Asarum Europaeum (A Case of Irritability, intolerance to withstand people, Noises and Hyper Responsive to Minor Stimuli - An Asarum Europaeum Case – Hussain Kaisrani) Asarum vulgare, Asarum foliis reniformibus subhirsutis English: Asarabacca, Fole's Foot, Hazelwort, Wild Nard French: Asaret, Cabaret d'Europe, Oreille d'homme, Narde sauvage German: Haselwurz, Haselkraut Italian: Asaro Dutch: Mansoor Swedish: Hasselört Russian: Wodoler Natural order: Aristolochiae Family: Jussieu [vegetable substance] - Gynandria monogynia, L. Mode of preparation: The whole plant is used; it is gathered during the flowering in April, May and June. The juice of the fresh plant is expressed and mixed with equal parts of alcohol, which yields the mother tincture.   The essential features Asarum appears to be primarily an hysterical remedy. The state of Asarum arises for varied reasons, the two most common being alcoholism and mental overexertion. There are in Asarum, as in other remedies, different stages of development of pathology -- different levels of physical and mental disturbances. One level of disturbance can be quite mild, but the very same remedy read more [...]

Asa Foetida O. Umbelliferae   The essential features Whenever you think of Asafoetida, your mind naturally goes to fat, plethoric, hysterical individuals, with a purple face and a lot of hysterical symptoms. The central idea of Asafoetida is unsteadiness and changeability; it is a remedy that swings from excitement to stagnation. You can call it an alternation of states or an unpredictable behaviour, but the idea underneath is that these people are not steady at all, they are simply hysterical. Aside from this trait, there are of course other areas of pathology which will help you to think of this remedy as you meet them. These areas are laid out in points 1. to 4. below: Think of Asafoetida when you have a case where there is deep ulceration with fÔetid discharges and a threatening septisemia, an excitable ulcer that spreads fast, or a stagnation in an ulcer that develops into a passive malignancy. A small point of infection may fast develop into an ulcer that has no tendency to close, but that on the contrary progresses rapidly to a kind of malignancy -not cancer- where the ulcer soon takes on a blackish colour. This remedy is also indicated in cases of endarteritis read more [...]

Arsenicum Album   Acidum arsenicosum English: White arsenic, arsenious acid, Arsenic Trioxide French: Arsenic, Oxyde blanc d'arsenic, Acide arsenieux German: Arsenik, Arsenige Saure Mode of preparation: 5 centigrams are put into a vial with 4 grams of distilled water; the arsenic is dissolved by heating it, and water is added as it evaporates. Then 4 grams of alcohol are added to this and mixed well. One drop is then added from this preparation to one thousand drops of a mixture that is equal parts water and alcohol. Ten drops from this solution are added to a bottle containing ninety drops of alcohol. This is the second attenuation, and all the succeeding attenuations are made in this way. A second method used by Hahnemann was to triturate one grain of white arsenic with100 grains of sugar of milk, making three triturations in succession, so that afterwards he would be able to make the remaining attenuations the liquid way.   The essential features Arsenicum is a classic remedy; its general characteristics are well-known to all homeopathic practitioners. Originally proven by Hahnemann himself, Arsenicum has since been exhaustively described in every read more [...]

Arsenicum Iodatum Iodite of Arsenic Trituration; AsI3   The essential features Arsenicum Iodatum is a remedy that you will need in severe chronic conditions where the organs involved are in a precarious state. You will need it in cases of severe asthma with heart involvement. An important remedy in heart trouble, particularly with valvular problems, it should be thought of in cases with pleural exudations. Of the highest use in cancerous affections. Kent states that: "it has restrained the progress of cancer of the uterus in a notable manner; the burning and odor are removed and the ulceration is lessened. Life has been prolonged for four years in several cases.... it has stopped the growth of ovarian tumors." Useful in fibroids of the uterus, in lupus and epithelioma. Useful in cirrhosis of the liver where there is great weakness, especially in the legs, and where the condition is worse going upstairs, indeed worse after any exertion, with dread of impending evil and depression. Dropsy. Liver and spleen enlargement. Arsenicum iodatum is preeminently a tubercular remedy and should be understood as such. It comprises a mixture of Arsenicum traits with Tuberculinum read more [...]

Arnica Montana ARNICA MONTANA: Doronicum plantaginis folio alternum, Doronicum oppositifolium, Doronicum Austriacum quantum Ptarmica montana English: Mountain arnica, Leopard's bane, German Leopard's bane, Mountain tobacco. French: Arnique des montagnes, Arnique, Arnica, Tabac des Vosges, Betoine des Montagnes. German: Arnika, Wohl-verleih, Woverley, Fallkraut, Luzianskraut. Italian: Arnica Dutch: Arnika, Val-kruid, Groot Luciaen-kruid Swedish: Fibler Spanish: Arnica, Tobaco de Montana Natural order: Corymbiferae, Compositae, Senecionidae. Family: Jussieu [vegetable substance] Syngenesia polygamia superflua. L. Mode of preparation: We use the roots, flowers and leaves. Before using the flowers we should clean them of the eggs [musca arnicae] of a peculiar parasitic insect which infests this plant, called Arnica, a species of Staphylinus. We prepare the powder of the root by making three attenuations by trituration or dissolve it in twenty parts of alcohol to make the tincture. Arnica is a perennial plant; we gather the fresh plant when it flowers in July and August and use it to make a tincture. For the fresh plant, we express the juice of the whole plant and then mix it read more [...]

