PODOPHYLLUM
Gurgling through bowels; then profuse putrid stools gush out painlessly. Stools white like water; foaming with meal like sediment. Loquacity during chill and fever. Headache alternates with diarrhoea.
CHILD : Difficult dentition; moaning grinding teeth at night, intense desire to press the gums together (Phyt). Head hot, rolling from side to side. Diarrhoea of children during teething, while being bathed; of dirty water soaking napkin through. Patient constantly rubbing the region of liver with his hands.
PHYTOLACCA
During dentition irresistible desire to bite the gums together (Podo). Throat: Sore, dark red; uvula large, dropsical; burning as from a red-hot iron; difficult swallowing; cannot drink hot fluids. FEMALE ; Breasts tend to cake; Breast stony hard, painful when suppuration isinevitable. When child nurses pain goes from nipple all over body. Mammary abscess, fistula, gaping angry ulcer. Nipples sensitive, sore, fissured. Tumified breast neither heals nor suppurates.
PSORINUM
For chronic cases when well selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve. Great weakness after acute diseases. Body has a filthy smell even after bathing. Gieat sensitiveness to cold air or change of-mafhi-r Dry scaly eruptions disappear in summer, return in winter. All excretions have a carrion-like odour (diarrhoea, leucorrhoea.
Hungry in the middle of the night Profuse perspiration with relief of all symptoms. Tonsils greatly swollen… eradicates the tendency of quinsy. ASTHMA : better lying down and keeping arms stretched far apart. DIARRHOEA : Sudden, imperative, fetid, smells like carrion.SKIN : dry, inactive; rarely sweats; dirty look.
PULSATILLA
Gentle, affectionate, yielding disposition. Weeps easily; impossible to detail her symptoms without weeping. Consolation ameliorates.Symptoms ever-changing; apparently contradictory (Ign). Moods ever changing, variable. Very well now; very miserable the next moment.Symptoms wandering; rapidly shift from one part to another.
No two stools alike; no two chills, or no two attacks alike. Pains appear gradually and then disappear “with a snap”. Pains with chilliness.Thirstless in nearly all complaints, even during fever. Worse in warm rooms, in the sun, warm drinks.
Better in open air. Worse from fat, rich foods eggs. Menses too late, scanty; flow more in daytime. Sleepless till midnight; Sound sleep when it is time to get up. Worse evening; beginning motion (better continued motion). Worse hanging down limbs.