hi,
I need for a homeopathic seminar, which my student group will do, a lot
of informations more than I could get up to now.
Especially for others than buthus, scorpio an androctonus I couldn't
find anything.
I would be glad about all informations anyone could give me
thanks a lot
Daniela
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scorpions
Re: scorpions
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Scorpio europaeus
(scorpio europaeus)
Pharmacy
Scor. Scorpio europaeus. Scorpion (several species). androctonus
amurreuxi helbraeu. N. O. Scorpionida. Class, Arachnida. Tincture of
living animals. Historical dose: All potencies.
History
The Scorpion was a major remedy in ancient Egyptian medicine. A
proving of Scorpion is written in the medical papyruses, which give a
vivid description of Isis allowing herself to be stung to determine
the effects of the medicine. Scorpion stings are attended with a
certain amount of danger, especially to children. A proving on a
middle eastern scorpion was conducted by Jeremy Sherr. Most provers
were between age 25 to 40 years old. The symptoms are from the
provings and effects of stings. Planets: Mars.
Homeopathic
Pain and swelling of the injured part are first experienced and
constitutional symptoms follow. These include sleepiness, prostration
and possibly tetanus. Strabismus has been observed in some cases and
the pupils are dilated.
Bitten part much swollen with violent pains lasting from one to
three days. Heat and pain at bitten spot, sleepiness, sneezing,
restlessness, later, abundant saliva, meteorism, later, trismus or
tetanus. Complete prostration.
Always acute pains in and diminished temperature of the part bitten.
Clinical
Salivation. Strabismus. Tetanus.
Symptoms
Mind
Mind dull and foggy. Mentally better while moving and walking.
Anguish and worry. Desired company and sympathy. Feels sorry for
herself, better crying. Anxiety about health. Anxiety for no reason.
Anxiety for self, friends and the world with continual sighing.
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Averse to work. Tired and apathetic. Felt detached, very interested
in little things. Dreamy and detached. Felt disconnected from the
human race, as if everyone were another species. Weariness and
apathy. Felt depressed and destructive. Staring and dreamy, sits
gazing out of the window. Aversion to things she usually enjoyed.
Very sensitive to music. Incredibly sensitive to noise, can't bear
it. Despairing, tearful mood, could see no way out. Sadness and
confusion, unable to see a solution to her problems. Sensitive to
others' emotions. Sympathetic, took on other people's problems.
Speech slurred, answered with difficulty. Indisposed to talk and
averse to company. Hurried, runs everywhere. Extreme anguish and
restlessness. Desire to be out in the country.
Very changeable moods, one moment extremely friendly, nice and
amiable, then irritable. Incredible upsurge of energy, felt very
high, then low, then high again. Great swings of mood, better for
eating. Clumsy. Accident prone. As if drunk, with increased sexual
desire. Disappointed with people. Conversation difficult. Desired
comfort and sympathy.
Panic stricken. Fear, as if something terrible would happen. Felt
terror, panic, fear and that he could not cope. Absolutely terrified
of dogs. Overwhelmed by terror, panic and fear. Full of fear when
driving. Impatient watching others, wanted to speed them up. Time
seemed to go slowly. Did everything in a hurry. Eating hurriedly.
Irritable, snappy, oversensitive to noise. Argumentative. Growled at
her children. Angry with her children and family. Irritability, worse
for noise and bright lights. Critical and irritable.
Desire to pick an argument or fight. Great hostility to those around
him. Assertive, impatient, aggressive. Felt resentful and abused.
Terrible uncontrollable temper.
Wanted to kill her husband and children. Horrible moods. Lack of
concentration with day dreaming and difficulty in mental exertion.
Mind blank when concentrating. Unable to think of more than one thing
at a time. Forgetful. Absent-minded. Memory very poor for recent
events. Did not notice people he knew on the street, even though he
knew them. Forgot what she had just done and wanted to do it again.
Forgetful and could not perform her daily routines. Mistakes in
writing and spelling.
Abdomen
Short, sharp, strong stabbing cramps below ribs. Clinching feeling
of panic in abdomen, as if nearly had an accident. Ache in lower
abdomen. Pains in intestines feel bruised and sore. Pain in morning,
in a horizontal line in intestine, headache alternates with pain in
the abdomen. Pain in liver, a deep stitch, worse exertion, movement,
walking fast. Pain upper abdomen, above naval in the morning.
Back
Feeling of cold in back while in bed. Sudden and tremendous pain and
stiffness. Pain, cramp and stiffness left side neck. Pain between
scapulae extending down spine. Numbness and tingling middle edge of
left scapula. Aching and bruised sensation in sacral region.
Backache, worse sitting or beginning motion. Pain radiates to sides,
radiates to pelvis, radiates to diaphragm. Feeling of weight in back
as if the affected vertebrae were made of lead. Pain in one vertebra.
Sharp pain in back, worse breathing deeply.
Breasts
Felt as if breasts were very big, held breasts, then walked around
massaging breasts.
Chests
Anxiety in chest. Pressure, compression on chest, oppression as if a
cushion were inside chest cavity, pressing organ down to spine. Pain
left breast and lymph glands. Itching axilla. Sensation of expansion
of chest.
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Dreams
Oppressive dreams before waking, feeling of jealousy. Vague,
troublesome dreams, later part of sleep. Amazing dreams. Dreams are
confused. Dreams, angry, busy. Erotic dreams. Dreams of a car crash.
Dreams of climbing ladders, bus steps, into house. Dreams of dracula,
fearful, frightening. Dreams of guilt. Dreams of naked women. Dreams
of being attacked and murdered. Dreams of past events, of childhood,
parents. Dreams of events not yet taken place. Dreams of violence.
Dreams of water. Dreams of orange and red walls. Dreams of toilets
and feces. Dreamed that she was chased. Dreams of people's heads
chopped off, that she was weighing them.
Ears
Sharp pain in ears, down canal, as if a sharp pencil was pushed down
into the ear. Pressure inside ears. Pain in left ear, extending to
the jaw and moving to the back of the right ear. Aching in left ear.
Discomfort, tickling and ringing in left ear. Itch in left meatus of
ear. Wave-like sound within and around ears, worse at night. Loud
ringing in the ears. Blocked ears, with slight deafness. Hearing
dull, as if cotton wool in ears.
Eyes
Pupils dilated. Strabismus. Aversion to sunlight. Eyes water, red
and smarting. Eyes sore and hot, eyelids inflamed. Eyes small, puffy,
lusterless and tired. Eyes feel strained. Flashes of blue pin points
on objects when suddenly moving head or bending down. Flashing
ripples when closing eyes in bed. Focusing eyes difficult. Can focus
on distant objects, but close objects are blurred. Eyes sticky, woke
with eyes stuck together. Desire to close the eyes. Eyes are heavy,
aching and tired.
Face
Cold sores. Face pale and hollow. Face pale, drained. Face pale,
white. Face dark purple, rings round the eyes. Top lip cracked,
burning at corners. Sore painful patch right hand corner of lip, as
if would crack. Dry and cracked lips. Cracked lips bleeding after
cold wind. Trismus. Jaw aches, worse movement of jaw.
Female
Pain dragging during menses worse than usual. Pain gathering, as if
parts were in an iron grip, lasting one hour. Sharp, griping pain
shooting from uterus to bowel. Pain during menstrual period,
extending down back of legs. Pain bearing down during menses. Menses
early. Menses short duration. Pink-brown vaginal discharge with dull
dragging in sacral region. Sticky yellow vaginal discharge. Extremely
passionate. Desire increased. Felt amorous in a giggly, sentimental
way, as if drunk. Felt sexually aroused all day. Increased sexual
desire which is purely physical rising from irritation of genitals.
The genital area felt painfully oversensitive. Pressing pain in
ovarian region on urinating, better urinating, worse pressure.
Food
Appetite increased even after a meal. Eats little but often. Loss of
appetite. Aversion to food. Slight aversion to tobacco. Aversion to
courgettes, which left an unpleasant taste and nausea. Craves
chocolate. Desires crusty brown bread. Desires hot drinks. Desires
milk. Desires warm milk which ameliorates. Desires raw vegetables,
salad. Extreme thirst. Thirst, but does not drink. Thirst for cold
drinks.
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Head
Headache from the sun. Headache, better for alcohol. After exposure
to cold wind, slight neuralgic pain in left occiput, extending to
left jaw, worse inclining head forward. Dull pain in occiput and
vertex, as of a tight cap. Tightness in occiput and general dullness
in head. Sharp pressing pain, in left occiput, worse on listening
intently, better for not concentrating. Pain from back of head to
over left eye. Pain in left occiput sharp. Throbbing left temple over
eye.
Headache in temples. Boring pain in right temple. Head feels
delicate, worse sudden movement. Throbbing pain in right temple on
movement, sensitive to touch. Slight throbbing, above and behind left
temple. A feeling of pressure in the head, settling in the left
temple. Headache alternating with nausea. Pain in the head with
vomiting and shivering hands. Migraine during menses with very dim
vision, vomiting and debility. Dull headache. Head pain poking on
outside, worse bending forward. Dull congested feeling, upper left
side of head. Itch in forehead. Head pain, vertex and forehead, feels
hot. Heat and cold in the head at the same time. Head pain across
vertex and sides. Sensation of pressure. Head pain across forehead,
like a rope tightening with a feeling of weakness coming and going in
waves.
Head pain, better lying flat on back with head over the side of the
bed. Head pain, better lying with head raised. Head heavy, better
cold, dry air. Crackling and creaking in head, behind ears and above
neck, when walking in the cold wind. Numbness sides of head. Pain
bridge of nose. Dull sensation between the eyes, better shutting the
eyes. Head heavy, better shutting eyes. Pressure on the top of head,
left side. Pain front and top of head. Sensation as if head rolling,
eyes closing, difficulty applying self, tightness in head and mild
heat, especially forehead. Pain, heaviness round head.
Heart
Palpitations on waking. Palpitations on lying down to sleep, violent
heart best audible and visible. Felt heart pounding after urination.
Kidneys
Woke at night with desire to urinate, frequent urination, unfinished
feeling, slight burning, dribbling after. Increased desire to
urinate, more after lying down. Had to get up at night to urinate.
Urge to urinate, passed a few drops with cutting pain in bladder and
pubic dome. Frequent urination, large quantities. Urging to urinate,
sudden, incomplete.
Passes drops after urinating, worse bending. Feeling of
incontinence, had to hold on. Urine orange, pink. Bruised pain.
Limbs
Beaten sensation in bones and joints, especially large joints.
Better stretching, worse movement, worse lying still. Bruised
sensation in limbs. Felt as if he had 'flu'. Hands shivering in cold.
Hands turn blue in cold. Feet icy cold. Heavy limbs, especially legs.
Knees and ankles feel like jelly. Hands shaking. Shaking knees. Felt
pins and needles in hands and arms, as of hot water on skin. Thighs
burning and itching. Small boils on thighs. Jerking of left arm.
Abscess in finger, below nail bed. Purple band under nails on nail
bed. Numbness in hands and fingers. Stiff hands and hips. Pains
stitching left upper shoulder. Sharp pains joints, worse exertion.
Sensation as if had strained tendons. Limbs aching in the morning,
thighs sore and heavy. Cramps in calves in bed at nigh. Sharp pain
around ankle. Heels painful to stand. Pains in soles, very painful to
stand and painful to walk. Awkward, drops things, trips easily.
Desire to move and stretch during fever.
Lungs
Breathing difficult 9:00 p.m. , gradually worse, felt as if chest
wouldn't expand properly. Had an urge to take deep breath, but
couldn't. No pain, but felt as though muscles weren't working
properly. Sensation that air goes to head. Unproductive cough, little
mucus. Tickling cough. A dry cough.
Male
Increase in sexual power and desire. Thoughts of women from many
years ago, that he had not seen for years. Sexual desire in presence
of any woman. Felt as if he would explode with sexuality. Masturbated
frequently. Intensely erotic dreams. Intense orgasms.
Mouth
Saliva abundant. Mouth dry as after alcohol. Mouth dry, metallic
taste. Mouth wet, yet very thirsty. Mouth, taste strange when
outside, and breathing through mouth. Ulcer on right inner cheek,
white center.
Ulcer on the right side of mouth, a hard lump the size of a grain,
stinging. Sensitive aching feeling in gums, lower right side at back
of mouth. Sides of mouth sore.
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Neck
Neck glands feel enlarged. Large, blind, rd spot on right side of
neck. Pain in neck left side. Sharp pain left side of neck, moving to
right side. Tension in neck and shoulders. Tension in the neck, with
ache in lower back, worse sitting.
Nose
Frequent sneezing with nasal obstruction, coryza. Musty, catarrhal
smell, as of an old book. Itch in nose, must poke and scratch.
Sneezing, with pain in tooth. Coryza fluent. Bloody discharge on
blowing nose. Post-nasal catarrh. Discharge clear, running. Discharge
alternating sides. Discharge is thick, white, yellow. Discharge,
worse warm room, better open air. Large red spots on nose.
Perspiration
Perspiration at night. Perspiration, morning, on waking.
Perspiration, worse in a warm room. Perspiration, worse stress.
Perspiration does not ameliorate. Perspiration profuse.
Rectum
Meteorism. Diarrhea, brick red. Hemorrhoids, painful, hard, swollen,
worse walking, worse sitting. Diarrhea, explosive, hot, painful,
smell of rank fish. Anus itching. Pain in anus, feels ill. Rectum
raw, cracks radiating outwards and up crease to lower back. Better
hot bathing and heat. Vesicles on anus, extremely sensitive, worse
touch. Severe pain around anus and rectum, worse after stool, better
pressure. Pain with desire to vomit. Better hot bath, worse touch.
Pain shooting upwards Ñ prickling and sticking, prevents sleep.
Urging constant and productive for stool. Urging for stool as if
diarrhea would come on but it didn't. Gripes and rumbling, with
burning sensation in anus. Dry stool, constipated, abdomen bloated.
Very constipated, one difficult bowel motion a week. Stool hard,
which is unusual. Constipated, wants to but can't.
Feeling of diarrhea in bowels and abdomen, as if diarrhea would
explode. Bowel action greatly reduced from 3 to 4 times to 1 per day.
Sensation of parts above rectum in an iron fist, closing in on parts
and dragging them down. Better gentle motion, better bending double.
Skin
Skin pale. Skin red, sore, itching eruptions, worse 9 p.m. , better
by midnight. Red, sore, painful itching on soles of feet and palms,
around the veins, alternating sides or on both sides.
Sleep
Sleepiness. Tired, could do nothing, wanted to sleep, felt she
should be busy, but couldn't. Utterly exhausted, could hardly stay
awake. So lifeless, she could hardly think nor move. Could not remain
awake enough to drive the car. Felt very tired, wanted to rest, had
three naps but remained tired, could not cope without frequent short
sleeps. Very tired, needed longer than usual afternoon nap. Tired,
morning, rises late. Unrefreshed sleep, slept till late. Woke feeling
unrefreshed and black though slept well. Better after one half hour.
Sleepy feeling, reluctant to get out of bed, exhausted. Very tired on
waking. Sleepiness during day, could not keep eyes open. Tired and
yawning. Tired. Slept in the afternoon. Very tired after evening
meal, slept. Tired at night despite rest in day. Slept very deeply.
Restless sleep. Great difficulty falling asleep on account of
unpleasant pictures crowding in, became fearful. Wide awake till
after midnight, although physically tired. Woke many times at night
with sweating, feeling heavy and confused. Awoke early and could not
get back to sleep. Woke at 5:00 a.m. , could not sleep. Woke more
relaxed than for months. Slept on back during acute headache and
vomiting episode (normally sleeps on side). Slept on abdomen without
a pillow on left side of face with right arm curved around head. This
felt most comfortable and lasted throughout the proving.
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Stomach
Anxiety in stomach. Nausea. Felt unusually thirsty. Nausea and
dizziness, worse orange juice, better hot drinks. Nausea beginning in
stomach and progressing downwards, better eating. Nausea at thought
of food, better after deciding not to eat. Nausea, worse exertion.
Awoke with nausea and urging to stool. Felt absolutely dreadful,
violent stomach pains, nausea and dizziness, lasting from 7:00 a.m.
to 11:00 a.m. , better in the afternoon. Returning at 6:00 p.m.
and lasting till 9:00 p.m. , then fine. Nausea better lying down,
worse from motions, standing and sitting up. Nausea with lack of
appetite and great thirst for warm drinks. Nausea in the afternoon
and evening, after eating even small quantities. Nausea after fish,
nausea after chicken. Nausea after eating egg yolk, almost vomited.
Nausea from pain in anal cracks. Sickly pain, rising and falling,
combined with hunger, better lying down. Vomiting and retching.
Desire to vomit, but passed bile only. Nausea and vomiting, worse in
a moving car. Vomited violently several times, an orange-red color
which was similar to the color of his diarrhea. better for hot water
bottle. Pain in the stomach. Slight discomfort in stomach above
naval, with sharp pains. Short sharp, strong, stabbing pains and
cramps below ribs, coming in spasms all through the day. Sensation as
if stomach was screwed up into a ball which moved around. Empty
belchings.
Teeth
Pain worse eating, worse cold food, worse cold drinks, worse cold
air, better warmth.
Temperature
Fever at night, worse uncovering. During the fever, whole body
bruised and sore, as if beaten. Unable to get comfortable in bed, had
to change position frequently. Fever, very hot, perspires. Fever, hot
and cold in turns. Fever, sudden onset. Chill with shivering and
nausea. Chill with sensation of heat in forehead, eyes and lips. Skin
hot to touch.
Chill in evening, felt shivery, especially around upper back, across
shoulders and in anus. Felt feverish. Fever Ñ 'flu', sore throat
radiating to ears, dryness in mouth, eyes and throat, tickling in
throat, sneezing, nose running, clear phlegm, eyes heavy. Great
thirst. Tired, lethargic, desires to lie down. Feels warm.
Throat
Sore throat. Sore throat in the evening, better by morning, better
for beer. Throat feels rough, sore, better hot drinks. Prickling pain
from throat to ear, worse empty swallowing and on waking, better warm
drinks and hawking. Throat feels blocked, tickling and sore, worse
swallowing. Much swallowing. Had to swallow continually, a lump in
the throat, without wanting to swallow. Desire to swallow, as if
something stuck in the throat which she felt she could move
externally. Uncomfortable sensation in throat with desire to swallow.
Worse late afternoon and when annoyed. Frequent swallowing. Throat
dry, painful on swallowing, worse speaking, with coarseness and
cough. After sex, woke with dry throat and a cold. Dry throat with
extreme thirst for cold water which ameliorates. Throat dry but
thirstless. Throat dry with tickling on left side. Plugs of green
catarrh in throat, worse in the evening and morning and better during
the day. Thick and yellow catarrh in throat. Catarrh on tonsils, must
clear throat. External throat sensitive to closing, which makes head
feel hot.
Tongue
Pain in the tongue, sensation as if hot needles. Root of tongue and
soft palate felt sore and enlarged, better for cold water. Tingling
and numbness of tongue.
Vertigo
Vertigo, worse first movement, better continued motion.
Comments
Less nervous before an event than usual. (curative). Hearing is
acute. Menopausal panic attacks, with sweats and palpitations, worse
lying in bed, better sitting up or walking around.
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Desires cold drink. Desires fruit, especially oranges. Desire for
white wine. Desires fresh air which ameliorates. Air, aversion to.
Strong desire for air. Hot flushes, must get fresh air. Permanent
tiredness and fatigue. Less dryness of skin (curative). Itch after
bathing better (curative). Sleeplessness (cured). Woke very gently.
(curative). Strong smell of coffee. Itching and soreness in vagina
after intercourse (cured).
Small horny-like growth with spikes on right little toe. Severe
pain, worse touch, worse pressure, could not wear shoes. Worse at
9:00 p.m. Palpitations on waking disappeared (curative). Frequent
urination. (cured). Stiffness in morning improved (curative).
Although usually short sighted and astigmatic, he had short spells of
immensely clear vision (cured symptom). Vision is acute, can see for
miles. Things she would normally feel guilt about don't bother her,
(cured).
Felt unusually well all day. Woke more relaxed and calm than for
months, slept late. (throughout whole proving). Felt more energetic,
self assertive and confident. She had lots of energy, worked hard and
exercised. She was very bouncy and happy to be busy.
Felt good, happy, satisfied with life, happier and freer in her
relationship. Felt expansive and good. Sense of being "centered".
Felt euphoric, relaxed, "spaced out". Feeling extremely calm. Her
patience surprised her. Extremely alert. Pretended to feel well,
although sick.
A feeling of great energy and confidence, a magnetic state, his
emotions were more intense than ever before. In his love affair, he
surrendered to his feelings for the first time, and his girlfriend
commented that this was the most intense relationship she had ever
had.
Desired alcohol and drugs, a feeling of wanting to escape. It seemed
as though he was a different person, very similar to the way he had
been in adolescence, but in a much more powerful manner.
These emotions were so intense he wanted to rip his chest apart to
let them out. He lost all control over his emotions, which seemed to
come from a deep and distant part of himself, a darker side. He
desired to continue the proving for the rest of his life.
Although he experienced acute nausea, headache and dizziness, he
felt calm and happy, no upset by his illness, detached. Felt fed up
with all activities he normally enjoyed. Felt detached from
everything, as in a dream, reactions slowed down a lot. Feeling of
separateness, usual sense of urgency gone. Felt detached from her
stomach cramps. Felt she should be busy but couldn't.
Felt despondent and directionless in the evening. In the evening,
felt as if in a numbness, "thoughts, feelings, buzzing and confusing
me". I feel entirely alone, that I am viewing the world through one
hole, for it all seems just a picture, and the rest of the world
share a different view finder together. I don't want to join theirs
though.
Stomach pain ameliorated as headache starts. Headaches and mental
state ameliorated with appearance of sexual symptoms. Bright, all
colors seemed. Nose, discharge yellow-orange. Vomit, orange-red.
Diarrhea, brick red. Urine, pink-orange. Orange juice, aggravates.
Stayed awake till early morning, brain racing, enjoyed himself
tremendously.
Felt as if he had taken drugs. His friends thought so too. Desired
drugs. Warm drinks ameliorate throat. Warm milk ameliorates. Alcohol
ameliorates headache. Beer ameliorates throat. Coffee ameliorates.
Cold food and drink aggravates pain in teeth. Eating ameliorates
lethargy. Eating ameliorates swings of mood. Eating aggravates pain
in teeth.
Hemorrhages on cutting herself, blood dark and clotted quickly.
Heaviness feeling all over. Exhaustion, lethargy and fatigue.
Exhausted, run down, better for fresh air. Lethargy worse during
menses. Lethargy better shutting eyes. No strength, feels sagging all
over, limp and weak.
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Feet seem to drag. Lassitude evening, better lying down, better
short sleep. Weakness with trembling.
Nausea worse for motion. Sitting or first movement aggravate
backache. Walking aggravates vertigo. Walking and movement ameliorate
mentally and generally. Gentle motion ameliorates pain in rectum.
Constant change of position ameliorates back. Moving car aggravates
nausea and vomiting. Riding in car ameliorates. Numbness, tingling
and nausea throughout body, during fear. Occupation ameliorates.
During fever the whole body bruised and sore as if beaten, unable to
get comfortable in bed, had to change position frequently and
slightly else felt seized up. Restless. Extreme mental and physical
anguish with restlessness, could not be still for a moment. Beaten
sensation in bones and joints, especially large joints, better
stretching, worse movement and lying still. Pains poking. Pains
radiating outwards. Pains sharp.
Right to left, pain in throat. Left to right, pain in knees. Left to
right, ears ringing. Alternating sides, red, painful, itching
eruptions on soles of feet and palms. Alternating sides, nasal
discharge. Felt hot so uncovered, then cold so covered, then hot so
uncovered.
Gentle heat over whole body. Sensation of heat. Warm room
aggravates. Warm room aggravates nasal discharge. Hot bath
ameliorates pain in cracks around anus. Body warm to touch but feels
chilly. Cold, feels.
Cold dry air ameliorates. Wet, sore throat after getting. Cold wind
causes neuralgia in head. Wind aggravates. Desired and relished being
in a strong wind. Tremor. Loss of weight.
Compare
(1) Vesp., Scol., Tarent., Apis.
(2) Hyper., Led.
Relations
Coffee, did not antidote. Bruised sensation, cannot get comfortable
in bed. Better Arnica 30c.
Relations
Tiredness, sore throat, thirst, photophobia and headache. Better
from Bryonia 30c. Abscess on small toe, pain stinging and burning.
Worse for heat and touch. Better after Apis 200c.
Sources
Allen. Clarke. Sherr.
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Scorpio europaeus
(scorpio europaeus)
Pharmacy
Scor. Scorpio europaeus. Scorpion (several species). androctonus
amurreuxi helbraeu. N. O. Scorpionida. Class, Arachnida. Tincture of
living animals. Historical dose: All potencies.
History
The Scorpion was a major remedy in ancient Egyptian medicine. A
proving of Scorpion is written in the medical papyruses, which give a
vivid description of Isis allowing herself to be stung to determine
the effects of the medicine. Scorpion stings are attended with a
certain amount of danger, especially to children. A proving on a
middle eastern scorpion was conducted by Jeremy Sherr. Most provers
were between age 25 to 40 years old. The symptoms are from the
provings and effects of stings. Planets: Mars.
Homeopathic
Pain and swelling of the injured part are first experienced and
constitutional symptoms follow. These include sleepiness, prostration
and possibly tetanus. Strabismus has been observed in some cases and
the pupils are dilated.
Bitten part much swollen with violent pains lasting from one to
three days. Heat and pain at bitten spot, sleepiness, sneezing,
restlessness, later, abundant saliva, meteorism, later, trismus or
tetanus. Complete prostration.
Always acute pains in and diminished temperature of the part bitten.
Clinical
Salivation. Strabismus. Tetanus.
Symptoms
Mind
Mind dull and foggy. Mentally better while moving and walking.
Anguish and worry. Desired company and sympathy. Feels sorry for
herself, better crying. Anxiety about health. Anxiety for no reason.
Anxiety for self, friends and the world with continual sighing.
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Averse to work. Tired and apathetic. Felt detached, very interested
in little things. Dreamy and detached. Felt disconnected from the
human race, as if everyone were another species. Weariness and
apathy. Felt depressed and destructive. Staring and dreamy, sits
gazing out of the window. Aversion to things she usually enjoyed.
Very sensitive to music. Incredibly sensitive to noise, can't bear
it. Despairing, tearful mood, could see no way out. Sadness and
confusion, unable to see a solution to her problems. Sensitive to
others' emotions. Sympathetic, took on other people's problems.
Speech slurred, answered with difficulty. Indisposed to talk and
averse to company. Hurried, runs everywhere. Extreme anguish and
restlessness. Desire to be out in the country.
Very changeable moods, one moment extremely friendly, nice and
amiable, then irritable. Incredible upsurge of energy, felt very
high, then low, then high again. Great swings of mood, better for
eating. Clumsy. Accident prone. As if drunk, with increased sexual
desire. Disappointed with people. Conversation difficult. Desired
comfort and sympathy.
Panic stricken. Fear, as if something terrible would happen. Felt
terror, panic, fear and that he could not cope. Absolutely terrified
of dogs. Overwhelmed by terror, panic and fear. Full of fear when
driving. Impatient watching others, wanted to speed them up. Time
seemed to go slowly. Did everything in a hurry. Eating hurriedly.
Irritable, snappy, oversensitive to noise. Argumentative. Growled at
her children. Angry with her children and family. Irritability, worse
for noise and bright lights. Critical and irritable.
Desire to pick an argument or fight. Great hostility to those around
him. Assertive, impatient, aggressive. Felt resentful and abused.
Terrible uncontrollable temper.
Wanted to kill her husband and children. Horrible moods. Lack of
concentration with day dreaming and difficulty in mental exertion.
Mind blank when concentrating. Unable to think of more than one thing
at a time. Forgetful. Absent-minded. Memory very poor for recent
events. Did not notice people he knew on the street, even though he
knew them. Forgot what she had just done and wanted to do it again.
Forgetful and could not perform her daily routines. Mistakes in
writing and spelling.
Abdomen
Short, sharp, strong stabbing cramps below ribs. Clinching feeling
of panic in abdomen, as if nearly had an accident. Ache in lower
abdomen. Pains in intestines feel bruised and sore. Pain in morning,
in a horizontal line in intestine, headache alternates with pain in
the abdomen. Pain in liver, a deep stitch, worse exertion, movement,
walking fast. Pain upper abdomen, above naval in the morning.
Back
Feeling of cold in back while in bed. Sudden and tremendous pain and
stiffness. Pain, cramp and stiffness left side neck. Pain between
scapulae extending down spine. Numbness and tingling middle edge of
left scapula. Aching and bruised sensation in sacral region.
Backache, worse sitting or beginning motion. Pain radiates to sides,
radiates to pelvis, radiates to diaphragm. Feeling of weight in back
as if the affected vertebrae were made of lead. Pain in one vertebra.
Sharp pain in back, worse breathing deeply.
Breasts
Felt as if breasts were very big, held breasts, then walked around
massaging breasts.
Chests
Anxiety in chest. Pressure, compression on chest, oppression as if a
cushion were inside chest cavity, pressing organ down to spine. Pain
left breast and lymph glands. Itching axilla. Sensation of expansion
of chest.
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Dreams
Oppressive dreams before waking, feeling of jealousy. Vague,
troublesome dreams, later part of sleep. Amazing dreams. Dreams are
confused. Dreams, angry, busy. Erotic dreams. Dreams of a car crash.
Dreams of climbing ladders, bus steps, into house. Dreams of dracula,
fearful, frightening. Dreams of guilt. Dreams of naked women. Dreams
of being attacked and murdered. Dreams of past events, of childhood,
parents. Dreams of events not yet taken place. Dreams of violence.
Dreams of water. Dreams of orange and red walls. Dreams of toilets
and feces. Dreamed that she was chased. Dreams of people's heads
chopped off, that she was weighing them.
Ears
Sharp pain in ears, down canal, as if a sharp pencil was pushed down
into the ear. Pressure inside ears. Pain in left ear, extending to
the jaw and moving to the back of the right ear. Aching in left ear.
Discomfort, tickling and ringing in left ear. Itch in left meatus of
ear. Wave-like sound within and around ears, worse at night. Loud
ringing in the ears. Blocked ears, with slight deafness. Hearing
dull, as if cotton wool in ears.
Eyes
Pupils dilated. Strabismus. Aversion to sunlight. Eyes water, red
and smarting. Eyes sore and hot, eyelids inflamed. Eyes small, puffy,
lusterless and tired. Eyes feel strained. Flashes of blue pin points
on objects when suddenly moving head or bending down. Flashing
ripples when closing eyes in bed. Focusing eyes difficult. Can focus
on distant objects, but close objects are blurred. Eyes sticky, woke
with eyes stuck together. Desire to close the eyes. Eyes are heavy,
aching and tired.
Face
Cold sores. Face pale and hollow. Face pale, drained. Face pale,
white. Face dark purple, rings round the eyes. Top lip cracked,
burning at corners. Sore painful patch right hand corner of lip, as
if would crack. Dry and cracked lips. Cracked lips bleeding after
cold wind. Trismus. Jaw aches, worse movement of jaw.
Female
Pain dragging during menses worse than usual. Pain gathering, as if
parts were in an iron grip, lasting one hour. Sharp, griping pain
shooting from uterus to bowel. Pain during menstrual period,
extending down back of legs. Pain bearing down during menses. Menses
early. Menses short duration. Pink-brown vaginal discharge with dull
dragging in sacral region. Sticky yellow vaginal discharge. Extremely
passionate. Desire increased. Felt amorous in a giggly, sentimental
way, as if drunk. Felt sexually aroused all day. Increased sexual
desire which is purely physical rising from irritation of genitals.
The genital area felt painfully oversensitive. Pressing pain in
ovarian region on urinating, better urinating, worse pressure.
Food
Appetite increased even after a meal. Eats little but often. Loss of
appetite. Aversion to food. Slight aversion to tobacco. Aversion to
courgettes, which left an unpleasant taste and nausea. Craves
chocolate. Desires crusty brown bread. Desires hot drinks. Desires
milk. Desires warm milk which ameliorates. Desires raw vegetables,
salad. Extreme thirst. Thirst, but does not drink. Thirst for cold
drinks.
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Head
Headache from the sun. Headache, better for alcohol. After exposure
to cold wind, slight neuralgic pain in left occiput, extending to
left jaw, worse inclining head forward. Dull pain in occiput and
vertex, as of a tight cap. Tightness in occiput and general dullness
in head. Sharp pressing pain, in left occiput, worse on listening
intently, better for not concentrating. Pain from back of head to
over left eye. Pain in left occiput sharp. Throbbing left temple over
eye.
Headache in temples. Boring pain in right temple. Head feels
delicate, worse sudden movement. Throbbing pain in right temple on
movement, sensitive to touch. Slight throbbing, above and behind left
temple. A feeling of pressure in the head, settling in the left
temple. Headache alternating with nausea. Pain in the head with
vomiting and shivering hands. Migraine during menses with very dim
vision, vomiting and debility. Dull headache. Head pain poking on
outside, worse bending forward. Dull congested feeling, upper left
side of head. Itch in forehead. Head pain, vertex and forehead, feels
hot. Heat and cold in the head at the same time. Head pain across
vertex and sides. Sensation of pressure. Head pain across forehead,
like a rope tightening with a feeling of weakness coming and going in
waves.
Head pain, better lying flat on back with head over the side of the
bed. Head pain, better lying with head raised. Head heavy, better
cold, dry air. Crackling and creaking in head, behind ears and above
neck, when walking in the cold wind. Numbness sides of head. Pain
bridge of nose. Dull sensation between the eyes, better shutting the
eyes. Head heavy, better shutting eyes. Pressure on the top of head,
left side. Pain front and top of head. Sensation as if head rolling,
eyes closing, difficulty applying self, tightness in head and mild
heat, especially forehead. Pain, heaviness round head.
Heart
Palpitations on waking. Palpitations on lying down to sleep, violent
heart best audible and visible. Felt heart pounding after urination.
Kidneys
Woke at night with desire to urinate, frequent urination, unfinished
feeling, slight burning, dribbling after. Increased desire to
urinate, more after lying down. Had to get up at night to urinate.
Urge to urinate, passed a few drops with cutting pain in bladder and
pubic dome. Frequent urination, large quantities. Urging to urinate,
sudden, incomplete.
Passes drops after urinating, worse bending. Feeling of
incontinence, had to hold on. Urine orange, pink. Bruised pain.
Limbs
Beaten sensation in bones and joints, especially large joints.
Better stretching, worse movement, worse lying still. Bruised
sensation in limbs. Felt as if he had 'flu'. Hands shivering in cold.
Hands turn blue in cold. Feet icy cold. Heavy limbs, especially legs.
Knees and ankles feel like jelly. Hands shaking. Shaking knees. Felt
pins and needles in hands and arms, as of hot water on skin. Thighs
burning and itching. Small boils on thighs. Jerking of left arm.
Abscess in finger, below nail bed. Purple band under nails on nail
bed. Numbness in hands and fingers. Stiff hands and hips. Pains
stitching left upper shoulder. Sharp pains joints, worse exertion.
Sensation as if had strained tendons. Limbs aching in the morning,
thighs sore and heavy. Cramps in calves in bed at nigh. Sharp pain
around ankle. Heels painful to stand. Pains in soles, very painful to
stand and painful to walk. Awkward, drops things, trips easily.
Desire to move and stretch during fever.
Lungs
Breathing difficult 9:00 p.m. , gradually worse, felt as if chest
wouldn't expand properly. Had an urge to take deep breath, but
couldn't. No pain, but felt as though muscles weren't working
properly. Sensation that air goes to head. Unproductive cough, little
mucus. Tickling cough. A dry cough.
Male
Increase in sexual power and desire. Thoughts of women from many
years ago, that he had not seen for years. Sexual desire in presence
of any woman. Felt as if he would explode with sexuality. Masturbated
frequently. Intensely erotic dreams. Intense orgasms.
Mouth
Saliva abundant. Mouth dry as after alcohol. Mouth dry, metallic
taste. Mouth wet, yet very thirsty. Mouth, taste strange when
outside, and breathing through mouth. Ulcer on right inner cheek,
white center.
Ulcer on the right side of mouth, a hard lump the size of a grain,
stinging. Sensitive aching feeling in gums, lower right side at back
of mouth. Sides of mouth sore.
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Neck
Neck glands feel enlarged. Large, blind, rd spot on right side of
neck. Pain in neck left side. Sharp pain left side of neck, moving to
right side. Tension in neck and shoulders. Tension in the neck, with
ache in lower back, worse sitting.
Nose
Frequent sneezing with nasal obstruction, coryza. Musty, catarrhal
smell, as of an old book. Itch in nose, must poke and scratch.
Sneezing, with pain in tooth. Coryza fluent. Bloody discharge on
blowing nose. Post-nasal catarrh. Discharge clear, running. Discharge
alternating sides. Discharge is thick, white, yellow. Discharge,
worse warm room, better open air. Large red spots on nose.
Perspiration
Perspiration at night. Perspiration, morning, on waking.
Perspiration, worse in a warm room. Perspiration, worse stress.
Perspiration does not ameliorate. Perspiration profuse.
Rectum
Meteorism. Diarrhea, brick red. Hemorrhoids, painful, hard, swollen,
worse walking, worse sitting. Diarrhea, explosive, hot, painful,
smell of rank fish. Anus itching. Pain in anus, feels ill. Rectum
raw, cracks radiating outwards and up crease to lower back. Better
hot bathing and heat. Vesicles on anus, extremely sensitive, worse
touch. Severe pain around anus and rectum, worse after stool, better
pressure. Pain with desire to vomit. Better hot bath, worse touch.
Pain shooting upwards Ñ prickling and sticking, prevents sleep.
Urging constant and productive for stool. Urging for stool as if
diarrhea would come on but it didn't. Gripes and rumbling, with
burning sensation in anus. Dry stool, constipated, abdomen bloated.
Very constipated, one difficult bowel motion a week. Stool hard,
which is unusual. Constipated, wants to but can't.
Feeling of diarrhea in bowels and abdomen, as if diarrhea would
explode. Bowel action greatly reduced from 3 to 4 times to 1 per day.
Sensation of parts above rectum in an iron fist, closing in on parts
and dragging them down. Better gentle motion, better bending double.
Skin
Skin pale. Skin red, sore, itching eruptions, worse 9 p.m. , better
by midnight. Red, sore, painful itching on soles of feet and palms,
around the veins, alternating sides or on both sides.
Sleep
Sleepiness. Tired, could do nothing, wanted to sleep, felt she
should be busy, but couldn't. Utterly exhausted, could hardly stay
awake. So lifeless, she could hardly think nor move. Could not remain
awake enough to drive the car. Felt very tired, wanted to rest, had
three naps but remained tired, could not cope without frequent short
sleeps. Very tired, needed longer than usual afternoon nap. Tired,
morning, rises late. Unrefreshed sleep, slept till late. Woke feeling
unrefreshed and black though slept well. Better after one half hour.
Sleepy feeling, reluctant to get out of bed, exhausted. Very tired on
waking. Sleepiness during day, could not keep eyes open. Tired and
yawning. Tired. Slept in the afternoon. Very tired after evening
meal, slept. Tired at night despite rest in day. Slept very deeply.
Restless sleep. Great difficulty falling asleep on account of
unpleasant pictures crowding in, became fearful. Wide awake till
after midnight, although physically tired. Woke many times at night
with sweating, feeling heavy and confused. Awoke early and could not
get back to sleep. Woke at 5:00 a.m. , could not sleep. Woke more
relaxed than for months. Slept on back during acute headache and
vomiting episode (normally sleeps on side). Slept on abdomen without
a pillow on left side of face with right arm curved around head. This
felt most comfortable and lasted throughout the proving.
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Stomach
Anxiety in stomach. Nausea. Felt unusually thirsty. Nausea and
dizziness, worse orange juice, better hot drinks. Nausea beginning in
stomach and progressing downwards, better eating. Nausea at thought
of food, better after deciding not to eat. Nausea, worse exertion.
Awoke with nausea and urging to stool. Felt absolutely dreadful,
violent stomach pains, nausea and dizziness, lasting from 7:00 a.m.
to 11:00 a.m. , better in the afternoon. Returning at 6:00 p.m.
and lasting till 9:00 p.m. , then fine. Nausea better lying down,
worse from motions, standing and sitting up. Nausea with lack of
appetite and great thirst for warm drinks. Nausea in the afternoon
and evening, after eating even small quantities. Nausea after fish,
nausea after chicken. Nausea after eating egg yolk, almost vomited.
Nausea from pain in anal cracks. Sickly pain, rising and falling,
combined with hunger, better lying down. Vomiting and retching.
Desire to vomit, but passed bile only. Nausea and vomiting, worse in
a moving car. Vomited violently several times, an orange-red color
which was similar to the color of his diarrhea. better for hot water
bottle. Pain in the stomach. Slight discomfort in stomach above
naval, with sharp pains. Short sharp, strong, stabbing pains and
cramps below ribs, coming in spasms all through the day. Sensation as
if stomach was screwed up into a ball which moved around. Empty
belchings.
Teeth
Pain worse eating, worse cold food, worse cold drinks, worse cold
air, better warmth.
Temperature
Fever at night, worse uncovering. During the fever, whole body
bruised and sore, as if beaten. Unable to get comfortable in bed, had
to change position frequently. Fever, very hot, perspires. Fever, hot
and cold in turns. Fever, sudden onset. Chill with shivering and
nausea. Chill with sensation of heat in forehead, eyes and lips. Skin
hot to touch.
Chill in evening, felt shivery, especially around upper back, across
shoulders and in anus. Felt feverish. Fever Ñ 'flu', sore throat
radiating to ears, dryness in mouth, eyes and throat, tickling in
throat, sneezing, nose running, clear phlegm, eyes heavy. Great
thirst. Tired, lethargic, desires to lie down. Feels warm.
Throat
Sore throat. Sore throat in the evening, better by morning, better
for beer. Throat feels rough, sore, better hot drinks. Prickling pain
from throat to ear, worse empty swallowing and on waking, better warm
drinks and hawking. Throat feels blocked, tickling and sore, worse
swallowing. Much swallowing. Had to swallow continually, a lump in
the throat, without wanting to swallow. Desire to swallow, as if
something stuck in the throat which she felt she could move
externally. Uncomfortable sensation in throat with desire to swallow.
Worse late afternoon and when annoyed. Frequent swallowing. Throat
dry, painful on swallowing, worse speaking, with coarseness and
cough. After sex, woke with dry throat and a cold. Dry throat with
extreme thirst for cold water which ameliorates. Throat dry but
thirstless. Throat dry with tickling on left side. Plugs of green
catarrh in throat, worse in the evening and morning and better during
the day. Thick and yellow catarrh in throat. Catarrh on tonsils, must
clear throat. External throat sensitive to closing, which makes head
feel hot.
Tongue
Pain in the tongue, sensation as if hot needles. Root of tongue and
soft palate felt sore and enlarged, better for cold water. Tingling
and numbness of tongue.
Vertigo
Vertigo, worse first movement, better continued motion.
Comments
Less nervous before an event than usual. (curative). Hearing is
acute. Menopausal panic attacks, with sweats and palpitations, worse
lying in bed, better sitting up or walking around.
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Desires cold drink. Desires fruit, especially oranges. Desire for
white wine. Desires fresh air which ameliorates. Air, aversion to.
Strong desire for air. Hot flushes, must get fresh air. Permanent
tiredness and fatigue. Less dryness of skin (curative). Itch after
bathing better (curative). Sleeplessness (cured). Woke very gently.
(curative). Strong smell of coffee. Itching and soreness in vagina
after intercourse (cured).
Small horny-like growth with spikes on right little toe. Severe
pain, worse touch, worse pressure, could not wear shoes. Worse at
9:00 p.m. Palpitations on waking disappeared (curative). Frequent
urination. (cured). Stiffness in morning improved (curative).
Although usually short sighted and astigmatic, he had short spells of
immensely clear vision (cured symptom). Vision is acute, can see for
miles. Things she would normally feel guilt about don't bother her,
(cured).
Felt unusually well all day. Woke more relaxed and calm than for
months, slept late. (throughout whole proving). Felt more energetic,
self assertive and confident. She had lots of energy, worked hard and
exercised. She was very bouncy and happy to be busy.
Felt good, happy, satisfied with life, happier and freer in her
relationship. Felt expansive and good. Sense of being "centered".
Felt euphoric, relaxed, "spaced out". Feeling extremely calm. Her
patience surprised her. Extremely alert. Pretended to feel well,
although sick.
A feeling of great energy and confidence, a magnetic state, his
emotions were more intense than ever before. In his love affair, he
surrendered to his feelings for the first time, and his girlfriend
commented that this was the most intense relationship she had ever
had.
Desired alcohol and drugs, a feeling of wanting to escape. It seemed
as though he was a different person, very similar to the way he had
been in adolescence, but in a much more powerful manner.
These emotions were so intense he wanted to rip his chest apart to
let them out. He lost all control over his emotions, which seemed to
come from a deep and distant part of himself, a darker side. He
desired to continue the proving for the rest of his life.
Although he experienced acute nausea, headache and dizziness, he
felt calm and happy, no upset by his illness, detached. Felt fed up
with all activities he normally enjoyed. Felt detached from
everything, as in a dream, reactions slowed down a lot. Feeling of
separateness, usual sense of urgency gone. Felt detached from her
stomach cramps. Felt she should be busy but couldn't.
Felt despondent and directionless in the evening. In the evening,
felt as if in a numbness, "thoughts, feelings, buzzing and confusing
me". I feel entirely alone, that I am viewing the world through one
hole, for it all seems just a picture, and the rest of the world
share a different view finder together. I don't want to join theirs
though.
Stomach pain ameliorated as headache starts. Headaches and mental
state ameliorated with appearance of sexual symptoms. Bright, all
colors seemed. Nose, discharge yellow-orange. Vomit, orange-red.
Diarrhea, brick red. Urine, pink-orange. Orange juice, aggravates.
Stayed awake till early morning, brain racing, enjoyed himself
tremendously.
Felt as if he had taken drugs. His friends thought so too. Desired
drugs. Warm drinks ameliorate throat. Warm milk ameliorates. Alcohol
ameliorates headache. Beer ameliorates throat. Coffee ameliorates.
Cold food and drink aggravates pain in teeth. Eating ameliorates
lethargy. Eating ameliorates swings of mood. Eating aggravates pain
in teeth.
Hemorrhages on cutting herself, blood dark and clotted quickly.
Heaviness feeling all over. Exhaustion, lethargy and fatigue.
Exhausted, run down, better for fresh air. Lethargy worse during
menses. Lethargy better shutting eyes. No strength, feels sagging all
over, limp and weak.
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Feet seem to drag. Lassitude evening, better lying down, better
short sleep. Weakness with trembling.
Nausea worse for motion. Sitting or first movement aggravate
backache. Walking aggravates vertigo. Walking and movement ameliorate
mentally and generally. Gentle motion ameliorates pain in rectum.
Constant change of position ameliorates back. Moving car aggravates
nausea and vomiting. Riding in car ameliorates. Numbness, tingling
and nausea throughout body, during fear. Occupation ameliorates.
During fever the whole body bruised and sore as if beaten, unable to
get comfortable in bed, had to change position frequently and
slightly else felt seized up. Restless. Extreme mental and physical
anguish with restlessness, could not be still for a moment. Beaten
sensation in bones and joints, especially large joints, better
stretching, worse movement and lying still. Pains poking. Pains
radiating outwards. Pains sharp.
Right to left, pain in throat. Left to right, pain in knees. Left to
right, ears ringing. Alternating sides, red, painful, itching
eruptions on soles of feet and palms. Alternating sides, nasal
discharge. Felt hot so uncovered, then cold so covered, then hot so
uncovered.
Gentle heat over whole body. Sensation of heat. Warm room
aggravates. Warm room aggravates nasal discharge. Hot bath
ameliorates pain in cracks around anus. Body warm to touch but feels
chilly. Cold, feels.
Cold dry air ameliorates. Wet, sore throat after getting. Cold wind
causes neuralgia in head. Wind aggravates. Desired and relished being
in a strong wind. Tremor. Loss of weight.
Compare
(1) Vesp., Scol., Tarent., Apis.
(2) Hyper., Led.
Relations
Coffee, did not antidote. Bruised sensation, cannot get comfortable
in bed. Better Arnica 30c.
Relations
Tiredness, sore throat, thirst, photophobia and headache. Better
from Bryonia 30c. Abscess on small toe, pain stinging and burning.
Worse for heat and touch. Better after Apis 200c.
Sources
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Abdomen
ABDOMEN - PAIN - accompanied by - chill
ABDOMEN - PAIN - chill - during
Back
BACK - PAIN - chill - during
BACK - PAIN - Cervical region
BACK - PAIN - Cervical region - afternoon - 17-19 h
BACK - PAIN - Cervical region - chill, during
BACK - PAIN - cramping
BACK - PAIN - cramping - Cervical region
BACK - STIFFNESS
BACK - STIFFNESS - Cervical region
Chest
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - respiration;
difficult
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart
CHEST - WOOD nailed between heart and lungs; sensation of
Chill
CHILL - CHILL in general
CHILL - COLD - Hands; with
Extremities
EXTREMITIES - CHILLINESS
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands - chill, during
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands - icy
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Fingers
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Fingers
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING
EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING
Eye
EYE - DISCOLORATION - red
EYE - LACHRYMATION
EYE - PHOTOPHOBIA
EYE - STRABISMUS - painless
EYE - SUNKEN
Female genitalia/sex
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - frequent; too
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - painful - end, at the
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - scanty
Fever
FEVER - ALTERNATING with - chills - afternoon - 18 h
FEVER - INTENSE heat
FEVER - INTENSE heat - children; in
FEVER - INTERMITTENT
Generals
GENERALS - AFTERNOON
GENERALS - AFTERNOON - 16 h - 16-20 h
GENERALS - EVENING
GENERALS - COLD - feeling - Single parts
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS
GENERALS - EATING - after - amel.
GENERALS - EATING - while - amel.
GENERALS - EXERTION; physical - agg.
GENERALS - HEAT - flushes of
GENERALS - HEAT - lack of vital heat
GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - Lymphatic vessels
GENERALS - LIGHT - agg.
GENERALS - MEDICINE - allopathic - addiction to
GENERALS - NARCOTICS - desire for
GENERALS - PARALYSIS AGITANS
GENERALS - PERIODICITY - year - every
GENERALS - PULSE - weak
GENERALS - REST - amel.
GENERALS - SWELLING - general, in
GENERALS - TIME table; generalized - 15 h
GENERALS - TIME table; generalized - 17 h
GENERALS - TREMBLING - Externally
GENERALS - WEAKNESS
Head
HEAD - HEAVINESS
HEAD - PAIN
HEAD - PAIN - paroxysmal pains
HEAD - PAIN - wandering pains
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - left
HEAD - PAIN - Temples
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - right
HEAD - PAIN - pressing
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead - Eyes - right
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead - Eyes - Above
HEAD - PAIN - pulsating
Larynx and trachea
LARYNX AND TRACHEA - TENSION - Trachea
Male genitalia/sex
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - ERECTIONS - wanting
Mind
MIND - ANGER
MIND - ANGUISH
MIND - ANGUISH - evening
MIND - ANGUISH - evening - 19 h
MIND - ANXIETY
MIND - ANXIETY - evening
MIND - ANXIETY - evening - 19 h
MIND - ANXIETY - future, about
MIND - ANXIETY - future, about - evening
MIND - ANXIETY - future, about - evening - 19 h
MIND - COMPREHENSION - easy
MIND - CONCENTRATION - difficult
MIND - CONFIDENCE - want of self-confidence
MIND - DREAM; as if in a
MIND - INDIFFERENCE
MIND - INDIFFERENCE - everything, to
MIND - INDIFFERENCE - external things; to
MIND - INSANITY
MIND - INSANITY - loquacious
MIND - IRRESOLUTION
MIND - IRRITABILITY
MIND - LOQUACITY
MIND - LOQUACITY - alternating with - taciturnity
MIND - MENTAL EXERTION - agg.
MIND - MENTAL EXERTION - agg. - impossible
MIND - MENTAL EXERTION - aversion to
MIND - MOOD - alternating
MIND - MOOD - changeable
MIND - PROSTRATION of mind
MIND - RESTLESSNESS
MIND - SADNESS
MIND - SADNESS - menopause, during
MIND - SENSITIVE
MIND - SENSITIVE - light, to
MIND - SENSITIVE - noise, to
MIND - SPEECH - incoherent
MIND - TACITURN
MIND - WEARY OF LIFE
MIND - WEEPING
MIND - WILL - weakness of
Mouth
MOUTH - SALIVATION
MOUTH - SALIVATION - profuse
Nose
NOSE - SNEEZING
NOSE - SNEEZING - frequent
Perspiration
PERSPIRATION - COLD
PERSPIRATION - COLD - night
PERSPIRATION - PROFUSE
PERSPIRATION - PROFUSE - night
Rectum
RECTUM - DIARRHEA
Respiration
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT
Skin
SKIN - BURNING
SKIN - DISCOLORATION - red
SKIN - DISCOLORATION - red - spots
SKIN - FORMICATION
SKIN - FORMICATION - itching; with
SKIN - ITCHING
Sleep
SLEEP - DREAMING - sensation of dreaming
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - afternoon
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - overpowering
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS
Throat
THROAT - CHOKING
THROAT - SWALLOWING - difficult
Vertigo
VERTIGO - VERTIGO
VERTIGO - WALKING - while
Buthus afer
Generals
GENERALS - TIME table; generalized - 17 h
Buthus occitanus
Generals
GENERALS - TIME table; generalized - 17 h
Buxus sempervirens
Generals
GENERALS - PULSE - frequent
Stomach
STOMACH - NAUSEA
Cacao
Generals
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - cheese - aversion
GENERALS - HYPOTENSION
GENERALS - PULSE - excited
GENERALS - PULSE - frequent
GENERALS - PULSE - full
Mind
MIND - SADNESS
Cactus grandiflorus
Abdomen
ABDOMEN - COMPLAINTS of abdomen - extending to - Thighs
ABDOMEN - CONGESTION - Liver; of
ABDOMEN - CONGESTION - Liver; of - acute
ABDOMEN - CONGESTION - Liver; of - chronic
ABDOMEN - CONSTRICTION
ABDOMEN - CONSTRICTION - menses, during
ABDOMEN - CONSTRICTION - Hypochondria
ABDOMEN - CONSTRICTION - Hypochondria - bandage; as if by a
ABDOMEN - CONSTRICTION - Inguinal region
ABDOMEN - CONSTRICTION - Inguinal region - extending around pelvis
ABDOMEN - DISTENSION
ABDOMEN - HEAT
ABDOMEN - HEAT - fever, during
ABDOMEN - HEAT - flushes of
ABDOMEN - HYPOCHONDRIA; complaints of - extending to - Upward
ABDOMEN - INFLAMMATION
ABDOMEN - ITCHING - evening
ABDOMEN - ITCHING - evening - undressing, while
ABDOMEN - MENSES - before - agg.
