# Gentle Pills — Classical Materia Medica Monographs (full text) > For qualified homeopathic doctors only. Patients should not self-medicate; > please visit a homeopathy doctor who can evaluate symptoms properly. These monographs are original condensations of the classical homeopathic tradition, faithful to public-domain sources: Kent, Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica (1905); Boericke, Pocket Manual (9th ed., 1927); Hering, The Guiding Symptoms (1879–1891); Allen, Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica (1874–1879). Each remedy page on the site lists full references. ## 2ingiber Abbreviation: Ginger ### Abdomen Colic, diarrhoea, extremely loose bowels. Diarrhoea from drinking bad water, with much flatulence, cutting pain, relaxation of sphincter. Hot, sore, painful anus during pregnancy. Chronic intestinal catarrh. Anus red and inflamed. Haemorrhoids hot, painfijl, sore. [Aloe.] ### Eyes feels confused and empty. Pain over eyebrows. ### Guiding symptoms States of debility in the digestive tract, and sexual system and respiratory troubles, call for this remedy. ### Head Hemicrania ; sudden glimmering before ### Kidneys Frequent desire to urinate. Stinging, burning in orifice. Yellow discharge from urethra. Urine thick, turbid, of strong odor, suppressed. Complete suppression after typhoid. After urinating, continues to ooze in drops. 792 ### Nose Feels obstructed and dry. Intolerable itching ; red pimples. ### Stomach Taste of food remains long, especially of bread and toast. Feels heavy, like from a stone. Conuplaint^ from eating melons and drinking impure water. Acidity, [Calc,; Robinia.] ### Urinary Complete cessation of function of Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/2ingiber --- ## Abdom En ### Generalities .LVr ; Anibtos.; Apoc. andr. ; Ars.; Bapt. ; Bell ; Calad.; C'a-lr. c., Cic. ; Cuia; Cupi. ac.; Cupr o.\y. : Ferr. mur., Ferr. s. ; Fihx m.; Granat. Ign.; Indigo; Ipec. ; Kali m ; Kuosso; Lyc.; Merc. c. Naph.j Nat. p.: Passifl.; Puls.; Qiiass. ; Ratanh.; .Sabad. Canton.; Sil.; Spig., Stann.; Sul.; Sumb.; Tereh. ; Teucr. V’^er. a. ; Vtola od. Ascaris lumbricoidss — Abrot.: Aisc : Ant c. ; Calc. c. , Cma; Ferr. -m.; Granat.; Helmintoch ; Im.; Indigo; Keli chlor.; Lyc.; Merc, d.; Naph.; Pm. sylv.; Sabad.; Santon.; Sptg.; Stann.; Sul.; Tcrcb.; Teucr.; Urt. Oxyuiis vermicuiaris — Ars ; Bapt; Ctna: Ign.; Indigo Lyc.; Merc, d.; Merc, s.; Nat p.; Ratanh.; Santon.; Sil. Si'nap. n.; Spig.; Teucr.; Val. Taenia - Argeni. mcx. : Carbo v.; Cucur.; Cupr. ac.; Cupr oxy. ; Filix m.; Granat.; Graph.; Kali lod.; Kamaia; Kuosso; Mag. m.; Merc.; Pclletierine; Phos,; Puls. Sabad.; Sab.; Santon.; Stann.; Sul.; Val. Trichin* — A rs , Bapt.; Cupr. oxy. ### Guiding symptoms Chionantli : Chin s. Cinch., Fcrr. ac.; Frrr. ars.; Ferr. lod.; Grind. ; Hcliantli., lod. ; Mag. m. ; Malar.; Merc. i. r ; Nat. m , Peisicaria; Phos. ac , Phos ; Polym.; Querc.; Succm ; Sul ac. J Urt. Inflammation (splenitis) — Aian.; Arn.; lod.; Ceanoth.; Chm. s.; Cinch.; Ferr. p.; lod.; Plumb, iod.; Polym* ; Succm.; Ver. v. bee Enlargement. Pain — .4gar., Agr ; Am. m, Arn.; Ars.; Ars. m ; Caps.; Ceanoth., Cini ; Cinch.; Cobalt.; Dtosc., Grind.; HeUanth.; Melon., Ilex, lod; Kali tod.. Lob. cer. ; Nat. m. , Parth.; Plumb ; Polvm. noed., Ptcl , Ouerc.; Ran. b. ; Rhus t. ; Scilla; Sul.;' Urt Pain, stitching A^ar ; .\lston ; Am. m ; Beib. v ; Caibo V.; Ceanoih., Chel , Cinch., Con., Ivali bich., Nat. 111.; Ran. b. , Rhod., Sul.; Tarax., Thcr. TYPHLITIS, APPENDICITIS- - Aeon . Arn.: Ars.. Rapt; Bell.; Br\., Canth.; Card. m. ; Colch ; Collins.; Col; Crot ; Dwsc.; Echin., Ferr. p. ; Gitm. ; Hep.; Ins ten.; Kali ra ; Lack.; Lyc. ; Men c. ; Merc.; Nux v.; Op.; Plumb.; Rhamnus; Rhus t, Sil. ; Sub; Ver. a. UMBILICUS, Navel — Bleeding fiom, in newborn: Abrot.; Calc. p. Bubbling sensation — Herb. v. Burning — Aeon. ; Ars Eczema .Merc pi. rub Pain, soreness about — .Esc. ; Aloe: Anac. ; Renz. ac. ; Bov,; Bry. ; ('ale p , Carho v ; Causl.; Cham.; Chel ; Chionanlh ; Com, Cocc ; Col., Con ; Crot. t.; Dulc,; Euonym. ; Gamb.; Grcnat; ilyner ; Tpcc.; Lept ; Lyc; Nu.v m.; Niix V.; Oleand ; Ox. ac. ; Paraf. : Phos. ac ; Plat.; Plumb, m.; Kan. .sc ; Raph. ; Rheum; Senec.; Sil.; Spig,; Stann., Sul.; Taxtus; Verbasc ; Ver* a.; Zinc. m. Retraction — Calc p ; Plumb.; Pod. Ulcer, above — A rt. Urine, oozing froni' - Ilyos WORMS — Remedies in Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/abdom-en --- ## Abdomkn ### Text After midnight -Ars.; Cocc. At night* after supper — C',rat At night — Cham., Cocc.; Senna: Snl. From bending* coughing — Ari>. , liell ; Bry.; Nat. m. From bending forward -Ant. t.; Smap. n. From bending forward* lying down* pressure Aeon. , Dio^o. From drinking — Col ; Sul. From drinking cold water — Cupr. m From eating - Bar c. : Calc, p , Lol., Kali bich , Nu.i ; Psor , Zinc. From jar, pressure — Aeon.. Alot ; Bell., rininh. From motion, relief from lying on side Cocc From smokmg — Menyanlh. From sweets — Kilix m. From touch, pressure, motion Biy. From warmth, at night - C'ham AMELIORATION ~ From bending double Bov. , Cinch , C t?/.; Mag p.; Pod., Sep.; Siann., Sul ; Wr. a From eating — Bov.. IJoinar. From flatus voided per ano — Alot: LP'^ho i\; C tmh , Core ; Col.; Nat. s. ; Sul From hot applications or warmth Ai^. ; Col ; Mag. p.; Pod.; Puls.; Sil. From lying with knees drawn un Bach From pressure Col . .Mag. p , Nit at.; Pliiml)., Kims t ; Stann. From rubbing — Plumb, m From rubbing* warmth — Maj^. p. From sitting erect — Sinap. n.^ From sitting, lying down — Nux v. From stool — Aloe ; Col ; '1 anac. ; \'er. a. From straightening body or moving about — l>ioi«c. From walking about — Ctpa; Diosc.; Mag. p. ; PuK. ; Rhus t,; Ver. a. From walking bent over ■ — Aloe; Col ; Nux v.; Rhus t. From warm soup — Aeon. FLATULENT — Distention* fulness* heaviness* meteorlsn, tympanites — Abtes n.; Abrot,; Absinth.; Acet. ac.; Aeon.; Agar.; Alfal. ; Aloe; Ant. c.; Apis; Arg. n.; Ars.; Asaf.; Bar. c. ; Bell.: Bov.; Cajup.; Calc, c.; Calc. i#d.; Calc, p.; Carb. ac. ; Carbo v.; Cham.; Chel. ; Cina; Cinch.; Coic.; Coli'h.; Collins ; Col.; Cupi. m.; Diosc.; Graph.; Ign.; Illtc., Indol; iris; Kali c.; Lack.; LtmuL; Lyc., Mag. c.; Mag. p. . Merc c. ; Merc.; Mormord. ; Mosch ; Mur, ac. ; Naph.; Nat c. ; Nat. ntt.; Nat. m. ; Nat. s.; Nux m.; Nux r.; Onisciis; Op.; Opuntta; Onnthog.; Phos. ac.; Pod.; Poth.; Puls.; Radium; Raph. , Rheum; Rhod.j Rhus gl.; Rhus t. ; Sars. : Senna; Sep.; Stl., Stront. c.; Sul.; Sumb.; Tara.v., Torch.; Tbea; Thuya, Uran. n. ; Val. ; Xantb. ; Zing. Flatulence* hysterical — Alct.; Ambta; Arg, n.; Asaf.; Cajup.; Cham.; Cocc.; Ign.; Kali p.; Nux m.; Plat.; Poth.; Sumb.; Tarax.; Thea; Pal. Flatulence* incarcerated in flexures — Am. c. ; Aur. ; Bell. ; Calc. c. ; Carb. ac. ; Carbo v.; Cham.; Cinch.; Colcfa. ; Col.; Graph., Hep.; Ign.; Kali c.; Limul.; Lyc.; Mormord.; 888 Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/abdomkn --- ## Abies Canadensis — Pinus Canadensis (Hemlock Spruce) ### Back Cold-w'ater feeling between shoulders. [Ammon, mar.] Skin clammy and sticky. Nightsweat. ### Dose First to third potency. 2 ### Female Uterine displacements. Sore feeling at fundus of uterus, relieved by pressure. Prostration; wants to lie down all the time. Thinks wombs is soft and feeble. ### Fever Cold shiverings, as if blood were ice-water. [Aeon.] Chills run down ### Guiding symptoms Mucous membranes are affected by Abies Can. and gastric symptoms are most marked, and a catarrhal condition of the stomach is produced. There are peculiar cravings and chilly sensations that are very characlertistic, especially for women with uterine displacement. Right lung and liver feel small and hard. Gleet. Debility, wants to lie down all the time; skin cold and clammy, hands cold ; very faint. ### Head Feels light-headed, tipsy. ### Liver Gnarving, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium. Great appetite, craving for meat, pickles, radishes, turnips, artichokes, coarse food. Tendency to eat far beyond capacity for digestion. Burning and distention of stomach and abdomen with palpitation. Pain in right shoulder-blade, and cons-ipation, with burning in ### Stomach Canine hunger with torpid Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/abies-canadensis-pinus-canadensis --- ## Abies Nigra (Black Spruce) ### Back Rheumatic pains and aching in hones. ### Back Pain in small of ### Chest •— Painful sensation, as if something were lodged ill the chest and had to he coughed up; worse coughing: waterhrash succeeds cough. Choking sensation in ### Fever Alternate heat and cold; chronic intermittent fever, with pain in ### Guiding symptoms A powerful and lon^-actiii" remedy, in various forms of disease, ^^hene\er tlie characteristic stomach symptoms aie Tiresent. A^o^t of the symjiloms are associated with the gastric disliirl)ances. In dyspeptic irouhjes of the luied, with functional heart symptoms; also after tea or tobacco. Coushpalion ### Heart hearts action heat^v and .dou*. tachycardia, bradycardia. ### Mind 1 .ow-spirited. Dull during the day, wakeful at night. Unahle to think. ### Modalities JJ^orsr after eating. ### Sleep Wakeful and re.stless at night, with hunger. Bad dreams. ### Stomach y\uii in stomach ahvays conics on after eating. Sensation of a lump that hurts, as if a hardboiled egg had lodged in the cardiac end of ### Stomach continual distressing constriction just above Uic pit of the stomach, as if everything were knotted up. Total ltarb.. ac.; Gic.; 910 ### Guiding symptoms — Aeon.; Ant. t.; Apts, Apoc.; Ars.; Aur. mur.; Bell.; Beib. 7f.j Can. s , Lanth., CheL; i lumapli , Chin, s.; Colch.; Conv , Cupr. Dig., Diilc. ; Eucal. ; Kup. perf.; Kerr, lod. , Fuscliiiia. (.lion., Hclleb., Delon.; HeP., llyUioCiit. ; Ind. ; Jump.; Kali l.cIi.; KaH chlor., Kali citr. ; Kal.; Kochs lymph, Dach ; Mere, c., Mcthxl. bl.; Nit. ac.; Phos. ac. ; /'hos., Picht; Pier, ac.; Plumb, ac. ; Polygon ; Khus t. ; Sab , Samb., Sandal^ Scilla; Sec.; Senec ; Scrum ang.; Tereb ; Ver. a., I ct. v , Zing. CAUSE — FrMn cold, or wet exposure -At on., Ant. t. ; Apis; Canth.; Dulc.; Khus t; Tereb. Fiom influenza Kucal. From malaria — Ars., Ivup. perf. ; Teicb. From pregnancy —Apts, Apoc , Cvpr. ars , Kal ; Merc l.. Sab. See Female Sexual System. From scarlet fever, diphtheria — Aeon ; Apts; Ars.; Bell.; Canth., Conv.; Cop ; Dig.; Feir. lod. ; Helleb., Hep.; Kal.; Dach. ; Merc, c., Methyl, bl.; Nat s. ; Nit. sp. d.; Rhus t.; Sec.; Tereb. From suppurations — .Apoc.; Chin b. ; Hep., Phos.' Plumb, c.; Sil.; Tereu. CONCOMITANTS — Dropsy: — Aeon.; Aden, v.; Ant. t. ; Apts; Apoc. Ars., Aur. inur. , Canth.; Colch.; Cop ; D/p. , Helleb.; Merc, c ; Piloc.; Sanib., Scilla, Senec ; Tereb. See Dropsy ( Cieneralities). Heart failure — Adon v., Ars.; Caffeine: Dig.; Glon.; Span.; Stioph.; \'ei. v Pneumonia — Chcl.; Phos. Uraemic symptoms - ; Am. c. , Ars.; Bell.; Can, ind.; Curb, at., Cic., inpr. ais., Hcllcu.; llyos.; Morph., Op.; I’lloc. ; Strara,; Urea. ACUTE, SUPPURATIVE NEPHRITIS— Aeon. ; Am,; Bell.; Camph. ; Calc, s.; Can, s., Canth.; Chin, s., Eucal. ; Hekla; Hep., Kali n.; Merc, c.; Naph ; Sih; Ver. v. CHRONIC, INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS —Apis; Ars.; Aur. mur., Aur. m. n.; Cact. ; Chin, s.; Colch.; Conv.; Dig.; Ferr. m. ; Kerr, mur., Glon., lod.; Kali c.; Kah tod.; Koch’s lymph; Lith. ac.; Lith. benz,; Lith. c.; Merc, c.; Merc, d.; Is/at. lod., Kit. ac., Nux v.; Op.; Phos. ac.; Phos.; Plumb, c.; Plumb, lod.; Plumb, m.; Sang.; Zinc. pier. See Arteriosclerosis (Circulatory System). CHRONIC, PARENCHYMATOUS NEPHRITIS— Am. b e q z.; Apts; Ars.; Aur. mur., Aur. m. n. ; Benz, ac.; Berb. v.; Brachygl.; Calc, ars.; Calc, p; Can. ind.; Canth.; Chin, ars.; Conv.; Dig.; Eup. purp.; Euonym.; Ferr. ars.; Ferr. cit. ; Ferr. mur., Ferr. p.; Form, ac-; Glon.; Melon.; llydroc. ac.; Junip. ; Kali ars.; Kali chlor,; Kali olt.; Kali iod.. Kali m.; Kal.; Koch’s lymph.; Lonic,; Lyc.; Merc, c.; Xat. chlor.; Nu. ac.; Nux v., Oniscus; Phos, ac.; Phos..; Pier, ac.; Piloc.; Plumb.; Senec.; Sotanxa; Solid.; Spart.; Tereb.; Urea; Vesic. SYMPTOMS — URAEMIA: In Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/acute-and-subacute-parenchymatous-nephritis --- ## Adonis Vernalis (Peasant’s Eye) ### Compare Digit,; Crafcpg.; ConvaL; Strophantus. ### Dose Five to ten drops of the tincture. ### Extremities Aching in nape. Spine stiff and aching. ### Eyes Vertigo on rising, turning head quickly or lying down. Tinnitus. Scalp feels tight. ### Guiding symptoms A heart medicine, after rheumatism or influenza, 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. Valvular affections. Most valuable in cardiac dropsy. Low vitalitj^ with weak heart and slow, ### Head Feels light; aches across front, from occiput around temples to ### Heart !Mitral and aortic regurgitation. Prcccordial pain, palpitation, cend dyspna'a. Marked venous engorgement. Cardiac asthma. [Queh7‘acho.