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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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| COMMON NAME |
: | -Black
lead, -Amorphous Carbon |
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| A/F |
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Grief and vexation. - Supression of skin eruptions. - Extremes of heat and cold - Overlifting - Fear. PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION: 1)SKIN: -Moist, sticky eruptions; -Fissures, corns. -Eczema. 2)LYMPHATIC SYSTEM: -Enlarged - Secretions acrid 3) SEXUAL ORGANS: -Excited -Prostated -Anaemic 4) GIT:-Atony -Constipation. |
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| MODALITIES |
: | < During
and after menses < Cold, drafts < Suppression of eruptions < Light < Secretions < Motion < Night < Wet feet < Warmth of bed > Open air, walking in > Hot drinks, esp. milk > Touch > Eating > Eructation |
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| MIND |
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Simple, basic, earthy and unrefined patients. - Slow thinking, irresolution, poor concentration. Dullness. SLOWNESS. - Sad, tearsome, irresolute, hesitates at trifles. Timid, dread of work. - Fidgety while sitting at work. - Feels miserable and unhappy. - Weeps, without cause, from MUSIC. Sensitive to music. Weeping from music (Aur), especially organ. - Forgetful, makes mistakes in speaking and writing. - Child impudent, teasing, laughing of reprimands. - Remembers all the events of youth; recent events are forgotten. - So sad that thinks of death. - Thinks of nothing but salvation. - There is a changeable mood. - Memory weak for recent events, > for long past events. - Anxiety and dullness in the morning on waking. Anxiety about trifles. - Restless, agitated anxiety. restlessness and anxiety at night. - Timid, reserved. - IRRESOLUTION. Insecurity. Anxiety about the consequences of the decision. - Obstinate. Censorious. -Discontented. Easily offended. -Irritability about trifles. -TRIFLES SEEM IMPORTANT. -Fear something will happen, of misfortune. -Anxiety and fear < morning. Irritation, excitement, sleeplessness in evening. -Aversion to mental work. -Difficult concentration, mental exertion gives restlessness (Kali-p). -Absence of thoughts. Impressions don't penetrate. Hard to get information from them. -Confusion with weeping and awkwardness, < before and during menses. |
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| GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Especially
adapted to women of climacteric age.
Generally inclined to obesity, who suffer from habitual constipation
and delayed menstruation. Tendency to put on unhealthy fat; plump,
anemic, fair. -Sensitive to cold; Chilly. -Cracks and FISSURES on end of fingers of toes, nipples, labia, commissures, anus etc. -Left sided complaints. -OBESITY. Rapid emaciation in stomach diseases. Emaciation of affected parts (Plb). -AILMENTS FROM SUPPRESSED ERUPTIONS, DISCHARGE. -Discharges: thick, sticky, offensive, honey like, foul, scanty and acrid. -Sudden weakness. Cataleptic. -Sourness - of taste, eructations, stools, urine, teeth etc. -Sensation of burning, NUMBNESS and deadness. -General sense of uneasiness, tremulousness, sudden sinking of strength. -Skin symptoms <-> digestive symptoms. -Cancerous diathesis in old cicatrices. Tendency to grow cystic tumours. Dropsy. -Desire: CHICKEN, beer, sweets, bland food. Aversion: SALT, SWEETS, MEAT, fish, soup, warm food, cooked food. -Vertigo-< Morning on waking; looking upward; rising from stooping. -Head-NUMBNESS OR EMPTY FEELING (Cocc, Plat). -Headache: < left side, sunlight, while eating. -ERUPTIONS < occiput. Psoriasis. -Alopecia. Falling of hair at temples. -Eye-PHOTOPHOBIA (Nat-s), < sunlight. -Conjunctivitis. BLEPHARITIS. Keratitis. -Eruptions on lids. Fissures of canthi. -Ear-Otitis, < left. Chronic otorrhea, gluey, offensive. -Noises, < night, left side. -HEARING IMPAIRED, > BACKGROUND NOISE. -Eruptions or cracks behind ear. -Ear discharge smells like spoiled fish. -Nose-Cracked nostrils. -Frequent colds. Coryza before menses. -Face-Sensation of cobweb over the face and forehead, tries hard to remove it. (Alum). -Eruptions, especially around mouth. Acne. -Circulation is affected causing, irregular distribution of blood, producing especially rush of blood to head with flushed face. -Phlegmonous erysipelas, of face, with burning, stinging pain, commencing on right side, going to left. -Mouth-Fissures in corners of mouth, lips. -Offensive breath, like smell of urine. -Throat-Constant inclination to swallow. -Stomach-Stomach complaints after suppressed eruptions. -Ulcers. Cancer. Stomach disorders with rapid emaciation. -Gastric complaints > eating, (WARM) MILK (Chel). -Abdomen-Ascites. -Eruptions, especially in inguinal region. -Rectum-Chronic constipation- stool difficult, large hard knotty with lumps, united by mucous threads too large.