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CHINA OFFICINALIS CINCHONA OFFICINALIS (Chin.) – چائنا – سنکونا Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CHINA OFFICINALIS / CINCHONA OFFICINALIS (Chin.) - چائنا - سنکونا
This is a touchy person. The nervous system is in a state of irritation. Touch aggravates them in the physical and emotional levels. They react badly with the least offence and they are aggravated by touch.
TOUCHY, AILMENTS AFTER LOSS OF VITAL FLUIDS, DISTENTION
MENTAL
TOUCHY, EASILY OFFENDED.
FEAR OF ANIMALS.
Great imagination. Abundant ideas at evening or night. They fantasize about all sorts of things and play the hero in these fantasies. Mirth, liveliness at night esp. after midnight.
Oversensitive to noise.
Dullness of mind or delirium after loss of fluids.
PHYSICAL
GALL BLADDER STONES.
AILMENTS FROM LOSS OF BLOOD, OF FLUIDS (emaciation, faintness, chorea, stomach pain, inflammation of lungs, diarrhoea).
DISTENTION OF ABDOMEN, tympanitic, with a lot of flatus, but passing flatus does not ameliorate. Worse after drinking, eating.
PERIODICITY. Periodic fever, headache, eye pain, face pain, diarrhoea etc.
Headache ameliorated with hard pressure.
Cold perspiration around nose, around mouth.
MODALITIES
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CHELIDONIUM MAJUS (Chel.) – چیلیڈونیم Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CHELIDONIUM MAJUS (Chel.) - چیلی ڈونیم - چیلیڈونیم
GALL BLADDER AND LIVER AFFECTIONS
MENTAL
Powerful, domineering, dictatorial. Wants others to listen to her advice and likes to run others' lives.
PHYSICAL
GALL-BLADDER AND LIVER AFFECTIONS.
Gall-stones, cholocystitis.
PAIN IN RIGHT HYPOCHONDRIA EXTENDING TO BACK, TO THE INFERIOR ANGLE OF RIGHT SCAPULA < breathing, inspiring.
Right sided complaints. Eye or ear pain extending to teeth. Toothache extending to eyes. Headache <right side, with lachrymation.
Jaundice (also in newborns).
Constipation alternating with diarrhoea, like sheep's dung. Constriction of rectum preventing the stool, alternating with itching.
Stomach pain or umbilicus pain extending transversely across stomach or abdomen.
MODALITIES
AGG.: eating after.
AMEL.: eating after esp. noon, warm milk, warm drinks.
DES.: cheese, warm drinks, strange things.
AVERS.: cheese. read more [...]
CHAMOMILLA (Cham.) – کیمومیلا کیموملا Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CHAMOMILLA (Cham.) - کیمومیلا - کیموملا
Chamomilla patients are oversensitive people to an extreme degree. Oversensitivity and irritability run through the whole symptom picture. Chamomilla is very much indicated in children during the period of dentition.
EXCITABLE, REACTIVE NERVOUS SYSTEM, CAPRICIOUSNESS
MENTAL
GREAT IRRITABILITY <touched, spoken to, during pain, during dentition. Cannot bear to be looked at. Sends nurse out of the room.
CAPRICIOUSNESS. Rejecting the things he has been longing when offered.
CHILDREN WANT TO BE CARRIED AND ROCKED.
OVER-SENSITIVE to pain.
Common in children esp. during dentition.
PHYSICAL
AILMENTS FROM ANGER: pains in uterus, metrorrhagia, vomiting, convulsions, dyspnoea, metritis, asthma etc.
GREAT SENSITIVENESS TO PAIN. Pain is unbearable, drives to despair. Labor pains spasmodic and distressing, make her desperate.
REDNESS OF ONE CHEEK, PALENESS OF THE OTHER.
DENTITION with irritability.
Toothache < warm drinks or food, bed, warm room.
Stools hot, like chopped eggs & spinach, smelling like rotten eggs (esp. during dentition).
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CAUSTICUM (Caust.) – کاسٹیکم Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CAUSTICUM (Caust.) - کاسٹیکم
The Causticum people are sensitive and easily affected by the environment. They develop very strong feelings about the suffering of others (especially the social suffering rather than the physical like Phosphorus). They get so angry with injustice that they can become activists, anarchists or even violent. The neurological system is mostly affected on this remedy.
