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Apis Mellifica.
Poison of the Honey Bee (Apium virus.)

Adapted to the strumous constitution; glands enlarged, indurated; scirrhus

or open cancer. Women, specially widows; children and girls who, though
generally careful, become awkward, and let things fall while handling
them (Bov.). Bad effects of acute exanthema imperfectly developed or
suppressed (Zinc.); measles, scarlatina, urticaria. Ailments from jealousy,
fright, rage, vexation, bad news. Irritable; nervous; fidgety; hard to please.
Weeping disposition; cannot help crying; discouraged, despondent (Puls.).
Sudden shrill, piercing screams from children while waking or sleeping
(Hellebore). Oedema; bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes (over the
eyes, Kali c.); of the hands and feet, dropsy, without thirst (with thirst,
Acet. ac., Apoc.). Extreme sensitiveness to touch (Bell., Lach.). Pain:
burning, stinging, sore; suddenly migrating from one part to another
(Kali bi., Lac c., Puls.). Thirstlessness: in anasarca; acites (Acetic acid, but
face more waxy and great thirst). Incontinence of urine, with great
irritation of the parts; can scarcely retain the urine a moment, and when
passed scalds severely; frequent, painful, scanty, bloody. Constipation:
sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if much effort
were used. Diarrhoea: of drunkards; in eruptive diseases, especially if
eruption be suppressed; involuntary from every motion, as though anus
were wide open (Phos.). Affects right side; enlargement or dropsy of right
ovary; right testicle. Intermittent fever; chill 3 p. m., with thirst, always
(Ign.); < warm room and from external heat (Thuja, 3 a. m., and at 3 p.
m.).

Relations. - Complementary: Nat. mur. Disagrees, when used either

before or after Rhus. Ars. and Puls. follow Apis well. Has cured scarlatina
albuminuria after Canth., Dig., Hell. failed.

Aggravation. - After sleeping (Lach.); closed, especially warmed and

heated rooms are intolerable; from getting wet (Rhus), but better from
washing or moistening the part in cold water.

Amelioration. - Open air; cold water or cold bathing; uncovering; pains

by coughing, walking or changing position; when sitting erect;
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Apocynum Cannabinum.
Indian Hemp. (Apocynaceae)

Excretions diminished, especially urine and sweat. Dropsy of serous

membranes; acute, inflammatory. Dropsy: with thirst (Acet. ac.), water
disagrees or is vomited (Ars.); most cases uncomplicated with organic
diseases; after typhus, typhoid, scarlatina, cirrhosis; after abuse of quinine.
Acute hydrocephalus, with open sutures; stupor, sight of one eye lost;
constant and voluntary motion of one arm and one leg (left arm and leg,
Bry.); forehead projected. Amenorrhoea in young girls, with bloating or
dropsical extension of abdomen and extremities. Metorrhagia: continued
or paroxysmal flow; fluid or clotted; nausea, vomiting, palpitation; pulse
quick, feeble, when moved; vital depression, fainting, when raising head
from pillow. Cough, short and dry, or deep and loose, during pregnancy
(Con.).

Relations. - Similar: to, Acetic Acid, Apis (no thirst), Ars., Cinch., Dig.,
in dropsical affections. Blatta orientalis has cured bad cases of general
dropsy, after Apis, Apoc. and Dig. failed. - Haynes.

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Argentum Metallicum.
The Metal. (Pure Silver)

Tall, thin, irritable persons. Ailments from abuse of Mercury.

Constitutional effects of onanism. Affects the cartilages, tarsal, ears, nose,
Eustachian; the structures entering into joints. Seminal emissions: after
onanism; almost every night; without erection; with atrophy of penis.
Crushed pain in the testicles (Rhod.). Prolapsus; with pain in left ovary
and back, extending forward and downward (right ovary, Pal.); climacteric
haemorrhage. Exhausting, fluent coryza with sneezing. Hoarseness; of
professional singers, public speakers (Alum., Arum. t.). Total loss of voice
of professional singers. Throat and larynx feel raw or sore on swallowing
or coughing. Laughing excites cough (Dros., Phos., Stan.) and produces
profuse mucus in larynx. When reading aloud has to hem and hawk; cough
with easy expectoration of gelatinous, viscid mucus, looking like boiled
starch. Great weakness of the chest (Stan.); worse left side. Alternation in
timbre of voice with singers and public speakers (Arum t.). Raw spot over
bifurcation of the trachea. worse when using voice, talking or singing.

Relation. - Follows well: after, Alum. Similar: to, Stan. in cough excited
by laughing.

Aggravation. - Riding in a carriage (Coc.); when touched or pressed

upon; talking, singing, reading aloud.

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Argentum Nitricum.
The Silver Nitrate (AgO,NO5)

Acute or chronic diseases fro unusual or long-continued mental exertion.

