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ALLEN’S KEYNOTES REARRANGED AND CLASSIFIED WITH LEADING REMEDIES OF THE MATERIA MEDICA AND BOWEL NOSODES INCLUDING REPERTORIAL INDEX Tenth Edition: 2005 32nd Impression: 2016 Note From the Publishers Any information given in this book is not intended to be taken as a replacement for medical...

ALLEN’S KEYNOTES REARRANGED AND CLASSIFIED WITH LEADING REMEDIES OF THE MATERIA MEDICA AND BOWEL NOSODES INCLUDING REPERTORIAL INDEX Tenth Edition: 2005 32nd Impression: 2016 Note From the Publishers Any information given in this book is not intended to be taken as a replacement for medical advice. Any person with a condition requiring medical attention should consult a qualified practitioner or therapist. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without any prior written permission of the publisher. © with the publisher Published by Kuldeep Jain for B. JAIN PUBLISHERS (P) LTD. D-157, Sector-63, NOIDA-201307, U.P. (INDIA) Tel.: +91-120-4933333 Email: [email protected] Website: www.bjain.com Registered office: 1921/10, Chuna Mandi, Pahargani, New Delhi-110 055 (India) ISBN: 978-81-319-0088-8  EDITOR’S NOTE Working on “Allen’s Keynotes” is not less than a reward for me. It was not only a part of my student life, but it has an important place in my practice and teaching also, because of its preciseness and comprehensiveness. Like “Geetasar” in Hindu religion, Allen’s Keynotes provides a bundle of knowledge in a few words. It is Dr. Allen’s attempt to render the student’s task less difficult, to simplify the study of materia medica, to make it both interesting and useful, to place its mastery within the reach of every homoeopathic professional. It is really a great contribution to the field of homoeopathy and worthy of appreciation. In the ninth edition, a good attempt was made to re-arrange the randomly placed symptoms in a logical sequence but still the task was not fullfilled. Some symptoms were placed haphazardly or unnecessarily under different small headings like teeth, tongue, bones, glands, perineum, child, elderly, etc. A thorough reading is given to the book and following Dr. Hering’s “The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica”, these symptoms are placed under their appropriate headings at the some time avoiding numerous small conventional headings for better understanding. Keeping in mind the feelings and aim of Dr. Allen, the symptoms are unaltered in substance and the language remains unchanged. Symptoms like desire, aversion, appetite, thirst, sweat, sleep, dreams, general modalities, side, general symptoms which affect the body as a whole e.g. susceptibilities, oversensitiveness, prostration, exhaustion, fainting, physical factors, pains, discharges, hemorrhages, bones, glands, marasmus, etc., are placed under a common heading of physical generals. There are a few symptoms / disease conditions related to more than one organ or system of the body that can be placed under dual headings but these are put under a particular heading according to their merit and rhythm of medicine. I hope this little effort will make the task of students or readers much more easier and interesting. I express my heartfelt thanks to my wife Dr. Geetika Rai, for her assistance and encouragement to complete this work in the shortest possible time period. I am thankful to Mr. Kuldeep Jain of M/s B. Jain Publishers (P) Ltd., for expressing confidence while assigning this task to me. Finally I am grateful to God and my parents for their blessings. 20th August, 2003 Janmashtami Dr. Azad Rai, 486, St.-0, Janak Puri, Ludhiana (India)  PUBLISHER’S NOTE “Allen’s Keynotes” is one of the most popular and widely read materia medicas. The reason for its popularity being, its preciseness and comprehensiveness. Keeping in view, its usefulness for the students and practitioners of homoeopathy, the ninth edition has been brought out with certain changes. In the previous editions, the symptoms do not conform to any order and are randomly placed. They also do not follow each other in a logical sequence. In this edition, all the symptoms belonging to one organ or organs having a similar and related function, are grouped together, so as to facilitate a deeper understanding of the pathogenesis of a drug and the genesis of a symptom. For e.g., fecal vomiting is normally listed under the heading, stomach. But the primary cause of fecal vomiting is, intestinal obstruction. Hence, instead of using the conventional headings stomach, abdomen, rectum, stool, used frequently in various materia medicas, the heading gastro-intestinal system has been used. This is because all the organs of the GIT are related, as they serve a common function, albiet in different stages. Also some of the abbreviations used in the previous editions were outdated and pointed to more than one remedies. All the abbreviations used in this edition are standardized according to the SYNTHESIS REPERTORY. The symptoms are unaltered in substance and the language remains unchanged. The difference between this edition and the previous editions is that the symptoms have been re-arranged and they now follow each other in a logical sequence, so that no symptom is lost to the reader even on casual reading. The fact remains that Dr. Allen had left an indestructible monument of the homoeopathic materia medica, one that is true to its science and immensely useful to anyone who consults it. 6th May, 1999 B. Jain Publishers, New Delhi, India. We thank Dr. Samarendra Prasad Mishra to notify the clarifications to old nomenclature being used in few medicines given in this book and advising for adding footnotes to explain its correct scientific term in modern medicine. May 2013 B. Jain Publishers, New Delhi, India. We would like to thank Dr H N Singh for his sincere efforts to merge a breech between the Allen’s keynotes and Repertory. This book contains comprehensive study material and tips to select the simillimum. It includes a rich collection of fragment symptoms of very important, basic, and useful handbook ‘Allen’s keynotes’. It will fulfill the long felt need of a useful book for the aspiring physicians to excel in various competitive examination and to match a simillimum after repertorisation. Kuldeep Jain C.E.O., B. Jain Publishers (P) Ltd. New Delhi, India  PREFACE TO SIXTH EDITION What applied to former editions applies to this. The fact that a sixth is demanded is convincing proof that Dr. Allen left an indestructible monument of homoeopathic materia medica, one that it true to homoeopathy and immensely helpful to every physician who consults it. The Publishers PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION The first edition of this book was only about half the size of the second, as it was prepared somewhat hastily for a special purpose, but Dr. Allen took his time in the second edition, and gave the world a well rounded out and complete standard book on the homoeopathic materia medica. We do not mean that the first edition was faulty as to its matter, for it was used unchanged in the later edition, but it did not embrace a sufficient number of remedies. As Dr. Allen died before a third edition was needed we concluded to bring it out unchanged. It is a masterpiece of materia medica work; its symptomatology is made up of the unchanging landmarks of our remedies that are in constant use; it is, in short, a book that needs no revision. The Publishers PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION  In preparing the second edition for the press the work has been enlarged and practically rewritten. Many more remedies have been included and symptoms and comparisons extended, yet care has been taken that every symptom has been verified. The original plan has been maintained, viz.: to give only those symptom—guides that mark the individuality of the remedy, that the student of materia medica may use them as landmarks to master the genius of the remedial agent. At the suggestion of the publishers and in response to numerous enquiries a more extended symptomatology of the nosodes has been included, for these invaluable additions to our armamentarium, like the so-called tissue remedies of Schüessler, only need more extensive provings to place them in the list of polychrests. That the student may acquire the correct pronunciation of our remedial agents, an alphabetical list of remedies with the accentuation is given for a homoeopathic physician may properly be held accountable for the correct use of terms peculiar to his profession. An index of remedies and comparisons is also included. H.C. Allen PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION The life-work of the student of the homoeopathic materia medica is one of constant comparison and differentiation. He must compare the pathogenesis of a remedy with the recorded anamnesis of the patient; he must differentiate the apparently similar symptoms of two or more medicinal agents in order to select the simillimum. To enable the student or practitioner to do this correctly and rapidly he must have as a basis for comparison some knowledge of the individuality of the remedy; something that is peculiar, uncommon, or sufficiently characteristic in the confirmed pathogenesis of a polychrest remedy that may be used as a pivotal point of comparison. It may be a so-called “keynote,” a “characteristic,” the “red strand of the rope,” and central modality or principle—as the aggravation from motion of Bryonia, the amelioration from motion of Rhus tox., the furious, vicious delirium of Belladonna or the apathetic indifference of Phosphoricum acidum— some familiar landmark around which the symptoms may be arranged in the mind for comparison. Something of this kind seems indispensable to enable us to intelligently and successfully use our voluminous symptomatology. Also, if we may judge from the small number of homoeopathic physicians who rely on the single remedy in practice, and the almost constant demand for a “revision” of the materia medica, its study in the past, as well as at present, has not been altogether satisfactory to the majority. An attempt to render the student’s task less difficult, to simplify its study, to make it both interesting and useful, to place its mastery within the reach of every intelligent man or woman in the profession, is the apology for the addition of another monograph to our present works of reference. It is all-important that the first step in the study of homoeopathic therapeutics be correctly taken, for the pathway is then more direct and the view more comprehensive. The object of this work is to aid the student to master that which is guiding and characteristic in the individuality of each remedy and thus utilize more readily the symptomatology of the homoeopathic materia medica, the most comprehensive and practical work for the cure of the sick ever given to the medical profession. It is the result of years of study as a student, practitioner and teacher, and is published at the earnest solicitation of many alumni of Hering College, with the hope that it may be of as much benefit to the beginner as it has been to the compiler. H. C. ALLEN.  