Exact and Accurate Practice of Homoeopathy

[Krishna]

By Dr. V. Krishnamurthy (with forty years of practice and teaching Homoeopathy, Dr. Bach Flower Remedies of England and Chinese Acupressure)

Most homoeopaths remain as symptom-coverers. Bernard Shaw
wrote that if a homoeopath looks at a Chinese he would prescribe
him for jaundice (because the colour of skin of any average Chinese
is yellow.) I would attempt to carefully lift the mysterious obscurities enveloping homoeopathic practice.

Now let us learn one more term `congestion.'
When two or more symptoms are in one and the same part of the
body instead of considering each one separately you should take this
rubric congestion (See page 24 of our FINAL REPERTORY OF
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.) For example, a patient came in
complaining headache, dandruff and hair fall; he had been having
this for several years. The neophyte would take 'dandruff' 'head' and
'headache' for finding the remedy. But these three symptoms found
together in one place viz., head, we should not take the three symptoms
separately but as one whole unit and the term is congestion.

A patient was having varicose veins in legs, pain in knee, corns
on sole, cramps in feet. All these complaints are on the lower limb.
Here too we must use the rubric 'congestion.'

Instances where also you would press into service this
term:

When pain or some other symptom is felt in a part while exerting
another part. E. g., headache while coughing, involuntary urination
or urging to urinate when excited etc.

For acute diseases you may search in your various repertories
as such i.e. 'head, pain on coughing' etc. But for chronic diseases
you must use the term 'congestion' in the repertory.

Worry causes headache. Mental tension causes or aggravates
skin complaints. (For this we have the term neurotic eczema. [See
the remedy Anacardium Orientale in Boericke's Materia Medica. In
that remedy under the para Skin we find the following: Intense itching,
eczema, with mental irritability. neurotic eczema.]

Analogous to the above term 'congestion' we find two more terms
in the homoeopathic materia medicas. They are 'hyperaemia' and 'rush
of blood.' [Hyperaemia = an excess of blood in an organ or other part
of the body.]

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Remedies having the symptom congestion:

Abrus precatorius - unilateral headache; reflex uterine, congestive headache, better open air and by free flow.

Aconite - ailments from vexation, with fear or vehemence:

congestion; palpitation; fever; anxiety, beside himself;

threatened miscarriage; apoplectic congestion. - local congestions and inflammations. - plethora; active capillary congestions (from overactive

serous membranes). - tendency to apoplectic congestion; plethora. - in hyperaemia, congestion not after exudation has set in. - ovaries congested and painful.

Actea spic - active sanguineous congestions.

Adrenalinum - therapeutically, adrenalin has been suggested in acute

congestion of lungs, asthma, grave's and addison's diseases,

arterio-sclerosis, chronic aortitis, angina pectoris, haemophilia

chlorosis, hay fever, serum rashes, acute urticaria, etc.

Aesculus hip - venous congestion, especially portal and

hemorrhoidal. - follicular pharyngitis connected with

hepatic congestion. - torpor and congestion of the liver and

portal system, with constipation. - very painful, dark purple, external

haemorrhoids, with constipation and vertigo and portal

congestion.

Spigelia marylandica (maniacal excitement, paroxysmal laughing and crying, loud, disconnected talking, vertigo, dilated pupils, congestions); acon.; cact.; cimicif.; arnica (spigela is a chronic arnica); cinnab. (supraorbital pain)

Ailanthus - passive congestion headaches.

Aloe . -congestion to head and chest, but especially to portal system. - there is no remedy richer in symptoms of portal

congestion and none that has given better clinical results, both for the primary pathological condition and secondary phenomena.

Alumina -rush of blood to face after eating.

Alumina silicata -congestion of brain.

Ambra grisea -rush of blood to head, when listening to music.

Ammoniac. - anxiety, with congestion of lungs.

Ammonium bromatum - cerebral congestion.

Ammonium carbonicum - tip of nose congested.

Ammonium muriaticum - chronic congestion of liver.

Amygdalus. -congestion or turgescence of vessels of brain; general effusion on both hemispheres; dura mater gorged.

Amyl nit - hyperaemic.

Amyl nit - superficial arterial hyperaemia.

Antimonium sulphuratum auratum -congestion of upper lobe of left lung.

Antipyrinum - acts especially on the vaso-motor centers, causingdilation of capillaries of skin and consequent circumscribed patches of hyperaemia and swelling.

Apis. - delirium: with congestion; eruptions; heat; during sleep.

Apocynum cannabinum - takes cold easily, nostrils become congested and blocked up easily.

Arg-met - in society indisposed to talk; he complains of rush of blood to head and cheeks, singing in ears; itching in reddened eyes.

Arg-nit - great melancholy and weakness of mind with congestion to head.

Aristolochia (symptoms of intestinal tract; colliquative diarrhoea, meteorism. flatulent dyspepsia. brain congestion. distention and cutting pains in abdomen. symptoms like those of poison-oak).

Arnica - noises in ear caused by rush of blood to the head.

Arnica. - coma, insensibility. ---congestive chills, meningitis, etc.

Arnica. - in cases of sanguine plethoric people with lively expression,very red face, disposed to cerebral congestion. ---prolapsus uteri.

Artemisia -congestion of brain and spine.

Artemisia vulgaris -congestion of brain.

Asafoetida. - venous pulsations; congestion of portal vein; congestive fulness about heart and chest, with asthma; heat of face and ears, after eating; pressure on chest, etc.; copious discharges; all signs of fulness of ous system.

Aurum met - erethism or vascular fulness characterizes nearly all complaints; thus ruddy with scrofula, vascular leukoma, congestive asthma, ebullitions, erections, congested kidneys and liver-all from hypertrophied heart.

Aurum metallicum -congestion to head. palpitation and congestions.

Aurum mur. - hyperemia from overaction of heart; consequent congestion of liver, kidneys, genitals.

Belladonna - belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion [ginseng]; eustachian tube and tympanic congestion. fundus congested. stupefaction, with congestion to head, pupils enlarged; delirium.

Bellis perennis - venous congestion, due to mechanical causes.

Benzinum nitricum - venous hyperaemia of the brain and general venous engorgement. Carduus marianus - hyperaemia of liver, with jaundice.

Cactus -congestions; irregular distribution of blood - congestive headaches, periodical, threatening apoplexy. - sanguineous congestions in persons of plethoric habit.

Calcarea ars - epilepsy with rush of blood to the before attack;

aura felt in region of heart; flying sensation.

Calcarea ars - violent rush of blood to with vertigo.

Calc-carb. -congestions: head; eyes; ears; nose; face; chest;

abdomen, limbs; plethora.

Camphor - internal congestions.

Canchalagua - congested.

Cannot recognize localities. - cerebral congestion.

Cannot recognize localities. - menses delayed, or sudden cessation

with congestion to head.

Carbo animalis - causes local congestions without heat.

Carbo animalis -rush of blood with confusion.

Carboneum oxygenisatum - cerebral congestion; hallucination of

vision, hearing and touch.

Carboneum sulphuratum - paralysis with intense congestion of

nerve centres.

Carduus marianus - dropsical conditions depending on liver disease,

and when due to pelvic congestion and hepatic disease.

Causticum. - disposition to hyperemia and congestion depending

on diminished action of motor nerves on muscular coat of

bloodvessels. ---aphonia.

Chelidonium -congestion of liver and kidneys; mucous membranes.

Chelidonium majus - -(spasm of smooth muscle everywhere, intestinal colic, uterine colic, bronchial spasm, tachycardia, etc.) boldo =; boldoa fragrans (bladder atony; cholecystitis and biliary calculus. bitter taste, no appetite; constipation, hypochondriasis languor, congestion of liver; burning weight in liver and stomach. painful hepatic diseases. disturbed liver following malaria.) elemuy gauteria (stones in kidneys and bladder; grain doses of powdered bark in water or 5 drops of tincture. pellagra).

calc. brom. (removes inflammatory productsfrom uterus; children of lax fiber, nervous and irritable, with gastric and cerebral irritation. tendency to brain disease. insomnia and cerebral congestion. give 1x trituration). China - carbonaceous caries, commencing with a black spot, scrofulous or tuberculous subjects; the pain is throbbing, of a congestive nature, or caused by abuse of mercury.

China - has a special affinity for liver and spleen, producing hyperemia

and congestion.

China-sulph. - periodical recurrence of nervous and congestive

?paroxysms, trismus, paraplegia, ophthalmia, pulmonary

hemorrhage, etc

China-sulph. - pruritus and congested conditions of the rectum.

Chloralum - passive cerebral hyperaemia (use 30th).

Chloralum. - comatose for days, ending in cerebral congestion.

Chloralum. - delirium tremens, when brain is congested.

Chronic plumbism. - arteries and veins congested.

Chronic plumbism. - retinal congestion; optic disc pale.

Cicuta. -congestions to brain and spinal cord, also to lungs and

abdominal viscera.

Cinnabaris -congestion to head; face purple red.

Coccinella -rush of blood to face.

Collinsonia canadensis - pelvic and portal congestion, resulting

haemorrhoids and constipation, especially in females.

Collinsonia. - pelvic and portal congestion, resulting in

dysmenorrhoea and piles.

Colocynth - neuralgia of the small branches of the infraorbital nerves,

in plethoric, choleric, irritable men, from 40 to 50 years of age,

and disposed to hemorrhoidal and gouty affections and to

congestions towards head; most frequent cause was vexation,

but sometimes too close application to business; but once

produced, this neuralgia was apt to recur many days successively

at same hour, in forenoon.

Conium maculatum - such a condition is often found in old age, a

time of weakness, languor, local congestions, and

sluggishness.

Convallaria majalis - pulmonary congestion.

Corallium rubrum -congestion of face after dinner.

Crocus sat. - boy, aged 10, whose father died suddenly in insane

asylum; a febrile condition with congestion to head, followed

by cerebral disturbances, after awaking from a sleep.

