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ABIES NIGRA   Black Spruce A powerful and long-acting remedy, in various forms of disease, whenever the characteristic stomach symptoms are present. Most of the symptoms are associated with the gastric disturbances.  In dyspeptic troubles of the aged , with functional heart symptoms; also after tea or tobacco.  Constipation . Pain in external meatus. Head Hot, with flushed cheeks. Low-spirited. Dull during the day, wakeful at night. Unable to think. Stomach Pain in stomach always comes on after eating . Sensation of a lump that hurts,  as if a hard-boiled egg had lodged in cardiac end of stomach ; continual distressing constriction just above the pit of the stomach, as if everything were knotted up. Total loss of appetite in morning, but great craving for food at noon and night. Offensive breath. Eructations. Chest Painful sensation, as if something were lodged in the chest and had to be coughed up; lungs feel compressed. Cannot...

ABROTANUM   Southernwood A very useful remedy in  marasmus , especially of lower extremities  only , yet with good appetite. Metastasis. Rheumatism following checked diarrhœa. Ill effects of suppressed conditions especially in gouty subjects.  Tuberculous peritonitis. Exudative pleurisy  and other exudative processes. After operation upon the chest for hydrothorax or empyæmia, a pressing sensation remains. Aggravation of hæmorrhoids when rheumatism improves. Nosebleed and hydrocele in boys. Great weakness after influenza ( Kali phos ). Mind Cross, irritable, anxious, depressed. Face Wrinkled, cold, dry, pale. Blue rings around dull-looking eyes. Comedones, with emaciation. Nosebleed.  Angioma of the face . Stomach Slimy taste. Appetite good, but emaciation progresses. Food passes undigested. Pain in stomach; worse at night; cutting, gnawing pain.  Stomach feels as if swimming in water ; feels cold. Gnawing hunge...

ABRUS PRECATORIUS - JEQUIRITY   Crab's Eye Vine (JEQUIRITY - ARBRUS PRECATORIUS) Epithelioma, lupus, ulcers, granular lids. Eyes Purulent conjunctivitis; inflammation spreads to face and neck. Granular ophthalmia. Keratitis. Relationship Compare:  Jequiritol  (in cases of trachoma and pannus to engraft a new purulent inflammation. The proteid poisons contained in Jequirity seeds are almost identical in their physiological and toxic properties with the similar principles found in snake venom). Dose Mother tincture diluted locally and 3x internally.

ACALYPHA INDICA   Indian Nettle A drug having a marked action on the alimentary canal and respiratory organs. It is indicated in incipient phthisis, with hard, racking cough, bloody expectoration, arterial hæmorrhage, but no febrile disturbance. Very weak in the morning, gains strength during day. Progressive emaciation. All pathological hæmorrhages having notably a  morning aggravation . Chest Cough dry, hard, followed by hæmoptysis ; worse in morning and at night. Constant and severe pain in chest. Blood bright red and not profuse in morning; dark and clotted in afternoon. Pulse soft and compressible. Burning in pharynx, œsophagus, and stomach. Abdomen Burning in intestines.  Spluttering diarrhœa with forcible expulsion of noisy flatus , bearing down pains and tenesmus. Rumbling distention, and griping pain in abdomen. Rectal hæmorrhage; worse in morning. Skin Jaundice. Itching and circumscribed furuncle-like swellings. Modali...

ACETANILIDUM   Antifebrinum Depresses heart, respiration and blood pressure, lowers temperature. Cyanosis and collapse. Increased susceptibility to cold. Destroys red blood corpuscles; pallor. Head Enlarged sensation. Fainting. Moral depravity. Eyes Pallor of optic discs, contracted visual field and shrinking retinal vessel; mydriasis. Heart Weak, irregular, with blue mucous membranes, albuminuria, œdema of feet and ankles. Relationship Compare:  Antipyrin . Dose Used as a sedative and antipyretic for various forms of headache and neuralgia in doses of one to three grains. For the homeopathic indications use the third potency.

