PLETHORA
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 3:54 pm
PLETHORA: This term means excess energy or unusual strength. These persons are called plthoric indivduals.
Plethoric persons can do the job of ten persons single-handedly, both quantitatively as well as qualitatively. Other examples of plethoric persons are those who do Ph. D. at their sixtieth year of age. Also those who start studying, learning and mastering a subect or art even at their forty-five years of age. The term tiredness is not in their vocabulary. Work for them is worship. The workaholics. Old age is not a deterrent to them.
Therefore, in the absence of more valuable symtoms in a case, if you find the patient is of the above type you may use the term plethora.
Aconite - plethora; active capillary congestions (from overactive serous membranes).
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persons leading a sedentary life; tendency to apoplectic congestion;
Arnica. - nervous women, sanguine plethoric persons, with red face. ---prolapsus uteri.
Arnica. - in cases of sanguine plethoric people with lively expression, very red face, disposed to cerebral congestion. ---prolapsus uteri.
Artemisia-vulg. - girl, aged 18, strong, well developed, plethoric; epilepsy.
Asarum-europ - plethoric young woman suffered for years from headaches.
Aster- rub. - man, aged 56, plethoric constitution, sedentary since eight years; epilepsy.
Aurum met - violent orgasm; plethora.
Bryonia. - plethora.
Cactus. - sanguineous congestions in persons of plethoric habit.
Calc-carb. - congestions: head; eyes; ears; nose; face; chest; abdomen, limbs; plethora.
Calc-carb. - puberty: girls who begin with menses too early and too profuse; fat, yet chlorotic; plethoric girls, amenorrhoea, etc.
Calc-carb. - girl, aged 20, small, plethoric and blonde. ---chlorosis with hermicrania.
Calc-carb. - plethoric woman. ---vulvar tumor.
Calc-carb. - nervous, hemorrhoidal, plethoric and lymphatic constitutions; disposed to grow fat.
Carbo-an. - venous plethora; threatened stagnation of circulation, cyanosis, vital heat sinks to a minimum.
Carbo-an. - elderly persons, especially with venous plethora, blue cheeks, blue lips, debility, etc.
Chelidonium - distension of veins; abdominal plethora; hemorrhoids.
Chelidonium - suits every age, sex and temperament, but particularly spare subjects disposed to abdominal plethora, cutaneous diseases, catarrh or neuralgia.
Chimaphila-umb. - plethoric, hysterical young woman; dysuria.
China-sul. - plethoric woman, aged 30; intermittent apoplexy.
China-sul. - a man, of plethoric habit; intermittent prosopalgia.
Coca. - weakly, nervous, fat or plethoric persons and such as have disease of heart and lungs suffer more from veta.
Cocculus - chronic prosopalgia in ladies of high rank, of ages varying from 30 to 40 years; abdominal plethora, extreme irritability of nervous system, especially of spinal cord; wind in epigastrium; acidity; obstinate constipation; diarrhoea; menstrual colic; bland, thick leucorrhoea; spinal irritation, with nocturnal pains; temperament choleric; through long-continued suffering had been brought into a state of desperation, constantly changing, and that quickly, from pusillanimity and despondency to extreme gayety.
Cocculus - woman, aged 26; plethoric constitution; menorrhagia.
Cocculus - miss h., aged 35, plethoric; headache for 15 years, came shortly after appearance of menses.
Colocynthis. - 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. - woman, aged 54, plethoric; uterine polypi.
Coca. - weakly, nervous, fat or plethoric persons and such as have disease of heart and lungs suffer more from veta.
Ferrum-met. - pseudo-plethora; congestions, etc., yet anemic; face is earthy, flushing easily.
Ferrum-iod. - symptoms of plethora; general turgescence of peripheric capillary system.
Glonoinc. - seeming plethora, rapid deviations in distribution of blood; useful as a substitute for bleeding.
Glonoinc. - florid, plethoric, sensitive women.
Hamamelis - woman, plethoric habit; epistaxis.
Ignatia - plethoric lady, aged 35, mother of eleven children; prosopalgia.
Ipecac - plethora, fat children.
Kali-bich. - officer, aged 24, strong, plethoric constitution, choleric temperament, 15 months ago had chancre; syphilis.
Lachesis. - man, plethoric, tendency to hydrothorax; periodic asthma.
Lachesis. - woman, aged 53, plethoric, robust, choleric; ulcer on leg.
Lycopodium. - man, aged 76, strong, corpulent, plethoric, highly fed, fond of wine and tobacco, is affected several times every year with severe catarrh, for eight years has had ulcer on right ala nasi; ulcer on leg.
Merc-sol. - girl, aged 19, well nourished, plethoric; dysentery.
Merc-sol. - woman, aged 54, small, plethoric; glossitis.
Merc-sol. - woman, aged 70, plethoric habit, bilious diathesis, subject to fluent hemorrhoids; bilious diarrhoea.