ABDOMEN - MENSES - during - agg.
ABDOMEN - PAIN
ABDOMEN - PAIN - menses - during
ABDOMEN - PAIN - stool - before
ABDOMEN - PAIN - stool - during - diarrheic stool
ABDOMEN - PAIN - violent
ABDOMEN - PAIN - extending to - Back
ABDOMEN - PAIN - extending to - Thigh
ABDOMEN - PAIN - Hypogastrium
ABDOMEN - PAIN - Liver
ABDOMEN - PAIN - burning
ABDOMEN - PAIN - constricting
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cramping
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cramping - Umbilicus - Region of - yawning with
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting - Hypogastrium
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting - Umbilicus
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting - Umbilicus - Region of
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting - Umbilicus - Region of - stool - after
ABDOMEN - PAIN - dragging, bearing down - fever; in asthenic
ABDOMEN - PAIN - drawing - stool - before
ABDOMEN - PAIN - drawing - Inguinal region
ABDOMEN - PAIN - sore
ABDOMEN - PAIN - stitching - Liver
ABDOMEN - PAIN - tearing
ABDOMEN - PAIN - twisting
ABDOMEN - PULSATION
ABDOMEN - RUMBLING
ABDOMEN - RUMBLING - stool - before
ABDOMEN - SWELLING - Liver
Back
BACK - BLOATING - Cervical region
BACK - COLDNESS
BACK - COLDNESS - fever - with
BACK - CONGESTION - Cervical region
BACK - HEAT - Cervical region
BACK - MOVEMENTS - Sacral region
BACK - PAIN - Cervical region
BACK - PAIN - Dorsal region - Scapulae - left
BACK - PAIN - Dorsal region - Scapulae - left - Under
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - rheumatic
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - Spine
BACK - PAIN - Spine
BACK - PAIN - sore - Spine - Dorsal region
BACK - PAIN - stitching - Dorsal region
BACK - WEAKNESS - Cervical region
Bladder
BLADDER - CONSTRICTION
BLADDER - CONSTRICTION - Neck
BLADDER - HEMORRHAGE
BLADDER - INFLAMMATION
BLADDER - PAIN
BLADDER - PAIN - Neck
BLADDER - PARALYSIS
BLADDER - RETENTION of urine
BLADDER - RETENTION of urine - clots; from - bladder; in the
BLADDER - RETENTION of urine - clots; from - vagina; in the
BLADDER - RETENTION of urine - enlarged prostate, from
BLADDER - SPASM - Neck
BLADDER - STONES in bladder
BLADDER - URGING to urinate
BLADDER - URGING to urinate - day and night
BLADDER - URGING to urinate - constant
BLADDER - URGING to urinate - frequent
BLADDER - URGING to urinate - ineffectual
BLADDER - URGING to urinate - urination, after
BLADDER - URINATION - dribbling
BLADDER - URINATION - dribbling - involuntary - menses, during
BLADDER - URINATION - dysuria
BLADDER - URINATION - frequent
BLADDER - URINATION - frequent - night
BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary
BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary - night
BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary - night - midnight - after - 5 h
BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary - night - morning, toward
BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary - menses, during
BLADDER - URINATION - retarded, must wait for urine to start
BLADDER - URINATION - retarded, must wait for urine to start - press
a long time before he can begin; must
BLADDER - URINATION - unsatisfactory
BLADDER - WEAKNESS
Chest
CHEST - AIR - sensitive to air - Mammae - cold air; sensitive to
CHEST - ANEURYSM of - Heart
CHEST - ANGINA pectoris
CHEST - ANGINA pectoris - heart disease; from organic
CHEST - ANGINA pectoris - pseudo angina pectoris
CHEST - ANXIETY in
CHEST - ANXIETY in - rising from chest
CHEST - ANXIETY in - Heart, region of
CHEST - ARTERIOSCLEROSIS of coronaries
CHEST - AXILLA; complaints of - left
CHEST - CANCER - Heart
CHEST - CATARRH
CHEST - CEASES to beat; as if heart - had ceased
CHEST - COLDNESS - pain; at seat of
CHEST - CONGESTION
CHEST - CONGESTION - lying down impossible
CHEST - CONSTRICTION
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - armor, as if from an
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - asthmatic
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - band; as from a
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - band; as from a - iron
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - band; as from a - iron - Heart
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - talking - preventing
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Diaphragm
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Heart
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Heart - band; as from a - iron
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Heart - grasping sensation
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Heart - hand; like a hand around her heart
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Lower part
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Sternum
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Sternum - motion, on
CHEST - DIAPHRAGM; complaints of
CHEST - DILATATION of heart
CHEST - DROPSY
CHEST - FATTY degeneration of heart
CHEST - FLUTTERING
CHEST - FLUTTERING - lying, while - side - left; on
CHEST - FULLNESS
CHEST - GURGLING - Heart
CHEST - HEART failure - beginning of
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - constricting
pain of the heart
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - epistaxis
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - hemorrhage
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - respiration;
difficult
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Fingers;
numbness in
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Hand - left -
numbness
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Hand - left -
swelling
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Head - complaints
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Hypochondria;
complaints of
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Upper limbs -
left - numbness
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Upper limbs -
left - pain
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - Apex of heart
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - Valves
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - Valves - Aortic valve -
insufficiency
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - Valves - Mitral valve -
regurgitation
CHEST - HEAT
CHEST - HEAT - flushes
CHEST - HEAT - Heart, in region of - flushes of
CHEST - HEMORRHAGE of lungs
CHEST - HEPATIZATION of lungs
CHEST - HYPERTROPHY - Heart; of
CHEST - IMPULSE of heart; excessive
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Bronchial tubes
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Diaphragm
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - bright's disease, with
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - lying on side impossible
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - Endocardium
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - Endocardium - mitral insufficiency
and violent, rapid action; with
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - Endocardium - rheumatic
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - Pericardium
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Lungs
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Lungs - lie on the back, must
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Mammae
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Pleura
CHEST - INJURIES - Heart; to
CHEST - ITCHING
CHEST - ITCHING - evening
CHEST - ITCHING - fleas, as from
CHEST - LYING - side; on - left - agg.
CHEST - MENSES - during
CHEST - MURMURS - cardiac murmurs
CHEST - MURMURS - cardiac murmurs - valvular
CHEST - MURMURS - cardiac murmurs - valvular - Aortic valve
CHEST - MURMURS - respiratory murmurs
CHEST - NARROW - sensation as if too
CHEST - NOISES - abnormal
CHEST - NUMBNESS - Precordial
CHEST - OPPRESSION
CHEST - OPPRESSION - accompanied by - respiration; difficult
CHEST - OPPRESSION - ascending
CHEST - OPPRESSION - fever, during
CHEST - OPPRESSION - lying, while
CHEST - OPPRESSION - lying, while - side - left; on
CHEST - OPPRESSION - walking - while
CHEST - OPPRESSION - weight on chest; as from a
CHEST - OPPRESSION - Heart
CHEST - OPPRESSION - Heart - evening
CHEST - PAIN
CHEST - PAIN - forenoon - 11 h
CHEST - PAIN - night - midnight - before - 23 h
CHEST - PAIN - ascending
CHEST - PAIN - exertion
CHEST - PAIN - lying - back, on - amel.
CHEST - PAIN - lying - side, on - left
CHEST - PAIN - rheumatic
CHEST - PAIN - sitting
CHEST - PAIN - walking - while
CHEST - PAIN - wandering
CHEST - PAIN - Axilla
CHEST - PAIN - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - accompanied by - respiration; difficult
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - fainting, with pain in heart
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - lying - back, on the - amel.
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - lying - side - left - agg.
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - menses - before
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - menses - during
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - motion - agg.
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - paroxysmal
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - pressure
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - rheumatic
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - walking
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending to - Abdomen - left
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending to - Arm - left
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending to - Arm - Both arms
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending to - Axilla - then back
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending to - Fingers - left hand; of
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending to - Hand - left
CHEST - PAIN - Lower chest - left
CHEST - PAIN - Mammae
CHEST - PAIN - Sides - right
CHEST - PAIN - Sides - left
CHEST - PAIN - Sides - walking
CHEST - PAIN - Sternum - Behind
CHEST - PAIN - aching
CHEST - PAIN - aching - ascending agg.
CHEST - PAIN - aching - walking
CHEST - PAIN - aching - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - constricting
CHEST - PAIN - constricting - Diaphragm
CHEST - PAIN - cramping
CHEST - PAIN - cutting
CHEST - PAIN - cutting - Diaphragm
CHEST - PAIN - cutting - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - cutting - Heart - motion, on
CHEST - PAIN - drawing pain - Axilla
CHEST - PAIN - drawing pain - Sides - left
CHEST - PAIN - drawing pain - Sides - extending to - Shoulder joint
CHEST - PAIN - griping
CHEST - PAIN - griping - Heart, in
CHEST - PAIN - griping - Sternum - Behind
CHEST - PAIN - pressing - sitting
CHEST - PAIN - pressing - weight; as from a
CHEST - PAIN - pressing - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - pressing - Heart - extending to - Axilla then back
CHEST - PAIN - pressing - Sides - right
CHEST - PAIN - pressing - Sides - walking
CHEST - PAIN - sore - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - squeezing sensation
CHEST - PAIN - squeezing sensation - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - stitching
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - coughing
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - extending to - Arm; left
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Sternum
CHEST - PAIN - tearing - Heart; region of - extending to - Forearm -
left
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - evening
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - night
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - night - bed, in
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - accompanied by - perspiration; cold
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - accompanied by - Upper limbs; pain in
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - anxiety - with
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - ascending stairs
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - breath, holding
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - chronic
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - epistaxis, with
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - excitement, after
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - excitement, after - sudden
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - exertion
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - exertion - unusual
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - extra systole
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - fistula; with anal
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - fright, after
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - headache - during
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - inspiration; deep - during
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - irregular
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - irritable heart
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - lying
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - lying - back; on
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - lying - side - left
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - menses - before
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - menses - during
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - menses - during - beginning of; at the
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - menses - suppressed
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - mental exertion
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - motion
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - motion - beginning to move
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - nervous palpitation
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - rising - seat; from a
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - sitting - amel.
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - sitting - erect - amel.
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - sitting - up - amel.
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - standing
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - stooping
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - thinking - about it
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - tobacco from
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - tumultuous, violent, vehement
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - turning in bed
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - unrequited affections, from
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - vertigo, with
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - walking
CHEST - PARALYSIS - Diaphragm
CHEST - PHTHISIS pulmonalis - incipient
CHEST - PULSATION
CHEST - PULSATION - morning
CHEST - SWELLING - Heart - sensation as if
CHEST - TOBACCO heart
CHEST - TURNING - around; as if - Heart
CHEST - TURNING - over - as if - Heart
CHEST - TURNING - something were turning over; as if
CHEST - WEAKNESS - Heart
CHEST - WEAKNESS - Heart - arteriosclerosis, in
CHEST - WEAKNESS - Heart - tendency
CHEST - WHIRLING; sensation of - Heart; about
Chill
CHILL - CHILL in general
CHILL - FORENOON
CHILL - FORENOON - 10 h
CHILL - FORENOON - 10.30 h
CHILL - FORENOON - 11 h
CHILL - FORENOON - 11 h - 11-16 h
CHILL - FORENOON - 11 h - 23 h; and
CHILL - AFTERNOON - 13 h
CHILL - NIGHT
CHILL - NIGHT - midnight
CHILL - NIGHT - midnight - before
CHILL - NIGHT - midnight - before - 22 h
CHILL - NIGHT - midnight - before - 23 h
CHILL - NIGHT - midnight - at
CHILL - BEGINNING in - Back
CHILL - CHILLINESS
CHILL - EXPOSURE, after
CHILL - EXPOSURE, after - sun; to the heat of
CHILL - MENSES - during
CHILL - PERIODICAL - hour - same hour
CHILL - PERIODICITY - regular and distinct
CHILL - PERIODICITY - regular and distinct - clock-like
CHILL - PERNICIOUS
CHILL - QUOTIDIAN
CHILL - SHAKING
CHILL - SHAKING - heat - with - head; of
CHILL - STOOL - during
CHILL - WARM - room - amel. - not amel. in warm room nor by a warm
stove
Cough
COUGH - NIGHT
COUGH - NIGHT - midnight - before - 23 h
COUGH - DRY
COUGH - DRY - tickling, from - Larynx; in
COUGH - HEART affections, with
COUGH - ITCHING - Larynx; in
COUGH - LYING - bed - agg.
COUGH - MENSES - during
COUGH - PAROXYSMAL - forenoon
COUGH - PERSISTENT
COUGH - RATTLING
COUGH - SPASMODIC
COUGH - STERTOROUS
COUGH - STERTOROUS - night
COUGH - TICKLING - Larynx; in
Dreams
DREAMS - AMOROUS
DREAMS - AMOROUS - erections - with
DREAMS - EXCITING
DREAMS - FALLING
DREAMS - FRIGHTFUL
DREAMS - MANY
DREAMS - UNREMEMBERED
DREAMS - VIOLENCE
Ear
EAR - DISCHARGES - measles, after
EAR - INFLAMMATION
EAR - INFLAMMATION - Meatus
EAR - MENSES - during
EAR - NOISES in
EAR - NOISES in - buzzing
EAR - NOISES in - ringing
EAR - NOISES in - roaring
EAR - NOISES in - singing
EAR - PAIN
EAR - PULSATION
EAR - PULSATION - right
Expectoration
EXPECTORATION - BLOODY
EXPECTORATION - BLOODY - dark
EXPECTORATION - BLOODY - streaked
EXPECTORATION - COPIOUS
EXPECTORATION - GELATINOUS
EXPECTORATION - MUCOUS
EXPECTORATION - MUCOUS - bloody
EXPECTORATION - STARCH, like
EXPECTORATION - THICK
EXPECTORATION - VISCID
EXPECTORATION - YELLOW
External throat
EXTERNAL THROAT - CLOTHING agg.
EXTERNAL THROAT - GOITRE - exophthalmic
EXTERNAL THROAT - GOITRE - exophthalmic - accompanied by - Heart
complaints
EXTERNAL THROAT - PULSATION - Carotids
Extremities
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands - blue
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands - chill, during
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands - icy
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands - icy - fever, with
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Fingers - chill
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Foot
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Foot - headache - during
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Foot - icy cold
EXTREMITIES - CONSTRICTION
EXTREMITIES - CONSTRICTION - bandage; as by
EXTREMITIES - CONSTRICTION - tape; as by
EXTREMITIES - CONSTRICTION - Joints
EXTREMITIES - CONSTRICTION - Shoulder
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Upper limbs - left
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Foot - Sole
EXTREMITIES - DISCOLORATION - Hand - blueness
EXTREMITIES - DISCOLORATION - Fingers - Nails - blueness
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Elbow
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Elbow - herpes
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Ankle
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Ankle - dry
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Ankle - herpes
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Ankle - Malleolus
EXTREMITIES - FORMICATION
EXTREMITIES - FORMICATION - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - FORMICATION - Hands - left
EXTREMITIES - HEAVINESS
EXTREMITIES - HEAVINESS - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - HEAVINESS - Lower limbs
EXTREMITIES - HEAVINESS - Leg
EXTREMITIES - INFLAMMATION - Joints
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Lower limbs
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Lower limbs - undressing, while
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Leg
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Leg - undressing agg.
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Leg - Calves
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Leg - Calves - undressing
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Leg - Tibia, over
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Ankle
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Upper limbs - left
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Upper limbs - left - lying on it; from
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Arms - left
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Hand
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Hand - left
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Fingers - one side
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Leg
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Foot
EXTREMITIES - PAIN
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - evening
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - rheumatic - acute
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - warm applications - amel.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Joints - gouty
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Joints - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper limbs - left
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper limbs - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper limbs - wandering
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Shoulder
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Shoulder - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Shoulder - wandering
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper arm
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper arm - night
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper arm - heart affections
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Elbow - wandering
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Fingers
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Lower limbs
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Lower limbs - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Hip - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Hip - extending to - Feet
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Thigh
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Knee
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Knee - night
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Knee - motion
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Knee - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Knee - Patella
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Leg - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Leg - Calf
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - Sole
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - Sole - walking, while
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - aching - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Fingers
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Knee
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Ankles
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Foot - Sole
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Foot - Sole - cramping
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Toes
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - pressing - Hip - Gluteal region
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - stitching - Fingers - Fourth
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - twitching
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Joints
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Upper limbs - morning - waking
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Upper limbs - Bones
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Upper limbs - Joints
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Shoulder
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Shoulder - right
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Elbow
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Forearms
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Forearms - morning - waking, on
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Fingers
EXTREMITIES - PARALYSIS - Upper limbs - left
EXTREMITIES - PERSPIRATION - clammy
EXTREMITIES - PERSPIRATION - cold
EXTREMITIES - PULSATION
EXTREMITIES - PULSATION - Hand
EXTREMITIES - PULSATION - Foot
EXTREMITIES - RAYNAUD'S DISEASE
EXTREMITIES - RESTLESSNESS - Leg
EXTREMITIES - SOFT - Hands
EXTREMITIES - STIFFNESS - morning
EXTREMITIES - STIFFNESS - Joints
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - dropsical
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Upper limbs - edematous
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Hand
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Hand - left
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Hand - edematous
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Hand - endocarditis
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Lower limbs - dropsical
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Leg
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Ankle
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Ankle - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Foot
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Foot - edematous
EXTREMITIES - TENSION - Joints
EXTREMITIES - TINGLING - Hand - left
EXTREMITIES - TINGLING - Fingers - Tips
EXTREMITIES - UPPER LIMBS; complaints of
EXTREMITIES - WALKING - difficult
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Hand - left
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Leg
Eye
EYE - ECCHYMOSIS
EYE - HEAVINESS - Eyebrows
EYE - INFLAMMATION
EYE - INFLAMMATION - arthritic
EYE - INFLAMMATION - Retina - neuroretinitis - accompanied by -
hyperemia of retina
EYE - PAIN - burning - Canthi
EYE - PHOTOPHOBIA
EYE - PROTRUSION
EYE - PROTRUSION - exophthalmos
EYE - PULSATION - In the eyes
Face
FACE - BLOATED
FACE - COLDNESS
FACE - COMPLAINTS of face - menses - during
FACE - CONGESTION
FACE - DISCOLORATION - bluish
FACE - DISCOLORATION - bluish - chill, during
FACE - DISCOLORATION - bluish - headache, during
FACE - DISCOLORATION - bluish - heart trouble
FACE - DISCOLORATION - bluish - Lips
FACE - DISCOLORATION - cyanotic
FACE - DISCOLORATION - dark
FACE - DISCOLORATION - mottled - Lips
FACE - DISCOLORATION - pale
FACE - DISCOLORATION - red
FACE - DISCOLORATION - red - headache, during
FACE - DISCOLORATION - red - vertigo, during
FACE - EXPRESSION - anxious
FACE - EXPRESSION - distressed
FACE - EXPRESSION - frightened
FACE - EXPRESSION - suffering
FACE - HEAT - flushes
FACE - PAIN
FACE - PAIN - right
FACE - PAIN - excitement
FACE - PAIN - exertion - agg.
FACE - PAIN - fasting, from
FACE - PAIN - inflammatory
FACE - PAIN - light agg.
FACE - PAIN - lying - amel.
FACE - PAIN - motion - agg.
FACE - PAIN - music, from
FACE - PAIN - periodical
FACE - PAIN - wine agg.
FACE - PAIN - neuralgic
FACE - PAIN - neuralgic - right
FACE - PAIN - pulsating
FACE - PERSPIRATION
FACE - PERSPIRATION - cold
FACE - SWELLING
FACE - SWELLING - edematous
FACE - VEINS distended - Temples
Female genitalia/sex
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONGESTION - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONGESTION - Uterus - menses - during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONSTRICTION of - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONSTRICTION of - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONSTRICTION of - Uterus - band; like a
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONSTRICTION of - Vagina
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONSTRICTION of - Vagina - coition, during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONSTRICTION of - Vagina - touch, on
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONTRACTIONS - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONTRACTIONS - Uterus - menses - during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONTRACTIONS - Uterus - Os uteri - labor;
spasmodic contraction during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - INFLAMMATION - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - INFLAMMATION - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - INFLAMMATION - Vagina - coition, during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - INSENSIBILITY of vagina - coition, during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - LEUKORRHEA - copious
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - LEUKORRHEA - sitting, while
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENOPAUSE
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - daytime only
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - morning - and - daytime
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - before - agg. - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - black - pitch-like
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - cease - night
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - clotted
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - copious
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - dark
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - during - agg. - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - early, too
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - frequent; too
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - lying - cease while lying
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - painful
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - painful - beginning, at
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - painful - discharge of clots
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - painful - horrible pain, crying and
weeping
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - pitch-like
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - ropy, tenacious, stringy
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - scanty
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - scanty - lying down; cease when
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - thick
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - vicarious
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA - coagulated
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA - coagulated - expelled; clots
are - accompanied by - constricting pain
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA - dark blood
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA - motion
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA - profuse
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Ovaries - extending to - Thighs
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - evening
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - night - 23 h
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - maddening
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - menses - during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - menses - during - cry out,
compels her to
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - periodically, same time each
day
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - pulsating
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - extending to - downward
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - extending to - Stomach
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - extending to - Thighs; down
the
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - constricting, contracting - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - constricting, contracting - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - constricting, contracting - Uterus -
menses, during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - constricting, contracting - Vagina
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Uterus - night - midnight -
before - 23 h
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Uterus - double up;
compelling her to
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Uterus - menses - before
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Uterus - menses - during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Uterus - extending to -
Stomach
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Vagina
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - grasping
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - labor pains - ceasing
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - labor pains - suppressed and wanting
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - labor-like - menses - during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - neuralgic - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - pinching - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - pressing - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PULSATING
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PULSATING - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PULSATING - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - SEXUAL DESIRE - increased
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - VAGINISMUS
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - VAGINISMUS - coition - during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - VAGINISMUS - coition - preventing
Fever
FEVER - FEVER, heat in general
FEVER - FORENOON
FEVER - AFTERNOON - 13 h
FEVER - NIGHT
FEVER - BURNING heat
FEVER - BURNING heat - night
FEVER - CEREBROSPINAL fever
FEVER - CHILL absent
FEVER - CHILL absent - forenoon
FEVER - CHILL absent - forenoon - 11 h
FEVER - CHILL absent - night - midnight - before - 23 h
FEVER - COLDNESS - predominates
FEVER - DRY heat
FEVER - HEAT
FEVER - INFLAMMATORY fever
FEVER - INTENSE heat
FEVER - INTENSE heat - stupefaction and unconsciousness, with
FEVER - INTERMITTENT
FEVER - INTERMITTENT - long lasting heat; with
FEVER - LONG lasting heat
FEVER - PAROXYSMAL fever - forenoon - 11 h
FEVER - PERIODICAL
FEVER - PERIODICAL - hour - same hour; at the
FEVER - PERSPIRATION - absent
FEVER - SUCCESSION of stages - chill - followed by - heat
FEVER - SUCCESSION of stages - chill - followed by - heat - then
perspiration
FEVER - SUCCESSION of stages - chill - followed by - perspiration -
intervening heat; without
FEVER - SUN - heat of; in the
FEVER - TRAUMATIC fever
Generals
GENERALS - FORENOON
GENERALS - FORENOON - 11 h
GENERALS - NOON
GENERALS - AFTERNOON
GENERALS - NIGHT
GENERALS - NIGHT - midnight - before - 23 h
GENERALS - AIR - open air - agg.
GENERALS - AIR - open air - amel.
GENERALS - ALTERNATING states
GENERALS - ANEURYSM
GENERALS - APOPLEXY
GENERALS - APOPLEXY - threatened
GENERALS - ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
GENERALS - ASCENDING - agg.
GENERALS - ASCENDING - clotting of blood
GENERALS - BLOOD VESSELS - complaints of - Arteries; of
GENERALS - BREATHING - deep breathing - desire to
GENERALS - CHOREA
GENERALS - CIRCULATION; complaints of the blood - eating - after -
agg.
GENERALS - COLD - air - amel.
GENERALS - CONGESTION - blood; of
GENERALS - CONGESTION - blood; of - sudden
GENERALS - CONGESTION - blood; of - Internally
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - Arteries; of
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - External
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - External - band; sensation of a - iron
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - External - caged with wires twisted
tighter and tighter; as if
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - Internal
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - Internal - band, sensation of a
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - Internal - band, sensation of a - iron
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - Internal - belt, sensation of a
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - Internal - spasm of sphincter of orifices
GENERALS - CONTRACTIONS - inflammation, after
GENERALS - CONVALESCENCE; ailments during - ear; after discharges
from
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS
GENERALS - CONVULSIVE movements
GENERALS - CYANOSIS
GENERALS - CYANOSIS - infants, in
GENERALS - DISABLED - children
GENERALS - DISTENSION blood vessels
GENERALS - DROPSY - external dropsy
GENERALS - DROPSY - external dropsy - heart disease, from
GENERALS - DROPSY - general; in
GENERALS - DROPSY - internal dropsy
GENERALS - EMACIATION
GENERALS - EXERTION; physical - agg.
GENERALS - FAINTNESS
GENERALS - FAINTNESS - pain, from - heart, in
GENERALS - FAINTNESS - palpitations - during
GENERALS - FAINTNESS - periodical
GENERALS - FAINTNESS - Heart - disease; in
GENERALS - FASTING - agg.
GENERALS - FISTULAE
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - coffee - agg.
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - food - aversion
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - meat - aversion
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - milk - aversion
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - milk - desire
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - wine - agg.
GENERALS - FULLNESS; feeling of - Internally
GENERALS - HEAT - flushes of
GENERALS - HEAT - lack of vital heat
GENERALS - HEAVINESS - Externally
GENERALS - HEMORRHAGE
GENERALS - HEMORRHAGE - blood - clots
GENERALS - HEMORRHAGE - fever; during paroxysmal
GENERALS - HUNGER - agg.
GENERALS - HYPOTENSION
GENERALS - HYPOTHERMIA
GENERALS - HYPOTHERMIA - persistent subnormal temperature
GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - Externally
GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - Internally
GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - Nerves; of
GENERALS - INJURIES - traumatic fever
GENERALS - JAR, stepping - agg.
GENERALS - LASSITUDE
GENERALS - LYING - agg.
GENERALS - LYING - back, on - amel.
GENERALS - LYING - head - low; with head - agg.
GENERALS - LYING - side, on - right side - amel.
GENERALS - LYING - side, on - right side - amel. - Head high; with
GENERALS - LYING - side, on - left side - agg.
GENERALS - MENSES - during - agg. - beginning of; at
GENERALS - METASTASIS
GENERALS - MOTION - agg.
GENERALS - MOTION - amel.
GENERALS - MOTION - beginning of motion agg.; at
GENERALS - MOTION - continued motion - amel.
GENERALS - NUMBNESS - Externally
GENERALS - PAIN - appear gradually - disappear; and - gradually
GENERALS - PAIN - appear suddenly - disappear; and - suddenly
GENERALS - PAIN - menses - during
GENERALS - PAIN - constricting - Externally
GENERALS - PAIN - constricting - Internally
GENERALS - PAIN - cramping
GENERALS - PAIN - grasping, griping, clutching
GENERALS - PAIN - neuralgic
GENERALS - PAIN - pressing - load; as from
GENERALS - PAIN - pressing - together
GENERALS - PAIN - pressing - Internally
GENERALS - PAIN - stitching - Internally
GENERALS - PAIN - tearing - Externally
GENERALS - PAIN - tearing - Internally
GENERALS - PAIN - tearing - Joints, in
GENERALS - PERIODICITY
GENERALS - PERIODICITY - hour - same hour; complaints return at the
GENERALS - PERSPIRATION - suppression of perspiration; complaints
from
GENERALS - PLETHORA - constitution; plethoric
GENERALS - PRESSURE - agg.
GENERALS - PRESSURE - amel.
GENERALS - PULSATION - Externally
GENERALS - PULSATION - Externally - night
GENERALS - PULSATION - Externally - breath; when holding his
GENERALS - PULSATION - Externally - walking
GENERALS - PULSATION - Internally
GENERALS - PULSATION - Internally - Blood vessels - Body; all over
GENERALS - PULSE - abnormal
GENERALS - PULSE - frequent
GENERALS - PULSE - frequent - breath; when holding his
GENERALS - PULSE - full
GENERALS - PULSE - hard
GENERALS - PULSE - imperceptible
GENERALS - PULSE - intermittent
GENERALS - PULSE - irregular
GENERALS - PULSE - slow
GENERALS - PULSE - small
GENERALS - PULSE - soft
GENERALS - PULSE - strong
GENERALS - PULSE - tense
GENERALS - PULSE - thready
GENERALS - PULSE - weak
GENERALS - RISING UP - agg.
GENERALS - ROLLING; sensation of
GENERALS - SENSITIVENESS - pain, to
GENERALS - SIDE - left
GENERALS - SITTING - agg.
GENERALS - SLUGGISHNESS of the body
GENERALS - STANDING - agg.
GENERALS - SUN - exposure to the sun
GENERALS - SUPPRESSED COMPLAINTS; ailments from
GENERALS - TENSION
GENERALS - TIME table; generalized - 23 h
GENERALS - TOBACCO - agg.
GENERALS - TOUCH - agg.
GENERALS - TREMBLING - Externally
GENERALS - TWITCHING
GENERALS - WAKING, on
GENERALS - WALKING - agg.
GENERALS - WALKING - beginning of walking agg.
GENERALS - WALKING - fast - agg.
GENERALS - WALKING - slowly amel.
GENERALS - WEAKNESS
GENERALS - WEAKNESS - menses - after
GENERALS - WEAKNESS - menses - during
GENERALS - WEIGHT; as of a heavy
GENERALS - WOUNDS - bleeding freely - clots; favors the formation of
Head
HEAD - BREATHING - deeply agg.
HEAD - CONGESTION
HEAD - CONGESTION - forenoon - 11 h
HEAD - CONGESTION - night - midnight - before - 23 h
HEAD - CONGESTION - coffee, from
HEAD - CONGESTION - epistaxis - with
HEAD - CONGESTION - menses - during
HEAD - CONGESTION - mental exertion, from
HEAD - CONGESTION - perspiration - fails in ague; where perspiration
HEAD - CONGESTION - redness of face, with
HEAD - CONGESTION - sun, from exposure to
HEAD - CONGESTION - Brain
HEAD - CONSTRICTION
HEAD - CONSTRICTION - accompanied by - epistaxis
HEAD - CONSTRICTION - band or hoop
HEAD - CONSTRICTION - Forehead - band; as from a
HEAD - CONSTRICTION - Vertex
HEAD - CONTRACTION - Scalp; sensation of contraction of
HEAD - EMPTY, hollow sensation
HEAD - ENLARGED sensation
HEAD - FASTING agg.
HEAD - FOREHEAD; complaints of - Eyes - Above - right
HEAD - FULLNESS
HEAD - FULLNESS - mental exertion, from
HEAD - HEAT
HEAD - HEAT - accompanied by - Face - redness of face
HEAD - HEAT - coffee - stopping; from
HEAD - HEAT - coldness - Body; with coldness of
HEAD - HEAT - coldness - Extremities; with coldness of
HEAD - HEAT - coldness - Feet; with coldness of
HEAD - HEAT - flushes of
HEAD - HEAT - mental exertion, from
HEAD - HEAVINESS
HEAD - HEAVINESS - light, from strong
HEAD - HEAVINESS - lying, while - back, on
HEAD - HEAVINESS - lying, while - side - amel.
HEAD - HEAVINESS - pressure amel.
HEAD - HEAVINESS - talking, from
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Occiput
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Occiput - lying - back agg.; while on
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Occiput - lying - side amel.; on
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Sides
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Sides - right
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Temples
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Vertex
HEAD - LIGHT - agg.
HEAD - LYING - while - amel.
HEAD - LYING - occiput agg.; on
HEAD - MENOPAUSE; during
HEAD - MENSES - before - agg.
HEAD - MENSES - during - agg.
HEAD - NOISE - agg.
HEAD - ODORS - strong - agg.
HEAD - PAIN
HEAD - PAIN - morning
HEAD - PAIN - morning - comes and goes with the sun
HEAD - PAIN - morning - increasing during day
HEAD - PAIN - night
HEAD - PAIN - night - midnight - before - 23 h
HEAD - PAIN - accompanied by - vomiting
HEAD - PAIN - bending head - backward, while - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - breathing - deeply, on
HEAD - PAIN - chill - during
HEAD - PAIN - congestion, as from
HEAD - PAIN - coughing - on
HEAD - PAIN - cry out, pains compel one to
HEAD - PAIN - dinner - delayed, from
HEAD - PAIN - eating - after
HEAD - PAIN - excitement - emotional; after
HEAD - PAIN - exertion - body, etc.; of
HEAD - PAIN - exertion - eyes; of the
HEAD - PAIN - fasting, from
HEAD - PAIN - fasting, from - hunger is not appeased at once; if
HEAD - PAIN - heat - during the
HEAD - PAIN - inspiration, during an - deep
HEAD - PAIN - light - general; from light in
HEAD - PAIN - lying - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - lying - back, on - while
HEAD - PAIN - lying - side, on - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - maddening pains
HEAD - PAIN - menses - during
HEAD - PAIN - mental exertion - agg.
HEAD - PAIN - motion - agg.
HEAD - PAIN - music, from
HEAD - PAIN - nervous
HEAD - PAIN - noise, from
HEAD - PAIN - noise, from - voices especially
HEAD - PAIN - periodical
HEAD - PAIN - periodical - day - alternate
HEAD - PAIN - periodical - day - every - hour; at the same
HEAD - PAIN - pressure, external - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - raising - head
HEAD - PAIN - rheumatic
HEAD - PAIN - sun, from exposure to
HEAD - PAIN - talking - while
HEAD - PAIN - violent pains
HEAD - PAIN - wine - from
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - left side
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - evening
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - air - open - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - menses - during
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - noise
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - pressure - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - room, in a
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - Eyes - Above - right
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - bending head backward - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - exercise amel.
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - lying, while - head - back of the head; on
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - lying, while - occiput; on
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - lying, while - side - head amel.; on side of
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - mental labor - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - motion - head, of
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - one side
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - right
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - right - periodic
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - daytime
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - morning - rising, on
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - forenoon
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - night
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - bright light
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - noise, from
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - pulsating
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - raising head
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - sound of talking
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - right
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - morning
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - night
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - dinner - getting dinner too late
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - exertion, after
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - motion
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - noise agg.
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - opera, from attending
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - paroxysmal
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - pressure - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - wine, from
HEAD - PAIN - Vertex
HEAD - PAIN - Vertex - noise, from
HEAD - PAIN - Vertex - pressure - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - bursting
HEAD - PAIN - bursting - night
HEAD - PAIN - bursting - coughing, on
HEAD - PAIN - bursting - Temples
HEAD - PAIN - come off, pain as if top of head would
HEAD - PAIN - compressive
HEAD - PAIN - crushed
HEAD - PAIN - drawing - moving head, on
HEAD - PAIN - drawing - Occiput
HEAD - PAIN - drawing - Occiput - bending head - backward - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - drawing - Occiput - motion - head, of
HEAD - PAIN - drawing - Temples
HEAD - PAIN - drawing - Temples - periodical - two days; every
HEAD - PAIN - jerking - Temples - left
HEAD - PAIN - neuralgic
HEAD - PAIN - pressing
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - inward
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - mental exertion, from
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - outward
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - pressure - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - vise; as if in a
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - weight; as from
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead - house agg.; in
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead - light agg.
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead - noise agg.
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Occiput
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Occiput - exercise amel.; mental or physical
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Sides
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - inward
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - inward - weight; like
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - light - agg.
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - noise agg.
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - pressure - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - talking - hearing
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - weight; as from a
HEAD - PAIN - pulsating
HEAD - PAIN - sore
HEAD - PAIN - tearing - Forehead
HEAD - PERSPIRATION of scalp - Forehead
HEAD - PERSPIRATION of scalp - Forehead - cold
HEAD - PRESSURE - external - amel.
HEAD - PULSATING
HEAD - PULSATING - night
HEAD - PULSATING - menses - during
HEAD - PULSATING - Forehead - menses, during
HEAD - PULSATING - Sides - right
HEAD - PULSATING - Temples
HEAD - PULSATING - Temples - night
HEAD - SUNSTROKE
HEAD - SUN - exposure to the sun - agg.
HEAD - SWOLLEN feeling
HEAD - TEMPLES; complaints of
HEAD - TENSION of skin - Scalp
Hearing
HEARING - ACUTE
HEARING - ACUTE - music, to
HEARING - ACUTE - voices and talking
HEARING - IMPAIRED
Kidneys
KIDNEYS - CONGESTION
KIDNEYS - INFLAMMATION
KIDNEYS - PAIN - sore
KIDNEYS - STONES
KIDNEYS - SUPPRESSION of urine
KIDNEYS - SUPPRESSION of urine - fever, with
Larynx and trachea
LARYNX AND TRACHEA - ITCHING - Larynx
LARYNX AND TRACHEA - PAIN - burning
LARYNX AND TRACHEA - TICKLING - Larynx, in
LARYNX AND TRACHEA - VOICE - hoarseness
LARYNX AND TRACHEA - VOICE - low
Male genitalia/sex
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - ERECTIONS - evening
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - ERECTIONS - dreams, with amorous
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - ERECTIONS - painful
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - ERECTIONS - painful - night
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - ERECTIONS - painful - disturbing sleep
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - POLLUTIONS - noon
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - SEXUAL DESIRE - increased
Mind
MIND - EVENING
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - love; disappointed
MIND - ANGER
MIND - ANGER - contradiction; from
MIND - ANSWERING - aversion to answer
MIND - ANXIETY
MIND - ANXIETY - forenoon
MIND - ANXIETY - afternoon
MIND - ANXIETY - evening
MIND - ANXIETY - night
MIND - ANXIETY - conscience; anxiety of
MIND - ANXIETY - waking, on
MIND - BED - remain in bed; desire to
MIND - BED - remain in bed; desire to - menses; during
MIND - CAUTIOUS
MIND - CHEERFUL
MIND - CHEERFUL - heart disease; with
MIND - COMPANY - aversion to
MIND - CONCENTRATION - difficult
MIND - CONSOLATION - agg.
MIND - CONTRADICTION - intolerant of contradiction
MIND - CONTRADICTION - intolerant of contradiction - children; in
MIND - DEATH - presentiment of
MIND - DELIRIUM
MIND - DELIRIUM - night
MIND - DELIRIUM - night - waking, on
MIND - DELIRIUM - gay, cheerful
MIND - DELIRIUM - sleep - after - amel.
MIND - DELIRIUM - sleep - during
MIND - DELIRIUM - sleep - going to sleep; on
MIND - DELIRIUM - sleeplessness - with
MIND - DELIRIUM - waking, on
MIND - DELUSIONS
MIND - DELUSIONS - body - wrapped
MIND - DELUSIONS - die - about to die; one was
MIND - DELUSIONS - die - about to die; one was - heart trouble; in
MIND - DELUSIONS - die - about to die; one was - heart trouble; in -
rheumatism; with
MIND - DELUSIONS - disease - incurable disease; he has an
MIND - DELUSIONS - dying - he is
MIND - DELUSIONS - hearing - illusions of
MIND - DELUSIONS - injury - being injured; is
MIND - DELUSIONS - small - body is smaller
MIND - DELUSIONS - small - things - appear small; things
MIND - DELUSIONS - wires; is caught in
MIND - DESPAIR
MIND - DESPAIR - recovery, of
MIND - DULLNESS
MIND - DULLNESS - sleepiness, with
MIND - EXCITEMENT
MIND - EXCITEMENT - palpitation, with violent
MIND - FEAR
MIND - FEAR - death, of
MIND - FEAR - death, of - heart symptoms, during
MIND - FEAR - death, of - pain, from
MIND - FEAR - death, of - uterus; from pain in
MIND - FEAR - disease, of impending
MIND - FEAR - disease, of impending - incurable, of being
MIND - FEAR - fever - during fever
MIND - FEAR - happen, something will
MIND - FEAR - heart - disease of the heart
MIND - FEAR - heat - during
MIND - FEAR - insanity
MIND - FEAR - misfortune, of
MIND - FEAR - suffocation, of
MIND - FEAR - suffocation, of - night
MIND - FEAR - waking, on
MIND - FOOLISH behavior
MIND - FOOLISH behavior - grotesque behavior
MIND - FORGETFUL
MIND - FORGETFUL - words while speaking; of
MIND - FRIGHTENED easily
MIND - FRIGHTENED easily - waking, on
MIND - HURRY
MIND - HYPOCHONDRIASIS
MIND - HYSTERIA
MIND - HYSTERIA - menses - during
MIND - IMPULSE; morbid
MIND - IMPULSE; morbid - strange things; to do
MIND - INSANITY
MIND - INSANITY - heat; with
MIND - IRRESOLUTION
MIND - IRRESOLUTION - projects, in
MIND - IRRITABILITY
MIND - IRRITABILITY - consolation - agg.
MIND - JESTING
MIND - JESTING - facetious; desire to do something
MIND - MANIA
MIND - MANIA - night
MIND - MANIA - night - midnight, agg.; about
MIND - MANIA - night - midnight, agg.; about - heat; from burning
MIND - MANIA - heat - during
MIND - MEDICINE - desire to swallow large doses of
MIND - MEMORY - weakness of memory
MIND - MEMORY - weakness of memory - words; for
MIND - MENSES - before
MIND - MENSES - during
MIND - MILDNESS
MIND - MOROSE
MIND - MUSIC - agg.
MIND - PAIN - during
MIND - REMORSE
MIND - RESERVED
MIND - RESTLESSNESS
MIND - RESTLESSNESS - night
MIND - RESTLESSNESS - sitting, while
MIND - SADNESS
MIND - SADNESS - daytime
MIND - SADNESS - causeless
MIND - SADNESS - heart affections; from
MIND - SADNESS - menses - during
MIND - SADNESS - taciturn
MIND - SENSITIVE
MIND - SENSITIVE - music, to
MIND - SENSITIVE - noise, to
MIND - SENSITIVE - noise, to - talking, of
MIND - SENSITIVE - noise, to - voices, to
MIND - SENTIMENTAL
MIND - SERIOUS
MIND - SHRIEKING
MIND - SHRIEKING - pain, with the
MIND - SLOWNESS
MIND - SLOWNESS - behindhand; always
MIND - SLOWNESS - old people, of
MIND - SLOWNESS - work, in
MIND - SPEECH - incoherent
MIND - SPEECH - incoherent - waking, on
MIND - STARTING
MIND - STARTING - fright; from and as from
MIND - STARTING - sleep - from
MIND - STRANGE - things; impulse to do strange
MIND - STUPEFACTION
MIND - STUPOR
MIND - SUSPICIOUS
MIND - TACITURN
MIND - TACITURN - sadness, in
MIND - TALKING - others agg.; talk of
MIND - TALKING - sleep, in
MIND - UNCONSCIOUSNESS
MIND - UNCONSCIOUSNESS - fever, during
MIND - UNCONSCIOUSNESS - sunstroke, in
MIND - VIVACIOUS
MIND - WARM - agg.
MIND - WEEPING
MIND - WEEPING - causeless
MIND - WEEPING - causeless - without knowing why
MIND - WEEPING - consolation - agg.
MIND - WEEPING - desire to weep
MIND - WEEPING - hysterical
MIND - WEEPING - menses - before
MIND - WEEPING - menses - during
MIND - WEEPING - pains - with the
MIND - WRITING - difficulty in expressing ideas in
Mouth
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - brown
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - purple
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - white
MOUTH - DRYNESS - Tongue
MOUTH - DRYNESS - Tongue - accompanied by - brown discoloration
MOUTH - ODOR - offensive
MOUTH - ODOR - offensive - morning
MOUTH - PAIN - burnt, sensation as if - Tongue
MOUTH - PRICKLING - Tongue
MOUTH - PRICKLING - Tongue - Tip
MOUTH - SCRAPING - Palate
MOUTH - SPEECH - difficult
MOUTH - TASTE - acrid
MOUTH - TASTE - slimy
MOUTH - TASTE - soapy
MOUTH - TASTE - wanting, loss of taste
MOUTH - TASTE - wanting, tastelessness of food
Nose
NOSE - CORYZA
NOSE - CORYZA - discharge, with
NOSE - CORYZA - discharge, without
NOSE - DISCHARGE - excoriating
NOSE - DRYNESS - Inside
NOSE - DRYNESS - Inside - night
NOSE - EPISTAXIS
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - accompanied by - Face - congestion of
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - amenorrhea, with
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - menses - suppressed
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - profuse
NOSE - OBSTRUCTION
NOSE - ODORS; imaginary and real - pitch
NOSE - PAIN - rawness - Nostrils
NOSE - SMELL - acute - strong odors
Perspiration
PERSPIRATION - PERSPIRATION in general
PERSPIRATION - COLD
PERSPIRATION - COLD - anguish; with great
PERSPIRATION - PROFUSE
PERSPIRATION - PROFUSE - night
Prostate gland
PROSTATE GLAND - HEAVINESS
PROSTATE GLAND - INFLAMMATION
PROSTATE GLAND - IRRITATION in
PROSTATE GLAND - PAIN
PROSTATE GLAND - PAIN - pressing
PROSTATE GLAND - PAIN - stitching - urination, during
PROSTATE GLAND - SWELLING
Rectum
RECTUM - CONSTIPATION
RECTUM - CONSTIPATION - accompanied by - colic - flatulent
RECTUM - CONSTIPATION - difficult stool
RECTUM - CONSTIPATION - heart weakness
RECTUM - CONSTIPATION - ineffectual urging and straining
RECTUM - CONSTRICTION
RECTUM - DIARRHEA
RECTUM - DIARRHEA - morning
RECTUM - DIARRHEA - forenoon
RECTUM - DIARRHEA - bilious
RECTUM - DRAGGING, heaviness, weight
RECTUM - FISTULA
RECTUM - FISTULA - palpitations, with
RECTUM - HEMORRHAGE from anus
RECTUM - HEMORRHAGE from anus - heart symptoms, with
RECTUM - HEMORRHAGE from anus - malarial fevers, in
RECTUM - HEMORRHAGE from anus - stool - after
RECTUM - HEMORRHOIDS
RECTUM - HEMORRHOIDS - external
RECTUM - HEMORRHOIDS - large
RECTUM - ITCHING
RECTUM - MENSES - during - Perineum
RECTUM - MENSES - during - Rectum and anus
RECTUM - PAIN
RECTUM - PAIN - stool - after
RECTUM - PAIN - pressing
RECTUM - PAIN - sticking
RECTUM - PAIN - stitching
RECTUM - PAIN - tenesmus
RECTUM - PRICKLING
RECTUM - PRICKLING - stool - during
RECTUM - SWELLING of anus - sensation of
RECTUM - WEIGHT - and a feeling as if a plug were wedged between the
pubis and coccyx
RECTUM - WEIGHT - Perineum
Respiration
RESPIRATION - ANXIOUS
RESPIRATION - ARRESTED
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - spasmodic
RESPIRATION - DEEP
RESPIRATION - DEEP - desire to breathe
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - afternoon - 13 h
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - night
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - night - midnight - before - 23 h
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - air - open, in - amel.
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - ascending
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - constriction - Diaphragm; of
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - heat, with
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - lying - back - amel.
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - lying - back - shoulders elevated amel.;
with
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - lying - head; with the - low
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - lying - impossible
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - lying - while
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - menses - during
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - mucus; from - Trachea; in
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - pain; during
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - palpitation, during
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - periodical
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - rheumatic - Heart; of
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - sitting - upright amel.
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - walking
RESPIRATION - IMPEDED, obstructed
RESPIRATION - IMPEDED, obstructed - constriction - Chest, of
RESPIRATION - IMPEDED, obstructed - stitches; from - Heart, in
RESPIRATION - JERKING
RESPIRATION - PAINS agg.; general
RESPIRATION - PANTING
RESPIRATION - PERIODICITY
RESPIRATION - RATTLING
RESPIRATION - RATTLING - day and night
RESPIRATION - RATTLING - lying - agg.
RESPIRATION - WHISTLING
Skin
SKIN - BITING - fleas were biting; as if
SKIN - COLDNESS
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - discharging
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - dry
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - dry
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - moist
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - scaly
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - scaly
SKIN - ITCHING - evening - amel.
SKIN - ITCHING - undressing agg.
SKIN - PURPURA - miliaris
Sleep
SLEEP - DEEP
SLEEP - DEEP - heat, during
SLEEP - DISTURBED
SLEEP - DISTURBED - dreams, by
SLEEP - DISTURBED - erections, by - painful
SLEEP - DISTURBED - menses - during
SLEEP - DISTURBED - palpitations, by
SLEEP - DREAMING - menses - during
SLEEP - INTERRUPTED
SLEEP - POSITION - changed frequently
SLEEP - POSITION - changed frequently - palpitations, because of
SLEEP - RESTLESS
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - morning
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - morning - rising - on
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - dullness, with
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - evening
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - night - midnight - before
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - night - midnight - before - morning; until
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - night - midnight - before - thoughts; from
activity of
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - night - midnight - after - morning - until
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - exhaustion
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - fever - asthenic fever; during
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - heat - during
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - mental exertion; after
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - pains, from - rheumatic pains
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - palpitation, from
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - pregnancy, during
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - pulsation, from
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - pulsation, from - different parts of body; in
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - thoughts - activity of thoughts; from
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - weariness - from
SLEEP - WAKING - alarmed
SLEEP - WAKING - fright, as from
Stomach
STOMACH - APPETITE - diminished
STOMACH - APPETITE - wanting
STOMACH - CONSTRICTION
STOMACH - EMPTINESS
STOMACH - ERUCTATIONS; TYPE OF - acrid
STOMACH - ERUCTATIONS; TYPE OF - empty - dinner, after
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Abdomen
ABDOMEN - PAIN - accompanied by - chill
ABDOMEN - PAIN - chill - during
Back
BACK - PAIN - chill - during
BACK - PAIN - Cervical region
BACK - PAIN - Cervical region - afternoon - 17-19 h
BACK - PAIN - Cervical region - chill, during
BACK - PAIN - cramping
BACK - PAIN - cramping - Cervical region
BACK - STIFFNESS
BACK - STIFFNESS - Cervical region
Chest
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - respiration;
difficult
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart
CHEST - WOOD nailed between heart and lungs; sensation of
Chill
CHILL - CHILL in general
CHILL - COLD - Hands; with
Extremities
EXTREMITIES - CHILLINESS
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands - chill, during
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands - icy
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Fingers
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Fingers
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING
EXTREMITIES - TREMBLING
Eye
EYE - DISCOLORATION - red
EYE - LACHRYMATION
EYE - PHOTOPHOBIA
EYE - STRABISMUS - painless
EYE - SUNKEN
Female genitalia/sex
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - frequent; too
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - painful - end, at the
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - scanty
Fever
FEVER - ALTERNATING with - chills - afternoon - 18 h
FEVER - INTENSE heat
FEVER - INTENSE heat - children; in
FEVER - INTERMITTENT
Generals
GENERALS - AFTERNOON
GENERALS - AFTERNOON - 16 h - 16-20 h
GENERALS - EVENING
GENERALS - COLD - feeling - Single parts
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS
GENERALS - EATING - after - amel.
GENERALS - EATING - while - amel.
GENERALS - EXERTION; physical - agg.
GENERALS - HEAT - flushes of
GENERALS - HEAT - lack of vital heat
GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - Lymphatic vessels
GENERALS - LIGHT - agg.
GENERALS - MEDICINE - allopathic - addiction to
GENERALS - NARCOTICS - desire for
GENERALS - PARALYSIS AGITANS
GENERALS - PERIODICITY - year - every
GENERALS - PULSE - weak
GENERALS - REST - amel.
