh while living well (Abrot., Iod.); throat
and neck of children emaciate rapidly during summer complaint (Sanic.).
• Great liability to take cold (Calc., Kali-c.).
• Craving for salt (Calc., Caust.); great aversion to bread.
• For the bad effects of acid food, bread, quinine, excessive use of salts; of
cauterization of all kinds with the silver nitrate.
Head
• Headache: Anemic, of school girls (Calc-p.); from sunrise to sunset; left-
sided clavus; as if bursting; with red face, nausea and vomiting before,
during and after menses; as though a thousand little hammers were
knocking in the brain during fever; > by perspiration.
• Headache; beginning with blindness (Iris, Kali-bi.); with zigzag dazzling,
like lightning in eyes, ushering in a throbbing headache; from eye strain.
• The hair falls out when touched, in nursing women (Sep.); face oily,
shiny, as if greased (Plb., Thuj.).
Eyes
• Lachrymation; tears stream down the face whenever he coughs (Euphr.).
Mouth
• Sensation as of a hair on the tongue (Sil.).
• Tongue: Mapped, with red insular patches; like ringworm on sides (Ars.,
Lach., Merc., Nit-ac., Tarax.); heavy, difficult speech, children slow in
learning to walk.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Constipation: Sensation of contraction of anus; torn, bleeding, smarting
afterwards; stool dry, hard, difficult, crumbling (Am-c., Mag-m.);
stitches in rectum (Nit-ac.); involuntary, knows not whether flatus or
 feces escape (Aloe, Iod., Mur-ac., Olnd., Podo.).
Urinary System
• Urine: Involuntary when walking, coughing, laughing (Caust., Puls.,
Squil.); has to wait a long while for urine to pass, if others are present
(Hep., Mur-ac.); cutting in urethra after (Sars.).
Male Reproductive System
• Seminal emission: Soon after coition, with increased desire; weakness of
organs with retarded emission during an embrace; impotence, spinal
irritation, paralysis, after sexual excesses.
Female Reproductive System
• Pressing, pushing towards genitals every morning; must sit down to
prevent prolapsus (Lil-t., Murx., Sep.).
Respiratory System
• Hay fever: Squirming sensation in the nostril, as of a small worm;
brought on by exposure to hot sun or intense summer heat.
Cardio-vascular System
• Fluttering of the heart; with a weak faint feeling < lying down (Lach.).
• The heart’s pulsations shake the body (Spig.).
Extremities
• Painful contractions of the hamstrings (Am-m., Caust., Guaj.).
Fever
• Fever blisters, like pearls about the lips; lips dry, sore and cracked,
ulcerated (Nit-ac.).
• Intermittent: Paroxysm at 10 or 11 a.m.; old, chronic, badly treated cases,
especially after suppression by quinine; headache, with unconsciousness
during chill and heat; sweat > pains.
Skin
• Hangnails: Skin around the nails dry and cracked (Graph., Petr.); herpes
about anus and on borders of hair at nape of neck (in bend of knees,
 Hep., Graph.).
• Warts on palms of hands (sore to touch, Nat-c.).
• Eczema; raw, red, inflammed, especially in edges of hair; < from eating
too much salt, at seashore, or from ocean voyage.
• Urticaria, acute or chronic; over whole body, especially after violent
exercise (Apis, Calc., Hep., Sanic., Urt-u.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: At 10 or 11 a.m.; at the seashore or from sea air; heat of sun
or stove; mental exertion, talking, writing, reading; lying down.
• Amelioration: In the open air (Apis, Puls.); cold bathing; going, without
regular meals; lying on right side (on painful side, Bry., Ign., Puls.).
Relation
• Complementary: To, Apis; acts well before and after it.
• Natrium mur. is the chronic of Ignatia, which is its vegetable analogue.
• Is followed by Sepia and Thuja.
• Cannot often be repeated in chronic cases without an intercurrent, called
for by the symptoms.
• Should never be given during fever paroxysm.
• If vertigo and headache be very persistent, or prostration be prolonged
after Natrium, Nux will relieve.

NATRIUM SULPHURICUM
Sodium Sulphate
NaOSO3. 10Aq

Constitution
• Patient feels every change from dry to wet; cannot tolerate sea air, nor eat
plants that thrive near water; a constitution in which the gonorrheal
poison is most pernicious; recovers slowly from every sickness.
• Every spring, skin affections reappear (Psor.).
• Persons suffering with chronic diseases who take cold easily; are easily
disposed to diarrhea; rarely to those who suffer with constipation.
• Old people with great weakness and diarrhea.
Mental Generals
• After continued loss of sleep, long-lasting anxiety, over-exertion of mind
and body from nursing the sick (Cocc.); anguish from the loss of his
dearest friend; indifference; tired of life; sadness before menses.
• Great anxiety about his disease; constantly thinking about his past
troubles; morbid fear of cholera (Ars.); depressed and anxious in the
evening.
• Irritable, headstrong; hateful and vindictive; inveterate, ill-willed,
unmoved by apologies.
Physical Generals
• Excessive physical irritability.
• Pains: Sticking, pricking as from splinters; suddenly appearing and
disappearing; on change of temperature or weather; during sleep;
gnawing here and there as from ulcers forming.
• Sensation: Of a band around head, around the bones (Carb-ac., Sulph.); of
a splinter in affected parts, ulcers, piles, throat, ingrowing toe nail < on
slightest contact.
• Discharges: Thin, offensive, acrid; of a brown or dirty yellowish-green
color, rarely laudable pus.
• Affects especially the mucus outlets of the body where skin and mucous
membrane join; mouth, nose, rectum, anus, urethra, vagina (Mur-ac.).
• Ulcers: Easily bleeding; in corners of mouth (Nat-m.); splinterlike pains,
especially on contact (Hep.); zig-zag, irregular edges; base looks like raw
flesh; exuberant granulations; after mercury or syphilis or both, engrafted
on a scrofulous base.
• Cracking: In ears, on masticating; of the joints, on motion (Cocc.,
Graph.).
• Hemorrhage : From bowels in typhoid or typhus (Crot., Mur-ac.); after
miscarriage or post-partum; from over-exertion of body; bright, profuse,
 or dark.
Head
• Very sensitive to rattle of wagons over paved streets; headache from
pressure of hat (Calc-p., Carb-v., Nat-m.).
Ears
• Hardness of hearing > by riding in carriage or train (Graph.).
Nose
• Ozena: Green casts from the nose every morning.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Diarrhea: Great straining but little passes, as if feces remained and cannot
be expelled (Alum.); pain as if rectum or anus were torn or fissured (Nat-
m.); violent cutting pains after stool, lasting for hours (Rat., Sulph. –
during and after, Merc.).
• Fissures in rectum; tearing, spasmodic pains during stools; lancinating,
even after soft stools (Alum., Nat-m., Rat.).
Urinary System
• Urine: Scanty, dark-brown, strong-smelling, “like horse’s urine”; cold
when it passes; turbid, looks like remains of a cider barrel.
Skin
• Warts, condylomata; sycotic or syphilitic; large, jagged, pedunculated;
bleeding readily on washing; moist, oozing; sticking pain (Staph., Thuj.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: Evening and at night; after midnight; contact; change of
temperature of weather; during sweat; on walking; while walking.
• Amelioration: While riding in a carriage (reverse of Cocc.).
Relation
• Complementary: Ars. and Calad.
• Inimical: To, Lachesis.
• Resembles: Ars. in morbid fear of cholera.
• Often difficult to distinguish from Merc.; but is adapted to black-haired
people, while Merc. is more useful in light-haired persons.
• Relieves ailments resulting from abuse of mercury, especially if there be
erethism; bad effects of repeated doses of Digitalis.
• Follows well: Calc., Hep., Merc., Nat-c., Puls. or Thuj.; but is most
effective after Kali-c.

NUX MOSCHATA
Nutmeg
Myristicaceae
Constitution
• Adapted especially to women and children of a nervous hysterical
temperament (Ign.); to people with a dry skin, who rarely perspire;
complaints of pregnancy.
• Weakness of old age; dyspepsia of old people.
Mental Generals
• Absence of mind; cannot think; indifference to everything.
• Weakness or loss of memory (Anac., Lac-c., Lyc.).
• Vanishing of thoughts while reading, talking or writing; uses wrong
words; does not recognize well-known streets (Cann-i., Lach.).
• Changeable humor; one moment laughing, the next crying (Croc., Ign.);
“sudden change from grave to gay, from lively to serene” (Plat.).
Physical Generals
• Oversensitive: To light; of hearing; of smell; to touch.
• All the ailments are accompanied by drowsiness and sleepiness (Ant-t.,
Op.) or an inclination of faint even from slight pain (Hep.); complaints
cause sleepiness.
• Stupor and insensibility; unconquerable sleep.
• Great soreness of all the parts upon which one lies (Bapt., Pyrog.);
tendency to bedsores.
• Sleep: Irresistibly drowsy; sleepy, muddled, as if intoxicated; coma, lies
silent, immovable; eyes constantly closed (with stertorous breathing,
Op.).
• Fatigue, must lie down after the least exertion.
• Rheumatic affections; from getting feet wet; from exposure to drafts of
air while heated (Acon., Bry.); < in cold, wet weather, or cold wet
clothes (Rhus-t.); of left shoulder (Ferr.).
Eyes
• Dryness of eyes; too dry to close the lids.
Mouth
• Sensation of great dryness without real thirst and without actual dryness
of the tongue.
• Great dryness of the mouth (Apis, Lach.); tongue so dry it adheres to
roof of mouth; saliva seemed like cotton; throat dry, stiffened, no thirst
(Puls.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Eating a little too much causes headache; painfulness and distress in
stomach while eating or immediately after (Kali-bi.).
• Abdomen enormously distended after every meal.
• Diarrhea: In summer, from cold drinks; epidemic in autumn, white stools
(Colch.); from boiled milk; during dentition; during pregnancy; with
sleepiness and fainting; in autumn, epidemic, white, fetid (Colch.).
Female Reproductive System
• At every menstrual nisus, mouth, throat and tongue become intolerably
dry, especially when sleeping.
• Leucorrhea in place of menses (Cocc.); patient awakened with dry tongue
(Lach.); physometra (Lac-c., Lyc.).
• Pain, nausea and vomiting during pregnancy; from wearing pessaries.
Respiratory System
• Sudden hoarseness, < from walking against the wind (Euphr., Hep.).
• Cough caused by: Getting warm in bed; being overheated; during
pregnancy (Con.); bathing, standing in water; living in cold, damp places
(Nat-s.); loose after eating, dry after drinking.
Back
• Backache, while riding in a carriage.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Cold, wet windy weather (Rhod.); weather changes; cold
food, water and cold washing; carriage driving (Cocc.); lying on painful
side (on painless side, Puls.).
• Amelioration: In dry, warm weather; warm room; wrapping up warmly.
Relation
• Nux moschata antidotes mercurial inhalation, lead colic, oil of turpentine,
spirituous liquors, and especially the effects of bad beer.

