Materia Medica
COLOCYNTHIS (Coloc.) – کالوسنتھس Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
COLOCYNTHIS (Coloc.) - کالوسنتھس
COLICY PAINS >BENDING DOUBLE, SUPPRESSED ANGER
MENTAL
EXTREMELY IRRITABLE, becomes ANGRY when QUESTIONED. Throws things away.
Ailments after anger with indignation. Ailments after mortification.
Aversion to company even of intimate friends. Indisposed to talk, aversion to answer.
PHYSICAL
Used in acute affections of the DIGESTIVE TRACT & INTESTINES, with long lasting action on NERVES. Pains appear in the larger nerves.
AILMENTS AFTER VEXATION OR ANGER (stomach pain, diarrhoea, cough, suppressed menses).
PAIN IN ABDOMEN or STOMACH: cramping, cutting, tearing, like electric shock darting through the anus. > BY BENDING DOUBLE, lying on abdomen, pressure and warmth.
Cramping pain in umbilicus > bending forward.
Great remedy for babies with colics /cramps.
Back pain and headache get worse when lying on back.
Shooting pains extending down to sciatic nerve < left.
MODALITIES
AGG.: lying on painless side, cold (becoming, air, drinks, food), fruit, after eating, motion, potatoes, lying on back.
AMEL.: DRAWING UP THE LOWER LIMBS, pressure, warm applications read more [...]
COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE (Colch.) – کالچیکم Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE (Colch.) - کالچیکم
GOUT, NAUSEA AND FAINTNESS FROM ODORS
MENTAL
SENSITIVE TO ALL EXTERNAL IMPRESSIONS, LIGHT, ODORS, NOISE, RUDENESS. Ailments from rudeness. Wildness in bright light, odors etc.
Prostration of mind. Dissatisfied with everything.
Memory weakness. Forgetful esp. of words while speaking.
Absent minded. Says nothing when questioned.
Picks at bed clothes. Restlessness during pregnancy.
Unconsciousness during fever.
PHYSICAL
SENSITIVE TO ODORS.
NAUSEA ON LOOKING, SMELLING OR EVEN THINKING OF FOOD.
Craving for various things, but averse to them when smelling them.
Sensitive to odors esp. of cooking food, fish, eggs, broth. Nausea from smell of fish, eggs, soup. Fainting from odors of eggs and fish. Nausea during pregnancy.
Tympanitic abdominal distention < after eating. Obstructed flatulence.
GOUT. Gouty pain of joints, gouty inflammation of eyes, gouty heart.
Pain in joints <slight motion. Gouty pains in joints extend from left to right.
Paralytic pain in extremities.
Arthritic nodosities.
Urine like black ink, bloody, albuminous.
Electric like shocks read more [...]
COCCULUS INDICUS (Cocc.) – کاکولس Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
COCCULUS INDICUS (Cocc.) - کاکولس انڈیکس
In Cocculus the vision is not adjusted as the person is moving. The accommodation of the eye is slow resulting to dizziness, headaches, vomiting and vertigo. They are very sensitive to loss of sleep.
AILMENTS FROM NIGHT - WATCHING OR LOSS OF SLEEP ESPECIALLY VERTIGO
MENTAL
AILMENTS FROM CARES ABOUT OTHERS.
ANXIETY from LOSS OF SLEEP and NIGHT WATCHING.
Slowness of perception. Dullness, answers slowly.
Profound sadness. Sits as if wrapped in deep, sad thoughts. Sentimental.
Intolerant of contradiction, easily offended.
Anxiety about health and health of relatives. Anxiety others for.
PHYSICAL
Disturbances of the sensorium and cerebrospinal axis. Slowness, slow reflexes, slow accommodation of eye. NERVOUS WEAKNESS. AILMENTS FROM NIGHT-WATCHING.
VERTIGO FROM NIGHT-WATCHING < MOTION OF EYES, moving objects. Vertigo with tendency to fall sideways.
NAUSEA / VOMITING on motion, from riding in a carriage, car or train, from thought or smell of food. SEA-SICKNESS.
The slowness of the nervous system can reach to the state of painless paralysis. Paralytic weakness, read more [...]
CINA (Cina) – سینا Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CINA (Cina) - سینا
The irritation of the nervous system in Cina is such that they cannot have peace. We see the irritation in all levels. In the mental level there’s irritability and capriciousness and on the physical level we see itching, grinding of teeth, convulsions. Imagine the irritation of an organism full of worms.