CONTENTS Abrotanum Aceticum acidum Aconitum napellus Actaea racemosa Aesculus hippocastanum Aethusa cynapium Agaricus muscarius Agnus castus Allium cepa Aloe socotrina Alumina Ambra grisea Ammonium carbonicum Ammonium muriaticum Amylenum nitrosum Anacardium orientale Anthracinum Antimonium crudum Antimonium tartaricum Apis mellifica Apocynum cannabinum Argentum metallicum Argentum nitricum Arnica montana Arsenicum album Arum triphyllum Asarum europaeum Arterias rubens Aurum metallicum Baptisia tinctoria Baryta carbonica Belladonna Benzoicum acidum Berberis vulgaris Bismuthum Borax veneta Bovista lycoperdon Bromium Bryonia alba Cactus grandiflorus Caladium seguinum Calcarea arsenicosa Calcarea ostrearum Calcarea phosphorica Calendula officinalis Camphora officinalis Cannabis indica Cannabis sativa Cantharis vesicatoria Capsicum annuum Carbo animalis Carbo vegetabilis Carbolicum acidum Caulophyllum thalictroides Causticum Chamomilla Chelidonium majus Cicuta virosa Cina maritima Cinchona officinalis Coca Cocculus indicus Coffea cruda Colchicum autumnale Collinsonia canadensis Colocynthis Conium maculatum Crocus sativus Crotalus horridus Croton tiglium Cuprum metallicum Cyclamen europaeum Digitalis purpurea Dioscorea villosa Diphtherinum Drosera rotundifolia Dulcamara Equisetum hyemale Eupatorium perfoliatum Euphrasia officinalis Ferrum metallicum Fluoricum acidum Gelsemium sempervirens Glonoinum Graphites Hamamelis virginiana Helleborus niger Helonias dioica Hepar sulphur Hydrastis canadensis Hyoscyamus niger Hypericum perforatum Ignatia amara Iodium Ipecacuanha Kalium bichromicum Kalium bromatum Kalium carbonicum Kalmia latifolia Kreosotum Lac caninum Lac defloratum Lachesis mutus Ledum palustre Lilium tigrinum Lobelia inflata Lycopodium clavatum Lyssinum1 Magnesium carbonicum Magnesium muriaticum Magnesium phosphoricum Medorrhinum Melilotus alba Menyanthes trifoliata Mercurius Mercurius biniodatus Mercurius corrosivus Mercurius cyanatus Mercurius dulcis Mercurius proto-iodatus Mercurius solubilis Mercurius sulphuricus Mezereum Millefolium Murex purpurea Muriaticum acidum Naja tripudians Natrium carbonicum Natrium muriaticum Natrium sulphuricum Nitricum acidum Nux moschata Nux vomica Opium Petroleum Petroselinum Phosphoricum acidum Phosphorus Physostigma Phytolacca decandra Picricum acidum Platinum metallicum Plumbum metallicum Podophyllum peltatum Psorinum Pulsatilla nigricans Pyrogenium Ranunculus bulbosus Ratanhia peruviana Rheum Rhododendron chrysanthum Rhus toxicodendron Rumex crispus Ruta graveolens Sabadilla Sabina Sambucus nigra Sanguinaria canadensis Sanicula aqua Sarsaparilla Secale cornutum Selenium metallicum Sepia officinalis Silicea terra Spigelia anthelmia Spongia tosta Stannum metallicum Staphysagria Stramonium Sulphur Sulphuricum acidum Symphytum officinale Syphilinum Tabacum Taraxacum Tarentula Terebinthiniae oleum Theridion curassavicum Thlaspi bursa pastoris Thuja occidentalis Trillium pendulum Tuberculinum – Bacillinum* Valeriana officinalis Variolinum Veratrum album Veratrum viride Zincum metallicum THE MATERIA MEDICA OF SOME MORE IMPORTANT REMEDIES Adrenalinum (sarcode) Bacillinum Cholesterinum Electrictas Electricity Lac felinum Lac vaccinum Magnetis poli ambo Magnetis polus arcticus Magnetis polus australis Malandrinum Malaria officinalis Thyreoidinum Ustilago maydis Vaccininum Provings of the X-ray THE BOWEL NOSODES Introduction Bacillus Morgan (Bach) Bacillus Proteus (Bach) Bacillus No. “7” (Paterson) Bacillus Gaertner (Bach) Dysenteriae compound (Bach) Sycotic compoumd (Paterson) Bacillus Mutabile (Bach) Bacillus Faecalis (Bach) Indications for the use of the bowel nosodes in disease REPERTORIAL INDEX Mind Vertigo Head Eye Vision Ear Hearing Nose Face Mouth Teeth Throat Stomach Abdomen Rectum Stool Urine Genitalia Larynx Respiration Cough Expectoration Chest Back Extremities Sleep Chill Fever Perspiration Skin Generalities A ABROTANUM Southernwood Compositae Constitution Marasmus of children with marked emaciation, especially of legs (Iod., Sanic., Tub.); the skin is flabby and hangs loose in folds (of neck, Nat- m., Sanic.). Mental Generals Child is ill-natured, irritable, cross and despondent; violent, inhuman, would like to do something cruel. Physical Generals Ravenous hunger; losing flesh while eating well (Iod., Nat-m., Sanic., Tub.). Head In marasmus, head weak, cannot hold it up (Aeth.). Face Face old, pale, wrinkled (Op.). Gastro-intestinal System Alternate constipation and diarrhea; lienteria. Extremities Painful contractions of the limbs from cramps or following colic. Rheumatism: For the excessive pain before the swelling commences; from suddenly checked diarrhea or other secretions; alternates with hemorrhoids, with dysentery.  Gout: Joints stiff, swollen, with pricking sensation; wrists and ankle joints painful and inflammed. Very lame and sore all over. Marasmus of lower extremities only. Fever Great weakness and prostration and a kind of hectic fever with children; unable to stand. Skin Itching chilblains (Agar.). Relation After Hepar in furuncle; after Acon. and Bry. in pleurisy, when a pressing sensation remains in affected side impeding respiration. ACETICUM ACIDUM Glacial Acetic Acid C4H3O3 Constitution Adapted to pale, lean persons with lax, flabby muscles; face pale, waxy (Ferr.). Marasmus and other wasting diseases of children (Abrot., Iod., Sanic., Tub.). Physical Generals Hemorrhage: From every mucous outlet, nose, throat, lungs, stomach, bowels, uterus (Ferr., Mill.); metrorrhagia; vicarious; traumatic epistaxis (Arn.). Great prostration; after injuries (Sul-ac.); after surgical shock; after anesthetics. Thirst: Intense, burning, insatiable even for large quantities in dropsy,  diabetes, chronic diarrhea; but no thirst in fever. Cannot sleep lying on the back (sleeps better on back, Ars.); sensation of sinking in abdomen causing dyspnea; rests better lying on belly (Am-c.). Gastro-intestinal System Diarrhea: Copious, exhausting, great thirst; in dropsy, typhus, phthisis; with night sweats. Female Reproductive System Sour belching and vomiting of pregnancy, burning waterbrash and profuse salivation, day and night (Lac-ac., salivation, < at night, Merc.). Respiratory System True croup, hissing respiration, cough with the inhalation (Spong.); last stages. Inhalation of vapor of cider vinegar has been successfully used in croup and malignant diphtheria. Fever Hectic fever, skin dry and hot; red spot on left cheek and drenching night sweats. No thirst in fever. Relation It antidotes anesthetic vapors (Aml-ns.), fumes of charcoal and gas; Opium and Stramonium. Cider vinegar antidotes carbolic acid. Follows well: After Cinchona, in hemorrhage; after Digitalis in dropsy. It aggravates: The symptoms of Arn., Bell., Lach., Merc.; especially the headache from Belladonna. ACONITUM NAPELLUS Monkshood  Ranunculaceae Constitution Is generally indicated in acute or recent cases occurring in young persons, especially girls of a full, plethoric habit who lead a sedentary life; persons easily affected by atmospheric changes; dark hair and eyes, rigid muscular fibre. Mental Generals Great fear and anxiety of mind, with great nervous excitability; afraid to go out, to go into a crowd where there is any excitement or many people; to cross the street. The countenance is expressive of fear; the life is rendered miserable by fear; is sure his disease will prove fatal; predicts the day he will die; fear of death during pregnancy. Restless, anxious, does everything in great haste; must change position often; everything startles him. Hahnemann says: “Whenever Aconite is chosen homoeopathically, you must, above all, observe the moral symptoms, and be careful that it closely resembles them; the anguish of mind and body; the restlessness; the disquiet not to be allayed.” This mental anxiety, worry, fear accompanies the most trivial ailment. Music is unbearable, makes her sad (Sab.—during menses, Nat-c.). Physical Generals Complaints caused by exposure to dry cold air, dry north or west winds, or exposure to draughts of cold air while in a perspiration; bad effects of checked perspiration. For the congestive stage of inflammation before localization takes place. Pains: Are intolerable, they drive him crazy; he becomes very restless; at night. Female Reproductive System Amenorrhea in plethoric young girls; after fright, to prevent suppression of menses. Respiratory System Cough, croup; dry, hoarse, suffocating; loud, rough, croaking; hard, ringing, whistling; on expiration (Caust., on inhalation, Spong.); from dry, cold winds or drafts of air. Nervous System On rising from a recumbent position the red face becomes deathly pale, or he becomes faint or giddy and falls, and he fears to rise again; often accompanied by vanishing of sight and unconsciousness. Convulsions: Of teething children; heat, jerks and twitches of single muscles; child gnaws its fist, frets and screams; skin hot and dry; high fever. Fever Fever: Skin dry and hot; face red, or pale and red alternately; burning thirst for large quantities of cold water; intense nervous restlessness, tossing about in agony; becomes intolerable towards evening and on going to sleep. Aconite should never be given simply to control the fever, never alternated with other drugs for that purpose. If it be a case requiring Aconite no other drug is needed; Aconite will cure the case. Unless indicated by the exciting cause, is nearly always injurious in first stages of typhoid fever. Modalities Aggravation: Evening and night, pains are insupportable; in a warm room; when rising from bed; lying on affected side (Hep., Nux-m.). Amelioration: In the open air (Alum., Mag-c., Puls., Sab.). Relation Complementary: To Coffea in fever, sleeplessness, intolerance of pain; to Arnica in traumatism; to Sulphur in all cases. Rarely indicated in fevers which bring out eruptions. Aconite is the acute of Sulphur, and both precede and follow it in acute inflammatory conditions.  