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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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CALADIUM SEGUINUM (Calad.) – کلاڈیم سیگیونم – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CALADIUM SEGUINUM (Calad.) - کلاڈیم سیگیونم
IMPOTENCY
MENTAL
Amorous, lascivious with impotency. Symptoms from sexual excesses (ex. memory weakness).
DEPRESSION due to unsatisfied sexual desire. Sadness from masturbation. Lack of enthusiasm. Indifferent to everything. Eventually becomes indifferent to sex.
Weakness of memory. Very forgetful, absent-minded. Mental confusion, inability to perform intellectual work.
Anxiety about health, hypochondriacal anxiety. Very careful about health- refuses to take medicine, fear of infection, of catching contagious disease.
Fear of cutting himself while shaving.
Nervous excitement.
PHYSICAL
Special action on the genitalia of both sexes.
IMPOTENCE WITH SEXUAL DESIRE. Increased sexual desire without erection.
Flaccid penis with sexual desire and excitement (Lyc., Sel.). Penis is excited but relaxed.
Failing to ejaculate during coition.
They cannot perform the sexual act in a natural way and they seek other ways of satisfying the excessive desire.
Pruritus Vulvæ (voluptuous itching) in females, inducing masturbation and sleeplessness.
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CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS (Cact.) – کیکٹس گرانڈی فلورس – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS (Cact.) - کیکٹس گرانڈی فلورس
CONSTRICTION – CONGESTION – CONTRACTION
MENTAL
Shrieking from pain.
Delusion that she is caught in wires, that the body is wrapped.
Anxiety about health, reaches hypochondriasis. Despair of recovery. Desires to take large doses of medicine. Delusion he’s about to die with rheumatism or heart disease.
Fear of death or that something will happen.
Delirium during sleep.
Mania during fever and heat.
Suspicious, mistrustful.
PHYSICAL
HEART AND CIRCULATION PROBLEMS: infarct, angina, etc. WITH CONSTRICTIVE PAINS AND SWELLING OF LEFT HAND.
Numbness or pains extend to the left arm, hand or even fingers.
Grasping sensation of heart, constriction of chest as if from an armor.
Severe, violent CONSTRICTING PAINS in which the patient cries out from pain. Pain as if from a steel hand, as if a wire that gets twisted tighter and tighter. Whole body feels caged. Constriction of vagina on touch and coition. Constriction and choking sensation in oesophagus. Facial pain < fasting.
Violent palpitation < lying on left side, menses.
Hæmorrhages with read more [...]
BRYONIA ALBA (Bry.) – برائیونیا – برائی اونیا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
BRYONIA ALBA (Bry.) - برائیونیا - برائی اونیا
In Bryonia the characteristic is aggravation from motion. On the mental level, any ‘motion’ is intolerable too; they want to be by themselves. We see great irritability with the desire to be left alone. They are aggravated by any interference which will make them put the slightest physical or mental effort.
WORSE FROM SLIGHTEST MOTION, DRYNESS
MENTAL
Irritable, wants to be quiet.
Anxiety about the future. Strong fear of poverty, anxiety about money matters, talks about business.
Delusions he’s away from home.
PHYSICAL
All ailments are WORSE FROM MOTION; even the slightest, such as inspiration, coughing, stepping. Pain takes away the breath.
>REST, PRESSURE, LYING ON THE PAINFUL SIDE.
Cough is painful, he has to hold the chest.
THIRSTY FOR LARGE QUANTITIES. Dryness of mouth with thirstlessness.
Dryness of mucus membranes (mouth, nose, throat, rectum, eye, lips).
Constipation, with very hard and dry stool; as if burned.
Headache on left side; over the left eye extending to occiput. <moving the eyes.
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BROMIUM (Brom.) – برومیم – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
BROMIUM (Brom.) - برومیم
SWOLLEN LYMPH NODES - RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS
MENTAL
Hard, not flexible individuals. The mind loses its flexibility and becomes as immovable as a stone and quite unable to function.
Cannot eliminate, keeps emotions inside. Eventually becomes emotionless.
Sad, indifferent, discontented.
Sits alone in room without doing anything, staring in one direction without saying anything, without emotions, without thoughts.
She is deeply despondent, sits alone in her room without doing anything, without saying anything and constantly looks in one direction.
Delusion that strange persons are looking over their shoulder or that they would see someone on turning.