IRRITATION OF NERVOUS SYSTEM
MENTAL
EXTREME CAPRICIOUSNESS esp. in CHILDREN. Aversion to being TOUCHED, caressed, approached.
REJECTING EVERYTHING OFFERED. Striking, throws things away.
Shrieking on waking, during sleep, before convulsions.
Weeping when carried.
PHYSICAL
Nervous erethism.
MAINLY A REMEDY FOR WORMS.
CONVULSIONS FROM WORMS, from anger. Convulsions of extensor muscles.
Constantly PICKING AND BORING AT THE NOSE.
ITCHING of nose. RUBS the nose constantly.
Grinding of teeth during sleep.
Ravenous appetite soon after eating. Capricious, changeable appetite. Appetite in unusual time.
Sleeps in knee-chest position.
MODALITIES
AGG.: pressure, pepper.
AMEL.: lying on abdomen, motion.
DES.: many things, cold drinks, bread
AVERS.: milk, mother’s read more [...]
CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA (Cimic.) – سمی سی فیوگا ریسی موسا Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA (Cimic.) - سمی سی فیوگا ریسی موسا
CHRONIC HEADACHES AND RHEUMATIC COMPLAINTS
MENTAL
Incessant talking, loquacity changing from one subject to another. Loquacious delirium.
Restlessness and uneasiness, difficult concentration, cannot fix attention. Jerky.
Dullness with headache.
Delusion that heavy black clouds envelope her, that she’s encaged in wires, that sees sheeps, rats.
Fear of insanity esp. in menopause. Very suspicious, fear of being poisoned or murdered, of impending danger. Fear of death and rats.
2nd stage: Depressed, gloomy, miserable, with frequent sighing.
PHYSICAL
Women’s remedy. Complaints during the climacteric period. Cramp in uterus, bearing down pains, ovarian neuralgia.
Menses irregular, profuse or scanty. More pain the more the flow.
Congestion of head, restlessness, sadness from suppressed menses.
Menses from suppressed emotions or suppressed cold. Unable to open the lids during menses.
Tendency to abortion. After-effects of abortion.
Nausea in pregnancy.
Headache as if the vertex is pressing outward. Fullness in vertex with vertigo.
Sore read more [...]
CICUTA VIROSA (Cic.) – سیکوٹا وروسا Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CICUTA VIROSA (Cic.) - سیکوٹا وروسا
CONVULSIONS FROM INJURIES OF HEAD WITH FRIGHTFUL DISTORTIONS OF THE FACE
MENTAL
FRIGHTFUL DISTORTIONS OF THE FACE, DURING CONVULSIONS.
Convulsions with bizarre distortions.
Shrieking, screaming, shouting, fear before convulsions.
Childishness with strabismus. Foolish jesting.
Retardation esp. after head injury. Weakness of memory.
Aversion to company. Answers abruptly when spoken to.
Moaning and groaning during sleep.
Affected profoundly after hearing horrible things, by sad stories.
Delirium with singing and dancing. Dementia.
PHYSICAL
Affections of the nervous system. Indicated in epilepsy, mental retardation, trismus, tetanus and convulsions. Clenching of thumbs in epilepsy.
VIOLENT CONVULSIONS, WITH FRIGHTFUL DISTORTIONS OF FACE, with bizarre distortions.
OPISTHOTONOS. ARCHING OF THE BACK.
Head drawn backward, drawn sideways.
Convulsions after injuries esp. head.
Strabismus.
Vomiting during or alternating with convulsion.
Sudden jerks and spasms through head, stomach, extremities, forearms, fingers. Chorea.
Spinal chorea.
Eruptions on read more [...]
CHINA OFFICINALIS CINCHONA OFFICINALIS (Chin.) – چائنا – سنکونا Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CHINA OFFICINALIS / CINCHONA OFFICINALIS (Chin.) - چائنا - سنکونا
This is a touchy person. The nervous system is in a state of irritation. Touch aggravates them in the physical and emotional levels. They react badly with the least offence and they are aggravated by touch.
TOUCHY, AILMENTS AFTER LOSS OF VITAL FLUIDS, DISTENTION
MENTAL
TOUCHY, EASILY OFFENDED.
FEAR OF ANIMALS.
Great imagination. Abundant ideas at evening or night. They fantasize about all sorts of things and play the hero in these fantasies. Mirth, liveliness at night esp. after midnight.
Oversensitive to noise.
