ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM (Ant-t.) – اینٹی مونیم ٹارٹیکم – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM (Ant-t.) - اینٹی مونیم ٹارٹ
CATARRH OF THE LUNGS
MENTAL
AVERSION TO BEING TOUCHED.
Irritable and peevish, especially during acute phase of illness.
Child is fretful, peevish, whining, moaning, shrieking < being touched or looked at. Angry child that coughs when angry. Shrieking, shouting and screaming at night. Child clings to the mother (Bar-c).
Looks anxious and desperate.
Confusion of mind on waking.
Mental restlessness. Apathetic-easily annoyed, aversion to company.
Ailments after anger or vexation.
PHYSICAL
Affects mucous membranes especially: trachea, bronchi and lungs.
Serious inflammations of the lower respiratory tract (bronchitis, pneumonia, pleura-pneumonia). Indicated in children or infants and old age (when the patient doesn’t have the force to expel the mucus).
GREAT ACCUMULATION OF MUCUS.
RATTLING RESPIRATION WITH NO EXPECTORATION. NO POWER TO EXPEL THE MUCUS. Expectoration ameliorates the dyspnoea.
Vomiting on coughing. Respiration is accelerated. Any disturbance increases the breathing and annoys the patient feeling that he is dying, filling read more [...]
ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM (Ant-c.) انٹی مونیم کروڈ – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM (Ant-c.) - اینٹی مونیم کروڈ
EMOTIONAL, SENTIMENTAL, AFFECTIONS OF STOMACH
MENTAL
ROMANTIC & SENTIMENTAL, ESPECIALLY DURING MOONLIGHT.
Emotionally immature.
Aversion to be looked at and to be touched esp. children. Capricious.
Children are irritable, moaning, dissatisfied. Cannot bear anyone coming near them.
Ailments from grief, from disappointed love. Sulky, sadness, loathing of life.
Introvert.
Emotionally unbalanced, solar plexus, stomach or entire digestive tract is affected by every emotion. Emotions are felt esp. in the stomach.
PHYSICAL
Affections of stomach and digestion.
EMOTIONS ARE FELT IN STOMACH.
Nausea and vomiting <sour wine, bread, mother’s milk.
Symptoms < HEAT, WARMTH OF STOVE and FIRE.
Gastric headache. Nausea during headache. Headache alternating with stomach pain.
Milky, heavily coated white tongue.
Dry, hacking spasmodic cough, shaking his whole body.
DESIRE for CUCUMBERS.
Symptoms change with the weather changes.
MODALITIES
AGG.: sour wine and food, vinegar, sun, bathing, warmth (warm stove, room, bed, becoming warm), moonlight.
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ANTHRACINUM (Anthraci.) – انتھراسینم – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
ANTHRACINUM (Anthraci.) - انتھراسینم
BLACKNESS ON EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL LEVEL
MENTAL
Silent suffering (grief), as if everything inside himself is kept in a “big black boil” (metaphorically speaking). Cannot express oneself. Unable to feel or express emotions.
Confusion of mind.
Weak memory for what has happened. Cannot remember incidences in spite of the emotional trauma caused in life and health.
Face is old looking.
Fear to go outdoors. Fear of death.
PHYSICAL
BOILS, ABSCESSES, PUSTULES, ULCERS which are purple, BLACK, BURNING with EXTREME PAIN.
Black pustules on the lips. Carbuncles. Gangrenous ulcer on leg. Black blisters on thigh.
Burning pains.
Haemorrhages - thick, black, tar-like from any orifice.
Coldness in abdomen extending to knees. Coldness in legs and back when dressing.
Premature old age.
Aversion to coition. Sexual desire is diminished.
All discharges relieve constitutional symptoms.
MODALITIES
AVERS.: eggs esp. soft boiled. read more [...]
ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE (Anac.) – اناکارڈیم اورینٹل – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE (Anac.) - اناکارڈیم اوریئٹل
Heartless individuals with characteristic cruelty towards people and animals. The patient experiences great conflict by having two opposing wills or dilemmas and not being able to take a decision. Severe feeling of inferiority and low self-esteem usually seen on the other type of Anacardium which is nice and sweet.
