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Only those drugs have been. dealt with which are indis-
pensable for my readers who would have to consult Part
11 of the book, dealing with the Treatment of Diseases.
APIS MELLIFICA
Any disease characterized by oedematous swelling and
stinging pain.Esp. adapted to widows. Nervous girls,
who are awkward and let things fall from the hands from
inadvertency and sometimes laugh sillily at the mishap.
Moaning and whining. Great tearfulness ; cannot help
crying. Busy, restless constantly changing his occupation.
Burning, stinging pain. Oedema, general or local.
Thirstlessness. Great drowsiness. Scanty urination. Skin
alternately dry and perspiring. Sudden, shrill piercing
screams during sleep or deep stupor. Right-sidedness. Sore-
ness and sensitiveness to touch and pressure. Stretched-
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ARSENICUM ALBUM
In broken down constitutions, when the patient is
cold, pale, sickly. Broken down constitution from syphilis
or malaria. After suppression of an ulcer by salves or an
old ear discharge by external application. Chilly, hugs fire.
Anxiety and fear of death. He is not so much afraid
of death, but that he feels the violence of his suffering and
thinks he will die because his disease is incurable. Men-
tally restless (anxious restlessness). Wants to be moved
from one bed to another.
Burning pains relieved by heat. *Great thirst for cold
water ; *drinks often but little at a time. Rapid failure of
strength. *Putridity *cadaveric odour. Cold, clammy
perspiration. Puffiness of
; face, esp. around eyes.
Remember that suddenness and violence are two
marked features of Arsenic.
*Worse after midnight (1 to 2 a.m.). (Acon. aggrava-
tion takes place rather before midnight.) Feels always
chilly and is worse in cold, damp weather.
Feels better from heat in general (reverse of Secale).
Hugs the fire, loves warmth (Nux-v., Psor., Hepar, Silic) ;
wants to be worapped up warm.
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BAPITSIA TINCTORIA
Adapted to any disease traceable to septic or zymotic
cause leading to the poisoning of blood from drinking
poisonous waters, from noxious exhalations, etc.
Dull, confused. Stupor with besotted expression. Heavy
sleep, can scarcely be aroused long enough to answer a
question ; falling asleep in the middle of a sentence. Illusion
that the body is double.
Bruised sore feeling all over. Bed feels too hard. Face
dark red, with besotted look. Tongue is coated, yellowish
brown in the centre, with red shining edges. Discharges
and exhalations offensive. Stool horribly offensive. Involuntary
discharge of stool and urine. Rapid prostration. Can
swallow liquids only (Bar-c. ).
BARYTA CARBONICA
Infancy and old age, esp. premature old age. Scro-
fulous, dwarfish. Children who do not grow, are slow
in learning to walk, slow with their studies, in a word,
slow in performing life's functions.
Memory deficient. Cowardly. Dwarfish. Children with
undeveloped brain.
Abdomen bloated, the rest of the body emaciated.
Sickly countenance. Cold, offensive foot-sweat. Cold, clammy
feet. Swelling and induration of glands. Paralytic conditions.
High blood pressure.
The patient is chilly ; sensitive to cold, wants to be
wrapped up. Great tendency to catch cold.
BELLADONNA
Adapted to flabby-muscled, sluggish, bilious, and
plethoric constitutions. Esp. adapted to chubby, large-
46 THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRESCRIBER
BRYONIA ALBA
Adapted to gouty and rheumatic diathesis. Tendency
to bilious attacks. Persons who over-eat (gourmands)
Exceedingly irritable. "Desires things immediately
which are not to be had, or which when offered are ref-
fused." Wants something but knows not what. Children
dislike to be carried or to be raised.
CARBON VEGETABILIS
Adapted to persons who are old and debilitated. "Weak
delicate persons who are old, dyspeptics, esp. if they have
48 THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRESCRIBER
CAUSTICUM
Chronic diseases in old broken down constitutions ;
weak scrofulous persons with yellow, sallow complexion.
Dyspeptics and consumptives.
Timid, nervous, and fearful, esp. at night. Child is
afraid of strangers.
Nails crippled. Warts. Frequent but unsuccessful desire
for stool. At night, cannot get any position or lie still
a minute ( Rhus-t.). At night the legs are constantly "on
the go." Weakness of Causticum is progressive until there
is gradually appearing paralysis. Burning is a characteristic
note. The other is tension and contraction.
Sensitive to both heat and cold. A chilly patient.
Great sensibility to currents of air, and to cold. Generally
worse in clear, fine weather. Thinking of complaints
excites them. Complaints coming on at new moon.
Feels better in damp, wet weather.
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CHAMOMILLA
Adapted to very irritable children. New-born children,
and, in particular, children *during the period of dentition.
Child is exceedingly fretful, watns to be carried all the time
to be quieted. Whining restlessness. Does not endure
to be spoken to, nor to be interrupted when conversing.
Uncivil irritability.
One cheek red, the other pale. "One cheek red and
hot, the other pale and cold." Warm sweat about head.
Drowsiness with sleeplessness (Bell, Opium). Drowsiness
with moaning during sleep. In sleep, half-open eyes.