Dullness of mind or delirium after loss of fluids.
PHYSICAL
GALL BLADDER STONES.
AILMENTS FROM LOSS OF BLOOD, OF FLUIDS (emaciation, faintness, chorea, stomach pain, inflammation of lungs, diarrhoea).
DISTENTION OF ABDOMEN, tympanitic, with a lot of flatus, but passing flatus does not ameliorate. Worse after drinking, eating.
PERIODICITY. Periodic fever, headache, eye pain, face pain, diarrhoea etc.
Headache ameliorated with hard pressure.
Cold perspiration around nose, around mouth.
MODALITIES
AGG.: read more [...]
CHELIDONIUM MAJUS (Chel.) – چیلیڈونیم Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CHELIDONIUM MAJUS (Chel.) - چیلی ڈونیم - چیلیڈونیم
GALL BLADDER AND LIVER AFFECTIONS
MENTAL
Powerful, domineering, dictatorial. Wants others to listen to her advice and likes to run others' lives.
PHYSICAL
GALL-BLADDER AND LIVER AFFECTIONS.
Gall-stones, cholocystitis.
PAIN IN RIGHT HYPOCHONDRIA EXTENDING TO BACK, TO THE INFERIOR ANGLE OF RIGHT SCAPULA < breathing, inspiring.
Right sided complaints. Eye or ear pain extending to teeth. Toothache extending to eyes. Headache <right side, with lachrymation.
Jaundice (also in newborns).
Constipation alternating with diarrhoea, like sheep's dung. Constriction of rectum preventing the stool, alternating with itching.
Stomach pain or umbilicus pain extending transversely across stomach or abdomen.
MODALITIES
AGG.: eating after.
AMEL.: eating after esp. noon, warm milk, warm drinks.
DES.: cheese, warm drinks, strange things.
AVERS.: cheese. read more [...]
CHAMOMILLA (Cham.) – کیمومیلا کیموملا Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CHAMOMILLA (Cham.) - کیمومیلا - کیموملا
Chamomilla patients are oversensitive people to an extreme degree. Oversensitivity and irritability run through the whole symptom picture. Chamomilla is very much indicated in children during the period of dentition.
EXCITABLE, REACTIVE NERVOUS SYSTEM, CAPRICIOUSNESS
MENTAL
GREAT IRRITABILITY <touched, spoken to, during pain, during dentition. Cannot bear to be looked at. Sends nurse out of the room.
CAPRICIOUSNESS. Rejecting the things he has been longing when offered.
CHILDREN WANT TO BE CARRIED AND ROCKED.
OVER-SENSITIVE to pain.
Common in children esp. during dentition.
PHYSICAL
AILMENTS FROM ANGER: pains in uterus, metrorrhagia, vomiting, convulsions, dyspnoea, metritis, asthma etc.
GREAT SENSITIVENESS TO PAIN. Pain is unbearable, drives to despair. Labor pains spasmodic and distressing, make her desperate.
REDNESS OF ONE CHEEK, PALENESS OF THE OTHER.
DENTITION with irritability.
Toothache < warm drinks or food, bed, warm room.
Stools hot, like chopped eggs & spinach, smelling like rotten eggs (esp. during dentition).
Hot read more [...]
CAUSTICUM (Caust.) – کاسٹیکم Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CAUSTICUM (Caust.) - کاسٹیکم
The Causticum people are sensitive and easily affected by the environment. They develop very strong feelings about the suffering of others (especially the social suffering rather than the physical like Phosphorus). They get so angry with injustice that they can become activists, anarchists or even violent. The neurological system is mostly affected on this remedy.
SENSITIVE TO INJUSTICE, SYMPATHETIC, NEUROLOGICAL COMPLAINTS
MENTAL
SYMPATHETIC. CANNOT SUPPORT INJUSTICE. Strong sense of justice. Idealists. They rebel against authority, they are exhilarated with politics. Can become anarchists or fanatics.
Sympathetic towards animals. They cannot see an animal suffering.
Oversensitive when hearing of cruelties.
Ailments from long lasting grief and sorrow.
Stammering < excitement, vexation.
Weeping at trifles, spasmodic.
PHYSICAL
The nervous system is weak, in excitable state and predisposed to diseases.
GRADUAL PARALYSIS, paralysis of SINGLE PARTS, esp. of right side.
Paralysis with numbness of left side.
Facial paralysis esp. one-sided, after getting wet, after riding read more [...]
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