DUALITY-TWO OPPOSING WILLS, LACK OF SELF CONFIDENCE, CRUELTY
MENTAL
Two types: cruel/unfeeling/malicious/sadistic and helpless, hopeless, pleading, needy and insecure.
Contradiction of will, sense of DUALITY. Thinks as if he had TWO WILLS, opposing each other.
GREAT LACK OF SELF - CONFIDENCE with inferiority complex.
DESIRE TO CURSE. Malicious, mischievous, wicked. Absence of all moral feeling.
Sudden loss of memory, as if mind is blocked.
PHYSICAL
SENSATION OF PLUG in various parts i.e. head, chest, ear, eye, abdomen.
Constriction, SENSATION OF A BAND AROUND A SINGLE PART like head, knee, back etc.
Eruptions with intolerable VOLUPTUOUS ITCHING < warmth of bed.
The more he scratches the more he wants to scratch and the worse the read more [...]
AMMONIUM CARBONICUM (Am-c.) – امونیم کاربونیکم – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
AMMONIUM CARBONICUM (Am-c.) - امونیم کاربونیکم
CIRCULATORY AND RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS
MENTAL
Obstinate. Irritable, unfriendly, malicious and abusive.
TIMID PEOPLE who remain in the background. Reserved people, SULKY.
Sad, morose and dissatisfied especially in cloudy and wet weather.
Difficult retaining thoughts, concentration difficult. Absent minded. Makes mistakes in calculating, speaking, writing, uses wrong words.
Wakes up startled or in a fright.
Talk in their sleep, revealing their thoughts, secrets they would not express while awake.
PHYSICAL
ASTHMATIC RESPIRATION FROM HEART COMPLAINTS.
Sensation of weakness in heart. Tumultuous, audible PALPITATIONS < motion. Patient feels prostrated; every movement produces violent almost audible palpitations.
Asthma < in warm room, with slight exertion. Becomes pale and must remain quiet.
< slight exertion, needs to make a tremendous effort to climb just a few steps.
Dyspnoea or arrested respiration when falling asleep or during sleep, must awaken to get breath.
Mucus in larynx and trachea. Rattling cough.
Face is BLOATED, pale, and puffy, read more [...]
AMBRA GRISEA (Ambr.) – امبرا گریسیا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
AMBRA GRISEA (Ambr.) - امبرا گریسیا
TIMIDITY, CONSTIPATION
MENTAL
TIMIDITY, BASHFULNESS. Low self-confidence. Fears the opinion of others. Tries to please everyone, cannot say 'no'.
AVERSION TO PRESENCE OF STRANGERS DURING STOOL, unable to pass the stool in presence of others.
Difficult to follow a conversation. Having a conversation aggravates, causes irritability, anxiety, restlessness, trembling. Ailments after embarrassment.
Confusion, difficult concentration. Asks questions without waiting for an answer.
Jumping from one subject to another.
Difficult to be in touch with others. State as if in a dream.
That is why there’s anxiety in company or crowd, aversion to company, to presence of strangers, to smiling faces. Disgust at laughing of others.
Weakness of memory, dullness, imbecility.
Dwelling over past occurrences.
PHYSICAL
CONSTIPATION, UNABLE TO PASS STOOL IN PRESENCE OF OTHERS.
Symptoms are aggravated in the presence of strangers, music, excitement.
Complaints from music: heat of head, cough, internal trembling, palpitation, back pain, ear pain, red face.
Prematurely old.
Metrorrhagia read more [...]
ALUMINA (Alum.) – ایلومینا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
ALUMINA (Alum.) - ایلومینا
The patient cannot express his/her feelings. The mind is slow, dry, paralyzed. They have to make an effort to answer. There is also dryness and paralysis on the physical level manifesting in severe constipation, dry skin, paralytic states of muscles.
DRYNESS, SLOWNESS OF ALL LEVELS PROGRESSING TO A STATE OF PARALYSIS
MENTAL
SLOWNESS, CONFUSION, DULLNESS OF MIND. Cannot express oneself, vague state of mind. Lack of discrimination. Answers slowly.
Confusion of identity, ‘who am I?’ Everything seems unreal.
Time passes very slowly for them.
Fear of knives, pins, injections. Cannot look at blood or knife. Suicidal when seeing a knife or blood.
PHYSICAL
Dryness of skin and mucus membranes.