< during menses, suppressed menses; instead of menses. -Fissure in ano (Nit-ac, Rat). Smarting sore pain, remains after stool in anus. Bleeding anus > Hot milk. -Diarrhoea- stools brown, fluid mixed with undigested substance, of an intolerable odour, often caused by suppressed eruptions. -Eruptions. -Male genitalia-HIGH DESIRE OR LACK OF INTEREST, ENJOYMENT. -Impotency. Ungovernable desire with poor results (Con, Gels, Lyc). -Erections failing during coition (Lyc). Premature ejaculation. -Hydrocele. -Eruptions, herpes; spreading to thigh. -Cracks. -Female genitalia-HIGH DESIRE, nymphomania, OR LACK OF INTEREST. -Enlargement and induration of ovaries. -Uterine fibroids, cancer. -Menarche late. Menses scanty, late, not appearing. -Eruptions. Cracks. -Menses late, scanty, pale, irregular, painful, delayed by getting feet wet. -Morning sickness during menstruation, prostrated. -Leucorrhoea- acrid, excoriating, occurs in gushes day and night, before and after menses. -Hard cicatrices remaining after mammary abscess, retarding the flow of milk. -Cancer of breast, from old scars, and repeated abscess. -Respiratory system-Hoarseness during menses. -Dyspnoea, from suppressed eruptions; > eating. -Suffocative, wakes from sleep. -Chest-Cancer of breasts, esp. old scar tissue. -Sore, cracked nipples. -Eruptions in axilla, under breasts. -Extremities-Swelling feet and toes during menses. -CALLOSITIES of palms and soles (Ant-c, Ran-b). -Cracks of fingertips. -Eruptions < bend of elbows and knees. -Numbness of forearms. -NAILS: DISTORTED, BRITTLE, thick, hard, crumbling, deformed, painful, sore as if ulcerated. -Ingrowing toe nails (Sil). -Burning heat of foot soles, uncovers them. -Rheumatic pains. -Skin-Affects the folds skin, at flexures, muco-cutaneous junctions, behind the ears. -FISSURES, where skin and mucus membrane joins. -THICK, hard, dry, rough (Ant-c, Fl-ac). Thickening and induration of skin. -ERUPTIONS. Eczema. Herpes. Psoriasis. Thick CRUSTS AND SCALES, OOZING HONEY-LIKE, THICK, YELLOW, STICKY FLUID, sometimes offensive. -Itching < heat, during menses. -KELOID (Fl-ac, Sil) or Cicatrices. -Unhealthy. -Tendency to produce excoriation. |
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| KEYNOTES |
: | -Watery,
transparent sticky honey like fluid
discharge. -Morning sickness during menses. -Hears better when in a noise, when riding a carriage. -Sensation of cobweb on face; tries hard to brush it off. |
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| CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -Cracks,
fissures, dryness, bleeding- Cracks or
fissures in the ends of fingers, nipples, labial commissures. Eczema of
lids, eruptions moist and fissured. -Affections of skin folds, flexures, behind the ear. Skin becomes thick and indurated. Obstinate dryness of skin and absence of sweat. -Crustiness- Eyelids red and margins covered with scabs and crusts, milk crusts. Crusty and scabby ulcers, moist crusty eruptions. -Dry, rough skin that breaks easily and exudes a `gluey moisture'. -Discharge, always sticky, transparent, thin, watery, may be thick honey like. -Menses late, scanty, pale, delayed due to getting feet wet, irregular. |
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| NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Suited
to women inclined to be fat, who suffer
from constant chilliness, habitual constipation and herpetic eruptions
which crack and ooze a gelatinous fluid. |
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| REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Ant-c,
Bar-c, Calc, Ferr, Olnd, Petr,
Psor, Puls, Tell, Sulph. -Complementary-Caust, Ferr, Hep, Lyc, Arg-n, Ars, Sulph, Tab, Tub. -Follows well after-Lyc, Puls, -Calc in obesity of young women with large amount of unhealthy adipose tissue -Sulph in skin affections -Sepia in gushing leucorrhoea -Similar to Lyc, Puls in menstrual troubles. |
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| CLINICAL |
: | -Constipation,
Eczema, Fissures, Flushes,
Gastritis, Impetigo, Keloids, Malignancy, Obesity, Otitis media and
externa, Peptic ulcer, Psoriasis, Styes. -Almost a specific for womens disease due to a diminished hormonal activity - Dr Karo. -For singers, who cannot control their vocal cords or who develop hoarseness or cracked voice as soon as they sing- Dr. Farrington. |
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