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abdomen aching Acon Antidotes Apis Bapt Bell Berb Bism blood burning Cact Calc Camph Canth Carb Carbo catarrh Caust Cham chest Chronic Cinch Cocc Colch cold colic Compare constipation constricted coryza cough Crot Cupr diarrhoea discharge Dose Dulc dyspnoea ears eruption expectoration eyes feeling Ferr Fever flatulence Gels glands Glon Graph hæmorrhage hæmorrhoids head headache heat Helleb Helon Hydr Hyos Inflammation Ipec irritable Itching Kali bich Kali iod Kreos Lach larynx Leucorrhoea menses Merc Modalities mouth mucus nausea nervous neuralgia night nose pain Phos Phyt Picr Plat Plumb profuse Psor Puls rectum Relationship remedy Respiratory Rheumatic Rhus sensation Skin sleep sore spasmodic Spig Staph stitches stomach stool Stram Sulph sweat swelling swollen symptoms tenesmus Tereb third potency thirtieth potency throat Thuya Tincture tion tongue ulcers urethra Urine Vertigo vomiting weak worse Zinc
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Page 423 - Female.—Conscious of a womb. Pulsation in neck of womb. Desire easily excited. Feeling as if something was pressing on a sore spot in the pelvis; worse sitting. Pain from right side of womb to right or left breast.
Page 321 - What is its general physiological action ? Ignatia produces a marked hyperaesthesia of all the senses and a tendency to clonic spasms. Mentally, the emotional element is uppermost. Hence its chief applicability in hysteria. It destroys the harmony of action between different portions of the organism and perverts the co-ordination of function.
Page 147 - Chaps and cracks of the skin. Fissures or cracks in the palms of the hands or hard skin. Fissure of the anus. Suppurations with callous hard edges. Whitlow. Indolent, fistulous ulcers secreting thick yellow pus.
Page 215 - Give its general action. Colocynth develops most of its symptoms in the abdomen and head, causing intense neuralgias. The nerves around the hip-joint are also a marked centre of action. What is its greatest characteristic? A violent, agonizing abdominal colic; relieved by bending double and by pressing something hard into the abdomen. How does the colic of Dioscorea differ from that of Colocynth...
Page 579 - Fixed ideas: as if a strange person were at his side; as if soul and body were separated ; that body, particularly limbs, are made of glass and will readily break; as if a living animal were in abdomen; talks about being under the influence of a superior power.
Page 124 - Corson finds, that a piece of borax the size of a pea, dissolved in the mouth, acts magically in restoring the voice, in cases of sudden hoarseness brought on by a cold, and frequently for an hour or so, it renders the voice
Page 366 - In diphtheria, etc., the trouble began on the left side. Tonsils purplish. Purple, livid color of throat. Feeling as if something was swollen which must be swallowed; worse, swallowing saliva or liquids. Pain into ear. Collar and neckband must be very loose.
Page 303 - ... kidneys, or it may appear lower down and affect the sacral region. Pain in either of these situations may accompany uterine disturbances. You will find also that helonias is useful for suppression of the menses (here it is quite akin to pulsatilla) when the kidneys are congested. It seems as if the monthly congestion, instead of venting itself as it should through the uterine vessels, has extended to the kidneys giving rise to albuminuria. The urine is scanty and turbid. Then again you find helonias...
Page 168 - A lowered vital power from loss of fluids, after d nagging; after other diseases; in old people with venous congestions; states of collapse in cholera, typhoid;' these are some of the conditions offering special inducements to the action of Carbo veg. The patient may be almost lifeless, but the head is hot; coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and quickened respiration; and must have air, must be fanned hard, must have all the windows open. This is a typical state for Garbo veg.
Page 29 - Feeling of weakness and loss of power of sphincter ani. Sense of insecurity in rectum when passing flatus.