GENERALS - SWELLING - general, in
GENERALS - TIME table; generalized - 15 h
GENERALS - TIME table; generalized - 17 h
GENERALS - TREMBLING - Externally
GENERALS - WEAKNESS
Head
HEAD - HEAVINESS
HEAD - PAIN
HEAD - PAIN - paroxysmal pains
HEAD - PAIN - wandering pains
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - left
HEAD - PAIN - Temples
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - right
HEAD - PAIN - pressing
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead - Eyes - right
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead - Eyes - Above
HEAD - PAIN - pulsating
Larynx and trachea
LARYNX AND TRACHEA - TENSION - Trachea
Male genitalia/sex
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - ERECTIONS - wanting
Mind
MIND - ANGER
MIND - ANGUISH
MIND - ANGUISH - evening
MIND - ANGUISH - evening - 19 h
MIND - ANXIETY
MIND - ANXIETY - evening
MIND - ANXIETY - evening - 19 h
MIND - ANXIETY - future, about
MIND - ANXIETY - future, about - evening
MIND - ANXIETY - future, about - evening - 19 h
MIND - COMPREHENSION - easy
MIND - CONCENTRATION - difficult
MIND - CONFIDENCE - want of self-confidence
MIND - DREAM; as if in a
MIND - INDIFFERENCE
MIND - INDIFFERENCE - everything, to
MIND - INDIFFERENCE - external things; to
MIND - INSANITY
MIND - INSANITY - loquacious
MIND - IRRESOLUTION
MIND - IRRITABILITY
MIND - LOQUACITY
MIND - LOQUACITY - alternating with - taciturnity
MIND - MENTAL EXERTION - agg.
MIND - MENTAL EXERTION - agg. - impossible
MIND - MENTAL EXERTION - aversion to
MIND - MOOD - alternating
MIND - MOOD - changeable
MIND - PROSTRATION of mind
MIND - RESTLESSNESS
MIND - SADNESS
MIND - SADNESS - menopause, during
MIND - SENSITIVE
MIND - SENSITIVE - light, to
MIND - SENSITIVE - noise, to
MIND - SPEECH - incoherent
MIND - TACITURN
MIND - WEARY OF LIFE
MIND - WEEPING
MIND - WILL - weakness of
Mouth
MOUTH - SALIVATION
MOUTH - SALIVATION - profuse
Nose
NOSE - SNEEZING
NOSE - SNEEZING - frequent
Perspiration
PERSPIRATION - COLD
PERSPIRATION - COLD - night
PERSPIRATION - PROFUSE
PERSPIRATION - PROFUSE - night
Rectum
RECTUM - DIARRHEA
Respiration
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT
Skin
SKIN - BURNING
SKIN - DISCOLORATION - red
SKIN - DISCOLORATION - red - spots
SKIN - FORMICATION
SKIN - FORMICATION - itching; with
SKIN - ITCHING
Sleep
SLEEP - DREAMING - sensation of dreaming
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - afternoon
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - overpowering
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS
Throat
THROAT - CHOKING
THROAT - SWALLOWING - difficult
Vertigo
VERTIGO - VERTIGO
VERTIGO - WALKING - while
Buthus afer
Generals
GENERALS - TIME table; generalized - 17 h
Buthus occitanus
Generals
GENERALS - TIME table; generalized - 17 h
Buxus sempervirens
Generals
GENERALS - PULSE - frequent
Stomach
STOMACH - NAUSEA
Cacao
Generals
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - cheese - aversion
GENERALS - HYPOTENSION
GENERALS - PULSE - excited
GENERALS - PULSE - frequent
GENERALS - PULSE - full
Mind
MIND - SADNESS
Cactus grandiflorus
Abdomen
ABDOMEN - COMPLAINTS of abdomen - extending to - Thighs
ABDOMEN - CONGESTION - Liver; of
ABDOMEN - CONGESTION - Liver; of - acute
ABDOMEN - CONGESTION - Liver; of - chronic
ABDOMEN - CONSTRICTION
ABDOMEN - CONSTRICTION - menses, during
ABDOMEN - CONSTRICTION - Hypochondria
ABDOMEN - CONSTRICTION - Hypochondria - bandage; as if by a
ABDOMEN - CONSTRICTION - Inguinal region
ABDOMEN - CONSTRICTION - Inguinal region - extending around pelvis
ABDOMEN - DISTENSION
ABDOMEN - HEAT
ABDOMEN - HEAT - fever, during
ABDOMEN - HEAT - flushes of
ABDOMEN - HYPOCHONDRIA; complaints of - extending to - Upward
ABDOMEN - INFLAMMATION
ABDOMEN - ITCHING - evening
ABDOMEN - ITCHING - evening - undressing, while
ABDOMEN - MENSES - before - agg.
ABDOMEN - MENSES - during - agg.
ABDOMEN - PAIN
ABDOMEN - PAIN - menses - during
ABDOMEN - PAIN - stool - before
ABDOMEN - PAIN - stool - during - diarrheic stool
ABDOMEN - PAIN - violent
ABDOMEN - PAIN - extending to - Back
ABDOMEN - PAIN - extending to - Thigh
ABDOMEN - PAIN - Hypogastrium
ABDOMEN - PAIN - Liver
ABDOMEN - PAIN - burning
ABDOMEN - PAIN - constricting
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cramping
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cramping - Umbilicus - Region of - yawning with
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting - Hypogastrium
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting - Umbilicus
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting - Umbilicus - Region of
ABDOMEN - PAIN - cutting - Umbilicus - Region of - stool - after
ABDOMEN - PAIN - dragging, bearing down - fever; in asthenic
ABDOMEN - PAIN - drawing - stool - before
ABDOMEN - PAIN - drawing - Inguinal region
ABDOMEN - PAIN - sore
ABDOMEN - PAIN - stitching - Liver
ABDOMEN - PAIN - tearing
ABDOMEN - PAIN - twisting
ABDOMEN - PULSATION
ABDOMEN - RUMBLING
ABDOMEN - RUMBLING - stool - before
ABDOMEN - SWELLING - Liver
Back
BACK - BLOATING - Cervical region
BACK - COLDNESS
BACK - COLDNESS - fever - with
BACK - CONGESTION - Cervical region
BACK - HEAT - Cervical region
BACK - MOVEMENTS - Sacral region
BACK - PAIN - Cervical region
BACK - PAIN - Dorsal region - Scapulae - left
BACK - PAIN - Dorsal region - Scapulae - left - Under
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - rheumatic
BACK - PAIN - Lumbar region - Spine
BACK - PAIN - Spine
BACK - PAIN - sore - Spine - Dorsal region
BACK - PAIN - stitching - Dorsal region
BACK - WEAKNESS - Cervical region
Bladder
BLADDER - CONSTRICTION
BLADDER - CONSTRICTION - Neck
BLADDER - HEMORRHAGE
BLADDER - INFLAMMATION
BLADDER - PAIN
BLADDER - PAIN - Neck
BLADDER - PARALYSIS
BLADDER - RETENTION of urine
BLADDER - RETENTION of urine - clots; from - bladder; in the
BLADDER - RETENTION of urine - clots; from - vagina; in the
BLADDER - RETENTION of urine - enlarged prostate, from
BLADDER - SPASM - Neck
BLADDER - STONES in bladder
BLADDER - URGING to urinate
BLADDER - URGING to urinate - day and night
BLADDER - URGING to urinate - constant
BLADDER - URGING to urinate - frequent
BLADDER - URGING to urinate - ineffectual
BLADDER - URGING to urinate - urination, after
BLADDER - URINATION - dribbling
BLADDER - URINATION - dribbling - involuntary - menses, during
BLADDER - URINATION - dysuria
BLADDER - URINATION - frequent
BLADDER - URINATION - frequent - night
BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary
BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary - night
BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary - night - midnight - after - 5 h
BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary - night - morning, toward
BLADDER - URINATION - involuntary - menses, during
BLADDER - URINATION - retarded, must wait for urine to start
BLADDER - URINATION - retarded, must wait for urine to start - press
a long time before he can begin; must
BLADDER - URINATION - unsatisfactory
BLADDER - WEAKNESS
Chest
CHEST - AIR - sensitive to air - Mammae - cold air; sensitive to
CHEST - ANEURYSM of - Heart
CHEST - ANGINA pectoris
CHEST - ANGINA pectoris - heart disease; from organic
CHEST - ANGINA pectoris - pseudo angina pectoris
CHEST - ANXIETY in
CHEST - ANXIETY in - rising from chest
CHEST - ANXIETY in - Heart, region of
CHEST - ARTERIOSCLEROSIS of coronaries
CHEST - AXILLA; complaints of - left
CHEST - CANCER - Heart
CHEST - CATARRH
CHEST - CEASES to beat; as if heart - had ceased
CHEST - COLDNESS - pain; at seat of
CHEST - CONGESTION
CHEST - CONGESTION - lying down impossible
CHEST - CONSTRICTION
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - armor, as if from an
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - asthmatic
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - band; as from a
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - band; as from a - iron
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - band; as from a - iron - Heart
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - talking - preventing
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Diaphragm
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Heart
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Heart - band; as from a - iron
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Heart - grasping sensation
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Heart - hand; like a hand around her heart
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Lower part
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Sternum
CHEST - CONSTRICTION - Sternum - motion, on
CHEST - DIAPHRAGM; complaints of
CHEST - DILATATION of heart
CHEST - DROPSY
CHEST - FATTY degeneration of heart
CHEST - FLUTTERING
CHEST - FLUTTERING - lying, while - side - left; on
CHEST - FULLNESS
CHEST - GURGLING - Heart
CHEST - HEART failure - beginning of
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - constricting
pain of the heart
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - epistaxis
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - hemorrhage
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - respiration;
difficult
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Fingers;
numbness in
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Hand - left -
numbness
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Hand - left -
swelling
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Head - complaints
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Hypochondria;
complaints of
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Upper limbs -
left - numbness
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - accompanied by - Upper limbs -
left - pain
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - Apex of heart
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - Valves
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - Valves - Aortic valve -
insufficiency
CHEST - HEART; complaints of the - Valves - Mitral valve -
regurgitation
CHEST - HEAT
CHEST - HEAT - flushes
CHEST - HEAT - Heart, in region of - flushes of
CHEST - HEMORRHAGE of lungs
CHEST - HEPATIZATION of lungs
CHEST - HYPERTROPHY - Heart; of
CHEST - IMPULSE of heart; excessive
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Bronchial tubes
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Diaphragm
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - bright's disease, with
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - lying on side impossible
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - Endocardium
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - Endocardium - mitral insufficiency
and violent, rapid action; with
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - Endocardium - rheumatic
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Heart - Pericardium
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Lungs
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Lungs - lie on the back, must
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Mammae
CHEST - INFLAMMATION - Pleura
CHEST - INJURIES - Heart; to
CHEST - ITCHING
CHEST - ITCHING - evening
CHEST - ITCHING - fleas, as from
CHEST - LYING - side; on - left - agg.
CHEST - MENSES - during
CHEST - MURMURS - cardiac murmurs
CHEST - MURMURS - cardiac murmurs - valvular
CHEST - MURMURS - cardiac murmurs - valvular - Aortic valve
CHEST - MURMURS - respiratory murmurs
CHEST - NARROW - sensation as if too
CHEST - NOISES - abnormal
CHEST - NUMBNESS - Precordial
CHEST - OPPRESSION
CHEST - OPPRESSION - accompanied by - respiration; difficult
CHEST - OPPRESSION - ascending
CHEST - OPPRESSION - fever, during
CHEST - OPPRESSION - lying, while
CHEST - OPPRESSION - lying, while - side - left; on
CHEST - OPPRESSION - walking - while
CHEST - OPPRESSION - weight on chest; as from a
CHEST - OPPRESSION - Heart
CHEST - OPPRESSION - Heart - evening
CHEST - PAIN
CHEST - PAIN - forenoon - 11 h
CHEST - PAIN - night - midnight - before - 23 h
CHEST - PAIN - ascending
CHEST - PAIN - exertion
CHEST - PAIN - lying - back, on - amel.
CHEST - PAIN - lying - side, on - left
CHEST - PAIN - rheumatic
CHEST - PAIN - sitting
CHEST - PAIN - walking - while
CHEST - PAIN - wandering
CHEST - PAIN - Axilla
CHEST - PAIN - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - accompanied by - respiration; difficult
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - fainting, with pain in heart
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - lying - back, on the - amel.
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - lying - side - left - agg.
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - menses - before
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - menses - during
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - motion - agg.
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - paroxysmal
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - pressure
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - rheumatic
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - walking
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending to - Abdomen - left
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending to - Arm - left
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending to - Arm - Both arms
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending to - Axilla - then back
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending to - Fingers - left hand; of
CHEST - PAIN - Heart - extending to - Hand - left
CHEST - PAIN - Lower chest - left
CHEST - PAIN - Mammae
CHEST - PAIN - Sides - right
CHEST - PAIN - Sides - left
CHEST - PAIN - Sides - walking
CHEST - PAIN - Sternum - Behind
CHEST - PAIN - aching
CHEST - PAIN - aching - ascending agg.
CHEST - PAIN - aching - walking
CHEST - PAIN - aching - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - constricting
CHEST - PAIN - constricting - Diaphragm
CHEST - PAIN - cramping
CHEST - PAIN - cutting
CHEST - PAIN - cutting - Diaphragm
CHEST - PAIN - cutting - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - cutting - Heart - motion, on
CHEST - PAIN - drawing pain - Axilla
CHEST - PAIN - drawing pain - Sides - left
CHEST - PAIN - drawing pain - Sides - extending to - Shoulder joint
CHEST - PAIN - griping
CHEST - PAIN - griping - Heart, in
CHEST - PAIN - griping - Sternum - Behind
CHEST - PAIN - pressing - sitting
CHEST - PAIN - pressing - weight; as from a
CHEST - PAIN - pressing - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - pressing - Heart - extending to - Axilla then back
CHEST - PAIN - pressing - Sides - right
CHEST - PAIN - pressing - Sides - walking
CHEST - PAIN - sore - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - squeezing sensation
CHEST - PAIN - squeezing sensation - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - stitching
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - coughing
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - extending to - Arm; left
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Heart
CHEST - PAIN - stitching - Sternum
CHEST - PAIN - tearing - Heart; region of - extending to - Forearm -
left
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - evening
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - night
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - night - bed, in
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - accompanied by - perspiration; cold
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - accompanied by - Upper limbs; pain in
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - anxiety - with
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - ascending stairs
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - breath, holding
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - chronic
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - epistaxis, with
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - excitement, after
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - excitement, after - sudden
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - exertion
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - exertion - unusual
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - extra systole
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - fistula; with anal
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - fright, after
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - headache - during
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - inspiration; deep - during
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - irregular
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - irritable heart
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - lying
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - lying - back; on
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - lying - side - left
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - menses - before
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - menses - during
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - menses - during - beginning of; at the
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - menses - suppressed
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - mental exertion
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - motion
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - motion - beginning to move
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - nervous palpitation
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - rising - seat; from a
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - sitting - amel.
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - sitting - erect - amel.
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - sitting - up - amel.
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - standing
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - stooping
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - thinking - about it
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - tobacco from
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - tumultuous, violent, vehement
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - turning in bed
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - unrequited affections, from
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - vertigo, with
CHEST - PALPITATION of heart - walking
CHEST - PARALYSIS - Diaphragm
CHEST - PHTHISIS pulmonalis - incipient
CHEST - PULSATION
CHEST - PULSATION - morning
CHEST - SWELLING - Heart - sensation as if
CHEST - TOBACCO heart
CHEST - TURNING - around; as if - Heart
CHEST - TURNING - over - as if - Heart
CHEST - TURNING - something were turning over; as if
CHEST - WEAKNESS - Heart
CHEST - WEAKNESS - Heart - arteriosclerosis, in
CHEST - WEAKNESS - Heart - tendency
CHEST - WHIRLING; sensation of - Heart; about
Chill
CHILL - CHILL in general
CHILL - FORENOON
CHILL - FORENOON - 10 h
CHILL - FORENOON - 10.30 h
CHILL - FORENOON - 11 h
CHILL - FORENOON - 11 h - 11-16 h
CHILL - FORENOON - 11 h - 23 h; and
CHILL - AFTERNOON - 13 h
CHILL - NIGHT
CHILL - NIGHT - midnight
CHILL - NIGHT - midnight - before
CHILL - NIGHT - midnight - before - 22 h
CHILL - NIGHT - midnight - before - 23 h
CHILL - NIGHT - midnight - at
CHILL - BEGINNING in - Back
CHILL - CHILLINESS
CHILL - EXPOSURE, after
CHILL - EXPOSURE, after - sun; to the heat of
CHILL - MENSES - during
CHILL - PERIODICAL - hour - same hour
CHILL - PERIODICITY - regular and distinct
CHILL - PERIODICITY - regular and distinct - clock-like
CHILL - PERNICIOUS
CHILL - QUOTIDIAN
CHILL - SHAKING
CHILL - SHAKING - heat - with - head; of
CHILL - STOOL - during
CHILL - WARM - room - amel. - not amel. in warm room nor by a warm
stove
Cough
COUGH - NIGHT
COUGH - NIGHT - midnight - before - 23 h
COUGH - DRY
COUGH - DRY - tickling, from - Larynx; in
COUGH - HEART affections, with
COUGH - ITCHING - Larynx; in
COUGH - LYING - bed - agg.
COUGH - MENSES - during
COUGH - PAROXYSMAL - forenoon
COUGH - PERSISTENT
COUGH - RATTLING
COUGH - SPASMODIC
COUGH - STERTOROUS
COUGH - STERTOROUS - night
COUGH - TICKLING - Larynx; in
Dreams
DREAMS - AMOROUS
DREAMS - AMOROUS - erections - with
DREAMS - EXCITING
DREAMS - FALLING
DREAMS - FRIGHTFUL
DREAMS - MANY
DREAMS - UNREMEMBERED
DREAMS - VIOLENCE
Ear
EAR - DISCHARGES - measles, after
EAR - INFLAMMATION
EAR - INFLAMMATION - Meatus
EAR - MENSES - during
EAR - NOISES in
EAR - NOISES in - buzzing
EAR - NOISES in - ringing
EAR - NOISES in - roaring
EAR - NOISES in - singing
EAR - PAIN
EAR - PULSATION
EAR - PULSATION - right
Expectoration
EXPECTORATION - BLOODY
EXPECTORATION - BLOODY - dark
EXPECTORATION - BLOODY - streaked
EXPECTORATION - COPIOUS
EXPECTORATION - GELATINOUS
EXPECTORATION - MUCOUS
EXPECTORATION - MUCOUS - bloody
EXPECTORATION - STARCH, like
EXPECTORATION - THICK
EXPECTORATION - VISCID
EXPECTORATION - YELLOW
External throat
EXTERNAL THROAT - CLOTHING agg.
EXTERNAL THROAT - GOITRE - exophthalmic
EXTERNAL THROAT - GOITRE - exophthalmic - accompanied by - Heart
complaints
EXTERNAL THROAT - PULSATION - Carotids
Extremities
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands - blue
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands - chill, during
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands - icy
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Hands - icy - fever, with
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Fingers - chill
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Foot
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Foot - headache - during
EXTREMITIES - COLDNESS - Foot - icy cold
EXTREMITIES - CONSTRICTION
EXTREMITIES - CONSTRICTION - bandage; as by
EXTREMITIES - CONSTRICTION - tape; as by
EXTREMITIES - CONSTRICTION - Joints
EXTREMITIES - CONSTRICTION - Shoulder
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Upper limbs - left
EXTREMITIES - CRAMPS - Foot - Sole
EXTREMITIES - DISCOLORATION - Hand - blueness
EXTREMITIES - DISCOLORATION - Fingers - Nails - blueness
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Elbow
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Elbow - herpes
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Ankle
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Ankle - dry
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Ankle - herpes
EXTREMITIES - ERUPTIONS - Ankle - Malleolus
EXTREMITIES - FORMICATION
EXTREMITIES - FORMICATION - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - FORMICATION - Hands - left
EXTREMITIES - HEAVINESS
EXTREMITIES - HEAVINESS - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - HEAVINESS - Lower limbs
EXTREMITIES - HEAVINESS - Leg
EXTREMITIES - INFLAMMATION - Joints
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Lower limbs
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Lower limbs - undressing, while
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Leg
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Leg - undressing agg.
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Leg - Calves
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Leg - Calves - undressing
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Leg - Tibia, over
EXTREMITIES - ITCHING - Ankle
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Upper limbs - left
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Upper limbs - left - lying on it; from
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Arms - left
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Hand
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Hand - left
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Fingers - one side
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Leg
EXTREMITIES - NUMBNESS - Foot
EXTREMITIES - PAIN
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - evening
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - rheumatic - acute
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - warm applications - amel.
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Joints - gouty
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Joints - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper limbs - left
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper limbs - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper limbs - wandering
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Shoulder
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Shoulder - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Shoulder - wandering
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper arm
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper arm - night
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Upper arm - heart affections
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Elbow - wandering
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Fingers
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Lower limbs
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Lower limbs - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Hip - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Hip - extending to - Feet
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Thigh
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Knee
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Knee - night
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Knee - motion
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Knee - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Knee - Patella
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Leg - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Leg - Calf
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Ankle - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - Sole
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - Foot - Sole - walking, while
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - aching - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Fingers
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Knee
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Ankles
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Foot - Sole
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Foot - Sole - cramping
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - drawing - Toes
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - pressing - Hip - Gluteal region
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - stitching - Fingers - Fourth
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - twitching
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Joints
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Upper limbs - morning - waking
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Upper limbs - Bones
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Upper limbs - Joints
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Shoulder
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Shoulder - right
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Elbow
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Forearms
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Forearms - morning - waking, on
EXTREMITIES - PAIN - tearing - Fingers
EXTREMITIES - PARALYSIS - Upper limbs - left
EXTREMITIES - PERSPIRATION - clammy
EXTREMITIES - PERSPIRATION - cold
EXTREMITIES - PULSATION
EXTREMITIES - PULSATION - Hand
EXTREMITIES - PULSATION - Foot
EXTREMITIES - RAYNAUD'S DISEASE
EXTREMITIES - RESTLESSNESS - Leg
EXTREMITIES - SOFT - Hands
EXTREMITIES - STIFFNESS - morning
EXTREMITIES - STIFFNESS - Joints
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - dropsical
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Upper limbs - edematous
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Hand
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Hand - left
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Hand - edematous
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Hand - endocarditis
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Lower limbs - dropsical
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Leg
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Ankle
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Ankle - rheumatic
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Foot
EXTREMITIES - SWELLING - Foot - edematous
EXTREMITIES - TENSION - Joints
EXTREMITIES - TINGLING - Hand - left
EXTREMITIES - TINGLING - Fingers - Tips
EXTREMITIES - UPPER LIMBS; complaints of
EXTREMITIES - WALKING - difficult
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Upper limbs
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Hand - left
EXTREMITIES - WEAKNESS - Leg
Eye
EYE - ECCHYMOSIS
EYE - HEAVINESS - Eyebrows
EYE - INFLAMMATION
EYE - INFLAMMATION - arthritic
EYE - INFLAMMATION - Retina - neuroretinitis - accompanied by -
hyperemia of retina
EYE - PAIN - burning - Canthi
EYE - PHOTOPHOBIA
EYE - PROTRUSION
EYE - PROTRUSION - exophthalmos
EYE - PULSATION - In the eyes
Face
FACE - BLOATED
FACE - COLDNESS
FACE - COMPLAINTS of face - menses - during
FACE - CONGESTION
FACE - DISCOLORATION - bluish
FACE - DISCOLORATION - bluish - chill, during
FACE - DISCOLORATION - bluish - headache, during
FACE - DISCOLORATION - bluish - heart trouble
FACE - DISCOLORATION - bluish - Lips
FACE - DISCOLORATION - cyanotic
FACE - DISCOLORATION - dark
FACE - DISCOLORATION - mottled - Lips
FACE - DISCOLORATION - pale
FACE - DISCOLORATION - red
FACE - DISCOLORATION - red - headache, during
FACE - DISCOLORATION - red - vertigo, during
FACE - EXPRESSION - anxious
FACE - EXPRESSION - distressed
FACE - EXPRESSION - frightened
FACE - EXPRESSION - suffering
FACE - HEAT - flushes
FACE - PAIN
FACE - PAIN - right
FACE - PAIN - excitement
FACE - PAIN - exertion - agg.
FACE - PAIN - fasting, from
FACE - PAIN - inflammatory
FACE - PAIN - light agg.
FACE - PAIN - lying - amel.
FACE - PAIN - motion - agg.
FACE - PAIN - music, from
FACE - PAIN - periodical
FACE - PAIN - wine agg.
FACE - PAIN - neuralgic
FACE - PAIN - neuralgic - right
FACE - PAIN - pulsating
FACE - PERSPIRATION
FACE - PERSPIRATION - cold
FACE - SWELLING
FACE - SWELLING - edematous
FACE - VEINS distended - Temples
Female genitalia/sex
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONGESTION - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONGESTION - Uterus - menses - during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONSTRICTION of - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONSTRICTION of - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONSTRICTION of - Uterus - band; like a
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONSTRICTION of - Vagina
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONSTRICTION of - Vagina - coition, during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONSTRICTION of - Vagina - touch, on
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONTRACTIONS - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONTRACTIONS - Uterus - menses - during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - CONTRACTIONS - Uterus - Os uteri - labor;
spasmodic contraction during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - INFLAMMATION - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - INFLAMMATION - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - INFLAMMATION - Vagina - coition, during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - INSENSIBILITY of vagina - coition, during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - LEUKORRHEA - copious
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - LEUKORRHEA - sitting, while
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENOPAUSE
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - daytime only
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - morning - and - daytime
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - before - agg. - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - black - pitch-like
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - cease - night
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - clotted
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - copious
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - dark
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - during - agg. - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - early, too
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - frequent; too
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - lying - cease while lying
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - painful
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - painful - beginning, at
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - painful - discharge of clots
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - painful - horrible pain, crying and
weeping
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - pitch-like
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - ropy, tenacious, stringy
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - scanty
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - scanty - lying down; cease when
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - thick
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - MENSES - vicarious
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA - coagulated
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA - coagulated - expelled; clots
are - accompanied by - constricting pain
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA - dark blood
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA - motion
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - METRORRHAGIA - profuse
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Ovaries - extending to - Thighs
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - evening
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - night - 23 h
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - maddening
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - menses - during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - menses - during - cry out,
compels her to
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - periodically, same time each
day
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - pulsating
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - extending to - downward
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - extending to - Stomach
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - Uterus - extending to - Thighs; down
the
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - constricting, contracting - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - constricting, contracting - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - constricting, contracting - Uterus -
menses, during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - constricting, contracting - Vagina
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Uterus - night - midnight -
before - 23 h
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Uterus - double up;
compelling her to
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Uterus - menses - before
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Uterus - menses - during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Uterus - extending to -
Stomach
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - cramping - Vagina
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - grasping
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - labor pains - ceasing
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - labor pains - suppressed and wanting
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - labor-like - menses - during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - neuralgic - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - pinching - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PAIN - pressing - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PULSATING
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PULSATING - Ovaries
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - PULSATING - Uterus
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - SEXUAL DESIRE - increased
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - VAGINISMUS
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - VAGINISMUS - coition - during
FEMALE GENITALIA/SEX - VAGINISMUS - coition - preventing
Fever
FEVER - FEVER, heat in general
FEVER - FORENOON
FEVER - AFTERNOON - 13 h
FEVER - NIGHT
FEVER - BURNING heat
FEVER - BURNING heat - night
FEVER - CEREBROSPINAL fever
FEVER - CHILL absent
FEVER - CHILL absent - forenoon
FEVER - CHILL absent - forenoon - 11 h
FEVER - CHILL absent - night - midnight - before - 23 h
FEVER - COLDNESS - predominates
FEVER - DRY heat
FEVER - HEAT
FEVER - INFLAMMATORY fever
FEVER - INTENSE heat
FEVER - INTENSE heat - stupefaction and unconsciousness, with
FEVER - INTERMITTENT
FEVER - INTERMITTENT - long lasting heat; with
FEVER - LONG lasting heat
FEVER - PAROXYSMAL fever - forenoon - 11 h
FEVER - PERIODICAL
FEVER - PERIODICAL - hour - same hour; at the
FEVER - PERSPIRATION - absent
FEVER - SUCCESSION of stages - chill - followed by - heat
FEVER - SUCCESSION of stages - chill - followed by - heat - then
perspiration
FEVER - SUCCESSION of stages - chill - followed by - perspiration -
intervening heat; without
FEVER - SUN - heat of; in the
FEVER - TRAUMATIC fever
Generals
GENERALS - FORENOON
GENERALS - FORENOON - 11 h
GENERALS - NOON
GENERALS - AFTERNOON
GENERALS - NIGHT
GENERALS - NIGHT - midnight - before - 23 h
GENERALS - AIR - open air - agg.
GENERALS - AIR - open air - amel.
GENERALS - ALTERNATING states
GENERALS - ANEURYSM
GENERALS - APOPLEXY
GENERALS - APOPLEXY - threatened
GENERALS - ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
GENERALS - ASCENDING - agg.
GENERALS - ASCENDING - clotting of blood
GENERALS - BLOOD VESSELS - complaints of - Arteries; of
GENERALS - BREATHING - deep breathing - desire to
GENERALS - CHOREA
GENERALS - CIRCULATION; complaints of the blood - eating - after -
agg.
GENERALS - COLD - air - amel.
GENERALS - CONGESTION - blood; of
GENERALS - CONGESTION - blood; of - sudden
GENERALS - CONGESTION - blood; of - Internally
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - Arteries; of
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - External
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - External - band; sensation of a - iron
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - External - caged with wires twisted
tighter and tighter; as if
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - Internal
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - Internal - band, sensation of a
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - Internal - band, sensation of a - iron
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - Internal - belt, sensation of a
GENERALS - CONSTRICTION - Internal - spasm of sphincter of orifices
GENERALS - CONTRACTIONS - inflammation, after
GENERALS - CONVALESCENCE; ailments during - ear; after discharges
from
GENERALS - CONVULSIONS
GENERALS - CONVULSIVE movements
GENERALS - CYANOSIS
GENERALS - CYANOSIS - infants, in
GENERALS - DISABLED - children
GENERALS - DISTENSION blood vessels
GENERALS - DROPSY - external dropsy
GENERALS - DROPSY - external dropsy - heart disease, from
GENERALS - DROPSY - general; in
GENERALS - DROPSY - internal dropsy
GENERALS - EMACIATION
GENERALS - EXERTION; physical - agg.
GENERALS - FAINTNESS
GENERALS - FAINTNESS - pain, from - heart, in
GENERALS - FAINTNESS - palpitations - during
GENERALS - FAINTNESS - periodical
GENERALS - FAINTNESS - Heart - disease; in
GENERALS - FASTING - agg.
GENERALS - FISTULAE
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - coffee - agg.
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - food - aversion
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - meat - aversion
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - milk - aversion
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - milk - desire
GENERALS - FOOD and DRINKS - wine - agg.
GENERALS - FULLNESS; feeling of - Internally
GENERALS - HEAT - flushes of
GENERALS - HEAT - lack of vital heat
GENERALS - HEAVINESS - Externally
GENERALS - HEMORRHAGE
GENERALS - HEMORRHAGE - blood - clots
GENERALS - HEMORRHAGE - fever; during paroxysmal
GENERALS - HUNGER - agg.
GENERALS - HYPOTENSION
GENERALS - HYPOTHERMIA
GENERALS - HYPOTHERMIA - persistent subnormal temperature
GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - Externally
GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - Internally
GENERALS - INFLAMMATION - Nerves; of
GENERALS - INJURIES - traumatic fever
GENERALS - JAR, stepping - agg.
GENERALS - LASSITUDE
GENERALS - LYING - agg.
GENERALS - LYING - back, on - amel.
GENERALS - LYING - head - low; with head - agg.
GENERALS - LYING - side, on - right side - amel.
GENERALS - LYING - side, on - right side - amel. - Head high; with
GENERALS - LYING - side, on - left side - agg.
GENERALS - MENSES - during - agg. - beginning of; at
GENERALS - METASTASIS
GENERALS - MOTION - agg.
GENERALS - MOTION - amel.
GENERALS - MOTION - beginning of motion agg.; at
GENERALS - MOTION - continued motion - amel.
GENERALS - NUMBNESS - Externally
GENERALS - PAIN - appear gradually - disappear; and - gradually
GENERALS - PAIN - appear suddenly - disappear; and - suddenly
GENERALS - PAIN - menses - during
GENERALS - PAIN - constricting - Externally
GENERALS - PAIN - constricting - Internally
GENERALS - PAIN - cramping
GENERALS - PAIN - grasping, griping, clutching
GENERALS - PAIN - neuralgic
GENERALS - PAIN - pressing - load; as from
GENERALS - PAIN - pressing - together
GENERALS - PAIN - pressing - Internally
GENERALS - PAIN - stitching - Internally
GENERALS - PAIN - tearing - Externally
GENERALS - PAIN - tearing - Internally
GENERALS - PAIN - tearing - Joints, in
GENERALS - PERIODICITY
GENERALS - PERIODICITY - hour - same hour; complaints return at the
GENERALS - PERSPIRATION - suppression of perspiration; complaints
from
GENERALS - PLETHORA - constitution; plethoric
GENERALS - PRESSURE - agg.
GENERALS - PRESSURE - amel.
GENERALS - PULSATION - Externally
GENERALS - PULSATION - Externally - night
GENERALS - PULSATION - Externally - breath; when holding his
GENERALS - PULSATION - Externally - walking
GENERALS - PULSATION - Internally
GENERALS - PULSATION - Internally - Blood vessels - Body; all over
GENERALS - PULSE - abnormal
GENERALS - PULSE - frequent
GENERALS - PULSE - frequent - breath; when holding his
GENERALS - PULSE - full
GENERALS - PULSE - hard
GENERALS - PULSE - imperceptible
GENERALS - PULSE - intermittent
GENERALS - PULSE - irregular
GENERALS - PULSE - slow
GENERALS - PULSE - small
GENERALS - PULSE - soft
GENERALS - PULSE - strong
GENERALS - PULSE - tense
GENERALS - PULSE - thready
GENERALS - PULSE - weak
GENERALS - RISING UP - agg.
GENERALS - ROLLING; sensation of
GENERALS - SENSITIVENESS - pain, to
GENERALS - SIDE - left
GENERALS - SITTING - agg.
GENERALS - SLUGGISHNESS of the body
GENERALS - STANDING - agg.
GENERALS - SUN - exposure to the sun
GENERALS - SUPPRESSED COMPLAINTS; ailments from
GENERALS - TENSION
GENERALS - TIME table; generalized - 23 h
GENERALS - TOBACCO - agg.
GENERALS - TOUCH - agg.
GENERALS - TREMBLING - Externally
GENERALS - TWITCHING
GENERALS - WAKING, on
GENERALS - WALKING - agg.
GENERALS - WALKING - beginning of walking agg.
GENERALS - WALKING - fast - agg.
GENERALS - WALKING - slowly amel.
GENERALS - WEAKNESS
GENERALS - WEAKNESS - menses - after
GENERALS - WEAKNESS - menses - during
GENERALS - WEIGHT; as of a heavy
GENERALS - WOUNDS - bleeding freely - clots; favors the formation of
Head
HEAD - BREATHING - deeply agg.
HEAD - CONGESTION
HEAD - CONGESTION - forenoon - 11 h
HEAD - CONGESTION - night - midnight - before - 23 h
HEAD - CONGESTION - coffee, from
HEAD - CONGESTION - epistaxis - with
HEAD - CONGESTION - menses - during
HEAD - CONGESTION - mental exertion, from
HEAD - CONGESTION - perspiration - fails in ague; where perspiration
HEAD - CONGESTION - redness of face, with
HEAD - CONGESTION - sun, from exposure to
HEAD - CONGESTION - Brain
HEAD - CONSTRICTION
HEAD - CONSTRICTION - accompanied by - epistaxis
HEAD - CONSTRICTION - band or hoop
HEAD - CONSTRICTION - Forehead - band; as from a
HEAD - CONSTRICTION - Vertex
HEAD - CONTRACTION - Scalp; sensation of contraction of
HEAD - EMPTY, hollow sensation
HEAD - ENLARGED sensation
HEAD - FASTING agg.
HEAD - FOREHEAD; complaints of - Eyes - Above - right
HEAD - FULLNESS
HEAD - FULLNESS - mental exertion, from
HEAD - HEAT
HEAD - HEAT - accompanied by - Face - redness of face
HEAD - HEAT - coffee - stopping; from
HEAD - HEAT - coldness - Body; with coldness of
HEAD - HEAT - coldness - Extremities; with coldness of
HEAD - HEAT - coldness - Feet; with coldness of
HEAD - HEAT - flushes of
HEAD - HEAT - mental exertion, from
HEAD - HEAVINESS
HEAD - HEAVINESS - light, from strong
HEAD - HEAVINESS - lying, while - back, on
HEAD - HEAVINESS - lying, while - side - amel.
HEAD - HEAVINESS - pressure amel.
HEAD - HEAVINESS - talking, from
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Occiput
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Occiput - lying - back agg.; while on
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Occiput - lying - side amel.; on
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Sides
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Sides - right
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Temples
HEAD - HEAVINESS - Vertex
HEAD - LIGHT - agg.
HEAD - LYING - while - amel.
HEAD - LYING - occiput agg.; on
HEAD - MENOPAUSE; during
HEAD - MENSES - before - agg.
HEAD - MENSES - during - agg.
HEAD - NOISE - agg.
HEAD - ODORS - strong - agg.
HEAD - PAIN
HEAD - PAIN - morning
HEAD - PAIN - morning - comes and goes with the sun
HEAD - PAIN - morning - increasing during day
HEAD - PAIN - night
HEAD - PAIN - night - midnight - before - 23 h
HEAD - PAIN - accompanied by - vomiting
HEAD - PAIN - bending head - backward, while - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - breathing - deeply, on
HEAD - PAIN - chill - during
HEAD - PAIN - congestion, as from
HEAD - PAIN - coughing - on
HEAD - PAIN - cry out, pains compel one to
HEAD - PAIN - dinner - delayed, from
HEAD - PAIN - eating - after
HEAD - PAIN - excitement - emotional; after
HEAD - PAIN - exertion - body, etc.; of
HEAD - PAIN - exertion - eyes; of the
HEAD - PAIN - fasting, from
HEAD - PAIN - fasting, from - hunger is not appeased at once; if
HEAD - PAIN - heat - during the
HEAD - PAIN - inspiration, during an - deep
HEAD - PAIN - light - general; from light in
HEAD - PAIN - lying - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - lying - back, on - while
HEAD - PAIN - lying - side, on - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - maddening pains
HEAD - PAIN - menses - during
HEAD - PAIN - mental exertion - agg.
HEAD - PAIN - motion - agg.
HEAD - PAIN - music, from
HEAD - PAIN - nervous
HEAD - PAIN - noise, from
HEAD - PAIN - noise, from - voices especially
HEAD - PAIN - periodical
HEAD - PAIN - periodical - day - alternate
HEAD - PAIN - periodical - day - every - hour; at the same
HEAD - PAIN - pressure, external - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - raising - head
HEAD - PAIN - rheumatic
HEAD - PAIN - sun, from exposure to
HEAD - PAIN - talking - while
HEAD - PAIN - violent pains
HEAD - PAIN - wine - from
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - left side
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - evening
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - air - open - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - menses - during
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - noise
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - pressure - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - room, in a
HEAD - PAIN - Forehead, in - Eyes - Above - right
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - bending head backward - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - exercise amel.
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - lying, while - head - back of the head; on
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - lying, while - occiput; on
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - lying, while - side - head amel.; on side of
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - mental labor - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - Occiput - motion - head, of
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - one side
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - right
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - right - periodic
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - daytime
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - morning - rising, on
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - forenoon
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - night
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - bright light
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - noise, from
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - pulsating
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - raising head
HEAD - PAIN - Sides - sound of talking
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - right
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - morning
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - night
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - dinner - getting dinner too late
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - exertion, after
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - motion
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - noise agg.
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - opera, from attending
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - paroxysmal
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - pressure - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - Temples - wine, from
HEAD - PAIN - Vertex
HEAD - PAIN - Vertex - noise, from
HEAD - PAIN - Vertex - pressure - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - bursting
HEAD - PAIN - bursting - night
HEAD - PAIN - bursting - coughing, on
HEAD - PAIN - bursting - Temples
HEAD - PAIN - come off, pain as if top of head would
HEAD - PAIN - compressive
HEAD - PAIN - crushed
HEAD - PAIN - drawing - moving head, on
HEAD - PAIN - drawing - Occiput
HEAD - PAIN - drawing - Occiput - bending head - backward - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - drawing - Occiput - motion - head, of
HEAD - PAIN - drawing - Temples
HEAD - PAIN - drawing - Temples - periodical - two days; every
HEAD - PAIN - jerking - Temples - left
HEAD - PAIN - neuralgic
HEAD - PAIN - pressing
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - inward
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - mental exertion, from
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - outward
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - pressure - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - vise; as if in a
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - weight; as from
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead - house agg.; in
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead - light agg.
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Forehead - noise agg.
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Occiput
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Occiput - exercise amel.; mental or physical
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Sides
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - inward
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - inward - weight; like
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - light - agg.
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - noise agg.
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - pressure - amel.
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - talking - hearing
HEAD - PAIN - pressing - Vertex - weight; as from a
HEAD - PAIN - pulsating
HEAD - PAIN - sore
HEAD - PAIN - tearing - Forehead
HEAD - PERSPIRATION of scalp - Forehead
HEAD - PERSPIRATION of scalp - Forehead - cold
HEAD - PRESSURE - external - amel.
HEAD - PULSATING
HEAD - PULSATING - night
HEAD - PULSATING - menses - during
HEAD - PULSATING - Forehead - menses, during
HEAD - PULSATING - Sides - right
HEAD - PULSATING - Temples
HEAD - PULSATING - Temples - night
HEAD - SUNSTROKE
HEAD - SUN - exposure to the sun - agg.
HEAD - SWOLLEN feeling
HEAD - TEMPLES; complaints of
HEAD - TENSION of skin - Scalp
Hearing
HEARING - ACUTE
HEARING - ACUTE - music, to
HEARING - ACUTE - voices and talking
HEARING - IMPAIRED
Kidneys
KIDNEYS - CONGESTION
KIDNEYS - INFLAMMATION
KIDNEYS - PAIN - sore
KIDNEYS - STONES
KIDNEYS - SUPPRESSION of urine
KIDNEYS - SUPPRESSION of urine - fever, with
Larynx and trachea
LARYNX AND TRACHEA - ITCHING - Larynx
LARYNX AND TRACHEA - PAIN - burning
LARYNX AND TRACHEA - TICKLING - Larynx, in
LARYNX AND TRACHEA - VOICE - hoarseness
LARYNX AND TRACHEA - VOICE - low
Male genitalia/sex
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - ERECTIONS - evening
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - ERECTIONS - dreams, with amorous
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - ERECTIONS - painful
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - ERECTIONS - painful - night
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - ERECTIONS - painful - disturbing sleep
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - POLLUTIONS - noon
MALE GENITALIA/SEX - SEXUAL DESIRE - increased
Mind
MIND - EVENING
MIND - AILMENTS FROM - love; disappointed
MIND - ANGER
MIND - ANGER - contradiction; from
MIND - ANSWERING - aversion to answer
MIND - ANXIETY
MIND - ANXIETY - forenoon
MIND - ANXIETY - afternoon
MIND - ANXIETY - evening
MIND - ANXIETY - night
MIND - ANXIETY - conscience; anxiety of
MIND - ANXIETY - waking, on
MIND - BED - remain in bed; desire to
MIND - BED - remain in bed; desire to - menses; during
MIND - CAUTIOUS
MIND - CHEERFUL
MIND - CHEERFUL - heart disease; with
MIND - COMPANY - aversion to
MIND - CONCENTRATION - difficult
MIND - CONSOLATION - agg.
MIND - CONTRADICTION - intolerant of contradiction
MIND - CONTRADICTION - intolerant of contradiction - children; in
MIND - DEATH - presentiment of
MIND - DELIRIUM
MIND - DELIRIUM - night
MIND - DELIRIUM - night - waking, on
MIND - DELIRIUM - gay, cheerful
MIND - DELIRIUM - sleep - after - amel.
MIND - DELIRIUM - sleep - during
MIND - DELIRIUM - sleep - going to sleep; on
MIND - DELIRIUM - sleeplessness - with
MIND - DELIRIUM - waking, on
MIND - DELUSIONS
MIND - DELUSIONS - body - wrapped
MIND - DELUSIONS - die - about to die; one was
MIND - DELUSIONS - die - about to die; one was - heart trouble; in
MIND - DELUSIONS - die - about to die; one was - heart trouble; in -
rheumatism; with
MIND - DELUSIONS - disease - incurable disease; he has an
MIND - DELUSIONS - dying - he is
MIND - DELUSIONS - hearing - illusions of
MIND - DELUSIONS - injury - being injured; is
MIND - DELUSIONS - small - body is smaller
MIND - DELUSIONS - small - things - appear small; things
MIND - DELUSIONS - wires; is caught in
MIND - DESPAIR
MIND - DESPAIR - recovery, of
MIND - DULLNESS
MIND - DULLNESS - sleepiness, with
MIND - EXCITEMENT
MIND - EXCITEMENT - palpitation, with violent
MIND - FEAR
MIND - FEAR - death, of
MIND - FEAR - death, of - heart symptoms, during
MIND - FEAR - death, of - pain, from
MIND - FEAR - death, of - uterus; from pain in
MIND - FEAR - disease, of impending
MIND - FEAR - disease, of impending - incurable, of being
MIND - FEAR - fever - during fever
MIND - FEAR - happen, something will
MIND - FEAR - heart - disease of the heart
MIND - FEAR - heat - during
MIND - FEAR - insanity
MIND - FEAR - misfortune, of
MIND - FEAR - suffocation, of
MIND - FEAR - suffocation, of - night
MIND - FEAR - waking, on
MIND - FOOLISH behavior
MIND - FOOLISH behavior - grotesque behavior
MIND - FORGETFUL
MIND - FORGETFUL - words while speaking; of
MIND - FRIGHTENED easily
MIND - FRIGHTENED easily - waking, on
MIND - HURRY
MIND - HYPOCHONDRIASIS
MIND - HYSTERIA
MIND - HYSTERIA - menses - during
MIND - IMPULSE; morbid
MIND - IMPULSE; morbid - strange things; to do
MIND - INSANITY
MIND - INSANITY - heat; with
MIND - IRRESOLUTION
MIND - IRRESOLUTION - projects, in
MIND - IRRITABILITY
MIND - IRRITABILITY - consolation - agg.
MIND - JESTING
MIND - JESTING - facetious; desire to do something
MIND - MANIA
MIND - MANIA - night
MIND - MANIA - night - midnight, agg.; about
MIND - MANIA - night - midnight, agg.; about - heat; from burning
MIND - MANIA - heat - during
MIND - MEDICINE - desire to swallow large doses of
MIND - MEMORY - weakness of memory
MIND - MEMORY - weakness of memory - words; for
MIND - MENSES - before
MIND - MENSES - during
MIND - MILDNESS
MIND - MOROSE
MIND - MUSIC - agg.
MIND - PAIN - during
MIND - REMORSE
MIND - RESERVED
MIND - RESTLESSNESS
MIND - RESTLESSNESS - night
MIND - RESTLESSNESS - sitting, while
MIND - SADNESS
MIND - SADNESS - daytime
MIND - SADNESS - causeless
MIND - SADNESS - heart affections; from
MIND - SADNESS - menses - during
MIND - SADNESS - taciturn
MIND - SENSITIVE
MIND - SENSITIVE - music, to
MIND - SENSITIVE - noise, to
MIND - SENSITIVE - noise, to - talking, of
MIND - SENSITIVE - noise, to - voices, to
MIND - SENTIMENTAL
MIND - SERIOUS
MIND - SHRIEKING
MIND - SHRIEKING - pain, with the
MIND - SLOWNESS
MIND - SLOWNESS - behindhand; always
MIND - SLOWNESS - old people, of
MIND - SLOWNESS - work, in
MIND - SPEECH - incoherent
MIND - SPEECH - incoherent - waking, on
MIND - STARTING
MIND - STARTING - fright; from and as from
MIND - STARTING - sleep - from
MIND - STRANGE - things; impulse to do strange
MIND - STUPEFACTION
MIND - STUPOR
MIND - SUSPICIOUS
MIND - TACITURN
MIND - TACITURN - sadness, in
MIND - TALKING - others agg.; talk of
MIND - TALKING - sleep, in
MIND - UNCONSCIOUSNESS
MIND - UNCONSCIOUSNESS - fever, during
MIND - UNCONSCIOUSNESS - sunstroke, in
MIND - VIVACIOUS
MIND - WARM - agg.
MIND - WEEPING
MIND - WEEPING - causeless
MIND - WEEPING - causeless - without knowing why
MIND - WEEPING - consolation - agg.
MIND - WEEPING - desire to weep
MIND - WEEPING - hysterical
MIND - WEEPING - menses - before
MIND - WEEPING - menses - during
MIND - WEEPING - pains - with the
MIND - WRITING - difficulty in expressing ideas in
Mouth
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - brown
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - purple
MOUTH - DISCOLORATION - Tongue - white
MOUTH - DRYNESS - Tongue
MOUTH - DRYNESS - Tongue - accompanied by - brown discoloration
MOUTH - ODOR - offensive
MOUTH - ODOR - offensive - morning
MOUTH - PAIN - burnt, sensation as if - Tongue
MOUTH - PRICKLING - Tongue
MOUTH - PRICKLING - Tongue - Tip
MOUTH - SCRAPING - Palate
MOUTH - SPEECH - difficult
MOUTH - TASTE - acrid
MOUTH - TASTE - slimy
MOUTH - TASTE - soapy
MOUTH - TASTE - wanting, loss of taste
MOUTH - TASTE - wanting, tastelessness of food
Nose
NOSE - CORYZA
NOSE - CORYZA - discharge, with
NOSE - CORYZA - discharge, without
NOSE - DISCHARGE - excoriating
NOSE - DRYNESS - Inside
NOSE - DRYNESS - Inside - night
NOSE - EPISTAXIS
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - accompanied by - Face - congestion of
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - amenorrhea, with
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - menses - suppressed
NOSE - EPISTAXIS - profuse
NOSE - OBSTRUCTION
NOSE - ODORS; imaginary and real - pitch
NOSE - PAIN - rawness - Nostrils
NOSE - SMELL - acute - strong odors
Perspiration
PERSPIRATION - PERSPIRATION in general
PERSPIRATION - COLD
PERSPIRATION - COLD - anguish; with great
PERSPIRATION - PROFUSE
PERSPIRATION - PROFUSE - night
Prostate gland
PROSTATE GLAND - HEAVINESS
PROSTATE GLAND - INFLAMMATION
PROSTATE GLAND - IRRITATION in
PROSTATE GLAND - PAIN
PROSTATE GLAND - PAIN - pressing
PROSTATE GLAND - PAIN - stitching - urination, during
PROSTATE GLAND - SWELLING
Rectum
RECTUM - CONSTIPATION
RECTUM - CONSTIPATION - accompanied by - colic - flatulent
RECTUM - CONSTIPATION - difficult stool
RECTUM - CONSTIPATION - heart weakness
RECTUM - CONSTIPATION - ineffectual urging and straining
RECTUM - CONSTRICTION
RECTUM - DIARRHEA
RECTUM - DIARRHEA - morning
RECTUM - DIARRHEA - forenoon
RECTUM - DIARRHEA - bilious
RECTUM - DRAGGING, heaviness, weight
RECTUM - FISTULA
RECTUM - FISTULA - palpitations, with
RECTUM - HEMORRHAGE from anus
RECTUM - HEMORRHAGE from anus - heart symptoms, with
RECTUM - HEMORRHAGE from anus - malarial fevers, in
RECTUM - HEMORRHAGE from anus - stool - after
RECTUM - HEMORRHOIDS
RECTUM - HEMORRHOIDS - external
RECTUM - HEMORRHOIDS - large
RECTUM - ITCHING
RECTUM - MENSES - during - Perineum
RECTUM - MENSES - during - Rectum and anus
RECTUM - PAIN
RECTUM - PAIN - stool - after
RECTUM - PAIN - pressing
RECTUM - PAIN - sticking
RECTUM - PAIN - stitching
RECTUM - PAIN - tenesmus
RECTUM - PRICKLING
RECTUM - PRICKLING - stool - during
RECTUM - SWELLING of anus - sensation of
RECTUM - WEIGHT - and a feeling as if a plug were wedged between the
pubis and coccyx
RECTUM - WEIGHT - Perineum
Respiration
RESPIRATION - ANXIOUS
RESPIRATION - ARRESTED
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC
RESPIRATION - ASTHMATIC - spasmodic
RESPIRATION - DEEP
RESPIRATION - DEEP - desire to breathe
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - afternoon - 13 h
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - night
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - night - midnight - before - 23 h
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - air - open, in - amel.
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - ascending
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - constriction - Diaphragm; of
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - heat, with
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - lying - back - amel.
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - lying - back - shoulders elevated amel.;
with
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - lying - head; with the - low
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - lying - impossible
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - lying - while
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - menses - during
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - mucus; from - Trachea; in
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - pain; during
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - palpitation, during
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - periodical
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - rheumatic - Heart; of
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - sitting - upright amel.
RESPIRATION - DIFFICULT - walking
RESPIRATION - IMPEDED, obstructed
RESPIRATION - IMPEDED, obstructed - constriction - Chest, of
RESPIRATION - IMPEDED, obstructed - stitches; from - Heart, in
RESPIRATION - JERKING
RESPIRATION - PAINS agg.; general
RESPIRATION - PANTING
RESPIRATION - PERIODICITY
RESPIRATION - RATTLING
RESPIRATION - RATTLING - day and night
RESPIRATION - RATTLING - lying - agg.
RESPIRATION - WHISTLING
Skin
SKIN - BITING - fleas were biting; as if
SKIN - COLDNESS
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - discharging
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - dry
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - dry
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - moist
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - scaly
SKIN - ERUPTIONS - scaly
SKIN - ITCHING - evening - amel.
SKIN - ITCHING - undressing agg.
