Materia Medica
THUJA OCCIDENTALIS (Thuja) – تھوجا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
THUJA OCCIDENTALIS (Thuja) - تھوجا
SECRETIVE - TENDENCY TO GROWTHS
MENTAL
RESERVED. Secretive. Manipulative.
Delusions that the body is brittle, is delicate, that she’s made of glass, that animals are in abdomen, that soul and body were separated.
Lack of self-confidence, delusions he’s worthless.
Dullness <morning.
PHYSICAL
OVERGROWTHS: WARTS, CONDYLOMATA, tumors, fibroids, cysts.
Used for treating bad effects of vaccination esp. smallpox.
Ailments from suppressed gonorrhea (rheumatic pains of joints, prostatitis, eye inflammation etc.). Urethritis. Forked stream of urine.
Sensation that something is alive in the abdomen.
Coryza during stool. Strong tendency to catarrhs. Leucorrhœa, nasal, urethral.
Perspiration is oily, of sweetish odor, offensive.
Headache as from a nail. Begins in forehead over left eye then occiput.
DREAMS OF FALLING
Constipation, stools recedes.
Fingernails and toe-nails are brittle, crumbling, distorted, corrugated.
MODALITIES
AGG: ONIONS, uncovering, tea, night, 3 p.m. & 3 a.m., wet weather.
AMEL: touch, perspiration, lying on back, read more [...]
TEREBINTHINA (Ter.) – ٹیری بنتھینا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
TEREBINTHINA (Ter.) - ٹیری بنتھینا
NEPHRITIS AND URINARY TRACK DISORDERS ESPECIALLY WITH SMOKE COLOURED URINE, HAEMORRHAGES
MENTAL
Unconsciousness after stool.
Muttering, maniacal delirium. Delirium during fever.
Delusions is floating in the air. Fear of apoplexy.
PHYSICAL
Haemorrhagic tendency. Purpura haemorrhagica. Ecchymosis on skin. Haemoptysis.
Severe urinary track infections, pyelonephritis or nephritis with characteristic burning pain over the kidneys.
Bladder pain, cutting or burning, which is ameliorated when walking in the open air.
BLOODY, BLACK, SMOKE- COLOURED URINE.
Sweetish odor of urine, odor like violets.
Sediment like coffee grounds.
Pelvic peritonitis from metritis; nephritis from exposure to cold rains, with scanty, high colored urine.
Smooth, shining, red tongue, as if deprived of papillae.
Capillary bronchitis (bronchiolitis) in children, with extreme drowsiness and scanty bloody urine.
MODALITIES
DES.: dry rice, bitter drinks.
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TEREBINTHINA (Ter.) – Acute (Hussain Kaisrani)
Nephritis and urinary tract read more [...]
TARENTULA HISPANICA (Tarent.) – ٹیرنٹلا ہسپانیکا – ٹیرنٹولا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
TARENTULA HISPANICA (Tarent.) - ٹیرنٹلا ہسپانیکا - ٹیرنٹولا
Tarentula is a remedy with excess energy. They are restless, quick in their motions, impatient, do many things together. They feel better when they listen to loud, rhythmical music and when dancing. All symptoms are ameliorated with dancing. The energy is so much that the sexuality is increased to the point of nymphomania. When they get angry they get intense too, they can become violent. In later stages of pathology, they can become manic-depressive or develop insanity with rage.
EXCESS ENERGY - RESTLESSNESS – HURRIEDNESS
MENTAL
HYPERACTIVE, RESTLESSNESS. Does many things at the same time.
Impatient, impulsive, cunning.
MUSIC (esp. loud and rhythmic) AMELIORATES PHYSICAL AND MENTAL SYMPTOMS.
DES. DANCING which also ameliorates.
Sexual mania, erotic delirium. Lascivious hysteria.
Anger, rage. Violent, destructive, tears or breaks things. Insanity with increased strength. Desire to attack others. Rage is such that has to be chained.
Manic-depressive states.
PHYSICAL
Affects nerves which are highly strung. Symptoms read more [...]
TABACUM (Tab.) – ٹیبکم Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
TABACUM (Tab.) – ٹیبکم
NAUSEA, ICY COLDNESS, SWEAT
PHYSICAL
SEASICKNESS, terrible faint, sinking feeling at pit of stomach, better in fresh cold air and by uncovering the abdomen.
Deathly nausea with or without vomiting. The patient is clammy, cold and pale.
Nausea of pregnancy, with spitting.
The nausea is worse when opening the eyes.
Prostration and relaxation of entire muscular system, with free secretions.
Sensation as if stomach were hanging down.
Vertigo on opening eye’s.
Atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, esp. in tobacco users.
Constipation, esp. in tobacco users.
Hiccough after cough
Desire for tobacco.
MODALITIES
AGG.: opening eye’s, evening, extremes of heat and cold.
AMEL.: uncovering abdomen, fresh open air.
SYPHILINUM (Syph.) – سفلینم – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SYPHILINUM (Syph.) - سفلینم
DESTRUCTIVE PROCESSES ON ALL LEVELS
MENTAL
ANXIETY ABOUT HEALTH.
FEAR OF INFECTION, of contagious disease, of syphilis. DISGUST.
Delusions that he’s dirty. DESIRES TO WASH HER HANDS.
Compulsive checking.
HOPELESS, DESPAIR OF RECOVERY, DEPRESSION.
Great irritability during headache.
Weakness of memory, cannot remember names or dates.
Erosion of the emotional level the patient may have a feeling to let everything crash down around him. On the mental level we see a breakdown into insanity.
PHYSICAL
Affects mucous membranes, nerves and bones.