ACONITUM NAPELLUS   Monkshood A state of fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body.  Physical and mental restlessness , fright, is the most characteristic manifestation of  Aconite. Acute, sudden, and violent invasion, with fever , call for it. Does not want to be touched. Sudden and great sinking of strength.  Complaints and tension  caused by exposure to  dry, cold weather , draught of cold air, checked perspiration, also complaints from  very hot weather , especially gastro-intestinal disturbances, etc. First remedy in inflammations, inflammatory fevers. Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly. Burning in internal parts;  tingling, coldness and numbness . Influenza.  Tension  of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms. When prescribing Aconite remember Aconite causes only functional disturbance, no evidence that it can produce tissue change--its action is brief and  shows...

ACTAEA SPICATA   Baneberry (ACTEA SPICATA) Is a rheumatic remedy, especially of the  small joints ; tearing, tingling pains characterize it.  Wrist-rheumatism . Pulsations over whole body, especially liver and renal region. Cardiovascular spasm. Pains worse from touch and motion. Head Fearful, starts easily; confused. Ebullition of blood to head excited by drinking coffee. Vertigo, tearing headache, better in open air, throbbing in brain, pain from crown to between eyebrows; heat in forehead, pain in left frontal eminence as if bone were crushed. Itching of scalp alternating with heat; nose red at tip, fluent coryza. Face Violent pain in upper jaw, running from teeth through malar bones to temples. Perspiration on face and head. Stomach Tearing, darting pains in epigastric region, with vomiting. Cramp-like pains in stomach and epigastrium, with difficult breathing; sense of suffocation. Sudden lassitude after eating. Abdomen ...

ADONIS VERNALIS   Pheasant's Eye A heart medicine, after rheumatism or influenza, or Bright's disease, where the muscles of the heart are in stage of fatty degeneration, regulating the pulse and increasing the power of contractions of heart, with increased urinary secretions. Most valuable in cardiac dropsy. Low vitality, with weak heart and slow, weak pulse. Hydrothorax, ascites. Anasarca. Head Feels light; aches across front,  from occiput around temples to eyes . Vertigo on rising, turning head quickly or lying down. Tinnitus. Scalp feels tight. Eyes dilated. Mouth Slimy. Tongue dirty yellow, sore, feels scalded. Heart Mitral and aortic regurgitation. Chronic aortitis, Fatty heart pericarditis. Rheumatic Endocarditis ( Kalmia ).  Preæcordial pain, palpitation, and dyspnœa . Marked venous engorgement. Cardiac asthma ( Quebracho ). Fatty heart. Myocarditis, irregular cardiac action, constriction and vertigo. Pulse rapid, irregular. ...

AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM   Horse Chestnut The action of this drug is most marked on the lower bowel, producing engorged hæmorrhoidal veins, with characteristic backache, with absence of actual constipation. Much pain but little bleeding. Venous stasis general, varicose veins of purple color; everything is slowed down, digestion, heart, bowels, etc. Torpor and congestion of the liver and portal system, with constipation. The back aches and gives out and unfits the patient for business. Flying pains all over.  Fullness in various parts , dry, swollen mucous membranes. Throat with hæmorrhoidal conditions. Head Depressed and  irritable . Head dull, confused, aching as from a cold. Pressure in forehead, with nausea, followed by stitches in right hypochondrium. Pain from occiput to frontal region, with bruised sensation of the scalp; worse in the morning. Neuralgic stitches from right to left through forehead, followed by flying pains in epigastrium. Vertig...

ACTAEA SPICATA   Baneberry (ACTEA SPICATA) Is a rheumatic remedy, especially of the  small joints ; tearing, tingling pains characterize it.  Wrist-rheumatism . Pulsations over whole body, especially liver and renal region. Cardiovascular spasm. Pains worse from touch and motion. Head Fearful, starts easily; confused. Ebullition of blood to head excited by drinking coffee. Vertigo, tearing headache, better in open air, throbbing in brain, pain from crown to between eyebrows; heat in forehead, pain in left frontal eminence as if bone were crushed. Itching of scalp alternating with heat; nose red at tip, fluent coryza. Face Violent pain in upper jaw, running from teeth through malar bones to temples. Perspiration on face and head. Stomach Tearing, darting pains in epigastric region, with vomiting. Cramp-like pains in stomach and epigastrium, with difficult breathing; sense of suffocation. Sudden lassitude after eating. Abdomen ...