SKIN - PURPURA - miliaris
Sleep
SLEEP - DEEP
SLEEP - DEEP - heat, during
SLEEP - DISTURBED
SLEEP - DISTURBED - dreams, by
SLEEP - DISTURBED - erections, by - painful
SLEEP - DISTURBED - menses - during
SLEEP - DISTURBED - palpitations, by
SLEEP - DREAMING - menses - during
SLEEP - INTERRUPTED
SLEEP - POSITION - changed frequently
SLEEP - POSITION - changed frequently - palpitations, because of
SLEEP - RESTLESS
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - morning
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - morning - rising - on
SLEEP - SLEEPINESS - dullness, with
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - evening
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - night - midnight - before
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - night - midnight - before - morning; until
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - night - midnight - before - thoughts; from
activity of
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - night - midnight - after - morning - until
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - exhaustion
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - fever - asthenic fever; during
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - heat - during
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - mental exertion; after
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - pains, from - rheumatic pains
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - palpitation, from
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - pregnancy, during
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - pulsation, from
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - pulsation, from - different parts of body; in
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - thoughts - activity of thoughts; from
SLEEP - SLEEPLESSNESS - weariness - from
SLEEP - WAKING - alarmed
SLEEP - WAKING - fright, as from
Stomach
STOMACH - APPETITE - diminished
STOMACH - APPETITE - wanting
STOMACH - CONSTRICTION
STOMACH - EMPTINESS
STOMACH - ERUCTATIONS; TYPE OF - acrid
STOMACH - ERUCTATIONS; TYPE OF - empty - dinner, after
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Re: scorpions
Androctonus amoreuxii hebraeus
Case
J.A. A 59-year-old male.
This case was taken in October 1998, in front of a group of
students; J.A. was referred by one of the members of this class. His
immediate appearance was of a person with considerable scarring on
one side of his face and forehead-obviously from some sort of injury
or accident. He walked with a slight limp and described himself as a
retired "operations supervisor." He was wearing an army camouflage
outfit and a baseball hat decorated on the front with a plastic
moose, American flag, and an orange crystal. He was also wearing
American-Indian-style jewelry. He had a florid complexion and a large
abdomen. He spoke in a confident, somewhat arrogant manner, obviously
not at all intimated by speaking in front of a class of students. We
observed his apparent pleasure at listening to himself talk
throughout the consultation.
J.A. was coming for treatment for a number of physical complaints:
allergies, an enlarged prostate, high blood pressure, and low-grade
diabetes.
"I don't like taking pills and never took medicine when I was young
as I figured it wouldn't work. They stuck me with all sorts of
needles and really screwed me up. I got a flu shot and then got the
flu. I am taking medicine for blood pressure and diabetes but would
like to get off."
J.A. reports that he has had allergies for as long as he can
remember, but that they have been getting worse over the last couple
of years. "I was hooked on nose spray but I was a professional driver
and the medicine made me drowsy." His allergy symptoms include a
cough with a lot of salivation, sneezing, post-nasal drip, stuffiness
and pressure in sinuses.
"I am outside in the woods all year round, hunting and fishing. They
are worst outside, in the Fall when the leaves start to decay. It's
the revenge of the deer. The only time they are better is at the
ocean."
When asked about how this affects his life he says:
"Nothing stops me from doing what I want to do. I spent a lot of my
early years alone. I entertained myself. You can change anything you
want to. At age twenty I was in the army doing small arms training.
Got shot in the head and hurt a hell of a lot. I spent a year and a
half undergoing plastic surgery. Took a big chunk out of my nose and
lip. I know what pain really is. Excruciating pain when they skin you-
that is really cool. I don't like morphine. At first they gave me a
lot and I learned to do without and go somewhere where there was no
pain. I had so many shots you could squeeze my arm and the medicine
would squirt out. In the army they had me see a psychiatrist a couple
of times before the surgery-they were concerned about my mind,
worried about the disfigurement. I said the first thing I'm going to
do is get some beer and go hunting with friends. Being disfigured
doesn't bother me-life's too short. Once I hit my hand with a hammer
and said 'Boy are you stupid'-I put it under cold water and sutured
it myself."
When asked about his childhood he said:
"As a child, my father was away at war. We used to play soldiers and
I was better at it than the other kids. I was the only kid on the
block with a bow and arrow and a tomahawk. Two brothers-I kicked
their butts. As a child I spent a lot of time with my grandmother.
She was part American Indian. There were stuffed animal heads all
around the room. I learned about being in tune with nature, about
animals. I learned how to manipulate situations. I like being able to
get away, to soar. The most peaceful times I ever had weres when I
was learning to fly. In a life/death experience when you re-run your
tapes, you are looking down, you fly."
When asked about his work (J.A. was a truck driver) he said:
"Work was challenging. I learned to read people pretty well-how to
work with a bunch of idiots without turning them into a hostile group
against you. I read people pretty well. My brother says I'm a
manipulator. Some people call it a snow-job. I take a situation and
turn it around and no one knows you're doing it. I'm intuitive. I
feel vibrations from people. I can look at people and see colors over
their heads. I can project thoughts to animals. The animal has no
idea I am there. Whatever you think of you can be, if you want to
enough."
He spoke at length about his love of hunting:
"Weather doesn't bother me because I have no control over it.
Yesterday was a perfect day because I got within sixty yards of a
buck. It was a good day for a hunter...when humans stalk an animal it
can smell them and moisture keeps the smell down. Killing is not a
sport. I'm dead serious about it. I know I can catch them if I want
to. I knew where to go and I stayed there patiently until the buck
came near. I can communicate psychically with the animals. I said to
it, 'I'm going to kill you' and it turned its head because it knew I
had it. I had my bow and arrow aimed. I decided not to kill the deer,
but I could have. The Indians could go up to an animal and touch it
and let it go on."
He said he slept well unless the allergies interfere and he has to
sleep propped up. He also wakes up at night to urinate (due to his
enlarged prostate):
"I dream about whatever I decide I want to dream about. I make up my
own story. I plan things in my dreams and then carry them out."
"I collect knives, guns, and spurs. I also keep feathers and fur
from the animals I have killed. I don't throw anything away-you name
it and I've probably got it."
"That idiot in Iraq-how many people are prepared for Armageddon?
It's coming and I have plenty of guns for everyone."
"Money rules the world and our president. I'm a Roman Catholic and I
believe in morality-right is right and wrong is wrong. Clinton
disgusts me-I'm surprised at how pissed I am at him. He's sticking it
to the American people. I'll just wait until the election."
When asked about fears he says, "I've never feared anything. I've
been there, done that. I kick butt." "I'm 59 years old and I haven't
slowed down."
J.A. smashed his right heel fifteen years ago and it is still
painful. He has arthritis in the right leg and knee, and some
cramping in the leg-hence the limp.
For food, J.A. desires spicy food, garlic, fish, pizza, and prime
ribs. "Prime rib end-cut is the ultimate-I worked as a butcher once
too."
Now he has to watch his diet for blood sugar. He checks his blood
sugar daily and takes medication when his levels indicate the need.
He drinks a lot of water and "a fair amount of Jack Daniels." He
says he is warm-blooded.
Evaluation
The most striking thing about this case was that, as a group, we
were all fascinated and horrified listening to J.A. 's description of
stalking animals. He obviously felt an enormous power in his ability
to be the one who decided whether an animal would live or die, and
letting them go was his way of expressing "compassion" and feeling
powerful. We could picture him with bow and arrow poised, ready to
shoot his prey, and sending the animal a psychic message that it was
in his power. We were struck by the fact that his allergies were
keeping him from hunting-the symptoms were protecting the organism.
J.A. 's obsession with hunting seems to have been there from
childhood, with his love of playing soldiers and "kicking butt," but
what affected his life the most was having to endure the excruciating
pain from his gunshot wound. He was able to survive in conditions
that most others would have not been able to withstand, and even
seemed to derive pleasure from his ability to do so. This is one of
the unique qualities of the scorpion in the desert, that can survive
when anything else would perish. J.A. 's mention of Saddam Hussein
and his own readiness to fight when Armageddon came indicate his
feeling of being ready for an attack. In terms of his language and
how it relates to Androctonus (scorpion) pathology, he used phrases
like "stuck with needles" and Clinton "sticking it to the American
people." He also likes to hunt with a bow and arrow, which resembles
the one-pointed sting of the scorpion tail. Without knowing about
Androctonus, we would have considered giving Sulphur-because of
J.A. 's theorizing about life (much more than is included in this
article), his love of collecting unusual objects, his eccentric
clothing ("his rags are his riches"), and his arrogant self-
confidence. His food desires and generals fit Sulphur as well.
However, what is characteristically most unusual about this case is
J.A. 's extraordinary ability to survive and his relationship to
attacking and being attacked. These are not covered by Sulphur. We
discussed the possibility of a snake or some other animal remedy, but
the prescription of Scorpion seemed to fit his state perfectly.
Rx: Androctonus, LM1 daily. [Note: J.A. did not follow this regimen
and only took the remedy sporadically.]
Followups
December, after 2 months
J.A. comes in wearing street clothes. His allergies are 50% better-
no phlegm, nose is clear, and he can breathe well. He used to have
terrible tearing of the eyes; that has stopped. He doesn't have to
sleep propped up at an angle any more. He's been out in the woods
most of the time for the last couple of months and it has been good.
Blood pressure is normal, stable; he's still taking BP medication.
When asked about himself in general, J.A. reports:
"It's been phenomenal. I feel an inner feeling change. Life is not
so much of a hassle. I have an inner feeling of peace and joy.
Attitudes have changed. Clinton has not bothered me. I'm more in tune
with what I am doing. Not tired or listless. I used to fall asleep at
8pm. Now I'm active until 11pm. [We did not know this before.]
Sleeping through the night now. Not having to get up in the middle of
the night to pee."
J.A. speaks about being in the woods and seeing the young plants
sprouting and changes in nature. The pain in his leg has increased
recently. He says it is due to physical exertion.
April, after 6 months J.A. looks less disfigured. The whole class
comments on this; or are we just getting used to his appearance? He
reports:
"Allergies are 90% better. No problem with leaf mold this year.
I am more tolerant of people and ideas. I've mellowed out.
Hunting-I let most of them go now. This year I would have taken
fifteen but I've only taken two. It's like wildflowers. I don't pick
them but leave them for others to enjoy."
His legs are much better. He is still taking blood sugar medication,
but only about half the amount he was taking before. "My doctor said
to me 'What happened?'"
Rx: Androctonus, LM2. He has taken this intermittently since then.
After 9 months
J.A. reports that he now has no allergies at all. He is still on
the same meds for high blood pressure. Although his condition is
completely stable, he won't stop these meds until his doctor suggests
it. The same goes for the diabetes. He only takes the meds
occasionally, if he has eaten sugar. His arthritis is much better. He
is not walking with a limp and can use his leg fairly normally. He
does not have the headaches or neck pain that he used to have. J.A.
told me he was bored with his collection of knives and guns and was
thinking of getting rid of it. In general, he is much calmer and
happier in himself.
The hidden colors of light : a case of iridium metallicum
By gina inez, rshom (na)
The following is a case of Iridium Metallicum. With careful
listening, intuition, the use of a rubric in the Complete Repertory,
and Jan Scholten's Homeopathy and the Elements, I was able to
prescribe this remedy successfully. My client is one of three adult
sisters, two of whom I had already treated. One received Magnetis
Polis Arcticus, and the other Kali Phosphoricum. The third sister, my
new client Iris (not her real name), came to see me mid-June 1998.
Iridium metallicum
Case
Female, sales manager, age 39, single: she is of medium height,
slender and willowy, with short brunette hair, wearing some make-up
which accents her strong and attractive features. Her eyes are
bright, big and almond-shaped, inquisitive and knowing. She blinks
them frequently. Her pants and shirt are both casual and carefully
chosen.
Iris, first of all, presented with a list of physical complaints.
1) Frequent urination: and occasional incontinence with cough,
concern for "control of my bladder." She drinks fluids frequently and
wakes at least once nightly to urinate.
2) Hypoglycemia: lightheaded and foggy when hungry or when eating
carbohydrates. Snappy, irritable, amel. with eating, amel. with wine,
amel. eating protein for breakfast and lunch. These symptoms
disappear on vacation.
3) Ailments from jet travel: client frequently travels for business;
sore throats, swollen glands, sneezing, nasal obstruction, coughing
ensue.
4) Skin rashes since childhood: eczema on arms; as an adult, genital
herpes also on left nate.
5) Headaches: dull pain in forehead, average once weekly, agg.
before herpes outbreaks, or with neck pain. Cervical vertebrae tend
to dislocate, also triggering lower back pain.
6) Sore chest: from holding her breath, she believes.
Iris suffers chronic tiredness. She wishes to have sustained energy
and an easier relationship with food. "Spiritually," she said, "I
want to merge and ground and be in present time." She is fearful she
will "sabotage" her own joy. "Although I'm joyful now; if it's too
good, I will leave."
Iris' story
"My whole life I have wondered why I am here. Who am I? My issues
revolve around self worth. I was a sensitive child. I was
told, 'Overly sensitive.' I would transform myself to get love and
approval by noticing what others needed. Even as a child, I was
either self-conscious and shy or very directly focused."
"I have two selves:
7) a successful corporate business person in a corporate
environment;
8) a spiritual self that seeks and desires a spiritual environment."
Iris is considering changing her job: "There is no foundation, no
anchor, a nothingness." Although she is financially successful, she
wants to be "more assertive, more powerful, present and comfortable."
Iris gets paid on performance: in fact, she has been the top
salesperson in one company for four years, and the first woman in the
company ever to achieve this. "I used to feel guilty [regarding this
high performance]. I felt I couldn't be corporate and spiritual." In
any case, Iris says she tends to push herself to the breaking point
of exhaustion.
"I'm very changeable. I feel people intensely. I manage people and
do sales [for a commercial office furniture company]. I 'become' the
other people I work with." Psychic/spiritual classes have helped
her "to ground." These classes give her skills to embody her
talents. "I'm all air and water astrologically." ("A rainbow is a
mixture of light and water," Sherr). 1 "When I'm busy, I fly out of
my body."
Iris has a fear of heights and of falling. She fears a "lack of
discernment in relations with men and of repeating these old
patterns...Years ago, I was married to an emotionally and physically
abusive man. I lose myself. I disappear emotionally."
Iris has "podium anxiety," with heart palpitations. "I feel too
visible. I have a fear of being judged, yet I want so much to be
seen." Loss of breath; she loses the train of thought.
Dreams
• Prophetic: (since childhood) "I shut down that side of myself for
fear I had no one to talk to about these dreams. With the exception
of a grandfather on one side, and a grandmother on the other, no one
else was outwardly clairvoyant."
• Of being chased: "These occur when I feel anxious about being
behind in work...I am chased after I have killed someone."
• Doing more and more: "As a waitress: having to seat more and more
tables.... I have to do more and more."
• Travel dreams: transportation.
• Architecture: when visiting her boyfriend in another state, who is
a builder, she had dreams of architecture, details even of the
joinery of houses; "rubrics cubes condos."
• A gray quartz spiral swirling in her room through her heart.
("Sensation as if an iron rod is standing straight in the heart
region," Scholten.)2
Medical history
Born: weak, fragile, jaundiced. Right hip not formed.
Pneumonia and mononucleosis at age 4.
Nosebleeds since childhood, agg. at high altitudes.
Acne during adolescence, treated with antibiotics for two years.
Broken wrist, and broken right clavicle for which she had surgery
one year ago.
Whiplash.
Family history
Maternal side-cancer
Paternal side-heart problems
Sleep-difficult, wakes at 3:00 AM
Energy-agg. 3:00 PM, high at 11:00 AM
Food-desires spicy, salty, fish, robust and warm foods, chocolate
averse-ice, ice-cream
aggravates-coffee
Generals-anxious in wind
agg. cold air
Two and one-half years before, Iris had received Phosphorous LM 1-15
over a forty-five day period from another homeopath. Some physical
symptoms improved for one to two years. The mental/emotional picture
had not changed. This practitioner, however, did point out to Iris
that her antagonism of will (between her work and spiritual life) was
her core problem. And I agreed.
I prescribed Iridium 1M for Iris. Iridium is in the "Gold Series,"
according to Jan Scholten's schema. It is in between Osmium to its
left and Platina to its right. Iridium, along with Baryta Carb and
Aurum (from the Gold Series) are listed in the rubric "will,
contradiction of " (Complete Repertory). Iris' case seemed most
suited to the issues of the "Gold Series": of work, responsibility,
performance, isolation, religion, etc.; and Iridium seemed to fit the
case best.
First follow-up-at one month-late July 1998:
Iris said, "Nothing has happened." New client, new remedy (for me),
nothing's happened! Reflecting on the wise words of Jeremy
Sherr, "nothing" may indicate the gentlest of all healings. I
exhorted my client to tell me about her month.
"I cannot say things are better or worse. I had an anxiety attack
for two hours, three or four days after taking the remedy." Almost
two weeks into the remedy, Iris had an anxiety attack in a hotel
room: "I didn't know what to wear for a party. I couldn't leave the
hotel room to go to the party. I was afraid I wasn't enough...Anxiety
is still an issue." (Iris had not actually spoken of anxiety during
the first interview.) "I have been depressed, but not badly...I am
also coming to tears where I didn't before." This practitioner
noticed a softening in her demeanor.
"My sensitivity, when mixed with anxiety and insecurity, is not
pretty. It takes on a different color. It blends together to create
depression and anger, and outwardly, frustration and anger."
Iris' sense of personal/psychic boundaries is definitely better, not
taking things too seriously or personally. "I get busy and forget to
feel for others and myself, but I feel more of an opening. I see a
need to be compassionate and to do management simultaneously! I am
feeling less socially awkward in business." Iris again noted how
seeking approval from her father (i.e. , outside herself ) as a child
set up a pattern of anxiety she still faced. When I asked her about
the conflict she had spoken of between her spirituality and doing
business, Iris replied: "I haven't thought about that this month. I
guess that means I am a spiritual woman of business!"
Neutral focus-amel. in general, amel. in the afternoons.
Frequent urination-amel., does not wake at night.
Nosebleeds-amel. (none even at high altitude).
Hypoglycemic symptoms-amel., able to eat well more easily; desires
fewer sweets and chocolate, but craves coffee.
Herpes-at onset of an outbreak, Iris took a suppressive medication.
Menses-three days early and she wept with them.
PMS symptoms, which she had denied to herself in the past, became
more obvious and unavoidable to her.
Dreams-no architecture dreams. Other dreams unremembered.
Sleep-still erratic, somewhat improved. Trouble quieting the mind
over the day's business.
Iris' "nothing," it seemed, was something quite special. She and I
both mused about this and agreed Iridium 1M was working for her. No
remedy was given at the first follow-up.
Over the course of the next twelve months, Iris received Iridium 1M
twice and 10M once. (Iris was sensitive to jet travel, and on at
least one occasion she needed a repeat due to the deleterious effects
it had on the remedy's action.) She continued to improve in all the
ways she showed on the first follow-up.
Over time she dropped the relationship she had with her boyfriend
when she found "sexuality with him was suffocating and he could not
support my sensitivity even though he said he could." No other type
of closeness could be found with him. Then she began to date two new
men. (Delusion; wants two of everything, Scholten). She enjoyed
learning about herself in this way, but felt self-conscious at the
perceived societal norms (of dating only one man at a time). In a few
months, she chose one of the two partners to whom she felt best
suited, and has continued to enjoy and flourish in the relationship.
During treatment, Iris quit her job and became a consultant for the
same company. I noticed her tendency to be hurried and to arrive late
for appointments diminished. So did her desire to see many other
alternative health practitioners. She seemed more relaxed and less
perfectionistic as time went on.
Iris' case is uncannily reflected in Jeremy Sherr's published
proving of Iridium (and I have only just read this proving in order
to research this article). In his introduction, Sherr
writes, "Iridium was named from the Latin/Greek work Iris, meaning
rainbow. While in it's solid form, Iridium is a silver- white
precious metal, however in marine acid, it becomes astonishingly
multicolored and iridescent, 'emitting a light of extraordinary
splendor.'
"The Greek goddess Iris is the daughter of Elektra. She is
considered to be the personification of the rainbow...the goddess
Iris has her own highway. This female courier transports messages
between earth to heaven via the iridescent highway of a rainbow. She
can travel through air, water and the underworld-from the very
fundaments of the earth to the zenith of the heavens. Her task is to
be a joiner, uniter and conciliator..." 3
Consider iris' case:
"I am all air and water" (the rainbow).
"I need to be grounded. I lose myself; I get busy and fly out of my
body."
Dreams of "architecture, joinery."
Dreams of transportation.
And most exquisitely, Iris' "solid form" (her business persona) is
better elucidated through the vibrancy of her "colors" as a
psychically gifted person when the potentized remedy itself is given.
From Jan Scholten's brilliant description of Iridium,4 a few themes
for this case stand out:
• "A blunder during the conducting of business"-Iris' anxiety before
a party: she didn't know what to wear.
Anxiety, disturbing sleep: thoughts of business of the day.
• "Not quite arrogant"-Iris: "Since childhood I have been either shy
and awkward or incredibly focused." Scholten: "They [Iridium] tend to
be quite singleminded. They are always preoccupied with what is yet
to be done...They may seem irresponsible but this is only because
they see everything from the point of unexplored possibilities. They
do feel very responsible, much more than others might expect."
• "Robbed of their own power at the last minute"-Iris suffered
chronic fatigue, anxiety and foggy-headedness related to food intake.
When she first came to me, Iris' food, sleep and energy level were
disturbed or underfunctioning. She was robbed of her ability to be
fully in her body and to be present in her spirituality.
In this day, religiosity, which runs through the "Gold Series" (or
the 6th period of the Elemental Table), might be interpreted as
psychic openness or a willingness to do "God's work" through a
variety of channels not represented in our classic texts. Iris'
openness and struggle with her spirituality and psychic abilities may
be translated into the appropriate religious rubrics.
Iris' work in the commercial furniture industry is a revealing
metaphor for her expression at stage 9 of the Gold Series. She is not
yet sitting in the "big chair" herself (i.e. , the throne) like
Platina or Aurum, but she is traveling to and visiting the businesses
where she sells and sets up the office (the throne room).
Iris' dreams of having to do more and more (in her waitress dream)
reflect a stage of development directly before the summit. She has
acceded Sisyphus' tragic push to the top which always fails (Osmium)
but she has not yet succeeded to the glitter and assuredness of
Platina. Her dreams of having killed someone and of being chased
(corroborated in Sherr's 'Dream Section') reminds us of the well-
known violence of Platina, only Iridium is not so sure of itself;
hence is being pursued as well.
Physical symptoms in Iris' case corroborated by Sherr's proving of
Iridium:
Head-forehead, pain, dull
Respiration-spells of breathlessness
Bladder-frequent urination
Extremities-pain, right clavicle, right hip
Skin-itching on arms (and legs)
Symptoms found in Scholten's description of Iridium:
Mind-hurried
Fear-heights, of falling
Generals-( eating
sleeplessness
right-sided
Causes-hurt, humiliation
In the Materia Media of the Mind by Heli O. Retzek, only six common
rubrics are listed for Iridium:
• Antagonism, herself with
• Concentration, difficult
• Dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and comprehending
• Thoughts, two trains of thought
• Will, contradiction of
• Will, weakness of
The classic texts (Boericke, Clarke, Choudhury, Hering) remind us
that in nature Iridium is found only in combination with Osmium and
Platina as Osmiridium. It has a high specific gravity and is one of
the heaviest substances known. Clarke compares it to China and
Laurocerasus for "the aged and persons exhausted by disease," and for
children "who are puny, weak-limbed and grow too fast." It is said in
Clarke that Iridium may be superior to Aurum, Aurum Mur and Osmium in
uterine tumors. All the texts refer to a vacant feeling in the head-
and "painful weakness of the lower limbs and renal region alternating
with self-confidence and facilitated mental labor."
Iridium was introduced by Hering in 1853 and proved by A. J. Tafel
in the 19th century. It is compared to Platina for its numbness and
cramp-like sensations; and also to Ferrum Met., Palladium, Causticum,
Kali Ferrocyanatum.
The psychic sensitivity of Iridium may place it in the Phosphorous
family of remedies which would also include Iris' sisters' remedies
Magnetis Polis Arcticus and Kali Phosphoricum, among others.
Iris is dancing and performing in experimental theater, and ready to
find consulting work more suited to her talents, possibly creating
healing environments in the workplace. However, nineteen months after
her first dose of Iridium, her issues of insecurity and some skin
symptoms led me to recently prescribe Phosphorous 200C for Iris. If
over time it appears that Phosphorous is a curative remedy for her,
it will be interesting to explore the relationship of Iridium to
Phosphorous.
1 Jeremy Sherr and Dynamic School, Dynamis Provings, Volume I, by
Dynamis Books, England, 1997, p. 341.
2 Jan Scholten, Homeopathy and the Elements, by Stichting
Alonnissos, Netherlands, 1996, p. 727.
3 Sherr, op. cit., p. 341.
4 Scholten, op. cit., p. 725.
My special thanks to Jeremy Sherr and Jan Scholten for their
contribution to our understanding of Iridium Metallicum.
Gina Inez, RSHom (NA), has been practicing Classical Homeopathy
since 1985 in Marin County, California. She served as the Registrar
for NASH from 1997-1999.
Sus : a proving of pig
By karen allen, rshom (na), cch
"Would the results of a proving be different based on the specific
part of the subject which was used? Would perhaps a proving of a leaf
be different than the proving of a fruit, or a milk be different than
saliva?"
Sus scrofa
This was the question, raised in a discussion at the 1996
International Foundation for Homeopathy case conference, that led to
the proving presented here. There were those present who argued that
beneath all substance of an organism was the same vital force, and
when potentised, that same vital force would present itself
regardless of the specific component of the organism used. It was
mentioned that there would be likely differences if bone was used
rather than blood due to the highly specific mineral makeup of bones.
Questions were raised about using a male versus a female subject for
an animal proving, and how the mental symptoms of the proving might
be affected. All in all, it was an interesting question, with much
speculation, but little evidence to support any particular point of
view. There are some examples in the materia medica such as Agaricus
and Muscarin, Belladonna and Atropia, Nux Vomica and Strychnia, all
of which are pairs of plants and a derived alkaloid. These show
distinct similarities, but different remedy pictures. However, the
reduction from plant to alkaloid may be more extreme than the
difference between leaf and root or blood and saliva might be, and
the question remains.
Having just read The Dynamics and Methodology of Homeopathic
Provings by Jeremy Sherr, this case conference discussion heightened
my interest in conducting a proving. I resolved to use the approach
outlined in the book to prove multiple components of the same
organism as a trial to see if a difference in the proving results was
identifiable. While casting about for a likely subject for the
proving, I happened to have lunch with an acquaintance I did not know
very well at the time. In our conversation, he mentioned that his
family had a farm that raised pigs. As we chatted more, I learned
that these were not just any pigs-on this farm the pigs were a
specially bred and screened group of animals used as donor animals
for xenotransplant (organ transplant between members of different
species) and xenograft (tissue graft between members of different
species) medical procedures.
Over the next few days, I thought and read and researched about
pigs, hogs, and swine. My investigation showed that recent medical
literature was sprinkled with articles involving pigs, and many more
have appeared in the last few years. Increases in demands for donated
transplant organs were noted: more than 50,000 people die every year
waiting for a transplant organ, compared to the approximately 2,000
who receive one. This has prompted research into the use of donor
animals, and pigs have been considered good candidates because they
have many similarities to human physiology and anatomy. In March of
1997, the journal Nature reported that fetal pig neuronal tissue has
been implanted into the brains of patients with advanced Parkinson's
disease, demonstrating that animal tissues can grow within the human
body. Heart valves, skin grafts, and liver tissue from pigs have been
used in various medical procedures. Porcine pancreatic transplants
have been done in Europe for a number of years. Porcine heart and
liver transplants were unsuccessfully attempted with extremely ill
patients in 1992. In the 1996 January issue of Emerging Infectious
Disease, xenotransplants of organs from pigs were discussed as being
3-5 years from clinical trials. An April 1997 issue of Biomedical
News reported that there are now herds of genetically modified pigs
which have had DNA segments relating to the pig's immune system
function altered so that humans won't reject the tissue. In addition
to organs, bone marrow transplant is being researched. Limiting
factors continue to be immune system rejection of the foreign tissue
and fears of viral transmission through xenotransplant. An ethics
advisory group for xenotransplantation had directed a moratorium on
xenotransplants in Britain and New Zealand. The Centers for Disease
Control is currently drafting guidelines to prevent transmission of
infectious agents, monitor xenotransplant and xenograft recipients
with a national registry, and screen candidate animals and tissues.
While reading all this, I became curious about what the possible
impacts could be to a human population if organ transplants were
possible, and became commonplace. What influence could that bring to
children born to a parent who had a xenographic organ? Could a state
of 'pig' be recognizable in people who have received grafts or valves
or other pig tissues? It seemed very worthwhile to conduct a proving
of something foreign which has actually been incorporated into human
bodies and is now living and growing there. Additionally, pigs
offered an easy source for multiple components to prove. I contacted
my acquaintance, explained my project, and he obtained the source
substances for my proving from the pigs raised for xeno-transplant.
Freshly obtained semen, saliva, milk and blood were added to
individual bottles of alcohol and left for 24 hours. Each of these
was potentized and potencies of 6C, 12C, 15C, and 30C were made in
alcohol. Packets of remedies on pellets were made up, each identified
with a number only. A cross reference was created to index the packet
numbers to the source remedy/potency. Four additional packets of sac
lac were added. No one knew what was in any of the packets until the
proving was completed. The name of the remedy is Sus, the Latin word
for swine which is the genus name used in biological classification.
"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No
question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The
creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and
from pig to man again; but it was already impossible to say which was
which." -George Orwell, Animal Farm
"It may be remarked that man is the only animal which can live and
multiply in every country from the equator to the poles. The hog
seems to approach the nearest to our species in that privilege." -
Gibbon
Pigs are widely distributed throughout the Earth in both wild and
domesticated form. Hog, pig, and swine are interchangeable terms for
domesticated mammals of the swine family of the order artiodactyla
(hoofed animals with an even number of toes on each foot), suborder
bunodontia, families suidae and tayassuidae. They are believed to
have descended from two wild species (Asian and European), and first
domesticated in China about 9000 years ago. Explorers, traders and
immigrants eventually spread them around the earth. Pigs are well
adapted to meat production because they grow and mature rapidly, have
a short gestation period and produce a large number of young. As
omnivorous scavengers, they can adapt to many environments and diets.
In addition to meat, leather and bristles are produced. With the
exception of Muslim and Jewish cultures, which regard them as unclean
and therefore inedible, pigs are raised and eaten throughout the
world.
Pigs have played a role in history as well. In his book Guns, Germs,
and Steel, author Jared Diamond partially attributes to pigs the
dominance of European cultures over many others around the globe. He
discusses the evolution of epidemic disease as sourced by the close
proximity of humans and domesticated animals in Eurasia, where it was
not uncommon for peasants to live under the same roof with their
animals. Then as today, the relationship between humans and pigs
could be very close; in some places in the world today, human mothers
nurse piglets from their own breasts. His book documents the gradual
viral and bacteriological migration from animal diseases to human
diseases and attributes influenza and pertussis to domesticated
swine. In the first stage of evolution, a disease is found in animals
but a transfer to humans is uncommon, and there is no human to human
transmission. This is seen today with leptospirosis in dogs and pigs,
brucellosis in cattle, psittacosis in birds, and swine erysipelas in
pigs. In the second stage, a former animal pathogen evolves to a
point where there is direct transmission between people, causing
epidemics. In the third stage, a disease which was exclusively an
animal disease has become an exclusively human disease. The impact of
these diseases (measles, rubella, mumps, pertussis, smallpox,
influenza) on indigenous cultures throughout the world was
devastating, becoming one of the factors in the spread of European
influence.
Pigs also feature in the culture and mythology of many countries. In
his books, The Prydain Chronicles, Lloyd Alexander retells Welsh
legends involving an oracle pig named HenWen who used sticks to tell
the future. Pigs have been revered as weather forecasters, symbols of
fertility or bravery in battle, creatures enraptured by music and
much else as detailed in George Druce's "The Sow and Pig: A Study in
Metaphor" from the Archealogia Cantiana. They have contributed to our
maps with hills called hogbacks; the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, was
originally called Pig's Eye. They have also been reviled, and
connotations of the words pig, hog and swine are seldom
complimentary. Pig iron is a crude casting of metal from a blast
furnace. Hoggish and piggish are adjectives meaning dirty, greedy or
stubborn. Pig-headed refers to a stubborn person, and a swine refers
to a contemptible person.
There are some interesting oddities about pigs as well. They have no
sweat glands and require other means to cool off, explaining the
tendency of wild pigs to live in marshy places where they can wallow
in water or mud. Newborn pigs are extremely sensitive to cold and die
easily if left in a drafty place. Pigs are vulnerable to anthrax, but
it is not uncommon for young pigs to become only mildly ill and
recover completely from this disease which can be fatal to many other
animals and humans. In a 1925 issue of the British Journal of
Experimental Biology, Baker wrote about the inherited tendency to
sexual abnormality producing both hermaphrodite and sex-intergrade
pigs. In strains of pigs where this tendency was prevalent, over 10%
of the pigs showed abnormality. He concluded that these were
masculinized genetic females though they generally demonstrated male
sexual instincts. In the true hermaphrodites, an ovary was
consistently found on the left side and a testicle on the right side,
the clitoris was enlarged and developed similar to a penis, and there
was also a uterus and vagina.
A list of diseases that affect pigs reads much like a list of human
diagnoses: meningitis, encephalitis, polio (Talfan disease),
tuberculosis, pneumonia, rheumatism, tetanus, osteoporosis, cirrhosis
of the liver, hepatitis, gall stones. Urinary and kidney diseases are
commonly found in pigs, and nephritis has been associated with
exposure to cold, direct drafts on pigs' backs. Like many other
illnesses found post-mortem, diabetes mellitus is not diagnosed in
pigs because they are generally slaughtered at six months of age, but
pancreatic degeneration found in some slaughtered animals is
consistent with glycosuria. Swine erysipelas is a disease of pigs,
caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, which raises characteristic
diamond shaped red patches on the skin, and sometimes appears as a
diffuse red coloring all over the skin. The condition can be fatal to
pigs, causing hemorrhage of the kidneys and other complications. This
disease can affect people who come in contact with a diseased pig,
has been fatal to humans, and may last for years in some people, with
diamond shaped blotches on the hands and face that are aggravated by
heat of a fire or stove. This same E. rhusiopathiae agent has been
identified as a cause of arthritis in pigs in the U.S. , and in one
study as many as 75% of pigs affected with arthritis were shown to
have this organism.
"Even when I felt my stomach was full, I wanted to go on eating. I
would have eaten anything. I would have eaten garbage if you had put
it in front of me." Sus prover
The proving was conducted gradually from the fall of 1996 through
the summer of 1997 in the U.S. and Canada. The methodology laid out
in Jeremy Sherr's book was used, and instructions copied from the
book were handed out to provers. Supervision was done by myself and
Joan Raddysh, a Canadian homeopath now in Toronto whose contribution
was invaluable. Finding suitable candidates who were interested in
participating, relatively self-observant and articulate, and
conscientious about avoiding interferences such as coffee, medical or
recreational drugs, herbs, supplements, etc, proved to be a
challenge, and so the proving was done with a few individuals at a
time in several very small groups as people agreed to participate,
for a total of 27 provers for the four remedy components. In addition
to the supervision before and after the remedy was taken, follow-up
was done with the majority of provers at 3 months, 6 months and 1
year. Three of the provers observed no symptoms of any kind; one of
these had been given sac lac. The notable results are given below in
the words of the provers, followed by two successful acute cases. I
have not found a constitutional case for Sus yet, but hope that the
publication of this material will make homeopaths aware of what is
known about the remedy so far and create the opportunity for further
clinical use.
While knowledge of the remedy is incomplete and additions to the
repertory seem premature at this stage, rubrics consistent with
Kent's Repertory have been noted here using plain type for lowest
grade, italic for middle and bold for highest grade. Whenever
possible, existing rubrics have been used. Following Jeremy Sherr's
lead, I make no attempt to offer an essence or summary picture for
the remedy, letting the symptoms of the proving speak for themselves.
However, in response to the questions raised at the 1996 IFH case
conference, the results of the proving were so similar from each of
the four components of pig (saliva, semen, blood and milk) that I was
unable to differentiate them in any way.
Mind
There were many symptoms related to work including positive
anticipation of work, desire to work, increased sense of satisfaction
and accomplishment at work, anxiety about having forgotten how to do
one's job. It was interesting to find that almost 50% of the provers
noted that they worked overtime, double shifts, increased
responsibility, or increased hours at some point within the first 3
days after taking the remedy.
• "I had to work tonight and was actually looking forward to it
which was unusual."
• "I had a wonderful feeling that I had a task, a purpose and I had
finished it. I feel at peace now."
• "I felt like I could accomplish everything at work today and I
did. I feel great and have lots of energy."
• "I was at work twice as long today, funny how that happens."
• "I was at work from 9 am to 11 pm; I had not one chance to leave
or take a break."
• "Someone else wasn't coming in to work so I had to do her job on
top of mine. I lasted the entire day without feeling drained once."
• "I thought I couldn't do my job. In a sense I believed that I had
forgotten how to work. That's why my hands started to shake, because
I was actually scared. It still bothers me now, much later."
Two provers noted a difficulty in answering questions.
• "I have a time delayed response when answering questions. There is
a brief period of blankness and then I can respond."
No provers reported their own violent behavior, but in the few days
prior to taking the remedy (while keeping records in the proving
notebooks) or the first week after taking the remedy, several events
involving conflict were noted, and the following are representative.
• "I have never before been punched in a street confrontation. Three
guys came up to me as I got off work, made various comments that I am
a nerd and have no friends. It is, in effect, playground bullying.
One of the guys punched me on the right cheek just above the mouth,
chipped a tooth. I did not see the blow coming."
• "I struck a blow against a mouse that sent it limping off for
cover last night. I had already received the remedy proving kit so I
thought to include it in my notes."
• "I was woken up at 3 am by a couple of wailing cats that were
fighting right outside my window."
This last is a strange, rare and peculiar type of symptom which was
experienced by the one person who seemed to experience most of the
proving symptoms.
• "I had the idea that my foot was split between my big toe and my
other toes, going up into my foot part way, like a snake's tongue is
split."
Mind, Occupation ameliorates
Mind, Industrious
Mind, Answers slowly
Mind, Fear, work, feared he had forgotten how to (new subrubric)
Mind, Delusion, foot split in two (new rubric)
Head
Almost 90% of the provers who reported any symptoms at all had
headaches. In several provers, there were daily headaches for weeks,
with intense headaches on a weekly frequency for up to 2 months.
Invariably the same words were used: dull ache, vague ache, pressure
pushing outwards, but too dull to be a bursting sort of pain. In
fact, dull ache was the most common description used for every kind
of pain experienced by the provers in any symptom.
• "Vague headache, centered behind the eyes"
• "Ache in the head with much dull pressure inside the head, pushing
outwards"
• "Mild headache from 3 to 5 pm which slowly went away"
• "Dull ache which strengthens, then recedes every few hours through
the day"
• "An ache in the forehead at and above my eyebrows"
• "Aching pain in my head which was better after eating hot soup"
Provers also noted increased itching of the scalp which was improved
by scratching and followed by the formation of small scabs which
flaked off with more scratching.
Head, Pain, headache in general
Head, Pain, dull pain
Head, Itching of scalp
Stomach
Approximately 75% of the provers reported increased hunger and
increased satisfaction with food. In particular, many provers
mentioned seeking out a desired food and finding it extremely
satisfying when they had eaten it, although there was a very wide
range of the things desired with no two the same. For a few provers
this lasted for weeks, but for most it lasted only the first few
days. Approximately 30% of the provers reported nausea.
• "I was very hungry as soon as I woke up."
• "I was unusually hungry at times through the day."
• "I was ravenous, eating and eating, even when I knew I was full I
wanted to eat more."
• "Even when I felt my stomach was full, I wanted to go on eating. I
would have eaten anything. I would have eaten garbage if you had put
it in front of me."
• "By 10 am I was starved."
• "When I ate it, it was the best thing I had ever tasted."
• "After I ate, it seemed like the end result of a craving, when one
feels accomplished that they have fulfilled the desire."
• "I had a craving today for a blueberry bagel with cream cheese and
I wasn't let down-it was excellent."
• "I felt nauseated after taking the remedy."
• "From 3 to 3:30 pm I felt mild nausea."
• "There was a lot of cigar smoke and this made me feel nauseated.
It felt like I would have vomited if I had not gotten fresh air."
Stomach, Appetite, increased
Stomach, Appetite, ravenous, canine, excessive
Stomach, Nausea
Abdomen
• "Within 15 minutes of taking the first dose of the remedy, I felt
a colicky feeling in the abdomen."
• "After the remedy I had stomach cramps followed by diarrhea."
Abdomen, Pain, cramping
Rectum / Stool
• "I had diarrhea several times a day, after starting the remedy."
• "After having stomach cramps, I had very soft stools."
• "I had diarrhea which was very forceful, like an explosion into
the toilet."
Rectum, Diarrhea
Stool, Forcible
Urinary organs
Kidney pain was both produced as a proving symptom and resolved
during the proving for a prover who had chronic pain in the kidneys.
Several provers reported waking at night to urinate, something very
out of the ordinary for them.
• "My back began to ache in the area of my kidneys, more on the
right side. This lasted for an hour and a half then faded away."
• "I awoke again without the pain I usually feel in my kidneys every
morning. This was very different for me-I have had this pain every
day for years." (Pain was remitted for 3 months.)
• "Waking at 4:20 am with a strong need to urinate."
• "Frequent need to urinate."
Kidneys, Pain
Kidneys, Pain, morning
Bladder, Urination, frequent
Bladder, Urination, night
Extremities
Several of the provers reported symptoms of trembling or joint pain,
and most of these were on the left side of the body. Provers who
already had joint pain noted that it became worse after taking the
remedy, but none of those provers reported that it improved
afterwards-the discomfort gradually returned to its previous level.
• Trembling in the hands and forearms, with fear of having forgotten
how to work, lasting 30 minutes.
• Cramping in the left hand lasting 3 minutes
• "While driving, my hand and foot on the left side started to cramp
up. Better after stretching."
• "My left shoulder seems to have been wrenched somehow. It is a
dull ache."
• "Dull ache in both knees."
• "Dull aching feeling in the left hip and knee."
• "There was a feeling of wasting away in my arms. It was mid-
afternoon. It felt as if the fluids and strength of my arms was
ebbing. Sapping of strength."
Extremities, Trembling, anxious
Extremities, Pain, joints
Extremities, Cramps, hand
Extremities, Cramps, hand, left
Extremities, Cramps, foot
Extremities, Weakness, upper limbs
Sleep/dreams
There were many dreams reported involving the need to urinate, and
the provers, upon waking, actually did need to urinate. This was one
of the most commonly reported symptoms in the proving.
• "I dreamed that I was at a rally where we were forced to hear a
talk about the end of technology. In my dream I had to get up and go
to the bathroom. When I did wake up, I realized my bladder was full
and I did need to go to the bathroom."
• "In my dream I was going to see a film in a big old movie hall. On
my way into the hall I had to line up to pee-I actually did need to
when I woke up."
• "In my dream I was with my brother and we were traveling in a
green countryside near the coast. My brother and I were peeing on the
grass near an old house, and we were told off by a young guy who said
we should have used the toilet. I woke up really needing to pee."
There were also quite a few dreams about eating.
• "I dreamed that I was sitting at a dinner table having a meal with
others. Everyone was friendly."
• "In my dream I was gathered around a bowl of food with other
greedy followers."
• "There were people wandering around in a farmyard eating food from
a huge cabinet-fruit and veggies and bacon."
• "People are around cooking fires in the orchard."
There were dreams from which people awoke frightened, as from a
nightmare, and some of these were dreamt multiple times in the same
night.
• "In my dream I looked towards the window and saw a reflection. I
thought it was me. As I got closer, it became clear that it was
someone else. At that point I woke up, terrified that somebody was
outside my window."
• "There was a long stemmed red rose with a note saying 'I don't
want you to ever do that again.' And signed by my friend, but I did
not know what she was referring to. I awoke frightened because I
thought I had done something to jeopardize our friendship." (Dreamt 3
times in one night)
• "I had a nightmare about a friend-a guy and his wife who were
threatening to kill me with a gun. I tried to pretend I was already
dead, but he was not fooled. Then I had to empty out my pockets and
was surrounded by many coins. When I awoke I was anxious and the
feeling stayed with me for a long time."
• "I was in a bar but it was all light and sunny outside. Whenever I
touched someone, their skin would flake off. It was creepy."
Sleep, Dreams, urinating, of
Sleep, Dreams, nightmare
Sleep, Dreams, eating
Sleep, Dreams, frightful
Sleep, Dreams, repeating
Skin
Dry, itching and red skin on the waist, sides, back, shoulders,
arms, scalp and face were reported. Scratching relieved the itching,
as did water, lotion, and in one case, a mud bath.
• "I had red patches of dry, itchy skin around my waist. I put
lotion on them and it felt better."
• "My skin felt dry and very itchy. Scratching felt good, but the
only thing that really made it go away was a mud bath at a local
spa."
• "My scalp has been very itchy. I have been scratching it and now
there are little scabs flaking off when I scratch."
• "I have a terrible itch between my shoulder blades. If I scratch
long enough it stops itching."
Skin, Itching
Skin, Itching, scratching amel.
Homeopathy on the internet
Provings sites
Proving information is relatively scarce on the internet, but the
following sites provide a start.
www. gn. apc. org/ecch. icch/provings. html
The ECCH and ICCH (European and International Councils on Classical
Homeopathy) Recommended Guidelines for Good Provings are available in
full on their website. This is an excellent document-essential
reading for anyone considering conducting or taking part in a
proving.
www. hominf. org. uk/proving. htm
This is the excellent website of The School of Homoeopathy in Devon,
England. It provides comprehensive information on the following
provings: AIDS; Arizona Lava; Dreaming (obtained from South African
Sangomas); Falcon; Kauri Agathis Australis (giant tree); Knopper Oak
Galls; Positronium; Salix Fragilis (crack willow); and LSD.
www. dynamis. edu
This is the site of the Dynamis School in the UK and it provides a
database of information on many provings, new and old, including who
conducted the proving and when. It does not, however, provide any
proving content currently, but hopes to do so in the future.
www. homeopathycourses. com
This is the site of Lou Klein's Homeopathic Master Clinician
Courses. It provides information on the following provings:
Helodrilis caliginosis (earthworm); Loxosceles reclusa (brown recluse
spider); Carbon dioxide and Coriandrum.
www. planete-homeo. org/english/materia/
In many ways, this proving report of Hydrocyanic acid (conducted by
the Society Gaucha of Homeopathy in Brazil) should be a model to
anyone writing up a proving. It provides all the data of a first-
class scientific report. Planete Homeo is an excellent French
homeopathy web site, which includes an English-language subsection.
General homeopathy sites
The number of homeopathy web sites has become huge and is growing
larger every day. Using a good search engine works well for most
things, but if you're looking for a one-stop entry point, try one of
the following:
www. homeopathyhome. com
This is probably the most comprehensive (US-based) homeopathy site
on the web. From this site, you can find almost all others.
www. simillibus. com
Will Taylor's site, which includes a Remedy Of The Week feature, the
text of several classical homeopathy books, including the Organon and
The Chronic Diseases, and much, much more.
www. simillimum. com
David Little's site, which includes many essays and articles on
classical prescribing, with a special focus on the LM posology.
www. lyghtforce. com/homeopathyonline/index. html
Check out the only homeopathic magazine on the internet: Homeopathy
Online. This site also links to the lyghtforce homeopathy mailing
list, a lively discussion forum for homeopathic enthusiasts.
www. homeopathy-cures. com
Steve Waldstein's invaluable referral list to recommended classical
homeopaths in the United States and Canada.
http://www. empiricaltherapies. com/
This is Harris Coulter's site and has some of his writings on AIDS,
cancer and vaccination.
www. morpho. nl
Roger Van Zandvoort's online version of The Complete Repertory.
www. hominf. org. uk
For referrals to homeopathic practitioners, schools, organizations
and other resources in the UK.
www. hom-inform. org
This is the site for the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital Library which
has a huge selection of homeopathic books and articles. They charge a
small fee for database searches.
Physostigma-the discarded vine
By kirsta heron, nd, dhanp
I have been quite curious for some time about the remedies made from
vines, wondering if their winding and climbing tendency would say
much about the nature of the remedies made from them. I have been
charmed at how the beans and peas that grow in my garden wander and
seek support from other plants or structures; playfully wrapping
their tendrils around anything they can reach. They have flowers with
mandible like structures that seem to talk, receiving visitations
from bees who seem unaware that they look as if they could be
swallowed at any moment. These vines are members of the legume
(Fabaceae or Papilionaceae) family and include such familiar remedies
as Baptisia, Lathyrus, and Melilotus.
The remedies in this family present with many problems of fatigue,
motility, and paralysis. According to Jan Scholten, this may be due
to the possible poisoning by the amino acid glutamate that then
affects the neurotransmitter serotonin. We also see many delusion
symptoms. In particular, those who need these remedies often feel
that they have done something wrong. For example, Baptisia feels that
they cannot succeed, that they do everything wrong; Melilotus feels
they are pursued by their enemies or the police and that they are
about to be arrested; and Robinia feels they have been disgraced.
Physostigma, a member of this family, is a perennial woody climber
found in tropical West Africa. Its leaves are large and pinnate with
purple butterfly-like flowers. The fruit is a reddish brown bean with
two or three white oval seeds. These beans ripen year round but are
most abundant during Africa's rainy season. These beans contain
alkaloids that are poisonous.
Historically, the beans have been used to determine the guilt of
those accused of witchcraft. If the accused vomited within a half
hour they were considered innocent, but if they died from the poison
they were found guilty. In the same way that patients who respond to
the other legume remedies feel that they have done some wrong, those
who respond to Physostigma feel they are castaways. It is easy to
imagine how someone accused of a crime and then ostracized by the
community could have this feeling.
The alkaloids within Physostigma stimulate the parasympathetic
nerves and medically have been used as an antidote to atropine. They
cause contraction of the pupil and ciliary muscles, and have a
profound effect on the striated muscles as a whole. The limbs seem
weary and unresponsive. There is fatigue and weakness. The case I
will now present shows a wonderful response to this remedy in a
patient with multiple sclerosis. It is from her that I first began to
understand Physostigma and other members of this family.
Case
Multiple sclerosis
Physostigma venenosum
C ase
Diane first came to see me in February of 1998. She was a beautiful,
elegant sixty-year-old from Georgia who had moved to the Pacific
Northwest a few years before. She wanted some relief from her
worsening multiple sclerosis. I found her first words interesting:
"Generally you start at the beginning, but I'd like to start at the
end."
This was curious to me at the time, and now seems quite illustrative
of how a climbing vine might begin to tell its tale.
"I've had more symptoms these last four years, but I was diagnosed
twenty years ago. Now walking is difficult for me because of my
balance. Sometimes I have problems with my vision and I have a
macular hole in my left eye. Recently I have less feeling and
dexterity in my hands and I have a neurogenic bladder. It doesn't
empty well. My initial symptom was numbness in the left arm and then
eventually numbness in both legs. This was in my twenties, around the
birth of my children."
"I am essentially married though I haven't lived with my husband for
two years. Our separation was amicable and my life is better alone.
Both my parents are dead. I grew up in Georgia and lived there until
I was forty. My parents were seemingly successful, although my mother
was an alcoholic. We were raised by servants. My sister was six years
older and she saw my parents as cold and lacking in love. I just
thought they didn't want to be with me-that there was something wrong
with me."
Here we can see the often-observed delusion of the legumes-that
there is something wrong with them. Physostigma's feeling of being
discarded or thrown away is reflected in Diane's description of her
parents and how she experienced their attitude towards her. Because
she was placed in the care of servants rather than her parents, she
felt unwanted. Diane continues:
"My father was disapproving and controlling. The only way to survive
was to play the game. He was a very wealthy man, very charming and
dictatorial-someone I couldn't trust. He would say one thing and then
do another. He would give you something and then take it away. There
was no way out...You couldn't ask directly. You would try to make him
think it was his idea. So I couldn't ask for what I wanted nor could
I go against his authority."
Diane's feeling that there was no way out is interesting in light of
her simultaneous feeling of being cast away. Here she feels trapped.
The climbing vine seeks someplace to go and the only solution is to
twist and turn so that the obstacle she is trying to maneuver around
can be overcome. But she cannot move. She cannot exert her will and
successfully ask and receive what she needs. This seems
metaphorically linked to the disease of multiple sclerosis. And quite
analogous to Physostigma, who has the feeling that their muscles do
not respond to the will.
"My mother was just there, but not there. She didn't want to talk to
you. Mother was an alcoholic by the time I was eleven. I couldn't
count on her."
"I ran away from home and was married for sixteen years. I was
nineteen when I had my first child and twenty-one and twenty-five for
the other two. My husband was very gregarious and an alcoholic. I
supported him and our three children those last years of our
marriage."
"My second marriage lasted five years. Six months after the divorce
I met my third husband. He spent all his time working and fixing.
He'd bring coffee to you but he would never sit down. He wanted to
work, I wanted to rest. After a year I decided to move to Seattle.
[Now] I have a lot of support."
This woman is like the climbing vine seeking the strong support of
something. Yet it doesn't support her. She finds herself in marriages
where she is the primary provider, the one who maintains and sustains
the relationship.
We also see the theme of overwork and rest in Physostigma. All the
plants in the Fabaceae family have the ability to fix nitrogen in the
soil, the function of nitrogen being to increase growth of the leafy
parts of the plant. In essence, these legumes provide their own
fertilizer. They are plants that do everything: grow and create
fruits and flowers as well as build and replenish the soil they live
in. Just like these plants, Diane has overworked. She has longed for
support but has supported her husbands instead. Now she longs to
rest, to enjoy a simple life...
