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Note: Wherever it is found,
"<" denotes aggravation (worse by) and ">" denotes
amelioration (better by) |
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| COMMON NAME |
: | Blood
Root |
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| A/F |
: | -Change
of weather. -Exposure to sun. -Climacteric. |
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| MODALITIES |
: | < Sun
< Odours < Jar < Cold air or drafts < Damp weather (rheumatic pains) < Motion < Touch < Sweats > Sleep (headache) > Passing flatus (cough) > Vomiting > Quiet; dark room > Acids |
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| MIND |
: | -There
is great torpidity and aversion to mental
work in wet weather. -Feeling of helplessness because of a sensation of being paralysed. -Confusion of mind. -Delusion that she is in a car or a train and beg others to hold her. Wants to be held. -Day dreaming, she lies with her eyes wide open, one thought chasing another. -Painfully sensitive to noise with irritability. |
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| GUIDING INDICATIONS |
: | -Highly
chilly patient, very easily taking cold. -Chiefly a right sided remedy with affections of head, chest, lungs, arms and shoulders. -Great burnings, heat and ebullitions, extending from head to stomach. -Circumscribed redness of cheeks especially in afternoon with respiratory diseases. -Dryness of mucous membranes with burning in throat, under sternum, palms and soles, with stitches in chest. -All complaints relieved by belching or passing flatus. -Symptoms ascending, ending in bilious vomiting. -Acrid, foul smelling discharges. Sputa and breath smell badly to the patient himself in loose cough. -Sudden stopping of catarrh of respiratory tract followed by diarrhoea. -Head-Sun headaches; arising from occiput and setting over right eye > urination. -Flushing of blood to head with whizzing in the ears and transitory feeling of heat, then a sensation of vomiting. -G.I.T.-Aversion to butter. -Craving for piquant things. -Respiratory system-Rose cold. -Sensitive to the odour of flowers. -Pneumonia in the resolution stage; with affection of middle lobe of right lung, with constant hacking cough, offensive sputa and burning and soreness in chest > passing flatus. -Cough of gastric orgin. -Asthma with stomach disorders. -Extremities-Pains in shin bones, where bones are least covered. -Right sided rheumatism, of shoulder, after exposure to cold. Cannot lift his arm. |
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| KEYNOTES |
: | -Gastric
origin of headaches, symptoms ascend from
stomach to head, ending in bilious vomiting. -Rush of blood to head and chest with circumscribed redness of cheeks in afternoon with respiratory complaints. -Cough > passing flatus. -Coryza followed by diarrhoea. -Pain in places leant covered by flesh. -Feet hot, at night puts them out of bed. -Affections of various membranes, disturbance in vasomotor. |
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| NUCLEUS OF REMEDY: |
: | -
Circulation causing congestion, circumscribed redness of cheek,
headache etc. Burning and ebullitions and sensation of heat. |
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| CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS |
: | -Circumscribed
redness of cheeks with respiratory
complaints especally in afternoon. -Cough > passing flatus. -Rheumatism > sour or acids. -Right sided congestive sun headache. -Facial neuralgia > kneeling; pressing head against floor. |
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| CLINICAL |
: | -Asthma,
Cimacteric disoders, Cough, Cyanosis,
Diarrhoea, Flushes, Hay-fever, Migraine, Nasal polypi, Rectal cancer,
Rheumatism, Rhinitis, Uterine polypi, Worms. -In oedema of glottis, secondary to acute pharyngitis- Dr. Irving. |
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| REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS |
: | -Compare-Bell,
Acon, Op, Phos. -Amyl-nit, Verat-vir-Circulatory disturbances. -Phytolacca, Ferrum-Rheumatism. |
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