ACTAEA RACEMOSA Black Cohosh Ranunculaceae Mental Generals Puerperal mania; thinks she is going crazy (compare, Syph.); tries to injure herself. Mania following disappearance of neuralgia. Sensation as if a heavy, black cloud settled all over her and enveloped her head so that all is darkness and confusion. Illusion of a mouse running from under her chair (Lac-c., Aeth.). Eyes Ciliary neuralgia; aching or sharp, darting, shooting pains in globes, extending to temples, vertex, occiput, orbit, < going up stairs, > lying down. Cardio-vascular System Heart troubles from reflex symptoms of uterus or ovaries. Heart’s action ceases suddenly; impending suffocation; palpitation from least motion (Dig.). Female Reproductive System Menses: Irregular; exhausting (Alum., Cocc.); delayed or suppressed by mental emotion, from cold, from fever; with chorea, hysteria or mania; increase of mental symptoms during menses. Severe left-sided inframammary pains (Ust.). Sharp, lancinating electric-like pains in various parts, sympathetic with ovarian or uterine irritation; in uterine region, dart from side to side. Pregnancy; nausea; sleeplessness; false labor-like pains; sharp pains across abdomen; abortion at third month (Sab.). During labor: “Shivers” in first stage; convulsions, from nervous excitement; rigid os; pains severe, spasmodic, tedious, < by least noise. After-pains, worse in the groins.  When given during last month of pregnancy shortens labor, if symptoms correspond (Caul., Puls.). Rheumatic dysmenorrhea. Neck and Back Rheumatic pains in muscles of neck and back; feel stiff, lame, contracted; spine sensitive, from using arms in sewing, typewriting, piano playing (Agar., Ran-b.). Rheumatism affecting the bellies of the muscles; pains, stitching, cramping. Extremities Excessive muscular soreness, after dancing, skating, or other violent muscular exertion. Nervous System Spasms: Hysterical or epileptic; reflex from uterine disease; worse during menses; chorea < left side. Modalities Aggravation: During menstruation: The more profuse the flow the greater the suffering. Relation Similar: To, Caul. and Puls. in uterine and rheumatic affections; to, Agar., Lil-t., Sep. AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM Horse Chestnut Sapindaceae Constitution For persons with hemorrhoidal tendencies, and who suffer with gastric, bilious or catarrhal troubles. Mental Generals Despondent, gloomy; very irritable; loses temper easily and gains control slowly; miserably cross (Cham.). Physical Generals Fullness in various parts, as from an undue amount of blood; heart, lungs, stomach, brain, pelvis, skin. Venous congestion, especially portal and hemorrhoidal. Mucous membranes of mouth, throat, rectum are swollen, burn, feel dry and raw. Nose Coryza: thin, watery, burning; rawness and sensitive to inhaled cold air. Throat Follicular pharyngitis: Violent burning, raw sensation in throat; dryness and roughness of throat. Frequent inclination to swallow, with burning, pricking, stinging and dry constricted fauces (Apis, Bell.). Gastro-intestinal System Rectum: Dryness and heat of; feels as if full of small sticks; knife-like pains shoot up the rectum (Ign., Sulph.); hemorrhoids blind, painful, burning, purplish, rarely bleeding. Rectum sore, with fullness, burning and itching (Sulph.). Constipation: Hard, dry stool, difficult to pass; with dryness and heat of rectum; accompanied by severe lumbo-sacral backache. Stool followed by fullness of rectum and intense pain in anus for hours (Aloe, Ign., Mur-ac., Sulph.). Female Reproductive System Prolapsus uteri and acrid, dark leucorrhea, with lumbo-sacral backache and great fatigue, from walking. Back  Severe dull backache in lumbo-sacral articulation; more or less constant; affecting sacrum and hips. Back “gives out”: During pregnancy, prolapsus, leucorrhea; when walking or stooping; must sit or lie down. Sensation of heaviness and lameness in back. Nervous System Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and spine. Modalities Aggravation: Motion; backache and soreness by walking and stooping; inhaling cold air. Relation Similar: To, Aloe, Coll., Ign., Mur-ac., Nux-v., Sulph., in hemorrhoids. After Coll. has improved piles, Aesc. often cures. Useful after Nux-v. and Sulph. have improved, but failed to cure piles. AETHUSA CYNAPIUM Fool’s Parsley Umbelliferae Constitution Especially for children during dentition in hot summer weather; children who cannot bear milk. Mental Generals Idiocy in children; incapacity to think; confused. Physical Generals Great weakness: Children cannot stand; unable to hold up the head (Abrot.); prostration with sleepiness; after vomiting, after stool, after spasm. Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Puls.—reverse of Ars.). Face An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a drawn condition and well-marked linea nasalis. Features expressive of pain and anxiety. Herpetic eruption on end of the nose. Gastro-intestinal System Indigestion of teething children; violent, sudden vomiting of a frothy; milk-white substance; or yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter. Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating; copious greenish vomiting. Intolerance of milk: Cannot bear milk in any form; it is vomited in large curds as soon as taken; then weakness causes drowsiness (compare, Mag-c.). Nervous System Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed and dilated; foam at the mouth, jaws locked; pulse small, hard, quick. Modalities Aggavation: After eating or drinking; after vomiting; after stool; after spasm. Relation Similar: To, Ant-c., Ars., Calc., Sanic. AGARICUS MUSCARIUS Toadstool Fungi Constitution Person with light hair; skin and muscles lax.  Old people, with weak, indolent circulation. Drunkards, especially for their headaches; bad effects after a debauch (Lob., Nux-v., Ran-b.). Mental Generals Delirium: With constant raving; tries to get out of bed; in typhoid or typhus. Physical Generals Extremely sensitive to cold air (Calc., Kali-c., Psor.). Complaints appear diagonally; upper left and lower right side (Ant-t., Stram.—upper right, lower left, Ambr., Brom., Med., Phos., Sul-ac.). Head Headaches; of those who readily become delirious in fever or with pain (Bell.); of persons subject to chorea, twitchings or grimaces; from spinal affections. Male Reproductive System Nervous prostration after sexual debauches. Female Reproductive System Prolapsus, post-climacteric; bearing-down pain almost in tolerable (compare, Lil-t, Murx., Sep.). Back Spinal irritation due to sexual excesses (Kali-p.). Epilepsy from suppressed eruptions (Psor., Sulph.). Spine sensitive to touch (Ther.); worse mornings. Pain; sore aching, in lumbar and sacral regions; during exertion in the day time; while sitting (Zinc.). Every motion, every turn of body, causes pain in, spine. Single vertebra sensitive to touch. Extremities  Uncertainty in walking, stumbling gait, stumbles over everything in the way; feels pain as if beaten, when standing. Nervous System Involuntary movements while awake, cease during sleep; chorea, from simple motions and jerks of single muscles to dancing of whole body; trembling of whole body (twitching of muscles of face, Myg.). Skin Chilblains, that itch and burn intolerably; frostbite and all consequences of exposure to cold, especially in face. Sensation as if ice touched or ice-cold needles were piercing the skin; as from hot needles. Burning, itching, redness of various parts; ears, nose, face, hands and feet; parts red, swollen, hot. Modalities Aggavation: After eating; after coitus; cold air; mental application; before a thunderstorm (Phos., Psor.). Relation Similar: To, Cimic., Calc., Cann-i., Hyos., Kali-p., Lach., Nux-v., Op., Stram., in delirium of alcoholism; to Mygal., Tarent., Zinc., in chorea. AGNUS CASTUS Chaste Tree Verbenaceae Constitution For the lymphatic constitution. Premature old age: Melancholy, apathy, mental distraction, self- contempt; arising in young persons from abuse of the sexual powers; from seminal losses. “Old sinners,” with impotence and gleet; unmarried persons suffering  from nervous debility: Mental Generals Absent-minded, reduced power of insight; cannot recollect; has to read a sentence twice before he can comprehend (Lyc., Phos-ac., Sep.). Nose Complaints of imaginary odor before the nose, as of hering or musk. Male Reproductive System Complete impotence: Relaxation, flaccidity, coldness of genitalia. No sexual power or desire (Calad., Sel.). Impotence, after frequent attacks of gonorrhea. Gleet, with absence of sexual desire or erections. Bad effects from suppressed gonorrhea (Med.). Female Reproductive System Leucorrhea; transparent, but staining linen yellow; passes imperceptibly from the very relaxed parts. Deficient secretion or suppression of milk in nursing women (Asaf., Lac- c., Lac-d.); often with great sadness; says she will die. Skin Prevents excoriation, from walking. Relation Calad. and Sel. follow well after Agnus in weakness of sexual organs or impotence. ALLIUM CEPA Onion Liliaceae Physical Generals  Acute catarrhal inflammation of mucous membranes, with increased secretion. Bad effects from getting wet (Rhus-t.). Head Catarrhal dull headache, with coryza; < in the evening, > in open air; < on returning to a warm room (compare, Euphr., Puls.). Headache ceases during menses; returns when flow disappears (Lach., Zinc.); catarrhal dull headache. Eyes Eyes: Burning, biting, smarting as from smoke, must rub them; watery and suffused; capillaries injected and excessive lachrymation. Nose Spring coryza, after damp northeasterly winds. Coryza; profuse, watery and acrid nasal discharge, with profuse, bland lachrymation (profuse, full of acrid tears, bland and fluent coryza, Euphr.); discharge burns and corrodes nose and upper lip. Acrid, watery discharge dropping from tip of nose (Ars., Ars-i.). Nasal polypus (Teucr., Sang., Sangin-n., Psor.). Gastro-intestinal System Colic: From cold by getting feet wet; overeating; from cucumbers; salads; hemorrhoidal; of children; < sitting, > moving about. Female Reproductive System Phlebitis, puerperal; after forceps delivery. Respiratory System Hay fever; in August every year; violent sneezing on rising from bed; from handling peaches. Catarrhal laryngitis; cough compels patient to grasp the larynx; seems as if cough would tear it. Extremities  Sore and raw spots on feet, especially heel, from friction. “Efficacious when feet are rubbed sore.” — Dioscorides. Panaritia; with red streaks up the arm; pains drive to despair; in child-bed. Nervous System Neuralgic pains like a long thread; in face, head, neck, chest. Traumatic chronic neuritis; neuralgia of stump after amputation; burning and stinging pains. Modalities Aggravation: Predominantly in the evening and in warm room (Puls.