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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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| A/F |
: | -Abuse
of mercury 3 -Syphilis -Scrofula -Continued loss of sleep 2 -Long lasting anxiety -Overexertion of mind and body from nursing sick -Loss of dearest friend -Bad effects of repeated doses of digitalis |
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| MODALITIES |
: | <
Change
of temperature or weather < Evening < Night < Contact < After midnight < Cold climate < Hot weather < On walking < Mercury < Noise < Touch < Jarring < Milk < Fat food < Motion |
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| MIND |
: | -Hateful,
vindictive, self-willed, headstrong.
Irritable. Violent anger. -Fear of death, morbid fear of cholera (Ars). -Hard to please, unmoved by apologies. -Fear of dependency. -Agony, from loss of friend. -Sensitive to noise 3, pain, touch, jar. -Hopeless despair. Constantly thinks about past troubles. -Irritable 3. |
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| GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Excessive
weakness of mind and body, trembling of
limbs, physical 3 irritability. -Suited to thin persons of rigid fibre, dark complexion, black hair and eyes, suffering from chronic diseases, easily disposed to diarrhoea than constipation. -Offensiveness 3 and corrosiveness 3 of all discharges especially urine, faeces and perspiration. -All discharges are thin, acrid, often, brown or dirty yellowish-green coloured. -Haemorrhages -from bowels in typhoid or typhus -after miscarriage or post partum -after overexertion of body -from slightest touch -bright, profuse or dark. -Pains -pricking as from splinters 3 -sticking -appear and disappear quickly (Bell) -on change of temperature or weather, during sleep. -Sensation of band in any part of the body. -Head-Headache from pressure of hat, with sensation of band, full feeling < street noises. -Ears-Very sensitive to noise, as of rattle of wagons over pavements (Coff, Nux-v). -Difficulty in hearing > riding in a carriage 3. -G.I.T.-Throat pain into ears as from splinters < swallowing. -Ulcers in soft palate. -Bleeding gums, bloody saliva, putrid breath. -Tongue-clean, red, wet, with centre furrow. -Constipated with fissures in rectum. -Great straining but little passes. -Violent cutting pains after stools, lasting for hours 3 (Ratanh). -After stools, irritable and exhausted. -Haemorrhoids bleed easily and come out with each stool. -Diarrhoea and dysentery- often, putrid, dark green or watery and blood streaked, with pieces of membrane like scrapings of intestine (Arg-n, Canth, Colch). -Discharge of a fetid, watery substance from the anus that keeps it constantly moist. -Constant urging and tenesmus, very exhausting. -Loves fat, salt, indigestible things like chalk, earth etc. -Milk disagrees. Colic > tightening clothes. -Respiratory system-Nasal diphtheria. -Nose bleed with chest affection. -Caries of mastoid. -Short breath on going upstairs (Ars, Calc). -Cough in sleep with waking. -Urinary system-Urine-dark, scanty, offensive 3, smells like horse's urine. -Urine cold 3 on passing. -Urine bloody, albuminous, contains oxalic acid, uric acid and phosphates. -Sensation as if hot wire in urethra. -Female geitalia-Menses-irrgular, early, profuse, like muddy water; with palpitations, anxiety, trembling, tiredness, labor like pain in abdomen and back. -Leucorrhoea-brown, flesh coloured, watery or stringy, stains yellow, or leaves spots with black border. -Skin-Warts-sycotic and syphilitic, on back of hands, large, jagged, bleed on washing. -Ulcers-bleed easily, sensitive, splinter like pains, zig-zag edges, irregular margins, base looks like raw flesh. |
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| KEYNOTES |
: | -Affections
of muco-cuntaneous junctions. -Splinter like pains in affected parts. -> riding in a carriage 3. -Corrosiveness 3, offensiveness 3 of all the discharges. -Ulcers-bleed easily from the slightest touch. -Head strong, vindictive. |
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| NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Patients
with chronic disease who take cold easily
and are disposed to diarrhoea. -It has special seat of action, the outlets of body where mucous membrane and skin meet with splinter like pains. -Desire for fat, salt. -Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar. |
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| NUCLEUS OF REMEDY |
: | -Obstinate,
suspicious, restless. -Profuse sweat of hands feet. |
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| CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -Affection
of mucco-cutaneous junctions,
ulceration, fissure. -Splinter like pains. -Acrid, offensive discharge. -Ulceration with bleeding from slightest touch. -Pains like splinter in anus for hours after stool. |
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| CLINICAL |
: | -As
Nit-ac patient begins to improve, skin symptoms
may appear for a time, a favorable indication -20 drops in water in haemorrhages from uterus after miscarriage. -Nit-ac for Metrorrhogia after curetting. -Superficial erosion of cervix- Dr.Laura B.Hord. -Nit-ac is almost specific for diarrhoea after antibioties (especially the mycins)-Dr. E.W. Hubbarol. -For inflamed or ulecrated corns, Nit-ac is good. Also locally for painful corns. |
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| REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Calc,
Hep-s, Kali-c, Merc, Thuj.
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