Crocus sat. - child sits or stands up in bed making various quick

movements without being conscious of what he is doing; this is

followed by a short interval of quietness, in which he may regain

consciousness, but without any knowledge of what has passed;

this remission followed by another attack, and so on; febrile

condition with congestion to head; eyes fixed and bright; redness and heat of face; urine pale and scant; desires neither

food nor drink.

Crocus sat. - irritation and congestion of brain, causing hysterical

mania, congestion of womb and metrorrhagia.

Crotalus hor. - cortical substance of brain, and membranes of brain

in a state of engorgement, with dark, fluid, degraded blood; the

cortex highly congested and stained a deep brown color; the

arachnoid thickened, tough, opaque and adherent to the pia mater,

and the meshes of the latter distended with serum; extravasation

and ecchymosis.

Digitalis - chronic bronchitis; passive congestion of the lungs,

giving bloody sputum due to failing myocardium.

Digitalis. - mrs. f., aged 69; heart disease, with extensive congestion

to lung.

Digitalis. - with drunkards congestion of blood to head and heart.

Does not vitiate the secretions. - venous congestion due to

mechanical causes.

Duboisia -hyperaemia of retina with weakness of accommodation,

fundus red, blood-vessels full and tortuous; pupils dilated, with

dim vision.

Dulcamara - congestive headache, with neuralgia and dry nose.

Epiphegus - subinvolution, with painful menstruation and

congestion.

Erigeron. - produces active congestion of various organs, with a

tendency to hemorrhage therefrom.
Eryngium aquaticum - renal colic. [pareira; calc.] congestion of

kidneys with dull pain in back, running down the ureters and

limbs.

Eucalyptus globulus - dull congestive headache.

Euonymus atropurpurea - passive congestion and torpor of liver;

chronic catarrhal affections of stomach and intestines.

Fagopyrum - cerebral hyperaemia.

Favors falling off of tartar of teeth. - often relieves congestion of

the lungs, thus paving way for other remedies in tuberculosis.

Ferrum met - ferrum sulphuricum. (watery and painless stools;

menorrhagia pressing, throbbing between periods with rush

of blood to head. basedow's disease. erethism. pain in gallbladder;

toothache; acidity; eructation of food in mouthfuls)

Ferrum met. - pseudo-plethora; congestions, etc., yet anemic; face

is earthy, flushing easily.

Ferrum met - hammering, pulsating, congestive headache; pain

extends to teeth, with cold extremities.

Ferrum phos. -hyperaemia of optic disc and retina, with blurred

vision.

Gambogia. -congestion to head, lungs and female sexual organs.

Gelsemium. - active or passive congestion of brain, spinal cord,

lungs, liver and other organs.

Gelsemium. -congestions, arterial or venous, with sluggish

circulation.
Gelsemium. - in scarlet fever it determines the eruption to the surface,

controls the pulse, calms the nervous erethism, and lessens the

cerebral congestion.

Gelsemium. - miss aged 19, had two years ago severe attack of

congestive intermittent fever, quotidian type; facial neuralgia.

Glonoine -any exertion brings on rush of blood to heart and

fainting spells. -rush of blood to in pregnant women. -congestions; blood tends upward; vessels pulsate; veins (jugular, temporal) enlarged. - laborer in iron foundry; congestion to head. - lady, aged 25; congestion to head and convulsions during menstrual period. - loses senses, sinks down unconscious; congestion alternately to head and heart. - mrs. m. j. c., aged 35, bilious sanguine temperament; has had four children and four miscarriages; congestion to head. - woman, aged 35; congestive headaches. - woman, colored cook, aged 40, widow, one child, aged

15; violent headache and congestion to brain.

Graphites -rush of blood to with flushed face also with nose bleed

and distension and flatulence.

Gratiola -rush of blood with vanishing of sight.

Grindelia robusta - there is practically no difference in their action,

although the g. squarrosa is credited with more splenic

symptoms, dull pains and fullness in left hypochondrium; chronic

malaria; gastric pains associated with splenic congestion.

Hamamelis - middle-aged man, with congested liver; bleeding piles.

Hamamelis - passive congestion, or venous stagnation of skin and

mucous membranes.

Hamamelis - purpura hemorrhagica with epistaxis and congestion

of conjunctiva.

Hamamelis - venous congestion, hemorrhoids, conjunctival

vascularity, ciliary neuralgia, photophobia, lachrymation.

Hamamelis - venous congestions; hemorrhages.

Hamamelis virginiana - ovarian congestion and neuralgia; feel very

sore.

Hamamelis virginiana - venous congestion, haemorrhages, varicose

veins, and haemorrhoids, with bruised soreness of affected parts,

seem to be the special sphere of this remedy.

Hedeoma pulegioides - leucorrhoea, with itching and burning ovaries

congested and painful; bearing-down spasmodic contractions.

Helianthus annuus - vomiting, black stools, congestion and dryness

of mouth and pharynx, redness and heat of skin.

Helonias dioica - it seems as if the monthly congestion, instead of

venting itself as it should through the uterine vessels, had

extended to the kidneys.

Helonias dioica - the menses are often suppressed and the kidneys

congested.

Hydrocyanic acid. - acts upon cerebral veins, producing congestion;

secondarily upon heart, nerves, etc.
Hydrocyanicum acidum - marked cyanosis; venously congested lung.

Hypericum. -congestion to head, lungs or heart.

Hypericum. - local congestions; nervous erethism, with or without

hemorrhage; great nervous depression following wounds.

Ignatia - after catamenia, which came at night time, symptoms of

insanity; believes herself married and pregnant; is tormented by

remorse for imagined crimes; seeks constantly to escape to drown

herself; terrible anxiety from rush of blood to head and heart;

is only quiet when lying undisturbed and brooding over her

troubles, which she rehearses in a doleful tone; if disturbed,

screams, strikes and tears things, crying all the while "I am

neglecting my duty, breaking my vow;" face pale and distorted;

desire for sour things; difficulty to get her to eat; conscientious

scruples after eating; menses suppressed.

Ignatia amara - congestive headaches following anger or grief; worse,

smoking or smelling tobacco, inclines forward.

In pale, anaemic subjects, with violent local congestions. - compare

: (oxygenoid constitution. acon; china; arsenic; graphit.; petrol.)

ferrum pyrophosph.. (congestion of brain and headache

following great loss of blood; tarsal cysts)

Indigo. - congestive condition of head and lungs, with palpitation of

heart.

Iodum - throbbing; rush of blood, and feeling of a tight band.

Iridium metallicum - compare : iridium chloride. (produces salivation

and stiffness of jaws followed by and nervous symptoms.

congestion of nares and bronchi. dragging pain in lower back.

headache worse right side, heavy feeling as of liquid lead.)

Juniperus communis - compare : sabina; juniperus virginianus red

cedar-(violent tenesmus vesical. persistent dragging in back;

hyperaemia of the kidneys; pyelitis and cystitis; dropsy of

the aged with suppressed urine. dysuria, burning, cutting pain

in urethra when urinating. constant urging apoplexy, convulsions,

strangury, uterine haemorrhage).

Juniperus communis - renal hyperaemia. [eucalyptol.]

Kali-mur. - alternate states of sadness and cheerfulness, associated

with congestion, > from nosebleed.

Kali-mur. - congestions; in second stage, interstitial exudation;

causes swelling or enlargement of parts, white coated tongue or

white sputa.

Kali-mur. - disturbed action of vasomotor nerves, congestions, with

tension, or coldness.

Kali bichromicum -congestion of kidneys; nephritis, with scanty,

albuminous urine and casts.

Kali bromatum -congestion of uvula and fauces.

Kali iodatum - irritable; congestion to head, heat and throbbing.

Kalu nitricum - acute exacerbations in phthisis; congestion of

lungs.

Kali sili. - congested, blood surges from body to head.

Koch's lymph (acute and chronic parenchymatous nephritis; produces

pneumonia, broncho-pneumonia, and congestion of the lungs

in tuberculous patients, and is a remarkably efficacious remedy

in lobular pneumonia-broncho-pneumonia); aviare-tuberculin

from birds-(acts on the apices of the lungs; has proved an

excellent remedy in influenzal bronchitis; symptoms similar to

tuberculosis; relieves the debility, diminishes the cough,

improves the appetite, and braces up the whole organism; acute

broncho-pulmonary diseases of children; itching of palms and

ears; cough, acute, inflammatory, irritating, incessant, and

tickling; loss of strength and appetite); hydrast. (to fatten patients

after tuberc.)

Lachesis. - woman, aged 48, 18 months after climaxis, catamenia

had been copious, very dark, had been subject to congestion

towards head and chest; swelling of right ovary.

Leptandra. - chronic congestion and other chronic disorders of liver.

Lilium tig. - heart feels full to bursting, from congestion; much

fluttering; reflex heart symptoms. - ceases when resting. [sep.; lac.c. ; bell.]

congestion of uterus, prolapse, and anteversion.

Limulus - difficult to remember names, confused with heat of face,

rush of blood to face, worse when meditating.

Lithium carbonicum - lithium bromatum (cerebral congestion,

threatened apoplexy, insomnia and epilepsy).

Lonicera xylosteum -congestion of and chest; coma.

Lycopersicum esculentum - always shows signs of acute congestion.

Lycopodium. - distrustful, suspicious and fault finding. ---dyspepsia.

---chronic hepatic congestion. ---excess of lithic gravel. - woman, aged 30, sanguine temperament, lively

disposition, suffering with rheumatism, headache and

congestions; hemorrhage after abortion.

