Commonly_used_Remedies
MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS [Merc-s]
ACONITUM NAPELLUS [Acon]
General A state of fear, anxiety, anguish of mind and body. PHYSICAL AND MENTAL RESTLESSNESS, fright, is the most characteristic manifestation of ACONITE. ACUTE, SUDDEN, AND VIOLENT INVASION, WITH FEVER, call for it. Does not want to be touched. Sudden and great sinking of strength. Complaints and tension caused by exposure to DRY, COLD WEATHER, draught of cold air, checked perspiration, also complaints from VERY HOT WEATHER, especially gastro-intestinal disturbances, etc. First remedy in inflammation, inflammatory fevers. Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly.
BRYONIA [Bry]
General Acts on all serous membranes and the viscera they contain. Aching in every muscle. The general character OF THE PAIN HERE PRODUCED IS A STITCHING, TEARING; WORSE BY MOTION, BETTER REST. These characteristic stitching pains, greatly aggravated by any motion, are found everywhere, but especially in the chest; worse pressure. MUCOUS MEMBRANES ARE ALL DRY. The Bryonia patient is irritable; has vertigo from raising the head, pressive headache; dry, parched lips, mouth; excessive thirst, bitter taste, sensitive epigastrium, and feeling of a stone in the stomach; stools large, dry, hard; dry cough; rheumatic pains and swellings; dropsical effusions into synovial and serous membranes.
ARSENICUM ALBUM [Ars]
General A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease make its Homeopathic employment constant and certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful application. Among these the all-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and RESTLESSNESS, WITH NIGHTLY AGGRAVATION, are most important. GREAT EXHAUSTION AFTER THE SLIGHTEST EXERTION. This, with the peculiar irritability of fibre, gives the characteristic IRRITABLE WEAKNESS. BURNING PAINS.
MERCURIUS SULPHURICUS [Merc-s]
General Watery stools, burning in anus. Sore tip of tongue. OEdema of legs. Sneezing from direct rays of sun. Diarrhoea early in the morning; stool bursts out in a hot stream of yellow matter. Intense evacuations, like rice-water. Scanty, clear, scalding urine. INTENSE DYSPNOEA; must sit up. Respiration rapid, short; burning in chest. HYDROTHORAX. [ARS.] Cardiac pain and weakness.
NATRUM MURIATICUM [Nat-m]
General
Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system,
producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted
special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. It
has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and
glands. Belladonna always is associated with hot, red
skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids,
excited mental state, hyperaesthesia of all senses,
delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness
of mouth and throat with aversion to water, NEURALGIC
PAINS that come and go suddenly. [Oxytropis.] HEAT,
REDNESS, THROBBING AND BURNING.
GREAT CHILDREN'S REMEDY. Epileptic spasms followed by
nausea and vomiting. SCARLET FEVER and also prophylactic.
NO THIRST, ANXIETY OF FEAR. Belladonna stands for VIOLENCE
of attack and SUDDENNESS of onset.
Mind Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed
by spectres and visions.
LEDUM [Led]
General Affects especially the rheumatic diathesis, going through all the changes, from functional pain to altered secretions and deposits of solid, earthy matter in the tissues. The Ledum rheumatism begins in feet, and travels upward. It affects also the skin, producing an eruption like Poison-oak, and is antidotal thereto, as well as to stings of insects. THERE IS A GENERAL LACK OF ANIMAL HEAT, and yet heat of bed is intolerable. For punctured wounds, produced by sharp-pointed instruments or bites, particularly if the WOUNDED PARTS ARE COLD, this remedy is indicated.. Tetanus with twitching of muscles near wound. Lacerated ,punctured wounds.
ARNICA [Arn]
Generally Produces conditions upon the system quite similar to those resulting from injuries, falls, blows, contusions. Tinnitus aurium. PUTRID PHENOMENA. Septic conditions; prophylactic of pus infection. Apoplexy, red, full face. It is especially suited to cases when any injury, however remote, seems to have caused the present trouble. AFTER TRAUMATIC INJURIES, overuse of any organ, strains. Arnica is disposed to cerebral congestion. Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with impoverished blood,cardiac dropsy with dyspnoea. A muscular tonic. Traumatism of grief, remorse or sudden realization of financial loss. Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained. Bed feels too hard. Marked effect on the blood. Affects the venous system inducing stasis. Ecchymosis and haemorrhages. Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots. Tendency to haemorrhage and low-fever states. Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions abscesses that do not mature. SORE, LAME, BRUISED FEELING
NITRICUM ACIDUM [Nit-ac]
Special
seat of action on the outlets of the body where the
mucous membrane and skin meet; these pain AS FROM SPLINTERS.
STICKING PAINS. Marked improvement of all symptoms while
riding in a carriage. Acts best on the dark complexioned
and past middle life. Syphilis, after abuse of Mercury.
Pains appear and disappear quickly. [BELL.] Hydrogenoid
constitution. Sycotic remedy. Blisters and ulcers in
mouth, tongue, genitals; bleed easily. Fissures, with
pain during stool, as if rectum were torn. All discharges
very offensive, especially urine, faeces, and perspiration.
Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold easily
and disposed to diarrhoea. Excessive physical irritability.
Cachexia, due to syphilis, scrofula, intermittent fever
with liver involvement and anemia, etc. Gravel; arthritis.
Capillary bleeding after curettage.
Mind IRRITABLE, hateful, vindictive, headstrong. Hopeless
, despair. Sensitive to noise, pain, touch, jar. Fear
of death.
