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SPONGIA TOSTA (Spong.) – سپونجیا ٹوسٹا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SPONGIA TOSTA (Spong.) - سپونجیا ٹوسٹا
RESPIRATORY AND HEART PROBLEMS
MENTAL
Weeping during heat.
Frightened easily at night, startled from sleep. Fear on waking.
Weeping, suicidal disposition during perspiration.
Terrified anxious expression of face.
Irresistible desire to sing, followed by sadness.
Anxiety about the future. Tired, loathing of life. Fear of death.
Despondent about loss of sexual power.
PHYSICAL
DRYNESS OF MUCOUS MEMBRANES (nose, larynx, throat, mouth).
Dryness of air passages "DRY AS A HORN".
Awakens in a fright and with dyspnoea, AS IF BREATHING THROUGH A SPONGE.
COUGH - dry, barking, rasping, whistling, "like a saw- driven through a pine board". > eating.
Heart: Combination of respiratory and heart problems. Alternating or concomitant states (dyspnoea during pain in hear, during rheumatism of heart, during palpitation).
Pain in heart < lying with the head low, >lying on right side.
Heat of face after motion.
Throat pain <sweets.
Rushing of blood to legs.
Glands are easily affected, indurations.
MODALITIES
AGG.: motion, cold read more [...]
SPIGELIA ANTHELMIA (Spig.) سپائجیلیا انتھیلمیا – سپائی جیلیا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SPIGELIA ANTHELMIA (Spig.) سپائجیلیا انتھیلمیا – سپائی جیلیا
NEURALGIA
MENTAL
FEAR OF INJECTIONS, PINS.
Delusions floating in air.
Restless and anxious. Easily offended.
Weak memory. Buried in thought, absorbed.
PHYSICAL
Affects the nerves: trifacial nerves, heart, eyes, teeth, left side.
PAINS: neuralgic, burning, like hot needles, jerking, tearing, stitching, extending to other parts.
HEART AFFECTIONS COMBINED WITH EYE COMPLAINTS.
Violent, audible palpitations < bending chest forward.
Angina pectoris < least motion, lying on left side, deep inspiration. Pain extends to back.
Eye: Glaucoma, intolerable pressing pain in eyeballs <left.
Sensation of enlargement. As if eye is too large for the orbit.
Body sensitive to touch. Touched part feels chilly.
MODALITIES
AGG.: smoke and tobacco, motion, cold, walking, dry weather, cold wet weather.
AMEL.: bathing- also the affected part, wet weather, lying (esp. right side), while eating, loosening the clothing.
DES.: Warm drinks, alcohol.
AVERS.: Coffee.
THE ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF HOMEOPATHIC REMEDY BISMUTH – George Vithoulkas
(George Vithoulkas describes the homeopathic remedy Bismuth, carefully distinguishing it from Arsenicum and Phosphorus.)
Bismuth is a remedy which should be thought of in cases where the focus of the problem lies in the stomach region. Severe stomach pain of whatever origin is a strong indicator for this remedy, particularly in cases of pure gastritis, and inflammation of the mucous lining of the stomach. The Bismuth patient’s face is earthy, pale, with blue rings around eyes; there is great thirst for cold drinks in the evening, nausea and pressure in stomach after eating with great drowsiness in the morning. He may experience flushes of heat over head and chest and feel prostrated. Any derangement in the health of the individual has repercussions on the stomach; thus Bismuth may be classed with the group of remedies whose common factor is a weakness in the stomach region, such as: Nat-c., Ant-c., Nux-v., Rob., Kali-c and Kreosotum
The characteristics of the Bismuth gastritis are severe burning, pinching, cramping or lancinating pains with violent vomiting of enormous quantities of food. The epigastric pain usually extends to the spine. The pain is temporarily read more [...]
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