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Diseases in which the term 'congestion' was used to
find the remedy, their symptoms along with the
respective remedies are given below:

(Agalactia) Aconite - mammae congested, hot, hard and distended,
with little or no milk.
(Albuminuria) Coccus cacti - general lassitude. pulmonary
congestions during acute desquamative nephritis, with profuse
mucous secretion and suffocative spasmodic cough.
(Albuminuria) Crotalus hor - passive renal congestion, when from
embarrassed circulation, as from obstructive heart disease,
asthma, chronic bronchitis, etc., especially during its course, or
as sequelae of zymotic diseases
(Albuminuria) Glonoinum - brain feels too large, congested
(Albuminuria) Helleborus -congestion of kidneys with extensive
effusion of serum in abdominal cavity and tissue of lower
extremities

(Albuminuria) Kali mur - alternate states of sadness and cheerfulness
with congestion, > by nosebleed
(Albuminuria) Kali mur -congestion to heart, slow pulse, twitching
of face
(Albuminuria) Kali mur - congestive vertigo, < after violent exercise
(Albuminuria) Kali mur - portal congestion and enlarged liver
(Albuminuria) Phosphorus -congestion of the right heart, and hence
venous congestion of kidneys
(Albuminuria) Terebinth - congestion of kidneys with rupture of
the fine capillaries and consequent pouring out of blood into the
pelvis of kidneys.
(Amenorrhoea) Apis mel - suppressed menses, with congested or

inflamed ovaries
(Amenorrhoea) Belladonna - suppression of menses followed by
hyperaemia, rush of blood to the head, wakefulness and
throbbing of carotids and temples
(Amenorrhoea) China -rush of blood to the head, with pulsation
of the carotids
(Amenorrhoea) Cuprum met -rush of blood to the head, with a
strange tingling pain in the crown of the head, or pale face with
blue margins around the eyes, or burning redness of the face
with red eyes
(Amenorrhoea) Glonoinum - amenorrhoea with great congestion
in head, < by shaking head
(Amenorrhoea) Helonias - suppression of menses when the kidneys
are congested, urine scanty and turbid
(Amenorrhoea) Merc-sol -rush of blood to the head
(Amenorrhoea) Opium - suppression, with congestion of blood to
the head, which feels heavy
(Amenorrhoea) Sepia - in some, tendency to cough, to congestion
and pain in the apex of one or both lungs
(Amenorrhoea) Sepia - pain in loins from uterine and other abdominal

congestion
(Anaemia) China - palpitations with rush of blood to head, and
redness of face with cold hands
(Anaemia) Sepia - pelvic congestion.
(Aneurism) Digitalis - passive congestion of lungs, depending on
a weakened, dilated heart
(Angina pectoris) China ars - angina pectoris, with dropsical
symptoms, venous hyperaemia and cyanosis.
(Angina pectoris) Cimicifuga - cerebral congestion
(Apoplexy) Asterias rubens - cerebral congestion with obstinate
constipation
(Apoplexy) Belladonna - the first stage of the disease, with grinding
and gnashing of teeth before attack, where severe congestive
symptoms are still present, or at a later period, when the
extravasation causes severe inflammatory reaction
(Apoplexy) Cactus - vertigo from sanguineous congestions to the
head
(Apoplexy) Gelsemium - intense passive congestion to the head
with nervous exhaustion
(Apoplexy) Iodum - chronic congestion to brain from hypertrophy
of right ventricle or from compression of blood-vessels around
the neck from a struma.
(Apoplexy) Lachesis - the paroxysms are preceded by frequent
absence of mind, or vertigo with rush of blood to the head

(Apoplexy) Psorinum -congestion of blood to the head with heat

(Apoplexy) Sanguinaria can - sanguineous apoplexy from venous
congestion. pain like a flash of lightning on the back of the
head
(Apoplexy) Strontium - violent congestion to head, with hot and
red face from every exertion, as walking, smothered feeling about
heart, allowing no rest

(Apoplexy) Veratrum vir - congestive apoplexy. intensely congestive
headaches

(Apoplexy) Veratrum vir - convulsions from intense congestion of
the capillary vessels of the brain

(Asthma) Aconite - asthma from active hyperaemia of the lungs
and brain
(Asthma) Ant-tart - suffocative cough or congestion of blood to
chest and palpitation of heart
(Asthma) Arg-nit - any bodily exertion brings on a fit with palpitation
and congestion of face
(Asthma) Aur-met - asthma from congestion to chest
(Asthma) Cactus - sanguineous congestion in chest, preventing free
speech, < when lying down in bed
(Asthma) China - pressure in chest as if from rush of blood, with
violent palpitation of the heart, easy perspiration
(Asthma) Cocculus - hysteric asthma with rush of blood to chest
and difficult breathing as if the throat were constricted
(Asthma) Kali mur -congestion of chest with cold feet
(Asthma) Nux vomica -rush of blood to the chest, with orgasm of
the blood, heat, warmth and palpitation
(Asthma) Opium -congestion of blood to the chest, or pulmonary
spasms, with deep, stertorous, rattling breathing
Asthma from congestion of blood to the chest: 1, acon., aur., bell., merc.,
nux v., phos., spong., sulph.
(Back pain--spinal irritation) Gelsemium - spinal congestion
(Back pain--spinal irritation) Piper meth -congestion of posterior
part of brain and spinal cord, with feeling as though he must
move or head and neck would be compressed
(Back pain--spinal irritation) Sulphur - spinal congestion from
suppression of menses or haemorrhoidal flow
(Blennorrhoea of the lachrymal sac) Arg-nit - conjunctiva congested
(Bronchitis acuta) Belladonna - stitches in chest, congestion to head,
hot skin, inclined to be moist
(Bronchitis acuta) Mag-mur. - congestion of blood to the chest
from bathing in the sea, causing spasmodic cough and bloody
expectoration, < at night, with tension and constriction of chest
(Bronchitis chronica) Ars-alb. - dyspnoea, from more or less extensive
emphysema and consecutive pulmonary congestions. difficulty
of breathing continues during the intervals upon coughing, and
returns periodically, especially at night

(Bronchitis chronica) Kali bich. - bronchitis oscillating between acute
and torpid inveterate bronchitis, with a certain degree of irritation,

vascular congestion and moderate muco-purulent secretion,
frequently accompanied by periosteal or rheumatic pains. cough
resonant, whistling, with nausea and expectoration of thick
mucus

(Bronchitis chronica) Lycopodium - congestion of liver, flatulency,
constipation, cachectic complexion, red gravel, acid dyspepsia

(Cancer) Sepia - indurations, ulcerations and congestion of the os
and cervix uteri
(Chlorosis) Belladonna - painful menstruation, with rush of blood
to head
(Chlorosis) Cyclamen - periodical congestion to head, with pallor
of countenance
(Chlorosis) Graphites - tendency to rush of blood to head with
flushing of face, following a sudden shock about heart

(Cholera) Aconite - acute congestion of the mucous membranes
after eating fruit. when cholera is fully developed, acon. may be
still indicated, for inclination to vomit with violent diarrhoea

(Cholera) Cicuta -congestion of blood to the head or chest

(Chorea) Belladonna - violent congestion, throbbing of carotids,
dilated pupils, wild look, injected eyes. reflex chorea from
dentition or pregnancy

(Chorea) Chelidon -congestion to cerebellum

(Chorea) Crocus sat -congestion to the head with epistaxis of dark
and stringy blood

(Chronic catarrh of the head) Conium - heat of face, congestion to
head, with catarrhal sensation

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(Chronic catarrh of the head) Natrum carb - violent sneezing with
rush of blood to the head

(Chronic catarrh of the head) Sulphur - portal congestions (sep.)

(Chronic catarrh of the head) Sulphur - sense of congestion in nose
in open air

(Cinchona, ill effects of) Belladonna - congestion of blood to the
head, with heat in the face

(Coffee and its therapeutics) Lycopodium - coffee makes him sick
and brings on aversion to it, a symptom often found in portal
congestion and hepatic disorders.

(Colic) Belladonna -congestion of blood to the head

(Constipation) Collinsonia - congestive inertia of the bowels, weight
and pressure in rectum, with intense irritation and itching in ano

(Constipation) Collinsonia - pelvic congestion

(Constipation) Opium - beating and sensation of heaviness in
abdomen, rush of blood to head, sleepiness, bed feels hot,
hot sweat. constipation in connection with ovaritis or ovaralgia

(Constipation) Sepia - constipation of females, with pain and pressure
in iliac regions, from uterine or abdominal congestion

(Constipation) Zincum met - venous congestion in abdominal
organs

(Cornea, diseases of) Hamamelis - keratitis dependent upon a blow
or burn, especially when complicated with haemmorrhage into
anterior chamber (hyperaemia)
(Coryza) Natrum ars - burning of eyes and congestion of conjunctiva
(Cough) Sepia - coughs from passive congestions and obstructions
in the portal systems
(Cough) Veratrum viride - spasmodic cough from spinal congestion
or cerebral irritation with spasms.
(Coxalgia, hip-disease) Bell. -congestion to head.
(Croup) Bell. - hoarseness with flushed face and congested eyes.
(Cystitis, inflammation of bladder) Lilium tigrinum - continuous
pressure on bladder and, if not complied with, congested
sensation in chest

[Krishna]

RANDOM NOTES ON PRACTICE
=======================
THE UNMANAGEABLE PATIENT
WHO CROSSES HIS DOCTOR

A patient is supposed to follow the instruction of his doctor:
but suppose he challenges or argues with the doctor. He is
crossing! Here two top-ranking remedies that should at once come
to your mind are Chamomilla and Nux-vomica.
Rarely do we come across patients who are unmanageable.*

(*Under the remedy Lycopodium in Boericke Mat. Med. we find
the symptom 'haughty and arrogant when sick' which is a
botheration for those around the patient, the family members and
not for the doctor. This is altogether a different matter.)
In respect of the so-called unmanageable patients you should
not quarrel or argue with him, nor argue to say that his attitude is
not justified.

The word cross should come to your mind while dealing with
such harsh and unmanageable patients. Without keeping this word
in mind mere repertorisation has led to failures. Actual cured cases
alone can illustrate this to avoid failures in these cases. An
allopath, in such cases, may simply write on the case sheet 'patient
unmanageable and not co-operating.' But in homoeopathy "the
high and only mission of the physician is to cure always…"
(Section 1 of the Organon.)