Face hot, rest of body cold. Burning of soles at night,
puts feet out of bed.
*Numbness with pain. Hot sweat with pain.
Worse from damp, cold weather. Better from warm,
wet weather. While face and head are not sensitive to
open air, the ears are markedly so.
CHELIDONIUM MAJUS
Adapted to those who are affected with gastric disorders
and liver troubles. Tubercular diathesis.
Desire for milk, esp. hot milk ; desire for very hot
drinks ; all of these agree. Bad odour from mouth.
Sallow sunken face. Stool clay coloured or yellowish.
Alternating diarrhoea and constipation. Cold finger-tips.
One foot cold. Icy coldness of right foot Small lumps of
mucus fly from the mouth while coughing (Badi., Kali-c).
Dirty yellow colour of face. Tongue thickly coated yellow,
with red edges.
CHINA
Face pale, earth-like (sunken face). System debilitated
and emaciated from loss of vital fluids (Carb-v). Disposed
to dropsical swelling ; to catarrhs, or to diarrhoea.
Execessively irritable, inability to bear least noise.
Apathy and taciturnity.
Lassitude with inclination to sit down. Milk deranges
stomach easily. Dizzy when walking. Liver sensitive to
touch and pressure. Disposed to sweat. Weakening (light-
sweats. One hand icy cold, the other warm ( Digit., Ipec.,
Puls.). Hungry, yet lacking appeatite. While slight pres-
sure (touch) intolerable, hard pressure relieves.
Sensitive to draughts of air.
CINA
Suited to children, esp. children during dentition.
Obstinate children with black hair and black eyes. Children
with worm affections. Patients between two and ten years
of age come within the remedy's special range of action.
When an epidemic (particularly measles - at least this is
my own experience) is prevalent, Cina often comes into play.
Irritable. Child is ugly, very cross. Child cries when
it is touched. Resents being touched, spoken to, or looked
at. Cannot bear one to approach or come near it.
Aversion to caresses. Naughtiness. The child desires
all kinds of things which are petulantly rejected or pushed
away when offered or some moments after. Wants to be
rapidly rocked all the time, will perhaps sleep while being
rocked. Stiffens out, esp. if crossed.
Grinding of teeth during sleep. Picks, bores into or
rubs the nose. White turbid urine. Wets the bed Infant
wants to be nursed all the time. Will not sleep without
rocking Wakes frightened. Will lie on abdomen or get
on hands and knees during sleep. Hungry shortly after
a meal. Craving for sweets.
Finds relief from moving about.
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COLCHICUM
Aadpted to gouty, rheumatic diathesis. Gout in per-
sons of robust and vigorous constitution.
The least external impression (light, noise, strong
odour, bad manners) is annoying or may even drive him
to distraction.
Yellow spots on face. Lips cracked, Cannot lie on
left side. Urine red and scanty. General dropscial con-
ditions. Smell of cooking food causes nausea even to faintness.
Aversion to food ; the sight thereof or still more its smell
is loathsome. Burning or icy coldness in stomach and
abdomen. Affected parts very sensitive to contact and
motion. Great prostration accompanies many complaints.
of Colchicum. *Violence of symptoms (acuteness of pains,
etc.) is very characteristic.
Worse from motion. Aversion to motion. Worse in
cold, clamp weather. The patient is chilly and sensitive
to cold ; from changing of weather.
Better from warmth. But warm room may cause.
chilliness.
COLOCYNTH
"Those liable to cramps and colic, from fruit, lead-
posioning or excessive venery."
Becomes angry when questioned. A peculiar iritabi-
lity in which things are thrown out of one's hands.
Semi-lateral pains. Stiffness in all joints. Pains often
accompanied by stiffness.
CUPRUM METALLICUM
Persons prematurely old from sexual excessess, and
those who are overtaxed in both body and mind.
Unconquerable anxiety, as if some misfortune is ahead.
Taste sweetish or metallic. When drinking, fluid
descends with a gurgling sound (Arsen., Thuja). Constantly
protrudes and retracts the tongue like a snake (Lach.)
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DULCAMARA
Persons who are sensitive to cold and damp weather ;
who are subject to catarrhal, rheumatic, and skin affections
caused or aggravated by cold, damp wearther, or from
changes from hot to cold weather, esp. if sudden. Patients
living or working in a damp, cold basement.
Sweats easily and then takes cold. Dryness of mucous
membranes. Burning thirst for cold drinks. Sweat in palms
of hands. Warts : fleshy, large and smooth.
Worse from cold, damp (foggy, rainy) weather.
Patient is susceptible to such weather. Worse by being
*chilled, esp. suddenly chilled, after being heated. In such
cases suppression of sweat takes place. And, it should be
remembered that Dulcamara is a pre-eminent remedy for
not only suppressed sweat, but also suppressed discharges and
suppressed eruptions.
GELSEMIUM
Adapted to children and young persons, esp. women
who are nervous and of hysterical temperament.
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GRAPHITES
Suitable to women, inclined to be fat, and who suffer
from habitual constipation; with a history of delayed
menstruation. Fat, flabby, chilly ond costive patients.