NUX VOMICA
Poison Nut
Loganiaceae
Constitution
• One of the best remedies with which to commence treatment of cases that
have been drugged by mixtures, bitters, vegetable pills, nostrums or
quack remedies, especially aromatic or “hot medicines,” but only if
symptoms correspond.
• Adapted to thin, irritable, careful, zealous persons with dark hair and
bilious or sanguine temperament. Disposed to be quarrelsome, spiteful,
malicious; nervous and melancholic.
• Debauchers of a thin, irritable, nervous disposition, prone to indigestion
and hemorrhoids (persons with light hair, blue eyes, Lob.).
• “Nux is chiefly successful with persons of an ardent character; of an
irritable, impatient temperament, disposed to anger, spite or
deception.”—Hahnemann.
• Anxiety with irritability and inclination to commit suicide, but is afraid to
die.
• Hypochondriac: Literary, studious persons, who are too much at home,
suffer from want of exercise, with gastric, abdominal complaints and
costiveness; especially in drunkards.
Mental Generals
• Persons who are very particular, careful, but inclined to become easily
excited or angered; irascible and tenacious.
Physical Generals
• Bad effects of: Coffee, tobacco, alcoholic stimulants; highly spiced or
seasoned food; over-eating (Ant-c.); long-continued mental over-
exertion; sedentary habits; loss of sleep (Cocc., Colch., Nit-ac.); aromatic
or patent medicine; sitting on cold stones, especially in warm weather.
• Oversensitive: To external impressions; to noise, odors, light or music
(Nux-m.); trifling ailments are unbearable (Cham.); every harmless
word offends (Ign.).
• Pains are tingling, sticking, hard, aching, worse from motion and contact.
• Tendency to faint (Nux-m., Sulph.); from odors; in morning; after eating;
after every labor pain.
• Cannot keep from falling asleep in the evening while sitting or reading
hours before bedtime, and awakes at 3 or 4 a.m.; falls into a dreamy
sleep at daybreak from which he is hard to arouse, and then feels tired
and weak (reverse of, Puls.).
Nose
• Catarrh: Snuffles of infants (Am-c., Samb.); coryza, dry at night, fluent
by day; < in warm room, > in cold air; from sitting in cold places, on
stone steps.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Eructations: Sour, bitter; nausea and vomiting every morning with
depression of spirits; after eating.
• Nausea: Constant; after eating; in morning; from smoking; and feels “If I
could only vomit I would be so much better.”
• Stomach: Pressure an hour or two after eating as from a stone
(immediately after, Kali-bi., Nux-m.); pyrosis, tightness, must loosen
clothing; cannot use the mind for two or three hours after a meal; sleepy
after dinner; from anxiety, worry, brandy, coffee, drugs, night watching,
high living, etc.
• Constipation; with frequent unsuccessful desire, passing small quantities
of feces (in upper abdomen, Ign., Verat.); sensation as if not finished.
• Frequent desire for stool; anxious, ineffectual, > for a time after stool; in
morning after rising; after mental exertion (inactive, no desire, Bry.,
Sulph.).
• Alternate constipation and diarrhea (Sulph., Verat.), in persons who have
taken purgatives all their lives.
• Strangulated hernia, especially umbilical.
Female Reproductive System
• Menses: Too early, profuse, lasts too long; or keeping on several days
longer, with complaints at onset and remaining after; every two weeks;
irregular, never at right time; stooping and starting again (Sulph.); during
and after, < of old symptoms.
• Labor pains: Violent, spasmodic; cause urging to stool or to urinate; < in
back; prefers a warm room.
Back
• Backache: Must sit up to turn over in bed; lumbago; from sexual
weakness, from masturbation.
Nervous System
• Convulsions, with consciousness (Strych.); < anger, emotion, touch,
moving.
Fever
• Repugnance to cold or to cold air; chilly, on least movement; from being
uncovered; must be covered in every stage of fever—chill, heat or
sweat.
• Fever: Great heat, whole body burning hot (Acon.), face red and hot
(Bell.), yet patient cannot move or uncover without being chilly.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Morning; waking at 4 a.m.; mental exertion; after eating or
over-eating; touch, noise, anger, spices, narcotics, dry weather; in cold
air.
• Amelioration: In evening, while at rest; lying down, and in damp wet
weather (Caust.).
Relation
• Complementary: Sulphur in early all diseases.
• Inimical: To, Zinc.; must not be used before or after.
• Follows well: After, Ars., Ip., Phos., Sep., Sulph.
• Is followed well: By, Bry., Puls., Sulph.
• Nux should be given on retiring or, what is better, several hours before
going to bed; it acts best during repose of mind and body.

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OPIUM
Poppy
Papaveraceae
Constitution
• Especially adapted to children and old people; diseases of first and
second childhood (Bar-c., Mill.), persons with light hair, lax muscles,
and want of bodily irritability.
Mental Generals
• Delirium: Constantly talking; eyes wide open, face red, puffed; or
unconscious, eyes glassy, half-closed, face pale, deep coma preceded by
stupor.
• Thinks she is not at home (Bry.); this is continually in her mind.
• Picking of bed clothes during sleep (while awake, Bell., Hyos.).
• Delirium tremens: In old emaciated persons; bloated face, stupor, eyes
burning, hot dry; with loud snoring.
Physical Generals
• Want of susceptibility to remedies; lack of vital reaction, the well
chosen remedy makes no impression (Carb-v., Laur., Valer.).
• All complaints: With great sopor; painless, complains of nothing;
wants nothing.
• Sleep: Heavy, stupid; with stertorous breathing, red face, eyes half
closed, blood-shot; skin covered with hot sweat; after convulsions.
• Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell., Cham.), sleeplessness with acuteness of
hearing, clock striking and cocks crowing at a great distance keep her
wake.
• Ailments: With insensibility and partial or complete paralysis; that
 originate from fright, bad effects of, the fear still remaining (Acon.,
Hyos.); from charcoal vapors; from inhaling gas; of drunkards.
• Marasmus; child with wrinkled skin, looks like a little dried up old man
(Abrot.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Digestive organs inactive; peristaltic motion reversed or paralyzed;
bowels seem closed.
• Constipation: Of children; of corpulent, good-natured women (Graph.);
from inaction or paresis, no desire; from lead poisoning; stool hard,
round, black balls (Chel., Plb., Thuj.); feces protrude and recede (Sil.,
Thuj.).
• Stool: Involuntary, especially after fright (Gels.); black and offensive;
from paralysis of sphincter.
• Opium renders the intestines so sluggish that the most active purgatives
lose their power. – Hering.
• Persistent diarrhea in those treated with large doses of the drug.—Lippe.
Urinary System
• Urine: Retained, with bladder full; retention, post-partum or from
excessive use of tobacco; in nursing children, after passion of nurse; in
fever or acute illness; paralysis of bladder or sphincter.
• In Stramonium we have suppression; while in Opium the secretion in not
diminished, the bladder is full but fullness is unrecognized.
Respiratory System
• Deep stertorous respiration both on inhalation and exhalation.
• Loss of breath on falling asleep (Grind., Lach.).
Nervous System
• Spasms: Of children, from approach of strangers; from nursing after
fright of mother (Hyos. — after anger of mother, Cham., Nux-v.); from
crying; eyes half open and upturned.
• Screaming before or during a spasm (Apis, Hell.).
• Sudden retrocession of acute exanthema results in paralysis of brain or
convulsions (Zinc.).
Fever
• Bed feels so hot she cannot lie on it (bed feels hard, Arn., Bry., Pyrog.);
more often in search of a cool place; must be uncovered.
Modalities
• Aggravation: during and after sleep (Apis, Lach.); while perspiring; from
warmth; stimulants.
• Amelioration: From cold; constant walking.
Relation
• Antidotes, for poisonous doses; strong coffee, Nux-v., Kali-perm. and
constant motion.
• When symptoms correspond, the potencies may antidote bad effects of
Opium drugging.
• Compare: Apis, Bell., Hyos., Stram., and Zinc.
P

PETROLEUM
Coal or Rock Oil
Anthracite
Constitution
• Adapted to persons with light hair and skin; irritable, quarrelsome
disposition (Nux-v.).
Mental Generals
• Easily offended at trifles (Ign., Med.); vexed at everything.
• During sleep or delirium: Imagines that one leg is double; that another
person lies alongside of him in same bed; that there are two babies in the
bed (Valer.).
Physical Generals
• Ailments: From riding in a carriage, railroad car, or in a ship (Cocc.,
Sanic.).
• Ailments which are worse before and during a thunderstorm (Nat-c.,
Phos., Psor.).
• Symptoms appear and disappear rapidly (Bell., Mag-p.—reverse of, Plat.,
Stann.).
• Sweat and moisture of external genitals, both sexes.
Head
• Vertigo on rising (Bry.); in occiput; as if intoxicated; like sea sickness
(Cocc.).
• Headache: In occiput, which is as heavy as lead; pressing, pulsating pain;
as if everything in the head were alive; numb, bruised; as if made of
wood.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Gastralgia: Of pregnancy; with pressing, drawing pains; whenever
stomach is empty; relieved by constant eating (Anac., Chel., All-c.).
• Diarrhea: Yellow, watery, gushing; after cabbage, sour krout; during
pregnancy, stormy weather; always in the daytime.
Cardio-vascular System
• Sensation of coldness about the heart (Carb-an., Kali-m., Nat-m.).
Extremities
• Heat and burning of soles of feet and palms of hands (Sang., Sulph.).
Skin
• Painful sensitiveness of skin of whole body; all clothing is painful; slight
injury suppurates (Hep.).
• Skin of hands rough, cracked; tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured,
every winter; tenderness of the feet, which are bathed in foul-smelling
sweat (Graph., Sanic., Sil.).
• Herpes: Of genital organs extending to perineum and thighs; itching,
redness; skin cracked, rough, bleeding; dry or moist.
• Painful, itching chilblains and chapped hands < in cold weather;
decubitus.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Carriage riding (Cocc., Sanic.); during a thunderstorm; in
winter (Alum.).
Relation
• One of our best antidotes for lead poisoning.
• The skin symptoms are worse in winter, better in summer (Alum.); if
suppressed, causes diarrhea.

PETROSELINUM
Parsley
Umbelliferae
Physical Generals
• Thirsty and hungry yet as soon as they begin to eat or drink they lose all
desire (reverse of Calc.).
Urinary System
• Sudden urging to urinate (Canth.).
• Child suddenly seized with desire to urinate; if cannot be gratified at once
jumps up and down with pain.
• Burning, tingling from perineum throughout whole urethra.
Male Reproductive System
• Frequent voluptuous tickling in fossa navicularis.
• Gonorrhea: Sudden irresistible desire to urinate; intense biting, itching,
deep in urethra, must rub it with some rough article in urethra for >; pain
at root of penis or neck of bladder. Gleet.
Fever
• Intermittent fever: Complicating traumatic or chronic urethritis or
stricture; with abdominal affections and perverted or defective
assimilation.
Relation
• Compare: Cann-s., Canth., Merc. in sudden urging to urinate.

PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM
Glacial Phosphoric Acid
HPO3

Constitution
• Best suited to persons of originally strong constitutions, who have
become debilitated by loss of vital fluids, sexual excesses (Chin.);
 violent acute diseases; chagrin, or a long succession of moral emotions,
as grief, care, disappointed affection.
• In children and young people who grow too rapidly (Calc., Calc-p.).
Mental Generals
• Ailments: From care, chagrin, grief, sorrow, home sickness (Ign.); sleepy,
disposed to weep; night-sweats towards morning.
• Is listless, apathetic: Indifferent to the affairs of life; prostrated and
stupefied with grief, to those things that used to be of most interest,
especially if there be debility and emaciation.
• Delirium: Muttering, unintelligible; lies in a stupor, or a stupid sleep,
unconscious of all that is going on around him; when aroused is fully
conscious, answers slowly and correctly and relapses into stupor.
• Weak and indifferent to the affairs of life.
Physical Generals
• Interstitial inflammation of bones, scrofulous, sycotic, syphilitic,
mercurial; periosteum inflammed, pains burning tearing, as if scraped
with a knife (Rhus-t.); caries, rachitis, but not necrosis; growing pains.
Head
• Headache: Crusting weight on vertex, from long-lasting grief or
exhausted nerves; in occiput and nape; usually from behind forward, <
by least motion, noise, especially music, > lying (Bry., Gels., Sil.).
• Headache of school girl from eye strain or overuse of eyes (Calc-p., Nat-
m.); of students who are growing too fast.
Eyes
• Eyes sunken and surrounded by blue margins (Puls.).
Face
• Pale, sickly complexion.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Diarrhea: Painless; not debilitating; white or yellow, watery; from acids,
involuntary, with the flatus (Aloe, Nat-m.); cholereic, from fear.
Urinary System
• Urine: Looks like milk mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieces; decomposes
rapidly; profuse urination at night of clear, watery urine, which forms a
white cloud at once (phosphates in excess, nerve waste).
Male Reproductive System
• Onanism; when patient is greatly distressed by the capability of the act
(compare Dios., Staph.).
• Emission: Frequent, profuse, debilitating; after coitus; most desire, after;
several in one night; abashed, sad, despair of cure (with irresistible
tendency to masturbate, Ust.).
Respiratory System
• Chest: Weak from talking or coughing (Stann.); in tuberculosis; nervous
from loss of vital fluids, too rapid growth, depressing mental emotions.
Extremities
• Patient trembles, legs weak, stumbles easily or makes mis-steps.
• Boring, drawing, digging pains in nerves of extremities, necrosis in stump
after amputations (All-c.).
• Pains in back and limbs as if beaten.
Fever
• Cerebral typhoid or typhus: Complete apathy and stupor; takes no
notice, “lies like a log,” utterly regardless of surrounding; intestinal
hemorrhage, blood dark.
• Low types of fever.
Modalities
• Aggravation: From mental affections; loss of vital fluids; especially
seminal; self abuse; sexual excesses; talking causes weakness in chest
(Stann.).
Relation
• Compare: Phos., Puls., Pic-ac., Sil., Mur-ac. in typhoid; Nit-s-d. in
apathetic stupor and delirium.
• Ph-ac acts well before or after Chin. in colliquative sweats, diarrhea,
debility; after Nux-v. in fainting after a meal.