Case 1: A boy of twelve was having unbearable muscular
pain in abdomen/hip extending to knee and it was intermittent. A
few months prior to this complaint, after diving in a swimming
pool this pain started in a few hours. Later it went off. Now for
the last few months the pain had been occurring intermittently but
almost daily.

The mother pointed out to me one thing. Seeing no
improvement with various doctors of several systems of medicine,
whenever a new doctor was proposed, the boy would tell that he
would give only thirty days (one month) time. If not cured within
this time, he would stop that doctor.

This patient is `crossing' the doctor. No sane person would
enter into argument or put conditions on the doctor. Before
learning the remedy for this case let us see next case.

Case 2: Lady, forty-five, around menopause. For a year she

had been under my treatment for burnt hands. I had been giving
her herbal remedies. Once I was asked to visit this patient. She
was in bed and her daughter told me that her mother was having
excess bleeding from uterus. When I entered the house, the patient
asked the daughter (in this case the attendant of the patient) to get
out of the room; after she left, the patient asked me in an irritable
tone, "I have profuse and excess bleeding (menses.) Is it because
of the heavy herbal remedies (that you have given me) that caused
this bleeding?"

I recalled that she never talked before in such a harsh tone.
A note on the treatment of acute diseases.

In respect of repertorising in acute diseases you need not pay
much attention as to whether a symptom is 'valuable' or not. You
take only those symptoms which are changes from his otherwise
formerly healthy state… Organon)

I read all the listed under
"HAEMORRHAGE FROM UTERUS" (Lilienthal.)
In the remedy Chamomilla I found among other symptoms the word `irascibility.'

Again in the chapter "MENSTRUATION AND ITS AILMENTS"
under the remedy Chamomilla I found the following:
"… great irritability and crossness all the time,
though unnatural to her when well."
Chamomilla-10M single dose arrested the excess bleeding
and also she calmed down. When I saw her a month later, lot of
improvement in the burnt areas in her body.
When patient is irritable, cross and unmanageable, and there
is not much of other valuable (uncommon, rare-strange-peculiar)
symptom the two remedies which should come to our mind are
Chamomilla and Nux-vom.

For case No.1 on page 1, we read both Chamomilla and Nux-
v. in Lilienthal under colic and backache. In the chapter `Colic'
under Chamomilla the words "Colic returns from time to time"
agreed with the case under `Neuralgia' under Chamomilla we find
the word `crossness' (One important note: In Nux-vomica the
picture is slightly different. Chamomilla patient shows crossness
in words; Nux-v. patient in action.)

Long ago a patient went abroad to consult a popular
homoeopath. That doctor was about to leave his clinic after a day's
hectic practice. When this patient entered and started telling his
symptom, the doctor asked his assistant to give the patient Nux-
vomica. The patient, having come from abroad, took the doctor by
his collar and said, "I have come such a long way not to get snap-
shot prescribing. I learnt that you take down the symptoms of
patient, then work out the case. Do it in my case also."4
The doctor sat down, took his symptoms, worked out the case
and Nux-vomica came out.

In the practice of the author, a certain patient consulted for
impotency. I noted down on the Case Sheet (case sheet means
plain white sheet on which you write the name of the patient his
age, and date on the top.)

After he finished talking, I told him that I would give him
herbal remedies for one month. At that point he got up and said
in a snappish manner, "I read in your books that you cure patients
completely with one dose. I want you to do that." To this I replied
that it is possible in some cases, but his case requires herbal
remedies too. He took away the case sheet from my table and went
away saying "In that case I don't want your treatment."
Sometimes you get the symptom after you have prescribed! I
phoned up the doctor who referred that patient to me to give him
Nux-vom.

The attitude of the abovesaid two Nux-vom. patients is aptly
described by Boericke in his Mat. Medica in the preamble. "Fiery,
zealous temperament."
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`Crossness' (more often found in children and sometimes in
adults) along with the symptoms and remedies are given below:
Aesculus hip - feels miserably cross.

Ars-sul-rub. crosser, and also acts with more energy...

Benzoic acid - child cross, wants to be nursed in arms.

Chamomilla. - insulting, cross and uncivil in temper.5

Chamomilla. - she is sleepless and cross.

China-off. - ill humor; cheerful persons become cross and irritable.

Cina - the Cina patient is hungry, cross, ugly and wants to be
rocked.

Cina. - child exceedingly cross, cries and strikes at all around him.

Coffea-cruda - child frets and worries in an innocent manner; is not
cross, but sleepless; it laughs one moment and cries the next.

Crotalus hor. - snappish temper; irritable, cross, infuriated by least
annoyance.

Cuprum-met. - changeable mood; children cross and irritable, or
indifferent and dull, in brain affections.

Dioscorea. - irritable; feels cross and troubled.

Hepar sul - strumous, outrageously cross children.

Hepar sul - temper obstinate and cross, a ferocious spleen which would lead to cold blooded murder even among those habitually gay
and benevolent.

Ictodes - cross; impetuous; inclined to contradict.

Iodum. - cross, with excessive nervous excitability.

Kalmia - toward evening and next forenoon very cross.

Lac can. - very cross and irritable only while headache lasts.

Lycopodium. - sensitive, irritable disposition; peevish and cross on
getting awake; easily excited to anger; cannot endure slightest
opposition, and is speedily beside herself.

Lycopodium. - suitable for: old women and children; persons of keen
intellect, but feeble muscular development; upper part of body
wasted, lower part semi-dropsical; lean and predisposed to lung
and hepatic affections; herpetic and scrofulous constitutions;
hypochondriacs subject to skin diseases; lithic acid diathesis,
much red sediment in urine, urine itself transparent; sallow
people with cold extremities, haughty disposition, when sick,
mistrustful, slow of comprehension, weak memory; weak
children with well developed heads but puny, sickly bodies,
irritable, nervous and unmanageable when sick, after sleep cross,
pushing every one away angrily.

Lyssin. - very cross, so much so that his children expressed great
surprise; he took offense at veriest trifles, scolded his wife and
children, felt wretched, could not concentrate his attention on
anything; sullen, does not wish to see or speak to any one.

Medorrhin. - cross through day, exhilarated at night, wants to play.

Menyanthes - ill humored, cross.

Natrum-mur. - great irritability; child irritable and cross when spoken to; crying from slightest cause.

Sinapis nigra. - cross, dissatisfied without cause; must guard himself
constantly or be uncivil and pettish.

Stramonium. - child is very cross, and strikes or bites.

Tarentula hisp - cross, tendency to get angry and to speak abruptly; is obliged to move limbs.

Uran-nit. - great despondency; ill-temper; cross; disagreeable.

Zincum met - child cross toward evening; brain affected.
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Diseases in which crossness were found, their symptoms and the
respective remedies are given below: [The disease names are
arranged in alphabetical order.]

(Addison's disease) - Natrum-mur. - prevailing depression of mind,
with spells of irritableness and crossness

(Arthritis, gout) Bryonia - patient unbearably cross.7

(Asthma of children) Ignatia - a cross word or correcting the child
may bring on the attack.