Mezereum. - man, abdominal plethoric constitution, dark skin, had had several tumors on head removed several years ago, suffering one year; prosopalgia.
Muriatic-acid. - man, aged 65, corpulent, plethoric, indulging in much food and drink, suffering from chronic bronchial catarrh, complicated by slight emphysema which dulcam. removed; passage of feces while urinating.
Opium. - plethora.
Petroleum. - man, aged 50, plethoric, corpulent, suffering several months; mental disturbance.
Phosphorus. - man, aged 32, large, plethoric, light hair and eyes, formerly had scrofulous affection, for which he took blue pill and later corrosive sublimate; fungus haematodes.
Phosphorus. - man, very stout, plethoric, worker in a brewery, suffering three months; hepatic congestion.
Pulsatilla - mrs. c., aged 37, large, plethoric, light hair, blue eyes, suffering for years; headaches.
Pulsatilla - man, plethoric habit, subject to attacks of rheumatic gout; rheumatism in hand.
Sabadilla. - young man, aged 16, plethoric; taenia.
Secale - irritable plethoric subjects.
Senega. - especially suitable for plethoric, phlegmatic persons.
Sepia. - jewess, aged 38, blonde, plethoric, in poor circumstances, suffering since last childbirth three years ago; amenorrhoea.
Stannum. - mr. e. j., aged 38, fleshy, hearty, plethoric; solar neuralgia.
Stramonium. - plethoric, especially young persons.
Stramonium. - young, plethoric persons.
Sulphuric acid. - veins (of feet) distended; venous plethora.
Sulphur. - persons of nervous temperament, quick-motioned, quicktempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes.
Verat-vir. - full-blooded, plethoric persons.
Verat-vir. - young lady, strong and plethoric, after sweeping a cold, damp floor in her slippers; amenorrhoea.
Caps - a relaxed plethoric sluggish, cold remedy.
Chimaphilla - plethoric young women with dysuria.
Ferr-m - best adapted to young weakly persons, anaemic and chlorotic, with pseudo-plethora, who flush easily; cold extremities; oversensitiveness; worse after any active effort.
Ferr-m - pseudo-plethora.
Ferr-p - the typical ferr. phos. subject is not full blooded and robust, but nervous, sensitive, anaemic with the false plethora and easy flushing of ferrum.
Ferrum picricum - acts best in dark-haired patients, plethoric, with sensitive livers.
Ver-v - especially adapted to full-blooded plethoric persons.
Suppression of the menses in plethoric individuals use: acon., bell., bry., gels., nux v., op., plat., sabin., sulph.; for debilitated or cachectic individuals: alet., ars., chin., cyprip., con., graph., helon., iod., natr. m., puls., polyg., sep., sulph.
Aconite ( Amenorrhoea; suppression of the menses, and the ailments incidental thereto.) - fear that menses will not return and terrible consequences follow; laborlike pressing in womb, patient bent double; tendency of blood to the head or chest; vertigo or fainting on rising from recumbent position; amenorrhoea in young plethoric girls who lead a sendentary life; menses stopped from a cold bath, from sudden checking of perspiration, from violent emotions or fright; vagina dry, hot and sensitive.
Ferr-met (Anaemia.) - pure anaemia with appearance of false plethora; face ashy pale or greenish, becomes bright red in flushes; great paleness of mucous membranes; bellow's sound of the heart and anaemic murmurs of the arteries and veins; vomiting as soon as food is taken, with relief of gastralgic pains, prostration with lethargic dulness; animal food not desired, nor is it well borne by the stomach if taken into it; anaemia of chlorotic girls and women.
Aconite (Angina pectoris) - intense anxiety, with fear of death; coldness, cold sweat; feeble pulse, or full, strong and throbbing; intense pain in all directions; frequent change of position without relief, but no exhaustion (as in ars.); suffocative constriction of chest, so distressing that he sweats from agony; flushed face; pain in cardiac region, going down left arm; general or local numbness and tingling, particularly in recent cases, occurring in strong plethoric subjects.
Aconite (Apoplexia) - heat of the head; pulsation of the carotids; skin more warm than cold; pulse full, hard, strong, even suppressed, but not intermittent; especially when fright or vexation was the cause of it, in plethoric apoplectic subjects.
Arnica (Apoplexia) - head hot and rest of body cool; full and strong pulse, with paralysis of limbs, especially left side; loss of consciousnes and stupefaction, with stertorous breathing; sighing, muttering; involuntary discharge of urine and faeces. suits middle-aged, plethoric and stout constitutions; ecchymoses here and there all over the body.
Belladonna (Asthma) - suitable to children and women of nervous erethism and disposition to spasms. constriction of larynx with danger of suffocation on touching larynx and on turning the neck; oppression of chest and loss of breath, stitches under sternum with paroxysms of dry cough at night; asthmatic fits with unconsciousness, followed by relaxation of the muscles and involuntary urination and defaecation; bending the head back and holding the breath; while lying down.
