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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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COMMON NAME |
: | Glauber's
Salt |
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SOURCE |
: | Sulphate
of sodium. |
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A/F |
: | -Anger
- Injury to head (fall) - Suppressed gonorrhoea - Abuse of quinine - Ill effects of O.C.pills - Damp, rainy weather - Ill effects of diuretics, anti-diabetic, anti-hypertensives, cortisones. |
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MODALITIES |
: | <
Damp weather [Arn, Ars-i, Dulc] < Night air < Cellars < Lying on left side < Injuries to head < Lifting < Touch < Pressure < Every spring [Lach, Rhus-t, Psor] < Light, mellow light < Music [Acon, Dig, Graph, Kreos] < Late evening < Vegetables, fruits < Cold food and drinks < Lying long in one position < Wind < Warm, wet weather [Lach, Carb-v, Sil] > Open air > Warm, dry air > Change of position > Breakfast > Lying on back > After dinner > Motion > After stool |
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MIND |
: | -Mental
changes from injuries to the head. -Suicidal tendency but restrains himself because of his duties to his family. -Wants to commit suicide by shooting or hanging. -Closed, serious or overly responsible patients. -Sadness < music or mellow light, sitting near a stained glass window. -Cheerful after stools. -Mental exertion exaggerates. -Fear from noise at night. -Averse to being spoken to. -Weeping > open air. -Objective; realistic, always adheres to matter of fact. -Dreams of fighting [Allium-c, Ferr, Nat-m, Ran, Staph]. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Hydrogenoid
constitution, feels every change from
dry to wet. -PERIODICITY of complaints - 4 to 5 a.m. -Piercing pains; at short ribs left, in left hip < rising < sitting down. -Worse - Warm wet weather -Discharges-thick, mucoid, frothy, initially white later on green or greenish yellow. -Dirty brown or greenish yellow thick pasty tongue especially at base, tip feels burnt. -PHOTOPHOBIA [Graph] on waking in morning, often during headache. -Toothache < warmth > cold water, cool air [Bism and Bry, Coff, Puls]. -Thirst for something cold, desire for ICE or COLD WATER. -Desire for salty fish, beer, COLD DRINKS, ICE. Desire for or aversion to yogurt. -Aversion to meat and bread which she was fond of. -Starchy food, milk and potatoes aggravate. -G.I.T.-Flatulence, incarcerated, painful wind colic, in ascending colon, wakes her at 2 a.m. < before breakfast > eating -Rumbling, gurgling in bowels more in right ileo-caecal region, then sudden, noisy, spluttering stools, after rising in the morning (9 a.m.) or drives out of bed. -Loose stools < after spell of wet weather. -Great size of faecal mass. -Diarrhoea from vegetables, farinaceous, fat food. Comes on regularly every morning and returns quite regularly each day. Diarrhoea with flatus. -Pain in the liver region. Desire to lie on right side with legs curled up. -Colic > rubbing abdomen > lying on sides. -Female genitalia-Leucorrhoea yellowish green following gonorrhoea. -Respiratory system-Asthma in children, asthma after grief < early morning (4-5 a.m.) < damp < exertion. -Dry cough; < morning after rising < night, on lying down > sitting up and holding chest with both hands [Bry] -Cough thick, ropy, greenish expectoration, chest feels all gone. -Sycotic pneumonia, pain through lower left chest. -Extremities-Arthritis of left hip < stooping < motion < rising from a seat [Willard Pierce] -Skin-Warts on hands, head, trunk, about anus, plantar warts. |
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KEYNOTES |
: | -<
Dampness of weather, damp houses,
cellars, wet weather. - Lively music makes her sad. -Mental traumatism: mental effects from injuries to head. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -<
Damp weather. -Greenish yellow discharge and thick discharges. -Dirty, greenish - gray or brown coating on tongue. |
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Corresponding
to the hydrogenoid constitution-
< damp weather, sea air, damp cellars, fruits that thrive near
water, Schussler's remedy for elimination of water from the body. -Sycotic dyscrasia - asthma, acute or chronic diarrhoea, spinal meningitis etc. -Effects of chronic gonorrhoea. |
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CLINICAL |
: | -Asthma,
Colitis, Colorectal polyps or
malignancies, Depression, Diabetes, Head injury, Hepatitis. -BIOCHEMIC THUJA. -Acute appendicitis with extreme pain in caecal region; apparently it is a retro caecal appendix. -Dr. D. M. Borland. -Leukemia- Dr. Bellokossy -Intense occipital pains due to emotional states - Dr. J. W. Waffensmith. -Acute hip joint disease, particularly right hip -Dr. D. M. Borland. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Nat-m,
Aur, Med, Chin, Chel, Dulc, Kali-c,
Kali-bi, Sulph. -Complementary-Ars, Thuja, Med. |