—in open air, Euphr.). Amelioration: In cold room and open air (Puls.). Relation Complementary: Phos., Puls., Thuj. Compatible: Before, Calc. and Sil. in polypus. Similar: To, Euphr., but coryza and lachrymation are opposite. ALOE SOCOTRINA Socotrine Aloes Liliaceae Constitution Adapted to indolent, “weary” persons; averse to either mental or physical labor; mental labor fatigues. Old people; especially women of relaxed, phlegmatic habit. Mental Generals Dissatisfied and angry about himself or his complaints, especially when constipated. Physical Generals  Diseases of mucous membranes; causes the production of mucus in jelly- like lumps from throat or rectum; affects mucous membrane of rectum. Extreme prostration, with perspiration. Head Headache across the forehead < by every footstep (Bell., Bry.); with heaviness of eyes and nausea. Headaches: Are worse from heat, better from cold applications (Ars.); alternating with lumbago; after insufficient stool. Gastro-intestinal System Diarrhea: Has to hurry to closet immediately after eating and drinking (Crot-t.); with want of confidence in sphincter ani; driving out of bed early in the morning (Psor., Rumx., Sulph.). When passing flatus, sensation as if stool would pass with it (Olnd., Mur- ac., Nat-m.). Colic; cutting, griping pain in right lower portion of abdomen; excruciating, before and during stool; all pains cease after stool, leaving profuse sweating and extreme weakness; attacks preceded by obstinate constipation. Flatus offensive, burning, copious; much flatus with small stool (Agar.); burning in anus after passage of flatus. Solid stool and masses of mucus pass involuntarily; hungry during diarrhea. Before stool: Rumbling, violent sudden urging, heaviness in rectum; during stool, tenesmus and much flatus; after stool, faintness. Hemorrhoids: Blue, like a bunch of grapes (Mur-ac.); constant bearing down in rectum; bleeding, sore, tender, hot, relieved by cold water; intense itching. Itching and burning in anus, preventing sleep (Indg.). Skin Itch appears each year, as winter approaches (Psor.). Modalities  Aggravation: Early morning; sedentary life; hot, dry weather; after eating or drinking; standing or walking. Amelioration: Cold water; cold weather; discharge of flatus and stool. Relation Like Sulphur in many chronic diseases with abdominal plethora and congestion of portal circulation; develops suppressed eruption. Similar: To, Am-m., Gamb., Nux-v., Podo. ALUMINA Pure Clay Al2 O3 Constitution Adapted to persons who suffer from chronic diseases; “The Aconite of chronic diseases.” Constitutions deficient in animal heat (Calc., Sil.). Spare, dry, thin subjects; dark complexion. Mental Generals Mild, cheerful disposition; hypochondriacs. Time passes too slowly; an hour seems half a day (Cann-i.). Physical Generals Abnormal appetite; craving for starch, chalk, charcoal, cloves, or tea- grounds, acids and indigestible things (Cic., Psor.); potatoes disagree. Talking fatigues; faint and tired, must sit down. Gastro-intestinal System Chronic eructations for years; worse in evening. Constipation: No desire for and no ability to pass stool until there is a large accumulation (Meli.); great straining, must grasp the seat of closet tightly; stool hard, knotty, like laurel berries, covered with mucus;  or soft, clayey, adhering to parts (Plat.). Constipation: Of nursing children, from artificial food; bottle-fed babies; of old people (Lyc., Op.) ; of pregnancy, from inactive rectum (Sep.). Inactivity of rectum, even soft stool requires great straining (Anac., Puls., Sil., Verat.). Diarrhea when she urinates. Has to strain at stool in order to urinate. Female Reproductive System Leucorrhea: Acrid and profuse, running down to the heels (Syph.); worse during the daytime; > by cold bathing. After menses: Exhausted physically and mentally, scarcely able to speak (Carb-an., Cocc.). Respiratory System All irritating things—salt, wine, vinegar, pepper—immediately produce cough. Nervous System Inability to walk, except with the eyes open, and in the daytime; tottering and falling when closing eyes (Arg-n., Gels.). Skin Dry, tettery, itching, eruption, worse in winter (Petr.); intolerable itching of whole body when getting warm in bed (Sulph.); scratches until bleeds, then becomes painful. Modalities Aggravation: In cold air; during winter; while sitting; from eating potatoes; after eating soups; on alternate days; at new and full moon. Amelioration: Mild summer weather; from warm drinks; while eating (Psor.) ; in wet weather (Caust.). Relation Alumina is one of the chief antidotes for lead poisoning; painter’s colic;  ailments from lead. Complementary: To, Bryonia. Follows: Bry., Lach., Sulph. Alumina is the chronic of Bryonia. Similar: To, Bar-c., Con., in ailments of old people. AMBRA GRISEA Ambergris A Nosode Constitution For children, especially young girls who are excitable, nervous and weak; nervous affections of old people, nerves “worn out.” Lean, thin, emaciated persons who take cold easily. Mental Generals Great sadness, sits for days weeping. After business embarrassments, unable to sleep, must get up (Cimic., Sep.). Mouth Ranula with fetid breath (Thuj.). Gastro-intestinal System Sensation of coldness in abdomen (Calc.). The presence of others, even the nurse, is unbearable during stool; frequent, ineffectual desire, which makes her anxious. Female Reproductive System Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident a long walk, after every hard stool, etc. Leucorrhea: Thick, bluish-white mucus, especially or only at night (Caust., Merc., Nit-ac.). Respiratory System Violent cough in spasmodic paroxysms, with eructations and hoarseness; worse talking or reading aloud (Dros., Phos.); evening without, morning with expectoration (Hyos.); whooping cough, but without crowing inspiration. Modalities Aggravation: Warm drinks, warm room; music; lying down; reading or talking aloud; the presence of many people; after waking. Amelioration: After eating; cold air; cold food and drinks; rising from bed. Relation Similar: To, Asaf., Cimic., Coca, Ign., Mosch., Phos., Valer. AMMONIUM CARBONICUM Smelling Salts 2NH4O. 3CO2 Constitution Stout, fleshy women with various troubles in consequence of leading a sedentary life; delicate women who must have the “smelling bottle” continually at hand; readily catch cold in winter. Mental Generals Ill-humor during wet, stormy weather. Physical Generals Hemorrhagic diathesis, fluid blood and degeneration of red blood corpuscles; ulcerations tend to gangrene. Children dislike washing (Ant-c., Sulph.). Head Headache; sensation of fullness, as if forehead would burst (Bell., Glon.). Nose Nosebleed: When washing the face (Arn., Mag-c.) and hands in the morning, from left nostril; after eating. Ozena, blowing bloody mucus from the nose frequently; blood rushes to tip of nose, when stooping. Stopping of nose, mostly at night; must breathe through the mouth, a keynote even in diphtheria; long lasting coryza; “snuffles” of infants (Hep., Nux-v., Samb., Stict.). Throat Putrid sore throat; tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils; glands engorged. In diphtheria or scarlatina when the nose is stopped up; child cannot sleep because it cannot get its breath. Female Reproductive System Cholera-like symptoms at the commencement of menstruation (Bov., Verat.). Menses: Too early, profuse, preceded by griping colic; acrid, makes the thighs sore; copious at night and when sitting (Zinc.); with toothache, colic, sadness; fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness. Leucorrhea: Watery, burning from the uterus; acrid, profuse from the vagina; excoriation of vulva. Respiratory System Dyspnea with palpitation, worse by exertion or on ascending even a few steps; worse in a warm room. One of the best remedies in emphysema. Cough: Dry, from tickling in throat as from dust, every morning from 3 to 4 a.m. (Kali-c.). Loses breath when falling asleep, must awaken to get breath (Grin., Lach.). Extremities Panaritium: Deep-seated periosteal pain (Dios., Sil.). Skin Body red, as if from scarlatina (compare, Ail.). Malignant scarlatina with deep sleep; stertorous breathing. Miliary rash or faintly developed eruption from defective vitality; threatened paralysis of brain (Tub., Zinc.). Modalities Aggravation: Cold, wet weather; wet poultices; from washing; during menses. Amelioration: Lying on abdomen (Acet-ac.); on painful side (Puls.); in dry weather. Relation It antidotes poisoning with Rhus-t. and stings of insects. Affects the right side most. Inimical: To, Lachesis. AMMONIUM MURIATICUM Sal Ammoniac NH4Cl Constitution Especially adapted to those who are fat and sluggish; or body large and fat, but legs too thin. Nose Watery, acrid coryza, corroding the lip (All-c.). Gastro-intestinal System Obstinate constipation accompanied by much flatus. Hard, crumbling stools require great effort in expulsion; crumble from the verge of anus (Mag-m.), vary in color, no two stools alike (Puls.). Hemorrhoids: Sore and smarting; with burning and stinging in the rectum  for hours after stool (Aesc., Sulph.); especially after suppressed leucorrhea. Female Reproductive System Leucorrhea: Like white of egg, preceded by griping pain about the navel; brown, slimy, painless, after every urination. During menses: Diarrhea and vomiting, bloody discharge from the bowels (Phos.); neuralgic pains in the feet; flow more profuse at night (Bov.