Carb-an (Bones, diseases of, osteitis, periostitis, exostosis, caries, necrosis, etc) - gummata; benign suppurations changed into ichorous ones; venous plethora; scurvy, rending, tearing pains, caused by salt food, with bleeding of gums and looseness of teeth, which are very sensitive to the least cold; joints weak, easily sprained.
Lycopodium (Gstralgia) - gnawing griping in the region of the stomach; compressive pain as if the stomach were pressed together from both sides; flatulence, immediately after a meal; the stomach is full, bloated, distended; tension as from a cord marking the diaphragmatic attachments; he cannot stretch or stand upright; abdominal plethora; full and bloated stomach, acidity, pyrosis; the pains radiate according to the flatulency, to the chest, the back, upward to the oesophagus, downward to the umbilicus and abdomen, from warm drinks (lach. the reverse); stomach deranged from pastry and farinaceous, heavy food.
Sulphur (Gstralgia) - pressure as from a stone, particularly after eating, with nausea, water in mouth, or vomiting; also when the following symptoms are present: acidity, heartburn, frequent regurgitation of ingesta; aversion to fat food, rye bread, sour things, or sugar; dulness of the head, with inability to think; the pressure of the clothes upon the hypochondria is unpleasant, with distension of those parts; disposition to piles or accumulation of mucus in the intestines; hypochondriac, whining mood; disposition to be vehement; venous plethora, haemorrhoids.
Ferr-met (Chlorosis) - animal food not desired by the appetite and not well borne by the stomach if taken into it; great paleness of face which is very apt to turn suddenly red; dyspnoea, palpitation and blowing murmurs in bloodvessels, > by moderate exercise; muscles feeble and easily exhausted; desire for sour or piquant food; mucous membranes very pale; chilly during the day with bright red flushing of the cheeks in the evening; frequent and easy vomiting of ingesta, after eating and from motion which relieves gastrodynia; menses suppressed or profuse, watery, lumpy with labor-pains in abdomen. indicated also for plump fat women suffering from false plethora, migraine, anaemia, headaches; bruit de diable, paleness of mucous membranes, oedema. diminution of haemoglobin, no dyscrasia
Aloe (Constipation) - constant urging to stool, passing small quantities; sometimes only a few drops of blood; constipation of persons who live to eat; constipation of old people with abdominal plethora; suitable to hypochondriacs and to bookworms, with a pituitous state of stomach and bowels; heat, soreness and heaviness of rectum; heaviness in pelvis and dull, heavy sensation in sacral region, by motion; urging as with diarrhoea, only hot flatus passes, with sensation as if a plug were wedged between symphysis pubis and coccyx; involuntary, unnoticed hard stool
Belladonna (Constipation) - no urging; plethora, abdominal and spasmodic; clutching pains come quick; forehead, eyes, red; carotids throbbing; tongue coated; sour taste, eructations. urine dark; dull and stupid. ileus, lead colic; stools suppressed with bloated abdomen, heat of head and abundant sweat; pains in kidneys and sensation of compression in chest; fretful, indolent before stool, contented and cheerful after. from cold or suppressed perspiration, in company, on getting cool, after loosening garments, discharge of flatus either way, from uncovering head or body, from warm food; abdominal plethora, with constipation in elderly people of the higher classes, suffering from retarded defaecation
For nervous persons: 1, Acon., Bar., Bell., Chin., Con., Cupr., Ign., Magn. arct., Merc., Natr., Nux v., Phos., Plat., Puls., Sil., Stann., Sulph., Val., Viol. od.; 2, Alum., Ars., Carb. v., Cham., Dig., Graph., Hep., Hyosc., Laur., Lyc., Natr. m., Nux m., Phos. ac., Rhus, Sabin., Sep., Stram., Teucr., Zinc. (Constitution, age, sex and temperament) - for plethoric individuals. see plethora.
Aconite (Debility, asthenia) - suitable to young people, especially young girls, when plethoric and leading a sedentary life, or for extreme sensitiveness to pain; sleeplessness, tossing about; extreme sensitiveness of sight and hearing; red cheeks; tendency of blood to head; palpitation of heart, etc.
Ferr-met (Debility, asthenia) - anaemic debility from faulty nutrition and assimilation (calc.); relaxation and weakness of entire muscular system with emaciation; muscles feeble and easily exhausted from light exertion; pseudoplethora, even tendency to get fat; fainting spells with subsequent weakness; falls asleep when sewing or studying, from weariness and debility; when falling asleep sweat breaks out, which awakens him and keeps him awake till morning; depression of spirits.
Belladonna ( Diaphragm, diseases of) - affection of the muscles of the crura; in plethoric persons with sympathetic affection or inflammation of the liver; in inflammatory or colicky pains from incarcerated concrements in liver or kidneys; in pylephlebitis; in puerperal affections with painful headache from active hyperaemia (atrop.).