(Atrophy of children) Abrotanum - child is cross and depressed, towards evening; sad
and tearful disposition.
(Constitution) for weakly, cachectic individuals: 1, arn.,
calc., chin., natr. m., nux v., phos. ac., sulph., veratr.; 2,
ars., carb. v., lach., merc., phos., sec., sep., etc.
(Cornea, diseases of) Calc-carb - particularly valuable for
corneal ulceration in fat, unhealthy children with a large
abdomen who sweat much, especially about the head,
and are very susceptible to cold air, also in deep,
sloughing ulcers, found in weak, cachectic persons.
pains, redness, photophobia, lachrymation are variable
with no characteristic eye symptoms; pus is mostly bland
and the opacity of cornea milky white or bluish. calc.
ars. ought to be remembered.
(Cornea, diseases of) Merc-dulcis - deep or superficial ulcers
or abscesses in pale, flabby, strumous children, with
enlarged glands and general scrofulous cachexia.
(Coryza, snuffles of children) Iodum - chronic coryza in
cachectic, emaciated children, with enlarged and
indurated glands; nose painful and swollen, with foetid
secretions, which at times become a clear and continuous
stream; discharge hot.
(Coryza, snuffles of children) Kali carb. - anaemic children
of cachectic appearance, with puffy swelling over
upper eyelids, especially mornings; cannot breathe
through nostrils in a warm room, > in open air; nostrils
raw and bleeding; profuse, foetid, yellow-green
discharge.
(Cough) Borax - dry, cachectic cough, especially mornings
when rising and in the evening when lying down; with
stitching pain in upper part of right chest and right flank,
most relief; pains after a good sleep.
(Diarrhoea)Kali-carb. - chronic cases in cachectic, dyspeptic
persons, with the characteristic puffiness under the
eyebrows. stools light-gray or brownish, corrosive,
sometimes painless, in cold weather.
(Eczema) Cundurango - chiefly when rhagades are present,
oozing out a foetid fluid; cachectic or syphilitic
dyscrasia.
(Febris intermittens) Amm-picr - fevers maltreated with
quinine or having a quinine cachexia engrafted upon a
malarial one. periodical headaches, nervous, bilious,
gastric, recurring every four, seven, fourteen days or once
a month, in women just before or after menses.
(Febris intermittens) Causticum - chill without thirst, lessened
in bed and by drinking, of whole left side, beginning in
face and moving downward, at about 4 p. m.; shivering
and coldness of single parts; he is always chilly or in
sweat. heat without thirst, alternating with chilliness,
towards morning. sweat without thirst, often immediately
after chill, without intervening heat; profuse sweat from
motion, in open air, at 4 a. m.; viscid sweat of strong
urinous odor. apyrexia: chronic constitutional cachexia,
desire for smoked meat, for beer, aversion to sweet
things; paralysis of single parts.
(Febris intermittens) China - paludal fevers anteponing fevers
of any type; paroxysms tertian, quartan or every seventh
day (amm. m.) . before great attack thirst, canine hunger,
anguish, headache, restless sleep. chill without thirst;
thirst ceases as soon as chill begins, by heat of stove. heat
with thirst, flushes of heat in face, burning heat of palms
and soles, > by putting them out of bed, ending in
moisture and faintness; alternate heat with chilliness.
sweat profuse at night all over and restless sleep; sweat
on slightest motion or manual labor; morning sweat,
setting in after waking; sour sweat. apyrexia: great
prostration after every paroxysm, with thirst for beer,
burning heat on vertex, early morning diarrhoea.
(Fever, relapsing) China - anaemic and cachectic persons;
great malaise from mere weakness; severe, pulsating
headache, dizziness, heat in face, exhausting sweats;
enlarged liver and spleen, jaundice.
(Gangrene) Carbo veg - senile gangrene humid gangrene in
cachectic persons whose vital powers are exhausted;
great foulness of the secretions; great prostration; sepsis;
indifference; fainting after sleep, while yet in bed,
morning; no restlessness.
(Haemorrhage from uterus ) Carbo an - menses too early, not
too profuse, but last too long; great weakness of the
thighs. after the appearance of the menses she feels so
tired she is scarcely able to speak; menorrhagia from
chronic induration of uterus, also in cachectic women
with glandular affections, cancer, etc.; blood black,
clotted, putrid.
(Haemorrhage from uterus) Ars-alb. - tedious, long-continued
flooding in feeble cachectic women afflicted with
rheumatism, disorganization of uterus or ovaries, with
great debility, restlessness and lancinating burning pains;
uterus larger and softer than usual, with dilated
capillaries; aphthae in mouth indicate the low state of
the system, the least effort exhausts her; chronic
endometritis and passive hyperaemia, based on atony.
(Haemorrhage from uterus) For active haemorrhage in
plethoric persons give: 1, Acon., Bell., Bry., Calc., Cham.,
Fer., Nux v., Plat., Sab., Sulph.; 2, Arn., Croc., Hyosc.,
Ign., Ipec., Phos., Sil., Veratr.; 3, Trill. - for passive
haemorrhage in debilitated cachectic subjects: 1, chin.,
croc., puls., sec., sep., sulph.; 2, capsella bursa pastoris,
carb. v., nux v., ipec., phos., ruta, veratr.; 3, alet., cauloph.,
cimicif., trill., ust.
(Haemorrhage from uterus) Nitric acid - uterine haemorrhage
from overexertion of body; long-lasting cases; absence
of pain, copious flooding kept up by ulcers on os uteri,
especially in cachectic women; blood rather fluid from
loss of plasticity; asthenia. after miscarriage or
confinement, with violent pressure, as if everything
would come out of the vulva, with pain in small of back
and down through the hips to thighs.
(Haemorrhage from uterus) Secale - painless flooding in
feeble, cachectic, dyscratic women, or who have long
resided in tropical climates; general coldness, while the
patient feels too warm and does not wish to be covered;
feverish pulse; haemorrhage passive, dark-colored and
continuous, seldom clotted, sometimes offensive, and
the slightest motion aggravates the flow, particularly
where the weakness is not caused by loss of blood.
haemorrhage, with strong and spasmodic contraction of
the uterus, every flow preceded by strong, bearing-down
pains; haemorrhage from atony of the uterus, especially
after protracted labor or miscarriage, aggravated by the
slightest motion; menses usually too profuse and too
long-lasting, with spasms and mental depression or
melancholy.
(Heart, diseases of) Ars-alb. - cardiac cachexia irritable
heart, trembling, irregular action of the heart,
intermitting; palpitations with anguish, in damp weather, frequent
dull stitches in both lungs; thin, scrawny, cachectic
persons.
(Pleurisy) - in neglected cases, or where the disease developed
itself in cachectic constitutions, study: ars., ars. iod.,
calc., camph., canth., carb. v., chin., fer., hep., iod., lach.,
lyc., seneg., sep., sil., and others; for pleuritic exudations:
apis, ars., dig., when serous; alum., bry., hep., sulph.,
when plastic.
(Pneumonia) Ant-tart - pneumonia biliosa with hepatic
congestion; pleuro-pneumonia, when parts of lungs are
hepatized and fine rales heard over hepatized part; great
oppression of breathing towards morning, must sit up to
breathe. broncho-pneumonia, pneumonia catarrhalis:
second stage, resolution has set in, but fails, and
oppression and prostration prevail, at first we found the
sharp, stitching pains of bry., but now the pain ceased,
mucous rales are heard distinctly over chest with extreme
want of breath; rattling, hollow cough, with heat and
moist hands, sweat on forehead; dyspnoea with desire
to cough, and, though chest is full of mucus, inability to
bring it up; vertigo with dimness of vision and pressing
headache; eyes congested, staring, dull, unsteady, half
open or one closed; face red, bloated, anxious, or cool,
pale and sallow; nostrils dark, sooty, dilated; mouth open,
parched; tongue dry and brown; great thirst; tendency to
diarrhoea or diarrhoea. pneumonia of drunkards, with
bilious complications; even jaundice, meteorism, nausea
and vomiting; typhoid complications; oedema
pulmonum; impending paralysis of lungs or of heart;
suitable especially to infants and old or cachectic
people.
(Pneumonia) Nitric acid - pneumonia of old and cachectic
people; sputa are raised with difficulty; awakens often
all stopped up with mucus and must expectorate before
he can breathe more easily; sputa of blood mixed with
clots during the day; pulse intermits.
(Prosopalgia) Silicea - dental nerves especially affected, pains
more in jawbones than teeth; jaw swollen; toothache, by rest;
after urinating sensation in bladder as if one must go again
soon or as if some urine remained behind; pale-yellow urine,
with a gelatinous sediment; weakness of sexual organs; pale,
sallow face, sunken cheeks; sickly expression; dryness and
sticky feeling in mouth and fauces; sticky, frothy saliva, like
cotton; increased thirst and appetite, > by eating; pulse slow
and weak; paralyzed, bruised sensation in back, by bending forward when sitting,
by lying on back; glycosuria, with intense itching at introitus
and hyperaemia, > by cold water.

Cuprum met.: Urine acid, straw-colored, turbid after standing, a
reddish, thin sediment adhered to vessel, viscous, offensive,
bloody, scanty or suppressed; great and slowly progressing
emaciation; suppurating tuberculosis of lungs and evident
signs of depression of brain; very great thirst; increased
hunger; sweetish taste of mouth; increased urination,
especially at night; dry, very infrequent stool; decrease of
sexual desire.

Curare: Diabetes acutissimus, threatening life; clear and frequent
urine, with digging, crampy pains in kidneys; shooting in7
stomach; dry mouth; great thirst, especially evenings and at
night; sugar in urine; great emaciation. Glycosuria with motor
paralysis. Emaciation.

Eup-pur: Albminuria, diabetes, strangury, irritable bladder,
enlarged prostate are a special field for this remedy.
Helon: (Diabetes with dyspepsia, weakness of stomach) - great
prostration of nervous system; anaemia; pulse small and
feeble; paleness and icteric color of skin; loss of appetite,
bitter taste; constricting, pressing pain in stomach; empty
eructations; vomiting, borborygmi and sensation as if
diarrhoea would set in, but stools are regular; tongue red at tip
and borders, white in centre; albuminuria, diabetes,
sorrowfulness and melancholy; patient excitable and wishes to
be let alone; renal and uterine troubles.

Helon: (Diabetes with menses complaints) - too frequent, too
profuse and too exhausting, blood dark and smelling badly,
especially in women, feeble from loss of blood; flow passive,
dark, clotted and offensive; profuse flooding during
menopause. Before: pressing pain in sacrum and soreness of
breasts. during: sharp, cutting and drawing pains from back to
uterus; pruritus of vulva and vagina; albuminous urine;
depressed, melancholy; breasts swollen, nipples tender, cannot
bear pressure of clothing; sallow face with an expression of
sorrow and suffering; backache, constant tenderness in renal
region; great general languor; loss of sexual desire with or
without sterility. woman, aged 65; diabetes .

Hepar sulph: The slightest contradiction makes him break out into
the greatest violence, he could kill somebody without
hesitation; sight gets dim when reading; heaviness and
pressure in stomach after a moderate meal, unusual hunger,8
much thirst; desire for acids and wine; sexual desire
increased, erections feeble; urine acrid, burning, making the
inner surface of the prepuce or of the pudenda sore and
ulcerated; emission of much pale urine, with pressure on
bladder; emission of pale, clear urine, which on standing
becomes turbid, thick, and deposits a white sediment.
Insulinum: besides the use of insulin in the treatment of diabetes,
restoring the lost ability to oxidize carbohydrate and again
storing glycogen in the liver, some use of it homoeopathically
has been made by dr. wm.f. baker, showing its applicability in
acne, carbuncles, erythema with itching eczema. - in the
gouty, transitory glycosuria when skin manifestations are
persistent give three times daily after eating.

Inula: Diabetes.

Kali-br.: (Diabetes with urinary difficulties) - irresistible desire to
urinate, but no flow except with urging and difficulty;
glycosuria, urine loaded with sugar; dribbling of urine at
beginning of stool.

Kali-br.: Emaciation, paleness, skin cold and dry, pulse rapid and
feeble, tongue red and tender, gums spongy and bleeding;
thirst excessive; appetite voracious; bowels constipated; urine
pale, frequent, of great density, and loaded with sugar; liver
tumid and tender (Ars-brom.).

Kali-mur.: Excessive and sugary urine; itching in urethra; stomach
and liver deranged; dry and light-colored stools; pain in
kidneys; great weakness and somnolence.