Always think of Argentum nit. on seeing withered, dried-up, old-looking
patients (thin, scrawny, Sec.). Emaciation, progressing every year; most
marked in lower extremeties (Am. m.); marasmus. Apprehension when
ready for church or opera, diarrhoea sets in (Gels.). Time passes slowly
(Can. I.); impulsive, wants to do things in a hurry; must walk fast; is
always hurried; anxious, irritable, nervous (Aur. Lit.). Headache:
congestive, with fullness and heaviness; with sense of expansion; habitual
gastric, of literary men; from dancing; hemicrania, pressive, screwing in
frontal eminence or temple; ending in bilious vomiting; < from any
exhaustive mental labor; > by pressure or tight bandaging (Apis, Puls.).
Acute granular conjunctivitis; scarlet-red, like raw beef; discharge
profuse, muco-purulent. Ophthalmia neonatorum: profuse, purulent
discharge; cornea opaque, ulceration; lids sore, thick, swollen;
agglutinated in morning (Apis, Mer. s., Rhus). Eye strain from sewing, <
in warm room > in open air (Nat. m., Ruta); diseases due to defective
accommodation. Craves sugar; child is fond of it, but diarrhoea results
from eating (craves salt or smoked meat, Cal. p.). Belching accompanies
most gastric ailments. Flatulent dyspepsia: belching after every meal;
stomach, as it it would burst with wind; belching difficult, finally air
rushes out with great violence. Diarrhoea: green mucus, like chopped
spinach in flakes; turning green after remaining on diaper; after drinking;
after eating candy or sugar; masses of muco-lymph in shreddy strips or
lumps (Asar.); with much noisy flatus (Aloe.). Diarrhoea as soon as he
drinks (Ars., Crot. t., Throm.). Urine passes unconsciously day and night
(Caust.). Impotence: erection fails when coition is attempted (Agnus,
Calad., Selen.). Coition: painful in both sexes; followed by bleeding from
vagina (Nit. ac.). Netrorrhagia: in young widows; in sterility; with nervous
erethism at change of life (Lach.). Great longing for fresh air (Amyl.,
Puls., Sulph.). Chronic laryngitis of singers; the high notes cause cough
(Alum., Arg. m., Arum.). Great weakness of lower extremities, with
trembling; cannot walk with the eyes closed (Alum.). Walks and stands
unsteadily, especially when he thinks himself unobserved. Convulsions
preceded by great restlessness. Sensation of a splinter in throat when
swallowing (Dolch., Hep., Nit. ac., Sil.); in or about uterus when walking
or riding. Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up;
craves fresh air.

Relation. - Natrum mur, for the bad effects of cauterizing with nitrate of
silver. Coffee increases nervous headache. Boys' complaints after using
tabacco (Ars., Ver.). Similar: to, Nat. m., Nit. ac., Lach., Aur., Cup. After
Ver.; Lyc. follows well in flatulent dyspepsia.

Aggravation. - Cold food; cold air; eating sugar; ice cream; unusual
mental exertion.

Amelioration. - Open air; craves the wind blowing in his face; bathing
with cold water. The 200 or 1000th potency in watery solution as a topical
application in ophthalmia neonatorum has relieved when the crude Silver
nitrate failed.

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Arnica Montana.
Leopard's Bane (Compositae)

Nervous women, sanguine plethoric persons, lively expression and very

red face. For the bad effects resulting from mechanical injuries; even if
received years ago. Especially adapted to those who remain long
impressed by even slight mechanical injuries. Sore, lame, bruised feeling
all through the body, as if beaten; traumatic affections of muscles.
Mechanical injuries, especially with stupor from concussion; involuntary
faeces and urine; After injuries with blunt instruments (Symph.).
Compound fractures and their profuse suppuration (Calend.). Concussions
and contusions, results of shock or injury; with laceration of soft parts;
prevents suppuration and septic conditions and promotes absorption.
Nervous, cannot bear pain; whole body over-sensitive (Cham., Coff.,
Ign.). Everything on which he lies seems too hard; complains constantly of
it and keeps moving from place to place in search of a soft spot (the parts
rested upon feel sore and bruised, Bap., Pyr.; must move continually to
obtain relief from pain, Rhus). Heat of upper body; coldness of lower. The
face or head and face alone is hot, the body cool. Unconsciousness; when
spoken to answers correctly but unconsciousness and delirium at once
return (falls asleep in the midst of a sentence, Bap.). Says there is nothing
the matter with him. Meningitis after mechanical or traumatic injuries;
from falls, concussions of brain, etc. When suspecting exudation of blood,
to facilitate absorption Hydrocephalus; deathly coldness in forearm of
children (in diarrhoea, Brom.). Apoplexy; loss of consciousness,
involuntary evacuation from bowels and bladder; in acute attack, controls
haemorrhage and aids absorption; should be repeated and allowed to act
for days or weeks unless symptoms call for another remedy. Conjunctival
or retinal haemorrhage, with extravasation, form injuries or cough (Led.,
Nux.). Gout and rheumatism, with great fear of being touched or struck by
persons coming near him. Cannot walk erect on account of a bruised sort
of feeling in the pelvic region. Tendency to small, painful boils, one after
another, extremely sore (small boils in crops, Sulph.). Paralysis (left-
sided); pulse full strong; stertor, sighing, muttering. Belching; eructations;
foul, putrid, like rotten eggs. Dysentery; with ischuria, fruitless urging;
long interval between the stools. Constipation: rectum loaded, faeces will
not come away; ribbon like stools from enlarged prostrate or retroverted
uterus. Soreness of parts after labor; prevents post-partum haemorrhage
and puerperal complications. Retention or incontinence of urine after labor
(Op.).