Belladonna (Diphtheria) - only indicated in plethoric patients at the very onset of the disease; fauces, especially right side, highly inflamed, bright red and shining; dryness of throat; submaxillary glands swollen and tender to touch; stitches in throat and fauces with painful deglutition, particularly of fluids, every attempt to swallow causes tears to flow, in recumbent position; in open air, from uncovering (bell., reverse).
Sep (Headache) - nervous and uterine headaches migraine with pains over one eye of a throbbing character; deep, stitching pains which seem to be in the membranes of the brain, always shooting upward or from within outward; can bear neither light, noise nor motion, jerking of hand forward and backward; sudor hystericus. arthritic headaches, after meals and from sleep; hemicrania in leucophlegmatic or anaemic women with nausea, fainting spells and spitting of much saliva (epiphegus, neurasthenia); pains over right eye or in one temple of such severity as to make her scream, they come in such terrific shocks and jerks through head; sensation like waves rolling up and down in forehead; pulsating headache in cerebellum, beginning mornings when waking up (natr. m., forenoon) and last till noon and evening; aversion to all food; pains in open air, when it is pleasant, by violent motion as walking fast, after a good sleep, especially in a dark room.
Sulphur (Headache) - heat on top of head, flushes in face, feet cold, vertigo when going up stairs; headache from abdominal plethora, from suppressed skin diseases, or chronic gouty and rheumatic headaches, increased by mental exertion, motion, coughing, sneezing; periodical headaches, every seventh day; dull headache, commencing in the morning, increasing until noon or a little later and then gradually decreasing; throbbing headache at night; sick-headache, very weakening, once a week or every two weeks, pains generally lacerating, stupefying, benumbing; headache every day, as if the head would burst; nightly headache, from motion; hypochondriasis.
Sulphur (Headache) - abdominal plethora (sep.); gouty and rheumatic headaches; periodical headaches.
Aconite ( Diseases of heart) - palpitations of heart in young, growing persons and plethoric individuals; congestion to both heart and lungs, palpitation with anxiety, cardiac oppression and even syncope; palpitation walking slowly about; bad sleep before midnight, can lie only on back at night; erethitic chlorosis, by eating; diarrhoea and constipation alternating, stools clay-colored or yellowish, great weariness and anorexia; desire for milk or acids.
Stram (Insanity, mental derangement) - the first sight of objects, persons, etc., alarms the patient, and he stares at it with a frightened look, till he discovers there is no need of fear; whilst sleeping quietly, the head is seen to be lifted from the pillow, or the patient will start upon his elbows and gaze about the room with a frightened look; on being asked what is wanted, an evasive answer is given and the patient lies down again; the good-natured, loquacious patient is fully occupied with his phantoms, by which he fancies himself surrounded; mania, with absolute rage, with disposition to strike and bite, alternating with convulsions; illusions as to shape, feels that he is very large in size, or that part of him is very large or double, or one-half of body cut off; converses with spirits, preaches, prays fervently; talks incessantly and absurdly, laughs, claps her hands, great sexual excitement; mania for light and company, fear when alone or in the dark; fears death and weeps all the time; alternate exaltation and depression; great bodily indolence and aversion to movement or to being touched; frequent ebullition of blood; mental and nervous troubles especially in children or in plethoric young persons.
Aconite (Iris, affections of, iritis, neuralgia ciliaris) - in very first stage and in sudden reappearance, especially in young, plethoric people from exposure to a cold draught of air. traumatic iritis; ciliary injection marked, pupils contracted, severe beating and throbbing pains, bending head forward, by motion; child cannot sleep on account of itching from worms; weak, nervous persons with false plethora.
Caps (Stomatitis) - suitable to fat, but flabby, sluggish children; or to phlegmatic, plethoric persons, who lead a sedentary life; teeth dirty and painful; gums hot, burning, swollen, inflamed and sensitive, gums spongy, retracted from teeth; tongue and inside of lips full of flat, sensitive, spreading ulcers; with a lardaceous centre; odor foetid, unbearable, like carrion, saliva viscid, offensive, copious.
Kali-c (Tonsillitis, quinsy sore throat) - tonsillitis in strong, plethoric persons; sore throat day and night, with inflamed velum palati and uvula; foetid odor from mouth; stinging pains during deglutition.
Belladonna (Vagina, affections of) - plethoric persons disposed to phlegmonous inflammations; symptoms come on suddenly and disappear quickly; sense of heat and dryness in the parts.
Aloe (Vertigo, dizziness) - revolving vertigo, aggravated by turning quickly round or when ascending stairs; insecurity in walking and standing; vertigo after dinner, as if he were seated on a high chair; severe headache and vertigo from abdominal plethora. vertigo in women of nervous, relaxed or phlegmatic habits during climaxis.