"I now find myself keeping a lovely home. I fill it with flowers and
then sit in a chair and read."
She fills her house with flowers and sits down to enjoy them.
Scholten speaks of this trait. He says the remedies in the Fabaceae
family long to enjoy life, a life without trouble or complication-one
that is beautiful, clean, and surrounded by the beauty of nature. He
believes this characteristic comes from the nitrogen element in the
plant.
"My life before the diagnosis was very free. I learned a lot. I was
with my second husband and we had no jobs, no money-we really didn't
know where the next dime was coming from."
This is the time when her first symptoms were expressed, a time when
she felt unsure of the kind of support she could count on.
"The first symptoms were in my eyes. It came after an abortion,
after the anesthesia. I couldn't focus my eyes and my peripheral
vision was less. At first I didn't pay attention to it. Later I
thought-this is like I don't want to open my eyes, I don't want to
look out. It was worse if I stood up and looked. I'd almost lose my
balance."
"When I was little I was afraid to go to bed, so I would leave the
door open. I had all these colors in my eyes and I thought they were
coming after me. I had nightmares for twenty years until I was forty.
I saw a dark figure in a corner who I thought was trying to get me. I
was terrorized. I'd wake my family up by screaming. Sometimes I'd get
up and run."
It is interesting that Physostigma has many symptoms centered in the
vision and eyes. Even at a young age we see Diane experiencing visual
distortions. Moreover, she interprets these distortions as menacing-
the colors were after her. Later, this symptom evolves to become a
dark figure. We see these symptoms in the repertory as "Vision;
colors before the eyes" and "Delusions; sees spectres, ghosts and
spirits." Later Diane, experiences a blurring of her vision. Again we
see this in the materia medica: "Vision as if there was a film over
the eye." Her nightmares of a menacing figure occur during the time
when her physical symptoms are in remission.
"My first symptoms came near my pregnancies in my twenties. I felt
caught, I didn't want to be pregnant. But then the symptoms went
away. Why did my symptoms come back at forty? It was the first time I
was really free. But I couldn't find my place. Suddenly I had all
this freedom at forty and what do I do but get MS. I thought, now I
have an excuse to say "no"...it's rude otherwise. I just want to
please people at the sacrifice of myself. I come last. I would bend
over backwards to be nice. Otherwise you would be shunned. No one
would want to be with you, and I want people to be with me."
Diane felt caught again and couldn't directly create the life she
desired. When she finally comes to a time in her life when she can
create freedom and choose, she feels that she cannot find her place;
she is waving in the wind like a loose tendril. She can't find it in
herself to say "no." Instead, she finds it easier to bend over
backwards to find her support, to avoid being shunned or cast away.
Scholten has said that the legume family has a desire for help, but
that they feel that no one can, or will, help them.
I first chose the following two rubrics:
GENERALITIES; SCLEROSIS; multiple
EXTREMITIES; NUMBNESS, insensibility; upper limbs; left I then added
a combination of all rubrics that suggested a 'forsaken' feeling,
including: MIND; FORSAKEN; and DELUSIONS, imaginations; alone;
castaway, being
a; deserted etc.
I saw Physostigma and was curious so I read everything I could find
about it and did a search in MacRepertory and Reference Works and
found the following rubrics that supported my choice of this remedy:
VISION; BLURRED
VISION; COLORS before the eyes
FACE; ERUPTIONS; herpes; lips
FEMALE; MENSES; irregular
RECTUM; CONSTIPATION; general
BLADDER; CONVULSIONS, spasms
EXTREMITIES; AWKWARDNESS; lower limbs
GENERALITIES; FOOD and drinks; cold; drinks,
water; aversion
Diane had a variety of confirmatory symptoms as well. Her numbness
began in her left arm, as it does with Physostigma. She also dislikes
drinking cold water and has a history of constipation. I gave her
Physostigma 200C on February 23, 1998.
Follow up consulations
7 Weeks: Diane came back April 14 and reported, "I saw a great
change, even the first day. I felt more energetic and everything
seemed much easier. I didn't want to sit down. I have better bladder
control and my attitude is better. I have more energy to do things,
and better mental acuity. I feel happy."
3 Months: On May 27 she stated, "There is an overall wellness. I
forget I can't walk as well as I think I can. My vision is pretty
good, as is my balance. I have a little less dexterity in my left
hand. I used to not be able to go anywhere because of my bladder
problem. Now it is not a problem."
6 Months: On September 2, Diane was having more trouble so I gave
her Physostigma 1M. When she returned to the office on October 6, she
reported, "The remedy helped. I notice my bladder symptoms and energy
are much improved."
One year: On March 9, 1999, she started to lag so I repeated
Physostigma 1M again. She had had some dental work with novacaine and
it had fatigued her greatly.
15 Months: On June 1 she reported, "My bladder control is doing
great and my immune system is much improved. I haven't had any herpes
outbreaks and my energy is better. My spirits have been very good. My
daughter had surgery so I had to travel to Boston to help her. It was
a boost to know that I could get along by myself. It is amazing to
get past this fear."
20 Months: On October 25, 1999 I spoke with Diane again. "I feel so
much better since I first came to see you. I was about to have a
catheter inserted because my bladder problems had become so severe.
But since taking this remedy the quality of my life has vastly
improved. To have bladder control is wonderful." Diane reports that
she has not lost any dexterity or feeling in her limbs over the
course of her treatment.
"I feel in a very good space now, more at ease and joyous about
life. I am better at asking for what I want. I don't always get it
but that is true for everybody. If I just let go, everything works
out. Whatever is going to be, will be. I am less surprised when
people want to be with me now. I am able to take that truth in and
know I am a pleasure to be with. I feel more compassion for myself
and others now, and I live in that space of peace more and more."
Because multiple sclerosis is a progressively deteriorating disease,
I am pleased with the progress to date with Diane. I feel we have
brought some health back, though we still see some progression of her
disease.
Remark
I feel hopeful of further progress because of the healing she has
done in the emotional sphere.
I believe that the main ways in which Diane healed directly
correspond with the center of this remedy. For me, the essential
emotional symptoms of Physostigma include the feeling of being cast
away and the longing for support, yet feeling undeserving. This is
coupled with the tendency to overwork, all the while longing for rest
and simple beauty.
Diane felt cast aside by her parents and surprised when people would
want to spend time with her. Now she knows people enjoy her and she
embraces that truth. She used to feel undeserving of the help of
others. Now she feels more able to ask for what she wants. She
understands that at times she may receive this and at other times
not. But now when others choose not to help, she knows it is not
about her or some wrong she has done. She believed in the past that
she needed to overwork to get what she wanted. Now she accepts what
the universe provides.
Physostigma's main expression on the physical level is seen in
vision changes, palpitations, constipation, and muscular numbness,
weakness, and paralysis, especially of the left arm. This weakness is
common to the legume family as a whole. Lathyrus, Indigo, Baptisia
and others all experience muscular weakness. The limitations of
motility that are seen in this family of remedies are compelling
because these plants survive by climbing. They need to move and wind
their way to more light and greater space. These plants also have a
need for support, as do the people who need these remedies. They long
for someone to depend on, yet feel so undeserving. They are hopeless
of ever receiving help, often because they feel they have done some
wrong. And because they feel undeserving they must overfunction or
work harder to secure the support they need. In the plant we see this
in their ability to provide their own fertilizer. In the patient we
see this over functioning juxtaposed with a longing for a simple
life, a life that will restore a sense of beauty and nurturance.
Krista Heron has been practicing homeopathy in Seattle, Washington
since 1989. She has taught at Bastyr University since 1997, and was
the director of the IFH Second Year Post- Graduate Course, 1998-1999.
She can be reached at kjhdbug. org.
The essential emotional symptoms of Physostigma include the feeling
of being cast away and the longing for support, yet feeling
undeserving. This is coupled with the tendency to overwork, all the
while longing for rest and simple beauty.
Fools gold
By mike bridger, rshom
In recent years the tide has turned in favour of homoeopathy and I
wonder whether this success hasn't gone to our heads a little. It
seems to have stimulated some kind of sycotic drive for originality
within the profession which, if left unchecked, could end up
seriously weakening homoeopathy as a whole. I am concerned for
example, about meditative provings. Crudely put, this involves a
group of people literally meditating on the material substance and
the symptoms they experience during the meditation being collated to
give the proving picture. My concern is that such provings may filter
into mainstream homoeopathy without serious debate or critical
assessment. This experimentation with meditative provings has to be
considered in relation to these overall trends which are increasingly
pervading homeopathic thought.
Increasingly homoeopathy is being jumbled up with notions based on
religions and spiritualism, psychotherapy, mysticism, magic,
occultism, psychotherapy, karma, Aquarius and as the song goes "Uncle
Tom Cobbly and all". This isn't surprising. The resurgence of
homoeopathy in Britain sprang directly from new interest in Druidism,
alchemy and-putting it crudely-New Ageism. The problem is that this
trend is also a move away from the language of homoeopathy, which is
a language of simplicity.
The infiltration of 'New Age' notions is happening particularly in
case analysis. We've got circle methods, triangles, tables, verbs,
auras, planets and spiritual guides, and next week they'll be another
guru to tell us what homoeopathy really is, should be and never was,
as compared to what we thought it was, or what Hahnemann meant it to
be. We'll think it's very clever because we haven't a clue what he or
she is talking about. And so we all climb aboard The Starship
Enterprise, to go boldly where no homoeopath has gone before.
Meanwhile, there on the ground are our patients getting smaller and
smaller until we can't see them at all, and all we have left is the
realisation that the nearer you get to heaven, the colder and
lonelier it gets.
Never mind the patient as long as we find the 'right remedy'. It's
like setting off and searching for The Holy Grail! We're being told
that the 'right remedy' isn't the one that covers the symptoms of the
case, or the presenting complaint. It has to cover the whole life of
the patient, particularly the patient's life as foetus. It should
penetrate into the deepest waters of the patient i.e. their soul,
and if the remedy doesn't cover the last 1000 light years of the
patient's past lives, then the prescription is probably palliative,
certainly suppressive and there's a good chance that the patient will
die in unbearable agony at an early age, only to be re-incarnated as
a blue-bottle fly. Who needs allopathy to frighten us when we've got
that kind of agenda.
The 'right remedy' is a homoeopathic G spot where lots of people go
looking for something, but they don't know where to look because they
don't know what it is. Maybe I'm just English. If these notions were
true we would need to be so evolved to practice successfully, that we
probably wouldn't bother to be on earth at all, but would choose
instead to fly with the angels. Homoeopathy would be left for the
Sages and Seers and Gurus. I hate Gurus because I want to be one, but
know that I'm no good at it. I'm the type of person that even if I
was called Merlin, dressed in robes with a pointy hat and had a magic
wand that incinerated everything I pointed it at, people would still
think I was the assistant bank manager.
Some regard homoeopathy as a sort of spiritual quest. If that's the
case then the remedy for the patient will have to cover the spirit of
the patient. When Kent talked about deep acting remedies he meant
that they covered pathology. Now 'deep' means 'soul deep'. Of course
homoeopathy has spiritual significance, but we should be aware that
much of the world's population is less worried about their spiritual
development and more preoccupied with finding enough food for
themselves and their children to eat.
I have heard homoeopaths claim that they and their patients are more
spiritually evolved than anyone else because they have been attracted
to homoeopathy. Madness.
If homoeopathy is tainted with the notion that homoeopaths save
souls and set them on some spiritual path towards an idea of
enlightenment, then it becomes a religion. Like all religions, we
attract fundamentalists who like to think that anyone who does not
follow the righteous path as defined by them, will find themselves
skewered on the barbecues of hell with only a fried onion for a
friend. Actually Hell would be practising in such a way, because the
saving grace of homoeopathy, as well as being it's flaw, is that
homoeopathy is human. Because it is human, it can never be a perfect
system. Paradoxically the more we become aware of this imperfection,
in ourselves, in the way we practice and in our patients, the more we
see the perfection inherent in that imperfection.
I can prove that homoepathy is not perfect. How many of you
practitioners reading this can honestly say that you have never
experienced that moment, when the patient is sitting in front of you
saying that the last remedy worked brilliantly, and you look down at
your notes only to find that you forgot to write down what remedy you
gave. Point made!
Remember those early days as a student, when you've read this
amazing stuff and you believe nothing can go wrong for you once
you're a homoeopath or have taken a remedy. Your grandad is sitting,
dribbling and farting in the corner where he's sat for 150 years and
you're trying to force-feed him with bucket-loads of Carbo Veg. He's
choking and someone's trying to call for an ambulance, but you pull
the phone out, shouting, "Don't you understand, the allopaths will
kill him!
Then that first shock when someone who took a remedy still dies 10
years later. The shock of hearing that a homoeopath is having
marriage problems.
Homoepathy isn't perfect and if we act as if it is, then homoepathy
will lose its identity. If we worship ideas at the expense of the
patients, then we will worship something else. It may be that
meditative provings are part of a symptomatology which reflects
exactly such a trend. We already see this problem in case analysis,
where the analysis seems to be geared around the desire to be
original and insightful, rather than trying to get the patient
better. This is the equivalent of the allopath's love of diagnosis
and we can get caught up in similar thinking. The more clever,
profound, complicated and obscure the analysis the better, and never
mind the patient.
Some eminent homoeopaths fly all over the world doing this stuff.
They pop up at some seminar, take a case and give Candlewax 10M
because the patient says they feel burnt out, then very quickly fly
off again for someone else to clean up the mess.
The sycotic drive for innovation and originality we should leave to
the allopaths. They have succeeded in alienating themselves from
their own roots, the people, the patients and healing. We gained from
their not learning the lesson, but we gained and I'm not sure we
learnt the lesson either. I see ideas and notions which are
questionable and yet are embraced so readily, without question or
critical appraisal by the profession; this disturbs me. Art can stoop
to the level of pickling cows in formaldehyde without anyone, apart
from the cow, getting hurt. But we are responsible for the health
care of real people. If we worship innovation at the expense of the
foundations of homoeopathy then our house will fall down. There are
those, including the pharmaceutical companies that wolflike, will be
prepared to huff and puff to help it on it's way.
The point is that systems and religions don't sit well with
homoeopathy, at least in practice. Systems of thought and belief are
by their nature generalisations. Homoeopathy is specific. I become
wary when I see this specificity replaced with gross
generalisation. "Homoeopathy heals the planet." No it doesn't-it can
heal the individual. That individual, by being healthier, can choose
to do healthier things, and a larger group of healthier individuals
can choose to make moves to heal the planet.
These are two different propositions. The crux of it is this:
homoeopathy is powerful and powerless at the same time. All
homoeopathy can do is make choices available to people because they
become healthier; it cannot and should not dictate what they do,
however nice an intention we have for them.
Never mind how clever we are at understanding illness, if we're
truthful we're only like our patients. When we get toothache we want
the pain to stop and never mind the fact that it is symbolic of our
past life as a dental surgeon. If one of our loved ones is ill or in
pain, we suddenly stop worrying about their trip to Nirvana and are
more concerned about the potential trip to the local hospital. An
excellent homoeopath spent a year going to different homoeopaths
trying to sort out abdominal pain. She was told it would go when she
sorted out her relationship with her father. Eventually she was
rushed to hospital with peritonitis. She nearly died. Now I don't
deny that she may have had problems with her father, but we need to
be clear about what we need to treat. My advice is never forget your
patients. You are one!
Ironically, the tendency to ignore physical symptoms in preference
for apparent mental and spiritual causes is no more or less than
simply allopathic. It is no better or worse than the allopaths
predilection for specialising in various parts of the body. These
same practitioners who scream if they hear prescriptions based on
physicals because they regard them as partial, are quite happy to
partially prescribe on any mental or emotional symptom that they can
manage to torture out of the patient, while disregarding the more
serious physical symptoms of the case.
My heart bleeds for those poor students who are misled into ignoring
the obvious and are sent like Gargantua the giant on that near
impossible journey, to find the hidden pattern, the block, the
delusionary state etc. Even if you think you've found it, rather like
finding your third eye, it's a little disappointing, not least
because the remedy you give based on your discovery often doesn't do
anything. Why? Because the practitioner is encouraged to prescribe on
speculative causations rather than the expression of symptoms. In
homoeopathy the symptoms contain the cause. The symptoms are both
cause and effect. Let go of the symptoms and you may as well stop
breathing as a homoeopath.
Like it or not we operate from the perspective of Western culture.
Like it or not our model can be essentially allopathic, even if we
call it homoeopathic. Much of what we do is a reaction to allopathy
which for us, is the monster in the dark. But as we know, a reaction
is often worryingly close to the thing reacted against. Allopathy
thought it could cure everything with its wonder drugs and techno
medicine, but we are suffering from a sycotic craving for new
theories and short cuts to 'get fixed quick'. Instead of Prozac we
find cure-alls by meditating on Rainbow, or Tooth Fairy or some such,
but it is only the opposite side of the same coin. We can delude
ourselves into thinking that we're cleverer than allopaths because
not only do we claim to deal with physical sickness, but we can alter
everyone's Karma too.
I see a great film in this by the way. Something like Orwell's
Animal Farm but I'll call it Aquarius Farm. Instead of all the
animals turning into humans, I'll have the homoeopaths in white
coats, growing stethoscopes out of their necks, driving around in
sports cars and mumbling to themselves in Latin.
People are very wary now, after the broken promises and the pay off
of Thalidomide and Opren and the rest of that stuff. They're wary of
people giving false witness. They're clever enough, if they perceive
us to be wearing The Emperors New Clothes, to shout "Hyoscyamus" and
kick us off the streets. Instead of claiming we are changing the
world we would do better to remember, as I said earlier, that most of
the population don't even know what homoeopathy is.
Instead of throwing stones at allopaths, let us remember that we
live in glass houses too. Homoeopathy has a bright future but as they
say, "The brighter the sun shines, the longer the shadow." We need to
start looking at that shadow. We need to become self-critical.
These days we can voice any whimsical notion we have at any time, in
any place. We can agree that there's no criticism because that would
remind us of allopathy. All you have to do is say, "spiritual;
Atlantis; moon; alchemy; intuition; I feel; meditation" and anything
produced will be untouchable or unquestionable in it's holiness. No
matter how half-arsed the notion is, it cannot be criticised because
it's beyond the rational and it's obvious to anyone who's evolved. If
you don't get it then you may as well jump in the primal slime with
the frogs. The more logical you are the less you are, because it
means you're out of balance with your intuitive side.
Then we have the lovely literal translation of the doctrine of
signatures-"I feel the remedy is Sulphur because the patient's head
is a little pointy and reminds me of a volcano." Bring back the
leeches I say.
We are at this adolescent stage where there's a grandeur and a
terrible importance about everything we do. We have this idealised
view about healing the world. After the first remedy our elderly
patient returns, pushed by his mum in a pram. After the second remedy
you take him back to the womb. After the third remedy, he's back
being treated for the burns he received in 1642 where inevitably he
was burnt as a martyr. Another prescription and he'll be back in the
garden of Eden munching apples, and so on.
It's easy to delude yourself about the grand work you're doing and
sometimes on a bad day, it's even desirable. But whenever I start to
get ideas above myself about how I'm saving the world and turning
Mrs. Morris into a nicer and more spiritually sound person, Mrs.
Morris comes in and complains that she's had six months treatment,
her hayfever is no better and what am I going to do about it?
We need as teachers to be careful not to feed students crazy notions
on what practice is all about. Let me tell those of you still
studying that homoeopathy would be a perfect philosophy, and a
perfect spiritual journey, it would be Nirvana itself, if it wasn't
for the patients!
Some days things go so well you go for a stroll in the churchyard
sprinkling Carbo Veg, certain that the earth will rumble and all the
graveyard inhabitants pop up to sniff the spring air as if they'd
just had an afternoon nap. But, other days you feel bad. 72 year-old
Mrs. X who last month was bed-ridden, blind and deaf has been in
today. She's just got a job as the lead dancer for Ballet Rambert but
she says she doesn't feel any better after the remedy. It's the sort
of bad day where the patient has just burst into tears, you're
already running late and her time is up. She catches you looking at
your watch.
Outside the sun may shine and the daffs on the lawn sway but in your
head the world is a trough full of syphilitic, gonnorhoeic and
various other noxious effluvia. You scratch your head psorically,
swig the last of the Jamesons whiskey syphilitically and wish night
would come sycotically. Days like these are really there to
experience humility.
Whichever spiritual path or religion we may choose to follow, almost
all place particular emphasis on that word, humility. We would be
well advised to evaluate the meaning of that word in relation to
ourselves as homoeopaths and the profession. It would be detrimental
to us if we were simply to poach notions, concepts and beliefs from
other systems and create a kind of soup made from lots of
ingredients, but with no flavour. However grandiose sounding the
recipes I would hate the patients to die of malnutrition.
The question of meditative provings may illustrate my point. I
understand meditation to be a dif
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Case
J.A. A 59-year-old male.
This case was taken in October 1998, in front of a group of
students; J.A. was referred by one of the members of this class. His
immediate appearance was of a person with considerable scarring on
one side of his face and forehead-obviously from some sort of injury
or accident. He walked with a slight limp and described himself as a
retired "operations supervisor." He was wearing an army camouflage
outfit and a baseball hat decorated on the front with a plastic
moose, American flag, and an orange crystal. He was also wearing
American-Indian-style jewelry. He had a florid complexion and a large
abdomen. He spoke in a confident, somewhat arrogant manner, obviously
not at all intimated by speaking in front of a class of students. We
observed his apparent pleasure at listening to himself talk
throughout the consultation.
J.A. was coming for treatment for a number of physical complaints:
allergies, an enlarged prostate, high blood pressure, and low-grade
diabetes.
"I don't like taking pills and never took medicine when I was young
as I figured it wouldn't work. They stuck me with all sorts of
needles and really screwed me up. I got a flu shot and then got the
flu. I am taking medicine for blood pressure and diabetes but would
like to get off."
J.A. reports that he has had allergies for as long as he can
remember, but that they have been getting worse over the last couple
of years. "I was hooked on nose spray but I was a professional driver
and the medicine made me drowsy." His allergy symptoms include a
cough with a lot of salivation, sneezing, post-nasal drip, stuffiness
and pressure in sinuses.
"I am outside in the woods all year round, hunting and fishing. They
are worst outside, in the Fall when the leaves start to decay. It's
the revenge of the deer. The only time they are better is at the
ocean."
When asked about how this affects his life he says:
"Nothing stops me from doing what I want to do. I spent a lot of my
early years alone. I entertained myself. You can change anything you
want to. At age twenty I was in the army doing small arms training.
Got shot in the head and hurt a hell of a lot. I spent a year and a
half undergoing plastic surgery. Took a big chunk out of my nose and
lip. I know what pain really is. Excruciating pain when they skin you-
that is really cool. I don't like morphine. At first they gave me a
lot and I learned to do without and go somewhere where there was no
pain. I had so many shots you could squeeze my arm and the medicine
would squirt out. In the army they had me see a psychiatrist a couple
of times before the surgery-they were concerned about my mind,
worried about the disfigurement. I said the first thing I'm going to
do is get some beer and go hunting with friends. Being disfigured
doesn't bother me-life's too short. Once I hit my hand with a hammer
and said 'Boy are you stupid'-I put it under cold water and sutured
it myself."
When asked about his childhood he said:
"As a child, my father was away at war. We used to play soldiers and
I was better at it than the other kids. I was the only kid on the
block with a bow and arrow and a tomahawk. Two brothers-I kicked
their butts. As a child I spent a lot of time with my grandmother.
She was part American Indian. There were stuffed animal heads all
around the room. I learned about being in tune with nature, about
animals. I learned how to manipulate situations. I like being able to
get away, to soar. The most peaceful times I ever had weres when I
was learning to fly. In a life/death experience when you re-run your
tapes, you are looking down, you fly."
When asked about his work (J.A. was a truck driver) he said:
"Work was challenging. I learned to read people pretty well-how to
work with a bunch of idiots without turning them into a hostile group
against you. I read people pretty well. My brother says I'm a
manipulator. Some people call it a snow-job. I take a situation and
turn it around and no one knows you're doing it. I'm intuitive. I
feel vibrations from people. I can look at people and see colors over
their heads. I can project thoughts to animals. The animal has no
idea I am there. Whatever you think of you can be, if you want to
enough."
He spoke at length about his love of hunting:
"Weather doesn't bother me because I have no control over it.
Yesterday was a perfect day because I got within sixty yards of a
buck. It was a good day for a hunter...when humans stalk an animal it
can smell them and moisture keeps the smell down. Killing is not a
sport. I'm dead serious about it. I know I can catch them if I want
to. I knew where to go and I stayed there patiently until the buck
came near. I can communicate psychically with the animals. I said to
it, 'I'm going to kill you' and it turned its head because it knew I
had it. I had my bow and arrow aimed. I decided not to kill the deer,
but I could have. The Indians could go up to an animal and touch it
and let it go on."
He said he slept well unless the allergies interfere and he has to
sleep propped up. He also wakes up at night to urinate (due to his
enlarged prostate):
"I dream about whatever I decide I want to dream about. I make up my
own story. I plan things in my dreams and then carry them out."
"I collect knives, guns, and spurs. I also keep feathers and fur
from the animals I have killed. I don't throw anything away-you name
it and I've probably got it."
"That idiot in Iraq-how many people are prepared for Armageddon?
It's coming and I have plenty of guns for everyone."
"Money rules the world and our president. I'm a Roman Catholic and I
believe in morality-right is right and wrong is wrong. Clinton
disgusts me-I'm surprised at how pissed I am at him. He's sticking it
to the American people. I'll just wait until the election."
When asked about fears he says, "I've never feared anything. I've
been there, done that. I kick butt." "I'm 59 years old and I haven't
slowed down."
J.A. smashed his right heel fifteen years ago and it is still
painful. He has arthritis in the right leg and knee, and some
cramping in the leg-hence the limp.
For food, J.A. desires spicy food, garlic, fish, pizza, and prime
ribs. "Prime rib end-cut is the ultimate-I worked as a butcher once
too."
Now he has to watch his diet for blood sugar. He checks his blood
sugar daily and takes medication when his levels indicate the need.
He drinks a lot of water and "a fair amount of Jack Daniels." He
says he is warm-blooded.
Evaluation
The most striking thing about this case was that, as a group, we
were all fascinated and horrified listening to J.A. 's description of
stalking animals. He obviously felt an enormous power in his ability
to be the one who decided whether an animal would live or die, and
letting them go was his way of expressing "compassion" and feeling
powerful. We could picture him with bow and arrow poised, ready to
shoot his prey, and sending the animal a psychic message that it was
in his power. We were struck by the fact that his allergies were
keeping him from hunting-the symptoms were protecting the organism.
J.A. 's obsession with hunting seems to have been there from
childhood, with his love of playing soldiers and "kicking butt," but
what affected his life the most was having to endure the excruciating
pain from his gunshot wound. He was able to survive in conditions
that most others would have not been able to withstand, and even
seemed to derive pleasure from his ability to do so. This is one of
the unique qualities of the scorpion in the desert, that can survive
when anything else would perish. J.A. 's mention of Saddam Hussein
and his own readiness to fight when Armageddon came indicate his
feeling of being ready for an attack. In terms of his language and
how it relates to Androctonus (scorpion) pathology, he used phrases
like "stuck with needles" and Clinton "sticking it to the American
people." He also likes to hunt with a bow and arrow, which resembles
the one-pointed sting of the scorpion tail. Without knowing about
Androctonus, we would have considered giving Sulphur-because of
J.A. 's theorizing about life (much more than is included in this
article), his love of collecting unusual objects, his eccentric
clothing ("his rags are his riches"), and his arrogant self-
confidence. His food desires and generals fit Sulphur as well.
However, what is characteristically most unusual about this case is
J.A. 's extraordinary ability to survive and his relationship to
attacking and being attacked. These are not covered by Sulphur. We
discussed the possibility of a snake or some other animal remedy, but
the prescription of Scorpion seemed to fit his state perfectly.
Rx: Androctonus, LM1 daily. [Note: J.A. did not follow this regimen
and only took the remedy sporadically.]
Followups
December, after 2 months
J.A. comes in wearing street clothes. His allergies are 50% better-
no phlegm, nose is clear, and he can breathe well. He used to have
terrible tearing of the eyes; that has stopped. He doesn't have to
sleep propped up at an angle any more. He's been out in the woods
most of the time for the last couple of months and it has been good.
Blood pressure is normal, stable; he's still taking BP medication.
When asked about himself in general, J.A. reports:
"It's been phenomenal. I feel an inner feeling change. Life is not
so much of a hassle. I have an inner feeling of peace and joy.
Attitudes have changed. Clinton has not bothered me. I'm more in tune
with what I am doing. Not tired or listless. I used to fall asleep at
8pm. Now I'm active until 11pm. [We did not know this before.]
Sleeping through the night now. Not having to get up in the middle of
the night to pee."
J.A. speaks about being in the woods and seeing the young plants
sprouting and changes in nature. The pain in his leg has increased
recently. He says it is due to physical exertion.
April, after 6 months J.A. looks less disfigured. The whole class
comments on this; or are we just getting used to his appearance? He
reports:
"Allergies are 90% better. No problem with leaf mold this year.
I am more tolerant of people and ideas. I've mellowed out.
Hunting-I let most of them go now. This year I would have taken
fifteen but I've only taken two. It's like wildflowers. I don't pick
them but leave them for others to enjoy."
His legs are much better. He is still taking blood sugar medication,
but only about half the amount he was taking before. "My doctor said
to me 'What happened?'"
Rx: Androctonus, LM2. He has taken this intermittently since then.
After 9 months
J.A. reports that he now has no allergies at all. He is still on
the same meds for high blood pressure. Although his condition is
completely stable, he won't stop these meds until his doctor suggests
it. The same goes for the diabetes. He only takes the meds
occasionally, if he has eaten sugar. His arthritis is much better. He
is not walking with a limp and can use his leg fairly normally. He
does not have the headaches or neck pain that he used to have. J.A.
told me he was bored with his collection of knives and guns and was
thinking of getting rid of it. In general, he is much calmer and
happier in himself.
The hidden colors of light : a case of iridium metallicum
By gina inez, rshom (na)
The following is a case of Iridium Metallicum. With careful
listening, intuition, the use of a rubric in the Complete Repertory,
and Jan Scholten's Homeopathy and the Elements, I was able to
prescribe this remedy successfully. My client is one of three adult
sisters, two of whom I had already treated. One received Magnetis
Polis Arcticus, and the other Kali Phosphoricum. The third sister, my
new client Iris (not her real name), came to see me mid-June 1998.
Iridium metallicum
Case
Female, sales manager, age 39, single: she is of medium height,
slender and willowy, with short brunette hair, wearing some make-up
which accents her strong and attractive features. Her eyes are
bright, big and almond-shaped, inquisitive and knowing. She blinks
them frequently. Her pants and shirt are both casual and carefully
chosen.
Iris, first of all, presented with a list of physical complaints.
1) Frequent urination: and occasional incontinence with cough,
concern for "control of my bladder." She drinks fluids frequently and
wakes at least once nightly to urinate.
2) Hypoglycemia: lightheaded and foggy when hungry or when eating
carbohydrates. Snappy, irritable, amel. with eating, amel. with wine,
amel. eating protein for breakfast and lunch. These symptoms
disappear on vacation.
3) Ailments from jet travel: client frequently travels for business;
sore throats, swollen glands, sneezing, nasal obstruction, coughing
ensue.
4) Skin rashes since childhood: eczema on arms; as an adult, genital
herpes also on left nate.
5) Headaches: dull pain in forehead, average once weekly, agg.
before herpes outbreaks, or with neck pain. Cervical vertebrae tend
to dislocate, also triggering lower back pain.
6) Sore chest: from holding her breath, she believes.
Iris suffers chronic tiredness. She wishes to have sustained energy
and an easier relationship with food. "Spiritually," she said, "I
want to merge and ground and be in present time." She is fearful she
will "sabotage" her own joy. "Although I'm joyful now; if it's too
good, I will leave."
Iris' story
"My whole life I have wondered why I am here. Who am I? My issues
revolve around self worth. I was a sensitive child. I was
told, 'Overly sensitive.' I would transform myself to get love and
approval by noticing what others needed. Even as a child, I was
either self-conscious and shy or very directly focused."
"I have two selves:
7) a successful corporate business person in a corporate
environment;
8) a spiritual self that seeks and desires a spiritual environment."
Iris is considering changing her job: "There is no foundation, no
anchor, a nothingness." Although she is financially successful, she
wants to be "more assertive, more powerful, present and comfortable."
Iris gets paid on performance: in fact, she has been the top
salesperson in one company for four years, and the first woman in the
company ever to achieve this. "I used to feel guilty [regarding this
high performance]. I felt I couldn't be corporate and spiritual." In
any case, Iris says she tends to push herself to the breaking point
of exhaustion.
"I'm very changeable. I feel people intensely. I manage people and
do sales [for a commercial office furniture company]. I 'become' the
other people I work with." Psychic/spiritual classes have helped
her "to ground." These classes give her skills to embody her
talents. "I'm all air and water astrologically." ("A rainbow is a
mixture of light and water," Sherr). 1 "When I'm busy, I fly out of
my body."
Iris has a fear of heights and of falling. She fears a "lack of
discernment in relations with men and of repeating these old
patterns...Years ago, I was married to an emotionally and physically
abusive man. I lose myself. I disappear emotionally."
Iris has "podium anxiety," with heart palpitations. "I feel too
visible. I have a fear of being judged, yet I want so much to be
seen." Loss of breath; she loses the train of thought.
Dreams
• Prophetic: (since childhood) "I shut down that side of myself for
fear I had no one to talk to about these dreams. With the exception
of a grandfather on one side, and a grandmother on the other, no one
else was outwardly clairvoyant."
• Of being chased: "These occur when I feel anxious about being
behind in work...I am chased after I have killed someone."
• Doing more and more: "As a waitress: having to seat more and more
tables.... I have to do more and more."
• Travel dreams: transportation.
• Architecture: when visiting her boyfriend in another state, who is
a builder, she had dreams of architecture, details even of the
joinery of houses; "rubrics cubes condos."
• A gray quartz spiral swirling in her room through her heart.
("Sensation as if an iron rod is standing straight in the heart
region," Scholten.)2
Medical history
Born: weak, fragile, jaundiced. Right hip not formed.
Pneumonia and mononucleosis at age 4.
Nosebleeds since childhood, agg. at high altitudes.
Acne during adolescence, treated with antibiotics for two years.
Broken wrist, and broken right clavicle for which she had surgery
one year ago.
Whiplash.
Family history
Maternal side-cancer
Paternal side-heart problems
Sleep-difficult, wakes at 3:00 AM
Energy-agg. 3:00 PM, high at 11:00 AM
Food-desires spicy, salty, fish, robust and warm foods, chocolate
averse-ice, ice-cream
aggravates-coffee
Generals-anxious in wind
agg. cold air
Two and one-half years before, Iris had received Phosphorous LM 1-15
over a forty-five day period from another homeopath. Some physical
symptoms improved for one to two years. The mental/emotional picture
had not changed. This practitioner, however, did point out to Iris
that her antagonism of will (between her work and spiritual life) was
her core problem. And I agreed.
I prescribed Iridium 1M for Iris. Iridium is in the "Gold Series,"
according to Jan Scholten's schema. It is in between Osmium to its
left and Platina to its right. Iridium, along with Baryta Carb and
Aurum (from the Gold Series) are listed in the rubric "will,
contradiction of " (Complete Repertory). Iris' case seemed most
suited to the issues of the "Gold Series": of work, responsibility,
performance, isolation, religion, etc.; and Iridium seemed to fit the
case best.
First follow-up-at one month-late July 1998:
Iris said, "Nothing has happened." New client, new remedy (for me),
nothing's happened! Reflecting on the wise words of Jeremy
Sherr, "nothing" may indicate the gentlest of all healings. I
exhorted my client to tell me about her month.
"I cannot say things are better or worse. I had an anxiety attack
for two hours, three or four days after taking the remedy." Almost
two weeks into the remedy, Iris had an anxiety attack in a hotel
room: "I didn't know what to wear for a party. I couldn't leave the
hotel room to go to the party. I was afraid I wasn't enough...Anxiety
is still an issue." (Iris had not actually spoken of anxiety during
the first interview.) "I have been depressed, but not badly...I am
also coming to tears where I didn't before." This practitioner
noticed a softening in her demeanor.
"My sensitivity, when mixed with anxiety and insecurity, is not
pretty. It takes on a different color. It blends together to create
depression and anger, and outwardly, frustration and anger."
Iris' sense of personal/psychic boundaries is definitely better, not
taking things too seriously or personally. "I get busy and forget to
feel for others and myself, but I feel more of an opening. I see a
need to be compassionate and to do management simultaneously! I am
feeling less socially awkward in business." Iris again noted how
seeking approval from her father (i.e. , outside herself ) as a child
set up a pattern of anxiety she still faced. When I asked her about
the conflict she had spoken of between her spirituality and doing
business, Iris replied: "I haven't thought about that this month. I
guess that means I am a spiritual woman of business!"
Neutral focus-amel. in general, amel. in the afternoons.
Frequent urination-amel., does not wake at night.
Nosebleeds-amel. (none even at high altitude).
Hypoglycemic symptoms-amel., able to eat well more easily; desires
fewer sweets and chocolate, but craves coffee.
Herpes-at onset of an outbreak, Iris took a suppressive medication.
Menses-three days early and she wept with them.
PMS symptoms, which she had denied to herself in the past, became
more obvious and unavoidable to her.
Dreams-no architecture dreams. Other dreams unremembered.
Sleep-still erratic, somewhat improved. Trouble quieting the mind
over the day's business.
Iris' "nothing," it seemed, was something quite special. She and I
both mused about this and agreed Iridium 1M was working for her. No
remedy was given at the first follow-up.
Over the course of the next twelve months, Iris received Iridium 1M
twice and 10M once. (Iris was sensitive to jet travel, and on at
least one occasion she needed a repeat due to the deleterious effects
it had on the remedy's action.) She continued to improve in all the
ways she showed on the first follow-up.
Over time she dropped the relationship she had with her boyfriend
when she found "sexuality with him was suffocating and he could not
support my sensitivity even though he said he could." No other type
of closeness could be found with him. Then she began to date two new
men. (Delusion; wants two of everything, Scholten). She enjoyed
learning about herself in this way, but felt self-conscious at the
perceived societal norms (of dating only one man at a time). In a few
months, she chose one of the two partners to whom she felt best
suited, and has continued to enjoy and flourish in the relationship.
During treatment, Iris quit her job and became a consultant for the
same company. I noticed her tendency to be hurried and to arrive late
for appointments diminished. So did her desire to see many other
alternative health practitioners. She seemed more relaxed and less
perfectionistic as time went on.
Iris' case is uncannily reflected in Jeremy Sherr's published
proving of Iridium (and I have only just read this proving in order
to research this article). In his introduction, Sherr
writes, "Iridium was named from the Latin/Greek work Iris, meaning
rainbow. While in it's solid form, Iridium is a silver- white
precious metal, however in marine acid, it becomes astonishingly
multicolored and iridescent, 'emitting a light of extraordinary
splendor.'
"The Greek goddess Iris is the daughter of Elektra. She is
considered to be the personification of the rainbow...the goddess
Iris has her own highway. This female courier transports messages
between earth to heaven via the iridescent highway of a rainbow. She
can travel through air, water and the underworld-from the very
fundaments of the earth to the zenith of the heavens. Her task is to
be a joiner, uniter and conciliator..." 3
Consider iris' case:
"I am all air and water" (the rainbow).
"I need to be grounded. I lose myself; I get busy and fly out of my
body."
Dreams of "architecture, joinery."
Dreams of transportation.
And most exquisitely, Iris' "solid form" (her business persona) is
better elucidated through the vibrancy of her "colors" as a
psychically gifted person when the potentized remedy itself is given.
From Jan Scholten's brilliant description of Iridium,4 a few themes
for this case stand out:
• "A blunder during the conducting of business"-Iris' anxiety before
a party: she didn't know what to wear.
Anxiety, disturbing sleep: thoughts of business of the day.
• "Not quite arrogant"-Iris: "Since childhood I have been either shy
and awkward or incredibly focused." Scholten: "They [Iridium] tend to
be quite singleminded. They are always preoccupied with what is yet
to be done...They may seem irresponsible but this is only because
they see everything from the point of unexplored possibilities. They
do feel very responsible, much more than others might expect."
• "Robbed of their own power at the last minute"-Iris suffered
chronic fatigue, anxiety and foggy-headedness related to food intake.
When she first came to me, Iris' food, sleep and energy level were
disturbed or underfunctioning. She was robbed of her ability to be
fully in her body and to be present in her spirituality.
In this day, religiosity, which runs through the "Gold Series" (or
the 6th period of the Elemental Table), might be interpreted as
psychic openness or a willingness to do "God's work" through a
variety of channels not represented in our classic texts. Iris'
openness and struggle with her spirituality and psychic abilities may
be translated into the appropriate religious rubrics.
Iris' work in the commercial furniture industry is a revealing
metaphor for her expression at stage 9 of the Gold Series. She is not
yet sitting in the "big chair" herself (i.e. , the throne) like
Platina or Aurum, but she is traveling to and visiting the businesses
where she sells and sets up the office (the throne room).
Iris' dreams of having to do more and more (in her waitress dream)
reflect a stage of development directly before the summit. She has
acceded Sisyphus' tragic push to the top which always fails (Osmium)
but she has not yet succeeded to the glitter and assuredness of
Platina. Her dreams of having killed someone and of being chased
(corroborated in Sherr's 'Dream Section') reminds us of the well-
known violence of Platina, only Iridium is not so sure of itself;
hence is being pursued as well.
Physical symptoms in Iris' case corroborated by Sherr's proving of
Iridium:
Head-forehead, pain, dull
Respiration-spells of breathlessness
Bladder-frequent urination
Extremities-pain, right clavicle, right hip
Skin-itching on arms (and legs)
Symptoms found in Scholten's description of Iridium:
Mind-hurried
Fear-heights, of falling
Generals-( eating
sleeplessness
right-sided
Causes-hurt, humiliation
In the Materia Media of the Mind by Heli O. Retzek, only six common
rubrics are listed for Iridium:
• Antagonism, herself with
• Concentration, difficult
• Dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and comprehending
• Thoughts, two trains of thought
• Will, contradiction of
• Will, weakness of
The classic texts (Boericke, Clarke, Choudhury, Hering) remind us
that in nature Iridium is found only in combination with Osmium and
Platina as Osmiridium. It has a high specific gravity and is one of
the heaviest substances known. Clarke compares it to China and
Laurocerasus for "the aged and persons exhausted by disease," and for
children "who are puny, weak-limbed and grow too fast." It is said in
Clarke that Iridium may be superior to Aurum, Aurum Mur and Osmium in
uterine tumors. All the texts refer to a vacant feeling in the head-
and "painful weakness of the lower limbs and renal region alternating
with self-confidence and facilitated mental labor."
Iridium was introduced by Hering in 1853 and proved by A. J. Tafel
in the 19th century. It is compared to Platina for its numbness and
cramp-like sensations; and also to Ferrum Met., Palladium, Causticum,
Kali Ferrocyanatum.
The psychic sensitivity of Iridium may place it in the Phosphorous
family of remedies which would also include Iris' sisters' remedies
Magnetis Polis Arcticus and Kali Phosphoricum, among others.
Iris is dancing and performing in experimental theater, and ready to
find consulting work more suited to her talents, possibly creating
healing environments in the workplace. However, nineteen months after
her first dose of Iridium, her issues of insecurity and some skin
symptoms led me to recently prescribe Phosphorous 200C for Iris. If
over time it appears that Phosphorous is a curative remedy for her,
it will be interesting to explore the relationship of Iridium to
Phosphorous.
1 Jeremy Sherr and Dynamic School, Dynamis Provings, Volume I, by
Dynamis Books, England, 1997, p. 341.
2 Jan Scholten, Homeopathy and the Elements, by Stichting
Alonnissos, Netherlands, 1996, p. 727.
3 Sherr, op. cit., p. 341.
4 Scholten, op. cit., p. 725.
My special thanks to Jeremy Sherr and Jan Scholten for their
contribution to our understanding of Iridium Metallicum.
Gina Inez, RSHom (NA), has been practicing Classical Homeopathy
since 1985 in Marin County, California. She served as the Registrar
for NASH from 1997-1999.
Sus : a proving of pig
By karen allen, rshom (na), cch
"Would the results of a proving be different based on the specific
part of the subject which was used? Would perhaps a proving of a leaf
be different than the proving of a fruit, or a milk be different than
saliva?"
Sus scrofa
This was the question, raised in a discussion at the 1996
International Foundation for Homeopathy case conference, that led to
the proving presented here. There were those present who argued that
beneath all substance of an organism was the same vital force, and
when potentised, that same vital force would present itself
regardless of the specific component of the organism used. It was
mentioned that there would be likely differences if bone was used
rather than blood due to the highly specific mineral makeup of bones.
Questions were raised about using a male versus a female subject for
an animal proving, and how the mental symptoms of the proving might
be affected. All in all, it was an interesting question, with much
speculation, but little evidence to support any particular point of
view. There are some examples in the materia medica such as Agaricus
and Muscarin, Belladonna and Atropia, Nux Vomica and Strychnia, all
of which are pairs of plants and a derived alkaloid. These show
distinct similarities, but different remedy pictures. However, the
reduction from plant to alkaloid may be more extreme than the
difference between leaf and root or blood and saliva might be, and
the question remains.
Having just read The Dynamics and Methodology of Homeopathic
Provings by Jeremy Sherr, this case conference discussion heightened
my interest in conducting a proving. I resolved to use the approach
outlined in the book to prove multiple components of the same
organism as a trial to see if a difference in the proving results was
identifiable. While casting about for a likely subject for the
proving, I happened to have lunch with an acquaintance I did not know
very well at the time. In our conversation, he mentioned that his
family had a farm that raised pigs. As we chatted more, I learned
that these were not just any pigs-on this farm the pigs were a
specially bred and screened group of animals used as donor animals
for xenotransplant (organ transplant between members of different
species) and xenograft (tissue graft between members of different
species) medical procedures.
Over the next few days, I thought and read and researched about
pigs, hogs, and swine. My investigation showed that recent medical
literature was sprinkled with articles involving pigs, and many more
have appeared in the last few years. Increases in demands for donated
transplant organs were noted: more than 50,000 people die every year
waiting for a transplant organ, compared to the approximately 2,000
who receive one. This has prompted research into the use of donor
animals, and pigs have been considered good candidates because they
have many similarities to human physiology and anatomy. In March of
1997, the journal Nature reported that fetal pig neuronal tissue has
been implanted into the brains of patients with advanced Parkinson's
disease, demonstrating that animal tissues can grow within the human
body. Heart valves, skin grafts, and liver tissue from pigs have been
used in various medical procedures. Porcine pancreatic transplants
have been done in Europe for a number of years. Porcine heart and
liver transplants were unsuccessfully attempted with extremely ill
patients in 1992. In the 1996 January issue of Emerging Infectious
Disease, xenotransplants of organs from pigs were discussed as being
3-5 years from clinical trials. An April 1997 issue of Biomedical
News reported that there are now herds of genetically modified pigs
which have had DNA segments relating to the pig's immune system
function altered so that humans won't reject the tissue. In addition
to organs, bone marrow transplant is being researched. Limiting
factors continue to be immune system rejection of the foreign tissue
and fears of viral transmission through xenotransplant. An ethics
advisory group for xenotransplantation had directed a moratorium on
xenotransplants in Britain and New Zealand. The Centers for Disease
Control is currently drafting guidelines to prevent transmission of
infectious agents, monitor xenotransplant and xenograft recipients
with a national registry, and screen candidate animals and tissues.
While reading all this, I became curious about what the possible
impacts could be to a human population if organ transplants were
possible, and became commonplace. What influence could that bring to
children born to a parent who had a xenographic organ? Could a state
of 'pig' be recognizable in people who have received grafts or valves
or other pig tissues? It seemed very worthwhile to conduct a proving
of something foreign which has actually been incorporated into human
bodies and is now living and growing there. Additionally, pigs
offered an easy source for multiple components to prove. I contacted
my acquaintance, explained my project, and he obtained the source
substances for my proving from the pigs raised for xeno-transplant.
Freshly obtained semen, saliva, milk and blood were added to
individual bottles of alcohol and left for 24 hours. Each of these
was potentized and potencies of 6C, 12C, 15C, and 30C were made in
alcohol. Packets of remedies on pellets were made up, each identified
with a number only. A cross reference was created to index the packet
numbers to the source remedy/potency. Four additional packets of sac
lac were added. No one knew what was in any of the packets until the
proving was completed. The name of the remedy is Sus, the Latin word
for swine which is the genus name used in biological classification.
"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No
question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The
creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and
from pig to man again; but it was already impossible to say which was
which." -George Orwell, Animal Farm
"It may be remarked that man is the only animal which can live and
multiply in every country from the equator to the poles. The hog
seems to approach the nearest to our species in that privilege." -
Gibbon
Pigs are widely distributed throughout the Earth in both wild and
domesticated form. Hog, pig, and swine are interchangeable terms for
domesticated mammals of the swine family of the order artiodactyla
(hoofed animals with an even number of toes on each foot), suborder
bunodontia, families suidae and tayassuidae. They are believed to
have descended from two wild species (Asian and European), and first
domesticated in China about 9000 years ago. Explorers, traders and
immigrants eventually spread them around the earth. Pigs are well
adapted to meat production because they grow and mature rapidly, have
a short gestation period and produce a large number of young. As
omnivorous scavengers, they can adapt to many environments and diets.
In addition to meat, leather and bristles are produced. With the
exception of Muslim and Jewish cultures, which regard them as unclean
and therefore inedible, pigs are raised and eaten throughout the
world.
Pigs have played a role in history as well. In his book Guns, Germs,
and Steel, author Jared Diamond partially attributes to pigs the
dominance of European cultures over many others around the globe. He
discusses the evolution of epidemic disease as sourced by the close
proximity of humans and domesticated animals in Eurasia, where it was
not uncommon for peasants to live under the same roof with their
animals. Then as today, the relationship between humans and pigs
could be very close; in some places in the world today, human mothers
nurse piglets from their own breasts. His book documents the gradual
viral and bacteriological migration from animal diseases to human
diseases and attributes influenza and pertussis to domesticated
swine. In the first stage of evolution, a disease is found in animals
but a transfer to humans is uncommon, and there is no human to human
transmission. This is seen today with leptospirosis in dogs and pigs,
brucellosis in cattle, psittacosis in birds, and swine erysipelas in
pigs. In the second stage, a former animal pathogen evolves to a
point where there is direct transmission between people, causing
epidemics. In the third stage, a disease which was exclusively an
animal disease has become an exclusively human disease. The impact of
these diseases (measles, rubella, mumps, pertussis, smallpox,
influenza) on indigenous cultures throughout the world was
devastating, becoming one of the factors in the spread of European
influence.
Pigs also feature in the culture and mythology of many countries. In
his books, The Prydain Chronicles, Lloyd Alexander retells Welsh
legends involving an oracle pig named HenWen who used sticks to tell
the future. Pigs have been revered as weather forecasters, symbols of
fertility or bravery in battle, creatures enraptured by music and
much else as detailed in George Druce's "The Sow and Pig: A Study in
Metaphor" from the Archealogia Cantiana. They have contributed to our
maps with hills called hogbacks; the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, was
originally called Pig's Eye. They have also been reviled, and
connotations of the words pig, hog and swine are seldom
complimentary. Pig iron is a crude casting of metal from a blast
furnace. Hoggish and piggish are adjectives meaning dirty, greedy or
stubborn. Pig-headed refers to a stubborn person, and a swine refers
to a contemptible person.
There are some interesting oddities about pigs as well. They have no
sweat glands and require other means to cool off, explaining the
tendency of wild pigs to live in marshy places where they can wallow
in water or mud. Newborn pigs are extremely sensitive to cold and die
easily if left in a drafty place. Pigs are vulnerable to anthrax, but
it is not uncommon for young pigs to become only mildly ill and
recover completely from this disease which can be fatal to many other
animals and humans. In a 1925 issue of the British Journal of
Experimental Biology, Baker wrote about the inherited tendency to
sexual abnormality producing both hermaphrodite and sex-intergrade
pigs. In strains of pigs where this tendency was prevalent, over 10%
of the pigs showed abnormality. He concluded that these were
masculinized genetic females though they generally demonstrated male
sexual instincts. In the true hermaphrodites, an ovary was
consistently found on the left side and a testicle on the right side,
the clitoris was enlarged and developed similar to a penis, and there
was also a uterus and vagina.
A list of diseases that affect pigs reads much like a list of human
diagnoses: meningitis, encephalitis, polio (Talfan disease),
tuberculosis, pneumonia, rheumatism, tetanus, osteoporosis, cirrhosis
of the liver, hepatitis, gall stones. Urinary and kidney diseases are
commonly found in pigs, and nephritis has been associated with
exposure to cold, direct drafts on pigs' backs. Like many other
illnesses found post-mortem, diabetes mellitus is not diagnosed in
pigs because they are generally slaughtered at six months of age, but
pancreatic degeneration found in some slaughtered animals is
consistent with glycosuria. Swine erysipelas is a disease of pigs,
caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, which raises characteristic
diamond shaped red patches on the skin, and sometimes appears as a
diffuse red coloring all over the skin. The condition can be fatal to
pigs, causing hemorrhage of the kidneys and other complications. This
disease can affect people who come in contact with a diseased pig,
has been fatal to humans, and may last for years in some people, with
diamond shaped blotches on the hands and face that are aggravated by
heat of a fire or stove. This same E. rhusiopathiae agent has been
identified as a cause of arthritis in pigs in the U.S. , and in one
study as many as 75% of pigs affected with arthritis were shown to
have this organism.