PHOSPHORUS
Phosphorus
The Element
Constitution
• Adapted to tall slender persons of sanguine temperament, fair skin,
delicate eyelashes, fine blond, or red hair, quick perceptions, and very
sensitive nature.
• Young people who grow too rapidly, are inclined to stoop (to walk
stooped, Sulph.); who are chlorotic or anemia; old people, with morning
diarrhea.
Mental Genenerals
• Nervous, weak; desires to be magnetised (Sil.).
• Apathetic; unwilling to talk; answers slowly; moves sluggishly (Ph-ac.).
• Weary of life, full of gloomy forebodings.
Physical Generals
• Oversensitiveness of all the senses to external impressions, light, noise,
odors, touch.
• Burning: In spots along the spine; between the scapulae (as of a piece of
ice, Lachn.); or intense heat running up the back; of palms of hands
(Lach.); in chest and lungs; of every organ or tissue of the body (Ars.,
Sulph.); generally in diseases of nervous system.
• Hemorrhage: Frequent and profuse, pouring out freely and then ceasing
for a time; metrorrhagia, in cancer, hemoptysis vicarious, from nose,
stomach, anus, urethra, in amenorrhea.
• Hemorrhage diathesis; small wounds bleed profusely (Kreos., Lach.);
from every mucous outlet.
• Restless, fidgety; moves continually, cannot sit or stand still a moment
 (restless, fidgety feet, Zinc.).
• Great weakness and prostration; with nervous debility and trembling; of
whole body; weakness and weariness from loss of vital fluids (Chin., Ph-
ac.).
• A weak, empty, all-gone sensation in head, chest, stomach and entire
abdomen.
• Longs for: Cold food and drink; juicy refreshing things; ice cream >
gastric pains.
• Perspiration has the odor of sulphur.
Head
• Dandruff, falls out in clouds (Lyc.); hair falls out in bunches, baldness of
single spots.
Eyes
• Eyes: Hollow, surrounded by blue rings; lids, puffy, swollen, edematous
(upper lids, Kali-c.; lower, Apis).
Nose
• Sneezing and coryza from putting hands in water (Lac-d.).
Face
• Necrosis of the (left) lower jaw.
Gastro-intestinal System
• As soon as water becomes warm in stomach it is thrown up.
• Rugurgitation of ingesta, in mouthfuls (Alum.).
• Nausea from placing hands in warm water.
• Constipation: Feces slender, long, dry, tough and hard (Staph.); voided
with great straining and difficulty (Caust.).
• Diarrhea: As soon as anything enters the rectum; profuse, pouring away
as from a hydrant; watery, with sago-like particles; sensation, as is the
anus remained open (Apis); involuntary during cholera time (which
precedes cholera, Ph-ac.); morning, of old people.
Female Reproductive System
• During pregnancy; unable to drink water; slight of it causes vomiting;
must close her eyes while bathing (Lys.).
Respiratory System
• Pain: Acute especially in the chest, < from pressure, even slight, in
intercostal spaces, and lying on left side; excited by slightest chill; open
air intolerable.
• Heaviness of chest, as if a weight were lying on it.
• Cannot talk, the larynx is so painful; is dry, raw, rough, sore.
• Cough: Going from warm to cold air (reverse of Bry.); < from laughing,
talking, reading, drinking, eating, lying on the left side (Dros., Stann.).
• Hemoptysis.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Evening, before midnight (Puls., Rhus-t.); lying on left or
painful side; during a thunder storm; weather changes, either hot or cold.
• Cold air relieves the head and face symptoms but aggravates those of
chest, throat and neck.
• Amelioration: In the dark; lying on right side; from being rubbed or
mesmerized; from cold food, cold water, until it gets warm.
Relation
• Complementary: Arsenicum, with which it is isomorphic; All-c., its
vegetable analogue.
• Incombatible: With Causticum, must not be used before or after.
• Phos. removes the bad effects of iodine and excessive use of table salt.
• Follows well: After, Calc. or Chin.
• Hahnemann says: “Acts most beneficially when patient suffers from
chronic loose stool or diarrhea.

PHYSOSTIGMA
Physical Generals
• Emaciation, chlorosis; loss of fat.
• Great exhaustion and profound prostration.
• Pain flying like electric shocks; shooting, lancinating; rapidly shifting
(Lac-c., Puls.); worse from motion and at night.
• In rheumatism and neuralgia after diphtheria, gonorrhea, mercury or
syphilis.
Head
• Vertigo: When rising from bed feels faint (Bry.).
• Intense headache and backache; lame, sore, bruised feeling all over;
constant desire to move but motion < pains (Lac-c., Merc.—motion >,
Rhus-t.).
Mouth
• Irresistible desire to bite the teeth or gums together (Podo.); during
dentition.
Throat
• Sore throat; of a dark-red color; uvula large, dropsical, almost translucent
(Kali-bi., Rhus-t.).
• Diphtheria: Pains shoot from throat into ears on swallowing; great pain at
root of tongue when swallowing; burning, as from a coal on fire or a
red-hot iron; dryness; difficult to swallow with trembling of the hands;
sensation of a lump in the throat with continuous desire to swallow;
tonsils, uvula and back part of throat covered with ash-colored
membrane; cannot drink hot fluids (Lach.).
• Carotid and submaxillary glands indurated after diphtheria, scarlet fever.
Female Reproductive System
• Mammae full of hard, painful nodosites.
• Breast, shows an early tendency to cake; is full, stony, hard and painful,
especially when suppuration in inevitable; when child nurses pain goes
from nipple all over body (goes to back, Crot-t.; to uterus, Puls., Sil.).
• Mammary abscess; fistula, gaping, angry ulcers; pus sanious, ichorous,
 fetid; unhealthy.
• Tumefied breast neither heals nor suppurates, is of a purple hue and “hard
as old cheese” (Bry., Lac-c., Phel.).
• Nipples, sensitive, sore, fissured (Graph.); < intensely by nursing, pain
radiates over whole body:
Skin
• Hasten suppuration (Hep., Lach., Merc., Sil.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: When it rains; exposure to damp, cold weather.
Relation
• Compare: Kali-i., its analogue.

PICRICUM ACIDUM
Picric Acid
HC6H2(NO2)3O

Constitution
• Is often restorative of a washed and worn-out system; a fair picture of
“nervous prostration” (Kali-p.).
Mental Generals
• Brain fag: Of literary or business people; slightest excitement, mental
exertion or overwork brings on headache, and causes burning along the
spine (Kali-p.).
Physical Generals
• Progressive, pernicious anemia; neurasthenia.
Head
• Headache: Of students; teachers and overworked businessmen; from grief
or depressing emotions; in occipital-cervical region (Nat-m., Sil.); < or
 brought on by slightest motion or mental exertion.
Male Reproductive System
• Priapism, with spinal disease; erections violent, long-lasting; profuse
seminal emissions; satyriasis (Canth., Phos.).
Back
• Burning along spine and great weakness of spine and back; softening of
cord (Phos., Zinc.).
Nervous System
• Tired heavy feeling all over body, especially of limbs, < on exertion.
• Weariness, progressing from a slight feeling of fatigue on motion to
complete paralysis.
Skin
• Small boils in any part of body, but not especially in external auditory
canal.
Modalities
• Amelioration: From cold air and cold water.
• Aggravation: Least mental exertion; motion; study; wet weather.
Relation
• Compare: Arg-n., Gels., Kali-p., Ph-ac., Phos., Petr., Sil.

PLATINUM METALLICUM
Platina
The Metal
Constitution
• Adapted to women, dark hair, rigid fibre; thin, of a sanguine
temperament; who suffer from too early and too profuse menses.
Mental Generals
• For hysterical patients, alternately gay and sad, who cry easily (Croc.,
Ign., Puls.); pale, easily fatigued.
• Arrogant, proud, contemptuous, and haughty; pitiful “looking down”
upon people usually venerated; a kind of “casting them off” unwillingly.
• Mental delusions, as if everything about her were small; all persons
physically and mentally inferior, but she is physically large and superior.
• Trifling things produce profound vexation (Ign., Staph.); remains a long
time in the sulks.
• Satiety of life, with taciturnity and fear of death (Acon., Ars.).
• Mental disturbances after fright, grief, vesation; onanism, pride.
• Mental symptoms appear as physical symptoms disappear and vice versa.
Physical Generals
• The pains increase gradually and as gradually decrease (Stann.); are
attended with numbness of parts (Cham.).
• Sensation of growing larger in every direction.
Head
• Headache: Numb, heavy pain in brain or on vertex; from anger or
chagrin; hysterical, from uterine disease; pains gradually increase and
decrease.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Constipation: While travelling (at sea, Bry.); after lead poisoning; from
inertia of bowels; frequent, unsuccessful urging; stools adhere to rectum
and anus like soft clay (Alum.); of emigrants; of pregnancy; obstinate
cases after Nux has failed.
Female Reproductive System
• Sexual organs exceedingly sensitive; cannot bear the napkin to touch her;
will go into spasms from an examination; vulva painfully sensitive
during coitus; will faint during, or cannot endure, coitus (compare,
Murx., Orig.).
• Nymphomania; < in lying-in women; excessive sexual development,
especially in virgins (Kali-p.); vaginismus, spasms and constriction.
• Menses too early, too profuse, too long-lasting; dark, clotted, offensive,
with bearing-down spasms, pains in uterus with twitching; genitals
sensitive.
• Excessive itching in uterus; pruritus vulvae.
• Metrorrhagia: Flow in black clots and fluid; thick, black, tarry or in a
grumous mass (Croc.).
Relation
• Compare: Aur., Croc., Ign., Kali-p., Puls., Sep., Stann., Valer. the
vegetable analogue.

PLUMBUM METALLICUM
Lead
The Metal
Constitution
• Adapted to diseases from spinal (Phos., Pic-ac., Zinc.).
Mental Generals
• Slow of perception; intellectual torpor, gradually increasing apathy (in
fevers, Ph-ac.).
• Weakness or loss of memory; unable to find the proper word (Anac., Lac-
c.).
• Delirium alternating with colic.
Physical Generals
• Excessive and rapid emaciation; general or partial paralysis; extreme,
with anemia and great weakness.
• Lassitude; faints on going into a room full of company.
• Assumes strangest attitudes and positions in bed.
• Muscular atrophy from sclerosis of spinal system.
• Spasms: Clonic; tonic; from cerebral sclerosis or tumor; epilepsy or
epileptiform convulsions.
Face
• Complexion: Pale, ash-colored, yellow, corpse-like, cheeks sunken;
expressive of great anxiety and suffering.
• Skin of face, grease, shiny (Nat-m., Sanic.).
Mouth
• Distinct blue line along margin of gums; gums swollen, pale, show a
lead-colored line.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Excessive pain in abdomen, radiating to all parts of body.
• Sensation in abdomen at night, which causes patient to stretch violently
for hours; must stretch in every direction (Aml-ns.).
• Violent colic, sensation as if abdominal wall was drawn as if by a
string to the spine.
• Intussusception, with colic and fecal vomiting; strangulated hernia,
femoral, inguinal or umbilical.
• Constipation: Stools hard, lumpy, black like sheep dung (Chel., Op.); with
urging and terrible pain from spasm of anus; obstructed evacuation and
indurated faeces, dryness of the excretions, paralysis or muscular atony;
during pregnancy; from impaction of feces; when Platinum fails.
Urinary System
• Bright’s disease: Colic pain; abdomen retracted; rapid emaciation;
excessive debility; contracted kidney.
Female Reproductive System
• Feels a lack of room for fetus in uterus; inability of uterus to expand;
threatening abortion.
Skin
• Yellow skin; dark brown “liver spots” in climacteric years; jaundice, the
eyes, skin and urine yellow.
Modalities
• Aggravation: At night (pain in limbs).
• Amelioration: Rubbing; hard pressure.
Relation
• Compare: Alum., Plat., Op. in colic; Podo. in retraction of navel; Nux-v.,
in strangulated hernia; Podo, the vegetable analogue.
• The bad effects of Plumbum are antidoted by Alum., Petr., Plat., Sul-ac.,
Zinc.

PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM
May Apple
Berberidaceae
Constitution
• Adapted to persons of bilious temperament who suffer from gastro-
intestinal derangement, especially after abuse of mercury, “bilious
attacks.”
Mental Generals
• Depression of spirits, imagines he is going to die or be very ill (Ars.);
disgust for life.
Physical Generals
• Thirst for large quantities of cold water (Bry.).
• Pains: Sudden shocks of jerking pains.
• Affects right throat, right ovary, right hypochondrium (Lyc.).
Head
• Headache alternates with diarrhea (Aloe); headache in winter, diarrhea in
summer.
Mouth
• Difficult dentition; moaning, grinding the teeth at night; intense desire to
press the gums together (Phyt.); head hot and rolling from side to side
(Bell., Hell.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Painless cholera morbus; cholera infantum (Phyt.).
• Diarrhea: Of long standing; early in morning, continues through
forenoon, followed by natural stool in evening (Aloe), and accompanied
by sensation of weakness of sinking in abdomen or rectum.
• Diarrhea of children: During teething; after eating; while being bathed or
washed; of dirty water soaking napkin through (Benz-ac.); with gagging.
• Stool: Green, watery, fetid, profuse (Calc.); gushing out (Gamb., Jatr-c.,
Phos.); chalk-like, jelly-like (Aloe), undigested (Chin., Ferr.); yellow
meal-like sediment; prolapse of rectum before or with stool.
• Patient is constantly rubbing and shaking the region of liver with his
hand.
Female Reproductive System
• Prolapsus uteri: From over-lifting or straining; from constipation; after
parturition; with subinvolution.
• In early months of pregnancy, can lie comfortably, only on stomach
(Acet-ac.).
• Pain and numbness in right ovary, running down thigh of that side (Lil-
t.).
• Suppressed menses in young girls (Puls., Tub.).
Extremities
• Violent cramps in feet, calves; thighs; with watery, painless stools,
Fever
• Fever paroxysms at 7 a.m. with great loquacity during chill and heat;
sleep during perspiration.
Modalities
• Aggravation: In early morning (Aloe, Nux-v., Sulph.); in hot weather;
during dentition.
Relation
• Compare: Aloe, Chel., Coll., Lil-t., Merc., Nux-v., Sulph.
• Otorrhea: Thin, ichorous, horribly fetid discharge, like decayed meat;
chronic, after measles or scarlatina.
Throat
• Quinsy, tonsils greatly swollen, difficult, painful swallowing; burns, feels
scalded; cutting, tearing, intense pain to ears on swallowing (painless,
Bar-c.); profuse, offensive saliva; tough mucus in throat, must hawk
continually, to not only > acute attack but eradicate the tendency.
• Hawks up cheesy balls, size of pea, of disgusting taste and carrion-like
odor (Kali-m.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Eructations tasting of rotten eggs (Arn., Ant-t., Graph.).
• Diarrhea: Sudden, imperative (Aloe, Sulph.); stool watery, dark brown,
fetid; smells like carrion; involuntary, < at night from 1 to 4 a.m.; after
severe acute diseases; teething; in children; when weather changes.
• Constipation: Obstinate, with backache; from inactivity of rectum; when
Sulphur fails to relieve.
Urinary System
• Enuresis: From vesical paresis; during full moon, obstinate cases, with a
family history of eczema.
Male Reproductive System
• Chronic gonorrhea of year’s duration that can neither be suppressed nor
cured; the best selected remedy fails.
Female Reproductive System
• Leucorrhea: Large, clotted lumps of an intolerable odor; violent pains in
sacrum; debility; during climaxis.
• During pregnancy: Most obstinate vomiting, fetus moves too violently;
when the best selected remedy fails to relieve; to correct the psoric
diathesis of the unborn.
Respiratory System
• Asthma, dyspnea; < in open air, sitting up (Laur.); > lying down and
Anemone
Ranunculaceae
Constitution
• Adapted to persons of indecisive, slow, phlegmatic temperament; sandy
hair, blue eyes, pale face, easily moved to laughter or tears; affectionate,
mild, gentle, timid, yielding disposition—the woman’s remedy.
• Women inclined to be fleshy, with scanty and protracted menstruation
(Graph.).
Mental Generals
• Weeps easily: Almost impossible to detail her ailments without weeping
(weeps when thanked, Lyc.).
• Feels better by consolation.
Physical Generals
• Especially in diseases of women and children.
• The first serious impairment of health is referred to puberic age, have
“never been well since”—anemia, chlorosis, bronchitis, phthisis.
• Secretions from all mucous membranes are thick, bland and yellowish-
green (Kali-s., Nat-s.).
• Symptoms ever changing; no two chills, no two stools, no two attacks
alike; very well one hour, very miserable the next; apparently
contradictory (Ign.).
• Pains: Drawing, tearing, erratic, rapidly shifting from one part to
another (Kali-bi., Lac-c., Mang-act.); are accompanied with constant
chilliness; the more severe the pain, the more severe the chill; appear
suddenly, leave gradually, or tension much increases until very acute and
then “lets up with a snap”; on first motion (Rhus-t.).
• Thirstlessness with nearly all complaints.
• Mumps; metastasis to mammae or testicle.
• Sleep: Wide awake in the evening, does not want to go to bed; first sleep
restless, sound asleep when it is time to get up; awakes languid,
unrefreshed (reverse of, Nux-v.).
Eyes
• Styes: Especially on upper lid; from eating fat, greasy, rich food or pork
(compare, Lyc., Staph.).
Mouth
• Great dryness of mouth in the morning, without thirst (Nux-m.—mouth
moist, intense thirst, Merc.).
• Toothache: Relieved by holding cold water in the mouth (Bry., Coff.);
worse form warm things and heat of room.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Gastric difficulties from eating rich food, cake, pastry, especially after
pork or sausage; the sight or even the thought of pork cases disgust; “bad
taste” in the morning.
• “All-gone” sensation in stomach, in tea drinkers especially.
• Diarrhea: Only, or usually at night; watery, greenish-yellow, very
changeable; soon as they eat; from fruit, cold food or drinks, ice-cream
(Ars., Bry.; eating pears, Verat., Chin.; onions, Thuj.; oysters, Brom.,
Lyc.; milk, Calc., Nat-c., Nicc., Sulph.; drinking impure water, Camph.,
Zing.).
Female Reproductive System
• Derangements at puberty; menses, suppressed from getting the feet wet;
too late, scanty, slimy, painful, irregular, intermittent flow, with evening
chilliness; with intense pain and great restless and tossing about (Mag-
p.); flows more during day (on lying down, Kreos.). Delayed first
menstruation.
• Threatened abortion; flow ceases and then returns with increased force;
pains spasmodic, excite suffocation and fainting; must have fresh air.
Respiratory System
• Unable to breathe well, or is chilly in warm room.
Extremities
• Nervousness, intensely felt about the ankles.
Modalities
• Aggravation: In a warm close room; evening, at twilight; on beginning to
move; lying on the left, or on the painless side; very rich, fat,
indigestible food; pressure on the well side if it be made toward the
diseased side; warm applications; heat (Kali-m.).
• Amelioration: In the open air; lying on painful side (Bry.); cold air or
cool room; eating or drinking cold things; cold applications (Kali-m.).
Relation
• Complementary: Kali-m., Lyc., Sil., Sul-ac.; Kali-m. its chemical
analogue.
• Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla in nearly all ailments.
• Follows, and is followed by, Kali-m.
• One of the best remedies with which to begins the treatment of a chronic
case (Calc., Sulph.).
• Patients, anemic or chlorotic, who have taken much iron, quinine and
tonics, even years before.
• Ailments: From abuse of chamomile, quinine, mercury, tea drinking,
sulphur.
• Follows well: After, Kali-bi., Lyc., Sep., Sil., Sulph.

PYROGENIUM
A Product of Sepsis
A Nosode
Physical Generals
• For sapremia or septicemia; puerperal or surgical from ptomaine or sewer
gas infection; during course of diphtheria, typhoid or typhus; when the
best selected remedy fails to > or permanently improve.
• The bed feels hard (Arn.); parts lain on feel sore and bruised (Bapt.);
rapid decubitis (Carb-ac.).
• Great restlessness; must move constantly to > the soreness of parts (Arn.,
 exercise.
Relation
• Compare: Bry., Con., Calc., Led., Lyc., Sep., Rhus-t.

RHUS TOXICODENDRON
Poison Oak
Anacardiaceae
Constitution
• Adapted to persons of rheumatic diathesis.
Mental Generals
• Great apprehension at night; fears he will die of being poisoned; cannot
remain in bed.
• Dreams of great exertion; rowing, swimming, working hard at his daily
occupation (Bry.).
Physical Generals
• Bad effects of getting wet, especially after being over-heated.
• Ailments: From spraining or straining a single part, muscle or tendon
(Calc., Nux-v.); overlifting, particularly from stretching high up to reach
things; lying on damp ground; too much summer bathing in lake or river.
• Affects the fibrous tissue, especially (Rhod.—serous, Bry.); the right side
more than the left.
• Great restlessness, anxiety, apprehension (Acon., Ars.); cannot remain in
bed, must change position often to obtain relief from pain (from mental
anxiety, Ars.).
• Restless, cannot stay long in one position.
• Great sensitiveness to open air; putting the hand from under the bed-
cover brings on cough (Bar-c., Hep.).
• Great thirst, with dry tongue, mouth and throat.
• Pains: As if sprained; as if a muscle or tendon was torn from its
 attachment; as if bones were scraped with a knife; worse after midnight
and in wet, rainy weather; affected parts sore to touch.
Head
• Vertigo, when standing or walking; worse when lying down (better when
lying down, Apis); < rising from lying, or stooping (Bry.).
• Headache: Brain feels loose when stepping or shaking the head; sensation
of swashing in brain; stupefying; as if torn; from beer; returns from least
chagrin; < from sitting, lying, in cold, > warmth and motion.
Face
• Corners of mouth ulcerated, fever blisters around mouth and on chin
(Nat-m.).
Mouth
• Tongue: Dry, sore, red, cracked; triangular red tip; takes imprint of teeth
(Chel., Podo.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Diarrhea: With beginning typhoid; involuntary, with great exhaustion;
tearing pain down the posterior part of limbs during stool.
Male Reproductive System
• External genitals inflammed, erysipelatous, edematous.
Respiratory System
• A dry, teasing cough, before and during chill, in intermittent fever;
cough, with taste of blood.
Back
• Back: Pain between the shoulders on swallowing; pain and stiffness in
small of back < sitting or lying, > by motion or lying on something hard.
Extremities
• Lameness, stiffness and pain on first moving after rest, or on getting up in
the morning, > by walking or continued motion.
• Muscular rheumatism, sciatica, left side (Coloc.); aching in left arm, with
 heart disease.
Nervous System
• Paralysis: With numbness of affected parts; from getting wet on lying on
damp ground; after exertion, parturition, sexual excesses, ague or
typhoid; paresis of limbs; ptosis.
Fever
• When acute diseases assume a typhoid form.
Skin
• Erysipelas, from left to right; vesicular, yellow vesicles; much swelling,
inflammation; burning, itching, stinging.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Before a storm; cold, wet rainy weather; at night, especially
after midnight; from getting wet while perspiring; during rest.
• Amelioration: Warm, dry weather, wrapping up; warm or hot things;
motion; change of position; moving affected parts.
• The great characteristic of Rhus-t. is that with few exceptions the pains
occur and are < during repose and are > by motion.
Relation
• Complementary: To, Bryonia.
• Inimical: To, Apis, must not be used before or after.
• Compare: Arn., Bry., Rhod., Nat-s., Sulph.
• Sepia, often quickly > itching and burning of Rhus-t., the vesicles drying
up in a few days.
• Rhus-t. is best antidoted by the simillimum; the potentized remedy given
internally. The dermatitis should never by treated by topical medicated
applications; they only suppress, never cure.

RUMEX CRISPUS
• Amelioration: Warmth; keeping mouth covered to exclude cold air.
Relation
• Compare: Bell., Caust., Dros., Hyos., Phos., Sang., Sulph.

RUTA GRAVEOLENS
Rue
Rutaceae
Physical Generals
• All parts of the body upon which he lies are painful, as if bruised (Bapt.,
Pyrog.).
• Restless, turns and changes position frequently when lying (Rhus-t.).
• Bruised lame sensation all over, as after a fall or blow; worse in limbs and
joints (Arn.).
• Scrofulous exostosis; bruises and other mechanical injuries of bones and
periosteum; sprains; periostitis; erysipelas; fractures, and especially
dislocations (Symph.).
Eyes
• Aching in and over eyes, with blurred vision, as if they had been strained.
• After using eyes at fine work, watch making, engraving (Nat-m.); looking
intently (Senec.).
• Amblyopia or asthenopia from over-exertion of eyes or anomalies of
refraction; from overuse in bad light; fine sewing, over-reading at night;
misty, dim vision, with complete obscuration at a distance.
• Eyes burn, ache, feel strained; hot, like balls of fire; spasms of lower lids.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Constipation; from inactivity, or impaction following mechanical injuries
(Arn.).
• Prolapse of rectum, immediately on attempting a passage; from the
slightest stooping; after confinement; frequent unsuccessful urging.
Urinary System
• Pressure on the bladder as if constantly full; continues after urinating;
could hardly retain urine on account of urging, yet if not attended to it
was difficult afterwards to void it; scanty green urine; involuntary.
Respiratory System
• Phthisis after mechanical injuries to chest (Mill.).
Back
• Backache, relieved by lying on the back.
Extremities
• Lameness after sprains, especially of wrists and ankles (chronic sprains,
Bov., Stront-c.).
Skin
• Warts; with sore pains; flat, smooth on palms of hands (Nat-c., Nat-m.—
on back of hands, Dulc.).
Relation
• Compare: Arn., Arg-n., Con., Euphr., Phyt., Rhus-t., Symph.
• After Arnica, it hastens the curative process in the joints; after
Symphytum, in injuries of bones.

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Female Reproductive System
• Leucorrhea with strong odor of fish brine (oozing from rectum smelling
like herring brine, Calc.; fish brine discharge from ear, Tell.).
• Weakness, bearing down as if contents of pelvis would escape; <
walking, mis-step, or jar, > by rest, lying down; desire to support parts
by placing hand against vulva (Lil-t., Murx.); soreness of uterus.
Extremities
• Burning of soles of feet; must uncover or put them in a cool place (Lach.,
Med., Sang., Sulph.).
• Foot sweat: Between the toes, making them sore; offensive (Graph.,
Psor., Sil.); on soles as if he had stepped in cold water.
Skin
• Profuse, scaly dandruff on scalp, eyebrows, in the beard.
• Excoriation of skin about anus (Sulph.); covering perineum and extending
to genitals.
Relation
• Related to: Abrot., Alum., Borx., Calc., Graph., Nat-m., Sil., and others
of our great anti-psorics.