Plethoric persons can do the job of ten persons single-handedly, both quantitatively as well as qualitatively. Other examples of plethoric persons are those who do Ph. D. at their sixtieth year of age. Also those who start studying, learning and mastering a subect or art even at their forty-five years of age. The term tiredness is not in their vocabulary. Work for them is worship. The workaholics. Old age is not a deterrent to them.
Therefore, in the absence of more valuable symtoms in a case, if you find the patient is of the above type you may use the term plethora.
Aconite - plethora; active capillary congestions (from overactive serous membranes).
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persons leading a sedentary life; tendency to apoplectic congestion;
Arnica. - nervous women, sanguine plethoric persons, with red face. ---prolapsus uteri.
Arnica. - in cases of sanguine plethoric people with lively expression, very red face, disposed to cerebral congestion. ---prolapsus uteri.
Artemisia-vulg. - girl, aged 18, strong, well developed, plethoric; epilepsy.
Asarum-europ - plethoric young woman suffered for years from headaches.
Aster- rub. - man, aged 56, plethoric constitution, sedentary since eight years; epilepsy.
Aurum met - violent orgasm; plethora.
Bryonia. - plethora.
Cactus. - sanguineous congestions in persons of plethoric habit.
Calc-carb. - congestions: head; eyes; ears; nose; face; chest; abdomen, limbs; plethora.
Calc-carb. - puberty: girls who begin with menses too early and too profuse; fat, yet chlorotic; plethoric girls, amenorrhoea, etc.
Calc-carb. - girl, aged 20, small, plethoric and blonde. ---chlorosis with hermicrania.
Calc-carb. - plethoric woman. ---vulvar tumor.
Calc-carb. - nervous, hemorrhoidal, plethoric and lymphatic constitutions; disposed to grow fat.
Carbo-an. - venous plethora; threatened stagnation of circulation, cyanosis, vital heat sinks to a minimum.
Carbo-an. - elderly persons, especially with venous plethora, blue cheeks, blue lips, debility, etc.
Chelidonium - distension of veins; abdominal plethora; hemorrhoids.
Chelidonium - suits every age, sex and temperament, but particularly spare subjects disposed to abdominal plethora, cutaneous diseases, catarrh or neuralgia.
Chimaphila-umb. - plethoric, hysterical young woman; dysuria.
China-sul. - plethoric woman, aged 30; intermittent apoplexy.
China-sul. - a man, of plethoric habit; intermittent prosopalgia.
Coca. - weakly, nervous, fat or plethoric persons and such as have disease of heart and lungs suffer more from veta.
Cocculus - chronic prosopalgia in ladies of high rank, of ages varying from 30 to 40 years; abdominal plethora, extreme irritability of nervous system, especially of spinal cord; wind in epigastrium; acidity; obstinate constipation; diarrhoea; menstrual colic; bland, thick leucorrhoea; spinal irritation, with nocturnal pains; temperament choleric; through long-continued suffering had been brought into a state of desperation, constantly changing, and that quickly, from pusillanimity and despondency to extreme gayety.
Cocculus - woman, aged 26; plethoric constitution; menorrhagia.
Cocculus - miss h., aged 35, plethoric; headache for 15 years, came shortly after appearance of menses.
Colocynthis. - 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. - woman, aged 54, plethoric; uterine polypi.
Coca. - weakly, nervous, fat or plethoric persons and such as have disease of heart and lungs suffer more from veta.
Ferrum-met. - pseudo-plethora; congestions, etc., yet anemic; face is earthy, flushing easily.
Ferrum-iod. - symptoms of plethora; general turgescence of peripheric capillary system.
Glonoinc. - seeming plethora, rapid deviations in distribution of blood; useful as a substitute for bleeding.
Glonoinc. - florid, plethoric, sensitive women.
Hamamelis - woman, plethoric habit; epistaxis.
Ignatia - plethoric lady, aged 35, mother of eleven children; prosopalgia.
Ipecac - plethora, fat children.
Kali-bich. - officer, aged 24, strong, plethoric constitution, choleric temperament, 15 months ago had chancre; syphilis.
Lachesis. - man, plethoric, tendency to hydrothorax; periodic asthma.
Lachesis. - woman, aged 53, plethoric, robust, choleric; ulcer on leg.
Lycopodium. - man, aged 76, strong, corpulent, plethoric, highly fed, fond of wine and tobacco, is affected several times every year with severe catarrh, for eight years has had ulcer on right ala nasi; ulcer on leg.
Merc-sol. - girl, aged 19, well nourished, plethoric; dysentery.
Merc-sol. - woman, aged 54, small, plethoric; glossitis.
Merc-sol. - woman, aged 70, plethoric habit, bilious diathesis, subject to fluent hemorrhoids; bilious diarrhoea.