"Even when I felt my stomach was full, I wanted to go on eating. I
would have eaten anything. I would have eaten garbage if you had put
it in front of me." Sus prover
The proving was conducted gradually from the fall of 1996 through
the summer of 1997 in the U.S. and Canada. The methodology laid out
in Jeremy Sherr's book was used, and instructions copied from the
book were handed out to provers. Supervision was done by myself and
Joan Raddysh, a Canadian homeopath now in Toronto whose contribution
was invaluable. Finding suitable candidates who were interested in
participating, relatively self-observant and articulate, and
conscientious about avoiding interferences such as coffee, medical or
recreational drugs, herbs, supplements, etc, proved to be a
challenge, and so the proving was done with a few individuals at a
time in several very small groups as people agreed to participate,
for a total of 27 provers for the four remedy components. In addition
to the supervision before and after the remedy was taken, follow-up
was done with the majority of provers at 3 months, 6 months and 1
year. Three of the provers observed no symptoms of any kind; one of
these had been given sac lac. The notable results are given below in
the words of the provers, followed by two successful acute cases. I
have not found a constitutional case for Sus yet, but hope that the
publication of this material will make homeopaths aware of what is
known about the remedy so far and create the opportunity for further
clinical use.
While knowledge of the remedy is incomplete and additions to the
repertory seem premature at this stage, rubrics consistent with
Kent's Repertory have been noted here using plain type for lowest
grade, italic for middle and bold for highest grade. Whenever
possible, existing rubrics have been used. Following Jeremy Sherr's
lead, I make no attempt to offer an essence or summary picture for
the remedy, letting the symptoms of the proving speak for themselves.
However, in response to the questions raised at the 1996 IFH case
conference, the results of the proving were so similar from each of
the four components of pig (saliva, semen, blood and milk) that I was
unable to differentiate them in any way.
Mind
There were many symptoms related to work including positive
anticipation of work, desire to work, increased sense of satisfaction
and accomplishment at work, anxiety about having forgotten how to do
one's job. It was interesting to find that almost 50% of the provers
noted that they worked overtime, double shifts, increased
responsibility, or increased hours at some point within the first 3
days after taking the remedy.
• "I had to work tonight and was actually looking forward to it
which was unusual."
• "I had a wonderful feeling that I had a task, a purpose and I had
finished it. I feel at peace now."
• "I felt like I could accomplish everything at work today and I
did. I feel great and have lots of energy."
• "I was at work twice as long today, funny how that happens."
• "I was at work from 9 am to 11 pm; I had not one chance to leave
or take a break."
• "Someone else wasn't coming in to work so I had to do her job on
top of mine. I lasted the entire day without feeling drained once."
• "I thought I couldn't do my job. In a sense I believed that I had
forgotten how to work. That's why my hands started to shake, because
I was actually scared. It still bothers me now, much later."
Two provers noted a difficulty in answering questions.
• "I have a time delayed response when answering questions. There is
a brief period of blankness and then I can respond."
No provers reported their own violent behavior, but in the few days
prior to taking the remedy (while keeping records in the proving
notebooks) or the first week after taking the remedy, several events
involving conflict were noted, and the following are representative.
• "I have never before been punched in a street confrontation. Three
guys came up to me as I got off work, made various comments that I am
a nerd and have no friends. It is, in effect, playground bullying.
One of the guys punched me on the right cheek just above the mouth,
chipped a tooth. I did not see the blow coming."
• "I struck a blow against a mouse that sent it limping off for
cover last night. I had already received the remedy proving kit so I
thought to include it in my notes."
• "I was woken up at 3 am by a couple of wailing cats that were
fighting right outside my window."
This last is a strange, rare and peculiar type of symptom which was
experienced by the one person who seemed to experience most of the
proving symptoms.
• "I had the idea that my foot was split between my big toe and my
other toes, going up into my foot part way, like a snake's tongue is
split."
Mind, Occupation ameliorates
Mind, Industrious
Mind, Answers slowly
Mind, Fear, work, feared he had forgotten how to (new subrubric)
Mind, Delusion, foot split in two (new rubric)
Head
Almost 90% of the provers who reported any symptoms at all had
headaches. In several provers, there were daily headaches for weeks,
with intense headaches on a weekly frequency for up to 2 months.
Invariably the same words were used: dull ache, vague ache, pressure
pushing outwards, but too dull to be a bursting sort of pain. In
fact, dull ache was the most common description used for every kind
of pain experienced by the provers in any symptom.
• "Vague headache, centered behind the eyes"
• "Ache in the head with much dull pressure inside the head, pushing
outwards"
• "Mild headache from 3 to 5 pm which slowly went away"
• "Dull ache which strengthens, then recedes every few hours through
the day"
• "An ache in the forehead at and above my eyebrows"
• "Aching pain in my head which was better after eating hot soup"
Provers also noted increased itching of the scalp which was improved
by scratching and followed by the formation of small scabs which
flaked off with more scratching.
Head, Pain, headache in general
Head, Pain, dull pain
Head, Itching of scalp
Stomach
Approximately 75% of the provers reported increased hunger and
increased satisfaction with food. In particular, many provers
mentioned seeking out a desired food and finding it extremely
satisfying when they had eaten it, although there was a very wide
range of the things desired with no two the same. For a few provers
this lasted for weeks, but for most it lasted only the first few
days. Approximately 30% of the provers reported nausea.
• "I was very hungry as soon as I woke up."
• "I was unusually hungry at times through the day."
• "I was ravenous, eating and eating, even when I knew I was full I
wanted to eat more."
• "Even when I felt my stomach was full, I wanted to go on eating. I
would have eaten anything. I would have eaten garbage if you had put
it in front of me."
• "By 10 am I was starved."
• "When I ate it, it was the best thing I had ever tasted."
• "After I ate, it seemed like the end result of a craving, when one
feels accomplished that they have fulfilled the desire."
• "I had a craving today for a blueberry bagel with cream cheese and
I wasn't let down-it was excellent."
• "I felt nauseated after taking the remedy."
• "From 3 to 3:30 pm I felt mild nausea."
• "There was a lot of cigar smoke and this made me feel nauseated.
It felt like I would have vomited if I had not gotten fresh air."
Stomach, Appetite, increased
Stomach, Appetite, ravenous, canine, excessive
Stomach, Nausea
Abdomen
• "Within 15 minutes of taking the first dose of the remedy, I felt
a colicky feeling in the abdomen."
• "After the remedy I had stomach cramps followed by diarrhea."
Abdomen, Pain, cramping
Rectum / Stool
• "I had diarrhea several times a day, after starting the remedy."
• "After having stomach cramps, I had very soft stools."
• "I had diarrhea which was very forceful, like an explosion into
the toilet."
Rectum, Diarrhea
Stool, Forcible
Urinary organs
Kidney pain was both produced as a proving symptom and resolved
during the proving for a prover who had chronic pain in the kidneys.
Several provers reported waking at night to urinate, something very
out of the ordinary for them.
• "My back began to ache in the area of my kidneys, more on the
right side. This lasted for an hour and a half then faded away."
• "I awoke again without the pain I usually feel in my kidneys every
morning. This was very different for me-I have had this pain every
day for years." (Pain was remitted for 3 months.)
• "Waking at 4:20 am with a strong need to urinate."
• "Frequent need to urinate."
Kidneys, Pain
Kidneys, Pain, morning
Bladder, Urination, frequent
Bladder, Urination, night
Extremities
Several of the provers reported symptoms of trembling or joint pain,
and most of these were on the left side of the body. Provers who
already had joint pain noted that it became worse after taking the
remedy, but none of those provers reported that it improved
afterwards-the discomfort gradually returned to its previous level.
• Trembling in the hands and forearms, with fear of having forgotten
how to work, lasting 30 minutes.
• Cramping in the left hand lasting 3 minutes
• "While driving, my hand and foot on the left side started to cramp
up. Better after stretching."
• "My left shoulder seems to have been wrenched somehow. It is a
dull ache."
• "Dull ache in both knees."
• "Dull aching feeling in the left hip and knee."
• "There was a feeling of wasting away in my arms. It was mid-
afternoon. It felt as if the fluids and strength of my arms was
ebbing. Sapping of strength."
Extremities, Trembling, anxious
Extremities, Pain, joints
Extremities, Cramps, hand
Extremities, Cramps, hand, left
Extremities, Cramps, foot
Extremities, Weakness, upper limbs
Sleep/dreams
There were many dreams reported involving the need to urinate, and
the provers, upon waking, actually did need to urinate. This was one
of the most commonly reported symptoms in the proving.
• "I dreamed that I was at a rally where we were forced to hear a
talk about the end of technology. In my dream I had to get up and go
to the bathroom. When I did wake up, I realized my bladder was full
and I did need to go to the bathroom."
• "In my dream I was going to see a film in a big old movie hall. On
my way into the hall I had to line up to pee-I actually did need to
when I woke up."
• "In my dream I was with my brother and we were traveling in a
green countryside near the coast. My brother and I were peeing on the
grass near an old house, and we were told off by a young guy who said
we should have used the toilet. I woke up really needing to pee."
There were also quite a few dreams about eating.
• "I dreamed that I was sitting at a dinner table having a meal with
others. Everyone was friendly."
• "In my dream I was gathered around a bowl of food with other
greedy followers."
• "There were people wandering around in a farmyard eating food from
a huge cabinet-fruit and veggies and bacon."
• "People are around cooking fires in the orchard."
There were dreams from which people awoke frightened, as from a
nightmare, and some of these were dreamt multiple times in the same
night.
• "In my dream I looked towards the window and saw a reflection. I
thought it was me. As I got closer, it became clear that it was
someone else. At that point I woke up, terrified that somebody was
outside my window."
• "There was a long stemmed red rose with a note saying 'I don't
want you to ever do that again.' And signed by my friend, but I did
not know what she was referring to. I awoke frightened because I
thought I had done something to jeopardize our friendship." (Dreamt 3
times in one night)
• "I had a nightmare about a friend-a guy and his wife who were
threatening to kill me with a gun. I tried to pretend I was already
dead, but he was not fooled. Then I had to empty out my pockets and
was surrounded by many coins. When I awoke I was anxious and the
feeling stayed with me for a long time."
• "I was in a bar but it was all light and sunny outside. Whenever I
touched someone, their skin would flake off. It was creepy."
Sleep, Dreams, urinating, of
Sleep, Dreams, nightmare
Sleep, Dreams, eating
Sleep, Dreams, frightful
Sleep, Dreams, repeating
Skin
Dry, itching and red skin on the waist, sides, back, shoulders,
arms, scalp and face were reported. Scratching relieved the itching,
as did water, lotion, and in one case, a mud bath.
• "I had red patches of dry, itchy skin around my waist. I put
lotion on them and it felt better."
• "My skin felt dry and very itchy. Scratching felt good, but the
only thing that really made it go away was a mud bath at a local
spa."
• "My scalp has been very itchy. I have been scratching it and now
there are little scabs flaking off when I scratch."
• "I have a terrible itch between my shoulder blades. If I scratch
long enough it stops itching."
Skin, Itching
Skin, Itching, scratching amel.
Homeopathy on the internet
Provings sites
Proving information is relatively scarce on the internet, but the
following sites provide a start.
www. gn. apc. org/ecch. icch/provings. html
The ECCH and ICCH (European and International Councils on Classical
Homeopathy) Recommended Guidelines for Good Provings are available in
full on their website. This is an excellent document-essential
reading for anyone considering conducting or taking part in a
proving.
www. hominf. org. uk/proving. htm
This is the excellent website of The School of Homoeopathy in Devon,
England. It provides comprehensive information on the following
provings: AIDS; Arizona Lava; Dreaming (obtained from South African
Sangomas); Falcon; Kauri Agathis Australis (giant tree); Knopper Oak
Galls; Positronium; Salix Fragilis (crack willow); and LSD.
www. dynamis. edu
This is the site of the Dynamis School in the UK and it provides a
database of information on many provings, new and old, including who
conducted the proving and when. It does not, however, provide any
proving content currently, but hopes to do so in the future.
www. homeopathycourses. com
This is the site of Lou Klein's Homeopathic Master Clinician
Courses. It provides information on the following provings:
Helodrilis caliginosis (earthworm); Loxosceles reclusa (brown recluse
spider); Carbon dioxide and Coriandrum.
www. planete-homeo. org/english/materia/
In many ways, this proving report of Hydrocyanic acid (conducted by
the Society Gaucha of Homeopathy in Brazil) should be a model to
anyone writing up a proving. It provides all the data of a first-
class scientific report. Planete Homeo is an excellent French
homeopathy web site, which includes an English-language subsection.
General homeopathy sites
The number of homeopathy web sites has become huge and is growing
larger every day. Using a good search engine works well for most
things, but if you're looking for a one-stop entry point, try one of
the following:
www. homeopathyhome. com
This is probably the most comprehensive (US-based) homeopathy site
on the web. From this site, you can find almost all others.
www. simillibus. com
Will Taylor's site, which includes a Remedy Of The Week feature, the
text of several classical homeopathy books, including the Organon and
The Chronic Diseases, and much, much more.
www. simillimum. com
David Little's site, which includes many essays and articles on
classical prescribing, with a special focus on the LM posology.
www. lyghtforce. com/homeopathyonline/index. html
Check out the only homeopathic magazine on the internet: Homeopathy
Online. This site also links to the lyghtforce homeopathy mailing
list, a lively discussion forum for homeopathic enthusiasts.
www. homeopathy-cures. com
Steve Waldstein's invaluable referral list to recommended classical
homeopaths in the United States and Canada.
http://www. empiricaltherapies. com/
This is Harris Coulter's site and has some of his writings on AIDS,
cancer and vaccination.
www. morpho. nl
Roger Van Zandvoort's online version of The Complete Repertory.
www. hominf. org. uk
For referrals to homeopathic practitioners, schools, organizations
and other resources in the UK.
www. hom-inform. org
This is the site for the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital Library which
has a huge selection of homeopathic books and articles. They charge a
small fee for database searches.
Physostigma-the discarded vine
By kirsta heron, nd, dhanp
I have been quite curious for some time about the remedies made from
vines, wondering if their winding and climbing tendency would say
much about the nature of the remedies made from them. I have been
charmed at how the beans and peas that grow in my garden wander and
seek support from other plants or structures; playfully wrapping
their tendrils around anything they can reach. They have flowers with
mandible like structures that seem to talk, receiving visitations
from bees who seem unaware that they look as if they could be
swallowed at any moment. These vines are members of the legume
(Fabaceae or Papilionaceae) family and include such familiar remedies
as Baptisia, Lathyrus, and Melilotus.
The remedies in this family present with many problems of fatigue,
motility, and paralysis. According to Jan Scholten, this may be due
to the possible poisoning by the amino acid glutamate that then
affects the neurotransmitter serotonin. We also see many delusion
symptoms. In particular, those who need these remedies often feel
that they have done something wrong. For example, Baptisia feels that
they cannot succeed, that they do everything wrong; Melilotus feels
they are pursued by their enemies or the police and that they are
about to be arrested; and Robinia feels they have been disgraced.
Physostigma, a member of this family, is a perennial woody climber
found in tropical West Africa. Its leaves are large and pinnate with
purple butterfly-like flowers. The fruit is a reddish brown bean with
two or three white oval seeds. These beans ripen year round but are
most abundant during Africa's rainy season. These beans contain
alkaloids that are poisonous.
Historically, the beans have been used to determine the guilt of
those accused of witchcraft. If the accused vomited within a half
hour they were considered innocent, but if they died from the poison
they were found guilty. In the same way that patients who respond to
the other legume remedies feel that they have done some wrong, those
who respond to Physostigma feel they are castaways. It is easy to
imagine how someone accused of a crime and then ostracized by the
community could have this feeling.
The alkaloids within Physostigma stimulate the parasympathetic
nerves and medically have been used as an antidote to atropine. They
cause contraction of the pupil and ciliary muscles, and have a
profound effect on the striated muscles as a whole. The limbs seem
weary and unresponsive. There is fatigue and weakness. The case I
will now present shows a wonderful response to this remedy in a
patient with multiple sclerosis. It is from her that I first began to
understand Physostigma and other members of this family.
Case
Multiple sclerosis
Physostigma venenosum
C ase
Diane first came to see me in February of 1998. She was a beautiful,
elegant sixty-year-old from Georgia who had moved to the Pacific
Northwest a few years before. She wanted some relief from her
worsening multiple sclerosis. I found her first words interesting:
"Generally you start at the beginning, but I'd like to start at the
end."
This was curious to me at the time, and now seems quite illustrative
of how a climbing vine might begin to tell its tale.
"I've had more symptoms these last four years, but I was diagnosed
twenty years ago. Now walking is difficult for me because of my
balance. Sometimes I have problems with my vision and I have a
macular hole in my left eye. Recently I have less feeling and
dexterity in my hands and I have a neurogenic bladder. It doesn't
empty well. My initial symptom was numbness in the left arm and then
eventually numbness in both legs. This was in my twenties, around the
birth of my children."
"I am essentially married though I haven't lived with my husband for
two years. Our separation was amicable and my life is better alone.
Both my parents are dead. I grew up in Georgia and lived there until
I was forty. My parents were seemingly successful, although my mother
was an alcoholic. We were raised by servants. My sister was six years
older and she saw my parents as cold and lacking in love. I just
thought they didn't want to be with me-that there was something wrong
with me."
Here we can see the often-observed delusion of the legumes-that
there is something wrong with them. Physostigma's feeling of being
discarded or thrown away is reflected in Diane's description of her
parents and how she experienced their attitude towards her. Because
she was placed in the care of servants rather than her parents, she
felt unwanted. Diane continues:
"My father was disapproving and controlling. The only way to survive
was to play the game. He was a very wealthy man, very charming and
dictatorial-someone I couldn't trust. He would say one thing and then
do another. He would give you something and then take it away. There
was no way out...You couldn't ask directly. You would try to make him
think it was his idea. So I couldn't ask for what I wanted nor could
I go against his authority."
Diane's feeling that there was no way out is interesting in light of
her simultaneous feeling of being cast away. Here she feels trapped.
The climbing vine seeks someplace to go and the only solution is to
twist and turn so that the obstacle she is trying to maneuver around
can be overcome. But she cannot move. She cannot exert her will and
successfully ask and receive what she needs. This seems
metaphorically linked to the disease of multiple sclerosis. And quite
analogous to Physostigma, who has the feeling that their muscles do
not respond to the will.
"My mother was just there, but not there. She didn't want to talk to
you. Mother was an alcoholic by the time I was eleven. I couldn't
count on her."
"I ran away from home and was married for sixteen years. I was
nineteen when I had my first child and twenty-one and twenty-five for
the other two. My husband was very gregarious and an alcoholic. I
supported him and our three children those last years of our
marriage."
"My second marriage lasted five years. Six months after the divorce
I met my third husband. He spent all his time working and fixing.
He'd bring coffee to you but he would never sit down. He wanted to
work, I wanted to rest. After a year I decided to move to Seattle.
[Now] I have a lot of support."
This woman is like the climbing vine seeking the strong support of
something. Yet it doesn't support her. She finds herself in marriages
where she is the primary provider, the one who maintains and sustains
the relationship.
We also see the theme of overwork and rest in Physostigma. All the
plants in the Fabaceae family have the ability to fix nitrogen in the
soil, the function of nitrogen being to increase growth of the leafy
parts of the plant. In essence, these legumes provide their own
fertilizer. They are plants that do everything: grow and create
fruits and flowers as well as build and replenish the soil they live
in. Just like these plants, Diane has overworked. She has longed for
support but has supported her husbands instead. Now she longs to
rest, to enjoy a simple life...
"I now find myself keeping a lovely home. I fill it with flowers and
then sit in a chair and read."
She fills her house with flowers and sits down to enjoy them.
Scholten speaks of this trait. He says the remedies in the Fabaceae
family long to enjoy life, a life without trouble or complication-one
that is beautiful, clean, and surrounded by the beauty of nature. He
believes this characteristic comes from the nitrogen element in the
plant.
"My life before the diagnosis was very free. I learned a lot. I was
with my second husband and we had no jobs, no money-we really didn't
know where the next dime was coming from."
This is the time when her first symptoms were expressed, a time when
she felt unsure of the kind of support she could count on.
"The first symptoms were in my eyes. It came after an abortion,
after the anesthesia. I couldn't focus my eyes and my peripheral
vision was less. At first I didn't pay attention to it. Later I
thought-this is like I don't want to open my eyes, I don't want to
look out. It was worse if I stood up and looked. I'd almost lose my
balance."
"When I was little I was afraid to go to bed, so I would leave the
door open. I had all these colors in my eyes and I thought they were
coming after me. I had nightmares for twenty years until I was forty.
I saw a dark figure in a corner who I thought was trying to get me. I
was terrorized. I'd wake my family up by screaming. Sometimes I'd get
up and run."
It is interesting that Physostigma has many symptoms centered in the
vision and eyes. Even at a young age we see Diane experiencing visual
distortions. Moreover, she interprets these distortions as menacing-
the colors were after her. Later, this symptom evolves to become a
dark figure. We see these symptoms in the repertory as "Vision;
colors before the eyes" and "Delusions; sees spectres, ghosts and
spirits." Later Diane, experiences a blurring of her vision. Again we
see this in the materia medica: "Vision as if there was a film over
the eye." Her nightmares of a menacing figure occur during the time
when her physical symptoms are in remission.
"My first symptoms came near my pregnancies in my twenties. I felt
caught, I didn't want to be pregnant. But then the symptoms went
away. Why did my symptoms come back at forty? It was the first time I
was really free. But I couldn't find my place. Suddenly I had all
this freedom at forty and what do I do but get MS. I thought, now I
have an excuse to say "no"...it's rude otherwise. I just want to
please people at the sacrifice of myself. I come last. I would bend
over backwards to be nice. Otherwise you would be shunned. No one
would want to be with you, and I want people to be with me."
Diane felt caught again and couldn't directly create the life she
desired. When she finally comes to a time in her life when she can
create freedom and choose, she feels that she cannot find her place;
she is waving in the wind like a loose tendril. She can't find it in
herself to say "no." Instead, she finds it easier to bend over
backwards to find her support, to avoid being shunned or cast away.
Scholten has said that the legume family has a desire for help, but
that they feel that no one can, or will, help them.
I first chose the following two rubrics:
GENERALITIES; SCLEROSIS; multiple
EXTREMITIES; NUMBNESS, insensibility; upper limbs; left I then added
a combination of all rubrics that suggested a 'forsaken' feeling,
including: MIND; FORSAKEN; and DELUSIONS, imaginations; alone;
castaway, being
a; deserted etc.
I saw Physostigma and was curious so I read everything I could find
about it and did a search in MacRepertory and Reference Works and
found the following rubrics that supported my choice of this remedy:
VISION; BLURRED
VISION; COLORS before the eyes
FACE; ERUPTIONS; herpes; lips
FEMALE; MENSES; irregular
RECTUM; CONSTIPATION; general
BLADDER; CONVULSIONS, spasms
EXTREMITIES; AWKWARDNESS; lower limbs
GENERALITIES; FOOD and drinks; cold; drinks,
water; aversion
Diane had a variety of confirmatory symptoms as well. Her numbness
began in her left arm, as it does with Physostigma. She also dislikes
drinking cold water and has a history of constipation. I gave her
Physostigma 200C on February 23, 1998.
Follow up consulations
7 Weeks: Diane came back April 14 and reported, "I saw a great
change, even the first day. I felt more energetic and everything
seemed much easier. I didn't want to sit down. I have better bladder
control and my attitude is better. I have more energy to do things,
and better mental acuity. I feel happy."
3 Months: On May 27 she stated, "There is an overall wellness. I
forget I can't walk as well as I think I can. My vision is pretty
good, as is my balance. I have a little less dexterity in my left
hand. I used to not be able to go anywhere because of my bladder
problem. Now it is not a problem."
6 Months: On September 2, Diane was having more trouble so I gave
her Physostigma 1M. When she returned to the office on October 6, she
reported, "The remedy helped. I notice my bladder symptoms and energy
are much improved."
One year: On March 9, 1999, she started to lag so I repeated
Physostigma 1M again. She had had some dental work with novacaine and
it had fatigued her greatly.
15 Months: On June 1 she reported, "My bladder control is doing
great and my immune system is much improved. I haven't had any herpes
outbreaks and my energy is better. My spirits have been very good. My
daughter had surgery so I had to travel to Boston to help her. It was
a boost to know that I could get along by myself. It is amazing to
get past this fear."
20 Months: On October 25, 1999 I spoke with Diane again. "I feel so
much better since I first came to see you. I was about to have a
catheter inserted because my bladder problems had become so severe.
But since taking this remedy the quality of my life has vastly
improved. To have bladder control is wonderful." Diane reports that
she has not lost any dexterity or feeling in her limbs over the
course of her treatment.
"I feel in a very good space now, more at ease and joyous about
life. I am better at asking for what I want. I don't always get it
but that is true for everybody. If I just let go, everything works
out. Whatever is going to be, will be. I am less surprised when
people want to be with me now. I am able to take that truth in and
know I am a pleasure to be with. I feel more compassion for myself
and others now, and I live in that space of peace more and more."
Because multiple sclerosis is a progressively deteriorating disease,
I am pleased with the progress to date with Diane. I feel we have
brought some health back, though we still see some progression of her
disease.
Remark
I feel hopeful of further progress because of the healing she has
done in the emotional sphere.
I believe that the main ways in which Diane healed directly
correspond with the center of this remedy. For me, the essential
emotional symptoms of Physostigma include the feeling of being cast
away and the longing for support, yet feeling undeserving. This is
coupled with the tendency to overwork, all the while longing for rest
and simple beauty.
Diane felt cast aside by her parents and surprised when people would
want to spend time with her. Now she knows people enjoy her and she
embraces that truth. She used to feel undeserving of the help of
others. Now she feels more able to ask for what she wants. She
understands that at times she may receive this and at other times
not. But now when others choose not to help, she knows it is not
about her or some wrong she has done. She believed in the past that
she needed to overwork to get what she wanted. Now she accepts what
the universe provides.
Physostigma's main expression on the physical level is seen in
vision changes, palpitations, constipation, and muscular numbness,
weakness, and paralysis, especially of the left arm. This weakness is
common to the legume family as a whole. Lathyrus, Indigo, Baptisia
and others all experience muscular weakness. The limitations of
motility that are seen in this family of remedies are compelling
because these plants survive by climbing. They need to move and wind
their way to more light and greater space. These plants also have a
need for support, as do the people who need these remedies. They long
for someone to depend on, yet feel so undeserving. They are hopeless
of ever receiving help, often because they feel they have done some
wrong. And because they feel undeserving they must overfunction or
work harder to secure the support they need. In the plant we see this
in their ability to provide their own fertilizer. In the patient we
see this over functioning juxtaposed with a longing for a simple
life, a life that will restore a sense of beauty and nurturance.
Krista Heron has been practicing homeopathy in Seattle, Washington
since 1989. She has taught at Bastyr University since 1997, and was
the director of the IFH Second Year Post- Graduate Course, 1998-1999.
She can be reached at kjhdbug. org.
The essential emotional symptoms of Physostigma include the feeling
of being cast away and the longing for support, yet feeling
undeserving. This is coupled with the tendency to overwork, all the
while longing for rest and simple beauty.
Fools gold
By mike bridger, rshom
In recent years the tide has turned in favour of homoeopathy and I
wonder whether this success hasn't gone to our heads a little. It
seems to have stimulated some kind of sycotic drive for originality
within the profession which, if left unchecked, could end up
seriously weakening homoeopathy as a whole. I am concerned for
example, about meditative provings. Crudely put, this involves a
group of people literally meditating on the material substance and
the symptoms they experience during the meditation being collated to
give the proving picture. My concern is that such provings may filter
into mainstream homoeopathy without serious debate or critical
assessment. This experimentation with meditative provings has to be
considered in relation to these overall trends which are increasingly
pervading homeopathic thought.
Increasingly homoeopathy is being jumbled up with notions based on
religions and spiritualism, psychotherapy, mysticism, magic,
occultism, psychotherapy, karma, Aquarius and as the song goes "Uncle
Tom Cobbly and all". This isn't surprising. The resurgence of
homoeopathy in Britain sprang directly from new interest in Druidism,
alchemy and-putting it crudely-New Ageism. The problem is that this
trend is also a move away from the language of homoeopathy, which is
a language of simplicity.
The infiltration of 'New Age' notions is happening particularly in
case analysis. We've got circle methods, triangles, tables, verbs,
auras, planets and spiritual guides, and next week they'll be another
guru to tell us what homoeopathy really is, should be and never was,
as compared to what we thought it was, or what Hahnemann meant it to
be. We'll think it's very clever because we haven't a clue what he or
she is talking about. And so we all climb aboard The Starship
Enterprise, to go boldly where no homoeopath has gone before.
Meanwhile, there on the ground are our patients getting smaller and
smaller until we can't see them at all, and all we have left is the
realisation that the nearer you get to heaven, the colder and
lonelier it gets.
Never mind the patient as long as we find the 'right remedy'. It's
like setting off and searching for The Holy Grail! We're being told
that the 'right remedy' isn't the one that covers the symptoms of the
case, or the presenting complaint. It has to cover the whole life of
the patient, particularly the patient's life as foetus. It should
penetrate into the deepest waters of the patient i.e. their soul,
and if the remedy doesn't cover the last 1000 light years of the
patient's past lives, then the prescription is probably palliative,
certainly suppressive and there's a good chance that the patient will
die in unbearable agony at an early age, only to be re-incarnated as
a blue-bottle fly. Who needs allopathy to frighten us when we've got
that kind of agenda.
The 'right remedy' is a homoeopathic G spot where lots of people go
looking for something, but they don't know where to look because they
don't know what it is. Maybe I'm just English. If these notions were
true we would need to be so evolved to practice successfully, that we
probably wouldn't bother to be on earth at all, but would choose
instead to fly with the angels. Homoeopathy would be left for the
Sages and Seers and Gurus. I hate Gurus because I want to be one, but
know that I'm no good at it. I'm the type of person that even if I
was called Merlin, dressed in robes with a pointy hat and had a magic
wand that incinerated everything I pointed it at, people would still
think I was the assistant bank manager.
Some regard homoeopathy as a sort of spiritual quest. If that's the
case then the remedy for the patient will have to cover the spirit of
the patient. When Kent talked about deep acting remedies he meant
that they covered pathology. Now 'deep' means 'soul deep'. Of course
homoeopathy has spiritual significance, but we should be aware that
much of the world's population is less worried about their spiritual
development and more preoccupied with finding enough food for
themselves and their children to eat.
I have heard homoeopaths claim that they and their patients are more
spiritually evolved than anyone else because they have been attracted
to homoeopathy. Madness.
If homoeopathy is tainted with the notion that homoeopaths save
souls and set them on some spiritual path towards an idea of
enlightenment, then it becomes a religion. Like all religions, we
attract fundamentalists who like to think that anyone who does not
follow the righteous path as defined by them, will find themselves
skewered on the barbecues of hell with only a fried onion for a
friend. Actually Hell would be practising in such a way, because the
saving grace of homoeopathy, as well as being it's flaw, is that
homoeopathy is human. Because it is human, it can never be a perfect
system. Paradoxically the more we become aware of this imperfection,
in ourselves, in the way we practice and in our patients, the more we
see the perfection inherent in that imperfection.
I can prove that homoepathy is not perfect. How many of you
practitioners reading this can honestly say that you have never
experienced that moment, when the patient is sitting in front of you
saying that the last remedy worked brilliantly, and you look down at
your notes only to find that you forgot to write down what remedy you
gave. Point made!
Remember those early days as a student, when you've read this
amazing stuff and you believe nothing can go wrong for you once
you're a homoeopath or have taken a remedy. Your grandad is sitting,
dribbling and farting in the corner where he's sat for 150 years and
you're trying to force-feed him with bucket-loads of Carbo Veg. He's
choking and someone's trying to call for an ambulance, but you pull
the phone out, shouting, "Don't you understand, the allopaths will
kill him!
Then that first shock when someone who took a remedy still dies 10
years later. The shock of hearing that a homoeopath is having
marriage problems.
Homoepathy isn't perfect and if we act as if it is, then homoepathy
will lose its identity. If we worship ideas at the expense of the
patients, then we will worship something else. It may be that
meditative provings are part of a symptomatology which reflects
exactly such a trend. We already see this problem in case analysis,
where the analysis seems to be geared around the desire to be
original and insightful, rather than trying to get the patient
better. This is the equivalent of the allopath's love of diagnosis
and we can get caught up in similar thinking. The more clever,
profound, complicated and obscure the analysis the better, and never
mind the patient.
Some eminent homoeopaths fly all over the world doing this stuff.
They pop up at some seminar, take a case and give Candlewax 10M
because the patient says they feel burnt out, then very quickly fly
off again for someone else to clean up the mess.
The sycotic drive for innovation and originality we should leave to
the allopaths. They have succeeded in alienating themselves from
their own roots, the people, the patients and healing. We gained from
their not learning the lesson, but we gained and I'm not sure we
learnt the lesson either. I see ideas and notions which are
questionable and yet are embraced so readily, without question or
critical appraisal by the profession; this disturbs me. Art can stoop
to the level of pickling cows in formaldehyde without anyone, apart
from the cow, getting hurt. But we are responsible for the health
care of real people. If we worship innovation at the expense of the
foundations of homoeopathy then our house will fall down. There are
those, including the pharmaceutical companies that wolflike, will be
prepared to huff and puff to help it on it's way.
The point is that systems and religions don't sit well with
homoeopathy, at least in practice. Systems of thought and belief are
by their nature generalisations. Homoeopathy is specific. I become
wary when I see this specificity replaced with gross
generalisation. "Homoeopathy heals the planet." No it doesn't-it can
heal the individual. That individual, by being healthier, can choose
to do healthier things, and a larger group of healthier individuals
can choose to make moves to heal the planet.
These are two different propositions. The crux of it is this:
homoeopathy is powerful and powerless at the same time. All
homoeopathy can do is make choices available to people because they
become healthier; it cannot and should not dictate what they do,
however nice an intention we have for them.
Never mind how clever we are at understanding illness, if we're
truthful we're only like our patients. When we get toothache we want
the pain to stop and never mind the fact that it is symbolic of our
past life as a dental surgeon. If one of our loved ones is ill or in
pain, we suddenly stop worrying about their trip to Nirvana and are
more concerned about the potential trip to the local hospital. An
excellent homoeopath spent a year going to different homoeopaths
trying to sort out abdominal pain. She was told it would go when she
sorted out her relationship with her father. Eventually she was
rushed to hospital with peritonitis. She nearly died. Now I don't
deny that she may have had problems with her father, but we need to
be clear about what we need to treat. My advice is never forget your
patients. You are one!
Ironically, the tendency to ignore physical symptoms in preference
for apparent mental and spiritual causes is no more or less than
simply allopathic. It is no better or worse than the allopaths
predilection for specialising in various parts of the body. These
same practitioners who scream if they hear prescriptions based on
physicals because they regard them as partial, are quite happy to
partially prescribe on any mental or emotional symptom that they can
manage to torture out of the patient, while disregarding the more
serious physical symptoms of the case.
My heart bleeds for those poor students who are misled into ignoring
the obvious and are sent like Gargantua the giant on that near
impossible journey, to find the hidden pattern, the block, the
delusionary state etc. Even if you think you've found it, rather like
finding your third eye, it's a little disappointing, not least
because the remedy you give based on your discovery often doesn't do
anything. Why? Because the practitioner is encouraged to prescribe on
speculative causations rather than the expression of symptoms. In
homoeopathy the symptoms contain the cause. The symptoms are both
cause and effect. Let go of the symptoms and you may as well stop
breathing as a homoeopath.
Like it or not we operate from the perspective of Western culture.
Like it or not our model can be essentially allopathic, even if we
call it homoeopathic. Much of what we do is a reaction to allopathy
which for us, is the monster in the dark. But as we know, a reaction
is often worryingly close to the thing reacted against. Allopathy
thought it could cure everything with its wonder drugs and techno
medicine, but we are suffering from a sycotic craving for new
theories and short cuts to 'get fixed quick'. Instead of Prozac we
find cure-alls by meditating on Rainbow, or Tooth Fairy or some such,
but it is only the opposite side of the same coin. We can delude
ourselves into thinking that we're cleverer than allopaths because
not only do we claim to deal with physical sickness, but we can alter
everyone's Karma too.
I see a great film in this by the way. Something like Orwell's
Animal Farm but I'll call it Aquarius Farm. Instead of all the
animals turning into humans, I'll have the homoeopaths in white
coats, growing stethoscopes out of their necks, driving around in
sports cars and mumbling to themselves in Latin.
People are very wary now, after the broken promises and the pay off
of Thalidomide and Opren and the rest of that stuff. They're wary of
people giving false witness. They're clever enough, if they perceive
us to be wearing The Emperors New Clothes, to shout "Hyoscyamus" and
kick us off the streets. Instead of claiming we are changing the
world we would do better to remember, as I said earlier, that most of
the population don't even know what homoeopathy is.
Instead of throwing stones at allopaths, let us remember that we
live in glass houses too. Homoeopathy has a bright future but as they
say, "The brighter the sun shines, the longer the shadow." We need to
start looking at that shadow. We need to become self-critical.
These days we can voice any whimsical notion we have at any time, in
any place. We can agree that there's no criticism because that would
remind us of allopathy. All you have to do is say, "spiritual;
Atlantis; moon; alchemy; intuition; I feel; meditation" and anything
produced will be untouchable or unquestionable in it's holiness. No
matter how half-arsed the notion is, it cannot be criticised because
it's beyond the rational and it's obvious to anyone who's evolved. If
you don't get it then you may as well jump in the primal slime with
the frogs. The more logical you are the less you are, because it
means you're out of balance with your intuitive side.
Then we have the lovely literal translation of the doctrine of
signatures-"I feel the remedy is Sulphur because the patient's head
is a little pointy and reminds me of a volcano." Bring back the
leeches I say.
We are at this adolescent stage where there's a grandeur and a
terrible importance about everything we do. We have this idealised
view about healing the world. After the first remedy our elderly
patient returns, pushed by his mum in a pram. After the second remedy
you take him back to the womb. After the third remedy, he's back
being treated for the burns he received in 1642 where inevitably he
was burnt as a martyr. Another prescription and he'll be back in the
garden of Eden munching apples, and so on.
It's easy to delude yourself about the grand work you're doing and
sometimes on a bad day, it's even desirable. But whenever I start to
get ideas above myself about how I'm saving the world and turning
Mrs. Morris into a nicer and more spiritually sound person, Mrs.
Morris comes in and complains that she's had six months treatment,
her hayfever is no better and what am I going to do about it?
We need as teachers to be careful not to feed students crazy notions
on what practice is all about. Let me tell those of you still
studying that homoeopathy would be a perfect philosophy, and a
perfect spiritual journey, it would be Nirvana itself, if it wasn't
for the patients!
Some days things go so well you go for a stroll in the churchyard
sprinkling Carbo Veg, certain that the earth will rumble and all the
graveyard inhabitants pop up to sniff the spring air as if they'd
just had an afternoon nap. But, other days you feel bad. 72 year-old
Mrs. X who last month was bed-ridden, blind and deaf has been in
today. She's just got a job as the lead dancer for Ballet Rambert but
she says she doesn't feel any better after the remedy. It's the sort
of bad day where the patient has just burst into tears, you're
already running late and her time is up. She catches you looking at
your watch.
Outside the sun may shine and the daffs on the lawn sway but in your
head the world is a trough full of syphilitic, gonnorhoeic and
various other noxious effluvia. You scratch your head psorically,
swig the last of the Jamesons whiskey syphilitically and wish night
would come sycotically. Days like these are really there to
experience humility.
Whichever spiritual path or religion we may choose to follow, almost
all place particular emphasis on that word, humility. We would be
well advised to evaluate the meaning of that word in relation to
ourselves as homoeopaths and the profession. It would be detrimental
to us if we were simply to poach notions, concepts and beliefs from
other systems and create a kind of soup made from lots of
ingredients, but with no flavour. However grandiose sounding the
recipes I would hate the patients to die of malnutrition.
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J.A. A 59-year-old male.
This case was taken in October 1998, in front of a group of
students; J.A. was referred by one of the members of this class. His
immediate appearance was of a person with considerable scarring on
one side of his face and forehead-obviously from some sort of injury
or accident. He walked with a slight limp and described himself as a
retired "operations supervisor." He was wearing an army camouflage
outfit and a baseball hat decorated on the front with a plastic
moose, American flag, and an orange crystal. He was also wearing
American-Indian-style jewelry. He had a florid complexion and a large
abdomen. He spoke in a confident, somewhat arrogant manner, obviously
not at all intimated by speaking in front of a class of students. We
observed his apparent pleasure at listening to himself talk
throughout the consultation.
J.A. was coming for treatment for a number of physical complaints:
allergies, an enlarged prostate, high blood pressure, and low-grade
diabetes.
"I don't like taking pills and never took medicine when I was young
as I figured it wouldn't work. They stuck me with all sorts of
needles and really screwed me up. I got a flu shot and then got the
flu. I am taking medicine for blood pressure and diabetes but would
like to get off."
J.A. reports that he has had allergies for as long as he can
remember, but that they have been getting worse over the last couple
of years. "I was hooked on nose spray but I was a professional driver
and the medicine made me drowsy." His allergy symptoms include a
cough with a lot of salivation, sneezing, post-nasal drip, stuffiness
and pressure in sinuses.
"I am outside in the woods all year round, hunting and fishing. They
are worst outside, in the Fall when the leaves start to decay. It's
the revenge of the deer. The only time they are better is at the
ocean."
When asked about how this affects his life he says:
"Nothing stops me from doing what I want to do. I spent a lot of my
early years alone. I entertained myself. You can change anything you
want to. At age twenty I was in the army doing small arms training.
Got shot in the head and hurt a hell of a lot. I spent a year and a
half undergoing plastic surgery. Took a big chunk out of my nose and
lip. I know what pain really is. Excruciating pain when they skin you-
that is really cool. I don't like morphine. At first they gave me a
lot and I learned to do without and go somewhere where there was no
pain. I had so many shots you could squeeze my arm and the medicine
would squirt out. In the army they had me see a psychiatrist a couple
of times before the surgery-they were concerned about my mind,
worried about the disfigurement. I said the first thing I'm going to
do is get some beer and go hunting with friends. Being disfigured
doesn't bother me-life's too short. Once I hit my hand with a hammer
and said 'Boy are you stupid'-I put it under cold water and sutured
it myself."
When asked about his childhood he said:
"As a child, my father was away at war. We used to play soldiers and
I was better at it than the other kids. I was the only kid on the
block with a bow and arrow and a tomahawk. Two brothers-I kicked
their butts. As a child I spent a lot of time with my grandmother.
She was part American Indian. There were stuffed animal heads all
around the room. I learned about being in tune with nature, about
animals. I learned how to manipulate situations. I like being able to
get away, to soar. The most peaceful times I ever had weres when I
was learning to fly. In a life/death experience when you re-run your
tapes, you are looking down, you fly."
When asked about his work (J.A. was a truck driver) he said:
"Work was challenging. I learned to read people pretty well-how to
work with a bunch of idiots without turning them into a hostile group
against you. I read people pretty well. My brother says I'm a
manipulator. Some people call it a snow-job. I take a situation and
turn it around and no one knows you're doing it. I'm intuitive. I
feel vibrations from people. I can look at people and see colors over
their heads. I can project thoughts to animals. The animal has no
idea I am there. Whatever you think of you can be, if you want to
enough."
He spoke at length about his love of hunting:
"Weather doesn't bother me because I have no control over it.
Yesterday was a perfect day because I got within sixty yards of a
buck. It was a good day for a hunter...when humans stalk an animal it
can smell them and moisture keeps the smell down. Killing is not a
sport. I'm dead serious about it. I know I can catch them if I want
to. I knew where to go and I stayed there patiently until the buck
came near. I can communicate psychically with the animals. I said to
it, 'I'm going to kill you' and it turned its head because it knew I
had it. I had my bow and arrow aimed. I decided not to kill the deer,
but I could have. The Indians could go up to an animal and touch it
and let it go on."
He said he slept well unless the allergies interfere and he has to
sleep propped up. He also wakes up at night to urinate (due to his
enlarged prostate):
"I dream about whatever I decide I want to dream about. I make up my
own story. I plan things in my dreams and then carry them out."
"I collect knives, guns, and spurs. I also keep feathers and fur
from the animals I have killed. I don't throw anything away-you name
it and I've probably got it."
"That idiot in Iraq-how many people are prepared for Armageddon?
It's coming and I have plenty of guns for everyone."
"Money rules the world and our president. I'm a Roman Catholic and I
believe in morality-right is right and wrong is wrong. Clinton
disgusts me-I'm surprised at how pissed I am at him. He's sticking it
to the American people. I'll just wait until the election."
When asked about fears he says, "I've never feared anything. I've
been there, done that. I kick butt." "I'm 59 years old and I haven't
slowed down."
J.A. smashed his right heel fifteen years ago and it is still
painful. He has arthritis in the right leg and knee, and some
cramping in the leg-hence the limp.
For food, J.A. desires spicy food, garlic, fish, pizza, and prime
ribs. "Prime rib end-cut is the ultimate-I worked as a butcher once
too."
Now he has to watch his diet for blood sugar. He checks his blood
sugar daily and takes medication when his levels indicate the need.
He drinks a lot of water and "a fair amount of Jack Daniels." He
says he is warm-blooded.
Evaluation
The most striking thing about this case was that, as a group, we
were all fascinated and horrified listening to J.A. 's description of
stalking animals. He obviously felt an enormous power in his ability
to be the one who decided whether an animal would live or die, and
letting them go was his way of expressing "compassion" and feeling
powerful. We could picture him with bow and arrow poised, ready to
shoot his prey, and sending the animal a psychic message that it was
in his power. We were struck by the fact that his allergies were
keeping him from hunting-the symptoms were protecting the organism.
J.A. 's obsession with hunting seems to have been there from
childhood, with his love of playing soldiers and "kicking butt," but
what affected his life the most was having to endure the excruciating
pain from his gunshot wound. He was able to survive in conditions
that most others would have not been able to withstand, and even
seemed to derive pleasure from his ability to do so. This is one of
the unique qualities of the scorpion in the desert, that can survive
when anything else would perish. J.A. 's mention of Saddam Hussein
and his own readiness to fight when Armageddon came indicate his
feeling of being ready for an attack. In terms of his language and
how it relates to Androctonus (scorpion) pathology, he used phrases
like "stuck with needles" and Clinton "sticking it to the American
people." He also likes to hunt with a bow and arrow, which resembles
the one-pointed sting of the scorpion tail. Without knowing about
Androctonus, we would have considered giving Sulphur-because of
J.A. 's theorizing about life (much more than is included in this
article), his love of collecting unusual objects, his eccentric
clothing ("his rags are his riches"), and his arrogant self-
confidence. His food desires and generals fit Sulphur as well.
However, what is characteristically most unusual about this case is
J.A. 's extraordinary ability to survive and his relationship to
attacking and being attacked. These are not covered by Sulphur. We
discussed the possibility of a snake or some other animal remedy, but
the prescription of Scorpion seemed to fit his state perfectly.
Rx: Androctonus, LM1 daily. [Note: J.A. did not follow this regimen
and only took the remedy sporadically.]
Followups
December, after 2 months
J.A. comes in wearing street clothes. His allergies are 50% better-
no phlegm, nose is clear, and he can breathe well. He used to have
terrible tearing of the eyes; that has stopped. He doesn't have to
sleep propped up at an angle any more. He's been out in the woods
most of the time for the last couple of months and it has been good.
Blood pressure is normal, stable; he's still taking BP medication.
When asked about himself in general, J.A. reports:
"It's been phenomenal. I feel an inner feeling change. Life is not
so much of a hassle. I have an inner feeling of peace and joy.
Attitudes have changed. Clinton has not bothered me. I'm more in tune
with what I am doing. Not tired or listless. I used to fall asleep at
8pm. Now I'm active until 11pm. [We did not know this before.]
Sleeping through the night now. Not having to get up in the middle of
the night to pee."
J.A. speaks about being in the woods and seeing the young plants
sprouting and changes in nature. The pain in his leg has increased
recently. He says it is due to physical exertion.
April, after 6 months J.A. looks less disfigured. The whole class
comments on this; or are we just getting used to his appearance? He
reports:
"Allergies are 90% better. No problem with leaf mold this year.
I am more tolerant of people and ideas. I've mellowed out.
Hunting-I let most of them go now. This year I would have taken
fifteen but I've only taken two. It's like wildflowers. I don't pick
them but leave them for others to enjoy."
His legs are much better. He is still taking blood sugar medication,
but only about half the amount he was taking before. "My doctor said
to me 'What happened?'"
Rx: Androctonus, LM2. He has taken this intermittently since then.
After 9 months
J.A. reports that he now has no allergies at all. He is still on
the same meds for high blood pressure. Although his condition is
completely stable, he won't stop these meds until his doctor suggests
it. The same goes for the diabetes. He only takes the meds
occasionally, if he has eaten sugar. His arthritis is much better. He
is not walking with a limp and can use his leg fairly normally. He
does not have the headaches or neck pain that he used to have. J.A.
told me he was bored with his collection of knives and guns and was
thinking of getting rid of it. In general, he is much calmer and
happier in himself.
The hidden colors of light : a case of iridium metallicum
By gina inez, rshom (na)
The following is a case of Iridium Metallicum. With careful
listening, intuition, the use of a rubric in the Complete Repertory,
and Jan Scholten's Homeopathy and the Elements, I was able to
prescribe this remedy successfully. My client is one of three adult
sisters, two of whom I had already treated. One received Magnetis
Polis Arcticus, and the other Kali Phosphoricum. The third sister, my
new client Iris (not her real name), came to see me mid-June 1998.
Iridium metallicum
Case
Female, sales manager, age 39, single: she is of medium height,
slender and willowy, with short brunette hair, wearing some make-up
which accents her strong and attractive features. Her eyes are
bright, big and almond-shaped, inquisitive and knowing. She blinks
them frequently. Her pants and shirt are both casual and carefully
chosen.
Iris, first of all, presented with a list of physical complaints.
1) Frequent urination: and occasional incontinence with cough,
concern for "control of my bladder." She drinks fluids frequently and
wakes at least once nightly to urinate.
2) Hypoglycemia: lightheaded and foggy when hungry or when eating
carbohydrates. Snappy, irritable, amel. with eating, amel. with wine,
amel. eating protein for breakfast and lunch. These symptoms
disappear on vacation.
3) Ailments from jet travel: client frequently travels for business;
sore throats, swollen glands, sneezing, nasal obstruction, coughing
ensue.
4) Skin rashes since childhood: eczema on arms; as an adult, genital
herpes also on left nate.
5) Headaches: dull pain in forehead, average once weekly, agg.
before herpes outbreaks, or with neck pain. Cervical vertebrae tend
to dislocate, also triggering lower back pain.
6) Sore chest: from holding her breath, she believes.
Iris suffers chronic tiredness. She wishes to have sustained energy
and an easier relationship with food. "Spiritually," she said, "I
want to merge and ground and be in present time." She is fearful she
will "sabotage" her own joy. "Although I'm joyful now; if it's too
good, I will leave."
Iris' story
"My whole life I have wondered why I am here. Who am I? My issues
revolve around self worth. I was a sensitive child. I was
told, 'Overly sensitive.' I would transform myself to get love and
approval by noticing what others needed. Even as a child, I was
either self-conscious and shy or very directly focused."
"I have two selves:
7) a successful corporate business person in a corporate
environment;
8) a spiritual self that seeks and desires a spiritual environment."
Iris is considering changing her job: "There is no foundation, no
anchor, a nothingness." Although she is financially successful, she
wants to be "more assertive, more powerful, present and comfortable."
Iris gets paid on performance: in fact, she has been the top
salesperson in one company for four years, and the first woman in the
company ever to achieve this. "I used to feel guilty [regarding this
high performance]. I felt I couldn't be corporate and spiritual." In
any case, Iris says she tends to push herself to the breaking point
of exhaustion.
"I'm very changeable. I feel people intensely. I manage people and
do sales [for a commercial office furniture company]. I 'become' the
other people I work with." Psychic/spiritual classes have helped
her "to ground." These classes give her skills to embody her
talents. "I'm all air and water astrologically." ("A rainbow is a
mixture of light and water," Sherr). 1 "When I'm busy, I fly out of
my body."
Iris has a fear of heights and of falling. She fears a "lack of
discernment in relations with men and of repeating these old
patterns...Years ago, I was married to an emotionally and physically
abusive man. I lose myself. I disappear emotionally."
Iris has "podium anxiety," with heart palpitations. "I feel too
visible. I have a fear of being judged, yet I want so much to be
seen." Loss of breath; she loses the train of thought.
Dreams
• Prophetic: (since childhood) "I shut down that side of myself for
fear I had no one to talk to about these dreams. With the exception
of a grandfather on one side, and a grandmother on the other, no one
else was outwardly clairvoyant."
• Of being chased: "These occur when I feel anxious about being
behind in work...I am chased after I have killed someone."
• Doing more and more: "As a waitress: having to seat more and more
tables.... I have to do more and more."
• Travel dreams: transportation.
• Architecture: when visiting her boyfriend in another state, who is
a builder, she had dreams of architecture, details even of the
joinery of houses; "rubrics cubes condos."
• A gray quartz spiral swirling in her room through her heart.
("Sensation as if an iron rod is standing straight in the heart
region," Scholten.)2
Medical history
Born: weak, fragile, jaundiced. Right hip not formed.
Pneumonia and mononucleosis at age 4.
Nosebleeds since childhood, agg. at high altitudes.
Acne during adolescence, treated with antibiotics for two years.
Broken wrist, and broken right clavicle for which she had surgery
one year ago.
Whiplash.