Relation. - Complementary: to, Acon., Hyper., Rhus. Similar: to, for

soreness as if bruised, Bap., China, Phyt., Pyr., Rhus, Ruta, Staph. Arnica
follows well: after, Acon., Apis., Ham., Ipec., Ver., is followed by Sul. ac.
In ailments from spiritous liquors or from charcoal vapors, Arn. is often
indicated (Am. c., Bov.). In spinal concussion, compare, Hyper.

Aggravation. - At rest; when lying down; from wine.

Amelioration. - From contact; motion (Rhus, Ruta).

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Arsenic Album.
White Oxide of Arsenic (As2O3.)

Great prostration, with rapid sinking of the vital forces; fainting: The
disposition is:
a - Depressing, melancholic, disparing, indifferent.
b - Anxious, fearful, restless, full of anguish.
c - Irritable, sensitive, peevish, easily vexed.
The greater the suffering, the greater the anguish, restlessness and fear of
death. Mentally restless, but physically too weak to move; cannot rest in
any place: changing places continually; wants to be moved from one bed
to another, and lies now here now there. Anxious fear of death; thinks it
useless to take medicine, is incurable, is surely going to die; dread of
death, when alone, or, going to bed. Attacks of anxiety at night driving out
of bed, < after midnight. Burning pains; the affected parts burn like
fire, as if hot coals were applied to parts (Antr.), > by heat, hot drinks, hot
applications. Burning thirst without special desire to drink; the stomach
does not seem to tolerate, because it cannot assimilate cold water; lies like
a stone in the stomach. It is wanted, but he cannot or dare not drink it.
Cannot bear the smell or sight of food (Colch., Sep.). Great thirst for cold
water; drinks often, but little at a time; eats seldom, but much. Gastric
derangements; after cold fruits; ice cream; ice water; sour beer; bad
sausage; alcoholic drinks; strong cheese. Teething children are pale, weak,
fretful, and want to be carried rapidly. Diarrhoea, after eating or drinking;
stool scanty, dark-colored, offensive, and whether small or large, followed
by great prostration. Haemorrhoids: with stitching pain when walking or
sitting, not at stool; preventing sitting or sleep; burning pain < by heat;
fissures make voiding urine difficult. Breathing: asthmatic; must sit or
bend forward; springs out of bed at night, especially after twelve o'clock;
unable to lie down for fear of suffocation; attacks like croup instead of the
usual urticaria. Rapid emaciation: with cold sweat and great debility (Tub.,
Ver.); of affected parts; marasmus. Anasarca, skin pale, waxy, earth-
colored (Acet. ac.). Excessive exhaustion from least exertion. Exhaustion
is not felt by the patient while lying still; when he moves he is surprised to
find himself so weak. Symptoms generally worse 1-2 p. m., 12-2 a. m.
Skin: dry and scaly; cold, blue and wrinkled; with cold, clammy
perspiration; like parchment; white and pasty; black vesicles and burning
pain. Bad effects from decayed food or animal matter, whether by
inoculation, olfaction or ingestion. Complaints return annually (Carbo. v.,
Lach., Sulph., Thuja).

Relation. - Complementary: Allium s., Carbo. v., Phos., Pyr. Ars. should
be thought of in ailments from: chewing tabacco; alcoholism; sea bathing;
sausage poisoning; dissecting woulds and anthrax poison; stings of
venomous insects.

Aggravation. - After midnight (1 to 2 a. m. or p. m.); from cold; cold

drinks or food; when lying on affected side or with the head low.

Amelioration. - From heat in general (reverse of Sec.) except headache,

which is temporarily > by cold bathing (Spig.); burning pain > by heat.

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 Arum Triphyllum.
Indian Turnip (Araceae)

Coryza; acrid, fluent; nostrils raw. Nose feels stopped up in spite of the
watery discharge (compare, Am. c., Samb., Sinap.); sneezing < at night.
Acrid, ichorous discharge, excoriating inside of nose, alae, and upper lip
(Ars., Cepa). Constant picking at the nose until it bleeds; boring with
the finger into the side of the nose. Picks lips until they bleed; corners of
the mouth sore, cracked, bleeding (with malignant tendency, Cund.); bites
nails until fingers bleed. Patients pick and bore into the raw bleeding
surfaces though very painful; scream with pain but keep up the boring (in
diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid). Children refuse food and drink on account
of soreness of mouth and throat (Mer.); are sleepless. Saliva profuse,
acrid, corrodes the mucous membrane; tongue and buccal cavity raw and
bleeding. Aphonia: complete, after exposure to northwest winds (Acon.,
Hep.); from singing (Arg. n., Caust., Phos., Sel.). Clergyman's sore throat;
voice hoarse, uncertain, uncontrollable, changing continually; worse from
talking, speaking or singing; orators, singers, actors. Desquamation in
large flakes, a second or third time, in scarlatina. Typhoid scarlatina, with
apathy, scanty or suppressed urine; threatened uraemia. The sore mouth
and nose are guiding in malignant scarlatina and diphtheria.