SARSAPARILLA
Wild Liquorice
Smilaceae
Constitution
• For dark-haired persons, lithic or sycotic diathesis.
• In children; face like old people; enlarged abdomen; dry, flabby skin
(Bar-c., Op.).
Physical Generals
• Great emaciation; skin becomes shriveled or lies in folds (Abrot., Iod.,
Nat-m., Sanic.).
• Itching eruption of forehead during menses (Eug., Sang., Psor.).
• Rhagades: Skin cracked on hands and feet; pain and burning, particularly
on sides of fingers and toes; skin hard, indurated.
Relation
• Complementary: Merc., Sep., either or which follows well.
• Compare: Berb., Lyc., Nat-m., Phos.
• Frequently called for after abuse of mercury.

SECALE CORNUTUM
Spurred Rye, Ergot
A Fungus, A Nosode
Constitution
• Adapted to women of thin, scrawny, feeble, cachectic appearance;
irritable, nervous temperament; pale, sunken countenance.
• Very old, decrepit, feeble persons.
• Women of very lax muscular fibre; everything seems loose and open; no
action; vessels flabby; passive hemorrhages, copious flow of thin, black,
watery blood; the corpuscles are destroyed.
Physical Generals
• Hemorrhagic diathesis; the slightest wound causes bleeding for weeks
(Lach., Phos.); discharge of sanious liquid blood with a strong tendency
to putrescence; tingling in the limbs and great debility, especially when
the weakness is not caused by previous loss of fluids.
• Unnatural, ravenous appetite; even with exhausting diarrhea; craves
acids, lemonade.
• Burning; in all parts of the body, as if sparks of fire were falling on the
patient (Ars.).
• The skin feels cold to the touch, yet the patient cannot tolerate
covering; icy coldness of extremities.
Face
• Face: Pale, pinched, ashy, sunken, hippocratic; drawn, with sunken eyes;
blue rings around eyes.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Diarrhea: Profuse, watery, putrid, brown; discharged with great force
(Gamb., Crot-h.); very exhausting; painless, involuntary; anus wide open
(Apis, Phos.).
• Collapse in cholera diseases; skin cold, yet cannot bear to be covered
(Camph.).
Urinary System
• Enuresis: Of old people; urine pale, watery, or bloody; urine suppressed.
Female Reproductive System
• Leucorrhea; green, brown, offensive.
• Menses: Irregular; copious, dark fluid; with pressing, labor-like pains in
abdomen; continuous discharge of watery blood until next period.
• Threatened abortion especially at third month (Sab.) prolonged, bearing
down, forcing pain.
• During labor: Pains irregular; too weak; feeble or ceasing; everything
seems loose and open but no expulsive action; fainting.
• After-pains: Too long; too painful; hour-glass contraction.
• Suppression of milk; in thin, scrawny, exhausted women; the breasts do
not properly fill.
Cardio-vascular System
• Pulse small, rapid, contracted and often intermittent.
Skin
• Gangrene; dry, senile, < from external heat.
• Large ecchymosis; blood blisters; often commencement of gangrene.
• Boils: Small, painful with green contents, mature very slowly and heal in
same manner, very debilitating.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Heat; warmth from covering, of all affected parts, in all
diseases worse from heat.
• Amelioration: In the cold air; getting cold uncovering affected facted
parts; rubbing.
Relation
• Compare: Cinnamon in post-partum hemorrhage; it increases labor pains,
controls profuse or dangerous flooding, is always safe, while Ergot is
always dangerous.
• Similar: To Arsenicum, but cold and heat are opposite.
• Resembles Colchicum in cholera morbus.

SELENIUM METALLICUM
Selenium
The Element
Constitution
• Adapted to light complexion; blondes; great emaciation of face, hands,
legs and feet, or single parts.
Mental Generals
• Very forgetful in business, but during sleep dreams of what he had
forgotten.
Physical Generals
• Weak, easily exhausted; from either mental or physical labor; after
typhoid, typhus, debauchery.
• Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep; strength suddenly leaves him;
especially in hot weather.
• Very great aversion to draft of air either warm, cold or damp.
• Emaciation of affected parts.
• Hungry: At night (Cina, Psor.); longing for spirituous liquors, an almost
 irresistible maniacal desire.
• Hair falls off, on head, eyebrows, whiskers, genitals.
Head
• Headache: Of drunkards; after debauchery; after lemonade, tea, wine;
every afternoon.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Constipation: Stool large, hard, impacted so that it requires mechanical
aid (Aloe, Calc., Sanic., Sep., Sil.); after serious illness, especially
enteric fevers.
Urinary System
• Urine: Red, dark, scanty; coarse, red, sandy, sediment, involuntary
dribbling while walking.
Male Reproductive System
• Impotence, with desire; lewd thoughts, but physically impotent (sudden
impotence, Chlor.).
• Erections slow, insufficient, too rapid emission with long-continued thrill;
weak, ill-humored after coitus, often involuntary dribbling of semen and
prostatic fluid which oozes while sitting at stool, during sleep; gleet
(Calad.).
• Priapism, glands drawn up (Berb.—drawn down, Canth.).
Respiratory System
• Aphonia: After long use of voice; husky when beginning to sing; obliged
to clear the throat frequently of a transparent starchy mucus (Arg-met.,
Stann.); tubercular laryngitis.
• Coryza ending in diarrhea.
Nervous System
• After typhoid great weakness of spine, fears paralysis.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Draft of air; in the sun; from lemonade, tea or wine.
• Amelioration: Taking cold water or cold air into the mouth.
Relation
• Compare: Phos. in genito-urinary and respiratory symptoms; Arg-met.
and Stann. in laryngitis of singers or speakers; Alum., hard stool, inactive
rectum.
• Follows well: After, Calad., Nat-m., Staph., Ph-ac., in sexual weakness.
• Itch checked by mercurials or sulphur often requires Selenium.

SEPIA OFFICINALIS
Cuttle Fish
Mollusca
Constitution
• Adapted to persons of dark hair, rigid fibre, but mild and easy disposition
(Puls.).
• Pot-belliedness of mothers (of children, Sulph.).
Mental Generals
• Anxiety: With fear, flushes of heat over face and head; about real or
imaginary evils; towards evening.
• Great sadness and weeping. Dread of being alone, of men; of meeting
friends; with uterine troubles.
• Indifferent: Even to one’s family; to one’s occupation (Fl-ac., Ph-ac.); to
those whom she loves best.
• Greedy, miserly (Lyc.).
• Indolent: Does not want to do anything, either work or play; even an
exertion to think.
Physical Generals
• Diseases of women: Especially those occurring during pregnancy;
childbed and lactation; or diseases attended with sudden prostration and
sinking faintness (Murx., Nux-m.); “the washerwoman’s remedy,”
 complaints that are brought on by or aggravated after laundry work.
• Pains extend from other parts to the back (reverse of, Sab.); are attended
with shuddering (with chilliness, Puls.).
• Particularly sensitive to cold air, “chills so easily”; lack of vital heat,
especially in chronic diseases (in acute diseases, Led.).
• Sensation of a ball in inner parts; during menses, pregnancy, lactation;
with constipation, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, leucorrhea and all uterine
affections.
• Faints easily: After getting wet; from extremes of heat or cold; riding in a
carriage; while kneeling at church.
• All the coverings of the neck felt too tight and were constantly loosened
(Lach.).
• Erythism; flushes of heat from least motion; with anxiety and faintness;
followed by perspiration over whole body; climacteric (Lach., Sang.,
Sulph., Tub.); ascends, from pelvic organs.
Head
• Coldness of the vertex with headache (Verat.—heat of vertex, Calc.,
Graph., Sulph.).
• Headache: In terrific shocks; at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow; in
delicate, sensitive, hysterical women; pressing, bursting < motion,
stooping, mental labor, > by external pressure, continued hard motion.
• Great falling of the hair, after chronic headaches or at the climacteric.
Face
• Yellowness: Of the face; conjunctiva; yellow spots on the chest; a yellow
saddle across upper part of the cheeks and nose; a “tell tale face” of
uterine ailments.
Mouth
• Tongue foul, but becomes clear at each menstrual nisus, returns when
flow ceases; swelling and cracking of lower lip.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Painful sensation of emptiness, “all-gone feeling,” in the epigastrium,
 relieved by eating (Chel., Murx., Phos.).
• Constipation: During pregnancy (Alum.); stool hard, knotty, in balls,
insufficient, difficult; pain in rectum during and long after stool (Nit-ac.,
Sulph.); sense of weight or ball in anus, not > by stool.
Urinary System
• Urine: Deposits a reddish clay-colored sediment which adheres to the
vessel as if it had been burned on; fetid, so offensive must be removed
from the room (horribly offensive after standing, Indium).
• Enuresis: Bed is wet almost as soon as the child goes to sleep (Kreos.);
always during the first sleep.
Male Reproductive System
• Gleet: Painless, yellowish, staining linen; meatus glued together in
morning; obstinate, of long standing (Kali-i.); sexual organs, weak and
exhausted.
Female Reproductive System
• Violent stitches upward in the vagina; lancinating pains from the uterus to
the umbilicus.
• Prolapsus of uterus and vagina; pressure and bearing down as if
everything would protrude from pelvis; must cross limbs tightly or
“sit close” to prevent it; with oppression of breathing (compare Agar.,
Bell., Lil-t., Murx., Sanic.).
• Irregular menses of nearly every form—early, late, scanty, profuse,
amenorrhea or menorrhagia—when associated with above named
symptoms.
• Morning sickness of pregnancy; the sight or thought of food sickens
(Nux-v.); the smell of cooking food nauseates (Ars., Colch.).
Respiratory System
• Dyspnea; < sitting, after sleep, in room, > dancing or walking rapidly.
Skin
• Herpes circinatus in isolated spots on upper part of body (in intersecting
rings over whole body, Tell.).
• Itching of skin; of various parts; of external genitalia; is not > by
scratching, and is apt to change to burning (Sulph.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: In afternoon or evening; from cold air or dry east wind;
sexual excesses; at rest; sultry, moist weather; before a thunderstorm
(Psor.).
• Amelioration: Warmth of bed, hot applications; violent exercise.
• Many symptoms, especially those of head, heart and pelvis, are both <
and > by rest and exercise.
Relation
• Complementary: Natrium mur.
• Inimical: To Lach., should not be used before or after; to, Puls., with
which it should never be alternated.
• Similar: To, Lach., Sang., Ust., in climacteric irregularities of the
circulation.
• Frequently indicated after: Sil., Sulph.
• A single dose often acts curatively for many weeks.
• It antidotes mental effects of overuse of tobacco, in patients of sedentary
habits who suffer from over-mental exertion.

SILICEA TERRA
Pure Silica
Silicic Oxide
Constitution
• Adapted to the nervous, irritable, sanguine temperament; persons of a
psoric diathesis.
• Persons of light complexion; fine dry skin; pale face; weakly, with lax
muscles.
• Constitutions which suffer from deficient nutrition, not because food is
 lacking in quality or quantity, but from imperfect assimilation (Bar-c.,
Calc.); over-sensitive, physically and mentally.
• Scrofulous, rachitic children with large heads; open fontanelles and
sutures; much sweating about the head (lower than Calc.), which must
be kept warm by external covering (Sanic.); distended abdomen; weak
ankles; slow in learning to walk.
Mental Generals
• Children are obstinate, headstrong, cry when spoken kindly to (Iod.).
• Restless, fidgety, starts at least noise.
• Anxious, yielding, fainthearted.
• Mental labor very difficult; reading and writing fatigue, cannot bear to
think.
Physical Generals
• Ailments: Caused by suppressed foot-sweat (Cupr., Graph., Psor.);
exposing the head or back to any slight draft of air; bad effects of
vaccination, especially abscesses and convulsions (Thuj.); chest
complaints of stonecutters with total loss of strength.
• Great weariness and debility; wants to lie down.
• Nervous debility; exhaustion with erythism; from hard work and close
confinement; may be overcome by force of will.
• Want of vital heat, always chilly, even when taking active exercise (Led.,
Sep.).
• Has a wonderful control over the suppurative process—soft tissue,
periosteum or bone—maturing abscesses when desired or reducing
excessive suppuration (affecting chiefly the soft tissues, Calen., Hep.).
• Night walking; gets up while asleep, walks about and lies down again
(Kali-br.).
• Takes cold from exposure of feet (Con., Cupr.).
• Sweat of hands, toes, feet and axillae; offensive.
• Desire to be magnetized, which > (Phos.).
• Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from the tissue; fish bones, needles,
 bone splinters.
• Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of glands, cervical, axillary,
parotid, mammary, inguinal, sebaceous; malignant, gangrenous.
Head
• Vertigo: Spinal, ascending from back of neck to head; as if one would fall
forward, from looking up (Puls.—looking down, Kalm., Spig.).
• Chronic sick headache, since some severe disease of youth (Psor.);
ascending from nape of neck to the vertex, as if coming from the spine
and locating in one eye, especially the right (left, Spig.); < draft of air or
uncovering the head; > pressure and wrapping up warmly (Mag-m.,
Stront.); > profuse urination.
Eyes
• Fistula lachrymalis.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Constipation: Always before and during menses (diarrhea before and
during menses. Am-c., Bov.); difficult as from inactivity of rectum;
with great straining, as if rectum was paralyzed; when partly expelled,
recedes again (Thuj.).
• Feces remain a long time in the rectum.
• Fistula in ano alternates with chest symptoms (Berb., Calc-p.).
• Fissura ani; great pain after stool.
Female Reproductive System
• Discharge of blood from vagina every time the child takes the breast
(compare, Crot-t.).
• Nipple is drawn in like a funnel (Sars.).
Extremities
• Intolerable, sour, carrion-like odor of the feet, without perspiration, every
evening.
Skin
• Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates (Graph., Hep., Merc., Petr.).
• Crippled nails on fingers and toes (Ant-c.).
• In growing toe nails (M-arct., Teucr.); panaritium; blood boils;
carbuncles; ulcers of all kinds; fistule, painful, offensive, high spongy
edges, proud flesh in them.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Cold; during menses, during new moon; uncovering,
especially the head; lying down.
• Amelioration: Warmth, especially from wrapping up the head; all the
symptoms except gastric, which are > by cold food (Lyc.).
Relation
• Complementary: Thuja, Sanicula.
• Compare: Get., Hep., Hyper., Kali-p., Pic-ac., Ruta, Sanic.
• Follows well: After, Calc., Graph., Hep., Nit-ac., Phos.
• Is followed well: By, Hep., Fl-ac., Lyc., Sep.
• Silicea is the chronic of Pulsatilla.