Mezereum. - man, abdominal plethoric constitution, dark skin, had had several tumors on head removed several years ago, suffering one year; prosopalgia.
Muriatic-acid. - man, aged 65, corpulent, plethoric, indulging in much food and drink, suffering from chronic bronchial catarrh, complicated by slight emphysema which dulcam. removed; passage of feces while urinating.
Opium. - plethora.
Petroleum. - man, aged 50, plethoric, corpulent, suffering several months; mental disturbance.
Phosphorus. - man, aged 32, large, plethoric, light hair and eyes, formerly had scrofulous affection, for which he took blue pill and later corrosive sublimate; fungus haematodes.
Phosphorus. - man, very stout, plethoric, worker in a brewery, suffering three months; hepatic congestion.
Pulsatilla - mrs. c., aged 37, large, plethoric, light hair, blue eyes, suffering for years; headaches.
Pulsatilla - man, plethoric habit, subject to attacks of rheumatic gout; rheumatism in hand.
Sabadilla. - young man, aged 16, plethoric; taenia.
Secale - irritable plethoric subjects.
Senega. - especially suitable for plethoric, phlegmatic persons.
Sepia. - jewess, aged 38, blonde, plethoric, in poor circumstances, suffering since last childbirth three years ago; amenorrhoea.
Stannum. - mr. e. j., aged 38, fleshy, hearty, plethoric; solar neuralgia.
Stramonium. - plethoric, especially young persons.
Stramonium. - young, plethoric persons.
Sulphuric acid. - veins (of feet) distended; venous plethora.
Sulphur. - persons of nervous temperament, quick-motioned, quicktempered, plethoric, skin excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes.
Verat-vir. - full-blooded, plethoric persons.
Verat-vir. - young lady, strong and plethoric, after sweeping a cold, damp floor in her slippers; amenorrhoea.
Caps - a relaxed plethoric sluggish, cold remedy.
Chimaphilla - plethoric young women with dysuria.
Ferr-m - best adapted to young weakly persons, anaemic and chlorotic, with pseudo-plethora, who flush easily; cold extremities; oversensitiveness; worse after any active effort.
Ferr-m - pseudo-plethora.
Ferr-p - the typical ferr. phos. subject is not full blooded and robust, but nervous, sensitive, anaemic with the false plethora and easy flushing of ferrum.
Ferrum picricum - acts best in dark-haired patients, plethoric, with sensitive livers.
Ver-v - especially adapted to full-blooded plethoric persons.
Suppression of the menses in plethoric individuals use: acon., bell., bry., gels., nux v., op., plat., sabin., sulph.; for debilitated or cachectic individuals: alet., ars., chin., cyprip., con., graph., helon., iod., natr. m., puls., polyg., sep., sulph.
Aconite ( Amenorrhoea; suppression of the menses, and the ailments incidental thereto.) - fear that menses will not return and terrible consequences follow; laborlike pressing in womb, patient bent double; tendency of blood to the head or chest; vertigo or fainting on rising from recumbent position; amenorrhoea in young plethoric girls who lead a sendentary life; menses stopped from a cold bath, from sudden checking of perspiration, from violent emotions or fright; vagina dry, hot and sensitive.
Ferr-met (Anaemia.) - pure anaemia with appearance of false plethora; face ashy pale or greenish, becomes bright red in flushes; great paleness of mucous membranes; bellow's sound of the heart and anaemic murmurs of the arteries and veins; vomiting as soon as food is taken, with relief of gastralgic pains, prostration with lethargic dulness; animal food not desired, nor is it well borne by the stomach if taken into it; anaemia of chlorotic girls and women.
Aconite (Angina pectoris) - intense anxiety, with fear of death; coldness, cold sweat; feeble pulse, or full, strong and throbbing; intense pain in all directions; frequent change of position without relief, but no exhaustion (as in ars.); suffocative constriction of chest, so distressing that he sweats from agony; flushed face; pain in cardiac region, going down left arm; general or local numbness and tingling, particularly in recent cases, occurring in strong plethoric subjects.
Aconite (Apoplexia) - heat of the head; pulsation of the carotids; skin more warm than cold; pulse full, hard, strong, even suppressed, but not intermittent; especially when fright or vexation was the cause of it, in plethoric apoplectic subjects.
Arnica (Apoplexia) - head hot and rest of body cool; full and strong pulse, with paralysis of limbs, especially left side; loss of consciousnes and stupefaction, with stertorous breathing; sighing, muttering; involuntary discharge of urine and faeces. suits middle-aged, plethoric and stout constitutions; ecchymoses here and there all over the body.
Belladonna (Asthma) - suitable to children and women of nervous erethism and disposition to spasms. constriction of larynx with danger of suffocation on touching larynx and on turning the neck; oppression of chest and loss of breath, stitches under sternum with paroxysms of dry cough at night; asthmatic fits with unconsciousness, followed by relaxation of the muscles and involuntary urination and defaecation; bending the head back and holding the breath; while lying down.