Relations. - Useful: after Hep. and Nit. ac. in dry, hoarse, croupy cough;
after Caust. and Hep. in morning hoarseness and deafness, and in
scarlatina. Should not be given low or repeated often as bad effects often
follow. - Dr. L. The higher potencies most prompt and effective.

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Asarum Europaeum.
European Snake Root (Arsistolochiaceae)

Nervous, anxious people; excitable or melancholy. Imagines he is

hovering in the air like a spirit (Lac. c.); lightness of all the limbs. Cold
"shivers" from any emotion. Oversensitiveness of nerves, scratching of
linen or silk, crackling of paper is unbearable (Fer. Tar.). Sensation as
if ears were plugged up with some foreign substance. When reading,
sensation in eyes as if thy would be pressed asunder or outward; relieved
by bathing them in cold water. Cold air or cold water very pleasant to the
eyes; sunshine, light, and wind are intolerable. Nausea: in attacks or
constant (Ipec.); < after eating, tongue clean (Sulph.); of pregnancy.
Unconquerable longing for alcohol; a popular remedy in Russia for
drunkards. "Horrible sensation" of pressing, digging in the stomach when
waking in the morning (after a debauch). Great faintness and constant
yawning.

Relation. - Similar: to, Caust. in modalities; to Aloe, Arg. n., Mer., Pod.,
Puls., Sulph. ac. in stringy shreddy stools. Followed: by, Bis., Caust.,
Puls., Sulph. ac.

Aggravation. - In cold and dry, or clear, fine weather (Caust.).

Amelioration. - Washing face or bathing affected parts with cold water; in

damp, wet weather (Caust.).

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Asterias Rubens.
Star-fish (Radiata)

For the sycotic diathesis; flabby, lymphatic constitution; irritable

temperament. Easily excited by any emotion, especially by contradictions
(Anac., Con.). Heat of the head, as if surrounded by hot air. Sanguineous
congestion to the brain. Apoplexy; face red, pulse hard, full, frequent.
Cancer of mammae; acute lancinating pain; drawing pain in breast;
swollen, distended, as before the menses; breast feels drawn in. A livid red
spot appeared, broke and discharged; gradually invaded entire breast, very
fetid odor; edges pale, clevated, mamillary, hard, everted; bottom covered
with reddish granulations. Gait unsteady: muscles refuse to obey the will
(Alum., Gels.). Epilepsy: twitching over the whole body four or five days
before the attack. Constipation: obstinate; ineffectual desire; stools of
hard, round balls, like olives. Diarrhoea: watery, brown, gushing out in a
violent jet (Crot. t., Grat., Gum., Jatr., Thuja). Sexual desire increased in
women (Lit.).

Relations. - Similar: to, Murex, Sepia. Compare: Carbo an., Con., Sil. in
mammary cancer; Bell., Cal., Sulph. in epilepsy

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 Aurum Metallicum.
Gold (The Element)

Sanguine, ruddy people, with black hair and eyes; lively, restless, anxious
about the future. Old people; weak vision; corpulent; tired of life. For
constitutions broken down by bad effects of mercury and syphillis.
Pinning boys; low-spirited, lifeless, weak memories, lacking in "boyish
go;" testes undeveloped, mere pendent shreds. Constantly dwelling on
suicide (Naja - but is afraid to die, Nux). Profound melancholy: feels
hateful and quarrelsome; desire to commit suicide; life is a constant
burden; after abuse of mercury; with nearly all complaints. Uneasy,
hurried, great desire for mental and physical activity; cannot do things fast
enough (Arg. n.). Ailments from fright, anger, contradictions,
mortification, vexation, dread, or reserved displeasure (Staph.).
Oversensitive: least contradiction excites wrath (Con.); to pain; to smell,
taste, hearing, touch (Anac.). Headache of people with dark olive-brown
complexion; sad, gloomy, taciturn; disposed to constipation; from least
mental exertion. Falling of the hair, especially in syphillis and mercurial
affections. Hemiopia; sees only the lower half (sees only the left half, Lith.
c., Lyc.). Syphilitic and mercurial affections of the bones. Caries: of the
nasal palatine and mastoid bones; ozaena, otorrhoea, excessively fetid
discharge, pains worse at night; drive to despair; of mercurial or syphilitic
origin (Asaf.). Prolapsed and indurated uterus; from over-reaching or
straining (Pod., Rhus); from hypertrophy (Con.). Menstrual and uterine
affections, with great melancholy; < at menstrual period. Foul breath; in
girls at puberty. Sensation as if the heart stood still; as though it ceased to
beat and then suddenly gave on hard thump (Sep.). Violent palpitation;
anxiety, with congestion of blood to head and chest after exertion; pulse
small, feeble, rapid, irregular; visible, beating of carotid and temporal
arteries (Bell., Glon.). Fatty degeneration of heart (Phos.).

