Materia Medica
CARBO ANIMALIS (Carb-an.) – کاربو اینی میلس Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CARBO ANIMALIS (Carb-an.) - کاربو اینی میلس
BURNT-OUT WITH HOMESICKNESS
MENTAL
WEAK WILL DUE TO THE EXHAUSTION. Lack of reaction. Too weak to set limits, react to pressure or say no.
Sympathetic.
HOMESICKNESS.
Buried in thought-meditative.
Keeps feelings inside. Reserved. Avoids conversation, indisposed to talk. Aversion to company.
Illusions of hearing- as if tone came from another direction, or another world.
Fear of heights. Fear of fainting. Fear of dark, aggravates on closing eyes.
PHYSICAL
Slow, hard, painful processes.
GREAT WEAKNESS < during menses.
Suitable to old persons of feeble constitution or low vitality. Lack of reaction. (Depleted vital energy all Carbo's).
SWOLLEN AND INDURATED LYMPH GLANDS.
Susceptible to malignancies, cancerous affections esp., stomach, uterus, glands, ovaries, testes, mammae, nose, tongue, eye, with burning pains.
Chill when lying on bed.
Headache, feels as if head would fly to pieces- must press it with hands. Head pain on vertex after wet weather.
Impaired hearing. Confusion of sounds. Cannot tell from what direction sound comes from.
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CARBO VEGETABILIS (Carb-v.) – کاربو ویجی ٹیبلس Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CARBO VEGETABILIS (Carb-v.) - کاربو ویجی ٹیبلس
The idea of Carbo vegetabilis is the emptiness that we see in all levels. The person feels that life is leaving him, he feels like an empty sac. The circulation is poor and produces weakness and faintness in both acute and chronic states.
EMPTINESS IN ALL LEVELS, POOR CIRCULATION - WEAKNESS, FAINTNESS WITH COLD PERSPIRATION AND DESIRE TO BE FANNED
MENTAL
The emptiness on the emotional level is manifested by indifference, apathy, discouragement and on the mental level by slow thinking, dullness, weak memory, confusion, indecision.
Before these states you may see irritability and anger. The patient is abrupt and critical.
Anxiety on closing the eyes, at evening in bed. Delirium in the dark.
PHYSICAL
Acts upon the venous circulation, esp. capillaries. Poor circulation and imperfect oxygenation. Disintegration. Bad effects from exhausting illness (ex. measles, scarlet fever, intoxication) and loss of vital fluids. Used after anaesthesia to bring back the patient quickly. Last stages of disease.
FAINTNESS on rising, on waking, on exertion. Faintness with cold perspiration read more [...]
CAPSICUM (Caps.) – کیپسیکم Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CAPSICUM (Caps.) - کیپسیکم
HOMESICKNESS, THREATENED MASTOIDITIS
MENTAL
DEPRESSION AND NOSTALGIA (HOMESICKNESS) which can even reach suicidal states. Ailments from homesickness. Homesickness with sleeplessness, ennui, with red cheeks.
Prostration of mind.
Children obstinate, chilly and clumsy.
Desire to be alone, aversion to company.
Aversion to physical exertion.
PHYSICAL
Affects mucous membranes, and bones esp. MASTOID.
MASTOIDITIS.
Pain in distant parts on coughing, bladder, knees, legs, ears.
Flabbiness of skin, flabby feeling.
Pains are burning and smarting (as from cayenne pepper), worse with cold water. Burning, stinging and bleeding hæmorrhoids.
Offensive breath, pungent eructations during cough.
Pain in throat, head, ear, back, bladder etc. during cough.
Thirsty after stool, with shivering. Much thirst but drinking causes shivering.
Perforation of tympanum, cavity is filled with thick yellow pus.
Children dread open air, always chilly, clumsy, fat, dirty with aversion to work or think. General uncleanliness of the body, filthy skin.
Awkwardness.
Acute hearing during perspiration, read more [...]
CANTHARIS (Canth.) – کینتھرس – کینتھیرس Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CANTHARIS (Canth.) - کینتھرس - کینتھیرس
This is an intense remedy. The idea is of fire esp. in genitourinary system.
The inflammation is so intense that is life-threatening.