SPIGELIA ANTHELMIA
Pinkroot
Loganiaceae
Constitution
• Adapted to anemic debilitated subjects of rheumatic diathesis; to
scrofulous children afflicted with ascarides lumbricoides (Cina, Stann.).
• Persons with light hair; pale, thin, bloated, weak; wrinkled, yellow, earthy
skin.
Mental Generals
• Afraid of sharp, pointed things, pins, needles, etc.
Physical Generals
Respiratory system
• Dyspnea: Must lie on right side or with head high (Cact., Spong.); pains
in chest are stitching, needle-like.
Cardio-vascular System or (Chest)
• Rheumatic affections of heart (Kalm., Led., Naja); systolic blowing at
apex. Aneurysm.
• Chest affections with stitching pains synchronous with pulse, < from
motion, < cold, wet weather.
• Palpitation: Violent, visible and audible; from least motion; when bending
forward; systolic blowing at apex
Modalities
• Aggravation: From motion, noise, touch, turning the eyes; from every
shaking, commotion, or concussion.
• Amelioration: Lying on right side with the head high (Ars., Cact.,
Spong.).
Relation
• Compare: Acon., Ars., Cact., Dig., Kali-c., Kalm., Naja, Spong., in heart
affections.

SPONGIA TOSTA
Roasted Sponge
Spongia
Constitution
• For the tubercular diathesis.
• Especially adapted to diseases of children and women; light hair, lax
fibre, fair complexion (Brom.).
Physical Generals
• Worse after sleep or sleeps into < (Lach.).
• Swelling and induration of glands; goitre (Brom.).
Throat
• Sore throat, < after eating sweet things.
Male Reproductive System
• Spermatic cord swollen, painful; testicles swollen, bruised, squeezed;
after suppressed gonorrhea or maltreated orchitis.
Respiratory System
• Awakens in a fright and feels as if suffocating; as if he had to breathe
through a sponge.
• Every mental excitement < or increases the cough.
• Great dryness of mucous membranes of air passages—throat, larynx,
trachea, bronchi—“dry as a horn.”
• Cough: Dry, barking, croupy; rasping, ringing, wheezing, whistling;
everything is perfectly dry, no mucus rale.
• Cough: Dry, sibilant, like a saw driven through a pine board; < sweets,
cold drink; smoking, lying with head low, dry cold winds; < reading,
singing, talking, swallowing; > eating or drinking warm things.
• Croup: Anxious, wheezing, < during inspiration (< during expiration,
Acon.); < before midnight (< before morning, Hep.).
Cardio-vascular System
• Palpitation: Violent with pain and gasping respiration; awakened
suddenly after midnight with suffocation and great anxiety; valvular
insufficiency; before or during menses.
• Angina pectoris; contracting pain, heat, faintness, suffocation, anxiety
and sweat; < after midnight.
Neck
• Thyroid glands swollen even with chin; with suffocative paroxysms at
night. Goitre.
Relation
Stavestcre
Ranunculaceae
Mental Generals
• Ailments from thwarted pride, envy or chagrin.
• For the bad effects of: Onanism, sexual excesses, loss of vital fluids;
chagrin, mortification; unmerited insults; indignation, with vexation or
reserved displeasure (Aur.).
• For the mental effects of onanism and sexual excesses.
• Very sensitive to slightest mental impressions; least action or harmless
word offends (Ign.).
• Great indignation about things done by others or by himself; grieves
about consequences.
• Apathetic, indifferent, low-spirited, weak memory from sexual abuses
(Anac., Aur., Nat-m., Ph-ac.).
• Ill-humored children cry for things which, after receiving, they petulantly
push or throw away (Kreos.).
• Was insulted; being too dignified to fight, subdued his wrath and went
home sick, trembling and exhausted (the reverse of Nux-v.).
Physical Generals
• Nervous weakness; as if done up after much hard work.
• Craving for tobacco.
• Extreme hunger even when stomach is full of food.
• Sleepy all day, awake all night; body aches all over.
Head
• Sensation of a round ball in forehead sitting firmly there even when
shaking the head.
Eyes
• Styes, chalazae on eyelids or upper lids, one after another, leaving hard
nodosities in their wake (Con., Thuj.).
Mouth
• Toothache: During menses; sound as well as decayed teeth; painful to
touch of food or drink, but not from biting or chewing; < drawing cold
air into mouth; < from cold drinks and after eating.
• Teeth turn black, show dark streaks through them; cannot be kept clean;
crumble; decay on edges (at the roots, Mez., Thuj.); scorbutic cachexia.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Sensation as if stomach and abdomen were hanging down relaxed (Agar.,
Ip., Tab.).
• Colic: After lithotomy or ovariotomy; attending abdominal section
(Bism., Hep.).
Urinary System
• Urging to urinate, has to sit at urinal for hours; in young married women;
after coition; after difficult labor (Op.); burning in urethra when not
urinating; urging and pain after urinating in prostatic troubles of old
men; prolapse of bladder.
Male Reproductive System
• Onanism; persistently dwelling on sexual subjects; constantly thinking of
sexual pleasures.
• Spermatorrhea: With sunken features; guilty, abashed look; emission
followed by backache, weakness; prostration and relaxation or atrophy of
sexual organs.
Female Reproductive System
• Painful sensitiveness or sexual organs, vulva so sensitive can scarcely
wear a napkin (Plat.).
Respiratory System
• Cough, only in the daytime, or only after dinner, worse after eating meat;
after vexation or indignation; excited by cleaning the teeth.
• Croupy cough in winter alternating with sciatica in summer; cough
excited by tobacco smoke (Spong.).
Back
• Backache, < at night in bed, and in the morning before rising.
Extremities
• Arthritic nodosities of joints, especially of the fingers (Caul., Colch.,
Lyc.); inflammation of phalanges with sweating and suppuration.
Fever
• In fever; ravenous hunger for days before attack.
Injuries
• Mechanical injuries from sharp-cutting instruments; post-surgical
operations; stinging, smarting pains, like the cutting of a knife.
Skin
• Eczema: Yellow, acrid moisture oozes from under crusts; new vesicles
form from contact of exudation; by scratching one place after itching
ceases, but appears in another.
• Fig-warts: Dry, pediculated, cauliflower-like; after abuse of mercury (Nit-
ac., Sab., Thuj.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: Mental affections; from anger, indignation, grief,
mortification; loss of fluids; tobacco, onanism; sexual excesses; from the
touch on affected parts.
Relation
• Compare: Caust., Coloc., Ign., Lyc., Puls., and Staph. act well after each
other; Caust., Coloc., Staph., follow well in order named.
• Inimical: Ran-b., either before or after.

STRAMONIUM
Thorn Apple
Solanaceae
Constitution
• Adapted to: Ailments of young plethoric persons (Acon., Bell.);
especially children in chorea; mania and fever delirium.
Mental Generals
• Delirium: Loquacious, talks all the time, sings, makes verses, raves;
simulates Bell. and Hyos., yet differs in degree.
• The delirium is more furious, the mania more acute, while the congestion,
though greater than Hyos., is much less than Bell., never approaching a
true inflammation.
• Disposed to talk continually (Cic., Lach.); incessant and incoherent
talking and laughing; praying, beseeching, entreating; with suppressed
menses.
• Desire light and company; cannot bear to be alone (Bism.); worse in the
dark and solitude; cannot walk in a dark room.
• Awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of the first object seen.
• Hallucinations which terrify the patient.
• Desire to escape, in delirium (Bell., Bry., Op., Rhus-t.).
• Imagines all sorts of things; that she is double, lying crosswise, etc.
(Petr.).
• Head feels as if scattered about (Bapt.).
• Hydrophobia; fear of water, other excessive aversion to liquids (Bell.,
Lys.).
Physical Generals
• No pain with most complaints; painlessness is characteristic (Op.).
• Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell., Cham., Op.).
Eyes
• Eyes wide open, prominent, brilliant; pupils widely dilated, insensible;
contortion of eyes and eyelids.
• Pupils dilate when child is reprimanded.
Face
• Face hot and red with cold hands and feet; circumscribed redness of
cheeks, blood rushes to face; risus sardonicus.
Mouth
• Stammering: Has to exert himself a long time before he can utter a word;
makes great effort to speak; distorts the face (Bov., Ign., Spig.).
Throat
• Hydrophobic, spasmodic constriction of throat.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Vomiting: As soon as he raises head from pillow; from a bright light.
Nervous System
• Convulsions: With consciousness (Nux-v.—without, Bell., Cic., Hyos.,
Op.); renewed by sight of bright light, of mirror or water (Bell., Lys.).
• Twitching of single muscles or groups of muscles, especially upper part
of body; chorea.
Modalities
• Aggravation: In the dark; when alone; looking at bright or shining
objects; after sleep (Apis, Lach., Op., Spong.); when attempting to
swallow.
• Amelioration: From bright light; from company; warmth.
Relation
• Stramonium often follows: Bell., Cupr., Hyos., Lys.
• In metrorrhagia from retained placenta with characteristic delirium, Sec.
often acts promptly when Stram. has failed (with fever and septic
tendency, Pyrog.).
• After overaction, from repeated doses of Bell. in whooping cough.

SULPHUR
Brimstone; Flowers of Sulphur
 The Element
Constitution
• Adapted to persons of a scrofulous diathesis, subject to venous
congestion; especially of portal system.
• Persons of nervous temperament, quick motioned, quick tempered,
plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes (Hep., Kali-
c., Psor.).
• For lean, stoop-shouldered persons who walk and sit stooping; walk
stooping like old men.
• Children: Cannot bear to be washed or bathed (in cold water, Ant-c.);
emaciated, big-bellied; restless, hot, kick off the clothes at night (Hep.,
Sanic.); have worms, but the best selected remedy fails.
• Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections (Psor.).
Mental Generals
• Happy dreams, wakes up singing.
• Everything looks pretty which the patient takes a fancy to; even rags
seem beautiful.
• Too lazy to rouse himself; too unhappy to live.
• Movement in abdomen as of a child (Croc., Thuj.).
Physical Generals
• Aversion to being washed; always < after a bath.
• When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favorable effect,
especially in acute diseases, it frequently serves to rouse the reactive
powers of the system; clears up the case (in chronic disease, Psor.).
• Complaints that are continually relapsing (menses, leucorrhea, etc.);
patient seems to get almost well when the disease returns again and
again.
• Standing is the worst position for Sulphur patients; they cannot
stand; every standing position is uncomfortable.
• Scrofulous, psoric, chronic diseases that result from suppressed emotions
(Caust., Psor.).
• Congestion to single parts; eyes, nose, chest, abdomen, ovaries, arms,
legs, or any organ of the body marking the onset of tumors or malignant
growths, especially at climacteric.
• Sensation of burning: On vertex; and smarting in eyes; in face, without
redness; of vesicles in mouth; and dryness of throat, first right then left;
in stomach; in rectum; in anus, and itching piles, and scalding urine; like
fire in ripples (Ars.); in chest, rising to face; of skin of whole body, with
hot flushes; in spots, between scapulae (Phos.).
• The discharge both of urine and feces is painful to parts over which it
passes; passes large quantities of colorless urine; parts around anus
red, excoriated; all the orifices of the body are very red; all discharges
acrid, excoriating wherever they touch.
• To facilitate absorption of serous or inflammatory exudates in brain,
pleura, lungs, joints, when Bryonia, Kalium mur. or the best selected
remedy fails.
• Chronic alcoholism; dropsy and other ailments of drunkards; “they
reform,” but are continually relapsing (Psor., Tub.).
• Hot flushes during the day with weak, faint spells, passing off with a little
moisture.
Head
• Sick headache every week or every two weeks; prostrating, weakening
(Sang.); with hot vertex and cold feet.
• Constant heat on vertex.
Mouth
• Bright redness of lips as if the blood would burst through (Tub.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Weak, empty, gone or faint feeling in the stomach about 11 a.m. (10 or 11
a.m. > by eating, Nat-c.); cannot wait for lunch; frequent weak, faint
spells during the day (compare, Zinc.).
• Diarrhea: After midnight; painless; driving out of bed early in the
morning (Aloe, Psor.); as if the bowels were too weak to retain their
contents.
• Constipation: Stools hard, knotty, dry, as if burnt (Bry.); large, painful,
child is afraid to have the stool on account of pain, or pain compels child
to desist on first effort; alternating with diarrhea.
• Hemorrhoids, that have been treated with ointments.
Female Reproductive System
• Menses: Too early, profuse, protracted.
• Menorrhagia, has not been well since her last miscarriage. “A single dose
at new moon.”—Lippe.
Respiratory System
• Nightly suffocative attacks, wants the doors and windows open; becomes
suddenly wide awake at night; drowsy in afternoon after sunset,
wakefulness the whole night.
Extremities
• Cold feet in daytime with burning soles at night, wants to find a cool
place for them (Sang., Sanic.); puts them out of bed to cool them off
(Med.); cramps in calves and soles at night.
Skin
• Boils: Coming in crops in various parts of the body, or a single boil is
succeeded by another as soon as first is healed (Tub.).
• Skin: Itching, voluptuous; scratching >; “feels good to scratch”;
scratching causes burning; < from heat of bed (Merc.); soreness in folds
(Lyc.).
• Skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes.
Modalities
• At rest; when standing; warmth in bed; washing, bathing; changeable
weather (Rhus-t.).
• Amelioration: Dry, warm weather; lying on the right side (reverse of
Stann.).
Relation
• Complementary: Aloe, Psor.
• Ailments from the abuse of metals generally.
• Compatible: Calc., Lyc., Puls., Sars., Sep.
• Sulph. Calc., Lyc., or Sulph., Sars., and Sep. frequently follows in given
order.
• Calcarea must not be used before Sulphur.
Sulphur is the chronic of Aconitum and follows it well in pneumonia and
other acute diseases.