Relations. - Aurum follows, and is followed well by Syphillinum. Similar:

to, Asaf., Cal., Plat., Sep., Tar., Ther., in bone, uterine disease.

Aggravation. - In cold air; when getting cold; while lying down; mental
exertion; many complaints come on only in winter.

Amelioration. - In warm air, when growing warm, in the morning and

during summer.

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 Baptisia Tinctoria.
Wild Indigo. (Leguminosae)

For the lymphatic temperament. Great prostration, with disposition to

decomposition of fluids (Pyr.); ulceration of mucous membranes. All
exhalations and discharges fetid, especially in typhoid or other acute
disease; breath, stool, urine, perspiration, ulcers (Psor., Pyr.). Aversion to
mental exertion; indisposed, or want of power to think. Perfect
indifference, don't care to do anything, inability ot fix the mind to work.
Stupor; falls asleep while being spoken to or in the midst of his answer
(when spoken to, answers correctly, but delirium returns at once, Arn.).
Tongue: at first coated white with red papillae; dry and yellow-brown in
center; later dry, cracked, ulcerated. Face flushed, dusky, dark-red, with a
stupid, besotted drunken expression (Gels.). Can swallow liquids only
(Bar. c.); least solid food gags (can swallow liquids only, but has aversion
to them, Sil.). Painless sore throat; tonsils, soft palate and parotids dark
red, swollen; putrid, offensive discharge (Diph.). Dysentry of old people;
diarrhoea of children, especially when very offensive (Carbo v., Pod.,
Psor.). Cannot go to sleep because she cannot get herself together; head or
body feels scattered about the bed; tosses about to get the pieces together;
thought she was three persons, could not keep them covered (Petr.). In
whatever position the patient lies, the parts rested upon feel sore and
bruised (Pyr. - compare, Arn., Pyr.). Decubitus in typhoid (Arn., Mur. ac.,
Pyr.).

Relation. - Similar: to, Arn., Ars., Bry., Gels., in the early stages of fever
with malaise, nervousness, flushed face, drowsiness, and muscular
soreness. When Ars. has been properly given or too often repeated in
typhoid or typhus. After Baptisia: Crot., Ham., Nit. ac. and Tereb. act well
in haemorrhage of typhoid and typhus.

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Baryta Carbonica.
Barium Carbonate. (BaCO3.)

Especially adapted to complaints of first and second childhood; the psoric

or tubercular. Memory deficient; forgetful, inattentive; child cannot be
taught for it cannot remember; threatened idiocy. Scrofulous, dwarfish
children who do not grow (children who grow too rapidly, Cal.);
scrofulous ophthalmia, cornea opaque; abdomen swollen; frequent attacks
of colic; face bloated; general emaciation. Children both physically and
mentally weak. Dwarfish, hysterical women and old maids with scanty
menses; deficient heat, always cold and chilly. Old, cachetic people;
scrofulous, especially when fat; or those who suffer from gouty complaints
(Fluor. ac.). Diseases of old men; hypertrophy or induration of prostrate
and testes; mental and physical weakness. Apoplectic tendency in old
people; complaints of old drunkards; headache of aged people, who are
childish. Persons subject to quinsy, take cold easily, or with every, even
the least, cold have an attack of tonsillitis prone to suppuration (Hep.,
Psor.). Inability to swallow anything but liquids (Bap., Sil.). Haemorrhoids
protrude every time he urinates (Mur. ac.). Chronic cough in psoric
children; enlarged tonsils or elongated uvula; < after slight cold (Alum.).
Swelling and indurations, or incipient suppuration of glands, especially
cervical and inguinal. Offensive foot sweat; toes and soles get sore; of the
heels; throat affections after checked foot sweat (compare, Graph., Psor.,
Sanic., Sil.). Great sensitiveness to cold (Cal., Kali c., Psor.).

Relation. - Frequently useful before or after Psor., Sulph., and Tub. After
Bar. c., Psor will often eradicate the constitutional tendency to quinsy.
Similar: to, Alum, Cal. iod., Dul., Fluor. ac., Iod., Sil. Icompatible: after
Calc. in scrofulous affections.

Aggravation. - When thinking of his disease (Oxal. ac.); lying on painful

side; after meals; washing affected parts.