The pains are intense, the sexuality is intense, the skin burns are severe.
INTENSITY OF SYMPTOMS ESPECIALLY OF GENITO-URINARY SYSTEM
MENTAL
Adulterous, erotic delirium, lascivious, nymphomania.
Rage esp. on sight of water. Disposition to contradiction, insolent esp. in the afternoon. Delirium with desire to bite. Maniacal delirium.
Fear of mirrors and brilliant objects. Hydrophobia.
PHYSICAL
RAPID, INTENSE AND DESTRUCTIVE symptoms.
BURNING, CUTTING PAINS.
Affects the URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS.
Burning, cutting pain in neck of bladder extending through urethra.
Urination is so painful so that he dances around the room in agony.
Frequent, constant urging to urinate, passing a few drops at a time (dribbling), sometimes mixed with blood.
Cystitis with violent burning pain during urination, the burning can be there before and/or after urination. Pain in bladder after few drops pass.
Nephritis. Kidney pain, tearing, read more [...]
CANNABIS INDICA (Cann-i.) – کینابس انڈیکا Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CANNABIS INDICA (Cann-i.) - کینابس انڈیکا
Usually these patients have a history of cannabis abuse or they can be so sensitive to cannabis that they can get ailments even after slight use. It activates (quick mind, many ideas, loquacity, theorizing) but also confuses the mind (gullible, no critical thinking, no discrimination) reaching to even delusional states. The clarity of mental faculties is affected for many years after stopping the use of cannabis. However, we should remember that the abuse of cannabis can produce the picture of any remedy if the symptoms match.
DELUSIONS, CONFUSION, FEARS AS CONSEQUENCES FROM HASHISH USE
MENTAL
DELUSIONS: time passes too slowly, a few seconds seem ages.
Objects or distances are enlarged, he’s out of the body etc. Sensation that single limbs are floating.
FEAR OF INSANITY, OF LOSING SELF-CONTROL. Panic attacks, with fear of death.
LOQUACITY. Theorizing.
CONFUSION. Fast mind with abundant ideas. Inability to recall any thought or event on account of other thoughts intrude and crowd around each other in his brain.
Very forgetful: forgets words while speaking; begins a sentence, read more [...]
CAMPHORA OFFICINARUM (Camph.) – کیمفر – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CAMPHORA OFFICINARUM (Camph.) - کیمفر
COLLAPSE - EXTREMELY COLD BUT WANTS TO BE UNCOVERED
MENTAL
Thinking of complaints ameliorates.
Anxiety during chill, anxiety in bed. Fears to be alone at night, desires company.
Shrieking, screaming, <before convulsions. Shrieking for help.
Puerperal insanity. Delirium. Tears things.
Desire to bite <during rage.
PHYSICAL
SKIN IS ICY COLD, YET wants to be UNCOVERED. Throws off all coverings (Carb-v., Sec., Med.). Coldness of extremities, yet warm bed is unendurable.
Wants to be uncovered with cold skin, but desires to be covered with heat and sweat.
Internal heat with external chill during fever.
Sudden collapse- weakness with chill and anxiety. Profound weakness. Sleep becomes comatose; can alternate with sleeplessness.
Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea with anxiety and restlessness.
Sensitive to cold air.
Cramps, convulsions with coldness and mental anguish. Face is anxious, distorted, bluish and cold.
Rashes from exposure to sunlight.
Pain > while thinking of it.
Ailments from suppressed sexual desire (Con., Puls., Apis).
MODALITIES
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CALENDULA (Calen.) – کیلینڈولا Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CALENDULA (Calen.) - کیلینڈولا
INJURIES, LACERATED WOUNDS
MENTAL
Fear that something bad is going to happen and this fear makes him/her restless.
Anxiety felt in abdomen before or during stool. Aggravation in general during chill becomes peevish, complaining a lot, becomes sleepy.
Bulimia. Great irritability during a chill.
PHYSICAL
Open, cut, LACERATED wounds, RAGGED, SUPPURATED where the pain is excessive and out of all proportion to injury.
OPEN WOUNDS that will not heal, ulcers etc. Suppurations, abscesses, sepsis and gangrene.
Lacerations in hand, nose. After injuries to genitalia, head, eye.