\ Fatty ### Heart Myocarditis, irregular cardiac action, constriction and vertigo. Pulse rapid, irregular. ### Mouth Shmy. Tciigue dirty yellow, sore, feels tcalded. ADONIS \LKNAJ.1S ADRENAT.IN 1 i) ### Pulse Hydrothorax, ascites. ### Relationships Adonidin is a cardiac tonic and diuretic. Quarter to half grain daily, or two to five grains of first decimal trit. Increases arterial pressure and prolongs the diastole, favoring emptying engorged veins. ### Respiratory Frequent desire to take a long breath. Feeling of weight on ### Sleep Restless, with horrible dreams. ### Stomach Heavy weight. Gnawing hunger. Faint feeling in epigastrium. Better out of doors. Urine. — Oily pellicle on urine. Scanty, albuminous. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/adonis-vernalis --- ## Adrenalin (An Internal Secretion of Suprarenal Glands) ### Dose The symptom guiding to this is, Sensation rf thoracic constriction zvith anguish. This, with vertigo, nausea and vomiting, have been produced by the drug. Abdominal pain. Shock or heart failure during anesthesia, as it causes very prompt rise of blood pressure by its action on nerve endings in the vessel wall. ### Dose Hypodermically, 1*5 m. [1 : 1,000 solution] diluted in water. Internally, 5-30 m. of 1 : 1,000 solution. Caution. — On account of its affinity for oxygen, the drug easily decomposes in watery and dilute acid solutions. The solution must be protected from air and light. It must not be too frequently repeated, owing to cardiac and arterial lesions. For homoeopathic use 2x to 6x attenuation. ### Guiding symptoms branes promptly induces transient ischaemia, seen in a blanching, persisting several hours from conjunctival instillation. Its action is very prompt, efficient, avanescent, owing to rapid oxidation and therefore practically harmless, unless too frequently repeated, when atheroma and heart lesions — myocardial — in animals have been reported. The main action of Adrenalin is stimulation of the sympathetic endings, notably the splanchnic area, causing cousiriction of the peripheral arterioles, with resulting rise in blood pressure. This is especially observed in stomach, intestines ; less in uterus, ### Pulse medullary vagus stimulation, and strengthening of heart heat, increased myocardial contractility, resembling Digitalis ; increased glandular activity, glycosuria ; depression of respiratory center; contraction of muscular tissue of eye^ uterus, vagina; relaxation of muscular tissue of stomach, intestines, bladder. Uses. — Its chief therapeutic use depends on its vaso^ constriction action; therefore a most powerful and prompt astringent and heumostatic : and invaluable in checking capillary haemorrhages from all parts, where local or direct application is feasible, nose, ear, mouth, throat, laiynx, stomach, rectum, uterus, bladder. Complete bloodlessness, ischaemia, may be induced with impunity. Locally, solutions [1: 10,000-1 : 1,000] sprayed or applied on cotton have been very efficient in bloodless operations about the eye, nose, throat, and larynv Congestions of the ethmoid and sphenoid sinuses, also hay fever, have been markedly alleviated by warm spray of Adrenalin chloride, 1 : 5,000. Here compare Hepar lx, which will start up secretions and so facilitate drainage. WerlhofT’s disease hypodermically, 1:1,000. Ex- ADRENALIN — AiSCULUS HIPPOCASTA NUM 17 ternally, it has been used in neuritis, neuralgia, reflex pains, gout, rheumatism, as an ointment, 1-2 m. of 10 per cent, solution, along the nerve trunk at point of skin nearest its origin. Therapeutically, Adrenalin has been suggested in acute congestion of lungs. Grave’s and Addison’s diseases, arterio-sclerosis, chronic aortitis, angina pectoris, hajnv)philia, chlorosis, etc. Dr. P. Jousset reports success in treating, homoeopathically, cases of angina and of aortitis, sub-acute and chronic, when Adrenalin has been prescribed per os and in infiiiitesima! ### Skin nil In brain and lungs. Furthermore, is noticed, sloiving of ### Text Adrenalin or Epinephrin, the active principle of the suprarenal gland, is employed as a chemical messenger in the regulation of the activities of the bod> ; in fact, its presence is essential to the activity of the sympathetic nerve. Adrenalin action on any part is the same as stimulation of the sympathetic nerve endings thereto. Local application fl : 1,000 solution] to mucous mem- 16 Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/adrenalin --- ## Aesculus Hippocastanum (Horse Chestnut) ### Abdomen Dull aching in liver and epigastrium. Pain at umbilicus. Throbbing in hypogastrium and pelvis. ### Eyes Heavy and hot, with lachryiiiation, with enlarged blood vessels. Eyeballs sore. ### Guiding symptoms The action of this drug is most marked on the lower bowel, producing engorged haemorrhoidal veins, with characteristic backache. Venous stasis general, varicose veins of purple color ; everything is slowed down, digestion, heart, bowels, etc. Torpor and congestion of the 18 .^•:SCCLUS HIPPOCASTANUM 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. ### Head Depressed and irritable. Head dull, confused. Pressure in forebead, with nausea, followed by stitches in right h\pochondriLmi. Pain from occiput to frontal region, with bruised sensation of the scalp; worse in the morning. Neuralgic stitches from right to left through forehead, follow'cd by fl\ing pains in epigastrium. ### Mouth Scalded feeling, Afetallic taste. Salivation. Tongue thickly coated, feels as if scalded. ### Nose Dry ; inspired air feels cold, nasal passages sensitive to it. Coryza, sneezing. Pressure at root of ### Nose Alemlirane over turbinate bones distended and boggv, dependent upon hepatic disorders. ### Stomach VV'cight of a stone, wdth gnawing, aching pain; most manifest about three hours after meals. Tenderness and fullness in region of ### Throat Hot, dry, raw, stitching pain into ears when swallowing. Follicular pharjmgitis connected with hepatic congestion. Veins in pharynx distended and tortuous. Throat sensitive to inspired air; feels excoriated and constricted, burns like fire on swallowing, in afternoon. Early stages of atrophic pharyngitis in dried-up, bilious subjects. Hawking of ropy mucus of sw^ectish taste. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/aesculus-hippocastanum --- ## Aethiops Mercurialis (Sulph. and Quicksilver, or Black Sulphur Mercury) ### Dose The lower triturations, especially the second decimal. ### Guiding symptoms This preparation is of use in scrofulous affections, ophthalmia, Otorrhoea, painful, irritating, scabby eruptions, hereditary syphilis. ### Relationships JEthiops Antimonalis — ^Ethiops plus Antimony — (often more effective than the above in scrofulous eruptions, glandular swellings, otorrhoea and scrofulous eye affections, corneal ulcers. Third trituration.) Calc.; SiL; Psorin. ### Skin Eruptions. Favus-Iike, scrofulous, herpetic and eczematous. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/aethiops-mercurialis --- ## Agaricus Muscarius (Bug Agaric — Amanita) ### Abdomen Stitches under short ribs, left side. Diarrhoea with much fetid flatus. Fetid stools. ### Abdomen Stitching pains in liver, spleen and ### Abdomen ., Profuse inodorous flatus. Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure. Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region. ### Back Spasmodic dysmeporrhoea. Severe bearing-doinni pains, especially after menopause. Sexual excitement. Nipples itch, burn. Complaints following parturition and coitus. Leucorrhoea, v;ith much itching. Respiratory Organs. — Violent attacks of coughing that can be suppressed by effort of will. Spasmodic cough at night after falling asleep, with expectoration of little balls of mucus. Labored, oppressed breathing. Cough ends in a sneeze. ### Back Twitching of cervical muscles. ### Back Pain, with sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in dorsal region. Lumbago; worse in open air. Crick in ### Compare Athamantha (confused head, vertigo better lying down, hitter taste and saliva. Hands and feet icy cold) ; Antimon.; Calc.; Ars.; Cicuta. Complementary : Calc. ### Compare Cimicif.; Cann. ind.; Hyos.; Tarantula: Muscarine, the alkaloid of Agaricus (has much power over secretions, increasing lachrymal, salivary, hepatic, etc., but diminishing renal; probably neurotic in origin, stimulating the terminal fibres of the secretory nerves of all these structures, hence salivation, lachry motion and excessive perspiration. Atropin exactly opposes Muscarine. Resembles Pilocarpin in action.) Afnanita vernus — spring mushroom — a variety of Agar Phalloides; (vomiting and purging. Continuous urging to stool, but wo gastric, abdominal or rectal pain. Intense thirst for cold water, dry ### Dose Third to thirtieth potency. ### Dose Third to thirtieth and two hundredth potency. In skin affections give the lower attenuations. ### Ears Burn and itch, as if frozen. Twitching and noises. ### Extremities Stiff all over. Pain over hips. Weakness in loins. Uncertain gait. Trembling. Itching of toes and feet as if frozen. Cramp in soles of feet. Pain in shin-bone. Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia. Paralysis of lower limbs, with spasmodic condition of arms. Numbness of legs on crossing them. Paralytic pain in left arm followed by palpitation. 26 ### Eyes Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim. Vibrating specters. Double vision [Gl’/j.], dim and flickering. Asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation. Tzvitching of lids and eye-' balls. [Codein.] Margins of lids red; itch and burn and agglutinate. Inner angles very red. ### Face Facial muscles feel stiff; twitch; face itches and burns. Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters. Neuralgia, as if cold needles ran through nerves or sharp ice touched them. ### Female Menses, increased, earlier. Itching and tearing, pressive pains of genitals and ### Fever Very sensitive to cool air. Violent attacks of heat in evening. Copious ### Fever Great heat; no thirst. Profuse, cold ### Guiding symptoms cough. Unnatural hunger. Flatulent distention of stomach and ### Guiding symptoms Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications. Incipient phthisis; is related to the tuber- :ular diathesis, anaemia, chorea, various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skm troubles are pictured in the symptomatology of this remedy. It corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion. Thus, in delirium 3f fevers, alcoholism, etc. General paralysis. Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice. Sensitive to pressure and cold air. Viojent hearing-down pains. Symp- .oms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg. Pains ire accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and ingling. ### Head Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking. Head in constant motion. Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput. Lateral headache, as if from a nail. [Coff.; Ignat.] Dull headache from prolonged deskwork. Icy coldness, like icy needles, or splinters. Desire to cover head warmly. [Silica.] Headache with nose-bleed or thick mucus discharge. ### Heart Irregular, tumultuous palpitation, after tobacco. Pulse intermittent and irregular. Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax were narrowed. Palpitation with redness of ### Mind Sings, talks, but does not answer. Loqua- :ity. Aversion to work. Indifference. Fearlessness. Delirium characterized by singing, shouting, and mutering ; rhymes and prophesies. , Begins with paroxysm )f yawning. 24 ### Modalities Worse, 3 to 4 a. m., and evenings ; warmth, summer. Better in open air and company. ### Modalities Worse, open cold air, after eating, after coitus. In cold weather, before a thunder-storm. Worse, pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter. Better, moving about slowly. ### Mouth Herpes on lips. Twitching. Taste sweet. Aphthfc on roof of ### Mouth Splinter-like pains in ### Nose Nervous nasal disturbances. Itching internally and externally. Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sen.sitiveness ; watery iion-inflammatory discharge. Inner angles very red. Fetid, dark, bloody discharge. Nosebleed in old people. ### Skin Lethargic but mentally clear. Sharp changes from rapid to slow and from slow to rapid breathing, extreme collapse, suppressed urine, but no cold extremities or cramps.) Agaric, emet. (severe vertigo; all symptoms better, cold water; longing foi ice-7vater). Agar. PhaU hides (cholera, incessant cramps in ### Skin Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustular and oedcmatous lesions. ### Skin Burning, itching, redness, and swelling, as from frost-bites. Pimples, hard, like flea-bites. Miliary eruption, with intolerable itching and burning. Chilblains. Angioneurotic oedema ; rosacea. Swollen veins with cold ### Sleep Paroxysms of yauming. Restless from violent itching and burning. On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and aiuakcns often. Vivid dreams. Drowsy in daytime. Yawning, follow^ed by involuntary laughter. ### Sleep Disturbed by violent startings; cold per-^ spiration. Dozing after vomiting or stool. Child is so exhausted, it falls asleep at once. ### Stomach prostration). Tamus (chilblams). AGARICUS MUS. — AGAVE AMER. — AGNUS CASTUS 27 Antidote: Absinth.; Coffea; Camphor. ### Sweat Burning spots. ### Sweat Must be covered during ### Throat cannot sing a note. i^tomach. Empty eructations, tasting of apples. Nervous disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hie- ### Throat Stitches along eustachian tube to ear. heels ooniracted. Small solid balls of phlegm thrown Drynes*; of pharynx, swallowing difficult. Scratch- ,in ### Tongue [Lach.