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Belladonna.
Deadly Nightshade. (Solanaceae)

Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions; persons who are

lively and entertaining when well, but violent and often delerious when
sick. Women and children with light hair and blue eyes, find complexion,
delicate skin; sensitive, nervous, threatened with convulsions; tuberculous
patients. Great liability to take cold; sensitive to drafts of air, especially
when uncovering the head; from having the hair cut; tonsils become
inflamed after riding in a cold wind (Acon., Hep., Rhus - takes cold from
exposure of feet, Con., Cup., Sil.). Quick sensation and motion; eyes snap
and move quickly; pains come suddenly, last indefinitely and cease
suddenly (Mag. p.). Pains usually in short attacks; cause redness of face
and eyes; fulness of head and throbbing of carotids. Imagines he sees
ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects (Stram.); black animals, dogs,
wolves. Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them;
hallucinations. Violent delirium; disposition to bite, spit, strike and tear
things; breaks into fits of laughter and gnashes the teeth; wants to bite and
strike the attendants (Stram.); tries to escape (Hell.). Head hot and painful;
face flushed; eyes wild, staring, pupils dilated; pulse full and bounding,
globular, like buckshot striking the finger; mucous membrane of mouth
dry; stool tardy and urine suppressed; sleepy; but cannot sleep (Cham.,
Op.). Convulsions during teething, with fever (without fever, Mag. p.);
come on suddenly, head hot, feet cold. Rush of blood to head and face
(Amyl., Glon., Mel.). Headache, congestive, with red face, throbbing of
brain and carotids (Met.); < from slight noise, jar, motion, light, lying
down, least exertion; > pressure, tight bandaging, wrapping up, during
menses. Boring the head into the pillow (Apis, Hell., Pod.). Vertigo when
stooping, or when rising after stooping (Bry.); on every change of
position. Abdomen tender, distended < by least jar, even of the bed;
obliged to walk with great care for fear of a jar. Pain in right ileo-coecal
region, < by slightest touch, even of the bed- cover. The transverse colon
protrudes like a pad. Skin: of a uniform, smooth, shining scarlet redness;
dry, hot, burning; imparts a burning sensation to examining had; the true
Sydenham scarlet fever, where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly
scarlet. Pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen would issue
from the vulva; > standing and sitting erect; worse mornings (Lil., Mur.,
Sep.).

Relations. - Complementary: Calcarea. Belladonna is the acute of

Calcarea, which is often required to complete a cure. Similar: to, Acon.,
Bry., Cic., Gels., Glon., Hyos., Mel., Op., Stram.

Aggravation. - From touch, motion, noise, draught of air, looking at

bright, shining objects (Lys., Stram.); after 3 p. m.; night, after midnight;
while drinking; uncovering the head; summer sun; lying down.

Amelioration. - Rest; standing or sitting erect; warm room.

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Benzoic Acid.
(C6H5COOH.)

A gouty, rheumatic diathesis engrafted on a gonorrhoeal or sypilitic

patient. Gouty concretions; arthritis vaga; affects all the joints, especially
the knee, cracking on motion; nodosities (Berb., Lith., Lys.). Urine dark
brown, and the urinous odor highly intensified. Enuresis nocturna of
delicate children; dribbling urine of old men with enlarged prostrate;
strong characteristic odor; excesses of uric acid. Catarrah of bladder after
suppressed gonorrhea. Diarrhoea of children; white, very offensive,
exhausting liquid stools, running "right through the diaper" (Pod.); urine
offensive and of a deep red color. Cough: with expectoration of green
mucus (Natr. s.); extreme weariness, lassitude. Pains tearing, stitching, in
large joints of big toe; redness and swelling of joints; gout < at night.

Relation. - Similar: to, Cop., Nitr., Fer., Thuja, especially in enuresis after
Nitr. has failed; Berb., Lith. c., in arthiritic complaints. Useful after Colch.
fails in gout; after abuse of Cop. in suppression of gonorrhoea.
Incompatible: wine, which aggravates urinary gouty and rheumatic
affections.

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Berberis Vulgaris.
Barberry (Berberidaceae)

The renal or vesical symptoms predominate. Pain in small of back; very

sensitive to touch in renal region; < when sitting and lying, from jar, from
fatigue. Burning and soreness in region of kidneys. Numbness, stiffness,
lameness with painful pressure in renal and lumbar regions. Pale, earthy
complexion, with sunken cheeks and hollow, blue-encircled eyes.
Rheumatic and gouty complaints, with diseases of the urinary organs.
Colic from gall-stones. Bilious colic, followed by jaundice; clay-colored
stools; fistula in ano, with bilious symptoms and itching of the parts; short
cough and chest complaints, especially after operations for fistulae (Cal.
p., Sil.). Stitching, cutting pain from left kidney following course of ureter
into bladder and urethra (Tab., - r. kidney, Lyc.). Renal colic. < left side
(Tab. - either side), with urging and strangury. (Canth.). Rubbing
sensation in kidneys (Med.). Urine: greenish, blood-red, with thick, slimy
mucus; transparent, reddish or jelly-like sediment. Movement brings on or
increases urinary complaints.

