KREOSOTUM
Children old looking, wrinkled. Painful dentition; teeth decay as soon as they appear. Spongy, bleeding gums. Vomiting of pregnancy with salivation. Haemorrhagic tendency; small wounds bleed freely (Crot.h., Lach, Phos.). Enuresis during first sleep (Sep.) from which child is roused with difficulty. Post climateric diseases of women (Lach).
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MAGNESIA PHOS.
Pains, cramping, shooting, lightning-like (Bell) worse cold air better from external heal.Spasms during dentition, No fever (with fever, hot head and skin : (Bell).
MEDORRHTNUM
For persons suffering from gout, neuralgia, rheumatism and diseases of the spinal cord, even organic lesions ending in paralysis – which can be traced to a sycotic origin. Children pale, rachitic; dwarfed and stunted in growth (Bare); mentally, dull and weak. Mentals : Always anticipates, feels matters most sensitively before they occur and generally correctly.
OPIUM
Painlessness with nearly all complaints. Complains of nothing; asks for nothing. Useful when well-indicated remedies fail to act due to lack of susceptibility. Sleep heavy, stupid with sterterous breathing, red face, eyes half-closed; skin covered with hot sweat. Bed feels so hoi, he cannot lie on it. Digestive organs inactive; peristaltic motion reversed or paralysed.
NATRUM MURIATICUM
Anger over trifles. Worse from consolation. Dwells on past disagreeable occurrences. Hatred of those who offended. Young girls who become love-lorn or fall in love with married men. Cannot weep in grief Ailments from grief, or disappointment in love.
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.
PYROGEN
For all types of septic states (Puerperal, surgical, ptomaine or sewer gas infection), when blood is disorganised, heart becomes weak and muscles prostrated; when the best selected remedy fails to relieve. The bed feeis hard, the parts lain on feel braised. Great restlessness; must keep on moving to relieve the soreness.
Discharges horribly foul (menses, sweat, vomitus, body odour. Foul breath. Tongue large flabby, fiery red; Tongue clean and smooth as if varnished. Pulse abnormally rapid, out of proportion to temperature (A Keynote). Septic fever : Chill begins in the back, extremities, marks the beginning of septic fever (104 to 106 F) when the best selected remedy fails to relieve. Loquacity, and a sense of duality during fever.
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SPIGELIA
Child : Stammering due to worms. Headache at sunrise, at its height at noon, declines till sunset. (Nat.m, Tab). The eye on the affected side often runs clear water. Headache is generally one-sided (left) (Right side : Sang., Sil). Left-sided neuralgias of head, face and eyes; Worse cold, rainy weather. Rheumatic affections of heart with stitching pains with palpitation violent, visible and audible; systolic blowing at apex. Valuable in chronic valvular affections after acute attacks of heart. Can only lie on the right side (Phos.,Nat.m.) or with head very high. Worse least motion.
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SULPHUR
When carefully selected remedies fail to produce a favourable effect; rouses the reactive powers, clears up the case in acute disease (Chronic disease: Psor). When complaints continually relapse. Everything (even rags) look beautiful if he takes a fancy. Standing is the worst position. Dirty people prone to skin affections (Psor). Lean stoop-shouldered who walks or sits stooped.
TARENTULA MSPANICA
Extreme restlessness; must be in constant motion though motion aggravates. Runs about rather than walk. Hysterical: Twitching and jerking as soon as attention is turned to her. Feigns fainting and insensibility. Sudden fox-like (cunning) destructive efforts requiring utmost vigilance to prevent damage; followed by laughter and apologies. Unusuallysensitive to music which ameliorates all complaints.