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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 [...]
SPONGIA TOSTA (Spong.) – سپونجیا ٹوسٹا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SPONGIA TOSTA (Spong.) - سپونجیا ٹوسٹا
RESPIRATORY AND HEART PROBLEMS
MENTAL
Weeping during heat.
Frightened easily at night, startled from sleep. Fear on waking.
Weeping, suicidal disposition during perspiration.
Terrified anxious expression of face.
Irresistible desire to sing, followed by sadness.
Anxiety about the future. Tired, loathing of life. Fear of death.
Despondent about loss of sexual power.
PHYSICAL
DRYNESS OF MUCOUS MEMBRANES (nose, larynx, throat, mouth).
Dryness of air passages "DRY AS A HORN".
Awakens in a fright and with dyspnoea, AS IF BREATHING THROUGH A SPONGE.
COUGH - dry, barking, rasping, whistling, "like a saw- driven through a pine board". > eating.
Heart: Combination of respiratory and heart problems. Alternating or concomitant states (dyspnoea during pain in hear, during rheumatism of heart, during palpitation).
Pain in heart < lying with the head low, >lying on right side.
Heat of face after motion.
Throat pain <sweets.
Rushing of blood to legs.
Glands are easily affected, indurations.
MODALITIES
AGG.: motion, cold read more [...]
SPIGELIA ANTHELMIA (Spig.) سپائجیلیا انتھیلمیا – سپائی جیلیا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SPIGELIA ANTHELMIA (Spig.) سپائجیلیا انتھیلمیا – سپائی جیلیا
NEURALGIA
MENTAL
FEAR OF INJECTIONS, PINS.
Delusions floating in air.
Restless and anxious. Easily offended.
Weak memory. Buried in thought, absorbed.
PHYSICAL
Affects the nerves: trifacial nerves, heart, eyes, teeth, left side.
PAINS: neuralgic, burning, like hot needles, jerking, tearing, stitching, extending to other parts.
HEART AFFECTIONS COMBINED WITH EYE COMPLAINTS.
Violent, audible palpitations < bending chest forward.
Angina pectoris < least motion, lying on left side, deep inspiration. Pain extends to back.
Eye: Glaucoma, intolerable pressing pain in eyeballs <left.
Sensation of enlargement. As if eye is too large for the orbit.
Body sensitive to touch. Touched part feels chilly.
MODALITIES
AGG.: smoke and tobacco, motion, cold, walking, dry weather, cold wet weather.
AMEL.: bathing- also the affected part, wet weather, lying (esp. right side), while eating, loosening the clothing.
DES.: Warm drinks, alcohol.
AVERS.: Coffee.
SILICEA (Sil.) – سیلیشیا – سیلیکا – سلیشیا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SILICEA (Sil.) - سیلیشیا - سیلیکا - سلیشیا
CHILLY BUT PERSPIRES, SENSITIVE, REFINED
MENTAL
SENSITIVE, REFINED, TIMID, yielding, reserved but obstinate.
Prostration of mind. Lack of mental stamina. Difficult concentration.
Weakness of memory for mental labor. Fear of literary work. Dread of work.
Timidity appearing in public. Fear that their mind won’t be able to withstand the stress of appearing in public.
Undertakes nothing due to fear he will fail.
Fear of pointed objects, esp. INJECTIONS, PINS.
PHYSICAL
Develops tumors, fibromas, breast cysts, swollen glands, warts which are usually hard. Caries of bones and spine. Scoliosis. Curvatures. Hip joint disease.
SENSITIVE TO COLD. General aggravation when becoming cold, esp. the head or feet. > wrapping up or covering.
Tendency to take cold.
PERSPIRATION - offensive acrid esp. feet.
CONSTIPATION, stool is hard, rectal muscles inactive. Stool RECEDES.
Nails are brittle, white spots on nails. Ingrowing toenails.
Stricture, inflammation of lachrymal duct.
Sensation of hair on the tongue.
Unhealthy tendency to suppuration. read more [...]
SELENIUM (Sel.) – سلینیم – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SELENIUM (Sel.) - سلینیم
IMPOTENCY, PROSTATE AFFECTIONS WITH EMISSION OF SEMEN DURING STOOL
MENTAL
Mental prostration, confusion, irritability esp. after emissions.
Weakness of memory, cannot concentrate. Dreads work.
Aversion to company and intimate friends.
Lascivious but impotent.
Dipsomania before menses.
PHYSICAL
Prostate affections. Inflammation, induration, swelling, enlargement of prostate esp. senile.
EMISSION OF PROSTATIC FLUID OR SEMEN DURING STOOL, during walking or sitting, during sleep.
Dribbling of urine after stool and urine.
Prematurely old - specific parts of the body seem old (e.g. sexual organs, thighs).
Falling of hair from different parts of the body (genitalia, eye, head).
Weakness is often sudden and is worse after emissions, in warmth, heat, warm weather, exertion, coition, after fever.
Sexual dreams with nocturnal emissions, wakes from the dream with incomplete erection.
Constipation with difficult, unsatisfactory stool and ineffectual urging.
During the night he thinks of business of the day.
MODALITIES
AGG.: emissions, tea, alcohol, heat, sun, read more [...]
SECALE CORNUTUM (Sec.) – سیکیل کار – سکیل کار – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SECALE CORNUTUM (Sec.) - سیکیل کار - سکیل کار
ACTS MAINLY ON THE CIRCULATION
MENTAL
Shameless, exposes the person. Wants to be naked.
Raging, violent, muttering, maniacal delirium.
Restlessness. Discouraged and anxious. Apathy. Suicidal disposition to throw himself from a height.
Senility. Confusion of mind.
PHYSICAL
Hot remedy. Aggravated by warmth both generally and locally.
Although he is hot and does not want covers, the skin feels cold to touch.
Icy coldness with sweat and blueness but cannot bear to be covered, desires to uncover.
Chill and coldness of extremities but uncovering ameliorates.
GANGRENE of any part of the body esp. distal parts of extremities (foot, toes, hand, fingers). Senile gangrene. Gangrenous swelling ulcers, eruptions, vesicles.
Gangrene of foot with burning, tearing pains.
Claudication. Cramps in legs while walking or from exertion.
Formication in thigh, fingers, hand, lower limbs, foot.
Haemorrhagic tendency (hematuria, epistaxis, purpura, metrorrhagia).
Epistaxis in young women, drunkards, old people. Dark, black blood, thin or clotted epistaxis. Often offensive.
MODALITIES
AGG.: read more [...]
SARSAPARILLA (Sars.) – سارسیپریلا – سرساپریلا – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
SARSAPARILLA (Sars.) – سارسیپریلا – سرساپریلا
MAINLY FOR URINARY TRACK INFECTIONS
MENTAL
Mental depression caused by the pains. Weeping before and during micturition.
Changeable mood, alternating.
Excitable, industrious during heat.
PHYSICAL
CYSTITIS WITH PAIN IN THE BLADDER and URETHRA AT THE CLOSE OF THE URINATION.
Frequent urging to urinate. Ineffectual urging.
Last part of urine is bloody with violent pain in the bladder. Burning pain after urination.
Can only pass urine while standing, dribbling while sitting but passes freely when standing.
Chills spread from the bladder. Coldness of back after urinating.
Sediment in urine.
Deep, bloody, burning cracks on bends of hands, fingers, thumb, feet.
Itching eruptions on the lids of eyes.
Retraction of nipples.
MODALITIES
AGG.: vomiting, bathing, motion of affected part, sexual excitement, bread, getting wet, night.
AMEL.: loosening clothing, haemorrhage, cold, standing.
DES.: juicy, refreshing things.
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