Relation. - Similar: to, Canth., Lyc., Sars., Tab., in renal colic. Acts well
after, Arn., Bry., Kali bi., Rhus, Sulph., in rheumatic affections.

Aggravations. - Motion, walking or carriage riding; any sudden jarring

movement.

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 Bismuth.
Hydrated Oxide of Bismuth (Bi2O3OH2.)

Solitude is unbearable; desires company, child holds on to its mother's

hand for company (Kali c., Lil., Lyc.); Anguish; he sits, then walks, then
lies, never long in one place. Headache returning every winter; alternating
with, or attended by gastralgia. Face, deathly pale, blue rings around the
eyes. Toothache > holding cold water in mouth. (Bry., Coff., Puls.).
Vomiting: of water as soon as it reaches the stomach, food retained
longer (vomits food and water, Ars.); of enormous quantities, at intervals
of several days when food has filled the stomach; of all fluids as soon as
taken; and purging, offensive stools (watery stools, Ver.); with convulsive
gagging and inexpressible pain, after laprotomy (Nux, Staph.). Stomach:
pressure as from a load in one spot; alternating with burning; pain crampy,
spasmodic; with irritation, cardialgia and pyrosis. Cholera morbus and
summer complaint, when vomiting predominates; stools foul; papescent,
watery, offensive very prostrating (Ars., Ver.).

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Borax.
Biborate of Soda

Dread of downward motion in nearly all complaints. Great anxiety from

downward motion; when laying the child down on a couch or in the crib,
cries and clings to the nurse; when rocking, dancing, swinging; going
down stairs or rapidly down hill; horseback riding (compare Sanic.).
Children awake suddenly, screaming and grasping sides of cradle, without
apparent cause (Apis, Cina, Stram.). Excessively nervous, easily frightened
by the slightest noise or an unusual sharp sound, a cough, sneeze, a cry,
lighting a match, etc. (Asar., Calad.). Hair becomes frowsy and tangled;
splits, sticks together at eh tips; if these bunches are cut off, they form
again, cannot be combined (Flour. ac., Lyc., Psor., Tub.). Eyelashes:
loaded with dry, gummy exudation; agglutinated in morning; turn inward
and inflame the eye, especially at outer canthus; tendency to "wild hairs.".
Nostrils crusty, inflamed; tip of nose shining red; red noses of young
women. Stoppage of right nostril, or first right then left with constant
blowing of nose (Am. c., Lac c., Mag. m.). Aphthae: in the mouth, on the
tongue, inside of the cheek; easily bleeding when eating or touched;
prevents child from nursing; with hot mouth, dryness and thirst (Ars.);
cracked and bleeding tongue (Arum.); salivation, especially during
dentition. Aphthous sore mouth; is worse from touch; eating salty or sour
food; of old people, often from plate of teeth (Alumen). Child has frequent
urination and screams before urine passes (Lyc., Sanic., Sars.).
Leucorrhoea: profuse, albuminous, starchy, with sensation as if warm
water were flowing down; for two weeks between the catamenia
(compare, Bov., Con.). Skin: unhealthy, slight injuries suppurate (Calend.,
Hep., Mer., Sil.).

Relation. - Borax follows: Calc., Psor., Sanic., Sulph. Is followed: by,

Ars., Bry., Lyc., Phos., Sil. Incompatible: should not be used before or
after, Acetic acid, vinegar, wine.

Aggravation. - Downward motion; from sudden, slight noises; smoking,

which may bring on diarrhoea; damp, cold weather; before urinating.

Amelioration. - Pressure; holding painful side with hand.

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Bovista.
Puffball (Fungi.)

Persons who suffer from tettery eruptions, dry or moist. Adapted to old
maids; with palpitation. Stammering children (Stram.). Discharge from
nose and all mucous membranes; very tough, stringy, tenacious (Kali bi.).
Usually deep impression on finger, from using blunt instruments, scissors,
knife, etc. Intolerence of tight clothing around the waist (Calc., Lach.,
Sulph.). Sweat in axilla, smells like onions. Haemorrhage: after extraction
of teeth (Ham.); from wounds, epistaxis. Great weakness of joints and
weariness of hands and feet. Awkwardness, inclined to drop things from
hand (Apis); objects fall from powerless hands. Menses: flow only at
night; not in the daytime (Mag. c. - only in the day, ceases lying, Cac.,
Caust., Lil.); every two weeks, dark and clotted; with painful bearing
down (Sep.). Intolerable itching at tip of coccyx; must scratch til parts
become raw and sore.

Relations. - Compare: Am. c., Bell., Calc., Mag. s., Sep., in menstrual
irregularities. Bovista antidotes, effects of local applications of tar;
suffocation from gas. When Rhus seems indicated, but fails to cure, in
chronic urticaria.
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Bromium.
Bromine. (The Element.)