Carb-an (Bones, diseases of, osteitis, periostitis, exostosis, caries, necrosis, etc) - gummata; benign suppurations changed into ichorous ones; venous plethora; scurvy, rending, tearing pains, caused by salt food, with bleeding of gums and looseness of teeth, which are very sensitive to the least cold; joints weak, easily sprained.
Lycopodium (Gstralgia) - gnawing griping in the region of the stomach; compressive pain as if the stomach were pressed together from both sides; flatulence, immediately after a meal; the stomach is full, bloated, distended; tension as from a cord marking the diaphragmatic attachments; he cannot stretch or stand upright; abdominal plethora; full and bloated stomach, acidity, pyrosis; the pains radiate according to the flatulency, to the chest, the back, upward to the oesophagus, downward to the umbilicus and abdomen, from warm drinks (lach. the reverse); stomach deranged from pastry and farinaceous, heavy food.
Sulphur (Gstralgia) - pressure as from a stone, particularly after eating, with nausea, water in mouth, or vomiting; also when the following symptoms are present: acidity, heartburn, frequent regurgitation of ingesta; aversion to fat food, rye bread, sour things, or sugar; dulness of the head, with inability to think; the pressure of the clothes upon the hypochondria is unpleasant, with distension of those parts; disposition to piles or accumulation of mucus in the intestines; hypochondriac, whining mood; disposition to be vehement; venous plethora, haemorrhoids.
Ferr-met (Chlorosis) - animal food not desired by the appetite and not well borne by the stomach if taken into it; great paleness of face which is very apt to turn suddenly red; dyspnoea, palpitation and blowing murmurs in bloodvessels, > by moderate exercise; muscles feeble and easily exhausted; desire for sour or piquant food; mucous membranes very pale; chilly during the day with bright red flushing of the cheeks in the evening; frequent and easy vomiting of ingesta, after eating and from motion which relieves gastrodynia; menses suppressed or profuse, watery, lumpy with labor-pains in abdomen. indicated also for plump fat women suffering from false plethora, migraine, anaemia, headaches; bruit de diable, paleness of mucous membranes, oedema. diminution of haemoglobin, no dyscrasia
Aloe (Constipation) - constant urging to stool, passing small quantities; sometimes only a few drops of blood; constipation of persons who live to eat; constipation of old people with abdominal plethora; suitable to hypochondriacs and to bookworms, with a pituitous state of stomach and bowels; heat, soreness and heaviness of rectum; heaviness in pelvis and dull, heavy sensation in sacral region, by motion; urging as with diarrhoea, only hot flatus passes, with sensation as if a plug were wedged between symphysis pubis and coccyx; involuntary, unnoticed hard stool
Belladonna (Constipation) - no urging; plethora, abdominal and spasmodic; clutching pains come quick; forehead, eyes, red; carotids throbbing; tongue coated; sour taste, eructations. urine dark; dull and stupid. ileus, lead colic; stools suppressed with bloated abdomen, heat of head and abundant sweat; pains in kidneys and sensation of compression in chest; fretful, indolent before stool, contented and cheerful after. from cold or suppressed perspiration, in company, on getting cool, after loosening garments, discharge of flatus either way, from uncovering head or body, from warm food; abdominal plethora, with constipation in elderly people of the higher classes, suffering from retarded defaecation
For nervous persons: 1, Acon., Bar., Bell., Chin., Con., Cupr., Ign., Magn. arct., Merc., Natr., Nux v., Phos., Plat., Puls., Sil., Stann., Sulph., Val., Viol. od.; 2, Alum., Ars., Carb. v., Cham., Dig., Graph., Hep., Hyosc., Laur., Lyc., Natr. m., Nux m., Phos. ac., Rhus, Sabin., Sep., Stram., Teucr., Zinc. (Constitution, age, sex and temperament) - for plethoric individuals. see plethora.
Aconite (Debility, asthenia) - suitable to young people, especially young girls, when plethoric and leading a sedentary life, or for extreme sensitiveness to pain; sleeplessness, tossing about; extreme sensitiveness of sight and hearing; red cheeks; tendency of blood to head; palpitation of heart, etc.
Ferr-met (Debility, asthenia) - anaemic debility from faulty nutrition and assimilation (calc.); relaxation and weakness of entire muscular system with emaciation; muscles feeble and easily exhausted from light exertion; pseudoplethora, even tendency to get fat; fainting spells with subsequent weakness; falls asleep when sewing or studying, from weariness and debility; when falling asleep sweat breaks out, which awakens him and keeps him awake till morning; depression of spirits.
Belladonna ( Diaphragm, diseases of) - affection of the muscles of the crura; in plethoric persons with sympathetic affection or inflammation of the liver; in inflammatory or colicky pains from incarcerated concrements in liver or kidneys; in pylephlebitis; in puerperal affections with painful headache from active hyperaemia (atrop.).