SULPHURICUM ACIDUM
Sulphuric Acid
H2SO4

Constitution
• Adapted to the light-haired, old people, especially women; flushes of heat
in climacteric years.
• Child has a sour odor despite careful washing (Hep., Mag-c., Rheum).
Mental Generals
• Unwilling to answer questions not from obstinacy, but inaptness.
• Feels in a great hurry; everything must be done quickly (Arg-n.).
Physical Generals
• Pain of gradual and slow-increasing intensity which ceases suddenly
when at its height, often repeated (Puls.).
• Sensation as if trembling all over, without real trembling; internal
trembling of drunkards.
• Weak and exhausted from some deep-seated dyscrasia; no other
symptoms (Psor., Sulph.).
• Hemorrhage of black blood from all the outlets of the body (Crot-h., Mur-
ac., Nit-ac., Ter.).
Head
• Sensations as if the brain was loose in forehead and falling from side to
side (Bell., Bry., Rhus-t., Spig.).
• Concussion of brain from fall or blow where skin is cold and body bathed
in cold sweat.
Mouth
• Aphthe; of mouth, gums, or entire buccal cavity; gums bleed readily;
ulcers painful; offensive breath (Borx.)
Gastro-intestinal System
• Chronic heartburn, sour eructations, sets teeth on edge (Rob.).
• Water drunk causes coldness of the stomach unless mixed with alcoholic
liquor.
Skin
• Petechia; purpura hemorrhagica; blue spots; livid, red, itching blotches.
Injuries
• The pain is pressure as of a blunt instrument. Tendency to gangrene
following mechanical injuries, especially of old people.
• Bad effects from mechanical injuries, with bruises, chafing and livid skin;
prostration (Acet-ac.).
• Ecchymosis; cicatries turn blood-red or blue, are painful (turn green,
Led.).
Relation
• Complementary: Puls.
• Compare: Ars., Borx., Calen., Led., Ruta, Rheum, Symph.
• In contusion and laceration of soft parts it vies with Calendula.
• Follows well: After, Arn., with bruised pain, livid skin and profuse sweat;
after, Led. in ecchymosis.
• Ailments, from brandy drinking.

Note: Sulphuric acid, one part, with three parts of alcohol, 10 to 15 drops,
 three times daily for three or four weeks, has been successfully used to
subdue the craving for liquor. – Hering.

SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE
Comfrey
Borraginaceae
Eyes
• Pain in eye after a blow of an obtuse body; snow ball strikes the eye;
infant thrusts its fist into its mother’s eye (to soft tissues around the eye,
Arn.).
Injuries
• Excellent remedy for fracture and mechanical injuries.
• Facilitates union of fractured bones (Calc-p.); lessens peculiar pricking
pain; favors production of callous; when trouble is of nervous origin.
• Irritability at point of fracture; periosteal pain after wounds have healed.
• Mechanical injuries; blows, bruises, thrusts on the globe of the eye.
Relation
• Compare: Arn., Calen., Calc-p., Fl-ac., Hep., Sil.
• Follows well: After Arnica, for pricking pain, and soreness of periosteum
remaining after an injury.

SYPHILINUM
Syphilitic Virus
A Nosode
Mental Generals
• Loss of memory; cannot remember names of books, persons or places;
arithmetical calculation difficult.
• Sensation: As if going insane, as if about to be paralyzed; of apathy and
 indifference.
• Terrible dread of night on account of mental and physical exhaustion on
awakening; it is intolerable, death is preferable.
• Fears the terrific suffering from exhaustion on awakening (Lach.).
Physical Generals
• Pains from darkness to daylight; begin with twilight and end with
daylight (Merc., Phyt.).
• Pains increase and decrease gradually (Stann.); shifting and require
frequent change of position.
• All symptoms are worse at night (Merc.); from sundown to sunrise.
• Extreme emaciation of entire body (Abrot., Iod.).
• Craving alcohol, in any form. Hereditary tendency to alcoholism (Asar.,
Psor., Tub., Sulph., Sul-ac.).
Head
• Headache, neuralgic in character, causing sleeplessness and delirium at
night; commencing at 4 p.m.; worse from 10 to 11 and ceasing at
daylight (ceases at 11 or 12 p.m. Lyc.); falling of the hair.
Eyes
• Acute ophthalmia neonatorum; lids swollen, adhere during sleep; pain
intense at night < from 2 to 5 a.m.; pus profuse; > by cold bathing.
• Ptosis: Paralysis of superior oblique; sleepy look from drooping lids
(Caust., Graph.).
• Diplopia, one image seen below the other.
Mouth
• Teeth: Decay at edge of gum and break off; are cupped, edges serrated;
dwarfed in size, converge at their tips (Staph.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Obstinate constipation for years; rectum seems tied up with strictures;
when enema was used the agony of passage was like labor (Lac-c.,
Tub.).
• Fissures in anus and rectum (Thuj.); prolapse of rectum; obstinate cases
with a syphilitic history.
Female Reproductive System
• Leucorrhea: Profuse, soaking through the napkins and running down to
the heels (Alum.).
Cardio-vascular System or (Chest)
• Heart: Lancinating pains from base to apex, at night (from apex to base,
Med.; from base to clavicle, or shoulder, Spig.).
Extremities
• Rheumatism of the shoulder joint, or at insertion of deltoid, < from
raising arm laterally (Rhus-t.—shoulder, Sang.; left, Ferr.).
Skin
• Eruptions: Dull, red, copper-colored spots, becoming blue when getting
cold.
• When the best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve, in
syphilitic affections.
• Syphilitics, or patients who have had chancre treated by local means, and
as a result have suffered from throat and skin troubles for years, are
nearly always benefited by this remedy at commencement of treatment
unless some other remedy is clearly indicated.
Modalities
• Aggravation: At night, from twilight to daylight.
Relation
• Compare: Aur., Asaf., Kali-i., Merc., Phyt., in bone diseases and
syphilitic affections.

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TABACUM
Tobacco
Solanaceae
Mental Generals
• Sensation of excessive wretchedness.
• Great despondency with indigestion, palpitation, intermittent pulse.
Physical Generals
• Symptoms occur in paroxysms—asthma, sick headache, vertigo,
sneezing.
• Emaciation of cheeks and back.
• Complete prostration of entire muscular system.
Head
• Vertigo; death-like pallor, increasing to loss of consciousness; relieved in
open air and by vomiting; on rising or looking backward; on opening
the eyes.
• Sick headache coming on in early morning, intolerable by noon, deathly
nausea, violent vomiting; < by noise and light; periodical, lasting one or
two days.
• Sudden pain on right side of head as if struck by a hammer or a club
Eyes
• Dim-sighted: Sees as through a veil; strabismus, depending upon brain
troubles.
• Amaurosis, from atrophy of retina or optic nerve.
Face
• Face pale, blue, pinched, sunken, collapsed; covered with cold sweat
(cold sweat on forehead, Verat.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Nausea: Incessant, as if seasick; vomiting, on least motion; with
faintness; > in open air.
• Vomiting: Violent, with cold sweat; soon as he begins to move; during
pregnancy, when Lacticum acidum fails (Psor.).
• Sea sickness: Deathly nausea, pallor, coldness; < by least motion and >
on deck in fresh, cold air.
• Terrible, faint, sinking feeling at pit of stomach.
• Sense of relaxation of stomach with nausea (Ip., Staph.).
• Child wants abdomen uncovered, relieves nausea and vomiting; coldness
in abdomen (Colch., Elaps, Lach.).
• Constipation: Inactive bowel or paralysis of rectum; spasms of sphincter;
prolapsus ani; of year’s standing; herpes of anus.
• Diarrhea: Sudden, yellowish, greenish, slimy; urgent, watery, with
nausea, vomiting, prostration and cold sweat (Verat.); with extreme
faintness; from excessive smoking.
Urinary System
• Renal colic: Violent spasmodic pains along ureter, left side (Berb.);
deathly nausea and cold perspiration.
Cardio-vascular System
• Palpitation: Violent when lying on left side; goes off when turning to the
right.
• Pulse: Quick, full, large; small, intermittent, exceedingly slow; feeble,
irregular, almost imperceptible.
Extremities
• Legs icy cold, from knees down; trembling of limbs.
• Hands icy cold, body warm.
Nervous System
 tender, very sensitive spots (Ran-s.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• For gastric and bilious attacks, especially gastric headaches.
• Jaundice with enlargement and induration of liver (mapped tongue).
Fever
• Debility, loss of appetite, profuse night sweats, especially when
convalescing from bilious or typhoid fever.
• Restlessness of limbs in typhoid (Rhus-t., Zinc.).
Modalities
• Aggravation: Almost all symptoms appear when sitting; lying down;
resting.
Relation
• Compare: Bry., Chel., Hydr., Nux-v., in gastric and bilious affections.

TARENTULA
Tarentula: Cuben and Spanish
Araneideae
Constitution
• Adapted to highly nervous organisms, especially choreic affections where
whole body, or right arm and left leg are affected (left arm and right leg.,
Agar.).
• Constant movement of the legs, arms, trunk, with inability to do anything;
twitching and jerking of muscles.
• Hyperesthesia: Least excitement irritates, followed by languid sadness;
extreme, of tips of fingers.
Physical Generals
• Restlessness, could not keep quiet in any position; must keep in motion,
though walking < all symptoms (reverse of, Rhus-t., Ruta).
• Symptoms appear periodically.
Head
• Headache: Intense, as if thousands of needles were pricking in the brain.
• Headache, neuralgic < by noise, touch, strong light, > by rubbing head
against the pillow.
Female Reproductive System
• At every menstrual nisus, throat, mouth and tongue intolerably dry,
especially when sleeping (Nux-m.).
• Sexual excitement extreme even to mania; spasms of uterus; pruritus
vulvae becomes intolerable.
Back
• Slight touch along the spine provokes spasmodic pain in chest and
cardiac region.
Skin
• Abscesses, boils, felons, affected parts of a bluish color (Lach.), and
atrocious burning pain (Anth., Ars.); the agony of a felon, compelling
patient to walk the floor for nights.
• Malignant ulcers; carbuncle, anthrax; gangrene.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Motion; contact; touch of affected parts; noise; change of
weather.
• Amelioration: In open air; music; rubbing affected parts.
• Termini of nerves become so irritated and sensitive that some kind of
friction was necessary to obtain relief.
Relation
• Similar: To, Apis, Crot-h., Lach., Plat., Myg., Naja, Ther.