SENSITIVE TO INJUSTICE, SYMPATHETIC, NEUROLOGICAL COMPLAINTS
MENTAL
SYMPATHETIC. CANNOT SUPPORT INJUSTICE. Strong sense of justice. Idealists. They rebel against authority, they are exhilarated with politics. Can become anarchists or fanatics.
Sympathetic towards animals. They cannot see an animal suffering.
Oversensitive when hearing of cruelties.
Ailments from long lasting grief and sorrow.
Stammering < excitement, vexation.
Weeping at trifles, spasmodic.
PHYSICAL
The nervous system is weak, in excitable state and predisposed to diseases.
GRADUAL PARALYSIS, paralysis of SINGLE PARTS, esp. of right side.
Paralysis with numbness of left side.
Facial paralysis esp. one-sided, after getting wet, after riding read more [...]
CARBO VEGETABILIS (Carb-v.) – کاربو ویجی ٹیبلس Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CARBO VEGETABILIS (Carb-v.) - کاربو ویجی ٹیبلس
The idea of Carbo vegetabilis is the emptiness that we see in all levels. The person feels that life is leaving him, he feels like an empty sac. The circulation is poor and produces weakness and faintness in both acute and chronic states.
EMPTINESS IN ALL LEVELS, POOR CIRCULATION - WEAKNESS, FAINTNESS WITH COLD PERSPIRATION AND DESIRE TO BE FANNED
MENTAL
The emptiness on the emotional level is manifested by indifference, apathy, discouragement and on the mental level by slow thinking, dullness, weak memory, confusion, indecision.
Before these states you may see irritability and anger. The patient is abrupt and critical.
Anxiety on closing the eyes, at evening in bed. Delirium in the dark.
PHYSICAL
Acts upon the venous circulation, esp. capillaries. Poor circulation and imperfect oxygenation. Disintegration. Bad effects from exhausting illness (ex. measles, scarlet fever, intoxication) and loss of vital fluids. Used after anaesthesia to bring back the patient quickly. Last stages of disease.
FAINTNESS on rising, on waking, on exertion. Faintness with cold perspiration read more [...]
CAPSICUM (Caps.) – کیپسیکم Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CAPSICUM (Caps.) - کیپسیکم
HOMESICKNESS, THREATENED MASTOIDITIS
MENTAL
DEPRESSION AND NOSTALGIA (HOMESICKNESS) which can even reach suicidal states. Ailments from homesickness. Homesickness with sleeplessness, ennui, with red cheeks.
Prostration of mind.
Children obstinate, chilly and clumsy.
Desire to be alone, aversion to company.
Aversion to physical exertion.
PHYSICAL
Affects mucous membranes, and bones esp. MASTOID.
MASTOIDITIS.
Pain in distant parts on coughing, bladder, knees, legs, ears.
Flabbiness of skin, flabby feeling.
Pains are burning and smarting (as from cayenne pepper), worse with cold water. Burning, stinging and bleeding hæmorrhoids.
Offensive breath, pungent eructations during cough.
Pain in throat, head, ear, back, bladder etc. during cough.
Thirsty after stool, with shivering. Much thirst but drinking causes shivering.
Perforation of tympanum, cavity is filled with thick yellow pus.
Children dread open air, always chilly, clumsy, fat, dirty with aversion to work or think. General uncleanliness of the body, filthy skin.
Awkwardness.
Acute hearing during perspiration, read more [...]
CANTHARIS (Canth.) – کینتھرس – کینتھیرس Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CANTHARIS (Canth.) - کینتھرس - کینتھیرس
This is an intense remedy. The idea is of fire esp. in genitourinary system.
The inflammation is so intense that is life-threatening.
The pains are intense, the sexuality is intense, the skin burns are severe.
INTENSITY OF SYMPTOMS ESPECIALLY OF GENITO-URINARY SYSTEM
MENTAL
Adulterous, erotic delirium, lascivious, nymphomania.
Rage esp. on sight of water. Disposition to contradiction, insolent esp. in the afternoon. Delirium with desire to bite. Maniacal delirium.
Fear of mirrors and brilliant objects. Hydrophobia.