Kali-phos.: Nervous weakness; breath peculiar, of haylike odor;
thirst, voracious hunger, emaciation; hepatic troubles.
Kreos.: Perfect depression of the trophic nervous system.
Heaviness all over, with drowsiness; depression of spirits;
head feels confused and dull; dimsightedness; flat, bitter taste;
appetite, with sensation of fulness; intermittent, hard, dry
stool; frequent and copious emission of hot, clear urine;
bruised sensation in chest and all along the back; physical
exhaustion, worse from rest; great itching of genitals during
and after micturition

Lac-def.: Excessive aching of back; enormous quantities of urine
voided daily, with excessive lassitude and prostration; intense
throbbing headache, especially in forehead, with nausea,
vomiting and most obstinate constipation.

Lachesis: Despondency and peevishness; dimness of eyes; livid-
grey complexion; readily bleeding gums; sweetish taste;
constipation; violent urging to urinate, with copious
discharge; impotence; difficult suffocative breathing; laming
pain and weakness in back and extremities; gangrene;
emaciation with muscular relaxation.

Lact-ac.: morning sickness, diabetes, and rheumatism offer a field
for this remedy. boy, aged 16, suffering six months; diabetes. - man, aged 62, phlegmatic, dark complexion, dark hair and eyes, has had dropsy several times; diabetes.

Lact-ac.: Excessive thirst; frequent and copious micturition; urine
contains sugar; skin rough and dry; obstinate constipation;
tongue dry, sticky; gastric ailments; debility and emaciation;
feels constantly tired and exhausted from slightest exertion;
rheumatic pains with profuse urination.

Lith-c.: Very frequent urination, disturbing sleep; turbid urine,
with much mucous deposit; dark reddish-brown deposit in
urine.

Lycopodium: Peevish and depressed in mind; thirst and hunger
constant, but worse at night; flatulence; faeces small in
quantity; want of natural warmth; sexual desire and power
gone; lithic acid gravel; pulmonary phthisis, pituitosa and
purulenta, with hectic; great emaciation; mental, nervous and
bodily exhaustion; gouty lithaemia

Lycopus: Diabetes mellitus and insipidus from some derangement
of the central nervous system or sympatheticus; morbus
Basedowii; copious flow of clear urine of great density,
containing sugar; intense thirst; great emaciation, etc.;
increased bronchial irritation, with sighing respiration; cardiac
depression. woman, mother of two children, suffering about a year
with diabetes.

Mag-p.: child, teething, mother died of diabetes; profuse and
frequent urination.

Mag-sulph.: Gloominess, especially mornings, and disinclination
for work; mouth and throat very dry, as if numb, with a
sweetish-bitter taste, in the morning, disappearing after
breakfast; aversion to all food; slight thirst which can be
resisted; urine copious, light-yellow, soon becomes turbid and
deposits copious red sediment; erections without desire for an
embrace; exhaustion and prostration, > by rest momentarily.

Magnesia usta: Sad mood; dryness of the eyes; dulness of hearing;
pale, earthy complexion; looseness of the teeth, with swelling
and bleeding of the gums; dryness of the mouth, especially at
night and in the morning; burning in the throat, with dryness
and roughness; urine increased, pale, watery, with white
sediment; itching and great dryness of the skin.

Menyanth: Diabetes.

Mineral waters: Carlsbad, Gastein, Vichy, Buffalo Lithia Springs,
Bethesda, Gettysburg, Napa Soda, Cal., the Geysers, Brom.
ars., water of Ashe Co., N. C. - clysmic water may be used
with equal benefit in polyuria and glycosuria.

Moschus: Unquenchable thirst; great emaciation; costiveness;
impotence; frequent passage of large quantities of saccharine
urine; paralytic condition of the brain; dimness of sight; earthy
complexion; great dryness of the mouth and putrid taste; great
thirst for stimulants and aversion to food; prickling in the
skin; general exhaustion, with coldness all over. Man, aged 43; married; diabetes with impotency.

Nat-mur.: Diabetes.

Nat-phos.: (Diabetes with hepatic derangements) - Cirrhosis of
liver; hepatic form of diabetes, especially when there is a
succession of boils; intense pressure and heat on top of head
as if it would open; yellow, creamy coating at the back part of
tongue and roof of mouth; acidity and acid dyspepsia; weak
feeling in back and limbs.

Nat-sul.: Depressed, irritable, taciturn, tired of life; dulness in
head and weakness of sight; dryness and burning in the eyes;
nosebleed; dryness of mouth and throat; great thirst for very
cold drinks; voracious appetite, with a boring pain; disgust
while eating; foetid flatus; increased urination, especially at
night; pains in small of back, with burning urine; haemoptoë;
cough, with purulent expectoration. Man, aged 43, middle height, father of two healthy children, blonde hair, grey eyes, gonorrhoeal cachexy, hydrogenoid constitution; diabetes.

Nux-v.: Good livers and sedentary habits. Acidity, with dyspeptic
troubles; constriction of the throat; dry cough; pains in the
back; numbness; paretic condition of the lower extremities;
after ineffectual desire to urinate, frequent and more copious
urination than could be expected from the quantity of liquid
taken; sexual desire strong; spinal lesions exciting cause.12
Opium: After mental shocks or injuries. Dulness, sadness, weak
memory; vision obscured as by a fog; face bloated, congested
or sunken and pale; tongue thickly coated, dry mouth and
oesophagus dry; frothy sputa; ravenous hunger and
unquenchable thirst; constipation more than diarrhoea; great
pain and difficulty in expelling urine; no passage of urine or
faeces; urine turbid, brown, with an iridescent film, scanty;
weariness and numbness all over.

Phaseola: Diabetes.

Phos-ac.: Neurogenic glycosuria. Debility from loss of animal
fluids; bad effects from grief, anguish, sorrow and care; all the
joints feel bruised; very sensitive to fresh air; lassitude and
heaviness; weakness of mind; falling out of the hair; dimness
of eyes; excessive thirst; eructations from acids; pressure in
stomach; hard, difficult stool; shortness of breathing; urine
thick, like milk (chyluria) or lime-water, with whitish curds,
with stringy, bloody lumps, or clear, limpid, and containing
much sugar; pain in back and kidneys; dull pressure in
bladder; great weakness and emaciation; furunculosis. Man, aged 40; diabetes. - gentleman, aged 52, stout, well formed, of active habits, had myelitis; diabetes.

Phos-acid.: pyrosis, flatulence, diarrhoea, diabetes, rhachitis and
periosteal inflammation.

Phosphorus: (Diabetes with diseases of pancreas) Tuberculosis
and fatty degeneration in different organs, especially of heart,
liver, pancreas or kidney; distressing burning pains in coeliac
axis; stools undigested, containing particles of fat or looking
like cooked sago; pale, yellow face; anaemia; atrophy of
pancreas with diabetes ; neuralgia of coeliac plexus; morbus
brightii.

Phosphorus: (Diabetes with duodenitis and duodenal catarrh) -
tuberculosis; distressing, burning pain in coeliac axis; stools
undigested, containing particles of fat; pale, yellow face;
anaemia; atrophy of pancreas with diabetes.

Phosphorus: Atrophy with diabetes. Diabetes, with phthisis; urine profuse, pale, watery; or turbid, whitish, like curdled milk, with brickdust sediment and variegated cuticle on surface; gouty diathesis; cerebral disease; cheesy degeneration of lungs.

Picric-ac.: Cortex of brain congested; urine contains sugar and
albumen, dark red, of high specific gravity; great indifference,
lack of will power to do anything; eyes feel dry, as if full of
sand, sight dim and confused; saliva white, frothy and stringy;
disgust for food; very great thirst for cold water; great sexual
desire with emissions; excessive languor and prostration, it
seemed difficult to move the limbs; feet cold, chilly, cannot
get warm, followed by clammy sweat; chilly all over, except
head and spine; throbbing, jerking of muscles with great pains
between hips.

Plumbum met.: Lowness of spirits, anguish and melancholy;
diminution of sight; dryness of mouth; dry, cracked tongue;
feeling of contraction and constriction in throat; fever with
unquenchable thirst; dingy color of skin; gangrene;
constipation; hectic fever with dry, hacking cough from
suppuration of lungs; great exhaustion; impotence; excessive
emaciation; great hunger; obstinate belching and vomiting.
Chronic lead-poisoning produces a perfect picture of
glycosuria and of morbus Brightii, and Hering considered it
one of the most important drugs in this form of disease.
Podophyl.: Chalky stools; profuse and frequent micturition
immediately after drinking; excessive hepatic action; hot, sour
flatus. boy, aged 1; diabetes. - boy, aged 9; diabetes insipidus.

Ratanhia: Considerable emaciation and weakness; limbs sore and
aching; great appetite; insatiable thirst and constant dryness of
the mouth; gums livid and swollen; soreness in the kidneys;
severe pains in small of back, improved by motion; hard stool,
with straining; frequent urging to urinate, with scanty
discharge, or passes large quantities of light-colored urine.

Rhus aromatica: renal and urinary affections, especially diabetes.

Secale: Great general lassitude; heaviness of limbs; loss of
strength; emaciation; gangrene; skin dry; and withered;
furuncles; petechiae; fever, with unquenchable thirst;
diminished power of the senses; dryness of the mouth;
morbidly great appetite; cardialgia; costiveness; diarrhoea;
watery urine; increased quantity of urine. Diabetes with
opthalmia.

Syzygium: Diminishes the amount of urine secreted and causes
sugar to disappear. No proving!

Sulph-ac.: Lassitude; debility; despondency; dimness of mind and
sight; itching over the whole body; flatulency upward and
downward; stitches in hepatic region; skin completely
inactive, cold and dry; large quantities of sugar in urine;
typhoid condition.

Syph.: mrs. suffering from diabetes , subject to rheumatism in
rainy weather; rheumatic ophthalmia.

Syzygium: a most useful remedy in diabetes. - has an immediate
effect on blood sugar.

Tarent-hisp.: Profound grief and anxiety; great prostration, and
pain as if the whole body were bruised; loss of memory and
dimness of sight; constant craving for raw articles; intense
thirst; lips and mouth so dry that he wants to moisten them15
with his tongue; insatiable appetite; disgust for meat and
general wasting away; constipation; polyuria, with violent
pains in the lumbar region and paralysis of the lower
extremities; miliary eruptions and furuncles.