SEVERE CONSTIPATION. INACTIVITY OF RECTUM, even soft stool requires great straining. No urging for many days, has to help mechanically.
Numbness of soles of feet, heaviness of legs, uncoordinated walking, ataxia.
Dryness of skin. Itching without eruption. Scratch until it bleeds.
Vertigo > rubbing or wiping the eyes. Vertigo with tendency to fall forward.
Aversion and aggravation read more [...]
ALLIUM CEPA (All-c.) – ایلیم سیپا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
ALLIUM CEPA (All-c.) - ایلیم سیپا
EXCORIATING DISCHARGE FROM NOSE, LETHARGY
MENTAL
SLEEPINESS & DULLNESS.
Great dullness of mind < in afternoon.
Indifference, absent-minded. No perception of the surroundings, does not recognize his relatives, can urinate in front of everybody.
PHYSICAL
Acts on the upper respiratory system. The coryza can go fast downwards developing pharyngitis, violent laryngitis.
Hay fever with copious, watery, excoriating discharge from nose causing redness around nose, in wings.
EXCORIATING DISCHARGE FROM NOSE WITH BLAND DISCHARGE FROM EYES.
Burning pain in eye, must rub.
Coryza from north east wind, from the odor of peaches, flowers.
Coryza from left nostril extending to right.
Cough hacking, tickling, from irritation in larynx. Tearing pain, as if something were torn. Grasps, supports the larynx on coughing.
Coryza with cough.
Hoarseness esp. in spring.
Headache with coryza > open air, closing eyes < warm room.
Threadlike pains following injuries to nerves. Pain after amputation.
Ailments move from left to right.
MODALITIES
AGG.: evening, warm, warm read more [...]
ALOE SOCOTRINA (Aloe) – ایلوز – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
ALOE SOCOTRINA (Aloe) - ایلوز
INVOLUNTARY STOOL, HAEMORRHOIDS, DIARRHOEA
MENTAL
Dissatisfied and angry with themselves esp. when the process of digestion begins.
Discontent >evening.
Imbecility. Aversion to mental work. Suited to indolent, weary people.
Active memory alternating with lassitude.
Cannot look at blood or a knife.
HYPOCHONDRIACAL PATIENTS. Consider life a burden in the morning and in the evening they are cheerful.
Cheerful, happy, mirth in the evening. Changeable mood.
PHYSICAL
INVOLUNTARY STOOL ON PASSING FLATUS, resulting in shame and irritability.
DIARRHOEA: 5 or 6 a.m. driving them out of bed. Jelly-like mucus in stool.
Gurgling before stool.
Haemorrhoids: external, strangulated, congested, large, like bunch of grapes, ameliorated by cold bathing.
In chronic spastic colitis pains extend from abdomen to different parts – to rectum, to thighs, from side of abdomen to the umbilicus, from the inguinal region to the knees, from hypochondria to chest.
Pain and mucus in rectum after stool.
Headache in forehead (esp. pressing), above eyes > cold applications.
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AGNUS CASTUS (Agn.) – ایگنس کاسٹس – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
AGNUS CASTUS (Agn.) - ایگنس کاسٹس
IMPOTENCY WITH DEPRESSION
MENTAL
Premature old age from abuse of sexual power, after sexual excesses.
DESPONDENT, GREAT ANXIETY AND DESPAIR ABOUT HEALTH.
Sexual melancholy. Discouraged with himself. Apathetic.
Presentiment of death, fears she will die soon. PREDICTS THE TIME of death. Sensation of death.
Weak memory. Dullness, sluggishness, difficulty of thinking and comprehending (especially after sexual excesses).
Difficult concentration. Absent-minded, forgetful, goes off and leaves purchases.
PHYSICAL
Low sexual vitality with corresponding mental depression and loss of nervous energy.
IMPOTENCY. SEXUAL ORGANS COLD, FLACCID AND RELAXED (even when excited). Sexual desire is diminished.
Testicles cold, swollen, hard and painful.
Absence or disappearance of milk in nursing women, often with sadness and fear that she will die soon.
Gnawing itching of skin. Itching of eyes. Pupils dilated.
Nausea with sensation as if intestines were pressing downwards.
Leucorrhoea, transparent, or yellow, staining linen.
MODALITIES
AGG.: motion, walking, warm.
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