PHYSICAL
RAPID, INTENSE AND DESTRUCTIVE symptoms.
BURNING, CUTTING PAINS.
Affects the URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS.
Burning, cutting pain in neck of bladder extending through urethra.
Urination is so painful so that he dances around the room in agony.
Frequent, constant urging to urinate, passing a few drops at a time (dribbling), sometimes mixed with blood.
Cystitis with violent burning pain during urination, the burning can be there before and/or after urination. Pain in bladder after few drops pass.
Nephritis. Kidney pain, tearing, read more [...]
CANNABIS INDICA (Cann-i.) – کینابس انڈیکا Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CANNABIS INDICA (Cann-i.) - کینابس انڈیکا
Usually these patients have a history of cannabis abuse or they can be so sensitive to cannabis that they can get ailments even after slight use. It activates (quick mind, many ideas, loquacity, theorizing) but also confuses the mind (gullible, no critical thinking, no discrimination) reaching to even delusional states. The clarity of mental faculties is affected for many years after stopping the use of cannabis. However, we should remember that the abuse of cannabis can produce the picture of any remedy if the symptoms match.
DELUSIONS, CONFUSION, FEARS AS CONSEQUENCES FROM HASHISH USE
MENTAL
DELUSIONS: time passes too slowly, a few seconds seem ages.
Objects or distances are enlarged, he’s out of the body etc. Sensation that single limbs are floating.
FEAR OF INSANITY, OF LOSING SELF-CONTROL. Panic attacks, with fear of death.
LOQUACITY. Theorizing.
CONFUSION. Fast mind with abundant ideas. Inability to recall any thought or event on account of other thoughts intrude and crowd around each other in his brain.
Very forgetful: forgets words while speaking; begins a sentence, read more [...]
CAMPHORA OFFICINARUM (Camph.) – کیمفر – Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CAMPHORA OFFICINARUM (Camph.) - کیمفر
COLLAPSE - EXTREMELY COLD BUT WANTS TO BE UNCOVERED
MENTAL
Thinking of complaints ameliorates.
Anxiety during chill, anxiety in bed. Fears to be alone at night, desires company.
Shrieking, screaming, <before convulsions. Shrieking for help.
Puerperal insanity. Delirium. Tears things.
Desire to bite <during rage.
PHYSICAL
SKIN IS ICY COLD, YET wants to be UNCOVERED. Throws off all coverings (Carb-v., Sec., Med.). Coldness of extremities, yet warm bed is unendurable.
Wants to be uncovered with cold skin, but desires to be covered with heat and sweat.
Internal heat with external chill during fever.
Sudden collapse- weakness with chill and anxiety. Profound weakness. Sleep becomes comatose; can alternate with sleeplessness.
Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea with anxiety and restlessness.
Sensitive to cold air.
Cramps, convulsions with coldness and mental anguish. Face is anxious, distorted, bluish and cold.
Rashes from exposure to sunlight.
Pain > while thinking of it.
Ailments from suppressed sexual desire (Con., Puls., Apis).
MODALITIES
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CALENDULA (Calen.) – کیلینڈولا Keynotes Derived from Homeopathic Materia Medica VIVA
CALENDULA (Calen.) - کیلینڈولا
INJURIES, LACERATED WOUNDS
MENTAL
Fear that something bad is going to happen and this fear makes him/her restless.
Anxiety felt in abdomen before or during stool. Aggravation in general during chill becomes peevish, complaining a lot, becomes sleepy.
Bulimia. Great irritability during a chill.
PHYSICAL
Open, cut, LACERATED wounds, RAGGED, SUPPURATED where the pain is excessive and out of all proportion to injury.
OPEN WOUNDS that will not heal, ulcers etc. Suppurations, abscesses, sepsis and gangrene.
Lacerations in hand, nose. After injuries to genitalia, head, eye.
Injuries of muscles, tendons < moving the part and > by lying. Sensitive to touch.
After labor esp. caesarean. After operations. Calculi after bladder operation. Profuse gum bleeding after tooth extraction.
General weakness after the injury that may be much more debilitating than expected given the severity of wound. Nausea and other consequences after physical trauma (fever, chill, headache).
The injured part is worse on moving the part and relieved by lying perfectly still (Bry.).
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