It acts best, but not exclusively, on persons with light blue eyes, flaxen
hair, light eyebrows, fair, delicate skin; blonde, red-cheeked, scrofulous
girls. Sensation of cobweb on the face (Bar., Bor., Graph.). Fan-like
motion of the alae nasi (Ant. t., Lyc.). Sailors suffer with asthma "on
shore.". Stony, hard, scrofulous or tuberculous swelling of glands,
especially on lower jaw and throat (thyroid, submaxillary, parotid, testes).
Diphtheria: where the membrane forms in pharynx; beginning in bronchi,
trachea or larynx, and extending upwards; chest pains running upwards.
Membranous and diphtheritic croup; much rattling of mucus during cough,
but no choking (as in Hepar.); sounds loose, but no expectoration (Ant. t.).
Croupy symptoms with hoarseness during whooping cough; gasping for
breath. Dyspnoea: cannot inspire deep enough; as if breathing through a
sponge or the air passages were full of smoke or vapor of sulphur; rattling,
sawing; voice inaudible; danger of suffocation from mucous in larynx (in
bronchi, Ant. t.). Hypertrophy of heart from gymnastics in growing boys
(from calisthenics in young girls, Caust.). Physometra; loud emission of
flatus from the vagina (Lyc.); membranous dysmenorrhoea (Lac. c.). Cold
sensation in larynx on inspiration (Rhus, Sulph.); > after shaving (< after
shaving, Carbo an.).

Relations. - Compare: in croup and croupy affections, Chlor., Hep., Iod.,

Spong. Hard goitre cured after Iod. failed. Brom. has cured in croup after
failure of Iod., Phos., Hep., Spong.; especially in relapses after Iod. "The
chief distinction between Brom. and Iod. is the former cures the blue-eyed
and the latter the black-eyed patients." - Hering.

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Bryonia Alba.
White Bryony, Wild Hop. (Cucurbitaceae.)

Is best adapted to persons of gouty or rheumatic diathesis; prone to so-

called bilious attacks. Bryonia patients are irritable, inclined to be
vehement and angry; dark or black hair, dark complexion, firm muscular
fibre; dry, nervous, slender people (Nux). Pains: stitching, tearing, worse
at night; < by motion, inspiration, coughing; > by absolute rest, and
lying on painful side (Ptel., Puls. - stitching pain, but < and > are
opposite, Kali c.). Excessive dryness of mucous membranes of entire body;
lips and tongue dry, parched, cracked; stool, dry as if burnt; cough, dry,
hard, racking, with scanty expectoration; urine, dark and scanty; great
thirst. Vicarious menstruation; nosebleed when menses should appear
(Phos.); blood spitting, or heamoptysis. Ailments from chagrin,
mortification, anger (Col., Staph.); violence, with chilliness and coldness;
after anger chilly, but with head hot and face red (Aur.). Complaints:
when warm weather sets in, after cold days; from cold drinks or ice in hot
weather; after taking cold or getting hot in summer; from chilling when
overheated; kicks the covers off; from exposure to draft, cold wind (Acon.,
Hep.); suppressed discharges, of menses, milk or eruption of acute
exanthema. One of the chief characteristics of Bryonia is, aggravation
from any motion, and corresponding relief from absolute rest, either
mental or physical. Desires things immediately which are not to be had,
or which when offered are refused. Children dislike to be carried, or to be
raised. Delirium: talks constantly about his business; desire to get out of
bed and go home (Act., Hyos.). Constant motion on left arm and leg
(Apoc., Hell.); Patient cannot sit up from nausea and faintness. Great thirst
for large quantities at long intervals. Headache: when stooping, as if brain
would burst through forehead; from ironing (Sep.); on coughing; in
morning after rising or when first opening eyes; commencing in the
morning, gradually increasing until evening; from constipation (Aloe,
Colin., Op.). Pressure as from stone at pit of the stomach, relieved by
eructation (Nux, Pul.). Constipation: inactive, no inclination; stool large,
hard, dark, dry, as if burnt; on going to sea (Plat.). Diarrhoea: during a
spell of hot weather; bilious, acrid with soreness of anus; like dirty water;
of undigested food; from cold drinks when overheated, from fruit or sour
krout; < in morning, on moving, even a hand or foot. Mammae heavy, of
a stony hardness; pale but hard; hot and painful; must support the
breasts (Phyt.). Cough: dry, spasmodic, with gagging and vomiting (Kali
c.); with stitches in side of chest; with headache, as if head would fly to
pieces; < after eating, drinking, entering a warm room, deep inspiration.

Relations. - Complementary: Alumina, Rhus. Similar: to, Bell., Hep., for

hasty speech and hasty drinking. To Ran. in pleuritic or rheumatic pains of
chest. To Ptelea, in aching heaviness in hepatic region; > lying on right
side, greatly < lying on left side; turning to the left causes a dragging
sensation. After Bryonia; Alum., Kali c., Nux, Phos., Rhus, Sulph.

Aggravation. - Motion, exertion, touch; cannot sit up, gets faint or sick
or both; warmth, warm fold; suppressed discharges of any kind.

Amelioration. - Lying, especially on painful side (Ptel., Puls.); pressure;

rest; cold, eating cold things.
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