Injuries of muscles, tendons < moving the part and > by lying. Sensitive to touch.
After labor esp. caesarean. After operations. Calculi after bladder operation. Profuse gum bleeding after tooth extraction.
General weakness after the injury that may be much more debilitating than expected given the severity of wound. Nausea and other consequences after physical trauma (fever, chill, headache).
The injured part is worse on moving the part and relieved by lying perfectly still (Bry.).
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CALCAREA SULPHURICA (Calc-s.) – کلکیریا سلفیوریکا – کلکیریا سلف – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CALCAREA SULPHURICA (Calc-s.) - کلکیریا سلفیوریکا - کلکیریا سلف
In Calc-s. we see suppuration in physical and psychological levels. We see abscesses and discharges of pus and blood on the physical level and jealousy, nastiness and maliciousness on the mental/emotional levels.
PUS IN PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL LEVELS - ABSCESSES, DISCHARGING SUPPURATION
MENTAL
Great jealousy. Nasty and malicious.
Irritable, quarrelsome from jealousy.
Fear of birds.
PHYSICAL
TENDENCY TO SUPPURATION THAT DOES NOT HEAL. Pus continues for months or years. CHRONIC ABSCESSES.
Purulent discharges. Discharge or pus is yellow and bloody. (nose, eye, ear, urethra, skin).
Crusty eruptions on face. ACNE vulgaris with the whole face covered with crusts.
Painful abscesses around rectum. Fistulae that discharge constantly yellowish purulent matter.
Otitis with yellow, purulent, bloody discharge. Suppuration of middle ear. Abscess in meatus.
MODALITIES
DES.: green, acid fruits.
AVERS.: meat.
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CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA (Calc-p.) – کلکیریا فاسفوریکا – کلکیریا فاس – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA (Calc-p.) - کلکیریا فاسفوریکا - کلکیریا فاس
The most prominent characteristic of Calc-p. is the discontent that is seen from children to adults. They don’t feel well but cannot define what is wrong. The children moan all the time even in their sleep and drive the parents crazy. These patients need change, their only outlet is to travel.
DISCONTENT, NEEDS CHANGE, SENSITIVE TO DAMP
MENTAL
DISCONTENT, COMPLAINING AND MOANING, esp. during sleep.
They don’t know what is wrong. ENNUI, DESIRES TO TRAVEL, TO CHANGE PLACES. (Traveling ameliorates psychological complaints not physical like in Ign.).
Thinking of complaints aggravates.
Sighing, cannot take a satisfying breath (Ign.).
Mental dullness in adults and children. Mental exertion aggravates.
Duty bound. They press themselves to do their duty and they get headaches.
Ailments from bad news.
PHYSICAL
< COLD AND WET WEATHER, melting of the snow, drafts, exposure to cold air after perspiration.
Pain in cervical region < DRAFT of air.
Headaches after mental exertion esp. in school children.
SCOLIOSIS, curvature read more [...]
CALCAREA CARBONICA (Calc.) – کلکیریا کاربونیکا – کلکیریا کارب – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CALCAREA CARBONICA (Calc.) - کلکیریا کاربونیکا - کلکیریا کارب
Calcarea Carbonica is such a huge remedy with vast symptomatology. The practitioner should not get lost in the vast array of symptoms but should look for these main keynotes of the remedy. The Calcarea patient has numerous fears with a prevailing fear of insanity. There is a general aggravation from cold and wet weather. The patient has cold feet that may have a slight clammy sweat. A tendency to be overweight, perspiration during sleep around the neck, desire for sweets and soft-boiled eggs and vertigo in high places. A Calcarea Carbonica case should have at least some of these keynotes.
CHILLY, FLABBY, FEARFUL, DESIRING EGGS AND SWEETS
MENTAL
MANY FEARS: HIGH PLACES, INSANITY, dogs, rats, death, disease, dark, ghosts, thunderstorms, accidents.
DESPAIR OF RECOVERY.
OBSTINATE.
Sensitive when hearing cruelties.
Religious affections in children. The child inquires about God, about the beyond etc.
PHYSICAL
CHILLY, sensitive to cold (lack of vital heat).
Cold extremities, esp. FEET (usually sleeps with socks or hot water bottle).
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