Terebinth: Inability to concentrate the mind; dull, languid mind,
relieved by frequent micturition; despondency; wearied of
life; obscuration of sight; sunken features; lips cracked and
slightly bleeding; epistaxis; spongy gums; tongue dry and red;
foul breath; hunger and thirst, with debility; aversion to meat;
rancid or acrid eructations; burning in stomach and
hypochondria; tympanitis; albuminuria, with frequent
micturition; sugar is noticed in urine after large doses of Oil
Tereb.

Thuja: Glycosuria after a long-suppressed gonorrhoea, frequent
desire to urinate day and night; craving alternates with want
of appetite; longs for cold food and drink; urine contains
sugar, foams, deposits a brown mucus; debility mornings.

China (Anthrax) - exhaustion of vital power, with excessive
sensitiveness and irritability of the nerves, deficiency of animal
heat; decomposition of animal matter with symptoms of putrid
fever; malaria.

China (Cholera infantum) - collapse after violent, long-lasting cholera; breathing rapid; surface cool, hardly any vitality left.

China (Typhoid fever) - typho-malarial fever; excessive prostration,
with great mental and bodily weakness, so that the least exertion
is hateful; heavy sweats during motion or in sleep, with
excessive sinking of the vital forces; uneasiness and
sleepiness; frightful fancies on closing the eyes to sleep; vertigo
and heaviness of head, dimness of sight, dulness of hearing,
pale face, dry mouth, yellow-coated tongue, with slimy, bitter
taste and great thirst; abdomen meteoristic and tender with pains
in bowels, watery lienteric stools, scanty urine; bowels move in
daytime only after nourishment, but at night frequent, dark, fluid
diarrhoea; coldness, especially of hands and feet; breathing
oppressed, especially in the evening; swelling and hardness of
spleen; tardy convalescence in consequence of serious
haemorrhages, exhausting diarrhoeas and night-sweats, with
progressive loss of flesh and strength; indifference and apathy.

China (Melancholia) - mental depression as a reflex of general
lowered vitality; low-spirited, despondent and tired of life,
with suicidal tendencies; great sensitiveness; easily moved to
tears by the least contradiction; indifference and apathy with
obstinate taciturnity; weakness and exhaustion after the least
exertion, > in the evening and at night; nocturnal dread of dogs
and other animals; desire for solitude.

Cochlearia - raises vital forces.
Crotalus-horr. (Angina pectoris) - sudden and great prostration of the vital forces; frequent fainting spells, with imperceptible pulse
and inclination to vomit; sudden breathing with open mouth and
distortion of the eyes outward.

Crotalus-horr (Typhoid fever) - oppression of nervous centres; eyes
congested; features heavy, dull, bloated, besotted (bapt.); eruption
dark purple, copious; during second week heart becomes
markedly weak, systolic sound can hardly be made out; pulse
soft, flagging, tremulous; great and distressing restlessness;
twitching, jerking, tremulousness, sinking down towards foot
of bed (mur. ac.), deafness; haemorrhagic tendency from all
orifices, epistaxis, foetid breath, gums bleeding and gangrenous;
stools, black, thin, like coffee-grounds, offensive or dark; fluid
haemorrhage from bowels; sudden and great prostration
of vital forces.

Crotalus-horr. (Haematemesis, gastrorrhagia) - low vital force and
decomposition of blood, which fails to coagulate; deathly nausea,
jaundicel complexion, faintness, cold sweat, insatiable thirst,
great prostration; weight, soreness and tenderness in stomach
which ejects everything.

Cup-m (Chlorosis) - after abuse of iron; symptoms in warm weather; lack of reaction in persons who are thoroughly run down by overtaxing mind and body.

Cup-m (Colic) - cramps in the abdomen; violent, colicky, drawing-
cutting pain in the abdomen; abdomen drawn in; colic not
increased by pressure; violent spasms in abdomen and upper
and lower limbs, with penetrating distressing screams;
intussusception of the bowels, with singultus, violent colic,
stercoraceous vomiting, and great agony; spasmodic movements
of the abdominal muscles; cramps of the stomach and bowels,
with vomiting and purging, and cutting pains in umbilical region
as if a knife were thrust through to the back, with piercing
screams; abdomen hard as a stone; constipation succeeded by
watery, greenish or bloody stool; spasmodic vomiting > by a
drink of cold water; collapse with great prostration and lack of
reaction;

Digitalis (Meningitis, cerebro-spinalis) - heart's action irregular and
labored; delirium like mania a potu; great pressure and weight
in head; violent lancinating pains, especially in vertex and
occiput; when sitting or walking the head falls backward, as if
anterior cervical muscles were paralyzed; convulsive efforts to
vomit; vomiting, with coldness, prostration and fainting; stiffness
in the nape and side of neck; tearing sharp stitches, aching and
cutting pains in nape of neck; convulsions, with retraction of
the head, syncope, and collapse of vital powers.

Gels (Typhoid fever) - great prostration of all the vital forces already
in the initial stage, with strange sensation in head and continued
jactitation of muscles; sleeplessness, wide awake all night;
patient feels sore and bruised all over, as if he had been pounded,
dreads to move, on account of weakness; suffused red face;
trembling from weakness; slow pulse, which becomes
accelerated by lifting or turning the patient; chills and crawls
which go down the back; feeling of expansion, as though the
head or some part of the body were enormously enlarged; severe
pains in head, back and limbs, with extreme lassitude, chilliness
and fever (afternoon); sticky, clammy, feverish state; tongue red
and raw, painful in centre, can hardly protrude it; distention of
abdomen, with pain and nausea; diarrhoea, bilious, fermented,
with much flatus and great nervous weakness, more than the
stools could cause. post-typhoid intermittents. bapt. follows well.
Guarana (Headache, cephalalgia) - migraine in persons who used tea and coffee in excess or in whom nervous headaches, followed
by vomiting, are excited by any error in diet or depression of
mind; neuralgia, nervousness and weariness, reduced vitality,
weak beat of heart; drowsiness and heaviness of head, with
flushed face, in persons of sedentary habits, after eating > after
sleep.

Helleborus - a remedy in low states of vitality and serious
disease.

Hydrocyanic-acid. (Vertigo, dizziness) - insufficiency of arterial contraction, with frequent headaches, stupefaction and falling down; vertigo, with reeling; cloudiness of the senses, the objects seem to move; he sees through a gauze; is scarcely able to keep on his feet after raising the head when stooping, on rising from one's seat, worse in the open air; no reactive power, face pale, blue and cold.

Hypericum - preserves vitality of torn and lacerated members when
almost entirely separated from the body.

Cerebral anaemia and vital exhaustion, as in the last stage of phthisis: amm. carb., mosch. and phos. ign. acts well in children who may be overgrown.

Kali-iod. - tea-taster's cough due to inhaling the fungus; a also brings about often favorable reaction in many chronic ailments even
when not clearly symptomatically indicated.

Lachesis. - traumatic gangrene, restores vitality to parts apparently
dead and induces renewed circulation without sloughing.
Laur (Convalescence, hints upon) - lack of reaction in chest troubles.

Lauroceraus (Insanity, mental derangement) - extreme despondency or lively, joyous mood; forgets very easily from the constant confusion in his head; fear and anxiety about imaginary evils; nervous agitation; rotary vertigo; sensation of coldness in forehead and vertex; want of energy of the vital powers and want of reaction.
Laurocerasus (Melancholia) - indolence and indisposition to either physical or intellectual labor, so that patient becomes disgusted and tired of his life; fear and anxiety about imaginary evils; disposition to sleep; titillation in face, as if flies and spiders were crawling
over face; want of energy of vital powers, no reaction, a
paralytic weakness.
Laurocerasus (Pneumonia) - typhoid pneumonia, when paralysis of lungs threatens with dyspnoea; hurried and rattling breathing;
compressible pulse, cold extremities; continual irritation by
tickling; short, little cough; irritative cough, depending on cardiac
affections; patient coughs and spits a great amount of phlegm,
sprinkled over and through with distinct dots of blood; lightness
of breathing; want of energy of the vital powers and want of
reaction.

Laurocerasus (See also Hydr-ac) (Syncope) - long-lasting faints, no reactive power; face pale-blue; surface cold; fluids, forced down the throat, roll audibly into the stomach; if the syncope is attendant
upon some poison in the system, the symptoms are similar, the
eruption being livid, and, when pressed, regains its color very
slowly; fainting from cardiac weakness.

Laurocerasus - lack of reaction, especially in chest and heart
affections.

Ledum (Synovitis) - diseases of joints; but especially of knee; effusion, with sensitiveness of the parts to pressure; aching, tearing pains; great coldness; want of vitality.

Lycopodium (Typhoid fever) - comes in at the end of the second week when the rash fails to appear and the patient sinks into an unconscious state with muttering delirium, picking at the bedclothes, distended abdomen with great rumbling of flatus, constipation, sudden jerking of limbs here and there, involuntary urination, leaving a reddish sandy deposit in the clothing or retention of urine. the continued high temperature leads later on to cerebral paralysis; patient lies in a stupor, eyes do not react to light; lower jaw drops and hangs down; breathing snoring and rattling; tongue swollen, blistered and cannot be protruded, and if patient tries the dry tongue rolls from side to side; pulse intermittent and
rapid; cold hands and feet or one foot hot and the other cold;
restless sleep, at ease in no position, full of anxious dreams and
jerking of limbs; when aroused cross, irritable or awakes terrified
as from a heavy dream; great emaciation and internal debility,
paralysis; upper parts wasted, lower parts swollen. compare calc.
and lyc., follows often after lach.
Mosch (Pneumonia) - irregular reaction or insufficient crisis in
asthenic, torpid pneumonia in consequence of bleedings; great
weight on chest; rattling, but no phlegm can be raised; pulse
grows slower and slower.