TEREBINTHINIAE OLEUM
Oil of Turpentine
A Volatile Oil
Physical Generals
• Congestion and inflammation of viscera; kidneys, bladder, lungs,
intestines, uterus; with hemorrhage, and malignant tendency.
Mouth
• Tongue: Smooth, glossy, red, as if deprived of papillae, or as if glazed
(Pyrog.); elevated papillae; coating peels off in patches leaving bright red
spots, or entire coating cleans off suddenly (in exanthemata); dry and
red; burning in tip (compare, Mur-ac.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Abdomen extremely sensitive to touch; distention, flatulence, excessive
tympanitis; meteorism (Colch.).
• Diarrhea: Stool, watery, greenish, mucus; frequent, profuse, fetid, bloody;
burning in anus and rectum fainting and exhaustion, after (Ars.).
• Worms: With foul breath, choking (Cina, Spig.); dry, hacking cough;
tickling at anus; ascarides, tapeworm segments passed.
• Hemorrhages; from bowels, with ulceration; passive, dark with ulceration
or epithelial degeneration.
Urinary System
• The urine has the odor of violets.
• Hematuria: Blood thoroughly mixed with the urine; sediment, like coffee-
grounds; cloudy, smoky, albuminous; profuse, dark or black, painless.
• Ascitis with anasarca in organic lesions of kidneys; dropsy after scarlatina
(Apis, Hell., Lach.).
• Violent burning and drawing pains in kidney, bladder and urethra (Berb.,
Cann-s., Canth.).
• Violent burning and cutting in bladder; tenesmus; sensitive hypogastrium;
cystitis and retention from atony of fundus.
• Albuminuria: Acute, in early stages, when blood and albumin abound
more than casts and epithelium; after diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid.
• Urine rich in albumin and blood, but few if any casts; < from living in
damp dwellings.
• Strangury; spasmodic retention of urine.
Cardio-vascular System
• Purpura hemorrhagica; fresh ecchymosis in great numbers from day to
day (Sul-ac.).
Relation
• Compare: Alumn., Arn., Ars., Canth., Lach., Nit-ac.
• Is recommended as a prophylactic in malarial and African fevers.

THERIDION CURASSAVICUM
Orange Spider
Araneideae
Mental Generals
• Time passes too quickly (too slowly, Arg-n., Cann-i., Nux-m.).
Physical Generals
• Pains in the bones all over, as if broken.
• “In rachitis, caries, necrosis, it apparently goes to the root of the evil and
destroys the cause.” —Dr. Baruch.
• In scrofulosis where the best closen remedies fail to relieve.
Head
• Vertigo: On closing the eyes (Lach., Thuj.—on opening them, Tab.; on
looking upward, Puls., Sil.); from any, even least noise; aural or
labyrinthine (Meniere’s disease).
• Headache: When beginning to move; as of a dull heavy pressure behind
the eyes; violent, deep, in the brain; < lying down (Lach.); very much <
from others walking on the floor, or from least motion of head.
Ears
• Every sound seems to penetrate through the whole body, causing
nausea and vertigo.
Nose
• Chronic nasal catarrh; discharge thick, yellow, greenish, offensive (Puls.,
Thuj.).
Mouth
• Toothache; every shrill sound penetrates the teeth.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Nausea: From least motion, and especially on closing the eyes; from fast
riding in a carriage.
• Sea sickness of nervous women; they close their eyes to get rid of the
motion of the vessel and grow deathly sick.
Female Reproductive System
• For extreme nervous sensitiveness; of puberty, during pregnancy and
climacteric years.
Respiratory System
• Phthisis florida, often effects a cure if given in the easily stages of disease
Neck and Back
• Violent stitches in upper left chest, below the scapula, extending to neck
(Anis., Myrt-c., Pix, Sulph.).
• Great sensitiveness between vertebrae, sits sideways in a chair to avoid
pressure against spine (Chinin-s.); < by least noise and jar of foot on
floor.
Relation
• Follows well: After, Calc. and Lyc.

THLASPI BURSA PASTORIS

Shepherd’s Purse
 Cruciferae
Physical Generals
• Profuse passive hemorrhage from every outlet of the body; blood dark
and clotted.
Female Reproductive System
• Metrorrhagia: With violent cramps and uterine colic; in chlorosis; after
abortion, labor, miscarriage; at climacteric; with cancer uteri (Phos.,
Ust.).
• Menses: Too early; too profuse; protracted (eight, ten, even fifteen days);
tardy in starting, first day merely a show; second day colic, vomiting, a
hemorrhage with large clots; each alternate period more profuse.
• Hemorrhage or delaying menses from uterine inertia; exhausting, scarcely
recovers from one period before another begins.
• Leucorrhea: Bloody, dark, offensive; some days before and after menses.
Relation
• Compare: Sinapis, Trillium, Viburnum, Ustilago.

THUJA OCCIDENTALIS
Tree of Life; White Cedar
Coniferae
Constitution
• Thuja bears the same relation to the sycosis of Hahnemann—fig warts,
condylomata and wart-like excrescenses upon mucous and cutaneous
surfaces—that Sulphur does to psora or mercury to syphilis.
• Adapted to hydrogenous constitution of Grauvogl, which is related to
sycosis as effect is to cause.
• Acts well in lymphatic temperament, in very fleshy persons, dark
complexion, black hair, unhealthy skin.
Mental Generals
• Fixed ideas: As if a strange person were at his side; as if soul and body
were separated; as if a living animal were in abdomen; of being under the
influence of a superior power.
• Insane women will not be touched or approached.
Physical Generals
• Ailments from bad effects of vaccination (Ant-t., Sil.); from suppressed
or maltreated gonorrhea (Med.).
• Sensation as if body, especially the limbs, were made of glass and
would break easily.
• Flesh feels as if beaten, from the bones (Phyt.—as if scraped, Rhus-t.).
• Chill, beginning in the thighs.
• Sweat: Only on uncovered parts; or all over except the head (reverse of
Sil.); when he sleeps, stops when he wakes (reverse of Samb.); profuse,
sour smelling, fetid, at night.
• Perspiration, smelling like honey, on the genitals.
Head
• Vertigo, when closing the eyes (Lach., Ther.).
• Headache: As if a nail had been driven into parietal bone (Coff., Ign.); or
as if a convex button were pressed on the part; < from sexual excesses;
overheating; from tea (Sel.); chronic, or sycotic or syphilitic origin.
• While scaly dandruff; hair dry and falling out.
Eyes
• Eyes: Ophthalmia neonatorum, sycotic or syphilitic; large granulations,
like warts or blisters; > by warmth and covering; if uncovered, feels as if
a cold stream of air were blowing out through them.
• Eyelids: Agglutinated at night; dry, scaly on edges; styes and tarsal
tumors; chalazae, thick, hard knots, like small condylomata; after
Staphysagria partially > does not cure.
Ears
• Ears: Chronic otitis; discharge purulent, like putrid meat; granulations,
 condylomata; polypi, pale red, cellular, bleeding easily.
Nose
• Chronic catarrh: After exanthemata; thick, green mucus, blood and pus
(Puls.).
Mouth
• Teeth decay at the roots, crowns remain sound (Mez.—on edges, Staph.);
crumble, turn yellow (Syph.).
• Ranula: Bluish, or varicose veins on tongue or in mouth (Ambr.).
• Toothache from tea drinking.
• “On blowing the nose a pressing pain in the hollow tooth or at the side of
it (Culex)”.—Boenninghausen.
Gastro-intestinal System
• Constipation: Violent pains in rectum compel cessation of effort; stool
recedes, after being partly expelled (Sanic., Sil.).
• Piles swollen, pain most severe when sitting.
• Diarrhea: Early morning; expelled forcibly with much flatus (Aloe);
gurgling, as water from a bunghole; < after breakfast, coffee, fat food,
vaccination, onions.
• Anus fissured, painful to touch, surrounded with flat warts, or moist
mucus condylomata.
• Abdomen: As if an animal were crying; motion as if something alive;
protrudes here and here and there like the arm of a fetus (Croc., Nux-m.,
Sulph.).
Urinary System
• Sensation after urinating, as of urine trickling in urethra; severe cutting at
close of urination (Sars.).
Male Reproductive System
• Suppressed gonorrhea: Causing articular rheumatism; prostatitis;
sycosis; impotence; condylomata and many constitutional troubles.
Constitution
• For children and old people; the extremes of life; persons who are
habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction; young people of a nervous
sanguine temperament.
Mental Generals
• Cannot bear to be left alone; yet persistently refuses to talk.
• Thinks she is pregnant or will soon be delivered.
• Mania with desire to cut and tear everything, especially clothes (Tarent.);
with lewd, lascivious talk, amorous or religious (Hyos., Stram.).
Physical Generals
• Adapted to diseases with rapid sinking of the vital forces; complete
prostration; collapse.
• Cold perspiration on the forehead (over entire body, Tab.); with nearly
all complaints.
• Attacks of fainting from least exertion (Carb-v., Sulph.); excessive
weakness.
• Sinking feeling during hemorrhage (fainting, Tril.).
• Thirst: Intense, unquenchable, for large quantities of very cold water and
acid drinks; wants everything cold.
• Craving for acids or refreshing things (Ph-ac.).
• Icy coldness: Of face, tip of nose, feet, legs, hands, arms, and many other
parts.
• Bad effects of opium eating, tobacco chewing.
Head
• Sensation of a lump of ice on vertex, with chilliness (Sep.); as of heat and
cold at same time on scalp; as if brain were torn to pieces.
Face
• Face: Pale, blue, collapsed; features sunken, hippocratic; red while
lying, becomes pale on rising up (Acon.).
Gastro-intestinal System
• Cold feeling in abdomen (Colch., Tab.).
• Violent vomiting with profuse diarrhea.
• Vomiting: Excessive with nausea and great prostration; < by drinking
(Ars.); by least motion (Tab.); great weakness after.
• Cutting pain in abdomen as from knives.
• Cholera: Vomiting and purging; stool, profuse, watery, gushing,
prostrating; after fright (Acon.).
• Diarrhea: Frequent, greenish, watery, gushing; mixed with flakes; cutting
colic, with cramps commencing in hands and feet and spreading all over;
prostrating, after fright; < at least movement; with vomiting, cold sweat
on forehead during and prostration after (Ars., Tab.).
• Constipation: No desire; stool large, hard (Bry., Sulph.); in round, black
balls (Chel., Op., Plb.); from inactive rectum; frequent desire felt in
epigastrium (Ign.—in rectum, Nux-v.); painful, of infants and children,
after Lyc. and Nux-v.
Female Reproductive System
• Dysmenorrhea: With vomiting and purging, or exhausting diarrhea with
cold sweat (Am-c., Bov.); is so weak can scarcely stand for two days at
each menstrual nisus (Alum., Carb-an., Cocc.).
Extremities
• Pains in the limbs during wet weather, getting worse from warmth of bed,
better by continued walking.
Fever
• In congestive or pernicious intermittent fever, with extreme coldness,
thirst, face cold and collapsed; skin cold and clammy, great prostration;
cold sweat on forehead and deathly pallor on face.
Modalities
• Aggravation: From least motion; after drinking; before and during
menses; during stool; when perspiring; after fright.
Relation
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ZINCUM METALLICUM
Zinc
The Element
Constitution
• Persons suffering from cerebral and nervous exhaustion; defective
vitality; brain or nerve power wanting; too weak to develop
exanthemata or menstrual function, to expectorate, to urinate; to
comprehend, to memorize.
Mental Generals
• Child repeats everything said to it.
Physical Generals
• Hunger: Ravenous about 11 or 12 a.m. (Sulph.); great greediness when
eating; cannot eat fast enough (incipient brain disease in children).
• Feet sweaty and sore about toes; fetid, suppressed foot-sweat; nery
nervous.
• During sweat cannot tolerate any covering.
Urinary System
• Can only void urine while sitting bent backwards.
Female Reproductive System
• Always feels better every way as soon as the menses begin to flow; it
relieves all her sufferings; but they return again soon after the flow
ceases.
Back
• Spinal affections; burning along whole length of spine; backache, much
 < from sitting, > by walking about (Cob., Puls., Rhus-t.).
• Spinal irritation; great prostration of strength.
• Cannot bear back to be touched (Chinin-s., Tarent., Ther.).
Extremities
• Incessant and violent fidgety feeling in feet or lower extremities; must
move them constantly.
• Excessive nervous moving of feet in bed for hours after retiring, even
when asleep.
• Weakness and trembling of extremities; of hands while writing; during
menses.
Nervous System
• In the cerebral affections: In impending paralysis of brain; where the vis
medicatrix nature is too weak to develop exanthemata (Cupr., Sulph.,
Tub.); symptoms of effusion into ventricles.
• Child cries out during sleep; whole body jerks during sleep; wakes
frightened, starts, rolls the head from side to side; face alternately pale
and red.
• Convulsions: During dentition, with pale face, no heat, except perhaps
in occiput, no increase in temperature (reverse of Bell.); rolling the eyes;
gnashing the teeth.
• Automatic motion of hands and head, or one hand and head (Apoc., Bry.,
Hell.).
• Chorea: From suppressed eruption; from fright.
• Twitching and jerking of single muscles (Agar., Ign.)
Skin
• Chilblains, painful, < from rubbing.
Modalities
• Aggravation: Of many symptoms from drinking wine, even a small
quantity (Alum., Con.).
• Amelioration: Symptoms: Of chest, by expectorating; of bladder, by