Argentum Nitricum Nitras argenti English: Nitrate of silver French: Argent nitrate, Nitrate d'argent German: Salpetersaures Silber   The essential features In my writings, I have repeatedly emphasized the hierarchical structure of human health. In the healthy individual the mental sphere, being the most central to normal functioning, exerts its control over the physical and emotional spheres. This control can become excessive in over-mentalized patients. On the other hand, in other types of patients there is a weakening of this central, controlling influence; to this group belongs Argentum nitricum. In the neurological system, this weakness leads to clumsiness, incoordination and, finally, ataxia and convulsions. In the psychological state it leads to impulses, the hallmark of Argentum nitricum. If we wanted to describe an Argentum nitricum case with few words, we could say that he is an over-emotional, impulsive individual with weakening mental faculties, which allow a host of impulses and fears to arise. He is an individual whose power of coordination and balance has been upset on all levels. In the early stages Argentum nitricum individuals are jolly, read more [...]

Apis Mellifica Apium virus. Honey-bee poison. N.O. Insecta Tinctures are made of the whole bee or of dilutions of the poison with alcohol.   The essential features Apis is a large remedy that has been but partially understood and little used, mainly because of a lack of appreciation of the inner nature of the remedy. Kent probably felt similarly when he said in his lecture on Apis: "We must be able to see in the general beginning of provings the disease which they resemble, for we do not always see the remedy in the advanced state. We see the disease in a state of progress and must be able to see it in the beginning. As was the disease in the beginning so was the remedy in the beginning. Things that have similar beginnings may have similar endings." It is the subtle changes in the behavior of people in the beginning of illness that most of the time foretell and determine pathological changes in the end. To be able to code these subtle changes is the main objective of this materia medica. To understand the inner pathology and the idiosyncracies of this most interesting remedy we have to look upon the effect that the bee sting has on the human organism and its read more [...]

Antimonium Crudum Native sulphide of Antimony SbS2   The essential features Antimonium crudum is a seldom-prescribed remedy which should be used more frequently in practice. The following is a description of the constitutional Antimonium crudum patient, the type of person who will in the course of his lifetime develop the symptomatology of this remedy. Antimonium crudum preferentially affects the emotional level. These patients display an unbalanced emotional state, the emotions vacillating between an extreme sentimentality, which is expressed, and a very closed, withdrawn state of moodiness and sulkiness. Antimonium crudum is one of the most emotional, most sentimental remedies of the materia medica, their behavior possessing a mellow or, at times, melodramatic quality. This remedy has spells of sighing and can be confused with Ignatia when this condition is present. The sentiments can be overwhelming in Antimonium crudum. With but slight provocation, these persons swell with emotions, and physical swellings erupt in an analogous manner. A characteristic of this remedy is the ready production of physical indurations; ie, the development of lumps, callouses, warts. read more [...]

Antimonium Tartaricum Tartar Emetic 2[ K(SbO)C4H4O6 ] H2O Trituration and solutions   The essential features This remedy finds its primarily usefulness in severe cases and hospitalized cases; these cases may be classified according to the organ system principally affected: a. the respiratory system the digestive system the nervous system This remedy is most frequently of use in affections of the respiratory system (in contradistinction to Antimonium crudum where the main seat of trouble is the digestive system). Antimonium tartaricum is most effective for disorders of the lower respiratory tract - the trachea, bronchi, and lungs. Inflammations of the lower respiratory tract must be serious for this remedy to be indicated. It is especially useful for advanced stages of bronchitis, broncho-pneumonia or pneumonia; also in weakly children with low to moderate fever, nausea and audible rattling of mucus in the chest; and in the pneumonia or bronchopneumonia of old, "broken down" people whose immunological reactive ability is almost extinct, and who appear to have no power to expel the respiratory tract mucus, which makes an audible rattling noise as the read more [...]

Anthracinum   The essential features Anthracinum is indicated in patients who suffer chronically from carbuncles, boils, hydradenitis, and tumors which tend to have a malignant appearance, a reddish-black color, and cause a burning sensation and extreme pain. In Anthracinum, ulceration takes place easily, with sloughing and excruciating burning pains. Cellular tissues become edematous and indurated. Anthracinum meets septic conditions with enormous swelling, intolerable burning pains, and with dark-red discoloration of the inflamed part. Generally in this remedy there is a tendency to easy suppuration and sepsis. For the most part, the central theme of Anthracinum is concentrated upon the intolerably painful, dark-red or blackish abscesses that resolve slowly and only with difficulty, even after days of discharging. In its mental-emotional state, Anthracinum produces an analogous picture: we see a person who has a deeply imbedded emotional abscess. This malignant abscess is very difficult to "open." The patient feels that there is no hope of recovery; the "abscess" will not come to the surface and discharge its contents. It is an abscess that has been formed out read more [...]