—on lying down, Kreos.). Back Sensation of coldness in the back, between scapulae (Lachn.). Extremities Hamstrings feel painfully short when walking; tension in joints as from shortening of the muscles (Caust., Cimx.). Offensive sweat of the feet (Alum., Graph., Psor., Sanic., Sil.). Relation Followed: By, Ant-c., Phos., Puls., Sanic. AMYLENUM NITROSUM Nitrite of Amyl C10H11O2NO3 Constitution For nervous, sensitive, plethoric women, during or after the menopause. Physical Generals Often palliative in incurable cases; very important as regards euthanasia. Craves fresh air; opens clothing, removes bed covering and opens windows in the coldest weather (Arg-n., Lach., Sulph.). Constant stretching for hours; impossible to satisfy the desire; would seize the bed and call for help to stretch.  Profound and repeated yawning (Kali-c.). Sea sickness. Head Hemicrania, especially when afflicted side is pallid. Face Face flushes at the slightest emotion (Coca, Ferr.). Blushing: Chronic or acute. Neck Collar seems too tight, must loosen it (Lach.). Cardio-vascular System Rapidly dilates the arteries and accelerates, but later weakens and retards the pulse. Intense surging of blood to face and head (Bell., Glon.). Angina pectoris: Tumultuous heart action; intense throbbing of heart and carotids (Glon.). Puerperal convulsions immediately after delivery. Fever Flushings: Start from face, stomach, various parts of body, followed by sweating, often hot, profuse; abruptly limited, parts below are icy cold; followed by great prostration. Modalities Aggravation: Mental or physical exertion. Relation Similar: To, Bell., Cact., Coca, Ferr., Glon., Lach. Acts promptly by inhalation; resuscitates persons sinking under anesthetics. Crude drug chiefly palliative; must be repeated as patient becomes accustomed to it; is curative in the stronger higher potencies.  The cure more frequently depends upon the strength of the potency than many who have not put it to the curative test imagine. ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE Marking Nut Anacardiaceae Mental Generals Sudden loss of memory; everything seems to be in a dream; patient is greatly troubled about his forgetfulness; confused, unfit for business. Disposed to be malicious, seems bent on wickedness. Irresistible desire to curse and swear (Lac-c., Lil-t., Nit-ac.—wants to pray continually, Stram.). Lack of confidence in himself and others. Feels as though he had two wills, one commanding him to do what the other forbids. When walking, is anxious, as if someone were pursuing him; suspects everything around him. Hypochondriac, with hemorrhoids and constipation. Strange temper, laughs at serious matters and is serious over laughable things. Thinks herself a demon; curses and swears. Sensation: As of a hoop or band around a part (Cact., Carb-ac., Sulph.); or as of a dull, blunt instrument pressing; as of a plug in inner parts. Physical Generals Weakness of all the senses. Head Headache: Relieved entirely when eating (Psor.); when lying down in bed at night, and when about falling asleep; worse during motion and work. Gastric and nervous headaches of sedentary persons (Arg-n., Bry., Nux- v.). Gastro-intestinal System Apt to choke when eating and drinking (Cann-s., Pip-m., Nit-ac.). Swallows food and drink hastily; symptoms disappear while eating (Kali- p., Psor). Stomach: Sensation of fasting “all gone,” comes on only when stomach is empty and is > by eating (Chel., Iod.); > during process of digestion (rev. of Bry., Nux-v.). Great desire for stool, but with the effort the desire passes away without evacuation; rectum seems powerless, paralyzed, with sensation as if plugged up (irregular peristaltic or over action, Nux-v.). Skin Warts on palms of hands (Nat-m.). Relation Compare: Rhus-r., Rhus-t. and Rhus-v. Symptoms are prone to go from right to left (Lyc.). Anacardium follows well: After Lyc. and Puls. Anacardium follows, and is followed by Platinum. ANTHRACINUM Anthrax Poison A Nosode Physical Generals Hemorrhages: Blood oozes from mouth, nose, anus or sexual organs; black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing (Crot-h.). Septic inflammation from absorption of pus or other deleterious substances, with burning pain and great prostration (Ars., Pyrog.). Bad effects from inhaling foul odor of putrid fever or dissecting wound poisoning by foul breath (Pyrog.). Abdomen  Epidemic spleen diseases of cattle, horses and sheep. Extremities Felon; the worst cases, with sloughing and terrible burning pain (Ars., Carb-ac., Lach.). Fever Septic fever, rapid loss of strength, sinking pulse, delirium and fainting (Pyrog.). Skin In carbuncle, malignant ulcer and complaints with ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning. Dissecting wounds especially if tendency is to become gangrenous; septic fever, marked prostration (Ars., Pyrog.). Gangrenous ulcers; felon, carbuncle, erysipelas of a malignant type. Malignant pustules; black or blue blisters; often fatal in twenty-four or forty-eight hours (Lach., Pyrog.). Carbuncle; with horrible burning pains; discharge of ichorous offensive pus. Suspicious insect stings. If the swelling changes color and red streaks from the wound map out the course of lymphatics (Lach., Pyrog.). Hering says: “To call a carbuncle a surgical disease is the greatest absurdity. An incision is always injurious and often fatal A case has never been lost under the right kind of treatment, and it should always be treated by internal medicine only.” Relation When Arsenicum or the best selected remedy fails to relieve the burning pain of carbuncle or malignant ulceration. Similar: To, Ars., Carb-ac., Lach., Sec., Pyrog., in malignant and septic conditions. Compare: Euph. in the terrible pains of cancer, carbuncle or erysipelas when Ars. or Anth. fail to >.  ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM Sulphide of Antimony SbS3 Constitution For children and young people inclined to grow fat (Calc.); for the extremes of life. Old people with morning diarrhea, suddenly become constipated, or alternate diarrhea and constipation; pulse hard and rapid. Mental Generals Child is fretful, peevish, cannot bear to be touched or looked at; sulky; does not wish to speak or be spoken to (Ant-t., Iod., Sil.); angry at every little attention. Great sadness, with weeping. Loathing life. Anxious, lachrymose mood, the slightest thing affects her (Puls.); abject despair, suicide by drowning. Irresistible desire to talk in rhymes or repeat verses. Sentimental mood in the moonlight, especially ecstatic love; bad effects of disappointed affection (Calc-p.). Physical Generals Sensitive to the cold, < after taking cold. Longing for acids and pickles. Cannot bear the heat of sun; worse from over-exertion in the sun (Lach., Nat-m.) ; < from over-heating near the fire; exhausted in warm weather; ailments from sunburn. When symptoms reappear they change locality or go from one side of the body to the other. Aversion to cold bathing; child cries when washed or bathed with cold water; cold bathing causes violent headache; causes suppressed menses; colds from swimming or falling into the water (Rhus-t.). Head Headache: After river bathing; from taking cold; alcoholic drinks; deranged digestion, acids; fat, fruit; suppressed eruption. Throat Mucus: In large quantities from posterior nares by hawking. Gastro-intestinal System Gastric complaints from over-eating; stomach weak, digestion easily disturbed; a thick milky-white coating on the tongue, which is the red strand of the remedy; very subject to canker sores in the mouth (Arg-n., Sulph. ). Gastric and intestinal affections; from bread and pastry; acids, especially vinegar; sour or bad wine; after cold bathing; over-heating; hot weather. Constant discharge of flatus, up and down, for years; belching, tasting of ingesta. Mucus from anus, ichorous, oozing, staining yellow; mucus piles. Respiratory System Loss of voice from becoming over-heated. Whooping cough: < by being over-heated in the sun or in a warm room; from cold washing. Extremities Large horny corns on soles of feet (Ran-b.); very sensitive when walking, especially on stone pavements. Nostrils and labial commissures sore, cracked and crusty. Skin Disposition to abnormal growths of the skin; fingernails do not grow rapidly; crushed nails grow in splits like warts with horny spots. Modalities Aggravation: After eating; cold baths; acids or sour wine; after heat of sun or fire; extremes of cold, or heat.  Amelioration: In the open air; during rest; after a warm bath. Relation Complementary: Squilla. Similar: To , Bry., Ip., Lyc., Puls., in gastric complaints. Follows well: After, Ant-c., Puls., Merc., Sulph. ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM Tartar Emetic Constitution Persons; the hydrogenoid constitution (of Grauvogl). Mental Generals Child clings to those around; wants to be carried; cries and whines if anyone touches it; will not let you feel the pulse (Ant-c., Sanic.). Physical Generals Great sleepiness or irresistible inclination to sleep, with nearly all complaints (Nux-m., Op.). Diseases originating from exposure in damp basements or cellars (Ars., Aran., Ter.). Face Face cold, blue, pale, covered with cold sweat (Tab.). Mouth Tongue coated, pasty, thick, white, with reddened papillae and red edges; red in streaks; very red, dry in the middle; extraordinary craving for apples (Aloe—for acids, pickles, Ant-c.). Gastro-intestinal System Vomiting: In any position except lying on right side; until he faints; followed by drowsiness and prostration; of cholera morbus with diarrhea  and cold sweat, a dose after each attack (Verat.). Respiratory System Through the pneumogastric nerve it depresses the respiration and circulation, thus producing the keynote of the remedy, viz., when the patient coughs there appears to be a large correction of mucus in the bronchi; it seems as if much would be expectorated, but nothing comes up. Asphyxia: Mechanical, as apparent death from drowning; from mucus in bronchi; from impending paralysis of lungs; from foreign bodies in larynx or trachea; with drowsiness and coma. Child at birth pale, breathless, gasping; asphyxia neonatorum. Relieves the “death-rattle” (Tarent.). Icterus with pneumonia, especially of right lung. In spring and autumn, when damp weather commences, cough of children gets worse. Modalities Aggravation: In damp, cold weather; lying down at night; warmth of room; change of weather in spring (Kali-s., Nat-s.), Amelioration: Cold open air; sitting upright; expectorating; lying on right side (Tab.). Relation Similar: To, Lycopodium, but spasmodic motion of alae is replaced by dilated nostrils; to Veratrum, both have diarrhea, colic, vomiting, coldness and craving for acids; to Ipecac., but more drowsiness from defective respiration, nausea, but > after vomiting. When lungs seem to fail, patient becomes sleepy, cough declines or ceases, it supplants Ip. For bad effects of vaccination when Thuja fails and Silicea is not indicated. Before Silicea in dyspnea from foreign bodies in the larynx or trachea; Puls. in suppressed gonorrhea; Ter. from damp basements.  