Belladonna (Diphtheria) - only indicated in plethoric patients at the very onset of the disease; fauces, especially right side, highly inflamed, bright red and shining; dryness of throat; submaxillary glands swollen and tender to touch; stitches in throat and fauces with painful deglutition, particularly of fluids, every attempt to swallow causes tears to flow, in recumbent position; in open air, from uncovering (bell., reverse).
Sep (Headache) - nervous and uterine headaches migraine with pains over one eye of a throbbing character; deep, stitching pains which seem to be in the membranes of the brain, always shooting upward or from within outward; can bear neither light, noise nor motion, jerking of hand forward and backward; sudor hystericus. arthritic headaches, after meals and from sleep; hemicrania in leucophlegmatic or anaemic women with nausea, fainting spells and spitting of much saliva (epiphegus, neurasthenia); pains over right eye or in one temple of such severity as to make her scream, they come in such terrific shocks and jerks through head; sensation like waves rolling up and down in forehead; pulsating headache in cerebellum, beginning mornings when waking up (natr. m., forenoon) and last till noon and evening; aversion to all food; pains in open air, when it is pleasant, by violent motion as walking fast, after a good sleep, especially in a dark room.
Sulphur (Headache) - heat on top of head, flushes in face, feet cold, vertigo when going up stairs; headache from abdominal plethora, from suppressed skin diseases, or chronic gouty and rheumatic headaches, increased by mental exertion, motion, coughing, sneezing; periodical headaches, every seventh day; dull headache, commencing in the morning, increasing until noon or a little later and then gradually decreasing; throbbing headache at night; sick-headache, very weakening, once a week or every two weeks, pains generally lacerating, stupefying, benumbing; headache every day, as if the head would burst; nightly headache, from motion; hypochondriasis.
Sulphur (Headache) - abdominal plethora (sep.); gouty and rheumatic headaches; periodical headaches.
Aconite ( Diseases of heart) - palpitations of heart in young, growing persons and plethoric individuals; congestion to both heart and lungs, palpitation with anxiety, cardiac oppression and even syncope; palpitation walking slowly about; bad sleep before midnight, can lie only on back at night; erethitic chlorosis, by eating; diarrhoea and constipation alternating, stools clay-colored or yellowish, great weariness and anorexia; desire for milk or acids.
Stram (Insanity, mental derangement) - the first sight of objects, persons, etc., alarms the patient, and he stares at it with a frightened look, till he discovers there is no need of fear; whilst sleeping quietly, the head is seen to be lifted from the pillow, or the patient will start upon his elbows and gaze about the room with a frightened look; on being asked what is wanted, an evasive answer is given and the patient lies down again; the good-natured, loquacious patient is fully occupied with his phantoms, by which he fancies himself surrounded; mania, with absolute rage, with disposition to strike and bite, alternating with convulsions; illusions as to shape, feels that he is very large in size, or that part of him is very large or double, or one-half of body cut off; converses with spirits, preaches, prays fervently; talks incessantly and absurdly, laughs, claps her hands, great sexual excitement; mania for light and company, fear when alone or in the dark; fears death and weeps all the time; alternate exaltation and depression; great bodily indolence and aversion to movement or to being touched; frequent ebullition of blood; mental and nervous troubles especially in children or in plethoric young persons.
Aconite (Iris, affections of, iritis, neuralgia ciliaris) - in very first stage and in sudden reappearance, especially in young, plethoric people from exposure to a cold draught of air. traumatic iritis; ciliary injection marked, pupils contracted, severe beating and throbbing pains, bending head forward, by motion; child cannot sleep on account of itching from worms; weak, nervous persons with false plethora.
Caps (Stomatitis) - suitable to fat, but flabby, sluggish children; or to phlegmatic, plethoric persons, who lead a sedentary life; teeth dirty and painful; gums hot, burning, swollen, inflamed and sensitive, gums spongy, retracted from teeth; tongue and inside of lips full of flat, sensitive, spreading ulcers; with a lardaceous centre; odor foetid, unbearable, like carrion, saliva viscid, offensive, copious.
Kali-c (Tonsillitis, quinsy sore throat) - tonsillitis in strong, plethoric persons; sore throat day and night, with inflamed velum palati and uvula; foetid odor from mouth; stinging pains during deglutition.
Belladonna (Vagina, affections of) - plethoric persons disposed to phlegmonous inflammations; symptoms come on suddenly and disappear quickly; sense of heat and dryness in the parts.
Aloe (Vertigo, dizziness) - revolving vertigo, aggravated by turning quickly round or when ascending stairs; insecurity in walking and standing; vertigo after dinner, as if he were seated on a high chair; severe headache and vertigo from abdominal plethora. vertigo in women of nervous, relaxed or phlegmatic habits during climaxis.
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