Materia Medica
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 [...]
SILICEA (Sil.) – سیلیشیا – سیلیکا – سلیشیا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SILICEA (Sil.) - سیلیشیا - سیلیکا - سلیشیا
CHILLY BUT PERSPIRES, SENSITIVE, REFINED
MENTAL
SENSITIVE, REFINED, TIMID, yielding, reserved but obstinate.
Prostration of mind. Lack of mental stamina. Difficult concentration.
Weakness of memory for mental labor. Fear of literary work. Dread of work.
Timidity appearing in public. Fear that their mind won’t be able to withstand the stress of appearing in public.
Undertakes nothing due to fear he will fail.
Fear of pointed objects, esp. INJECTIONS, PINS.
PHYSICAL
Develops tumors, fibromas, breast cysts, swollen glands, warts which are usually hard. Caries of bones and spine. Scoliosis. Curvatures. Hip joint disease.
SENSITIVE TO COLD. General aggravation when becoming cold, esp. the head or feet. > wrapping up or covering.
Tendency to take cold.
PERSPIRATION - offensive acrid esp. feet.
CONSTIPATION, stool is hard, rectal muscles inactive. Stool RECEDES.
Nails are brittle, white spots on nails. Ingrowing toenails.
Stricture, inflammation of lachrymal duct.
Sensation of hair on the tongue.
Unhealthy tendency to suppuration. read more [...]
SEPIA (Sep.) – سیپیا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SEPIA (Sep.) - سیپیا
The word to describe Sepia is stagnation. The emotions are still and stagnant. There is indifference and detachment which lead to the characteristic aversion to coition, the irritability towards the husband and the aversion to the family. The physical exertion and dancing seem to stimulate the patient. The leucorrhoea and the aversion to sex are the main characteristics on the physical level.
STAGNATION OF EMOTIONS, AVERSION TO COITION, DETACHEMENT
MENTAL
STILLNESS of emotions and mind, DETACHED.
INDIFFERENCE to loved ones. Aversion to company, ameliorated when alone. Aversion to husband, to members of family, to going out.
Great sadness and weeping <consolation. Life has no joy.
Feels stimulation and amelioration through DANCING, PHYSICAL EXERTION, fast walking.
Anger and irritability <after coition, consolation, exertion, when spoken to.
Spiteful, malicious, critical of others.
Happy during thunders and lightning.
Fear of poverty.
PHYSICAL
Affects venous circulation and female pelvic organs.
LEUCORRHOEA esp. in young girls.
DIMINISHED SEXUAL DESIRE. AVERSION read more [...]
SELENIUM (Sel.) – سلینیم – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SELENIUM (Sel.) - سلینیم
IMPOTENCY, PROSTATE AFFECTIONS WITH EMISSION OF SEMEN DURING STOOL
MENTAL
Mental prostration, confusion, irritability esp. after emissions.
Weakness of memory, cannot concentrate. Dreads work.
Aversion to company and intimate friends.
Lascivious but impotent.
Dipsomania before menses.
PHYSICAL
Prostate affections. Inflammation, induration, swelling, enlargement of prostate esp. senile.
EMISSION OF PROSTATIC FLUID OR SEMEN DURING STOOL, during walking or sitting, during sleep.
Dribbling of urine after stool and urine.
Prematurely old - specific parts of the body seem old (e.g. sexual organs, thighs).
Falling of hair from different parts of the body (genitalia, eye, head).
Weakness is often sudden and is worse after emissions, in warmth, heat, warm weather, exertion, coition, after fever.
Sexual dreams with nocturnal emissions, wakes from the dream with incomplete erection.
Constipation with difficult, unsatisfactory stool and ineffectual urging.
During the night he thinks of business of the day.
MODALITIES
AGG.: emissions, tea, alcohol, heat, sun, read more [...]
SECALE CORNUTUM (Sec.) – سیکیل کار – سکیل کار – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SECALE CORNUTUM (Sec.) - سیکیل کار - سکیل کار
ACTS MAINLY ON THE CIRCULATION
MENTAL
Shameless, exposes the person. Wants to be naked.
Raging, violent, muttering, maniacal delirium.
Restlessness. Discouraged and anxious. Apathy. Suicidal disposition to throw himself from a height.
Senility. Confusion of mind.
PHYSICAL
Hot remedy. Aggravated by warmth both generally and locally.
Although he is hot and does not want covers, the skin feels cold to touch.