Children not esily impressed when Ant-t. seems indicated in coughs, require Hepar. APIS MELLIFICA Poison of the Honey Bee Apium Virus Constitution Adapted to the strumous constitution; glands enlarged, indurated; scirrhus or open cancer. Women, especially widows; children and girls who, though generally careful, become awkward, and let things fall while handling them (Bov.). Mental Generals 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 (Hell.). Physical Generals 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; ascites (Aceticum acidum, but face more waxy and great thirst). Affects right side; enlargement or dropsy of right ovary; right testicle. Eyes Edema; bag-like, puffy swelling under the eyes (over the eyes, Kali-c.). Gastro-intestinal System  Constipation: Sensation in abdomen as if something tight would break if much effort were used. Diarrhea: Of drunkards; in eruptive diseases, especially if eruption be suppressed; involuntary from every motion, as though anus was wide open (Phos.). Urinary System 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. Extremities Edema; of the hands and feet, dropsy, without thirst (with thirst, Acet-ac., Apoc.). Fever Intermittent fever; chill 3 p.m, with thirt, always (Ign.); < warm room and from external heat (Thuj. 3 a.m. and at 3 p.m.). Skin Bad effects of acute exanthema imperfectly developed or suppressed (Zinc.); measles, scarlatina, urticaria. Modalities Aggravation: After sleeping (Lach.); closed, especially warmed and heated rooms are intolerable; from getting wet (Rhus-t.), 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. Relation Complementary: Nat-m. Disagrees, when used either before or after Rhus-t. Ars. and Puls. follow Apis well. Has cured scarlatina albuminuria after Canth., Dig., Hell., failed.  APOCYNUM CANNABINUM Indian Hemp Apocynaceae Physical Generals 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. Head 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. Female Reproductive System Amenorrhea in young girls, with bloating or dropsical extension of abdomen and extrimities. Metrorrhagia: Continued or paroxysmal flow; fluid or clotted; nause, vomiting, palpitation; pulse quick, feeble, when moved; vital depression, fainting, when raising head from pillow. Respiratory System Cough, short and dry, or deep and loose, during pregnancy (Con.). Relations Similar: To, Aceticum acidum, Apis (no thirst), Ars., Chin., Dig., in dropsical affections. Blatta orientalis has cured bad cases of general dropsy, after Apis, Apoc., and Dig. failed.—Haynes. ARGENTUM METALLICUM The Metal Pure Silver Constitution Constitutional effects of onanism. Tall, thin, irritable persons. Physical Generals Ailments from abuse of mercury. Affects the cartilages, tarsal, ears, nose, eustachian; structures entering into joints. Nose Exhausting, fluent coryza with sneezing. Hoarseness; of professional singers, public speakers (Alum., Arum-t.). Total loss of voice with professional singes. Throat and larynx feel raw or sore on swallowing or coughing. Laughing excites cough (Dros., Phos., Stann.) and produces profuse mucus in larynx. When reading aloud has to hem and hawk; cough with easy expectoration of gelatinous, visxid mucus, looking like boiled starch. Great weaknes of the chest (Stann.); worse left side. Alteration 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. Male Reproductive System Seminal emissions: After onanism; almost every night; without erection; with atrophy of penis. Crushed pain in the testicles (Rhod.). Female Reproductive System Prolapsus; with pain in left ovary and back, extending forward and downward (right ovary, Pall.); climacteric hemorrhage. Modalities Aggravation: Riding in a carriage (Cocc.); when touched or pressed upon; talking, singing, reading aloud. Relations Follows well: After, Alum. Similar: To, Stann. in cough excited by laughing. ARGENTUM NITRICUM Silver Nitrate AgO, NO5 Constitution Always think of Argentum nit. on seeing withered, dried up, old-looking patients (thin, scrawny, Sec.). Mental Generals Apprehension when ready for church or opera, diarrhea sets in (Gels.). Time passes slowly (Cann-i.); impulse, wants to do things in a hurry; must walk fast; is always hurried; anxious, irritable, nevous (Aur., Lil-t.). Physical Generals Acute or chronic diseases from unusual; or long-continued mental exertion. Emaciation, progressing every year; most marked in lower extremities (Am-m.); marasmus. Great longing for fresh air (Aml-ns., Puls., Sulph.). Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped up; craves fresh air. Craves sugar. Head Headache: Congestive, with fullness and heaviness; with sense of  expansion; habitual gastric, of literary men; from dancing; hemicrania, pressive, screwing in frontal eminence of temple; ending in bilious vomiting; < from any exhaustive mental labor; > by pressure or tight bandaging (Apis, Puls.). Eyes Acute granular conjunctivitis; scarlet-red, like raw beef; discharge profuse, muco-purulent. Ophthalmia neonatorum: Profuse, purulent discharge; cornea opaque, ulcerated; lids sore, thick, swollen; agglutinated in morning (Apis, Merc- c., Rhus-t.). Eye strain from sewing, < in warm room, > in open air (Nat-m., Ruta); diseases due to defective accommodation. The 200th or 1000th potency in watery solution as a topical application in ophthalmia neonatorum has relieved when the crude silver nitrate failed. Throat Sensation of a splinter in throat when swallowing (Dol., Hep., Nit-ac., Sil.). Gastro-intestinal System Craves sugar; child is fond of it, but diarrhea results from eating (craves salt or smoked meat, Calc-p.). Belching accompanies most gastric ailments. Flatulent dyspepsia: Belching after every meal; stomach, as if it would burst with wind; belching difficult, finally air rushes out with great violence. Diarrhea; green mucus, like chopped spinach in flakes; turning green after remaining on diaper; after drinking; after eating candy or sugar; masses of mucolymph in shreddy strips or lumps (Asar.); with much noisy flatus (Aloe). Diarrhea as soon as he drinks (Ars., Crot-t., Trom.). Urinary System Urine passes unconsciously day and night (Caust.). Male Reproductive System Inpotence; erection fails when coition is attempted (Agn., Calad., Selen.). Female Reproductive System Sensation of a splinter in or about uterus when walking or riding. Coition; painful in both sexes; followed by bleeding from vagina (Nit- ac.). Metrorrhagia: In young widows; in sterility; with nervous erethism at change of life (Lach.). Respiratory System Chronic laryngitis of singers; the high notes cause cough (Alum., Arg- met., Arum-t.). Nervous System Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when he thinks himself unobserved. Convulsions preceded by great restlessness. Great weakness of lower extremities, with trembling; cannot walk with the eyes closed (Alum.). Modalities Aggravation: Cold foods; cold air; eating sugar; ice cream; unusual mental exertion. Amelioration: Open air; craves the wind blowing in his face; bathing with cold water. Relation Natrium mur. for the bad effects of cauterizing with nitrate of silver. Coffea increases nervous headache. Boys’ complaints after using tobacco (Ars., Verat.). Similar: To, Nat-m., Nit-ac., Lach., Aur., Cupr. After Verat.; Lyc. follows well in flatulent dyspepsia.  ARNICA MONTANA Leopard’s Bane Compositae Constitution Nervous women, sanguine plethoric persons, lively expression and very red face. Especially adapted to those who remain long impressed by even slight mechanical injuries. Mental Generals Unconsciousness: When spoken to answers correctly, but unconsciousness and delirium at once return (falls asleep in the midst of a sentence, Bapt.). Says there is nothing the matter with him. Physical Generals Sore, lame, bruised feeling all through the body, as if beaten; traumatic affections of muscles. 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, Bapt., Pyrog; must move continually to obtain relief from the pain, Rhus-t.). Head Hydrocephalus; deathly coldness in forearm of children (in diarrhea, Brom.). Meningitis after mechanical or traumatic injuries; from falls, concussion of brain, etc. When suspecting exudation of blood, to facilitate absorption. Eyes Conjunctival or retinal hemorrhage, with extravasation, from injuries or  cough (Led., Nux-v.). Gastro-intestinal System Belching; eructations; foul, putrid, like rotten eggs. Dysentery; with ischuria, fruitless urging; long interval between the stools. Constipation: Rectum loaded, feces will not come away; ribbon-like stools from enlarged prostate or retroverted uterus. Female Reproductive System Soreness of parts after labor; prevents post-partum hemorrhage and puerperal complications. Retention or incontinence of urine after labor (Op.). Extremities 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 pelvic region. Nervous System Mechanical injuries, especially with stupor from concussion; involuntary feces and urine. Apoplexy: Loss of consciousness, involuntary evacuation from bowels and bladder; in acute attack, controls hemorrhage and aids absorption; should be repeted and allowed to act for days or weeks unless symptoms call for another remedy. Paralysis (left-sided); pulse full, strong; stertor, sighing, muttering. Fever Heat of upper part of body; coldness of lower. The face or head and face alone is hot, the body cool. Injuries For the bad effects resulting from mechanical injuries; even if received years ago.  