Family history
Maternal side-cancer
Paternal side-heart problems
Sleep-difficult, wakes at 3:00 AM
Energy-agg. 3:00 PM, high at 11:00 AM
Food-desires spicy, salty, fish, robust and warm foods, chocolate
averse-ice, ice-cream
aggravates-coffee
Generals-anxious in wind
agg. cold air
Two and one-half years before, Iris had received Phosphorous LM 1-15
over a forty-five day period from another homeopath. Some physical
symptoms improved for one to two years. The mental/emotional picture
had not changed. This practitioner, however, did point out to Iris
that her antagonism of will (between her work and spiritual life) was
her core problem. And I agreed.
I prescribed Iridium 1M for Iris. Iridium is in the "Gold Series,"
according to Jan Scholten's schema. It is in between Osmium to its
left and Platina to its right. Iridium, along with Baryta Carb and
Aurum (from the Gold Series) are listed in the rubric "will,
contradiction of " (Complete Repertory). Iris' case seemed most
suited to the issues of the "Gold Series": of work, responsibility,
performance, isolation, religion, etc.; and Iridium seemed to fit the
case best.
First follow-up-at one month-late July 1998:
Iris said, "Nothing has happened." New client, new remedy (for me),
nothing's happened! Reflecting on the wise words of Jeremy
Sherr, "nothing" may indicate the gentlest of all healings. I
exhorted my client to tell me about her month.
"I cannot say things are better or worse. I had an anxiety attack
for two hours, three or four days after taking the remedy." Almost
two weeks into the remedy, Iris had an anxiety attack in a hotel
room: "I didn't know what to wear for a party. I couldn't leave the
hotel room to go to the party. I was afraid I wasn't enough...Anxiety
is still an issue." (Iris had not actually spoken of anxiety during
the first interview.) "I have been depressed, but not badly...I am
also coming to tears where I didn't before." This practitioner
noticed a softening in her demeanor.
"My sensitivity, when mixed with anxiety and insecurity, is not
pretty. It takes on a different color. It blends together to create
depression and anger, and outwardly, frustration and anger."
Iris' sense of personal/psychic boundaries is definitely better, not
taking things too seriously or personally. "I get busy and forget to
feel for others and myself, but I feel more of an opening. I see a
need to be compassionate and to do management simultaneously! I am
feeling less socially awkward in business." Iris again noted how
seeking approval from her father (i.e. , outside herself ) as a child
set up a pattern of anxiety she still faced. When I asked her about
the conflict she had spoken of between her spirituality and doing
business, Iris replied: "I haven't thought about that this month. I
guess that means I am a spiritual woman of business!"
Neutral focus-amel. in general, amel. in the afternoons.
Frequent urination-amel., does not wake at night.
Nosebleeds-amel. (none even at high altitude).
Hypoglycemic symptoms-amel., able to eat well more easily; desires
fewer sweets and chocolate, but craves coffee.
Herpes-at onset of an outbreak, Iris took a suppressive medication.
Menses-three days early and she wept with them.
PMS symptoms, which she had denied to herself in the past, became
more obvious and unavoidable to her.
Dreams-no architecture dreams. Other dreams unremembered.
Sleep-still erratic, somewhat improved. Trouble quieting the mind
over the day's business.
Iris' "nothing," it seemed, was something quite special. She and I
both mused about this and agreed Iridium 1M was working for her. No
remedy was given at the first follow-up.
Over the course of the next twelve months, Iris received Iridium 1M
twice and 10M once. (Iris was sensitive to jet travel, and on at
least one occasion she needed a repeat due to the deleterious effects
it had on the remedy's action.) She continued to improve in all the
ways she showed on the first follow-up.
Over time she dropped the relationship she had with her boyfriend
when she found "sexuality with him was suffocating and he could not
support my sensitivity even though he said he could." No other type
of closeness could be found with him. Then she began to date two new
men. (Delusion; wants two of everything, Scholten). She enjoyed
learning about herself in this way, but felt self-conscious at the
perceived societal norms (of dating only one man at a time). In a few
months, she chose one of the two partners to whom she felt best
suited, and has continued to enjoy and flourish in the relationship.
During treatment, Iris quit her job and became a consultant for the
same company. I noticed her tendency to be hurried and to arrive late
for appointments diminished. So did her desire to see many other
alternative health practitioners. She seemed more relaxed and less
perfectionistic as time went on.
Iris' case is uncannily reflected in Jeremy Sherr's published
proving of Iridium (and I have only just read this proving in order
to research this article). In his introduction, Sherr
writes, "Iridium was named from the Latin/Greek work Iris, meaning
rainbow. While in it's solid form, Iridium is a silver- white
precious metal, however in marine acid, it becomes astonishingly
multicolored and iridescent, 'emitting a light of extraordinary
splendor.'
"The Greek goddess Iris is the daughter of Elektra. She is
considered to be the personification of the rainbow...the goddess
Iris has her own highway. This female courier transports messages
between earth to heaven via the iridescent highway of a rainbow. She
can travel through air, water and the underworld-from the very
fundaments of the earth to the zenith of the heavens. Her task is to
be a joiner, uniter and conciliator..." 3
Consider iris' case:
"I am all air and water" (the rainbow).
"I need to be grounded. I lose myself; I get busy and fly out of my
body."
Dreams of "architecture, joinery."
Dreams of transportation.
And most exquisitely, Iris' "solid form" (her business persona) is
better elucidated through the vibrancy of her "colors" as a
psychically gifted person when the potentized remedy itself is given.
From Jan Scholten's brilliant description of Iridium,4 a few themes
for this case stand out:
• "A blunder during the conducting of business"-Iris' anxiety before
a party: she didn't know what to wear.
Anxiety, disturbing sleep: thoughts of business of the day.
• "Not quite arrogant"-Iris: "Since childhood I have been either shy
and awkward or incredibly focused." Scholten: "They [Iridium] tend to
be quite singleminded. They are always preoccupied with what is yet
to be done...They may seem irresponsible but this is only because
they see everything from the point of unexplored possibilities. They
do feel very responsible, much more than others might expect."
• "Robbed of their own power at the last minute"-Iris suffered
chronic fatigue, anxiety and foggy-headedness related to food intake.
When she first came to me, Iris' food, sleep and energy level were
disturbed or underfunctioning. She was robbed of her ability to be
fully in her body and to be present in her spirituality.
In this day, religiosity, which runs through the "Gold Series" (or
the 6th period of the Elemental Table), might be interpreted as
psychic openness or a willingness to do "God's work" through a
variety of channels not represented in our classic texts. Iris'
openness and struggle with her spirituality and psychic abilities may
be translated into the appropriate religious rubrics.
Iris' work in the commercial furniture industry is a revealing
metaphor for her expression at stage 9 of the Gold Series. She is not
yet sitting in the "big chair" herself (i.e. , the throne) like
Platina or Aurum, but she is traveling to and visiting the businesses
where she sells and sets up the office (the throne room).
Iris' dreams of having to do more and more (in her waitress dream)
reflect a stage of development directly before the summit. She has
acceded Sisyphus' tragic push to the top which always fails (Osmium)
but she has not yet succeeded to the glitter and assuredness of
Platina. Her dreams of having killed someone and of being chased
(corroborated in Sherr's 'Dream Section') reminds us of the well-
known violence of Platina, only Iridium is not so sure of itself;
hence is being pursued as well.
Physical symptoms in Iris' case corroborated by Sherr's proving of
Iridium:
Head-forehead, pain, dull
Respiration-spells of breathlessness
Bladder-frequent urination
Extremities-pain, right clavicle, right hip
Skin-itching on arms (and legs)
Symptoms found in Scholten's description of Iridium:
Mind-hurried
Fear-heights, of falling
Generals-( eating
sleeplessness
right-sided
Causes-hurt, humiliation
In the Materia Media of the Mind by Heli O. Retzek, only six common
rubrics are listed for Iridium:
• Antagonism, herself with
• Concentration, difficult
• Dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and comprehending
• Thoughts, two trains of thought
• Will, contradiction of
• Will, weakness of
The classic texts (Boericke, Clarke, Choudhury, Hering) remind us
that in nature Iridium is found only in combination with Osmium and
Platina as Osmiridium. It has a high specific gravity and is one of
the heaviest substances known. Clarke compares it to China and
Laurocerasus for "the aged and persons exhausted by disease," and for
children "who are puny, weak-limbed and grow too fast." It is said in
Clarke that Iridium may be superior to Aurum, Aurum Mur and Osmium in
uterine tumors. All the texts refer to a vacant feeling in the head-
and "painful weakness of the lower limbs and renal region alternating
with self-confidence and facilitated mental labor."
Iridium was introduced by Hering in 1853 and proved by A. J. Tafel
in the 19th century. It is compared to Platina for its numbness and
cramp-like sensations; and also to Ferrum Met., Palladium, Causticum,
Kali Ferrocyanatum.
The psychic sensitivity of Iridium may place it in the Phosphorous
family of remedies which would also include Iris' sisters' remedies
Magnetis Polis Arcticus and Kali Phosphoricum, among others.
Iris is dancing and performing in experimental theater, and ready to
find consulting work more suited to her talents, possibly creating
healing environments in the workplace. However, nineteen months after
her first dose of Iridium, her issues of insecurity and some skin
symptoms led me to recently prescribe Phosphorous 200C for Iris. If
over time it appears that Phosphorous is a curative remedy for her,
it will be interesting to explore the relationship of Iridium to
Phosphorous.
1 Jeremy Sherr and Dynamic School, Dynamis Provings, Volume I, by
Dynamis Books, England, 1997, p. 341.
2 Jan Scholten, Homeopathy and the Elements, by Stichting
Alonnissos, Netherlands, 1996, p. 727.
3 Sherr, op. cit., p. 341.
4 Scholten, op. cit., p. 725.
My special thanks to Jeremy Sherr and Jan Scholten for their
contribution to our understanding of Iridium Metallicum.
Gina Inez, RSHom (NA), has been practicing Classical Homeopathy
since 1985 in Marin County, California. She served as the Registrar
for NASH from 1997-1999.
Sus : a proving of pig
By karen allen, rshom (na), cch
"Would the results of a proving be different based on the specific
part of the subject which was used? Would perhaps a proving of a leaf
be different than the proving of a fruit, or a milk be different than
saliva?"
Sus scrofa
This was the question, raised in a discussion at the 1996
International Foundation for Homeopathy case conference, that led to
the proving presented here. There were those present who argued that
beneath all substance of an organism was the same vital force, and
when potentised, that same vital force would present itself
regardless of the specific component of the organism used. It was
mentioned that there would be likely differences if bone was used
rather than blood due to the highly specific mineral makeup of bones.
Questions were raised about using a male versus a female subject for
an animal proving, and how the mental symptoms of the proving might
be affected. All in all, it was an interesting question, with much
speculation, but little evidence to support any particular point of
view. There are some examples in the materia medica such as Agaricus
and Muscarin, Belladonna and Atropia, Nux Vomica and Strychnia, all
of which are pairs of plants and a derived alkaloid. These show
distinct similarities, but different remedy pictures. However, the
reduction from plant to alkaloid may be more extreme than the
difference between leaf and root or blood and saliva might be, and
the question remains.
Having just read The Dynamics and Methodology of Homeopathic
Provings by Jeremy Sherr, this case conference discussion heightened
my interest in conducting a proving. I resolved to use the approach
outlined in the book to prove multiple components of the same
organism as a trial to see if a difference in the proving results was
identifiable. While casting about for a likely subject for the
proving, I happened to have lunch with an acquaintance I did not know
very well at the time. In our conversation, he mentioned that his
family had a farm that raised pigs. As we chatted more, I learned
that these were not just any pigs-on this farm the pigs were a
specially bred and screened group of animals used as donor animals
for xenotransplant (organ transplant between members of different
species) and xenograft (tissue graft between members of different
species) medical procedures.
Over the next few days, I thought and read and researched about
pigs, hogs, and swine. My investigation showed that recent medical
literature was sprinkled with articles involving pigs, and many more
have appeared in the last few years. Increases in demands for donated
transplant organs were noted: more than 50,000 people die every year
waiting for a transplant organ, compared to the approximately 2,000
who receive one. This has prompted research into the use of donor
animals, and pigs have been considered good candidates because they
have many similarities to human physiology and anatomy. In March of
1997, the journal Nature reported that fetal pig neuronal tissue has
been implanted into the brains of patients with advanced Parkinson's
disease, demonstrating that animal tissues can grow within the human
body. Heart valves, skin grafts, and liver tissue from pigs have been
used in various medical procedures. Porcine pancreatic transplants
have been done in Europe for a number of years. Porcine heart and
liver transplants were unsuccessfully attempted with extremely ill
patients in 1992. In the 1996 January issue of Emerging Infectious
Disease, xenotransplants of organs from pigs were discussed as being
3-5 years from clinical trials. An April 1997 issue of Biomedical
News reported that there are now herds of genetically modified pigs
which have had DNA segments relating to the pig's immune system
function altered so that humans won't reject the tissue. In addition
to organs, bone marrow transplant is being researched. Limiting
factors continue to be immune system rejection of the foreign tissue
and fears of viral transmission through xenotransplant. An ethics
advisory group for xenotransplantation had directed a moratorium on
xenotransplants in Britain and New Zealand. The Centers for Disease
Control is currently drafting guidelines to prevent transmission of
infectious agents, monitor xenotransplant and xenograft recipients
with a national registry, and screen candidate animals and tissues.
While reading all this, I became curious about what the possible
impacts could be to a human population if organ transplants were
possible, and became commonplace. What influence could that bring to
children born to a parent who had a xenographic organ? Could a state
of 'pig' be recognizable in people who have received grafts or valves
or other pig tissues? It seemed very worthwhile to conduct a proving
of something foreign which has actually been incorporated into human
bodies and is now living and growing there. Additionally, pigs
offered an easy source for multiple components to prove. I contacted
my acquaintance, explained my project, and he obtained the source
substances for my proving from the pigs raised for xeno-transplant.
Freshly obtained semen, saliva, milk and blood were added to
individual bottles of alcohol and left for 24 hours. Each of these
was potentized and potencies of 6C, 12C, 15C, and 30C were made in
alcohol. Packets of remedies on pellets were made up, each identified
with a number only. A cross reference was created to index the packet
numbers to the source remedy/potency. Four additional packets of sac
lac were added. No one knew what was in any of the packets until the
proving was completed. The name of the remedy is Sus, the Latin word
for swine which is the genus name used in biological classification.
"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No
question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The
creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and
from pig to man again; but it was already impossible to say which was
which." -George Orwell, Animal Farm
"It may be remarked that man is the only animal which can live and
multiply in every country from the equator to the poles. The hog
seems to approach the nearest to our species in that privilege." -
Gibbon
Pigs are widely distributed throughout the Earth in both wild and
domesticated form. Hog, pig, and swine are interchangeable terms for
domesticated mammals of the swine family of the order artiodactyla
(hoofed animals with an even number of toes on each foot), suborder
bunodontia, families suidae and tayassuidae. They are believed to
have descended from two wild species (Asian and European), and first
domesticated in China about 9000 years ago. Explorers, traders and
immigrants eventually spread them around the earth. Pigs are well
adapted to meat production because they grow and mature rapidly, have
a short gestation period and produce a large number of young. As
omnivorous scavengers, they can adapt to many environments and diets.
In addition to meat, leather and bristles are produced. With the
exception of Muslim and Jewish cultures, which regard them as unclean
and therefore inedible, pigs are raised and eaten throughout the
world.
Pigs have played a role in history as well. In his book Guns, Germs,
and Steel, author Jared Diamond partially attributes to pigs the
dominance of European cultures over many others around the globe. He
discusses the evolution of epidemic disease as sourced by the close
proximity of humans and domesticated animals in Eurasia, where it was
not uncommon for peasants to live under the same roof with their
animals. Then as today, the relationship between humans and pigs
could be very close; in some places in the world today, human mothers
nurse piglets from their own breasts. His book documents the gradual
viral and bacteriological migration from animal diseases to human
diseases and attributes influenza and pertussis to domesticated
swine. In the first stage of evolution, a disease is found in animals
but a transfer to humans is uncommon, and there is no human to human
transmission. This is seen today with leptospirosis in dogs and pigs,
brucellosis in cattle, psittacosis in birds, and swine erysipelas in
pigs. In the second stage, a former animal pathogen evolves to a
point where there is direct transmission between people, causing
epidemics. In the third stage, a disease which was exclusively an
animal disease has become an exclusively human disease. The impact of
these diseases (measles, rubella, mumps, pertussis, smallpox,
influenza) on indigenous cultures throughout the world was
devastating, becoming one of the factors in the spread of European
influence.
Pigs also feature in the culture and mythology of many countries. In
his books, The Prydain Chronicles, Lloyd Alexander retells Welsh
legends involving an oracle pig named HenWen who used sticks to tell
the future. Pigs have been revered as weather forecasters, symbols of
fertility or bravery in battle, creatures enraptured by music and
much else as detailed in George Druce's "The Sow and Pig: A Study in
Metaphor" from the Archealogia Cantiana. They have contributed to our
maps with hills called hogbacks; the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, was
originally called Pig's Eye. They have also been reviled, and
connotations of the words pig, hog and swine are seldom
complimentary. Pig iron is a crude casting of metal from a blast
furnace. Hoggish and piggish are adjectives meaning dirty, greedy or
stubborn. Pig-headed refers to a stubborn person, and a swine refers
to a contemptible person.
There are some interesting oddities about pigs as well. They have no
sweat glands and require other means to cool off, explaining the
tendency of wild pigs to live in marshy places where they can wallow
in water or mud. Newborn pigs are extremely sensitive to cold and die
easily if left in a drafty place. Pigs are vulnerable to anthrax, but
it is not uncommon for young pigs to become only mildly ill and
recover completely from this disease which can be fatal to many other
animals and humans. In a 1925 issue of the British Journal of
Experimental Biology, Baker wrote about the inherited tendency to
sexual abnormality producing both hermaphrodite and sex-intergrade
pigs. In strains of pigs where this tendency was prevalent, over 10%
of the pigs showed abnormality. He concluded that these were
masculinized genetic females though they generally demonstrated male
sexual instincts. In the true hermaphrodites, an ovary was
consistently found on the left side and a testicle on the right side,
the clitoris was enlarged and developed similar to a penis, and there
was also a uterus and vagina.
A list of diseases that affect pigs reads much like a list of human
diagnoses: meningitis, encephalitis, polio (Talfan disease),
tuberculosis, pneumonia, rheumatism, tetanus, osteoporosis, cirrhosis
of the liver, hepatitis, gall stones. Urinary and kidney diseases are
commonly found in pigs, and nephritis has been associated with
exposure to cold, direct drafts on pigs' backs. Like many other
illnesses found post-mortem, diabetes mellitus is not diagnosed in
pigs because they are generally slaughtered at six months of age, but
pancreatic degeneration found in some slaughtered animals is
consistent with glycosuria. Swine erysipelas is a disease of pigs,
caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, which raises characteristic
diamond shaped red patches on the skin, and sometimes appears as a
diffuse red coloring all over the skin. The condition can be fatal to
pigs, causing hemorrhage of the kidneys and other complications. This
disease can affect people who come in contact with a diseased pig,
has been fatal to humans, and may last for years in some people, with
diamond shaped blotches on the hands and face that are aggravated by
heat of a fire or stove. This same E. rhusiopathiae agent has been
identified as a cause of arthritis in pigs in the U.S. , and in one
study as many as 75% of pigs affected with arthritis were shown to
have this organism.
"Even when I felt my stomach was full, I wanted to go on eating. I
would have eaten anything. I would have eaten garbage if you had put
it in front of me." Sus prover
The proving was conducted gradually from the fall of 1996 through
the summer of 1997 in the U.S. and Canada. The methodology laid out
in Jeremy Sherr's book was used, and instructions copied from the
book were handed out to provers. Supervision was done by myself and
Joan Raddysh, a Canadian homeopath now in Toronto whose contribution
was invaluable. Finding suitable candidates who were interested in
participating, relatively self-observant and articulate, and
conscientious about avoiding interferences such as coffee, medical or
recreational drugs, herbs, supplements, etc, proved to be a
challenge, and so the proving was done with a few individuals at a
time in several very small groups as people agreed to participate,
for a total of 27 provers for the four remedy components. In addition
to the supervision before and after the remedy was taken, follow-up
was done with the majority of provers at 3 months, 6 months and 1
year. Three of the provers observed no symptoms of any kind; one of
these had been given sac lac. The notable results are given below in
the words of the provers, followed by two successful acute cases. I
have not found a constitutional case for Sus yet, but hope that the
publication of this material will make homeopaths aware of what is
known about the remedy so far and create the opportunity for further
clinical use.
While knowledge of the remedy is incomplete and additions to the
repertory seem premature at this stage, rubrics consistent with
Kent's Repertory have been noted here using plain type for lowest
grade, italic for middle and bold for highest grade. Whenever
possible, existing rubrics have been used. Following Jeremy Sherr's
lead, I make no attempt to offer an essence or summary picture for
the remedy, letting the symptoms of the proving speak for themselves.
However, in response to the questions raised at the 1996 IFH case
conference, the results of the proving were so similar from each of
the four components of pig (saliva, semen, blood and milk) that I was
unable to differentiate them in any way.
Mind
There were many symptoms related to work including positive
anticipation of work, desire to work, increased sense of satisfaction
and accomplishment at work, anxiety about having forgotten how to do
one's job. It was interesting to find that almost 50% of the provers
noted that they worked overtime, double shifts, increased
responsibility, or increased hours at some point within the first 3
days after taking the remedy.
• "I had to work tonight and was actually looking forward to it
which was unusual."
• "I had a wonderful feeling that I had a task, a purpose and I had
finished it. I feel at peace now."
• "I felt like I could accomplish everything at work today and I
did. I feel great and have lots of energy."
• "I was at work twice as long today, funny how that happens."
• "I was at work from 9 am to 11 pm; I had not one chance to leave
or take a break."
• "Someone else wasn't coming in to work so I had to do her job on
top of mine. I lasted the entire day without feeling drained once."
• "I thought I couldn't do my job. In a sense I believed that I had
forgotten how to work. That's why my hands started to shake, because
I was actually scared. It still bothers me now, much later."
Two provers noted a difficulty in answering questions.
• "I have a time delayed response when answering questions. There is
a brief period of blankness and then I can respond."
No provers reported their own violent behavior, but in the few days
prior to taking the remedy (while keeping records in the proving
notebooks) or the first week after taking the remedy, several events
involving conflict were noted, and the following are representative.
• "I have never before been punched in a street confrontation. Three
guys came up to me as I got off work, made various comments that I am
a nerd and have no friends. It is, in effect, playground bullying.
One of the guys punched me on the right cheek just above the mouth,
chipped a tooth. I did not see the blow coming."
• "I struck a blow against a mouse that sent it limping off for
cover last night. I had already received the remedy proving kit so I
thought to include it in my notes."
• "I was woken up at 3 am by a couple of wailing cats that were
fighting right outside my window."
This last is a strange, rare and peculiar type of symptom which was
experienced by the one person who seemed to experience most of the
proving symptoms.
• "I had the idea that my foot was split between my big toe and my
other toes, going up into my foot part way, like a snake's tongue is
split."
Mind, Occupation ameliorates
Mind, Industrious
Mind, Answers slowly
Mind, Fear, work, feared he had forgotten how to (new subrubric)
Mind, Delusion, foot split in two (new rubric)
Head
Almost 90% of the provers who reported any symptoms at all had
headaches. In several provers, there were daily headaches for weeks,
with intense headaches on a weekly frequency for up to 2 months.
Invariably the same words were used: dull ache, vague ache, pressure
pushing outwards, but too dull to be a bursting sort of pain. In
fact, dull ache was the most common description used for every kind
of pain experienced by the provers in any symptom.
• "Vague headache, centered behind the eyes"
• "Ache in the head with much dull pressure inside the head, pushing
outwards"
• "Mild headache from 3 to 5 pm which slowly went away"
• "Dull ache which strengthens, then recedes every few hours through
the day"
• "An ache in the forehead at and above my eyebrows"
• "Aching pain in my head which was better after eating hot soup"
Provers also noted increased itching of the scalp which was improved
by scratching and followed by the formation of small scabs which
flaked off with more scratching.
Head, Pain, headache in general
Head, Pain, dull pain
Head, Itching of scalp
Stomach
Approximately 75% of the provers reported increased hunger and
increased satisfaction with food. In particular, many provers
mentioned seeking out a desired food and finding it extremely
satisfying when they had eaten it, although there was a very wide
range of the things desired with no two the same. For a few provers
this lasted for weeks, but for most it lasted only the first few
days. Approximately 30% of the provers reported nausea.
• "I was very hungry as soon as I woke up."
• "I was unusually hungry at times through the day."
• "I was ravenous, eating and eating, even when I knew I was full I
wanted to eat more."
• "Even when I felt my stomach was full, I wanted to go on eating. I
would have eaten anything. I would have eaten garbage if you had put
it in front of me."
• "By 10 am I was starved."
• "When I ate it, it was the best thing I had ever tasted."
• "After I ate, it seemed like the end result of a craving, when one
feels accomplished that they have fulfilled the desire."
• "I had a craving today for a blueberry bagel with cream cheese and
I wasn't let down-it was excellent."
• "I felt nauseated after taking the remedy."
• "From 3 to 3:30 pm I felt mild nausea."
• "There was a lot of cigar smoke and this made me feel nauseated.
It felt like I would have vomited if I had not gotten fresh air."
Stomach, Appetite, increased
Stomach, Appetite, ravenous, canine, excessive
Stomach, Nausea
Abdomen
• "Within 15 minutes of taking the first dose of the remedy, I felt
a colicky feeling in the abdomen."
• "After the remedy I had stomach cramps followed by diarrhea."
Abdomen, Pain, cramping
Rectum / Stool
• "I had diarrhea several times a day, after starting the remedy."
• "After having stomach cramps, I had very soft stools."
• "I had diarrhea which was very forceful, like an explosion into
the toilet."
Rectum, Diarrhea
Stool, Forcible
Urinary organs
Kidney pain was both produced as a proving symptom and resolved
during the proving for a prover who had chronic pain in the kidneys.
Several provers reported waking at night to urinate, something very
out of the ordinary for them.
• "My back began to ache in the area of my kidneys, more on the
right side. This lasted for an hour and a half then faded away."
• "I awoke again without the pain I usually feel in my kidneys every
morning. This was very different for me-I have had this pain every
day for years." (Pain was remitted for 3 months.)
• "Waking at 4:20 am with a strong need to urinate."
• "Frequent need to urinate."
Kidneys, Pain
Kidneys, Pain, morning
Bladder, Urination, frequent
Bladder, Urination, night
Extremities
Several of the provers reported symptoms of trembling or joint pain,
and most of these were on the left side of the body. Provers who
already had joint pain noted that it became worse after taking the
remedy, but none of those provers reported that it improved
afterwards-the discomfort gradually returned to its previous level.
• Trembling in the hands and forearms, with fear of having forgotten
how to work, lasting 30 minutes.
• Cramping in the left hand lasting 3 minutes
• "While driving, my hand and foot on the left side started to cramp
up. Better after stretching."
• "My left shoulder seems to have been wrenched somehow. It is a
dull ache."
• "Dull ache in both knees."
• "Dull aching feeling in the left hip and knee."
• "There was a feeling of wasting away in my arms. It was mid-
afternoon. It felt as if the fluids and strength of my arms was
ebbing. Sapping of strength."
Extremities, Trembling, anxious
Extremities, Pain, joints
Extremities, Cramps, hand
Extremities, Cramps, hand, left
Extremities, Cramps, foot
Extremities, Weakness, upper limbs
Sleep/dreams
There were many dreams reported involving the need to urinate, and
the provers, upon waking, actually did need to urinate. This was one
of the most commonly reported symptoms in the proving.
• "I dreamed that I was at a rally where we were forced to hear a
talk about the end of technology. In my dream I had to get up and go
to the bathroom. When I did wake up, I realized my bladder was full
and I did need to go to the bathroom."
• "In my dream I was going to see a film in a big old movie hall. On
my way into the hall I had to line up to pee-I actually did need to
when I woke up."
• "In my dream I was with my brother and we were traveling in a
green countryside near the coast. My brother and I were peeing on the
grass near an old house, and we were told off by a young guy who said
we should have used the toilet. I woke up really needing to pee."
There were also quite a few dreams about eating.
• "I dreamed that I was sitting at a dinner table having a meal with
others. Everyone was friendly."
• "In my dream I was gathered around a bowl of food with other
greedy followers."
• "There were people wandering around in a farmyard eating food from
a huge cabinet-fruit and veggies and bacon."
• "People are around cooking fires in the orchard."
There were dreams from which people awoke frightened, as from a
nightmare, and some of these were dreamt multiple times in the same
night.
• "In my dream I looked towards the window and saw a reflection. I
thought it was me. As I got closer, it became clear that it was
someone else. At that point I woke up, terrified that somebody was
outside my window."
• "There was a long stemmed red rose with a note saying 'I don't
want you to ever do that again.' And signed by my friend, but I did
not know what she was referring to. I awoke frightened because I
thought I had done something to jeopardize our friendship." (Dreamt 3
times in one night)
• "I had a nightmare about a friend-a guy and his wife who were
threatening to kill me with a gun. I tried to pretend I was already
dead, but he was not fooled. Then I had to empty out my pockets and
was surrounded by many coins. When I awoke I was anxious and the
feeling stayed with me for a long time."
• "I was in a bar but it was all light and sunny outside. Whenever I
touched someone, their skin would flake off. It was creepy."
Sleep, Dreams, urinating, of
Sleep, Dreams, nightmare
Sleep, Dreams, eating
Sleep, Dreams, frightful
Sleep, Dreams, repeating
Skin
Dry, itching and red skin on the waist, sides, back, shoulders,
arms, scalp and face were reported. Scratching relieved the itching,
as did water, lotion, and in one case, a mud bath.
• "I had red patches of dry, itchy skin around my waist. I put
lotion on them and it felt better."
• "My skin felt dry and very itchy. Scratching felt good, but the
only thing that really made it go away was a mud bath at a local
spa."
• "My scalp has been very itchy. I have been scratching it and now
there are little scabs flaking off when I scratch."
• "I have a terrible itch between my shoulder blades. If I scratch
long enough it stops itching."
Skin, Itching
Skin, Itching, scratching amel.
Homeopathy on the internet
Provings sites
Proving information is relatively scarce on the internet, but the
following sites provide a start.
www. gn. apc. org/ecch. icch/provings. html
The ECCH and ICCH (European and International Councils on Classical
Homeopathy) Recommended Guidelines for Good Provings are available in
full on their website. This is an excellent document-essential
reading for anyone considering conducting or taking part in a
proving.
www. hominf. org. uk/proving. htm
This is the excellent website of The School of Homoeopathy in Devon,
England. It provides comprehensive information on the following
provings: AIDS; Arizona Lava; Dreaming (obtained from South African
Sangomas); Falcon; Kauri Agathis Australis (giant tree); Knopper Oak
Galls; Positronium; Salix Fragilis (crack willow); and LSD.
www. dynamis. edu
This is the site of the Dynamis School in the UK and it provides a
database of information on many provings, new and old, including who
conducted the proving and when. It does not, however, provide any
proving content currently, but hopes to do so in the future.
www. homeopathycourses. com
This is the site of Lou Klein's Homeopathic Master Clinician
Courses. It provides information on the following provings:
Helodrilis caliginosis (earthworm); Loxosceles reclusa (brown recluse
spider); Carbon dioxide and Coriandrum.
www. planete-homeo. org/english/materia/
In many ways, this proving report of Hydrocyanic acid (conducted by
the Society Gaucha of Homeopathy in Brazil) should be a model to
anyone writing up a proving. It provides all the data of a first-
class scientific report. Planete Homeo is an excellent French
homeopathy web site, which includes an English-language subsection.
General homeopathy sites
The number of homeopathy web sites has become huge and is growing
larger every day. Using a good search engine works well for most
things, but if you're looking for a one-stop entry point, try one of
the following:
www. homeopathyhome. com
This is probably the most comprehensive (US-based) homeopathy site
on the web. From this site, you can find almost all others.
www. simillibus. com
Will Taylor's site, which includes a Remedy Of The Week feature, the
text of several classical homeopathy books, including the Organon and
The Chronic Diseases, and much, much more.
www. simillimum. com
David Little's site, which includes many essays and articles on
classical prescribing, with a special focus on the LM posology.
www. lyghtforce. com/homeopathyonline/index. html
Check out the only homeopathic magazine on the internet: Homeopathy
Online. This site also links to the lyghtforce homeopathy mailing
list, a lively discussion forum for homeopathic enthusiasts.
www. homeopathy-cures. com
Steve Waldstein's invaluable referral list to recommended classical
homeopaths in the United States and Canada.
http://www. empiricaltherapies. com/
This is Harris Coulter's site and has some of his writings on AIDS,
cancer and vaccination.
www. morpho. nl
Roger Van Zandvoort's online version of The Complete Repertory.
www. hominf. org. uk
For referrals to homeopathic practitioners, schools, organizations
and other resources in the UK.
www. hom-inform. org
This is the site for the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital Library which
has a huge selection of homeopathic books and articles. They charge a
small fee for database searches.
Physostigma-the discarded vine
By kirsta heron, nd, dhanp
I have been quite curious for some time about the remedies made from
vines, wondering if their winding and climbing tendency would say
much about the nature of the remedies made from them. I have been
charmed at how the beans and peas that grow in my garden wander and
seek support from other plants or structures; playfully wrapping
their tendrils around anything they can reach. They have flowers with
mandible like structures that seem to talk, receiving visitations
from bees who seem unaware that they look as if they could be
swallowed at any moment. These vines are members of the legume
(Fabaceae or Papilionaceae) family and include such familiar remedies
as Baptisia, Lathyrus, and Melilotus.
The remedies in this family present with many problems of fatigue,
motility, and paralysis. According to Jan Scholten, this may be due
to the possible poisoning by the amino acid glutamate that then
affects the neurotransmitter serotonin. We also see many delusion
symptoms. In particular, those who need these remedies often feel
that they have done something wrong. For example, Baptisia feels that
they cannot succeed, that they do everything wrong; Melilotus feels
they are pursued by their enemies or the police and that they are
about to be arrested; and Robinia feels they have been disgraced.
Physostigma, a member of this family, is a perennial woody climber
found in tropical West Africa. Its leaves are large and pinnate with
purple butterfly-like flowers. The fruit is a reddish brown bean with
two or three white oval seeds. These beans ripen year round but are
most abundant during Africa's rainy season. These beans contain
alkaloids that are poisonous.
Historically, the beans have been used to determine the guilt of
those accused of witchcraft. If the accused vomited within a half
hour they were considered innocent, but if they died from the poison
they were found guilty. In the same way that patients who respond to
the other legume remedies feel that they have done some wrong, those
who respond to Physostigma feel they are castaways. It is easy to
imagine how someone accused of a crime and then ostracized by the
community could have this feeling.
The alkaloids within Physostigma stimulate the parasympathetic
nerves and medically have been used as an antidote to atropine. They
cause contraction of the pupil and ciliary muscles, and have a
profound effect on the striated muscles as a whole. The limbs seem
weary and unresponsive. There is fatigue and weakness. The case I
will now present shows a wonderful response to this remedy in a
patient with multiple sclerosis. It is from her that I first began to
understand Physostigma and other members of this family.
Case
Multiple sclerosis
Physostigma venenosum
C ase
Diane first came to see me in February of 1998. She was a beautiful,
elegant sixty-year-old from Georgia who had moved to the Pacific
Northwest a few years before. She wanted some relief from her
worsening multiple sclerosis. I found her first words interesting:
"Generally you start at the beginning, but I'd like to start at the
end."
This was curious to me at the time, and now seems quite illustrative
of how a climbing vine might begin to tell its tale.
"I've had more symptoms these last four years, but I was diagnosed
twenty years ago. Now walking is difficult for me because of my
balance. Sometimes I have problems with my vision and I have a
macular hole in my left eye. Recently I have less feeling and
dexterity in my hands and I have a neurogenic bladder. It doesn't
empty well. My initial symptom was numbness in the left arm and then
eventually numbness in both legs. This was in my twenties, around the
birth of my children."
"I am essentially married though I haven't lived with my husband for
two years. Our separation was amicable and my life is better alone.
Both my parents are dead. I grew up in Georgia and lived there until
I was forty. My parents were seemingly successful, although my mother
was an alcoholic. We were raised by servants. My sister was six years
older and she saw my parents as cold and lacking in love. I just
thought they didn't want to be with me-that there was something wrong
with me."
Here we can see the often-observed delusion of the legumes-that
there is something wrong with them. Physostigma's feeling of being
discarded or thrown away is reflected in Diane's description of her
parents and how she experienced their attitude towards her. Because
she was placed in the care of servants rather than her parents, she
felt unwanted. Diane continues:
"My father was disapproving and controlling. The only way to survive
was to play the game. He was a very wealthy man, very charming and
dictatorial-someone I couldn't trust. He would say one thing and then
do another. He would give you something and then take it away. There
was no way out...You couldn't ask directly. You would try to make him
think it was his idea. So I couldn't ask for what I wanted nor could
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Case
J.A. A 59-year-old male.
This case was taken in October 1998, in front of a group of
students; J.A. was referred by one of the members of this class. His
immediate appearance was of a person with considerable scarring on
one side of his face and forehead-obviously from some sort of injury
or accident. He walked with a slight limp and described himself as a
retired "operations supervisor." He was wearing an army camouflage
outfit and a baseball hat decorated on the front with a plastic
moose, American flag, and an orange crystal. He was also wearing
American-Indian-style jewelry. He had a florid complexion and a large
abdomen. He spoke in a confident, somewhat arrogant manner, obviously
not at all intimated by speaking in front of a class of students. We
observed his apparent pleasure at listening to himself talk
throughout the consultation.
J.A. was coming for treatment for a number of physical complaints:
allergies, an enlarged prostate, high blood pressure, and low-grade
diabetes.
"I don't like taking pills and never took medicine when I was young
as I figured it wouldn't work. They stuck me with all sorts of
needles and really screwed me up. I got a flu shot and then got the
flu. I am taking medicine for blood pressure and diabetes but would
like to get off."
J.A. reports that he has had allergies for as long as he can
remember, but that they have been getting worse over the last couple
of years. "I was hooked on nose spray but I was a professional driver
and the medicine made me drowsy." His allergy symptoms include a
cough with a lot of salivation, sneezing, post-nasal drip, stuffiness
and pressure in sinuses.
"I am outside in the woods all year round, hunting and fishing. They
are worst outside, in the Fall when the leaves start to decay. It's
the revenge of the deer. The only time they are better is at the
ocean."
When asked about how this affects his life he says:
"Nothing stops me from doing what I want to do. I spent a lot of my
early years alone. I entertained myself. You can change anything you
want to. At age twenty I was in the army doing small arms training.
Got shot in the head and hurt a hell of a lot. I spent a year and a
half undergoing plastic surgery. Took a big chunk out of my nose and
lip. I know what pain really is. Excruciating pain when they skin you-
that is really cool. I don't like morphine. At first they gave me a
lot and I learned to do without and go somewhere where there was no
pain. I had so many shots you could squeeze my arm and the medicine
would squirt out. In the army they had me see a psychiatrist a couple
of times before the surgery-they were concerned about my mind,
worried about the disfigurement. I said the first thing I'm going to
do is get some beer and go hunting with friends. Being disfigured
doesn't bother me-life's too short. Once I hit my hand with a hammer
and said 'Boy are you stupid'-I put it under cold water and sutured
it myself."
When asked about his childhood he said:
"As a child, my father was away at war. We used to play soldiers and
I was better at it than the other kids. I was the only kid on the
block with a bow and arrow and a tomahawk. Two brothers-I kicked
their butts. As a child I spent a lot of time with my grandmother.
She was part American Indian. There were stuffed animal heads all
around the room. I learned about being in tune with nature, about
animals. I learned how to manipulate situations. I like being able to
get away, to soar. The most peaceful times I ever had weres when I
was learning to fly. In a life/death experience when you re-run your
tapes, you are looking down, you fly."
When asked about his work (J.A. was a truck driver) he said:
"Work was challenging. I learned to read people pretty well-how to
work with a bunch of idiots without turning them into a hostile group
against you. I read people pretty well. My brother says I'm a
manipulator. Some people call it a snow-job. I take a situation and
turn it around and no one knows you're doing it. I'm intuitive. I
feel vibrations from people. I can look at people and see colors over
their heads. I can project thoughts to animals. The animal has no
idea I am there. Whatever you think of you can be, if you want to
enough."
He spoke at length about his love of hunting:
"Weather doesn't bother me because I have no control over it.
Yesterday was a perfect day because I got within sixty yards of a
buck. It was a good day for a hunter...when humans stalk an animal it
can smell them and moisture keeps the smell down. Killing is not a
sport. I'm dead serious about it. I know I can catch them if I want
to. I knew where to go and I stayed there patiently until the buck
came near. I can communicate psychically with the animals. I said to
it, 'I'm going to kill you' and it turned its head because it knew I
had it. I had my bow and arrow aimed. I decided not to kill the deer,
but I could have. The Indians could go up to an animal and touch it
and let it go on."
He said he slept well unless the allergies interfere and he has to
sleep propped up. He also wakes up at night to urinate (due to his
enlarged prostate):
"I dream about whatever I decide I want to dream about. I make up my
own story. I plan things in my dreams and then carry them out."
"I collect knives, guns, and spurs. I also keep feathers and fur
from the animals I have killed. I don't throw anything away-you name
it and I've probably got it."
"That idiot in Iraq-how many people are prepared for Armageddon?
It's coming and I have plenty of guns for everyone."
"Money rules the world and our president. I'm a Roman Catholic and I
believe in morality-right is right and wrong is wrong. Clinton
disgusts me-I'm surprised at how pissed I am at him. He's sticking it
to the American people. I'll just wait until the election."
When asked about fears he says, "I've never feared anything. I've
been there, done that. I kick butt." "I'm 59 years old and I haven't
slowed down."
J.A. smashed his right heel fifteen years ago and it is still
painful. He has arthritis in the right leg and knee, and some
cramping in the leg-hence the limp.
For food, J.A. desires spicy food, garlic, fish, pizza, and prime
ribs. "Prime rib end-cut is the ultimate-I worked as a butcher once
too."
Now he has to watch his diet for blood sugar. He checks his blood
sugar daily and takes medication when his levels indicate the need.
He drinks a lot of water and "a fair amount of Jack Daniels." He
says he is warm-blooded.
Evaluation
The most striking thing about this case was that, as a group, we
were all fascinated and horrified listening to J.A. 's description of
stalking animals. He obviously felt an enormous power in his ability
to be the one who decided whether an animal would live or die, and
letting them go was his way of expressing "compassion" and feeling
powerful. We could picture him with bow and arrow poised, ready to
shoot his prey, and sending the animal a psychic message that it was
in his power. We were struck by the fact that his allergies were
keeping him from hunting-the symptoms were protecting the organism.
J.A. 's obsession with hunting seems to have been there from
childhood, with his love of playing soldiers and "kicking butt," but
what affected his life the most was having to endure the excruciating
pain from his gunshot wound. He was able to survive in conditions
that most others would have not been able to withstand, and even
seemed to derive pleasure from his ability to do so. This is one of
the unique qualities of the scorpion in the desert, that can survive
when anything else would perish. J.A. 's mention of Saddam Hussein
and his own readiness to fight when Armageddon came indicate his
feeling of being ready for an attack. In terms of his language and
how it relates to Androctonus (scorpion) pathology, he used phrases
like "stuck with needles" and Clinton "sticking it to the American
people." He also likes to hunt with a bow and arrow, which resembles
the one-pointed sting of the scorpion tail. Without knowing about
Androctonus, we would have considered giving Sulphur-because of
J.A. 's theorizing about life (much more than is included in this
article), his love of collecting unusual objects, his eccentric
clothing ("his rags are his riches"), and his arrogant self-
confidence. His food desires and generals fit Sulphur as well.
However, what is characteristically most unusual about this case is
J.A. 's extraordinary ability to survive and his relationship to
attacking and being attacked. These are not covered by Sulphur. We
discussed the possibility of a snake or some other animal remedy, but
the prescription of Scorpion seemed to fit his state perfectly.
Rx: Androctonus, LM1 daily. [Note: J.A. did not follow this regimen
and only took the remedy sporadically.]
Followups
December, after 2 months
J.A. comes in wearing street clothes. His allergies are 50% better-
no phlegm, nose is clear, and he can breathe well. He used to have
terrible tearing of the eyes; that has stopped. He doesn't have to
sleep propped up at an angle any more. He's been out in the woods
most of the time for the last couple of months and it has been good.
Blood pressure is normal, stable; he's still taking BP medication.
When asked about himself in general, J.A. reports:
"It's been phenomenal. I feel an inner feeling change. Life is not
so much of a hassle. I have an inner feeling of peace and joy.
Attitudes have changed. Clinton has not bothered me. I'm more in tune
with what I am doing. Not tired or listless. I used to fall asleep at
8pm. Now I'm active until 11pm. [We did not know this before.]
Sleeping through the night now. Not having to get up in the middle of
the night to pee."
J.A. speaks about being in the woods and seeing the young plants
sprouting and changes in nature. The pain in his leg has increased
recently. He says it is due to physical exertion.
April, after 6 months J.A. looks less disfigured. The whole class
comments on this; or are we just getting used to his appearance? He
reports:
"Allergies are 90% better. No problem with leaf mold this year.
I am more tolerant of people and ideas. I've mellowed out.
Hunting-I let most of them go now. This year I would have taken
fifteen but I've only taken two. It's like wildflowers. I don't pick
them but leave them for others to enjoy."
His legs are much better. He is still taking blood sugar medication,
but only about half the amount he was taking before. "My doctor said
to me 'What happened?'"
Rx: Androctonus, LM2. He has taken this intermittently since then.
After 9 months
J.A. reports that he now has no allergies at all. He is still on
the same meds for high blood pressure. Although his condition is
completely stable, he won't stop these meds until his doctor suggests
it. The same goes for the diabetes. He only takes the meds
occasionally, if he has eaten sugar. His arthritis is much better. He
is not walking with a limp and can use his leg fairly normally. He
does not have the headaches or neck pain that he used to have. J.A.
told me he was bored with his collection of knives and guns and was
thinking of getting rid of it. In general, he is much calmer and
happier in himself.
The hidden colors of light : a case of iridium metallicum
By gina inez, rshom (na)
The following is a case of Iridium Metallicum. With careful
listening, intuition, the use of a rubric in the Complete Repertory,
and Jan Scholten's Homeopathy and the Elements, I was able to
prescribe this remedy successfully. My client is one of three adult
sisters, two of whom I had already treated. One received Magnetis
Polis Arcticus, and the other Kali Phosphoricum. The third sister, my
new client Iris (not her real name), came to see me mid-June 1998.
Iridium metallicum
Case
Female, sales manager, age 39, single: she is of medium height,
slender and willowy, with short brunette hair, wearing some make-up
which accents her strong and attractive features. Her eyes are
bright, big and almond-shaped, inquisitive and knowing. She blinks
them frequently. Her pants and shirt are both casual and carefully
chosen.
Iris, first of all, presented with a list of physical complaints.
1) Frequent urination: and occasional incontinence with cough,
concern for "control of my bladder." She drinks fluids frequently and
wakes at least once nightly to urinate.
2) Hypoglycemia: lightheaded and foggy when hungry or when eating
carbohydrates. Snappy, irritable, amel. with eating, amel. with wine,
amel. eating protein for breakfast and lunch. These symptoms
disappear on vacation.
3) Ailments from jet travel: client frequently travels for business;
sore throats, swollen glands, sneezing, nasal obstruction, coughing
ensue.
4) Skin rashes since childhood: eczema on arms; as an adult, genital
herpes also on left nate.
5) Headaches: dull pain in forehead, average once weekly, agg.
before herpes outbreaks, or with neck pain. Cervical vertebrae tend
to dislocate, also triggering lower back pain.
6) Sore chest: from holding her breath, she believes.
Iris suffers chronic tiredness. She wishes to have sustained energy
and an easier relationship with food. "Spiritually," she said, "I
want to merge and ground and be in present time." She is fearful she
will "sabotage" her own joy. "Although I'm joyful now; if it's too
good, I will leave."
Iris' story
"My whole life I have wondered why I am here. Who am I? My issues
revolve around self worth. I was a sensitive child. I was
told, 'Overly sensitive.' I would transform myself to get love and
approval by noticing what others needed. Even as a child, I was
either self-conscious and shy or very directly focused."
"I have two selves:
7) a successful corporate business person in a corporate
environment;
8) a spiritual self that seeks and desires a spiritual environment."
Iris is considering changing her job: "There is no foundation, no
anchor, a nothingness." Although she is financially successful, she
wants to be "more assertive, more powerful, present and comfortable."
Iris gets paid on performance: in fact, she has been the top
salesperson in one company for four years, and the first woman in the
company ever to achieve this. "I used to feel guilty [regarding this
high performance]. I felt I couldn't be corporate and spiritual." In
any case, Iris says she tends to push herself to the breaking point
of exhaustion.
"I'm very changeable. I feel people intensely. I manage people and
do sales [for a commercial office furniture company]. I 'become' the
other people I work with." Psychic/spiritual classes have helped
her "to ground." These classes give her skills to embody her
talents. "I'm all air and water astrologically." ("A rainbow is a
mixture of light and water," Sherr). 1 "When I'm busy, I fly out of
my body."
Iris has a fear of heights and of falling. She fears a "lack of
discernment in relations with men and of repeating these old
patterns...Years ago, I was married to an emotionally and physically
abusive man. I lose myself. I disappear emotionally."
Iris has "podium anxiety," with heart palpitations. "I feel too
visible. I have a fear of being judged, yet I want so much to be
seen." Loss of breath; she loses the train of thought.
Dreams
• Prophetic: (since childhood) "I shut down that side of myself for
fear I had no one to talk to about these dreams. With the exception
of a grandfather on one side, and a grandmother on the other, no one
else was outwardly clairvoyant."
• Of being chased: "These occur when I feel anxious about being
behind in work...I am chased after I have killed someone."
• Doing more and more: "As a waitress: having to seat more and more
tables.... I have to do more and more."
• Travel dreams: transportation.
• Architecture: when visiting her boyfriend in another state, who is
a builder, she had dreams of architecture, details even of the
joinery of houses; "rubrics cubes condos."
• A gray quartz spiral swirling in her room through her heart.
("Sensation as if an iron rod is standing straight in the heart
region," Scholten.)2
Medical history
Born: weak, fragile, jaundiced. Right hip not formed.
Pneumonia and mononucleosis at age 4.
Nosebleeds since childhood, agg. at high altitudes.
Acne during adolescence, treated with antibiotics for two years.
Broken wrist, and broken right clavicle for which she had surgery
one year ago.
Whiplash.
Family history
Maternal side-cancer
Paternal side-heart problems
Sleep-difficult, wakes at 3:00 AM
Energy-agg. 3:00 PM, high at 11:00 AM
Food-desires spicy, salty, fish, robust and warm foods, chocolate
averse-ice, ice-cream
aggravates-coffee
Generals-anxious in wind
agg. cold air
Two and one-half years before, Iris had received Phosphorous LM 1-15
over a forty-five day period from another homeopath. Some physical
symptoms improved for one to two years. The mental/emotional picture
had not changed. This practitioner, however, did point out to Iris
that her antagonism of will (between her work and spiritual life) was
her core problem. And I agreed.
I prescribed Iridium 1M for Iris. Iridium is in the "Gold Series,"
according to Jan Scholten's schema. It is in between Osmium to its
left and Platina to its right. Iridium, along with Baryta Carb and
Aurum (from the Gold Series) are listed in the rubric "will,
contradiction of " (Complete Repertory). Iris' case seemed most
suited to the issues of the "Gold Series": of work, responsibility,
performance, isolation, religion, etc.; and Iridium seemed to fit the
case best.
First follow-up-at one month-late July 1998:
Iris said, "Nothing has happened." New client, new remedy (for me),
nothing's happened! Reflecting on the wise words of Jeremy
Sherr, "nothing" may indicate the gentlest of all healings. I
exhorted my client to tell me about her month.
"I cannot say things are better or worse. I had an anxiety attack
for two hours, three or four days after taking the remedy." Almost
two weeks into the remedy, Iris had an anxiety attack in a hotel
room: "I didn't know what to wear for a party. I couldn't leave the
hotel room to go to the party. I was afraid I wasn't enough...Anxiety
is still an issue." (Iris had not actually spoken of anxiety during
the first interview.) "I have been depressed, but not badly...I am
also coming to tears where I didn't before." This practitioner
noticed a softening in her demeanor.
"My sensitivity, when mixed with anxiety and insecurity, is not
pretty. It takes on a different color. It blends together to create
depression and anger, and outwardly, frustration and anger."
Iris' sense of personal/psychic boundaries is definitely better, not
taking things too seriously or personally. "I get busy and forget to
feel for others and myself, but I feel more of an opening. I see a
need to be compassionate and to do management simultaneously! I am
feeling less socially awkward in business." Iris again noted how
seeking approval from her father (i.e. , outside herself ) as a child
set up a pattern of anxiety she still faced. When I asked her about
the conflict she had spoken of between her spirituality and doing
business, Iris replied: "I haven't thought about that this month. I
guess that means I am a spiritual woman of business!"
Neutral focus-amel. in general, amel. in the afternoons.
Frequent urination-amel., does not wake at night.
Nosebleeds-amel. (none even at high altitude).
Hypoglycemic symptoms-amel., able to eat well more easily; desires
fewer sweets and chocolate, but craves coffee.
Herpes-at onset of an outbreak, Iris took a suppressive medication.
Menses-three days early and she wept with them.
PMS symptoms, which she had denied to herself in the past, became
more obvious and unavoidable to her.