Icy coldness with sweat and blueness but cannot bear to be covered, desires to uncover.
Chill and coldness of extremities but uncovering ameliorates.
GANGRENE of any part of the body esp. distal parts of extremities (foot, toes, hand, fingers). Senile gangrene. Gangrenous swelling ulcers, eruptions, vesicles.
Gangrene of foot with burning, tearing pains.
Claudication. Cramps in legs while walking or from exertion.
Formication in thigh, fingers, hand, lower limbs, foot.
Haemorrhagic tendency (hematuria, epistaxis, purpura, metrorrhagia).
Epistaxis in young women, drunkards, old people. Dark, black blood, thin or clotted epistaxis. Often offensive.
MODALITIES
AGG.: read more [...]
SARSAPARILLA (Sars.) – سارسیپریلا – سرساپریلا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SARSAPARILLA (Sars.) – سارسیپریلا – سرساپریلا
MAINLY FOR URINARY TRACK INFECTIONS
MENTAL
Mental depression caused by the pains. Weeping before and during micturition.
Changeable mood, alternating.
Excitable, industrious during heat.
PHYSICAL
CYSTITIS WITH PAIN IN THE BLADDER and URETHRA AT THE CLOSE OF THE URINATION.
Frequent urging to urinate. Ineffectual urging.
Last part of urine is bloody with violent pain in the bladder. Burning pain after urination.
Can only pass urine while standing, dribbling while sitting but passes freely when standing.
Chills spread from the bladder. Coldness of back after urinating.
Sediment in urine.
Deep, bloody, burning cracks on bends of hands, fingers, thumb, feet.
Itching eruptions on the lids of eyes.
Retraction of nipples.
MODALITIES
AGG.: vomiting, bathing, motion of affected part, sexual excitement, bread, getting wet, night.
AMEL.: loosening clothing, haemorrhage, cold, standing.
DES.: juicy, refreshing things.
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS (Sang.) – سینگونیریا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS (Sang.) - سینگونیریا
COMPLAINTS ESPECIALLY HEADACHES > VOMITING
MENTAL
Delusions that people around her are talking rapidly.
LASSITUDE, indisposed to move or make any mental effort.
Delusion she was in some vehicle which was moving and jarring her, begs others to hold her.
Desires to be held.
Oversensitive to noise.
Irritable, morose.
PHYSICAL
Right - sided remedy affecting the head, liver, chest and right deltoid.
VOMITING AND NAUSEA accompany complaints. VOMITING AMELIORATES.
HEADACHE > VOMITING, sleep, passing flatus or eructation.
Headache starts from right occipital protuberance and extend to the eye.
Periodic headaches often every 7 days. Photophobia during headache.
PERIARTHRITIS OF SHOULDER JOINT < right arm and shoulder. Cannot raise the arm < AT NIGHT.
All arthritic complaints aggravated by wet weather.
Right-sided coryza (Ars.)
Sensitive to odors. Odors induce nausea, aggravate the hay fever.
Heat and burning of palms and soles. Uncovers the feet in bed at night.
Congestion of blood to head, chest and abdomen. Flushes of heat and general pulsations.
Redness read more [...]
SAMBUCUS NIGRA (Samb.) سمبوکس – سیمبوکس – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SAMBUCUS NIGRA (Samb.) سمبوکس - سیمبوکس
RESPIRATORY AFFECTIONS WITH EXCESSIVE PERSPIRATION
MENTAL
Suffocative attacks of asthma after fright.
Mental symptoms during perspiration (confusion, restlessness, starting, unconsciousness, anxiety).
Fear and anxiety during suffocative attacks.
PHYSICAL
Mostly a children's remedy.
Perspiration in bed before sleep and after waking. Perspiration of the affected parts only while awake. AS SOON AS HE GOES TO BED THE PERSPIRATION STOPS AND THE SKIN BECOMES DRY AND BURNING. Dry heat during sleep, profuse perspiration on waking. Perspiration with aversion to uncovering. General sweat except the head.
Wakes up after a few hours of sleep with dyspnea and profuse perspiration. The child wakes nearly suffocated, he cannot exhale the air.
Asthma, dyspnoea worse at night. Frequent attacks of dyspnoea or asthma at night, esp. after midnight, must spring out of bed. Bluish face in asthma.
Dry nose completely obstructed with suffocative feeling. Because of obstruction infants have difficulty in breastfeeding.
Kidney problems with asthmatic attacks. Kidney problems with oedematous, read more [...]
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