\ Tongue white. ### Tongue Thirsty all the time. Tremulous ### Urinary Stitches in urethra. Sudden and violent urging to urinate. Frequent urination. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/agaricus-muscarius --- ## Agave Americana (Century Plant) ### Compare Lyssin; Lach.; Aloe; Fhos. ### Guiding symptoms Indicated in stomacace, and painful erections in gonorrhoea. Hydrophobia. Scurvy; countenance pale, gums swollen and bleeding, legs covered with dark purple blotches, swollen, painful and hard. Appetite poor; bowels constipated. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/agave-americana --- ## Agnus Castus (The Chaste Tree) ### Abdomen Spleen swollen, sore. Stools soft, recede, difficult. Deep fissures in anus. Nausea with sensa- 28 AGRAPHIS NUTANS — ^AILANTHUS GLANDULOSA tion as if intestines were pressed downwards ; wants tc support bowels. ### Compare Selenium; Phosph. ac.; Camphor; Lycop. ### Dose First to sixth potency. ### Eyes Tachycardia caused by tobacco in neurotic young men. ### Eyes Pupils dilated. [Bell.] Itching about ### Eyes photophobia. ### Female Scanty menses. Abhorrence of sexual intercour.se. Relaxation of genitals, with leucorrhoea. Agalactia; with sadness. Sterility. [Aur.; Nat. m.; Bor.] Leucorrhcea staining yellow; transparent. ### Guiding symptoms The most effective point of attack of Agnus upon the organism is the sexual organism. It lowers sexual vitality, with corresponding mental depression and loss or nervous energy. It shows this distinctive influence in both sexes, but is more pronounced in men. Premature old age from abuse of sexual power. History of repeated gonorrhoeas. A prominent remedy for sprains and strains. Gnawing itching in all parts, especially ### Male Yellow discharge from urethra. No erections. Impotence. Parts cold, relaxed. Desire gone. [Selcn.; Con.; Sabal.] Scanty emission without ejaculation. Loss of prostatic fluid on straining. Gleety discharge. Testicles cold, swollen, hard, and painful. ### Mind Sexual melancholy. Fear of death. Sadness with impression of speedy death. Absentminded, forgetful, lack of courage. Illusion of smell — herrings, musk. Nervous depression and mental forebodings. ### Nose Odor of herring or musk. Aching in dorsum better pressure. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/agnus-castus --- ## Agraphis Nutans (Bluebell) ### Compare Hydrast.; Cepa; Calc, phos.; Squilla. ### Dose Third potency. Single doses of tincture. ### Guiding symptoms .A. tendency to free discharge from mucous membranes, a relaxed condition of the system generally and a proneness to take cold on exposure to cold winds. (Cooper.) Catarrhal conditions; obstruction of nostrils. Adenoids, throat deafness. Enlarged tonsils. Mucous diarrhoea from cold. Chill from cold winds. [Aeon.; Silica.] Throat and ear troubles with tendency to free discharge from mucous membranes. Mutinism of childhood unconnected with deafness. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/agraphis-nutans --- ## Aiaimen ### Chest difficult to expel mucus. Copious, ropy morning expectoration in old people. Asthma. Skill. — Ulcers, with indurated base. To be thought of in indurated glands, epithelioma, etc.; veins become and bleed. Indurations resulting from long- ### Female Tendency to induration of neck of uterus and mammary glands. [Carb. an.; Con.] Chronic yellow vaginal di.scharge. Chronic gonorrhoea, yellow, with little lumps along urethra. Aphthous patches in vagina. [Caul.] Menses watery. ### Guiding symptoms ening of tissues of tongue, rectum, uterus, etc. ; ulcers with indurated ])ase. Adapted to old people, especially bronchial catarrhs. Sensation of dryness and constriction. Mental paresis; dysphagia especially to liquids. Tendency to induration. ### Head better by pressure of hand. Vertigo, with weakness in pit of ### Head B urninij jmin as of weight on top of ### Heart Palpitation, from lymg down on right side. ### Rectum Constipation of the most aggravated kind. No desire for stool for days. Violent ineffectual urging to stool. No ability lu expel sluol. Marble-like masses pass, but rectum still feels full. Itching after stool. Itching in anus. Long lasting pain and smarting in rectum after .stool; also hsemorrhoids. Yellow, like an infant’s. Hjemorrhage from bowels. ### Respiratory Haemoptysis, great weakness of ### Throat Throat relaxed. Mucous membrane red and swollen. Cough. Tickling in ### Throat Constriction of oesophagus. [Bapt.] ### Throat Tendency to throat colds, linlargcd and indurated tonsils. Burning pain down the oesophagus. Complete aphonia. Every cold settles in Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/aiaimen --- ## Ailanthus Glandulosa (Chinese Sumach) ### Compare Ammon, carb.; Bapt.; Arn.; Mur. ac.; Lach.; Rhus. ### Compare Heionias;. Hydrastis; Tanacct.; China. ### Dose First to sixth potency. ALETRIS FARINOSA • (Stargrass) An anaemic, relaxed condition, especially of the fe* male organism, is protrayed by this remedy. The pa* tient is tired all the time, and suffers from prolapsus. 30 ALETRIS FARINOSA — ALFALFA leucorrhoea. rectal distress, etc. Marked anaemia. Chlorotic girls and pregnant women. ### Dose Tincture to third potency. ### Eyes photophobia. Face dusky. Thin, copious, ichorous, bloody nasal discharge. ### Female Premature and profuse menses, with laborlike pains. [Bell.; Cham,; Kali c.; Plat.] Retarded and scanty flow. (Senccio.) Uterus seems heavy. Prolapse, with pain in right inguinal region. Leucorihoea. Plabitual tendency to abortion. Muscular pains during pregnancy. ### Guiding symptoms This remedy shows by its peculiar skin symptoms its ^onounced power of disorganizing the blood, causing AILANTHUS OLANDULOSA — ALETRIS FARINOSA 29 conditions we meet with in low fevers, low types of eruptive diseases, diphtheria, follicular tonsillitis, etc. The skin appears livid or purplish; face dark as mahogany, hot ; sordes ; throat swollen, purple, livid ; semiconscious, delirious ; weak pulse, general torpor and prostration. Symptoms remarkably alike to malignant scarlatina. Diarrhoea, dysentery and great zveakness are very marked. Adynamia characterizes all its conditions. Lividity, stupor and malignancy. ### Head General stupor, with sighing. Confused mind, mental depression. Headache, frontal, with drowsiness. Suffused, dilated ### Mind Fainting, with vertigo. ### Mind Power and energy weakened. Confused feelings. Cannot concentrate ### Mouth Much frothy saliva. ### Rectum Loads up with faeces — paretic condition. Stool large, hard, difficult, great pain. ### Relationships Antidotes : Rhus; Nux. ### Respiratory Hurried breathing ; irregular. Dry, hacking cough. Lungs sore and tired. ### Skin Miliary, livid rash, returns annually. Large blisters filled with dark serum. Irregular, patchy, livid eruption, disappearing on pressure. Cold. ### Sleep Drowsy, restless. Heavy, disturbed, unrefreshing. ### Stomach Disgust for food. Least food causes distress. Fainting spells, with vertigo. Vomiting during pregnancy. Nervous dyspepsia. Flatulent colic. [Mag^ nes, phos.] ### Throat Inflamed, oedematous, dusky red. Much swelling, internal and external. Dry, rough, scraping, choking feeling. Neck tender and swollen. Hoarse, croupy voice. Tongue dry and brown. Teeth covered zvith sordes. Pain in szvallowing extends to the Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ailanthus-glandulosa --- ## Alfalfa (Medicago Sativa. California Clover or Lucerne) ### Abdomen Flatulence with distention. Shifting, flatulent pain along colon several hours after meals. Frequent, loose, yellow, painful .stools, with burning of flatulence. Urine. — Kidneys inactive ; f t equent urging to urinate. Polyuria. [Phos. ac.] Increased elimination of urea, indican and phosphates. ### Compare Avena sat.; Dipodium punct.; Gels.; Hydr.; Kali phos.; Phos. ac.; Zinc. ### Dose The best results are elicited with material doses (5-10) drops of tincture, several times daily. Continue its use until tonic effects ensue. ### Ears Stuffed feeling in eustachian tubes [Kali mur.] at night; patulous in morning. ### Guiding symptoms From its action on the sympathetic, Alfalfa favorably influences nutrition, evidenced in “toning up” the appetite and digestion resulting in greatly improved mental and physical vigor, with gain in weight. [Hydr.] Disorders characterized by malnutrition are mainly within its therapeutic range, for example, neurasthenia, splanchnic blues, nervousness, insomnia, nervous indigestion, etc.' Its pronounced urinary action suggests it clinically in diabetes insipidus and phosphaturia ; and it is claimed to allay vesical irritability of prostatic hypertrophy. The rheumatic diathesis seems especially iimenable to its action. ALFALFA — ALLIUM CEPA 31 Mitid. — It induces mental exhilaration of buoyancy, i. e., a general feeling of well being; clear and bright, so that all blues are dissipated. Dull, drowsy, stupid [Gels.] ; gloomy and irritable, worse during evening. ### Head Dull, heavy feeling in occiput, in and above the eyes, worse toward evening. Pain in left side of ### Sleep Slept better than usual, especially in early morning; it induces quiet, reposeful and refreshing ### Stomach Increased thirst. Appetite impaired, but chiefly increased even to bulimia. He must eat frequently, so that he cannot wait for regular meals ; hungry in forenoon. [Sul.] Much nibbling of food and craving for sweets. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/alfalfa --- ## Allium Cepa (Red Onion) ### Abdomen Rumbling, offensive flatus. Pains in left hypogastrium. Colic sitting, moving about. ### Compare Gels.; Euph.; Kali hyd.; Aconite; Ipecac. Complementary: Phosphor.; Thuja; Puls. Antidotes: Arn.; Cham.; Verat. ### Dose Third potency. ### Ears Earache, shooting in eustachian tube. ### Extremities Lame joints. Ulcers on heel. Painful affections of fingers about nails. Neuralgia of stump. Bad effects from getting feet wet. Limbs, especially arms, feel sore ^nd tired. ### Eyes Red. Much burning and smarting lachrymalion. Sensitive to light. Eyes suffused and watery; profuse, bland lachrymation, better in open air. Burning in eyelids. ### Face Headache ceases during menses; returns when How disappears. ### Guiding symptoms ivarm room and toward evening; better in open air is presented by this remedy. Neuralgic pains, like a fine thread, following amputations or injuries to ### Head Catarrhal headache, mostly in forehead ; worse in ivarm room and towards evening. Threadlike pains in ### Larynx Sensation as if larynx is split or torn. Oppressed breathing. Constricted feeling m region of epiglottis. Pain extending to ear. ALLIUM CEPA — ALLIUM SATIVUM 33 ### Modalities Worse, in the evening, in warm room. Better^ in open air, and in cold room. ### Nerves Traumatic chronic neuritis. Burning in nose, mouth, throat, bladder and ### Nose Sneezing, especially when entering a warm room, ('opious, watery and extremely acrid discharge. Feeling of a lump at root of ### Nose Hay-fever. [Sabad., SiL; l\\'or.] Fluent coryza with headache, cough, and hoarseness. Polypus. ### Rectum itching and rhagades in anus. Glowing heat in ### Rectum Diarrhoea with very offensive flatus. Stitches in ### Respiratory ~ Hoarseness. Hacking cough on inspiring cold air. Tickling in ### Skin Sensation of glowing heat on different parts of tlie body. ### Sleep Dreams. Wakes at 2 a. m. ### Sleep Yawning with headache and drowsiness. Gaping in deep ### Stomach Canine hunger. Pain in pyloric region. Thirst. Belching. Nausea. ### Text A picture of coryza, with acrid nasal discharge and laryngeal symptoms (nasal secretion acrid, ocular bland) Euphrasia opposite, singers' cold, worse m 32 ### Urinary Sensation of weakness in bladder and urethra. Increased secretion of urine with coryza. Urine red with much pressure and burning in urethia. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/allium-cepa --- ## Allium Sativum (Garlic) Abbreviation: Garlic ### Chest 34 ALLIUM SATIVUM — ALNUS — ALOE ### Compare Capsicum; Arsenic; Senega: Kali mt. Complementary: Arscntc. Antidote : Ly copod. ### Dose Third to sixth potency. In tuberculosis, dose, four to six grammes in moderate state of dessication daily, in divided ### Guiding symptoms Adapted to flesh> subjects with dyspepsia and catarrhal affections. High livers. Patients who eat a great deal more than they drink. Pain in hip, pain in psoas and iliac muscles. Pulmonary tuberculosis. Cough and expectoration diminishes, temperature becomes normal, weight is gained, and sleep becomes regular. Haemoptysis. ### Head Heavy; pulsation in temples; catarrhal deafness. ### Mouth Much sweetish saliva after meals and at night. ### Respiratory Constant rattling of mucus in bronchi. Cough in the morning after leaving bedroom, with mucous expectoration, which is tenacious and difficult to raise. Sensitive to eold air. Dilated bronchi, with fetid expectoration. Darting pain in ### Stomach Voracious appetite. Burning eructations. Le^st change in diet causes trouble. Constipation, with constant dull pains in bowels. Tongue pale, red papiT Ice. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/allium-sativum --- ## Alljmen Alumina ### Dose First to thirtieth potency. The very highest potencies have proved efficacious. Powdered alum, 10 grains, placed on tongue, said to arrest an attack of asthma. ### Extremities Weakness of all muscles, especially arms and legs. Constricted feeling around ### Guiding symptoms continued inflammatory irritations. Glands inflame and harden. Alopecia. ### Modalities Worse, cold except headache, which is relieved by cold. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/alljmen-alumina --- ## Alnus (Red Alder) ### Dose Tincture to third potenc>. ### Female Leucorrhoea, with erosions of cervix, bleeding easily. Amenorrhuca, with burning pains from back to pubis. ### Guiding symptoms Has some rci)ntation as a remedy for skin affections, glandular enlargements, and indigestion from imperfect secietion of gastric juice. It stimulates nutrition, and thus acts favorably upon strumous disorders, enlarged glands, etc. Ulcerated mucous membranes of mouth and ### Skin Chronic herpes. Enlarged sub-maxiliary glands. Eczema, prurigo. Purpura hsemorrhagica. Poison-oaK. Use locally. ### Throat Fingers covered by crust caused by pustules, disagreeable odor. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/alnus --- ## Aloe (Socotrine Aloes) ### Abdomen Diarrhoea from beer. ### Abdomen Pain around navel, worse pressure. Fullness in region of liver, pain under right ribs. Abdomen feels full, heavy, hot, bloated. Pulsating pain around navel. Weak feeling, as if diarrhoea would 36 come on. Sensation of plug between symphysis pubis and os coccygis, with urging to stool. Great accumulation of flatus, pressing downwards, causing distress in lower bowels. Colic before and during stool. Burning, copious flatus. ### Back worse moving. Stitches through sacrum. Lumbago alternating zvith headache and piles. ### Back Pain in small of ### Compare Kali bich.; Lycop.; Allium sat. Antidotes: Opium; Sulph. ### Dose First to sixth potency. ### Ears Cracking when chewing. Sudden explosion and clashing in left ear. Tinkling as of some thin, shivered, metallic globe in ### Extremities Lameness in all ### Eyes Compelled to make small during pain m forehead. Flickering before ### Eyes Redness of eyes with ycllozv vision. Pain deep in orbits. ### Face Marked redness of lips. ### Female Bearing down in rectum, worse standing and during menses. Uterus feels heavy, cannot walk much on that, account. Labor-like pains in loins : extend down legs. Climacteric hjemorrhage. Menses too early and too profuse. ### Guiding symptoms Especially suitable to lymphatic and hypochondriacal patients. The rectal symptoms usually determine the choice. Adapted to weary people, the aged, and phlegmatic, old beer-drinkers. Dissatisfied and angry about himself, alternating with lumbago. Heat internally and externally. Has been used successfully in the treatment of consumption by giving the pure juice. ### Head Headache alternates with lumbago, with intestinal and uterine affections. Disinclination to mental labor. Aches above forehead, with heaviness in eyes, must partially close them. Headache after stool. Dull, prcssive pain; worse from heat. ### Limbs Drawing pain^ in joints. Soles pain when walking ### Modalities fl^’orse, early morning; summer; heat; in hot, dry weather; after eating or drinking. Better, from cold, open air. ALOE — ALSTONIA — ALU MEN 37 ### Mouth Taste bitter and sour. Tasteless eructations. ### Nose Coldness of tip. Bleeding in morning on awakening. ### Rectum Constant bearing down in ### Rectum bleeding, sore, and hot; relieved by cold water. Feeling of weakness and loss of power of sphincter ani. Sense of insecurity in rectum, when passing flatus. Uncertain whether gas or stool will come. Stool passes without effort, almost unnoticed. Lumpy, watery stool. Jelly-like stools, with soreness in rectum after stool. A lot of mucus, ivith pain in rectum after stool. Haemorrhoids protrude like grapes ; very sore and tender; better cold water application. Burning in anus and ### Rectum Constipation, with heavy pressure in lower part of ### Relationships Complementary ; Sulphur; ### Respiratory Winter coughs, with itching. Difficult respiration, with stitches from liver to che.st. ### Stomach Aversion to meat. Longing for juicy things. After eating, flatulence, pulsation in rectum, and sexual irritation. Nausea, with headache. Pain in pit when making false step. ### Text An excellent remedy to aid in re-establishing physiological equilibrium after much dosing, where disease and drug svmptoms are much mixed. There is no remedy richer in svmptoms of portal congestion and none that has given better clinical results, both for the primal V pathological condition and secondary phenomena Pad effects from sedentary life or habits. ### Throat Thick lumps of tough mucus. Varicose condition of veins in pharynx. ### Urinary Incontinence in aged, bearing-down sensation and enlarged prostate. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/aloe --- ## Alstonia (Dita Bark) ### Abdomen Violent purging and cramp in bowels. Heat and irritation in lower bowels Camp diarrhoea, bloody stool, dy.^entery: diarrhoea from bad water and malaria. Painless teatery stool.^,. [Pho.\'ph. nc.] Diarrhoea immediately after eating. ### Compare Diiain (active principle, is anti-periodic, like quinine, but without unpleasant effects). Cinchona (similar in diarrhoea, chronic dyspepsia and debility). Hydrastis; Per. cit. ct chin. ### Dose Tincture to third potency. Locally, for ulcers and rheumatic pains. ### Guiding symptoms Malarial diseases, with diarrhoea, dysentery, an;emia, feeble digestion, are the general conditions suggesting this remedy. Characteristics are the gone sensation in stomach and sinking in abdomen, with debility. A tonic after exhausting fevers. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/alstonia --- ## Alumen (Common Potash Alum) ### Text The clinical application of this remedy points to its bowel symptoms, both in obstinate constipation and in hccmorrhage from bowels in the course of typhoid — one phase of the paralytic weakness of the muscles in all parts of the body. Tendency to induration is also marked, a low form of tissue-making is favored. Hard* 38 Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/alumen --- ## Alumina (Oxide of Aluminum — Argilla) ### Abdomen Colic, like painter’s colic. Pressing in both groins toward sexual organs. Left-sided abdominal complaints. Stool. — Hard, dry, knotty; no desire. Rectum sore, dry, inflamed, bleeding. Itching and burning at anus. Even a soft stool is pas. man’s sore throat in thin subjects. Thick, tenacious mucus drops from posterior nares. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/alumina --- ## Ambra Gkisea ### Chest Choking when hawking up phlegm. ### Compare Oleum succinuin (hiccough). Sum^ bul; Castor.; Asaj. ### Dose Second and third potencies. ### Extremities Cramps in hands and fingers, worse grasping anything. Cramps in legs. ### Female Nymphomania, Itching oj pudendum, with soreness and snivelling. Menses too early. Profuse, bluish leucorrhoea. Worse at night. Discharge of blood between periods, at every little accident. ### Head Slow comprehension. Vertigo, with weakness in head and ### Heart Palpitation, zvith pressure in chest as from a lump lodged there, or os if chest was obstructed. Conscious of the ### Male Voluptuous itching of scrotum. Parts externa41y numb; burn internally. Violent erections without voluptuous sensations. ### Modalities Worse, music; presence of strangers; from any unusual thing; morning, warm room. Better, slow motion in open air; lying on painful part; cold drinks. ### Pulse Palpitation in open air with pale ### Relationships Do not confound with Amber — Succinum. q. v. Moschus frequently follows advantageously. ### Respiratory Asthmatic breathing with eructation of gas. Nervous, spasmodic cough, with hoarseness and eructation, on waking in morning; worse in presence of people. Tickling in throat, larynx and trachea, chest oppressed, gets out of breath when coughing. Hollozv, spasmodic, barking cough, coming from deep in ### Skin Arms “go to ### Skin Itching and soreness, especially around genitals. Numbness of ### Sleep 44 AMBRA GRISEA — AMBROSIA — AMMONIACUM ### Sleep Cannot sleep from zvorry; mUs^t get up. Anxious dreams. Coldness of body and twitching of limbs, during ### Stomach Eructations, with violent, convulsive cough. Acid eructations, like heartburn. Distention of stomach and abdomen after midnight. Sensation of coldness in ### Stomach Tearing pain in upper half of brain. Rush of blood to head, when listening to music. Hearing impaired. Epistaxis, especially in the morning. Profuse bleeding from ### Teeth Hair falls out. ### Urinary Pain in bladder and rectum at the same time. Burning in orifice of urethra and anus Feeling in urethra as if a few drops passed out. Burning and itching in urethra while urinating. Urine turbid, even during emission, forming a brown sediment. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ambra-gkisea --- ## Ambra Grisea (Ambergis — A Morbid Secretion of the Whale) ### Guiding symptoms Suitable to excitable, nervous children and thin, nervous patients. Extreme nervous hypersensitiveness. External numbness of whole body in the morning and weakness. Nervous bilious temperament. Thin, scrawny women. Adapted to hysterical subjects, or those suffering from spinal irritation, with convulsive cough, eructation, etc. Also for patients weakened by age or overwork, who are anaemic and sleepless. Onesided complaints call for it. Music aggravates symptoms. ### Mind Dread of people, and desire to be alone. Cannot do anything in the presence of others. Music causes weeping. Despair, loathing of life. Fantastic illusions. Pashfnl. Loss of love of life. Restless, excited, very loquacious. Time passes slowly. Thinking, difficult in the morning with old people. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ambra-grisea --- ## Ambrosia (Rag-Weed) ### Dose Tincture, to third potency; 10 drops in water during and after attack of epista.xis. ### Eyes Smart and burn. Lachrymation. ### Guiding symptoms A remedy for hay-fever, and some forms of whooping-cough. Respiratory tract in its entire length stopped up. Many forms of diarrhcea, especially during summer months, also dysentery. ### Nose Watery coryza; sneezing; watery discharge. Nosebleed. Irritation of trachea and bronchial tubes, with asthmatic attacks. [Aral.; Eucalypt.] Wheezy cough. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ambrosia --- ## Ammoniacum (Gum Ammoniac) ### Compare Senega: Tart, emet.; Balsam Peru. ### Dose Third trituration. ### Eyes Dim sight. Stais and fiery points float before ### Eyes Easily fatigued from reading. AMMONIACUM — AMMON. BENZ. — AMMON. BROM. 45 ### Guiding symptoms A remedy for the aged and feeble, especially in chronic bronchitis. Ill humor. Sensitive to cold. ### Relationships Antidotes; Bry.; Arnica. ### Respiratory Throat dry; worse inhaling fresh air. Difficult breathing. Chronic bronchial catarrh. Large accumulation of purulent matter and feeble expectoration ; worse cold weather. Mucus tough and hard. Heart beats stronger, extends to pit of ### Stomach Coarse rattling of chest in old people. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ammoniacum --- ## Ammonium Benzoicum (Benzoate of Ammonia) ### Back Pain across sacrum, with urgency to stool. Soreness in region of right kidney. ### Compare Kalmia; Melon; Merc, cor,; Berb.; Canth. ### Compare Terebinth.; Ben::, ac.; Ammonia salts; Caust. In albuminuria ### Dose Second trituration. ### Face Bloated, swollen eyelids, swelling under tongue like ranula. Urine, — Smoky, scanty. Albuminous. ### Guiding symptoms One of the remedies for albuminuria, especially in the gouty. Gout, with fluid in large toe-joint. ### Head Heavy, stupid. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ammonium-benzoicum --- ## Ammonium Bromatum (Bromide of Ammonia) ### Dose First potency. ### Ears Sneezing; thick nasal discharge. ### Eyes Edges of lids red and swollen, also Meibomian glands. Eyeballs feel large and pain around eyes into ### Guiding symptoms Indicated in chronic laryngeal and pharyngeal catarrh, neuralgic headaches, and obesity. Constructive pain in head, chest, legs, etc. Irritable feeling under finger nails; relieved only by biting them. 46 AMMONIUM BROMATUM -AMMONIUM CARB. ### Head Feeling of a band above ### Mouth Tickling in throat, with inclination to dry\ spasmodic cough, especially at flight. Burning in fauces. White, sticky, mucus. Chronic speakers’ catarrh. Catarrh of posterior nares and fauces with thick, stringy mucus. ### Relationships Plyos.: Con.; Arg. nit.: Kali hick. ### Respiratory Sudden, short cough, strangling. Tickling in trachea and bronchial tubes. Wakes at 3 A. M. with cough. Feels suffocated ; continuous cough, when lying down at night; sharp pain in lungs. Whooping Cough. — Dry, spasmodic cough. ### Throat Smarting in Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ammonium-bromatum --- ## Ammonium Carb (Carbonate of Ammonia) ### Chest worse ascending. Chest feels tired. Emphysema. Mucfi oppression in breathing; worse after any effort, and entering warm room, or ascending even a few steps. Slow labored, stertorous breathing; bubbling sound. Winter catarrh, . with slimy sputum and specks of ### Compare Rhus; Muriatic acid; Tartar emet. Of use in poisoning b> charcoal fumes. ### Dose Lower potencies. ### Extremities Tearing in joints relieved by heat of bed ; inclination to stretch ### Female Itching, swelling and burning of pudendum. Leucorrhoea burning, acrid, watery. Aversion to the other sex. Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard, difficult stool, with fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness. ### Guiding symptoms Urine. — Frequent desire; involuntary at night. Tenesmus of bladder. Urine white, sandy, bloody, copious, turbid, and fetid. ### Heart Audible palpitation with fear, cold sweat, lachrymation, inability to speak, loud breathing and trembling hands. Heart weak, wakes with difficult breathing and palpitation. ### Limbs Hands cold and blue ; distended veins. Fingers swell when arm is hanging down. Panaritium, dep-seated periosteal pain. Cramps calves and soles. Big toe painful and swollen. ^Felons in the beginning. Heel painful on standing. in ankle and bones of feet, better when warm — Sleepiness during the day. Starts from Hfeep strangling. AMMONIUM CABR. — AMMONIUM CAUSTICUM 49 ### Male Itching and pain of scrotum and spermatic cords. Erection without desire. Seminal emissions. ### Modalities Worse, from cold, wet weather, wet application.^, washing, and during 3 to 4 a. m., during mense.s. Better, lying on painful side and on ### Relationships Inimical to Lachesis. Antidotes: Arnica; Camphor. ### Respiratory Horseness. Cough every morning about three o’clock, with dyspnoea, palpitation, burning in ### Skin Violent itching and burning blisters. Scarlet rash. Miliary rash. Malignant scarlatina. Faintly developed eruptions from defective vitality. Erysipelas in the aged, with brain symptoms. Eczema in the bends of extremities, between legs, about anus and genitals. ### Stomach in dry weather. ### Text The diseased conditions met by this remedy are such as we find often in rather stout women who are always tired and weary, take cold easily, suffer from cholera-like .symptoms before menses, lead a sedentary life, have a slow reaction generally, and are disposed to frequent use of the smelling-bottle. Too frequent and profuse menses. Mucous membranes of the respiratory organs are especially affected. Fat patients with weak heart, w^heezing, feel suffocated. Very sensitive to cold air. Great aversion to water ; cannot bear to touch it. Malignant scarlatina, with somnolence, swollen glands, dark red .sore throat, faintly developed eruption. Uraemia. Heaviness in all organs. Unclean- Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ammonium-carb --- ## Ammonium Cars. ### Abdomen Flatulent hernia. Stools difficult, hard, and knotty. Bleeding piles; worse during menses. Itching at anus. Protruding piles, worse after stool, better lying down. 48 ### Abdomen Noise and pain in ### Back Burning pain all down ### Ears Vesicles on ### Ears Hardness of hearing. Shocks through ears, eyes, and nose, when gnashing ### Eyes Burning of eyes with aversion to light. Eyestrain. mur.] ### Face Tetters around ### Guiding symptoms ness in bodily habits. Swelling of parts, glands, etc. Acid secretions. ### Head Pulsating forehead ; better, pressure and in warm room. Shocks through ### Mind Forgetful, ill-humored, gloomy during stormy weather. ### Mouth Boils and pustules, during menses. Corners of mouth sore, cracked, and burn. ### Mouth Great dryness of mouth and ### Nose Discharge of sharp, burning water Stoppage at night, ivith long-continued coryza. Cannot breathe through ### Nose Snuffles of children. Epistaxis after washing and after eating. Ozaena, blows bloody mucus from ### Nose Tip of nose congested. ### Stomach Pain at pit of stomach, with heartburn, nausea, waterbrash, and chilliness. Great appetite, but easily satisfied. ### Throat Toothache. Pressing teeth together sends shocks through head, eyes, and ### Throat Enlarged tonsils and glands of ### Throat Tendency to gangrenous ulceration of tonsils. Diphtheria when nose is stopped up. ### Tongue Taste sour; metallic. Cracking of jaw on chewing. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ammonium-cars --- ## Ammonium Causticum (Hydrate of Ammonia) ### Dose First to third potency. 50 ### Extremities Excessive exhaustion and muscular debility. Rheumatism of shoulders. Skin hot and dry. ### Guiding symptoms This is a powerful cardiac stimulant. As such in syncope, thrombosis, haemorrhage, snake-bites, chloroform narcosis, may be ghen by inhalation. The oedema and ulceration of mucous membranes produced by this powerful drug have been utilized as guiding symptoms for its use; hence in membranous croup with burning in oesophagus. Aphonia. ### Respiratory Difficult respiration. Accumulation of mucus with incessant coughing. Less of voice. Burning raivness in ### Throat Spasm of the glottis with suffocation ; patient gasps for breath. Pain in oesophagus on breathing deeply. Scraping and burning in throat and oesophagus. Uvula covered with white mucus. Nasal diphtheria, with burning excoriating discharge. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ammonium-causticum --- ## Ammonium Mukiaticum ### Abdomen Much flatus. Strained feeling in groin. ### Abdomen Splenic stitches, especially in the morning, with difficult breathing Pain around navel. Abdominal symptoms appear during pregnancy. Chronic congestion of ### Back Icy coldness between shoulders; not relieved by warm covering, followed by itching. Bruised pain in coccyx when sitting. Backache, as if in a vise when sitting. 52 AMMONIUM MURIATICUM — AMMONIUM PHOSPH. ### Chest Cough loose in afternoon, with profuse expectoration and rattling of mucus. Oppression of ### Chest Burning at small spots in ### Chest Scanty secretion. Cough with profuse salivation. ### Compare Calcarea; Smega; Caustic. ### Dose Third to sixth potenc3^ ### Extremities Pain as from ulceration in finger tips. Shooting and tearing in tips of finger and toes. Ulcerative pain in heels. Contraction of hamstring tendons. Sciatica, it^orse sitting, better lying. Neuralgic pain in amputated ### Female Menses too early, too free, dark, clotted ; flow more at night. Pain as if sprained in left side of abdomen during pregnancy. Diarrhoea, greenish mucous stools, and navel pain during menses. Leucorrhoea, like white of an egg [Alum.; Bor.; Calc. p.]\ with pain about the navel; brown, slimy after every urination. ### Fever Chilliness czrcnings after lying down and on awakening, without thirst. Heat in palms and soles. ### Larynx Dry, hacking, scraping cough; worse lying on back or right side. Stitches in ### Limbs Offensive sweaty feet. Pain in feet during menses. ### Liver Excessive fatty deposit around ### Modalities Better, open air. Worse, head and chest symptoms in the morning; abdominal symptoms in the afternoon. ### Rectum Itching and haemorrhoids, soreness with pustules. Ilard, crumbly stool, or covered with glairy mucus. Stinging in perina;um. Green mucus stools alternate with constipation. During and .after stool, burning and smarting in ### Rectum Haemorrhoids after suppressed leucorrhcea. ### Relationships Antidotes: Cofjca; Nux; Caust. ### Respiratory Hoarseness and burning in ### Skin Itching, generally evenings. Blisters on various parts. Intense burning better cold applications. ### Stomach Epigastric pain immediately after eating. Cancer of ### Stomach Thirst for lemonade, regurgitation of food, bitter vvaterbrash. Nausea. Gnawing in Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ammonium-mukiaticum --- ## Ammonium Muriaticum (Sal Ammoniac) ### Eyes Mist before eyes, optical illusions in incipient cataract; capsular cataract. ### Face Inflammatory faccache. Mouth and lips sore and excoriated. ### Guiding symptoms A state of prostration bordering on a typhoid state is produced by this lemedy. All mucous secretions are increased and retained. It is especially adapted to fat and sluggish patients who have respiratory troubles. A tendency to irregular circulation, blood seems to be ill constant turmoil, pulsations, etc. Many groups of symptoms are accompanied by cough, profuse glairy secretions. Its periods of aggravations are peculiarly divided as to the bodily region affected ; thus the head an chest symptoms are worse mornings, the abdominal in the afternoon, the pains in the limbs, the skin and febrile symptoms, in the evenings. “Boiling" sensation. ### Head Hair falls out, with itchings and dandruff. Feels full, compressed ; worse mornings. ### Mind Melancholy, apprehensive ; like from internal grief. Desire to cry, but cannot. Consequences of grief. ### Nose Free acrid, hot watery discharge corroding the lip. Sneezing. Nose sore to touch; ulcerative pain in nostrils. Loss of smell. Obstructed, stuffy feeling; constant and unavailing efforts to blow it out. Itching. ### Throat Throbbing in, and swelling u£ tonsils, can scarcely SAvallow. Sore spot behind uvula, relieved by eating. Internal and external swelling of throat with viscid phlegm. So tough, it cannot be hawked up. Tonsillitis. Stricture of oesophagus. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ammonium-muriaticum --- ## Ammonium Phosphoricum (Phosphate of Ammonia) ### Chest Heaviness of limbs, unsteady, tottering gait. Coldness from least draft of air. ### Guiding symptoms A remedy for chronic gouty patients; indicated in bronchitis and nodosities of the joints of the fingers and backs of the hands. Facial paralysis. Pain in shoulderjoint. Tightness around ### Head Sneezing with excessive running from nose and eyes, only in morning.'' ### Respiratory Deep rough cough with greenish expectoration. Urine. ~ Rose-colored sediment. Dote. — Third decimal trituration. AMMON-. PICRATUM — AMPELOPSIS — AMYG. PERSICA 53 Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ammonium-phosphoricum --- ## Ammonium Picratum (Picrate of Ammonia) ### Dose Third trituration. ### Guiding symptoms A remedy for malarial fever and neuralgias and socalled bilious headaches. Pain in occiput and mastoid region. ### Head Periodical neuralgia in right side of occiput; boring extends to ear, orbit, and jaw. Vertigo on rising. Periodic bilious headaches. [5'awpum.] Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ammonium-picratum --- ## Ampelopsis (Virginia Creeper) ### Dose Second to third potency. ### Guiding symptoms Renal dropsies, hydrocele, and chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients have been benefited by this drug. Choleric symptoms. Generally worse about 6 p. m. Dilated pupils. Left costal region sore and sensitive. Elbow joints pain, back sere. Soreness of all ### Limbs Vomiting, purging with tenesmus. Rumbling in Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/ampelopsis --- ## Amygdalus Persica (Peach Bark) ### Compare Amygd. amara — Bitter Almond. (Pains throll^?ll tonsils, throat dark, difficult swallowing, vomiting, cough with sore ### Dose Fresh infusion or mother tincture. ### Eyes Haemorrhage from the bladder. Gastric irritation of children; no form of food tolerated. Loss of smell and taste. Gastric and intestinal irritation when the tongue is elongated and* pointed, tip and edges red. 54 AMYGDALUS PERSICA — AMYL NITROSUM ### Guiding symptoms A most valuable remedy in vomiting of various kinds ; morning sickness. Irritation of Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/amygdalus-persica --- ## Amyl Nitrosum (Amyl Nitrite) ### Chest Dyspneea and asthmatic feelings. Great oppression and fullness of ### Chest si)asmodic, suffocative cough. Priecordial anxiety. Tumultuous action of ### Compare Glonoine; Lachesis. Antidotes: Cactus; Strychn.; Ergot, ### Dose Third potency. For palliations. In all conditions where the bloodvessels are spasmodic ally contracted, as in angina pec-' toris, cpilept’c seizure, megrim, accompanied by told, pallor, etc., also m paroxysms of asthma, inhalation of the Amyl. nit. will give immediate relief. For this nonhomoeopathic application, two to five minims- (put up in pearls) dropped on a handkerchief may be required ### Extremities Constant stretching for hours. Veins i f hands dilated ; pulsations felt in tips of fingers. ### Face sensation as if blood would start through skin, with heat and redness. Flushings, folloived by sweat at climacteric. Ears h3^pera'mic. Throbbing. ### Female After-pains; haemorrhage associated with facial flushing. Climacteric headache and flushes of heat^' with anxiety and palpitation. ### Fever Much flushing of heat; sometimes followed and clammy skin and profuse ### Guiding symptoms On inhaling this drug, it rapidly dilates all arterioles and capillaries, producing flushing of face, heat, and throbbing in the ### Head Anxiety, as if something might happen; must have fresh air. Surging of blood to head and ### Head Palpitation of the heart and - similar conditions are readily cured by it, especially the ^flushings and other discomforts at climacteric. Hiccough and yawning. Often relieves temporarily epileptic convulsions. ### Heart Pain and constriction around ### Heart Fluttering at slightest excitement. ### Sweat Throbbing t&^ughout whole body. Abnormal sweat after influenza. AMYL NITROSUM — ^NACARDIUM 55 ### Throat Constriction ; collar seems too tight. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/amyl-nitrosum --- ## Anacardium* (Marking Nut) ### Abdomen Pain as if dull plug ivcrc pressed into intestines. Rumbling, pinching, and griping. ### Back Dull pressure in the shoulders, as from a weight. Stiffness at nape of ### Compare Anacard. occidentale (cashew nut) (erysipelas, vesicular facial eruptions), anaesthetic variety of 58 ANArARUlLTM — ANAGALLIS — ANATHERUM leprosy ; warts, corns, ulcers, cracking of the skin on soles of feet). Rhus; Cypriped,; Chclidon.; Xerophyl, I’latina follows welL ### Dose Sixth to two hundredth potency. ### Ears Pressing in the ears as from a plug. Hardf of hearing. ### Extremities Neuralgia in thumb. Paralytic weakness. Knees feel paralyzed or bandaged. Cramp in calves. Pressure as from a plug in the glutei. Warts on palms of hands. Fingers swollen with vesicular eruption. ### Eyes Pressure like a plug on upper orbit. Indistinct vision.- Objects appear too far off. ### Eyes Face pale. ### Face Blue rings around ### Female Leucorrhoea, with soreness and itching. Menses scanty. Respiratory, — Pressure in chest, as from a dull plug. Oppression of chest, with internal heat and anxiety, driving him into open air. Cough excited hy talking, in children, after fit of temper. Cough after eating with vomiting of food and pain in occiput. ### Guiding symptoms chondriasis, with tendency to use violent language. Brain-fag. Impaired memory. Very easily offended. Malicious ; seems bent on wickedness. Lack of confidence in himself or others. Suspicious [Hyos.]. Clairaudient, hears voices far away or of the dead. ### Guiding symptoms The Anacardium patient is 'found mostly among the neurasthenics; such have a type of nervous dyspepsia, relieved by food ; impaired memory, depression, and irritability; diminution of senses (smell, sight, hearing). Syphilitic patients often suffer with these conditions. Intermittency of symptoms Fear of examination in students. Aversion to work; lacks self-confidence; irresistible desire to swear and curse. Sensation of a plug in various parts — eyes, rectum, bladder, etc. , also of a band. Empty feeling in ### Head Vertigo. Pressing pain, as from a plug; worse after mental exertion — in forehead; occiput, temples, vertex ; better during a meal. Itching and little boils on scalp. ### Heart Palpitation, with weak memory, with coryza in the aged; stitches in heart region. Khcnmatie pericarditis with double stitches. ### Male Voluptuous itching; increased desire; seminal emissions without dreams. Prostatic discharge during stool. ### Mind Fixed ideas. Hallucinations , thinks he is possessed of tzvo persons or wills. Anxiety when walking, as if pursued. Profound melancholy and nypo- 56 ### Modalities Worse, on application of hot water. Better, from eating. When lying on side, from rubbing and talking hold of anything. ### Mouth Painful vesicles ; fetid odor. Tongue feels swollen, impeding speech and motion, with saliva in ### Mouth Burning around lips as from pepper. ### Nose Frequent sneezing. Sense of smell perverted. Coryza with palpitation, especially in the aged. ### Rectum Rowels inactive. Ineffectual desire; rec^ turn seems powerless, as if plugged tip; spasmodic con- S triction of sphincter ani; even soft stool passes with lifficulty. } tilling at anus; moisture from ### Rectum ^aMnorrhage during stool. Painful haemorrhoids. fie.; Hyper.; Ratanh.] ### Relationships Antidote: Grindclia; Coffca; Juglans; Rhus. ### Skin Intense itching eczema, with mental irritability; vesicular eruption; suwlling, urticaria; eruption like that of Poison-Oak. [XeroIrhyL; Grindel.; Croton.] Lichen planus ; neurotic eczema. ### Sleep Spells of sleeplessness lasting for several nights. Anxious dreams. ### Stomach Eructation, nausea, vomiting. Eating relieves the Avacardium dyspepsia. Apt to choke when eating or drinking. Swallows food and drinks hastily. ### Stomach Weak digestion, with fullness and distention. Empty feeling in ### Stomach eating temporarily relieves all discomfort. This is a sure indication, often verified. Its skin symptoms are similar to Rhus, and it has proved a valuable antidote to Poison-Oak. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/anacardium --- ## Anagallis (Scarlet Pimpernel) ### Compare Cyclamen; Primula obcon. ### Dose f'irst to third potency. ### Extremities Rheumatic and gouty pains. Pain in shoulder and arm. Cramp in ball of thumbs and fingers. Urine. — More or lesb irritation in urethra, inclining to coition. Burning pain on urinating, with agglutination of orifice. Urine passes in several streams; must press before it passes. ### Guiding symptoms Marked action on skin, characterized by great itching and tingling everywhere. Favors expulsion of splinters. An old medicine for hydrophobia and dropsy. P(\ssesscs power of softening flesh and destroying wart‘s. ### Head Great hilarity; headache over supra-orbital ridges, with rumbling in bowels and eructations; better troni coffee. Pain in facial muscles. ### Relationships Anagallis contains Saponin, q. v. ### Skin licking; dry, bran-like eruption, especially on hands and fingers. Palms especially affected. Vesicles in groups. Ulcers and swellings on joints. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/anagallis --- ## Anatherum (Cuscus — An East Indian Grass) ### Text A skin remedy of high order. Painful swelling of various parts, going on to sup- £iiri|tion. Glandular inflammation. ftead. — Pains pierce brain like pointed arrows; worse Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/anatherum --- ## Anatherum — Anhalonium ### Compare Stapjiisag.; Mercur.; Thuja. ### Dose Third potency. ### Guiding symptoms in afternoon. Herpes, ulcers, and tumors on scalp. Wartlike growth on eyebrows. Boils and tumors on tip of ### Nose Tongue fissured, as if cut on edges ; , copious salivation. Urine. — Turbid, thick, full of mucus. Constant urging. Bladder cannot hold smallest quantity. Involuntary. Cystitis. Sexual. — Chancre-like sores. Scirrhus-like swelling of cervix. Breasts swollen, indurated, nipples excoriated. ### Skin Diseased and deformed nails. Offensive footsweat. Abscesses, boils, ulcers. Erysipelas. Pruritus, herpes.* Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/anatherum-anhalonium --- ## Angustura Vera (Bark of Galipea Cusparia) ### Abdomen Diarrhoea and colic. Tenesmus with soft ^ftool; chronic diarrhoea, with debility and loss of flesh. Burning in anus. ANGUST. VERA — ANILINUM — ANTFIEMIS NOBILIS 61 ### Back Bends backward. ### Back Pain in spine, at nape of neck and sacrum, worse on pressure. Twitching and jerking along ### Back Pain in cervical vertebrae. Drawing in the ### Back Itching along ### Compare Nux; Ruin, Mercur.; Briifca . — Bark of Nux vomica or angu.stura falsa. (Tetanic spasms with undisturbed consciousness, worse noise, liguids, paralyzed lower ### Dose Sixth potency. ### Extremities Stiffness and tension of muscles and joints. Pain in limbs on walking. Arms tired and heavy. Caries of long bones. Coldness of lingers. Pain in knees. Cracking in joints. ### Face Acute pain in cheeks. Drawing in facial muscles. Pain in temporal muscles, when opening the jaws. Pain in articulation of jaw, in masseter muscles, as if fatigued by chewing too much. Cramp-pain on the zygomatic arch. ### Guiding symptoms Rheumatic and paralytic complaints — great difficulty in walking. Cracking in all joints. The greatest craving for coffee is a characteristic symptom. Caries of long bones. Paralysis. Tetanus. Stiffness of muscles and joints. Oi'crscnsitwc, Principal action on spinal motor nerves and mucous membranes. ### Head Oversensitive. Headache, with heat of ### Skin Caries, very painful ulcers which affect the bone. ### Stomach Piitter taste. Irresistible desire for coffee. Pain from navel into sternum. Atonic dyspepsia. Belching, with cough. [Ambra.] Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/angustura-vera --- ## Anhalonium (Mescal Button) ### Dose Tinctuie. 60 ANEMOPSIS CALIFORNICA — ANGUSTURA VERA ### Guiding symptoms Causes a form of intoxication accompanied by wonderful visions, remarkably beautiful and varied kaleidoscopic changes, and a sensation of increased physical ability, A remedy for brain-tag, delirium, megrim, hallucinations, with colored brilliant visions. Motor inco- Drdination. Extreme n\uscular depression ; increased patellar reflex. Paraplegia. ### Head Aches, with disturbed vision. Fantastic, brilliant, moving colored objects. Affected by beating time. Pupils dilated, vertigo, brain tired. Polychrome spectra. Exaggerated reverberation of ordinary sounds. ### Mind Loss of conception of time. Difficult enun- :iation. Distrust and resentment. Lazy contentment. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/anhalonium --- ## Anilinum (Coal Tar Product — Amidobenzene) ### Compare Arsenic: Antipyrin. ### Head face has a purple hue. Pain in penis and scrotum with swelling. Tumors of the urinary passages. Profound an.Tinia with discoloration of skin, blue lips, anorexia, gastric disturbances. Swelling of Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/anilinum --- ## Anthemis Nobilis (Roman Chamomile) ### Guiding symptoms This remedy is akin to the ordinary Chamomilla. ### Respiratory Coryza with much lachrymation, sneezing, and discharge of clear water from the nose Symptoms worse indoors. Constriction and rawness of ### Throat Cough, tickling; worse in warm room. 62 Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/anthemis-nobilis --- ## Anthemis Nobilis — Anthracinum ### Abdomen Aching in region of ### Dose Use the third potency. ### Liver grii>ing and chilliness inside of abdomen and into legs. Itching of anus, with white putty-like stools. ### Skin Itching of the soles, as if from chilblains. Goose-flesh. ### Urinary Bladder feels distended. Pain along spermatic cord, which feels full, as if varicosed. Frequent urination. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/anthemis-nobilis-anthracinum --- ## Anthracinum (Anthrax Poison) ### Compare Pyrogen; Lachesis; Crotalus; Hipposcen; Ecltinac.; Silica follows well. Pose. — Thirtieth potency. ANTHRAKOKALI — ANTIMONIUM ARS. — ANT. CRUD. 63 ### Guiding symptoms This nosode has proven a great remedy in epidemic spleen diseases of domestic animals, and in septic inflammation, carlfumlt.y, and malignant ulcers, hi boils and hoil-like eruptions, acne. Terrible burning. Induration of cellular tissue, abscess, bubo, and all inflammation of connective tissue in which there exists a purulent focus. Tissues. — Hjpmorrhages, black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing, from any orifice. Glands swollen, cellular tissues a'dematous and indurated, Septicsemia. Ulceration, sloughing, and intolerable burning. Erysipelas. Black and blue blisters. Dissecting wounds. Insect stings. Bad effects from inhaling foul odors. Gangrenous parotitis. Succession of boils. ### Relationships Similar lu Arsenic, which it often follows. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/anthracinum --- ## Antimonium Crudum (Black Sulphide of Antimony) ### Back Itching and pain of ### Compare Aniimonium Chloridum. Butter of Antimony. (A remedy for cancer. Mucous membranes destroyed. Abrasions. Skin cold and clammy. Great prostration of strength. ### Dose Third trituration.) Aniimon. jodat. (Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneunpniia and bronchitis : loss of strength and appetite, yellowish ### Dose Third to sixth potency. ### Ears Redness; swelling; pain in eustachian tube. Ringing and deafness. Moist eruption around ear. ### Extremities T\v itching of muscles. Jerks in arms. Arthritic pain in fingers. Xails brittle; grow out of shape. Horny warts on hands and soles. Weakness and shaking of hands in wTiting followed by offensive flatulence. Feet very tender; covered with large horny places. Inflamed corns. ### Eyes Dull, sunken, red, itch, inflamed, agglutinated. Canthi razv and fissured. Chronic blcfhaniis. Pustules on cornea and lids. ### Face Pimples, pustules, and boils on ### Face Ycllozv crusted eruption on clinks and chin. Sallow and haggard. ### Female Excited; parts itch. Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse. Menses suppressed from cold bathing, wich feeling of pressure in pelvis and tenderness in ovarian region. Leucorrhoea watery; acrid, lumpy. ### Fever Chilly even in warm room. Intermittent with digust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhoea. Hot ### Guiding symptoms intestinal complaints from bread and pastry, acids, sour wine, cold bathing, overheating, hot weather. Constant belching. Gouty metastasis to stomach and bowels. Sweetish waterbrash. Bloating after eating. Stool. — Anal itching. \Stilpho-Calc. Alum.] Diat~ rhoea alternates unth constipation, especially in old people. Diarrhoea after acids, sour wine, baths, overeating; slimy, flatulent stools. Mucous piles, continued oozing of mucus. Hard lumps mixed ivith watery discharge. Catarrhal proctitis. Stools composed entirely of mucus. Urine. — Frequent, with burning, and backache; turbid and foul odor. ### Guiding symptoms without cause. Child cannot bear to he touched or looked at. Angry at every little attention. Sentimental mood. ### Guiding symptoms For homoeopathic employment, the mental symptoms, and those of the gastric sphere, determine its choice. Excessive irritability and fretfulness, together with a thickly-coated white tongue, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy. All the conditions are aggravated by heat and cold bathing. Cannot bear heat of sun. Tendency to grow fat. An absence of pain, where it could be expected, is noticeable. Gout with gastric symptoms. ### Head Aching, worse in vertex, on ascending, front bathing, from disordered stomach, especially from eating candy or drinking acid wines. Suppressed eruptions. Heaviness in forehead, with vertigo; nausea, and noselOeed. Headache with great loss of hair. ### Male Eruption on scrotum and about genitals. Impotence. Atrophy of penis and testicles. ### Mind Much concerned about his fate. Cross and contradictive ; whatever is done fails to give satisfaction. Sulky; does not wish to speak. Peevish; vexed 64 ### Modalities Worse in evening, from heat, acids, wine, water, and washing. Wet poultices. Better in open air, during rest. ### Mouth Cracks in corners of ### Mouth Dry lips. Saltish saliva. Much slimy mucus. Tongue coated thick white, as if zvhitezvashcd. Gums detach from ### Nose Nostrils chapt(') ■ Zinc.; Canth.; Vespa: Lafhesh. 74 APIS MELLIFICA — APIUM GRAVEOLENS ### Dose Low to medium potencies repeated in acute rosy-swelling states; cease promptly on relief. ### Dose Tincture to thirtieth potency. Sometimes action is slow; so several days elapse before it is seen to act, and then urine is increased. Apium virus, sixth trituration. ### Ears External ear red, inflamed, sore ; stinging pains. ### Extremities CEdernatous. Synovitis. Knee swollen, shiny, sensitive, sore, with slinging pain. Feet swollen and stiff. Feel too large. Rheumatic pain in back and ### Eyes Lids swollen, red, puffy like bags; stinging burning tears; photophobia; conjunctivae injected with rosy hue. ### Face Swollen, red, with piercing pain. Waxy, pale, cedematous. [Acet. ac,] ### Female CEdema of labia; relieved by cold water. Soreness and stinging pains; worse in right ovary. ### Female Ovarian stitches, right side predominance; menses scanty with headache at cessation; breasts sore, stinging before flow. ### Fever Afternoon chill, with thirst; worse on motion and heat. External heat, with smothering feeling. Sweat slight, with sleepiness. Perspiration breaks out and dries up frequently. Sleeps after the fever paroxysm. After perspiration, nettle rash, also with shuddering. ### Guiding symptoms Menses suppressed, with cerebral and head symptoms, especially in young girls. Dysmenorrhoea, with severe ovarian pains. Metrorrhagia profuse, with heavy abdomen, faintness, stinging pain. Sense of tightness. Bearing-down, as if menses were to appear. Ovarian tumors, metritis with stinging pains. ^ ### Introduction Stinging, burning, rosy swellings worse from warmth and touch — the bee's sting translated into human pathology. ### Larynx Feels as if he could not draw another breath. Suffocation ; short, dry cough, suprasternal. Hydrothorax. ### Limbs Tired, bruised feeling. ### Mind Jealousy, fussiness, apathy alternating with busy-ness; sudden shrill cries in children; cannot tolerate being answered curtly; indifferent in deeper states. ### Modalities Worse: heat in any form, touch, pressure, after sleep, right side. Better: cold applications, open air, cold bathing. ### Modalities Worsd, warmth in any form ; touch ; pressure; late in afternoon; after sleeping; in closed and heated rooms. Right side. Better, in open air, uncovering, and cold bathing. ### Mouth Tongue swollen, sore, and raw, with vesicles. Scalding in mouth and ### Nose Red, swollen, inflamed, with sharp pains. ### Nose Coldness of tip of ### Relationships Compare Cantharis (more violent urinary tenesmus), Urtica urens (similar urticaria less mental); complementary Natrum muriaticum. ### Relationships Complementary: Nat. viur. The “chronic,” Apis.; also Baryta carb. Inimical. Rhus. ### Respiratory Hoarseness ; dyspnoea, breathing hurried and difficult. CEdema of ### Skin Rosy, tense, puffy swellings (urticaria) with intolerable itching and stinging; worse warmth of bed, better cold; bites and stings with rapid rosy edema. ### Skin Swellings after bites ; sore, sensitive. Stinging. Erysipelas, with sensitiveness and swelling, rosy hue. Urticaria. Carbuncles, with burning, stinging pain. [Ars.; Anthrac.] Sudden puffing up of whole body. ### Sleep Very drowsy. Dreams full of care and toil. Screams and sudden starting during ### Stomach Sore feeling. Thristless. Vomiting of food. Craving for milk. [Rhus.] ### Throat Tongue feels scalded, red hot, trembling. Gums swollen. Lips swollen, especially upper. Membrane of mouth and throat glossy, as if varnished. Red, shining, and puffy, like erysipelas. ### Throat Constricted, stinging pains. Uvula swollen, sac-like. Throat swollen, inside and out ; tonsils swollen, puffy, fiery red. Ulcers on tonsils. Fiery red margin around leathery membrane. Sensation of fishbone in ### Throat Bright red, puffy, uvula baggy like a sac; stinging pains on swallowing; tongues scalded feeling. ### Urinary Scanty, bloody urine with last-drops strangury; soreness and bruised feeling in the region; incontinence from irritation. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/apis-mellifica --- ## Apium Graveolens (Common Celery) ### Abdomen Sore ; sharp sticking pain as if stool was coming on; diarrbcea, sharp pain in left iliac region going over to right. Nausea increases with pains. ### Dose First to thirtieth potency. APOCYNUM ANDROS. — APOCYNUM CANNABINUli 75 ### Eyes Itching and smarting in inner canthus of left eye. ### Female Sharp sticking pains in both ovarian regions, left, better bending over, by lying on left side, zidth legs flexed; nipples tender. ### Guiding symptoms Obstinate retention of urine, throbbing headaches and heartburn, have been produced by celery. Swelling of throat, face, and hands. Dysmenorrhiea. ### Head Depressed; energetic; feeling of fidgets; cannot sleep from thinking. Headache; better eating. Eyeballs feel sunken. Itching in ### Respiratory Tickling, dry cough. Intense eonstric-- tion over slcrnuyn, with drawing feeling through to back on lying down. ### Skin Itching blotches ; burning, creeping sensation. Profuse discharge from .granulating ulcers. Urticaria with shuddering. ### Sleep Not fatigued from loss of sleep ### Sleep Unrefreshed: sleepless. Wakes from 1 to 3 A. M. Hungry for apples. Eating does not help Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/apium-graveolens --- ## Apocynum Androsae Mifolium (Dogbane) Abbreviation: Dogbane ### Dose Tincture and first potency. ### Extremities Pain in all joints. Pain in toes and soles. Swelling of hands and feet. Profuse sweat, with much heat in soles. Tingling pain in toes. Cramps in soles. Violent heat in soles. [Sulph.] ### Guiding symptoms The rheumatic symptoms of this remedy promise most curative results. Its pains are of a wandering nature, with much stiffness and drawing. Everything smells and tastes like honey. Worms. Trembling and prostration. Swollen sensations. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/apocynum-androsae-mifolium --- ## Apocynum Cannabinum (Indian Hemp) ### Dose Tincture (ten drops three times daily) and in acute alcoholism 1 dram of decoction in 4 oz. water. ### Female Anienorrhoea, with bloating; metrorrhagia with nausea ; fainting, vital depression. Haemorrhages at change of life. ### Guiding symptoms This IS one of our most efficient remedies, in dropsies and urinary troubles, especially suppression and strangury. In the digestive complaints of Bright's disease, with the nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, difficult breathing, it will be found of frequent service. The dropsy is characterized by great thirst and gastric irritability. Arhythmia. Mitral and tricuspid regurgitation. Acute alcoholism. ### Heart Tricuspid regurgitation; rapid and feeble cardiac action, low arterial tension, pulsating jugulars, genera! cyanosis and general dropsy. ### Mind Bewildered. Low spirited. ### Modalities Worse, cold weather ; cold drinks ; uncovering. ### Nose Long-continued sneezing. Snuffles of children. [Sambucus.] Chronic nasal catarrh with tendency to acute stuffiness with dull, sluggish memory. Dull headache. Takes cold easily, nostrils become congested and blocked up easily. 76 apocynum cannabinum ### Relationships Cymarin is the active principle of Apcc}n., lowers pulse rate and increases blood-pressure. Strophautlius (extreme cardiac depression with intense gastric disturbance; dropsy). Aralia hispada (useful in urinary disorders, especially with dropsy). Apis., Arsenic; DiqitoL; Ihileb. ### Respiratory Short, dry cough. Respiration short and unsatisfactory. Sighing. Oppression about e])igastrium and ### Sleep Great restlessness and little ### Stomach Abdomen bloated. Ascites. Stool. — IFatery, flatulent, with soreness in anus ; worse after eating. Urine. — Bladder much distended. Turbid, hot urine, with thick mucus and burning in urethra, after urinating. Little expulsive power. Dribbling. Strangury. ### Stomach Nausea, with drowsiness. Thirst on walking. Excessive vomiting. Food or water is immediately ejected. Dull, heavy, sick feeling. Oppression in epigastrium and chest, impeding breathing. Sensation of sinking in Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/apocynum-cannabinum --- ## Apomorphia ### Dose Third to sixth potency. ### Guiding symptoms (Alkaloid from Decomposition of Morphine by Hydrochloric Acid) The chief power of this drug lies in the speedy and effective vomiting that it produces, which becomes a strong guiding symptom to its homoeopathic use. Pneumonia with vomiting. Combined alcoholism^ with constant nausea, constipation, insomnia. Head and ### Head Empty retching and headache; heartburn; pain between shoulder-blades. Reflex vomiting — pregnancy. Seasickness. Non-Homoeopathic Uses. — The hypodermic injection of onc-sixteenth of a grain will cause full emesis within five to fifteen minutes in an adult. Do not use in opium poisoning. Apomorph. hypodermically, onethirtieth grain or loss, acts as a safe and sure hypnotic. Acts well even in delirium. Sleep comes on in half an hour. ### Stomach Vertigo. Dilated pupils. Nausea and vomitinff. Violent inclination to vomit Hot feeling all over body, especially Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/apomorphia --- ## Apts Mellifica ### Eyes Heat, throbbing, distensive pains, better on pressure, and worse on motion. Sudden stabbing pains. Dull, heavy sensation in occiput, as from a blow, extending to neck (better on pressure), accompanied with sexual excitement. Bores head into pillow and screams out. ### Eyes Lids swollen, red, cedematous, everted, inflamed; burn and sting. Conjunctiva bright red, puffy. Lachrymetion hot. Photophobia. Sudden piercing pains. Pain around orbits. Serous exudation, oedema, and sharp pains. Suppurative inflammation of ### Eyes Keratitis with intense chemosis of ocular conjunctiva. Staphyloma of cornea following suppurative inflammation. Styes, also prevents their recurrence. 72 ### Guiding symptoms The very characteristic effects of the sting of the bee furnish unerring indications for its employment in disease. Swelling or puffing up of various parts, oedema, red rosy hue, stinging pains, soreness, intolerance of heat, and afternoon aggravation are some of the general guiding symptoms. Erysipelatous inflammations, dropsical effusions and anasarca, acute, inflammation of kidneys, and other parenchymatous tissues are characteristic pathological states corresponding to Apis. Extreme sensitiveness to touch and general soreness is marked. Constricted sensations. Sensation as of something torn off in the interior of the body. ### Head Whole brain feels very tired. Vertigo with sneezing, worse on lying or closing ### Mind Apathy, indifference, and unconsciousness. Awkzvard; drops things readily. Stupor, with sudden sharp cries and startings. Stupor alternating with erotic mania. Sensation of dying. Listless ; cannot think clearly. Jealous, fidgety, hard to please. Sudden shrill, piercing screams. Whining, Tearfulness. Jealousy, fright, rage, vexation, grief. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/apts-mellifica --- ## Aquilegia (Columbine) ### Dose First potency. 78 ARAGALLUS LAMBERTI, — ARALIA RACKMOSA ### Female Menses scanty, with dull, painful, nightly increasing pressure in the right lumbar region. ### Guiding symptoms A remedy for hysteria. Globus and clavus hystericus. Women at climaxis, with vomiting of green substance, espccialy, in the 'morning. Sleeplessness. Nervous trembling of body; sensitive to light and noise. Dirsmenorrhoea of young girls. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/aquilegia --- ## Aragallus Lamberti (White Loco Weed — Rattle Weed) ### Compare Astra (/alius and Oxytropis, two varieties of Loco Weed; also Baryta. ### Dose Sixth and two hundredth potencies. ### Eyes Cracking of lower lip. ### Guiding symptoms Acts principally on nervous system, producing a bewildered, confused state. Symptoms of incoordination and paralysis. Locomotor ataxia. Tired in the morning. ### Head Diplopia. Burning in ### Mind Great depression ; worse in morning or evening. Cannot study. Cross, irritable, restless. Bewildered. Mental confusion and apathy. Desires to be alone. Difficulty in concentrating mind, absent-minded. Lack of ambition. Defective expression in writing. Restlessness and aimless wandering. Must concentrate his mind on vvalking. ### Throat Aches. Feels full. Sore with nausea. Pharynx dark, swollen, glazed. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/aragallus-lamberti --- ## Aralia Racemosa (American Spikenard) ### Chest Attack ends with copious expectoration of tough, frothy mucus. Worse at night.) Ars. iod.; Naphthaline; Cepa; Rosa; Sabad.; Sinapis. ### Compare Pccien — Scallop (humid asthma. Quick, labored breathing. Constriction of chest, especially right side. Asthma preceded by coryza and burning in throat and ### Dose Tincture, to third potency. ### Female Menses suppressed ; leucorrhoea four-smelling, acrid, with pressing-down pain. Lochia suppressed, with tympanites. ### Guiding symptoms Ihis is a remedy for asthmatic conditions, with cough aggravated on lying down. Extreme sensitiveness to draughts. Diarrhcca, prolapse of ### Modalities Worse about 11 p. m. (cough). ### Respiratory Dry cough coming on after first sleep, about middle of night. Asthma on lying down at night with spasmodic cough; worse after first sleep, with ticklihg in thtoat. Constriction of che.st; feels as if a fore^H body were in ### Throat Obstruction worse in spring. Hay-fever; frequent sneemng. AKALtA RACEMOSA — ARANEA DIADEMA 79 The least current of air causes sneezing, with copious watery, excoriating nasal discharge, of salty acrid taste. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/aralia-racemosa --- ## Aranea Diadema (Papal-Cross Spider) ### Eyes worse in damp weather. Sudden violent pain in teeth at night immediately after lying down. 82 ### Guiding symptoms All spider poisons powerfully affect the nervous system. (See tarentula, Mygale, etc.) All symptoms of Aranea are characterized by periodicity, and coldness, and great susceptibility to dampness. It is the remedy for the constitution favorable to malarial poisoning, where every damp day or place favors chilliness. Patient feels cold to the very bones. Coldness not relieved by anything. Feeling as if parts were enlarged and heavier. Wake up at night with hands feeling twice their natural size. Spleen swollen. ### Head Pain in right trifacial nerve from periphery inwards. Confusion; better by smoking in open air. Heat and flickering in Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/aranea-diadema --- ## Argentum Metallicum (Silver) Abbreviation: Silver ### Abdomen worse by jarring. ### Back Severe backache ; must walk bent, with oppression of ### Chest worse left side. Alteration in timbre of voice ### Chest Urine. — Diuresis. Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor. Frequent urination. Polyuria. ARGENTUM METALIJCUM — ARGENTUM NITRICUM R3 ### Compare Selen.; Alum,; Platina; Stannum; Antpelopsis. (Chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients.) ### Dose Third to sixth trituration. ### Extremities Rheumatic affections of joints, especially elbow and knee. Legs weak and trembling. Involuntary contractions of fingers, partial paralysis of forearm; writer’s cramp. Swelling of ankles. ### Female 0\aries feel too large. Bearing-down pain. Prolapse of womb. Eroded spongy cervix. Leucorrhoea, foul, excoriating. Palliative in scirrhus of uterus. Pain in left ovary. Climacteric haemorrhage. Sore feeling throughout ### Guiding symptoms The chief action is centered qn the articulations and their component elements, bones, cartila#?es, and ligaments. The larynx is also a special center for this drug. Mental. — Hurried feeling; time passes slowly; melancholy. ### Head Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side, gradually increasing and ceasing suddenly. Scalp very tender to touch. Vertigo, with intoxicated feeling, on looking at running water. Head feels empty, hollow. Eyelids red and thick. Exhausting coryza, with sneezing. Pain in facial bones. ### Male Crushed pain in testicles. Seminal emissions, without sexual excitement. ### Modalities IVorse from touch, toward noon. Better in open air; cough at night when lying down (opposite Hyoscy.). ### Relationships Antidotes: Mercur.; Puls. ### Respiratory Hoarseness Aphonia. Total loss of voice of professional singers. Larynx feels sore and raw. Rasy expectoration, looking like boiled starch. Feeling of ^aw spot near supra sternal fossa. Worse from use of voice. Cough from laughing. Hectic fever at noon. On reading aloud, must hem and hawk. Great weakness of ### Throat Raw, hawking, gray, jelly-like mucus, and throat s<)re' on coughing. Profuse and easy morning expectoration. Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/argentum-metallicum --- ## Argentum Nitric Um ### Ears Aching in frontal eminence, with enlarged fceT mg in corresponding eye. Boring pain ; better on tight bandaging and pressure. Itching of scalp. Hemicrania; l)ones of head feel as if separated. Diseases from linusiial or long-continued mental exertion. ### Eyes Inner canthi szvollcn and red. Spots before the vision. Blurred vision. Photophobia in warm room. Purulent ophthalmia. Great swelling of conjunctiva; discharge abundant and purulent. Chronic ulceration of margin of lids; sore, thick, swollen. Unable to keep eyes fixed steadily. Eye-strain from sewing; worse in warm room. [Nat. mur.] Paretic condition of ciliary muscle. Acute granular conjunctivitis. Cornea opaque. Ulcer in cornea. ### Face Sunken, old, pale, and bluish. Old man’s look; tight drawing of skin over bones. ### Guiding symptoms Pains increase and decrease gradually. Flatulent state and permaturely aged look. Explosive belching, especially in neurotics. Upper abdominal affcctions't)rought on by undue mental exertion. ### Head Headacfie with coldness and trembling. Emotional disturbances cause appearance of hemicranial attacks. Sense of expansion. Brain-fag, with general debility and trembling. Headache from mental exertion, from dancing. Vertigo, with buzzing in ### Mind Thinks his understanding will and must fail. Fearful and nervous; impulse to jump out of window. Faintish and tremulous. Melancholic ; apprehensive of serious disease. Time passes slowly. [Cann. ind.] Memory weak. Errors of perception. Impulsive ; wants to do things in a hurry. [Lilium'] Peculiar mental im-' pulses. ### Nose Loss of smell. Itching. Ulcers in septum. Coryza, with chilliness, lachrymation, and headache. . Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/argentum-nitric-um --- ## Argentum Nitricum (Nitrate of Silver) ### Abdomen Colic, with flatulent distention Stitchy ulcerative pain on left side of stomach, below short ribs. StooL — Watery, noisy, flatulent; green, like chopped spinach, with shreddy mucus and enormous distention of ### Abdomen .) Symptoms like those of Poison-Oak and proved in fluid extract an excellent remedy for this. Argent, phosph. (An excellent diuretic in dropsy.) Argent, oxyd. (Chlorosis with menorrhagia and diarrhoea.) ### Abdomen very offensive. Diarrhoea immediately after eating or drinking. Fluids go right thfough him; after sweets. After any emotion with flatulence, *' Itching of anus. Urine. — Urine passes unconsciously, day and night. Urethra inflamed, with pain, burning, itching; pain as from a splinter. Urine scanty and dark. Emission of a few drops after having finished. Divided stream. Early stage of gonorrhoea; profuse discharge and terrible cutting pains; bloody urine. ### Back Much pain. Spine sensitive with nocturnal pains, [Oxal. acid.] paraplegia; posterior spinal sclerosis. ### Chest Many people in a room seem to take away his breath. ### Compare Ars.' Merc.; Phos.; Pulsat.; Argent, cyanatufn (angina pectoris, asthma, spasm of (esophagus) ; Argent, iodat. (throat disorders, hoarseness, gland af- ARGENTUM NITRICUM — ARNICA 87 fected). Frotargol (gonorrhoea after acute stage 2 per cent, solution; syphilitic mucous patches, chancres and chancroids, 10 per cent, solution applied twice a day; ophthalmia neonatorum, 2 drops of 10 per cent, solution). Aristolochia Serpcntaria. (Symptoms of intestinal tract; colliquative diarrhoea, meteorism. Flatulent dyspepsia. Brain congestion. Distention and cutting pains in ### Dose Third to thirtieth potency. Solution in water preferable to lower triturations; unless fresh, these readily decompose into the oxide. ### Extremities Cannot walk with eyes closed. Trembling, with general debility. Paralysis, with mental and abdominal symptoms. Rigidity of calves. Debility in calves especially. Walks and stands unsteadily, especially when unobserved. ### Female Gastialgia at beginning of menses. Intense spasm of chest muscles. Orgasms at night. Nervous erethism at change of life. Leucorrhoea profuse, with erosion of cervix; bleeding easily. Uterine haemorrhage, two weeks after menses. ### Fever Chills with nausea. Chilly when uncovered, yet feels smothered if wrapped .up. ### Male Impotence. Erection fails when coition is attempted. Cancer-like ulcers. Desire wanting. Genitals shrivel. Coition painful. 86 ### Modalities fForse, warmth in any form ; at night ; from cold food; sweets; after eating; at menstrual period; from emotions, left side. Better^ from eructation; fresh air; cold; ptessure. ### Mouth Gums tender and bleed easily. Tongue has prominent papillae; tip is red and painful. Pain in sound ### Relationships Antidote : Nat. mtir. ### Respiratory High notes cause cough. Chronic hoar.seness. Suffocative cough, as if from a hair in ### Skin Brown, tense, and hard. Drawing in skin, as from a spider-web, or dried albuminous substance, withered and dried up. ### Sleep Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination; horrible dreams of snakes, and of sexual gratification. Drowsy stupor. ### Stomach Enormous distention. Ulceration of stomach, with radiating pain. Desire for cheese. ### Stomach Belching accompanies most gastric ailments. Nausea, retching, vomiting of glairy mucus. Flatulence; painful swelling of pit. Gnawing ulcerating pain ; burning and constriction. Ineffectual effort at eructation. Great craving for szvccts. Gastritis of drunkards. Ulcerative pain in left side under ribs. Trembling and throbbing in ### Teeth Taste coppery, like ink. ### Text In this drug the neurotic effects are very marked, many brain and spinal symptoms presenting themselves which give certain indications for its homoeopathic employment. Symptoms of inco-ordination, loss of control and want of balance everywhere, mentally and physically; trembling in affected parts. It produces violent inflammation of the throat, and a marked gastro-enteritis. Very characteristic is the great desire for sweets, the splinter-like pains, and free muco-purulent discharge in the inflamed and ulcerated mucous membranes. Sensation as if a part were expanding and other errors of perception are characteristic. Withered up and dried constitutions present a favorable field for its action. 84 ### Throat Much thick mucus in throat and mouth causes hawking. Raw, rough and sore. Sensation of a splinter in throat on swallowing. Dark redness of ### Throat Catarrh of smokers, with tickling as of hair in ### Throat Strangulated feeling. ### Throat Dyspnoea. Chest feels as if a bar were around it. Palpitation, pulse irregular and intermittent; worse lying on right side. [Alumen.] Painful spots in Source page: https://gentlepills.com/materia-medica/argentum-nitricum --- ## Arnica (Leopard’s Bane) ### Abdomen Stitches under false ribs. Distended ; offensive flatus. Sharp thrusts through ### Blood Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots. Tendency to haemorrhage and low-fever states. Ten- 88 ### Blood Nose feels sore; cold. ### Blood Pain in stomach during ### Compare An/ostis (externally after injuries) ; Aeon.; Bapt.; Beilis; Hainan.; Rhus. ### Dose First to twelfth potency. Locally, the tincture, but should never be applied hot or at all when abrasions or cuts are present. ### Ears Dullness of hearing after concussion. Pain in cartilages of ears as if bruised. ### Ears Blood from ### Ears Noises in ear caused by rush of blood to the ### Extremities Gout. Great fear of beig touched or approached. Pain in back and limbs, as if bruised or beaten. Sprained and dislocated feeling. Soreness after overexertion. Everything on which he lies seems too hard. Deathly coldness of forearm. Cannot walk 90 ARNICA — ARSKNICUM ALBUM erect, on account of bruised pain in pelvic region. Rheumatism l)egins low down and works up. [Ledum.] ### Eyes Diplopia from traumatism, muscular paralysis, retinal hemorrhage. Bruised, sore feeling in eyes after close work. Must keep eyes open. Dizzy on closing them. Feel tired and weary after sight-seeing, moving picttires, etc. ### Face Sunken : very red. Heat in lips. Herpes in ### Female Bruised parts after labor. Violent afterpains. Uterine h