DESTRUCTIVE, SYPHILITIC PROCESSES on all levels.
Syphilitic eruptions and inflammations. Ulcers. Abscesses. Caries of bones. Distortion of facial features e.g. ulcers in palate (cleft palate). Teeth are dwarfed, loose, feel sticky. Curvature of spine.
Bone pains < warmth of bed, > cold applications. Back pain from sunset to sunrise.
ALL SYMPTOMS < NIGHT (sunset to sunrise) esp. 02:00 – 04:00.
Headache, with pain in the bones of head, worse at night.
Strong desire for ALCOHOL esp. liquers. Alcoholism.
Sleeplessness read more [...]
SULPHURIC ACID (Sul-ac.) – سلفیورک ایسڈ Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SULPHURIC ACID (Sul-ac.) - سلفیورک ایسڈ
HURRIEDNESS WITH EXHAUSTION
MENTAL
HURRIEDNESS. Cannot do things fast enough. Everybody must hurry. So hurried that he does things out of order.
Impatient, feels there’s not enough time to get things done, things move too slowly.
Hasty speech.
Fretful and irritable over the slightest cause.
Prostration of mind after an injury.
Changeable mood during perspiration.
PHYSICAL
Sensation of weakness in the abdomen.
APHTHÆ on the tongue, inside of cheeks and whole gastro-intestinal tract which are painful, often periodical.
SENSITIVE TO SMOKE, FUMES, SMOG, STRONG ODORS (asthma).
Sensation as if the brain is loose in the forehead.
Bluish or black spots in skin, esp. face, extremities.
Sourness of the body and stomach (Hep., Mag-c., Rheum)
Diarrhœa very foul, offensive, from unripe fruit and oysters, after the slightest indiscretion in eating.
Yellow, saffron-like, stringy stool.
Eructation like spoiled eggs.
Profuse, acrid or stringy discharges.
Bruising and ecchymosis. Follows Arn. in acute injuries.
Pains increase gradually and end suddenly.
As read more [...]
SULPHUR (Sulph.) – سلفر – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SULPHUR (Sulph.) - سلفر
Sulphur produces such a huge variety of symptoms that it is difficult to find one word to describe it. However we can say that there are some characteristic tendencies that run through the remedy. The redness, burning, congestion, aggravation from warmth and offensiveness are very characteristic traits of Sulphur.
On the mental level we see the selfishness and criticism in most cases.
The desire for fat and the heat on soles are confirmatory symptoms.
CRITICAL, SELFISH, UNTIDY - WARM BLOODED, DESIRES SWEETS & FAT
MENTAL
Philosophical, intellectual type: reclusive, looking for truth behind things. Theorizing.
Practical type: over enthusiasm, practical idealist, social, extroverted. Hopeful dreamers.
SELFISH, CRITICAL, HAUGHTY. EGOTISM. Thinks himself better.
Lazy. Untidy. Aversion, dread of bathing. Indifferent about his appearance, dirty, smelling but at the same time easily disgusted.
Fear and vertigo in high places. Fear of contamination, infection.
Nervous temperament, hurried and irritable.
PHYSICAL
BURNING PAINS AND SENSATIONS. CONGESTIONS OF SINGLE PARTS, head, face, read more [...]
STRAMONIUM (Stram.) – سٹرامونیم – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
STRAMONIUM (Stram.) - سٹرامونیم
In Stramonium the words to remember are aggressiveness and violence. They can become so violent as to kill.
There is a dark element in these patients and it’s interesting here to mention the extreme fear of darkness. They have fear of tunnels, of closed or narrow places, of water, of shining surfaces.
These patients (esp. the children) can get into a Stramonium state after a frightening experience. They get terrible nightmares where they wake up in terror, with eyes wide open, but not recognizing anyone. They need some time to get out of the nightmare and come to their senses.
Their physical symptoms are also aggressive. Their convulsions are aggressive, their stammering is aggressive, the grimaces are aggressive.
AGGRESSIVENESS, VIOLENCE, FEARS
MENTAL
AILMENTS FROM FRIGHT.
FEARS: DARK, WATER, DOGS, TUNNELS, ANIMALS, BEING ALONE esp. at night.
Fear of shining objects, mirrors, brilliant objects, surface of water. Fear of VIOLENCE, of being injured. Anxiety, fear from the noise of running water.
Strong fears at night. Terror at night. Nightmares. Child wakes up in terror, with so vivid read more [...]
STAPHISAGRIA (Staph.) – سٹیفی سیگیریا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
STAPHISAGRIA (Staph.) - سٹیفی سیگیریا
The idea of this remedy is the suppression. The patients suppress their feelings, esp. anger. They are yielding, soft, very sensitive and lack self-confidence. They don’t stand up for themselves. The aggravation from siesta and the development of styes are confirmatory symptoms for this remedy.
SUPPRESSION OF EMOTIONS
MENTAL
SUPPRESSION OF EMOTIONS esp. centering on romantic relationships.
GREAT INDIGNATION- about things done by others or by himself.
Suppresses anger but can go to the other extreme and lose control- Violent outbursts where they throw things.
Yielding, sweet and sensitive. Very vulnerable, easily offended, sensitive to rudeness, to external impressions.
PHYSICAL
Development of hard dead tumors, chronic indurations of various kinds.
Affects the nervous system producing chorea, convulsions, jerking, trembling or paralysis from suppressed emotions, from indignation, anger, vexation.
Ailments from grief: psoriasis, chorea, stomach pain, falling hair, headache.
STYES - small hardened spots of induration which do not go away with time.
Excessive read more [...]
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