After injuries with blunt instruments (Symph.). Compound fractures and their profuse suppuration (Calend.). Concussions and contusions, results of shock or injury; without laceration of soft parts; prevents suppuratin and septic conditions and promotes absorption. Skin Tendency to small, painful boils, one after another, extremely sore (small boils in crops, Sulph.). Modalities Aggravation: At rest; when lying down; from wine. Amelioation: From contact; motion (Rhus-t., Ruta). Relations Complementary: To, Acon., Hyper., Rhus-t. Similar: To, for soreness as if bruised, Bapt., Chin., Phyt., Pyrog., Rhus- t., Staph. Arnica follows well: After, Acon., Apis, Ham., Ip., Verat., is followed by Sul-ac. In ailments from spirituous liquors or from charcoal vapors, Arn. is often indicated (Am-c., Bov.). In spinal convulsions, compare with Hyper. ARSENICUM ALBUM White Oxide of Arsenic As2O3 Mental Generals The disposition is: (a) Depressing, melancholic, despairing, 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, on going to bed. Attacks of anxiety at night driving out of bed, < after midnight. Teething children are pale, weak, fretful, and want to be carried rapidly. Physical Generals Great prostration, with rapid sinking of the vital forces; fainting. Burning pains; the affected parts burn like fire, as if hot coals were applied to parts (Anthraci.), > by heat, hot drinks, hot applications. 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. Rapid emaciation: With cold sweat and great debility (Tub., Verat.); of affected parts; marasmus. 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 from 1-2 p.m., 12-2 a.m. Bad effects from decayed food or animal matter, whether by inoculation, olfaction or ingestion. Complaints return annually (Carb-v., Lach., Sulph., Thuj.). Gastro-intestinal System 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. Gastric derangements; after cold fruits; ice cream; ice water; sour beer;  bad sausage; alcoholic drinks; strong cheese. Diarrhea, after eating or drinking; stool scanty; dark-colored, offensive, and whether small or large, followed by great prostration. Hemorrhoids: With stitching pain when walking or sitting, not at stool; preventing sitting or sleep; burning pain < by heat; fissures make voiding urine difficult. Respiratory System 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. Skin Anasarca, skin pale, waxy, earth-colored (Acet-ac.). Skin: Dry and scaly; cold, blue and wrinkled; with cold, clammy perspiration; like parchment; white and pasty; black vesicles and burning pain. Modalities 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. Relation Complementary: All-s., Carb-v., Phos., Pyrog. Ars. should be thought of in ailments from: Chewing tobacco; alcoholism; sea bathing; sausage poisoning; dissecting wounds and anthrax poison; stings of venomous insects. ARUM TRIPHYLLUM Indian Turnip Araceae Physical Generals Children refuse food and drink on account of soreness of mouth and throat (Merc.); are sleepless. Nose Coryza; acrid, fluent; nostrils raw. Nose feels stopped up inspite of the watery discharge (compare, Am-c., Samb., Sin-n.); sneezing < at night. Acrid, ichorous discharge, excoriating inside of nose, alae, and upper lip (Ars., All-c.). Constant picking at the nose until it bleeds; boring with the finger into the side of the nose. Face Patients pick and bore into the raw bleeding surfaces though very painful; scream with pain but keep up the boring (in diphtheria, scarlatina, typhoid). Pick lips until they bleed; corners of mouth sore, cracked, bleeding (with malignant tendency, Cund.); bites nails until fingers bleed. The sore mouth and nose are guiding in malignant scarlatina and diphtheria. Throat Aphonia: Complete, after exposure to north-west 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. Mouth Saliva profuse, acrid, corodes the mucous membrane; tongue and buccal cavity raw and bleeding. Fever Typhoid scarlatina, with apathy, scanty or suppressed urine; threatened  uremia. Skin Desquamation in large flakes; a second or third time, in scarlatina. Relation 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. The higher potencies most prompt and effective. ASARUM EUROPAEUM European Snake Root Aristolochiaceae Mental Generals Nervous, anxious people; excitable or melancholy. Imagines he is hovering in the air like a spirit (Lac-c.); lightness of all the limbs. Physical Generals Cold “shivers” from any emotion. Eyes When reading, sensation in eyes as if they 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. Ears Sensation as if ears were plugged up with some foreign substance. Gastro-intestinal System Nausea; in attacks or constant (Ip.); < after eating, tongue clean (Sulph.);  of pregnancy. “Horrible sensation” of pressing, digging in the stomach when waking in the morning (after adebauch). Nervous System Oversensitiveness of nerves, scratching of linen or silk, crackling of paper is unbearable (Ferr., Tarent.). Unconquerable longing for alcohol; a popular remedy in Russia for drunkards. Great faintness and constant yawning. Modalities 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.). Relation Similar: To, Cyst. in modalities; to Aloe. Arg-n., Merc., Podo., Puls., Sul- ac. in stringy, shreddy stools. Followed: By, Bism., Caust., Puls., Sul-ac. ARTERIAS RUBENS Star-fish Radiata Constitution For the sycotic diathesis; flabby, lymphatic constitution; irritable temperament. Mental Generals Easily excited by an emotion, especially by contradictions (Anac., Con.). Head Heat of the head, as if surrounded by hot air. Gastro-intestinal System Constipation: Obstinate; ineffectual desire; stools of hard, round balls, like olives. Diarrhea: Watery, brown, gushing out in a violent jet (Crot-t., Grat., Gamb., Jatr., Thuj.). Female Reproductive System 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, elevated, mammilllary, hard, everted; bottom covered with reddish granulations. Sexual desire increased in women (Lil-t.). Nervous System Sanguinous congestion of the brain. Apoplexy; face red, pulse hard, full, frequent. Epilepsy; twitching over the whole body four or five days before the attack. Gait unsteady; muscles refuse to obey the will (Alum., Gels.). Relation Similar: To, Murx, Sep. Compare: Carb-an., Con., Sil. in mammary cancer: Bell., Calc., Sulph. in epilepsy. AURUM METALLICUM Gold The Element Constitution For constitutions broken down by bad effects of mercury and syphilis. Sanguine, ruddy people, with black hair and eyes; lively, restless, anxious  about the future. Old people; weak vision; corpulent; tired of life. Pining boys; low-spirited, lifeless, weak memories, lacking in “boyish go”; testes undeveloped, mere pendent shreds. Headache of people with dark olive-brown complexion; sad, gloomy, taciturn, disposed to constipation; from least mental exertion. Mental Generals Ailments from fright, anger, contradictions, mortification, vexation, dread, or reserved displeasure (Staph.). Constantly dwelling on suicide (Naja—but is afraid to die, Nux-v.). 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.). Oversensitive; least contradiction excites wrath (Con.); to pain; to smell, taste, hearing, touch (Anac.). Physical Generals Syphilitic and mercurial affections of the bones. Caries: Of the nasal palatine and mastoid bones; ozena, otorrhea, excessively fetid discharge, pains worse at night; drive to despair; of mercurial or syphilitic origin (Asaf.). Head Falling of the hair, especially in syphilis and mercurial affections. Eyes Hemiopia; sees only the lower half (sees only the left half, Lith-c., Lyc.). Mouth Foul breath; in girls at puberty. Female Reproductive System  Prolapsed and indurated uterus; from over-reaching or straining (Podo., Rhus-t.); from hypertrophy (Con.). Menstrual and uterine affections, with great melancholy; < at menstrual period. Cardio-vascular System Sensation as if the heart stood still; as though it ceased to beat and then suddenly gave one 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.). Motdalities 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. Relation Aurum follows, and is followed well by Syphilinum. Similar: To, Asaf., Calc., Plat., Sep., Tarent., Ther., in bone, uterine disease. B BAPTISIA TINCTORIA Wild Indigo Leguminoseae Constitution For the lymphatic temperament. Mental Generals Aversion to mental exertion; indisposed, or want of power to think. Perfect indifference, dosen’t care to do anything, inability to fix the mind on 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.). 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.). Physical Generals In whatever position the patient lies, the parts rested upon feel sore and bruised (Pyrog.—compare, Arn.). Great prostration, with disposition to decomposition of fluids (Pyrog.); ulceration of mucous membranes. All exhalations and discharges fetid, especially in typhoid or other acute disease; breath, stool, urine, perspiration, ulcers (Psor., Pyrog.). Face Face flushed, dusky, dark red, with a stupid, besotted, drunken expression (Gels.). Mouth  Tongue: At first coated white with red papillae; dry and yellow-brown in centre; later dry, cracked, ulcerated. Throat 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.). Gastro-intestinal System Dysentery of old people; diarrhea of children, especially when very offensive (Carb-v., Podo., Psor.). Fever Decubitus in typhoid (Arn., Mur-ac., Pyrog.). 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 improperly given or too often repeated in typhoid of typhus. After Baptisia: Crot-h., Ham., Nit-ac., and Ter. act well in hemorrhage of typhoid and typhus. BARYTA CARBONICA Barium Carbonate BaCO3 Constitution Especially adapted to complaints of first and second childhood; the psoric or tubercular. Persons subject to quinsy, take cold easily, even the least cold precipitates an attack of tonsillitis, prone to suppuration (Hep., Psor.).  