PHYSICAL
Affects respiratory tract especially Larynx and trachea.
Worse overheated. Complaints come in the summer.
ASTHMA < ON LEAVING THE SEA (as soon as they go ashore).
Hoarseness or tickling cough from being over-heated.
Dyspnoea, cannot inspire deep enough, as if breathing through a sponge <dust. Much rattling of mucus during cough (Ant-t.).
Left sided tonsillitis or pharyngitis.
Swelling and INDURATION OF GLANDS with stony read more [...]
BOVISTA (Bov.) – بووسٹا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
BOVISTA (Bov.) - بووسٹا
ENLARGED SENSATION - ANXIETY – AWKWARDNESS
MENTAL
ANXIETY and inner HURRIEDNESS. Chaotic.
Everything is EXAGGERATED: awkward in speech and action- stammers, drops things, laughs and cries alternately. Alternating mood. Sub-manic states. ENLARGED SENSATION.
Absent minded – staring thoughtless, looking fixedly at one point.
Closed - cannot connect.
Sensitive, easily offended.
Anxiety about anything, not easy to define it.
PHYSICAL
Influences circulation, causing relaxation of capillary system.
ENLARGED, SWOLLEN FEELING IN HEAD AND HEART.
General puffiness- swelling. Skin gets indented easily from pressure.
Perspiration smells like onions.
Diarrhoea before or during menses. Menses flow only at night. Traces of menses between periods.
Herpes, esp. of the lower extremities.
Cannot bear tight clothing around abdomen, stomach, throat, chest.
Skin eruptions with excessive itching. Tip of coccyx itches intolerably.
Leucorrhoea before and after menses. Thick leucorrhoea when walking.
Numbness on the root of tongue.
Paralysis in right optic nerve.
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BORAX (Borx.) – بوریکس – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
BORAX (Borx.) - بوریکس
FEAR OF DOWNWARD MOTION, APHTHAE
MENTAL
FEAR AND ANXIETY ON DOWNWARD MOTION, riding down hill.
Startled easily esp. at sneezing, hawking, from noise, from fright.
Oversensitive to noise. Fear or even diarrhoea from sudden noise.
Makes involuntary motions of the hands.
Fear of falling, of infections.
PHYSICAL
Affects MUCOUS MEMBRANES, causing catarrhal conditions.
Children or infants cry and scream before the urine passes. Frequent urging to urinate, shrieking before urinating or before stool. Painful urging, the child cries.
DESCENDING AGGRAVATES SYMPTOMS. It causes fullness of head, impeded respiration, vertigo.
APHTHAE of tongue, of mouth, genitalia, nipples. Bleeding aphthae.
Sleeplessness with heat in head, 03:00-05:00 from heat.
Milk of chest is cheesy, thick and tastes bad.
Sensation of cobweb on hands and face.
Wrinkled palate.
Leucorrhoea between menses, like boiled starch, white as thick paste, burning. Leucorrhoea with sensation of warm water flowing down.
External trembling on sneezing, after sneezing.
MODALITIES
AGG: DOWNWARD MOTION, read more [...]
BERBERIS VULGARIS (Berb.) – بربیرس ویلگارس – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
BERBERIS VULGARIS (Berb.) - بربیرس ویلگارس
AFFECTIONS OF KIDNEYS, BLADDER AND BACK WITH RADIATING PAINS
MENTAL
Fear of solitude.
Feels anxiety in different body positions.
Mentally and physically tired. Weakness of mind that is especially apparent in twilight.
Weakness of memory. Dullness of mind esp. on waking.
The patient sees terrifying apparitions at twilight, including ghosts or imaginary forms surrounding him.
Melancholy, sadness, apathy and inclination to weep. Darkness aggravates.
PHYSICAL
Acts on KIDNEYS, BLADDER & LIVER. Arthritic affections with urinary disturbances.
RADIATING PAINS from kidneys, renal region. Kidney stones, colic. Kidney pain extending into thigh, calves, bladder, ureter, testes, hip, downward.
Kidney pains <jar, pressure, motion.
Numbness in region of kidneys.
BACK PAIN EXTENDING TO or AROUND ABDOMEN, thighs esp. posterior portion.
WANDERING PAINS.
Burning pain in urethra >urination.
Stiffness, sore pains, heaviness of lower limbs, of extremities - as if beaten.
MODALITIES
AGG: standing, motion (also sudden motion), walking, spoiled fish. read more [...]
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