Dreams-no architecture dreams. Other dreams unremembered.
Sleep-still erratic, somewhat improved. Trouble quieting the mind
over the day's business.
Iris' "nothing," it seemed, was something quite special. She and I
both mused about this and agreed Iridium 1M was working for her. No
remedy was given at the first follow-up.
Over the course of the next twelve months, Iris received Iridium 1M
twice and 10M once. (Iris was sensitive to jet travel, and on at
least one occasion she needed a repeat due to the deleterious effects
it had on the remedy's action.) She continued to improve in all the
ways she showed on the first follow-up.
Over time she dropped the relationship she had with her boyfriend
when she found "sexuality with him was suffocating and he could not
support my sensitivity even though he said he could." No other type
of closeness could be found with him. Then she began to date two new
men. (Delusion; wants two of everything, Scholten). She enjoyed
learning about herself in this way, but felt self-conscious at the
perceived societal norms (of dating only one man at a time). In a few
months, she chose one of the two partners to whom she felt best
suited, and has continued to enjoy and flourish in the relationship.
During treatment, Iris quit her job and became a consultant for the
same company. I noticed her tendency to be hurried and to arrive late
for appointments diminished. So did her desire to see many other
alternative health practitioners. She seemed more relaxed and less
perfectionistic as time went on.
Iris' case is uncannily reflected in Jeremy Sherr's published
proving of Iridium (and I have only just read this proving in order
to research this article). In his introduction, Sherr
writes, "Iridium was named from the Latin/Greek work Iris, meaning
rainbow. While in it's solid form, Iridium is a silver- white
precious metal, however in marine acid, it becomes astonishingly
multicolored and iridescent, 'emitting a light of extraordinary
splendor.'
"The Greek goddess Iris is the daughter of Elektra. She is
considered to be the personification of the rainbow...the goddess
Iris has her own highway. This female courier transports messages
between earth to heaven via the iridescent highway of a rainbow. She
can travel through air, water and the underworld-from the very
fundaments of the earth to the zenith of the heavens. Her task is to
be a joiner, uniter and conciliator..." 3
Consider iris' case:
"I am all air and water" (the rainbow).
"I need to be grounded. I lose myself; I get busy and fly out of my
body."
Dreams of "architecture, joinery."
Dreams of transportation.
And most exquisitely, Iris' "solid form" (her business persona) is
better elucidated through the vibrancy of her "colors" as a
psychically gifted person when the potentized remedy itself is given.
From Jan Scholten's brilliant description of Iridium,4 a few themes
for this case stand out:
• "A blunder during the conducting of business"-Iris' anxiety before
a party: she didn't know what to wear.
Anxiety, disturbing sleep: thoughts of business of the day.
• "Not quite arrogant"-Iris: "Since childhood I have been either shy
and awkward or incredibly focused." Scholten: "They [Iridium] tend to
be quite singleminded. They are always preoccupied with what is yet
to be done...They may seem irresponsible but this is only because
they see everything from the point of unexplored possibilities. They
do feel very responsible, much more than others might expect."
• "Robbed of their own power at the last minute"-Iris suffered
chronic fatigue, anxiety and foggy-headedness related to food intake.
When she first came to me, Iris' food, sleep and energy level were
disturbed or underfunctioning. She was robbed of her ability to be
fully in her body and to be present in her spirituality.
In this day, religiosity, which runs through the "Gold Series" (or
the 6th period of the Elemental Table), might be interpreted as
psychic openness or a willingness to do "God's work" through a
variety of channels not represented in our classic texts. Iris'
openness and struggle with her spirituality and psychic abilities may
be translated into the appropriate religious rubrics.
Iris' work in the commercial furniture industry is a revealing
metaphor for her expression at stage 9 of the Gold Series. She is not
yet sitting in the "big chair" herself (i.e. , the throne) like
Platina or Aurum, but she is traveling to and visiting the businesses
where she sells and sets up the office (the throne room).
Iris' dreams of having to do more and more (in her waitress dream)
reflect a stage of development directly before the summit. She has
acceded Sisyphus' tragic push to the top which always fails (Osmium)
but she has not yet succeeded to the glitter and assuredness of
Platina. Her dreams of having killed someone and of being chased
(corroborated in Sherr's 'Dream Section') reminds us of the well-
known violence of Platina, only Iridium is not so sure of itself;
hence is being pursued as well.
Physical symptoms in Iris' case corroborated by Sherr's proving of
Iridium:
Head-forehead, pain, dull
Respiration-spells of breathlessness
Bladder-frequent urination
Extremities-pain, right clavicle, right hip
Skin-itching on arms (and legs)
Symptoms found in Scholten's description of Iridium:
Mind-hurried
Fear-heights, of falling
Generals-( eating
sleeplessness
right-sided
Causes-hurt, humiliation
In the Materia Media of the Mind by Heli O. Retzek, only six common
rubrics are listed for Iridium:
• Antagonism, herself with
• Concentration, difficult
• Dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and comprehending
• Thoughts, two trains of thought
• Will, contradiction of
• Will, weakness of
The classic texts (Boericke, Clarke, Choudhury, Hering) remind us
that in nature Iridium is found only in combination with Osmium and
Platina as Osmiridium. It has a high specific gravity and is one of
the heaviest substances known. Clarke compares it to China and
Laurocerasus for "the aged and persons exhausted by disease," and for
children "who are puny, weak-limbed and grow too fast." It is said in
Clarke that Iridium may be superior to Aurum, Aurum Mur and Osmium in
uterine tumors. All the texts refer to a vacant feeling in the head-
and "painful weakness of the lower limbs and renal region alternating
with self-confidence and facilitated mental labor."
Iridium was introduced by Hering in 1853 and proved by A. J. Tafel
in the 19th century. It is compared to Platina for its numbness and
cramp-like sensations; and also to Ferrum Met., Palladium, Causticum,
Kali Ferrocyanatum.
The psychic sensitivity of Iridium may place it in the Phosphorous
family of remedies which would also include Iris' sisters' remedies
Magnetis Polis Arcticus and Kali Phosphoricum, among others.
Iris is dancing and performing in experimental theater, and ready to
find consulting work more suited to her talents, possibly creating
healing environments in the workplace. However, nineteen months after
her first dose of Iridium, her issues of insecurity and some skin
symptoms led me to recently prescribe Phosphorous 200C for Iris. If
over time it appears that Phosphorous is a curative remedy for her,
it will be interesting to explore the relationship of Iridium to
Phosphorous.
1 Jeremy Sherr and Dynamic School, Dynamis Provings, Volume I, by
Dynamis Books, England, 1997, p. 341.
2 Jan Scholten, Homeopathy and the Elements, by Stichting
Alonnissos, Netherlands, 1996, p. 727.
3 Sherr, op. cit., p. 341.
4 Scholten, op. cit., p. 725.
My special thanks to Jeremy Sherr and Jan Scholten for their
contribution to our understanding of Iridium Metallicum.
Gina Inez, RSHom (NA), has been practicing Classical Homeopathy
since 1985 in Marin County, California. She served as the Registrar
for NASH from 1997-1999.
Sus : a proving of pig
By karen allen, rshom (na), cch
"Would the results of a proving be different based on the specific
part of the subject which was used? Would perhaps a proving of a leaf
be different than the proving of a fruit, or a milk be different than
saliva?"
Sus scrofa
This was the question, raised in a discussion at the 1996
International Foundation for Homeopathy case conference, that led to
the proving presented here. There were those present who argued that
beneath all substance of an organism was the same vital force, and
when potentised, that same vital force would present itself
regardless of the specific component of the organism used. It was
mentioned that there would be likely differences if bone was used
rather than blood due to the highly specific mineral makeup of bones.
Questions were raised about using a male versus a female subject for
an animal proving, and how the mental symptoms of the proving might
be affected. All in all, it was an interesting question, with much
speculation, but little evidence to support any particular point of
view. There are some examples in the materia medica such as Agaricus
and Muscarin, Belladonna and Atropia, Nux Vomica and Strychnia, all
of which are pairs of plants and a derived alkaloid. These show
distinct similarities, but different remedy pictures. However, the
reduction from plant to alkaloid may be more extreme than the
difference between leaf and root or blood and saliva might be, and
the question remains.
Having just read The Dynamics and Methodology of Homeopathic
Provings by Jeremy Sherr, this case conference discussion heightened
my interest in conducting a proving. I resolved to use the approach
outlined in the book to prove multiple components of the same
organism as a trial to see if a difference in the proving results was
identifiable. While casting about for a likely subject for the
proving, I happened to have lunch with an acquaintance I did not know
very well at the time. In our conversation, he mentioned that his
family had a farm that raised pigs. As we chatted more, I learned
that these were not just any pigs-on this farm the pigs were a
specially bred and screened group of animals used as donor animals
for xenotransplant (organ transplant between members of different
species) and xenograft (tissue graft between members of different
species) medical procedures.
Over the next few days, I thought and read and researched about
pigs, hogs, and swine. My investigation showed that recent medical
literature was sprinkled with articles involving pigs, and many more
have appeared in the last few years. Increases in demands for donated
transplant organs were noted: more than 50,000 people die every year
waiting for a transplant organ, compared to the approximately 2,000
who receive one. This has prompted research into the use of donor
animals, and pigs have been considered good candidates because they
have many similarities to human physiology and anatomy. In March of
1997, the journal Nature reported that fetal pig neuronal tissue has
been implanted into the brains of patients with advanced Parkinson's
disease, demonstrating that animal tissues can grow within the human
body. Heart valves, skin grafts, and liver tissue from pigs have been
used in various medical procedures. Porcine pancreatic transplants
have been done in Europe for a number of years. Porcine heart and
liver transplants were unsuccessfully attempted with extremely ill
patients in 1992. In the 1996 January issue of Emerging Infectious
Disease, xenotransplants of organs from pigs were discussed as being
3-5 years from clinical trials. An April 1997 issue of Biomedical
News reported that there are now herds of genetically modified pigs
which have had DNA segments relating to the pig's immune system
function altered so that humans won't reject the tissue. In addition
to organs, bone marrow transplant is being researched. Limiting
factors continue to be immune system rejection of the foreign tissue
and fears of viral transmission through xenotransplant. An ethics
advisory group for xenotransplantation had directed a moratorium on
xenotransplants in Britain and New Zealand. The Centers for Disease
Control is currently drafting guidelines to prevent transmission of
infectious agents, monitor xenotransplant and xenograft recipients
with a national registry, and screen candidate animals and tissues.
While reading all this, I became curious about what the possible
impacts could be to a human population if organ transplants were
possible, and became commonplace. What influence could that bring to
children born to a parent who had a xenographic organ? Could a state
of 'pig' be recognizable in people who have received grafts or valves
or other pig tissues? It seemed very worthwhile to conduct a proving
of something foreign which has actually been incorporated into human
bodies and is now living and growing there. Additionally, pigs
offered an easy source for multiple components to prove. I contacted
my acquaintance, explained my project, and he obtained the source
substances for my proving from the pigs raised for xeno-transplant.
Freshly obtained semen, saliva, milk and blood were added to
individual bottles of alcohol and left for 24 hours. Each of these
was potentized and potencies of 6C, 12C, 15C, and 30C were made in
alcohol. Packets of remedies on pellets were made up, each identified
with a number only. A cross reference was created to index the packet
numbers to the source remedy/potency. Four additional packets of sac
lac were added. No one knew what was in any of the packets until the
proving was completed. The name of the remedy is Sus, the Latin word
for swine which is the genus name used in biological classification.
"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No
question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The
creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and
from pig to man again; but it was already impossible to say which was
which." -George Orwell, Animal Farm
"It may be remarked that man is the only animal which can live and
multiply in every country from the equator to the poles. The hog
seems to approach the nearest to our species in that privilege." -
Gibbon
Pigs are widely distributed throughout the Earth in both wild and
domesticated form. Hog, pig, and swine are interchangeable terms for
domesticated mammals of the swine family of the order artiodactyla
(hoofed animals with an even number of toes on each foot), suborder
bunodontia, families suidae and tayassuidae. They are believed to
have descended from two wild species (Asian and European), and first
domesticated in China about 9000 years ago. Explorers, traders and
immigrants eventually spread them around the earth. Pigs are well
adapted to meat production because they grow and mature rapidly, have
a short gestation period and produce a large number of young. As
omnivorous scavengers, they can adapt to many environments and diets.
In addition to meat, leather and bristles are produced. With the
exception of Muslim and Jewish cultures, which regard them as unclean
and therefore inedible, pigs are raised and eaten throughout the
world.
Pigs have played a role in history as well. In his book Guns, Germs,
and Steel, author Jared Diamond partially attributes to pigs the
dominance of European cultures over many others around the globe. He
discusses the evolution of epidemic disease as sourced by the close
proximity of humans and domesticated animals in Eurasia, where it was
not uncommon for peasants to live under the same roof with their
animals. Then as today, the relationship between humans and pigs
could be very close; in some places in the world today, human mothers
nurse piglets from their own breasts. His book documents the gradual
viral and bacteriological migration from animal diseases to human
diseases and attributes influenza and pertussis to domesticated
swine. In the first stage of evolution, a disease is found in animals
but a transfer to humans is uncommon, and there is no human to human
transmission. This is seen today with leptospirosis in dogs and pigs,
brucellosis in cattle, psittacosis in birds, and swine erysipelas in
pigs. In the second stage, a former animal pathogen evolves to a
point where there is direct transmission between people, causing
epidemics. In the third stage, a disease which was exclusively an
animal disease has become an exclusively human disease. The impact of
these diseases (measles, rubella, mumps, pertussis, smallpox,
influenza) on indigenous cultures throughout the world was
devastating, becoming one of the factors in the spread of European
influence.
Pigs also feature in the culture and mythology of many countries. In
his books, The Prydain Chronicles, Lloyd Alexander retells Welsh
legends involving an oracle pig named HenWen who used sticks to tell
the future. Pigs have been revered as weather forecasters, symbols of
fertility or bravery in battle, creatures enraptured by music and
much else as detailed in George Druce's "The Sow and Pig: A Study in
Metaphor" from the Archealogia Cantiana. They have contributed to our
maps with hills called hogbacks; the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, was
originally called Pig's Eye. They have also been reviled, and
connotations of the words pig, hog and swine are seldom
complimentary. Pig iron is a crude casting of metal from a blast
furnace. Hoggish and piggish are adjectives meaning dirty, greedy or
stubborn. Pig-headed refers to a stubborn person, and a swine refers
to a contemptible person.
There are some interesting oddities about pigs as well. They have no
sweat glands and require other means to cool off, explaining the
tendency of wild pigs to live in marshy places where they can wallow
in water or mud. Newborn pigs are extremely sensitive to cold and die
easily if left in a drafty place. Pigs are vulnerable to anthrax, but
it is not uncommon for young pigs to become only mildly ill and
recover completely from this disease which can be fatal to many other
animals and humans. In a 1925 issue of the British Journal of
Experimental Biology, Baker wrote about the inherited tendency to
sexual abnormality producing both hermaphrodite and sex-intergrade
pigs. In strains of pigs where this tendency was prevalent, over 10%
of the pigs showed abnormality. He concluded that these were
masculinized genetic females though they generally demonstrated male
sexual instincts. In the true hermaphrodites, an ovary was
consistently found on the left side and a testicle on the right side,
the clitoris was enlarged and developed similar to a penis, and there
was also a uterus and vagina.
A list of diseases that affect pigs reads much like a list of human
diagnoses: meningitis, encephalitis, polio (Talfan disease),
tuberculosis, pneumonia, rheumatism, tetanus, osteoporosis, cirrhosis
of the liver, hepatitis, gall stones. Urinary and kidney diseases are
commonly found in pigs, and nephritis has been associated with
exposure to cold, direct drafts on pigs' backs. Like many other
illnesses found post-mortem, diabetes mellitus is not diagnosed in
pigs because they are generally slaughtered at six months of age, but
pancreatic degeneration found in some slaughtered animals is
consistent with glycosuria. Swine erysipelas is a disease of pigs,
caused by Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, which raises characteristic
diamond shaped red patches on the skin, and sometimes appears as a
diffuse red coloring all over the skin. The condition can be fatal to
pigs, causing hemorrhage of the kidneys and other complications. This
disease can affect people who come in contact with a diseased pig,
has been fatal to humans, and may last for years in some people, with
diamond shaped blotches on the hands and face that are aggravated by
heat of a fire or stove. This same E. rhusiopathiae agent has been
identified as a cause of arthritis in pigs in the U.S. , and in one
study as many as 75% of pigs affected with arthritis were shown to
have this organism.
"Even when I felt my stomach was full, I wanted to go on eating. I
would have eaten anything. I would have eaten garbage if you had put
it in front of me." Sus prover
The proving was conducted gradually from the fall of 1996 through
the summer of 1997 in the U.S. and Canada. The methodology laid out
in Jeremy Sherr's book was used, and instructions copied from the
book were handed out to provers. Supervision was done by myself and
Joan Raddysh, a Canadian homeopath now in Toronto whose contribution
was invaluable. Finding suitable candidates who were interested in
participating, relatively self-observant and articulate, and
conscientious about avoiding interferences such as coffee, medical or
recreational drugs, herbs, supplements, etc, proved to be a
challenge, and so the proving was done with a few individuals at a
time in several very small groups as people agreed to participate,
for a total of 27 provers for the four remedy components. In addition
to the supervision before and after the remedy was taken, follow-up
was done with the majority of provers at 3 months, 6 months and 1
year. Three of the provers observed no symptoms of any kind; one of
these had been given sac lac. The notable results are given below in
the words of the provers, followed by two successful acute cases. I
have not found a constitutional case for Sus yet, but hope that the
publication of this material will make homeopaths aware of what is
known about the remedy so far and create the opportunity for further
clinical use.
While knowledge of the remedy is incomplete and additions to the
repertory seem premature at this stage, rubrics consistent with
Kent's Repertory have been noted here using plain type for lowest
grade, italic for middle and bold for highest grade. Whenever
possible, existing rubrics have been used. Following Jeremy Sherr's
lead, I make no attempt to offer an essence or summary picture for
the remedy, letting the symptoms of the proving speak for themselves.
However, in response to the questions raised at the 1996 IFH case
conference, the results of the proving were so similar from each of
the four components of pig (saliva, semen, blood and milk) that I was
unable to differentiate them in any way.
Mind
There were many symptoms related to work including positive
anticipation of work, desire to work, increased sense of satisfaction
and accomplishment at work, anxiety about having forgotten how to do
one's job. It was interesting to find that almost 50% of the provers
noted that they worked overtime, double shifts, increased
responsibility, or increased hours at some point within the first 3
days after taking the remedy.
• "I had to work tonight and was actually looking forward to it
which was unusual."
• "I had a wonderful feeling that I had a task, a purpose and I had
finished it. I feel at peace now."
• "I felt like I could accomplish everything at work today and I
did. I feel great and have lots of energy."
• "I was at work twice as long today, funny how that happens."
• "I was at work from 9 am to 11 pm; I had not one chance to leave
or take a break."
• "Someone else wasn't coming in to work so I had to do her job on
top of mine. I lasted the entire day without feeling drained once."
• "I thought I couldn't do my job. In a sense I believed that I had
forgotten how to work. That's why my hands started to shake, because
I was actually scared. It still bothers me now, much later."
Two provers noted a difficulty in answering questions.
• "I have a time delayed response when answering questions. There is
a brief period of blankness and then I can respond."
No provers reported their own violent behavior, but in the few days
prior to taking the remedy (while keeping records in the proving
notebooks) or the first week after taking the remedy, several events
involving conflict were noted, and the following are representative.
• "I have never before been punched in a street confrontation. Three
guys came up to me as I got off work, made various comments that I am
a nerd and have no friends. It is, in effect, playground bullying.
One of the guys punched me on the right cheek just above the mouth,
chipped a tooth. I did not see the blow coming."
• "I struck a blow against a mouse that sent it limping off for
cover last night. I had already received the remedy proving kit so I
thought to include it in my notes."
• "I was woken up at 3 am by a couple of wailing cats that were
fighting right outside my window."
This last is a strange, rare and peculiar type of symptom which was
experienced by the one person who seemed to experience most of the
proving symptoms.
• "I had the idea that my foot was split between my big toe and my
other toes, going up into my foot part way, like a snake's tongue is
split."
Mind, Occupation ameliorates
Mind, Industrious
Mind, Answers slowly
Mind, Fear, work, feared he had forgotten how to (new subrubric)
Mind, Delusion, foot split in two (new rubric)
Head
Almost 90% of the provers who reported any symptoms at all had
headaches. In several provers, there were daily headaches for weeks,
with intense headaches on a weekly frequency for up to 2 months.
Invariably the same words were used: dull ache, vague ache, pressure
pushing outwards, but too dull to be a bursting sort of pain. In
fact, dull ache was the most common description used for every kind
of pain experienced by the provers in any symptom.
• "Vague headache, centered behind the eyes"
• "Ache in the head with much dull pressure inside the head, pushing
outwards"
• "Mild headache from 3 to 5 pm which slowly went away"
• "Dull ache which strengthens, then recedes every few hours through
the day"
• "An ache in the forehead at and above my eyebrows"
• "Aching pain in my head which was better after eating hot soup"
Provers also noted increased itching of the scalp which was improved
by scratching and followed by the formation of small scabs which
flaked off with more scratching.
Head, Pain, headache in general
Head, Pain, dull pain
Head, Itching of scalp
Stomach
Approximately 75% of the provers reported increased hunger and
increased satisfaction with food. In particular, many provers
mentioned seeking out a desired food and finding it extremely
satisfying when they had eaten it, although there was a very wide
range of the things desired with no two the same. For a few provers
this lasted for weeks, but for most it lasted only the first few
days. Approximately 30% of the provers reported nausea.
• "I was very hungry as soon as I woke up."
• "I was unusually hungry at times through the day."
• "I was ravenous, eating and eating, even when I knew I was full I
wanted to eat more."
• "Even when I felt my stomach was full, I wanted to go on eating. I
would have eaten anything. I would have eaten garbage if you had put
it in front of me."
• "By 10 am I was starved."
• "When I ate it, it was the best thing I had ever tasted."
• "After I ate, it seemed like the end result of a craving, when one
feels accomplished that they have fulfilled the desire."
• "I had a craving today for a blueberry bagel with cream cheese and
I wasn't let down-it was excellent."
• "I felt nauseated after taking the remedy."
• "From 3 to 3:30 pm I felt mild nausea."
• "There was a lot of cigar smoke and this made me feel nauseated.
It felt like I would have vomited if I had not gotten fresh air."
Stomach, Appetite, increased
Stomach, Appetite, ravenous, canine, excessive
Stomach, Nausea
Abdomen
• "Within 15 minutes of taking the first dose of the remedy, I felt
a colicky feeling in the abdomen."
• "After the remedy I had stomach cramps followed by diarrhea."
Abdomen, Pain, cramping
Rectum / Stool
• "I had diarrhea several times a day, after starting the remedy."
• "After having stomach cramps, I had very soft stools."
• "I had diarrhea which was very forceful, like an explosion into
the toilet."
Rectum, Diarrhea
Stool, Forcible
Urinary organs
Kidney pain was both produced as a proving symptom and resolved
during the proving for a prover who had chronic pain in the kidneys.
Several provers reported waking at night to urinate, something very
out of the ordinary for them.
• "My back began to ache in the area of my kidneys, more on the
right side. This lasted for an hour and a half then faded away."
• "I awoke again without the pain I usually feel in my kidneys every
morning. This was very different for me-I have had this pain every
day for years." (Pain was remitted for 3 months.)
• "Waking at 4:20 am with a strong need to urinate."
• "Frequent need to urinate."
Kidneys, Pain
Kidneys, Pain, morning
Bladder, Urination, frequent
Bladder, Urination, night
Extremities
Several of the provers reported symptoms of trembling or joint pain,
and most of these were on the left side of the body. Provers who
already had joint pain noted that it became worse after taking the
remedy, but none of those provers reported that it improved
afterwards-the discomfort gradually returned to its previous level.
• Trembling in the hands and forearms, with fear of having forgotten
how to work, lasting 30 minutes.
• Cramping in the left hand lasting 3 minutes
• "While driving, my hand and foot on the left side started to cramp
up. Better after stretching."
• "My left shoulder seems to have been wrenched somehow. It is a
dull ache."
• "Dull ache in both knees."
• "Dull aching feeling in the left hip and knee."
• "There was a feeling of wasting away in my arms. It was mid-
afternoon. It felt as if the fluids and strength of my arms was
ebbing. Sapping of strength."
Extremities, Trembling, anxious
Extremities, Pain, joints
Extremities, Cramps, hand
Extremities, Cramps, hand, left
Extremities, Cramps, foot
Extremities, Weakness, upper limbs
Sleep/dreams
There were many dreams reported involving the need to urinate, and
the provers, upon waking, actually did need to urinate. This was one
of the most commonly reported symptoms in the proving.
• "I dreamed that I was at a rally where we were forced to hear a
talk about the end of technology. In my dream I had to get up and go
to the bathroom. When I did wake up, I realized my bladder was full
and I did need to go to the bathroom."
• "In my dream I was going to see a film in a big old movie hall. On
my way into the hall I had to line up to pee-I actually did need to
when I woke up."
• "In my dream I was with my brother and we were traveling in a
green countryside near the coast. My brother and I were peeing on the
grass near an old house, and we were told off by a young guy who said
we should have used the toilet. I woke up really needing to pee."
There were also quite a few dreams about eating.
• "I dreamed that I was sitting at a dinner table having a meal with
others. Everyone was friendly."
• "In my dream I was gathered around a bowl of food with other
greedy followers."
• "There were people wandering around in a farmyard eating food from
a huge cabinet-fruit and veggies and bacon."
• "People are around cooking fires in the orchard."
There were dreams from which people awoke frightened, as from a
nightmare, and some of these were dreamt multiple times in the same
night.
• "In my dream I looked towards the window and saw a reflection. I
thought it was me. As I got closer, it became clear that it was
someone else. At that point I woke up, terrified that somebody was
outside my window."
• "There was a long stemmed red rose with a note saying 'I don't
want you to ever do that again.' And signed by my friend, but I did
not know what she was referring to. I awoke frightened because I
thought I had done something to jeopardize our friendship." (Dreamt 3
times in one night)
• "I had a nightmare about a friend-a guy and his wife who were
threatening to kill me with a gun. I tried to pretend I was already
dead, but he was not fooled. Then I had to empty out my pockets and
was surrounded by many coins. When I awoke I was anxious and the
feeling stayed with me for a long time."
• "I was in a bar but it was all light and sunny outside. Whenever I
touched someone, their skin would flake off. It was creepy."
Sleep, Dreams, urinating, of
Sleep, Dreams, nightmare
Sleep, Dreams, eating
Sleep, Dreams, frightful
Sleep, Dreams, repeating
Skin
Dry, itching and red skin on the waist, sides, back, shoulders,
arms, scalp and face were reported. Scratching relieved the itching,
as did water, lotion, and in one case, a mud bath.
• "I had red patches of dry, itchy skin around my waist. I put
lotion on them and it felt better."
• "My skin felt dry and very itchy. Scratching felt good, but the
only thing that really made it go away was a mud bath at a local
spa."
• "My scalp has been very itchy. I have been scratching it and now
there are little scabs flaking off when I scratch."
• "I have a terrible itch between my shoulder blades. If I scratch
long enough it stops itching."
Skin, Itching
Skin, Itching, scratching amel.
Homeopathy on the internet
Provings sites
Proving information is relatively scarce on the internet, but the
following sites provide a start.
www. gn. apc. org/ecch. icch/provings. html
The ECCH and ICCH (European and International Councils on Classical
Homeopathy) Recommended Guidelines for Good Provings are available in
full on their website. This is an excellent document-essential
reading for anyone considering conducting or taking part in a
proving.
www. hominf. org. uk/proving. htm
This is the excellent website of The School of Homoeopathy in Devon,
England. It provides comprehensive information on the following
provings: AIDS; Arizona Lava; Dreaming (obtained from South African
Sangomas); Falcon; Kauri Agathis Australis (giant tree); Knopper Oak
Galls; Positronium; Salix Fragilis (crack willow); and LSD.
www. dynamis. edu
This is the site of the Dynamis School in the UK and it provides a
database of information on many provings, new and old, including who
conducted the proving and when. It does not, however, provide any
proving content currently, but hopes to do so in the future.
www. homeopathycourses. com
This is the site of Lou Klein's Homeopathic Master Clinician
Courses. It provides information on the following provings:
Helodrilis caliginosis (earthworm); Loxosceles reclusa (brown recluse
spider); Carbon dioxide and Coriandrum.
www. planete-homeo. org/english/materia/
In many ways, this proving report of Hydrocyanic acid (conducted by
the Society Gaucha of Homeopathy in Brazil) should be a model to
anyone writing up a proving. It provides all the data of a first-
class scientific report. Planete Homeo is an excellent French
homeopathy web site, which includes an English-language subsection.
General homeopathy sites
The number of homeopathy web sites has become huge and is growing
larger every day. Using a good search engine works well for most
things, but if you're looking for a one-stop entry point, try one of
the following:
www. homeopathyhome. com
This is probably the most comprehensive (US-based) homeopathy site
on the web. From this site, you can find almost all others.
www. simillibus. com
Will Taylor's site, which includes a Remedy Of The Week feature, the
text of several classical homeopathy books, including the Organon and
The Chronic Diseases, and much, much more.
www. simillimum. com
David Little's site, which includes many essays and articles on
classical prescribing, with a special focus on the LM posology.
www. lyghtforce. com/homeopathyonline/index. html
Check out the only homeopathic magazine on the internet: Homeopathy
Online. This site also links to the lyghtforce homeopathy mailing
list, a lively discussion forum for homeopathic enthusiasts.
www. homeopathy-cures. com
Steve Waldstein's invaluable referral list to recommended classical
homeopaths in the United States and Canada.
http://www. empiricaltherapies. com/
This is Harris Coulter's site and has some of his writings on AIDS,
cancer and vaccination.
www. morpho. nl
Roger Van Zandvoort's online version of The Complete Repertory.
www. hominf. org. uk
For referrals to homeopathic practitioners, schools, organizations
and other resources in the UK.
www. hom-inform. org
This is the site for the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital Library which
has a huge selection of homeopathic books and articles. They charge a
small fee for database searches.
Physostigma-the discarded vine
By kirsta heron, nd, dhanp
I have been quite curious for some time about the remedies made from
vines, wondering if their winding and climbing tendency would say
much about the nature of the remedies made from them. I have been
charmed at how the beans and peas that grow in my garden wander and
seek support from other plants or structures; playfully wrapping
their tendrils around anything they can reach. They have flowers with
mandible like structures that seem to talk, receiving visitations
from bees who seem unaware that they look as if they could be
swallowed at any moment. These vines are members of the legume
(Fabaceae or Papilionaceae) family and include such familiar remedies
as Baptisia, Lathyrus, and Melilotus.
The remedies in this family present with many problems of fatigue,
motility, and paralysis. According to Jan Scholten, this may be due
to the possible poisoning by the amino acid glutamate that then
affects the neurotransmitter serotonin. We also see many delusion
symptoms. In particular, those who need these remedies often feel
that they have done something wrong. For example, Baptisia feels that
they cannot succeed, that they do everything wrong; Melilotus feels
they are pursued by their enemies or the police and that they are
about to be arrested; and Robinia feels they have been disgraced.
Physostigma, a member of this family, is a perennial woody climber
found in tropical West Africa. Its leaves are large and pinnate with
purple butterfly-like flowers. The fruit is a reddish brown bean with
two or three white oval seeds. These beans ripen year round but are
most abundant during Africa's rainy season. These beans contain
alkaloids that are poisonous.
Historically, the beans have been used to determine the guilt of
those accused of witchcraft. If the accused vomited within a half
hour they were considered innocent, but if they died from the poison
they were found guilty. In the same way that patients who respond to
the other legume remedies feel that they have done some wrong, those
who respond to Physostigma feel they are castaways. It is easy to
imagine how someone accused of a crime and then ostracized by the
community could have this feeling.
The alkaloids within Physostigma stimulate the parasympathetic
nerves and medically have been used as an antidote to atropine. They
cause contraction of the pupil and ciliary muscles, and have a
profound effect on the striated muscles as a whole. The limbs seem
weary and unresponsive. There is fatigue and weakness. The case I
will now present shows a wonderful response to this remedy in a
patient with multiple sclerosis. It is from her that I first began to
understand Physostigma and other members of this family.
Case
Multiple sclerosis
Physostigma venenosum
C ase
Diane first came to see me in February of 1998. She was a beautiful,
elegant sixty-year-old from Georgia who had moved to the Pacific
Northwest a few years before. She wanted some relief from her
worsening multiple sclerosis. I found her first words interesting:
"Generally you start at the beginning, but I'd like to start at the
end."
This was curious to me at the time, and now seems quite illustrative
of how a climbing vine might begin to tell its tale.
"I've had more symptoms these last four years, but I was diagnosed
twenty years ago. Now walking is difficult for me because of my
balance. Sometimes I have problems with my vision and I have a
macular hole in my left eye. Recently I have less feeling and
dexterity in my hands and I have a neurogenic bladder. It doesn't
empty well. My initial symptom was numbness in the left arm and then
eventually numbness in both legs. This was in my twenties, around the
birth of my children."
"I am essentially married though I haven't lived with my husband for
two years. Our separation was amicable and my life is better alone.
Both my parents are dead. I grew up in Georgia and lived there until
I was forty. My parents were seemingly successful, although my mother
was an alcoholic. We were raised by servants. My sister was six years
older and she saw my parents as cold and lacking in love. I just
thought they didn't want to be with me-that there was something wrong
with me."
Here we can see the often-observed delusion of the legumes-that
there is something wrong with them. Physostigma's feeling of being
discarded or thrown away is reflected in Diane's description of her
parents and how she experienced their attitude towards her. Because
she was placed in the care of servants rather than her parents, she
felt unwanted. Diane continues:
"My father was disapproving and controlling. The only way to survive
was to play the game. He was a very wealthy man, very charming and
dictatorial-someone I couldn't trust. He would say one thing and then
do another. He would give you something and then take it away. There
was no way out...You couldn't ask directly. You would try to make him
think it was his idea. So I couldn't ask for what I wanted nor could
I go again
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Re: scorpions
What a lovely case!
Another great resource for Androctonos is Jeremy Sherr's detailed and
vivid presentation at www.homeopathicsymposium.com. (This very rich
site isn't free, but the site is a wonderful one.)
Shannon
Another great resource for Androctonos is Jeremy Sherr's detailed and
vivid presentation at www.homeopathicsymposium.com. (This very rich
site isn't free, but the site is a wonderful one.)
Shannon
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Re: scorpions
Wow! That IS a fantastic case. Thanks for sharing it!! Rosemary
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What a lovely case!
Another great resource for Androctonos is Jeremy Sherr's detailed and vivid presentation at www.homeopathicsymposium.com. (This very rich site isn't free, but the site is a wonderful one.)
Shannon
Androctonus amoreuxii hebraeus
Case
J.A. A 59-year-old male.
This case was taken in October 1998, in front of a group of
students; J.A. was referred by one of the members of this class. His
immediate appearance was of a person with considerable scarring on
one side of his face and forehead-obviously from some sort of injury
or accident. He walked with a slight limp and described himself as a
retired "operations supervisor." He was wearing an army camouflage
outfit and a baseball hat decorated on the front with a plastic
moose, American flag, and an orange crystal. He was also wearing
American-Indian-style jewelry. He had a florid complexion and a large
abdomen. He spoke in a confident, somewhat arrogant manner, obviously
not at all intimated by speaking in front of a class of students. We
observed his apparent pleasure at listening to himself talk
throughout the consultation.
J.A. was coming for treatment for a number of physical complaints:
allergies, an enlarged prostate, high blood pressure, and low-grade
diabetes.
"I don't like taking pills and never took medicine when I was young
as I figured it wouldn't work. They stuck me with all sorts of
needles and really screwed me up. I got a flu shot and then got the
flu. I am taking medicine for blood pressure and diabetes but would
like to get off."
J.A. reports that he has had allergies for as long as he can
remember, but that they have been getting worse over the last couple
of years. "I was hooked on nose spray but I was a professional driver
and the medicine made me drowsy." His allergy symptoms include a
cough with a lot of salivation, sneezing, post-nasal drip, stuffiness
and pressure in sinuses.
"I am outside in the woods all year round, hunting and fishing. They
are worst outside, in the Fall when the leaves start to decay. It's
the revenge of the deer. The only time they are better is at the
ocean."
When asked about how this affects his life he says:
"Nothing stops me from doing what I want to do. I spent a lot of my
early years alone. I entertained myself. You can change anything you
want to. At age twenty I was in the army doing small arms training.
Got shot in the head and hurt a hell of a lot. I spent a year and a
half undergoing plastic surgery. Took a big chunk out of my nose and
lip. I know what pain really is. Excruciating pain when they skin you-
that is really cool. I don't like morphine. At first they gave me a
lot and I learned to do without and go somewhere where there was no
pain. I had so many shots you could squeeze my arm and the medicine
would squirt out. In the army they had me see a psychiatrist a couple
of times before the surgery-they were concerned about my mind,
worried about the disfigurement. I said the first thing I'm going to
do is get some beer and go hunting with friends. Being disfigured
doesn't bother me-life's too short. Once I hit my hand with a hammer
and said 'Boy are you stupid'-I put it under cold water and sutured
it myself."
When asked about his childhood he said:
"As a child, my father was away at war. We used to play soldiers and
I was better at it than the other kids. I was the only kid on the
block with a bow and arrow and a tomahawk. Two brothers-I kicked
their butts. As a child I spent a lot of time with my grandmother.
She was part American Indian. There were stuffed animal heads all
around the room. I learned about being in tune with nature, about
animals. I learned how to manipulate situations. I like being able to
get away, to soar. The most peaceful times I ever had weres when I
was learning to fly. In a life/death experience when you re-run your
tapes, you are looking down, you fly."
When asked about his work (J.A. was a truck driver) he said:
"Work was challenging. I learned to read people pretty well-how to
work with a bunch of idiots without turning them into a hostile group
against you. I read people pretty well. My brother says I'm a
manipulator. Some people call it a snow-job. I take a situation and
turn it around and no one knows you're doing it. I'm intuitive. I
feel vibrations from people. I can look at people and see colors over
their heads. I can project thoughts to animals. The animal has no
idea I am there. Whatever you think of you can be, if you want to
enough."
He spoke at length about his love of hunting:
"Weather doesn't bother me because I have no control over it.
Yesterday was a perfect day because I got within sixty yards of a
buck. It was a good day for a hunter...when humans stalk an animal it
can smell them and moisture keeps the smell down. Killing is not a
sport. I'm dead serious about it. I know I can catch them if I want
to. I knew where to go and I stayed there patiently until the buck
came near. I can communicate psychically with the animals. I said to
it, 'I'm going to kill you' and it turned its head because it knew I
had it. I had my bow and arrow aimed. I decided not to kill the deer,
but I could have. The Indians could go up to an animal and touch it
and let it go on."
He said he slept well unless the allergies interfere and he has to
sleep propped up. He also wakes up at night to urinate (due to his
enlarged prostate):
"I dream about whatever I decide I want to dream about. I make up my
own story. I plan things in my dreams and then carry them out."
"I collect knives, guns, and spurs. I also keep feathers and fur
from the animals I have killed. I don't throw anything away-you name
it and I've probably got it."
"That idiot in Iraq-how many people are prepared for Armageddon?
It's coming and I have plenty of guns for everyone."
"Money rules the world and our president. I'm a Roman Catholic and I
believe in morality-right is right and wrong is wrong. Clinton
disgusts me-I'm surprised at how pissed I am at him. He's sticking it
to the American people. I'll just wait until the election."
When asked about fears he says, "I've never feared anything. I've
been there, done that. I kick butt." "I'm 59 years old and I haven't
slowed down."
J.A. smashed his right heel fifteen years ago and it is still
painful. He has arthritis in the right leg and knee, and some
cramping in the leg-hence the limp.
For food, J.A. desires spicy food, garlic, fish, pizza, and prime
ribs. "Prime rib end-cut is the ultimate-I worked as a butcher once
too."
Now he has to watch his diet for blood sugar. He checks his blood
sugar daily and takes medication when his levels indicate the need.
He drinks a lot of water and "a fair amount of Jack Daniels." He
says he is warm-blooded.
Evaluation
The most striking thing about this case was that, as a group, we
were all fascinated and horrified listening to J.A. 's description of
stalking animals. He obviously felt an enormous power in his ability
to be the one who decided whether an animal would live or die, and
letting them go was his way of expressing "compassion" and feeling
powerful. We could picture him with bow and arrow poised, ready to
shoot his prey, and sending the animal a psychic message that it was
in his power. We were struck by the fact that his allergies were
keeping him from hunting-the symptoms were protecting the organism.
J.A. 's obsession with hunting seems to have been there from
childhood, with his love of playing soldiers and "kicking butt," but
what affected his life the most was having to endure the excruciating
pain from his gunshot wound. He was able to survive in conditions
that most others would have not been able to withstand, and even
seemed to derive pleasure from his ability to do so. This is one of
the unique qualities of the scorpion in the desert, that can survive
when anything else would perish. J.A. 's mention of Saddam Hussein
and his own readiness to fight when Armageddon came indicate his
feeling of being ready for an attack. In terms of his language and
how it relates to Androctonus (scorpion) pathology, he used phrases
like "stuck with needles" and Clinton "sticking it to the American
people." He also likes to hunt with a bow and arrow, which resembles
the one-pointed sting of the scorpion tail. Without knowing about
Androctonus, we would have considered giving Sulphur-because of
J.A. 's theorizing about life (much more than is included in this
article), his love of collecting unusual objects, his eccentric
clothing ("his rags are his riches"), and his arrogant self-
confidence. His food desires and generals fit Sulphur as well.
However, what is characteristically most unusual about this case is
J.A. 's extraordinary ability to survive and his relationship to
attacking and being attacked. These are not covered by Sulphur. We
discussed the possibility of a snake or some other animal remedy, but
the prescription of Scorpion seemed to fit his state perfectly.
Rx: Androctonus, LM1 daily. [Note: J.A. did not follow this regimen
and only took the remedy sporadically.]
Followups
December, after 2 months
J.A. comes in wearing street clothes. His allergies are 50% better-
no phlegm, nose is clear, and he can breathe well. He used to have
terrible tearing of the eyes; that has stopped. He doesn't have to
sleep propped up at an angle any more. He's been out in the woods
most of the time for the last couple of months and it has been good.
Blood pressure is normal, stable; he's still taking BP medication.
When asked about himself in general, J.A. reports:
"It's been phenomenal. I feel an inner feeling change. Life is not
so much of a hassle. I have an inner feeling of peace and joy.
Attitudes have changed. Clinton has not bothered me. I'm more in tune
with what I am doing. Not tired or listless. I used to fall asleep at
8pm. Now I'm active until 11pm. [We did not know this before.]
Sleeping through the night now. Not having to get up in the middle of
the night to pee."
J.A. speaks about being in the woods and seeing the young plants
sprouting and changes in nature. The pain in his leg has increased
recently. He says it is due to physical exertion.
April, after 6 months J.A. looks less disfigured. The whole class
comments on this; or are we just getting used to his appearance? He
reports:
"Allergies are 90% better. No problem with leaf mold this year.
I am more tolerant of people and ideas. I've mellowed out.
Hunting-I let most of them go now. This year I would have taken
fifteen but I've only taken two. It's like wildflowers. I don't pick
them but leave them for others to enjoy."
His legs are much better. He is still taking blood sugar medication,
but only about half the amount he was taking before. "My doctor said
to me 'What happened?'"
Rx: Androctonus, LM2. He has taken this intermittently since then.
After 9 months
J.A. reports that he now has no allergies at all. He is still on
the same meds for high blood pressure. Although his condition is
completely stable, he won't stop these meds until his doctor suggests
it. The same goes for the diabetes. He only takes the meds
occasionally, if he has eaten sugar. His arthritis is much better. He
is not walking with a limp and can use his leg fairly normally. He
does not have the headaches or neck pain that he used to have. J.A.
told me he was bored with his collection of knives and guns and was
thinking of getting rid of it. In general, he is much calmer and
happier in himself.
From: minutus@yahoogroups.com [mailto:minutus@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Shannon & Bob Nelson
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 9:55 AM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Minutus] Re: scorpions
What a lovely case!
Another great resource for Androctonos is Jeremy Sherr's detailed and vivid presentation at www.homeopathicsymposium.com. (This very rich site isn't free, but the site is a wonderful one.)
Shannon
Androctonus amoreuxii hebraeus
Case
J.A. A 59-year-old male.
This case was taken in October 1998, in front of a group of
students; J.A. was referred by one of the members of this class. His
immediate appearance was of a person with considerable scarring on
one side of his face and forehead-obviously from some sort of injury
or accident. He walked with a slight limp and described himself as a
retired "operations supervisor." He was wearing an army camouflage
outfit and a baseball hat decorated on the front with a plastic
moose, American flag, and an orange crystal. He was also wearing
American-Indian-style jewelry. He had a florid complexion and a large
abdomen. He spoke in a confident, somewhat arrogant manner, obviously
not at all intimated by speaking in front of a class of students. We
observed his apparent pleasure at listening to himself talk
throughout the consultation.
J.A. was coming for treatment for a number of physical complaints:
allergies, an enlarged prostate, high blood pressure, and low-grade
diabetes.
"I don't like taking pills and never took medicine when I was young
as I figured it wouldn't work. They stuck me with all sorts of
needles and really screwed me up. I got a flu shot and then got the
flu. I am taking medicine for blood pressure and diabetes but would
like to get off."
J.A. reports that he has had allergies for as long as he can
remember, but that they have been getting worse over the last couple
of years. "I was hooked on nose spray but I was a professional driver
and the medicine made me drowsy." His allergy symptoms include a
cough with a lot of salivation, sneezing, post-nasal drip, stuffiness
and pressure in sinuses.
"I am outside in the woods all year round, hunting and fishing. They
are worst outside, in the Fall when the leaves start to decay. It's
the revenge of the deer. The only time they are better is at the
ocean."
When asked about how this affects his life he says:
"Nothing stops me from doing what I want to do. I spent a lot of my
early years alone. I entertained myself. You can change anything you
want to. At age twenty I was in the army doing small arms training.
Got shot in the head and hurt a hell of a lot. I spent a year and a
half undergoing plastic surgery. Took a big chunk out of my nose and
lip. I know what pain really is. Excruciating pain when they skin you-
that is really cool. I don't like morphine. At first they gave me a
lot and I learned to do without and go somewhere where there was no
pain. I had so many shots you could squeeze my arm and the medicine
would squirt out. In the army they had me see a psychiatrist a couple
of times before the surgery-they were concerned about my mind,
worried about the disfigurement. I said the first thing I'm going to
do is get some beer and go hunting with friends. Being disfigured
doesn't bother me-life's too short. Once I hit my hand with a hammer
and said 'Boy are you stupid'-I put it under cold water and sutured
it myself."
When asked about his childhood he said:
"As a child, my father was away at war. We used to play soldiers and
I was better at it than the other kids. I was the only kid on the
block with a bow and arrow and a tomahawk. Two brothers-I kicked
their butts. As a child I spent a lot of time with my grandmother.
She was part American Indian. There were stuffed animal heads all
around the room. I learned about being in tune with nature, about
animals. I learned how to manipulate situations. I like being able to
get away, to soar. The most peaceful times I ever had weres when I
was learning to fly. In a life/death experience when you re-run your
tapes, you are looking down, you fly."
When asked about his work (J.A. was a truck driver) he said:
"Work was challenging. I learned to read people pretty well-how to
work with a bunch of idiots without turning them into a hostile group
against you. I read people pretty well. My brother says I'm a
manipulator. Some people call it a snow-job. I take a situation and
turn it around and no one knows you're doing it. I'm intuitive. I
feel vibrations from people. I can look at people and see colors over
their heads. I can project thoughts to animals. The animal has no
idea I am there. Whatever you think of you can be, if you want to
enough."
He spoke at length about his love of hunting:
"Weather doesn't bother me because I have no control over it.
Yesterday was a perfect day because I got within sixty yards of a
buck. It was a good day for a hunter...when humans stalk an animal it
can smell them and moisture keeps the smell down. Killing is not a
sport. I'm dead serious about it. I know I can catch them if I want
to. I knew where to go and I stayed there patiently until the buck
came near. I can communicate psychically with the animals. I said to
it, 'I'm going to kill you' and it turned its head because it knew I
had it. I had my bow and arrow aimed. I decided not to kill the deer,
but I could have. The Indians could go up to an animal and touch it
and let it go on."
He said he slept well unless the allergies interfere and he has to
sleep propped up. He also wakes up at night to urinate (due to his
enlarged prostate):
"I dream about whatever I decide I want to dream about. I make up my
own story. I plan things in my dreams and then carry them out."
"I collect knives, guns, and spurs. I also keep feathers and fur
from the animals I have killed. I don't throw anything away-you name
it and I've probably got it."
"That idiot in Iraq-how many people are prepared for Armageddon?
It's coming and I have plenty of guns for everyone."
"Money rules the world and our president. I'm a Roman Catholic and I
believe in morality-right is right and wrong is wrong. Clinton
disgusts me-I'm surprised at how pissed I am at him. He's sticking it
to the American people. I'll just wait until the election."
When asked about fears he says, "I've never feared anything. I've
been there, done that. I kick butt." "I'm 59 years old and I haven't
slowed down."
J.A. smashed his right heel fifteen years ago and it is still
painful. He has arthritis in the right leg and knee, and some
cramping in the leg-hence the limp.
For food, J.A. desires spicy food, garlic, fish, pizza, and prime
ribs. "Prime rib end-cut is the ultimate-I worked as a butcher once
too."
Now he has to watch his diet for blood sugar. He checks his blood
sugar daily and takes medication when his levels indicate the need.
He drinks a lot of water and "a fair amount of Jack Daniels." He
says he is warm-blooded.
Evaluation
The most striking thing about this case was that, as a group, we
were all fascinated and horrified listening to J.A. 's description of
stalking animals. He obviously felt an enormous power in his ability
to be the one who decided whether an animal would live or die, and
letting them go was his way of expressing "compassion" and feeling
powerful. We could picture him with bow and arrow poised, ready to
shoot his prey, and sending the animal a psychic message that it was
in his power. We were struck by the fact that his allergies were
keeping him from hunting-the symptoms were protecting the organism.
J.A. 's obsession with hunting seems to have been there from
childhood, with his love of playing soldiers and "kicking butt," but
what affected his life the most was having to endure the excruciating
pain from his gunshot wound. He was able to survive in conditions
that most others would have not been able to withstand, and even
seemed to derive pleasure from his ability to do so. This is one of
the unique qualities of the scorpion in the desert, that can survive
when anything else would perish. J.A. 's mention of Saddam Hussein
and his own readiness to fight when Armageddon came indicate his
feeling of being ready for an attack. In terms of his language and
how it relates to Androctonus (scorpion) pathology, he used phrases
like "stuck with needles" and Clinton "sticking it to the American
people." He also likes to hunt with a bow and arrow, which resembles
the one-pointed sting of the scorpion tail. Without knowing about
Androctonus, we would have considered giving Sulphur-because of
J.A. 's theorizing about life (much more than is included in this
article), his love of collecting unusual objects, his eccentric
clothing ("his rags are his riches"), and his arrogant self-
confidence. His food desires and generals fit Sulphur as well.
However, what is characteristically most unusual about this case is
J.A. 's extraordinary ability to survive and his relationship to
attacking and being attacked. These are not covered by Sulphur. We
discussed the possibility of a snake or some other animal remedy, but
the prescription of Scorpion seemed to fit his state perfectly.
Rx: Androctonus, LM1 daily. [Note: J.A. did not follow this regimen
and only took the remedy sporadically.]
Followups
December, after 2 months
J.A. comes in wearing street clothes. His allergies are 50% better-
no phlegm, nose is clear, and he can breathe well. He used to have
terrible tearing of the eyes; that has stopped. He doesn't have to
sleep propped up at an angle any more. He's been out in the woods
most of the time for the last couple of months and it has been good.
Blood pressure is normal, stable; he's still taking BP medication.
When asked about himself in general, J.A. reports:
"It's been phenomenal. I feel an inner feeling change. Life is not
so much of a hassle. I have an inner feeling of peace and joy.
Attitudes have changed. Clinton has not bothered me. I'm more in tune
with what I am doing. Not tired or listless. I used to fall asleep at
8pm. Now I'm active until 11pm. [We did not know this before.]
Sleeping through the night now. Not having to get up in the middle of
the night to pee."
J.A. speaks about being in the woods and seeing the young plants
sprouting and changes in nature. The pain in his leg has increased
recently. He says it is due to physical exertion.
April, after 6 months J.A. looks less disfigured. The whole class
comments on this; or are we just getting used to his appearance? He
reports:
"Allergies are 90% better. No problem with leaf mold this year.
I am more tolerant of people and ideas. I've mellowed out.
Hunting-I let most of them go now. This year I would have taken
fifteen but I've only taken two. It's like wildflowers. I don't pick
them but leave them for others to enjoy."
His legs are much better. He is still taking blood sugar medication,
but only about half the amount he was taking before. "My doctor said
to me 'What happened?'"
Rx: Androctonus, LM2. He has taken this intermittently since then.
After 9 months
J.A. reports that he now has no allergies at all. He is still on
the same meds for high blood pressure. Although his condition is
completely stable, he won't stop these meds until his doctor suggests
it. The same goes for the diabetes. He only takes the meds
occasionally, if he has eaten sugar. His arthritis is much better. He
is not walking with a limp and can use his leg fairly normally. He
does not have the headaches or neck pain that he used to have. J.A.
told me he was bored with his collection of knives and guns and was
thinking of getting rid of it. In general, he is much calmer and
happier in himself.