Scrofulous, dwarfish children who do not grow (children who grow too rapidly, Calc.); 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 (Fl-ac.). Diseases of old men; hypertrophy or induration of prostate and testes; mental and physical weakness. Apoplectic tendency in old people; complaints of old drunkards; headache of aged people, who are childish. Mental Generals Memory deficient; forgetful, inattentive; child cannot be taught for it cannot remember; threatened idiocy. Physical Generals 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 (Calc., Kali-c., Psor.). Throat Inability to swallow anything but liquids (Bapt., Sil.). Gastro-intestinal System Hemorrhoids protrude every time he urinates (Mur-ac.). Respiratory System Chronic cough in psoric children; enlarged tonsils or elongated uvula; < after slight cold (Alum.). Modalities  Aggravation: When thinking of his disease (Ox-ac.); lying on painful side; after meals; washing affected parts. 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., Calc-i., Dulc., Fl-ac., Iod., Sil. Incompatible: After Calc. in scrofulous affections. BELLADONNA Deadly Nightshade Solanaceae Constitution Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions; persons who are lively and entertaining when well, but violent and often delirious when sick. Women and children with light hair and blue eyes, fine complexion, delicate skin; sensitive, nervous, threatened with convulsions; tubercular patients. Mental Generals 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.). Physical Generals Great liability to take cold; sensitive to drafts of air, especially when uncovering the head; from having the hair cut; tonsils become inflammed  after riding in a cold wind (Acon., Hep., Rhus-t. takes cold from exposure of feet, Con., Cupr., 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; fullness of head and throbbing of carotids. Head Vertigo when stooping, or when rising after stooping (Bry.); on every change of position. Rush of blood to head and face (Aml-ns., Glon., Meli.). Headache, congestive, with red face, throbbing of brain and carotids (Meli.); < 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., Podo.). Gastro-intestinal System 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-caecal region, < by slightest touch, even of the bed cover. The transverse colon protrudes like a pad. Female Reproductive System Pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen would issue from the vulva; > standing and sitting erect; worse mornings (Lil-t., Murx., Sep.). Nervous System Convulsions during teething, with fever (without fever, Mag-p.); comes on suddenly, head hot, feet cold. Fever 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.). Skin Skin: Of a uniform, smooth, shining scarlet redness; dry, hot, burning; imparts a burning sensation to examining hand; the true Sydenham scarlet fever, where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly scarlet. Modalities Aggravation: From touch, motion, noise, draft 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. Relation Complementary; Calcarea. Belladonna is the acute of Calcarea, which is often required to complete a cure. Similar: To, Acon., Bry., Cic., Gels., Glon., Hyos., Meli., Op., Stram. BENZOICUM ACIDUM CH6H5CO. OH Constitution A gouty, rheumatic diathesis engrafted on a gonorrheal or syphilitic patient. Gastro-intestinal System Diarrhea of children; white, very offensive, exhausting liquid stools running “right through diaper” (Podo.); urine offensive and of a deep red color. Urinary system Urine dark brown, and the urinous odor highly intensified. Enuresis nocturna of delicate children; dribbling urine of old men with  enlarged prostate; strong characteristic odor; excess of uric acid. Catarrh of bladder after suppressed gonorrhea. Respiratory System Cough; with expectoration of green mucus (Nat-s.); extreme weariness, lassitude. Extremities Gouty concretions; arthritis vaga; affects all the joints, especially the knee, cracking on motion; nodosities (Berb., Lith-c., Lys.). Pains tearing, stitching, in large joints of big toe; redness and swelling of joints; gout < at night. Relation Similar: To Cop., Kali-n., Ferr., Thuj., especially in enuresis after Kali-n. has failed; Berb., Lith-c. in arthritic complaints. Useful after Colch. fails in gout; after abuse of Cop. in suppression of gonorrhea. Incompatible: Wine, which aggravates urinary, gouty and rheumatic affections. BERBERIS VULGARIS Barberry Berberidaceae Physical Generals Rheumatic and gouty complaints, with diseases of the urinary organs. Face Pale, earthy complexion, with sunken cheeks and hollow, blue-encircled eyes. Gastro-intestinal System 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 (Calc-p., Sil.). Urinary System The renal or vesical symptoms predominate. Burning and soreness in region of kidneys. Stitching, cutting pain from left kidney following course of ureter into bladder and urethra (Tab., right kidney, Lyc.). Renal colic, < left side (Tab., either side, with urging and strangury, Canth.). Bubbling 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. Back Pain in small of back; very sensitive to touch in renal region; < when sitting and lying, from jar, from fatigue. Numbness, stiffness, lameness with painful pressure in renal and lumbar regions. Modalities Aggravation: Motion, walking or carriage riding; any sudden jarring movement. Relation Similar: To, Canth., Lyc., Sars., Tab., in renal colic. Acts well: After, Arn., Bry., Kali-bi., Rhus-t., Sulph., in rheumatic affections. BISMUTHUM Hydrated Oxide of Bismuth  BiI2O3OH2 Mental Generals Solitude is unbearable: desires company, child holds on to its mother’s hand for company (Kali-c., Lil-t., Lyc.). Anguish; he sits, then walks, then lies, never long in one place. Head Headache returning every winter; alternating with, or attended by gastralgia. Face Face, deathly pale, blue rings around the eyes. Mouth Toothache > by holding cold water in mouth (Bry., Coff., Puls.). Gastro-intestinal System 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, Verat.); with convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain, after laparotomy (Nux-v., Staph.). Stomach: Pressure as from a load in one spot; alternating with burning; pain crampy, spasmodic; with irritation, cardialgia and pyrosis. Cholera morbis and summer complaint, when vomiting predominates; stool foul; papescent, watery, offensive, very prostrating (Ars., Verat.). BORAX VENETA Biborate of Soda Mental Generals 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; horse back-riding (compare, Sanic.). Excessively nervous, easily frightened by the slightest noise or an unusual sharp sound, a cough, sneeze, a cry, lighting a match, etc. (Asar., Calad.). Children awake suddenly, dreaming and graping sides of cradle, without apparent cause (Apis, Cina, Stram.). Head Hair becomes frowsy and tangled; splits, sticks together at the tips; if these bunches are cut off, they form again, cannot be combed smooth (Fl-ac., Lyc., Psor., Tub.). Eyes Eyelashes: Loaded with dry, gummy exudation; agglutinated in morning; turn inward and inflame the eye, especially at outer canthus; tendency to “wild hairs.” Nose Nostrils crusty, inflammed; 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.). Mouth Aphthe: 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 wore from touch; eating salty or sour food; of old people, often from plate of teeth (Alumn.). Urinary System Child has frequent urination and screams before urine passes (Lys., Sanic., Sars.). Female Reproductive System Leucorrhea: Profuse, albuminous, starchy with sensation as if warm water were flowing down; for two weeks between the catamenia (compare, Bov., Con.). Skin Skin: Unhealthy, slight injuries suppurate (Calen., Hep., Merc., Sil.). Modalities Aggravation: Downward motion; from sudden slight noises; smoking, which may bring on diarrhea; damp, cold weather; before urinating. Amelioration: Pressure; holding painful side with hand. Relation Borax follows: Calc., Psor., Sanic., Sulph. Is followed: By, Ars., Bry., Lyc., Phos., Sil. Incompatible; should not be used before or after, Aceticum acidum, vinegar, wine. BOVISTA LYCOPERDON Puffball Fungi Constitution Adapted to old maids with palpitation. Stammering children (Stram.). Mental Generals Awkwardness, inclined to drop things from hands (Apis); objects fall from powerless hands. Physical Generals Discharge from nose and all mucous membranes very tough, stringy, tenacious (Kali-bi.).  Sweat in axilla, smells like onion. Hemorrhage: After extraction of teeth (Ham.); from wounds; epistaxis. Gastro-intestinal System Intolerance of tight clothing around the waist (Calc., Lach., Sulph.). Female Reproductive System Menses: Flow only at night, not in the daytime (Mag-c., only during day, ceases lying, Cact., Caust., Lil-t.); diarrhea before and during menses (Am-c.); occasional show every few days between periods (Borx.); every two weeks dark and clotted; with painful bearing down (Sep.). Extremities Usually deep impression on finger, from using blunt instruments, scissors, knife, etc. Great weakness of joints and weariness of hands and feet. Skin Intolerable itching at tip of coccyx, must scratch till parts become raw and sore. Persons who suffer from tettery eruptions, dry or moist. Relation Compare: Am-c., Bell., Calc., Mag-s., Sep. in menstrual irregularities. Bovista antidotes, effects of local applications of tar; suffocation from gas. When Rhus-t. seems indicated but fails to cure, in chronic urticaria. BROMIUM Bromine The Element Constitution It acts best, but not exclusively, on persons with light blue eyes, flaxen  hair, light eyebrows, fair, delicate skin; blonde, red-cheeked, scrofulous girls. Physical Generals Stony, hard, scrofulous or tuberculous swelling of glands, especially on lower jaw and throat (thyroid, submaxillary, parotid, testes). Nose Fan-like motion of alae nasi (Ant-t., Lyc.). Face Sensation of cobweb on the face (Bar-c., Borx., Graph.). Throat 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.). Female Reproductive System Physometra; loud emission of flatus from the vagina (Lyc.); membranous dysmenorrhea (Lac-c.). Respiratory System Sailors suffer from asthma “on shore”. Croupy symptoms with hoarseness during whooping cough; gasping for breath. Dyspnea: 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 mucus in larynx (in bronchi, Ant-t.). Cold sensation in larynx on inspiration (Rhus-t., Sulph.); > after shaving (< after shaving, Carb-an.). Cardio-vascular System  Hypertrophy of heart from: Gymnastics in growing boys (from cal