Muriatic-acid (Scarlatina) - intense redness of body, it looks like a boiled lobster; rash comes out sparingly, scattered irregularly over
surface of body, interspersed with petechiae, with bluish or
purplish spots; rush of blood to head, with bright-red face and
great drowsiness; child is restless, throws off covering, irritable,
constantly changing position, though often unconscious at the
same time. during progress skin turns purplish and feet decidedly
blue; fauces dry and purplish; more chills than heat and without
thirst; cold sweat on feet, burning heat of body; gangrenous
angina; aphthae and ulceration of mouth and throat, oedematous
uvula, foul breath; acrid discharge from nose, excoriating nostrils
and upper lip (arum tri.); gangrene, with sloughing of mucous
membrane, yellowish-gray deposits in mouth, fauces, tonsils,
uvula and posterior wall of pharynx; prostration of vital
forces, patient sinks down to foot of bed; pulse intermits every
third beat and is weak; sighing, groaning breathing; urine and
stool pass unnoticed; urine scanty or frequent and profuse, red,
violet, milky; pulse slow by day, frequent at night.

Natrum-carb. (Anaemia.) - pallid anaemia, with great debility, milky-white skin; vitality below par; emaciation; nervousness and anxiety.

Nux-v (Typhoid fever) - early stage; chilliness from slightest motion;
hard, full and frequent pulse; pains and debility in all limbs, >
by lying down; nervous, excited sleep with much dreaming;
prevalence of gastric symptoms with bitter and pasty mouth,
yellowish tongue, nausea, greenish vomiting, bilious diarrhoea
or constipation. later on sudden sinking of vital powers with
a kind of paralytic loss of strength; dull headache with dizziness
as if the brain were whirling in a circle, with momentary loss of
consciousness, from an uninterrupted sleep.

Opium. (Drunkards, diseases of) - mania a potu, with dulness of the senses, and at intervals sopor, with snoring; sees animals;
affrighted expression of the face; delirious talking; eyes wide
open; face red, puffed up; fear; desire to escape, or dreams from
which the patient wakes as soon as he is spoken to in a loud
voice; dry, tickling, paroxysmal cough, with spasm of lungs and
blue face when drinking; troublesome breathing; general sweat;
epileptic convulsions; trembling of the extremities; lockjaw;
twitching of the muscles of the face and mouth; staring look;
want of vital reaction in old sinners whose many excesses
destroyed their constitution.

Opium. (Paralysis) - paralysis, with insensibility after apoplexy, in
drunkards or old people; weakness, numbness and paralysis of
the legs and arms; stupefying sleep; the patient is dull, stupid,
as if drunk; retained stool and urine; want of vital reaction,
body cold, stupor.

Opium. (Uterus, diseases of) - prolapsus uteri from fright; foetid
discharge from uterus after fright; softness of uterus; want of
vital reaction.

Opium. - the effects of opium as shown in the insensibility of the
nervous system, the depression, drowsy stupor, painlessness, and
torpor, the general sluggishness and lack of vital reaction,
constitute the main indications for the drug when used
homoeopathically.

Phosphoric-acid. (Typhoid fever) - may be useful from the beginning to the end of the disease delirium is quiet, not violent, with muttering, unintelligible speech, patient lies in a stupid sleep from cerebral paresis, unconscious of what is going on, but when aroused he is fully conscious and then drops off into his former sleep; pointed nose; dark-blue rings around eyes; nosebleed at an early stage of the fever, but it gives no relief; boring with finger in nose
from irritation in peyer's patches; abdomen distended and
bloated, with gurgling and rumbling in bowels; copious flatus
with the watery, lienteric stools; dry tongue with a dark-red streak
through centre, or pale and clammy, covered with slimy mucus;
urine highly albuminous, milky, rapidly decomposing, loaded
with earthy phosphates; petechia on dependent parts and
sudamina with copious sweats, but still neither sweat nor
diarrhoea prostrates the patient; temperature of body never very
high; enlargement of spleen. gradual sinking of the vital power
without any reaction on the part of the organism, hence
indifference and apathy.

Phellandrium. - adapted to persons of a feeble, irritable, lymphatic constitution, with weak and defective reaction.

Phosphorus (Gastritis) - cutting burning pains in the stomach; severe pressure in the stomach after eating, with vomiting of food; unquenchable thirst; cramps in stomach, radiating to the liver; goneness in gastric region; haematemesis, better from drinking cold water; great heat of the body, with cold extremities; frequent
shudderings; convulsions; sinking of the reactive power.

Psorinum (Cyanosis cardiaca, neonatorum) - to increase vitality and
circulation, where other remedies failed.

Psorinum (Febris intermittens) - periodicity of intermittents not marked. cough returns every winter; attacks of other ailments return every day or every other day at the same hour. where there is a want of vitality after severe attacks and the failure of treatment, it will clear up the case, even where sulph. failed to give us the
hint. chill with thirst, on upper arms and thighs, internal shivering
with creeping chills and icy-cold feet, drinking causes cough.
evening heat, with delirium, great thirst, followed by profuse
sweat.

Psorinum (Lienitis) - stinging sharp pain in region of liver and spleen; stitches in spleen, > when standing by heat of stove. heat with thirst, flushes of heat in
face, burning heat of palms and soles, > by putting them out of
bed, ending in moisture and faintness; alternate heat with
chilliness. sweat profuse at night all over and restless sleep; sweat
on slightest motion or manual labor; morning sweat, setting in
after waking; sour sweat. apyrexia: great prostration after every
paroxysm, with thirst for beer, burning heat on vertex, early
morning diarrhoea.

Sulphur (Pneumonia) - pneumonia assumes a torpid character, with
slow solidification of the lungs; there may still be much rattling
of phlegm in chest; frequent weak, faint spells, and flushes of
heat; feels suffocated; wants doors and windows open; constant
heat on top of head. torpid typhoid pneumonia, with short, rapid
breathing, a mere heaving of the chest; cough and expectoration
nearly impossible; the patient responds sluggishly, comprehends
slowly; worse about midnight. neglected or occult
pneumonia, occurring in psoric patients, and which threatens
to terminate in tuberculosis pulmonum, or in phthisis pituitosa.
pneumonia passing through its first stages normally and then
remains stationary; such a deficiency of reaction points to
sulph, as the remedy, where it accomplishes the absorption of
the infiltration and prevents suppuration, when there are no
typhoid symptoms and no tendency to phthisis pulmonum;
bronchial respiration and hepatization most plainly heard on
back. pneumonia in infants and old people.
Ver-alb. - rapid sinking of vital forces; collapse. - young people and women of a sanguine or nervo-sanguine temperament; also people who are habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction; gay dispositions; fitful mood.

Ver-alb. (Constipation) - constipation of infants; chronic constipation; inertia of rectum (op.), general depression of vitality;
predominant coldness of the body; first portion of stool is large
and the latter part consists of thin strings; stools very large and
very hard; very weak after stool; or strains at stool until he is
covered with cold sweat and then gives up exhausted, tired of
life and afraid to die; craves cool and refreshing things.

Ver-alb (constipation in infants) - faeces cannot be passed, from inertia of rectum, but a healthy stool can be procured at any time by an injection; pallor and cold sweat from the exertion, with
exhaustion after stool; general depression of vitality.

Ver-alb (Typhus) - sudden sinking of vital forces, hippocratic face,
sunken eyes, pointed nose, cold sweat over whole body; marked
coldness of hands and feet; spasmodic constriction of throat;
violent thirst for cold water; petechiae on extremities.

Ver-alb (Headache, cephalalgia) - neuralgia in the head, with
indigestion, features sunken; paroxysms in various parts of the
brain, partly as if bruised, partly pressure; violent pains drive to
despair, great prostration, fainting, with cold sweat and great
thirst; cold sensation and pressure on vertex, generally attended
by pain in stomach, relieved by pressing on vertex with hand
(meny.); nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea; habitual coldness and
deficiency of vital reaction.

Ver-alb (Hydrocephaloid) - sinking of the fontanelles, vision obscure,
pulse filiform, complete extinction of vital power; cold,
collapsed face; nausea and vomiting from least motion; tongue
cold, and unquenchable thirst for very cold water or ice.

Xanth. - acts upon nervous system, mostly upon sensory nerves, but causes a marked depression of vitality, a non-reactive state;
hence its use in chlorosis, measles, neuralgia, etc., when there is
sensorial and bodily depression.

Zinc-met. - a state of the blood which in its qualitative analysis
approaches chlorosis; want of vitality, as we find it after24
physical and psychical depression; heaviness and weakness in
all organs, as we see in suppressed catamenia, but when menses
flow it relieves all her sufferings; cough harassing and
troublesome, strength in wanting for expectoration; feels as if
his bladder would burst, still there is not energy enough to pass
a good stream, small quantities only are discharged; stools scanty,
dry, brittle, granulous.

Zinc-met. (dentition, morbid) - coma interrupted by piercing screams; slow development of teeth from lack of vitality; slow pulse in long waves; child drowsy and lies with its head pressed deeply
into the pillow, eyes half open and squinting; face pale and rather
cool or alternately red and pale; trembling all over, boring fingers
into nose or pulling nervously at the dry, parched lips; automatic
motions at different parts of the body, and restless, fidgety
movements of feet; child excessively cross and irritable,
especially at night, while the eruption of several teeth at once
undermines his strength.

Zinc-met. (Meningitis basilaris) - child has not vitality enough to
develop the eruption, or it was checked in its appearance; feet
are in constant motion; distention of abdomen; constipation with
hard and dry faeces; eyes sensitive to light; nose dry; appetite
voracious, with gagging and vomiting; on awaking child shows
signs of fear and rolls its head from side to side; cries out, starts
and jumps during sleep.

Zinc-met. (Neuralgia) - neuralgic pains between skin and muscle in
subcutaneous cellular tissue; great weakness of all the limbs;
deficiency of vital power.