Tendency to be frightened. Sad and despondent.
Music causes weeping.
Inclination to stretch without being able to satisfy it
sufficiently. Decided aversion to sexual intercourse.
Deformity and thickness of nails. Unhealthy skin ; every
little injury tending to ulceration and suppuration (Hepar).
Disposition to delaying menstruation. Hair turns grey.
Excoration of skin in bends of limbs, neck, and groins,
behind the ears, fold of skin, esp, in children. Skin dry,
inclined to crack. Obstinate dryness of skin and absence
of sweat.
Sensitiveness to open air and of currents of air ; great
tendency to take cold. Feels always cold, indoors or out.
Sensitive to both cold of winter and heat of summer. Easily
chilled and easily overheated.
HEPAR SULPHUR
Adapted to persons who have tendency to have
eruptions and glandular swellings. When there is a history
of suppression of scabies and other skin diseases.
54 THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRESCRIBER
HYOSCYAMUS NIGER
Nervous, irritable, excitable, and above all, hysterical.
Very supicious. Fear of being poisoned. Of being
betrayed. Cannot bear to be talked to. Desire to escape.
IPECACUANHA
Persons of lax fibre. Children during dentition. Fat,
pale children, particularly during weaning. Persons who
have a history of nosebleed or haemorrhage. Case associa-
ted with gastric symptoms which predominate.
Child cries and screams continually.
Nausea without relief after vomiting. *Disease charac-
terized by constant and continual nausea. Continuous nausea,
with profuse flow of saliva. Clean tongue, or the tongue
may be slightly coated. Thirstlessness (but thirst may be
present. Oppressed breathing. Cold extremities, cold per-
spiration. Vomiting of grass-green mucus. Stool like
frothy molasses.
Oversensitive to heat and cold. Worse in winter and
dry weather. Particularly sensitive to warm, moist
atmosphere.
KALI BICHROMICUM
Suited to scrofulous and syphilitic subjects.
Pale, yellowish complexion. Large insular patches on
tongue. Tongue dry, red, smooth and cracked. Desire for
acid drinks (Ant-c.). Sensation of hair on back part of
tongue and velum. Taste ; coppery ; sweetish ; sour.
Cracking in joints from motion. Pain at root of nose.
Nasal speech. Tenacious, stringy discharges. Pain in small
spots. Migrating pains. All processes are slow and mild in
character, but deep in their nature. Sudden pains. Pains
appear and disappear suddenly. Regularly periodical pains.
Worse in hot weather. Great liability to take cold in
open air. These are incongruous, no doubt, but all the
same, both the symptoms belong to the remedy.
KALI CARBONICUM
Suited to the aged, of lax fibre and inclined to obesity
(Amm-c. Graph.). Old, fleshy, flabby, dropsical, paretic.
Tubercular diathesis.
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KREOSOTUM
"Over-grown, poorly developed children." Very tall
for her age (Phos.). Children who are old-looking and wrinkled
(Abrot.). Teething children. When the teeth decay rapidly.
Congenital syphilis.
Glands of neck swollen. Rapid decay of teeth. Small
wounds bleed much. Complaints accompanying yawning.
Rapid emaciation. Putrid secretions. Malignant character of
diseases. Violent itching.
LACHESIS
Women who "have never been well since the change
of life." Persons who are addicted to drinking. Persons
who suffer from effects of masturbation. Syphilitic persons.
Great loquacity ; wants to talk all the time ; jumps from
one subject to another. Excessive jealousy and suspicion.
Sznse as to time of the day is deranged.
Rapid onset and intensity of a disease ; rapid failure
of strength. Malignancy, burning, putridity are also charac-
teristic notes of the remedy. Fainting accompanies many
complaints. Blueness of affected parts. Lower jaw drops.
Tongue catches on teeth. Tremor of tongue. Neck sensi-
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LYCOPODIUM
Persons whose upper part of body and neck emaciated,
lower part semi-dropsical. Person who arc predisposed to
lung and liver troubles. Children who become emaciated
and look wrinkled and prematurely old. Deep-seated, pro-
gressive chronic diseases. Lacks vital heat; has cold.
extremities. Malnutrition.
Afraid to be alone. Dread of appearing in the public
as in the case of professional men, who, however, after the
task is undertaken accomplish it smoothly. This is like
Silica. Children peevish and cross on awaking.
Dropsical and inflammatory swellings. Crooked legs ;
ankles weak. Sleeps with eyes half opened. Sleeps with
mouth open. Collection of water in mouth. Constant
desire to remain lying down. One foot hot, the other cold.
Tendency of skin to become chapped. Lyco. affects the
right side by preference. Or, * the right side is affected
first and then the left. Emaciates from above downwards.
Symptoms appear suddenly. Sudden satiety when eating.
Rawness in folds of skin.
All symptoms worse from 4 to 8 p.m. or from 4 to 6 p.m.,
or at 4 p.m., or from 4 p.m., onwards right through the night.
MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS
Scrofulous children. Syphilitics. To a certain extent
adapted to psoric and sycotic patients.
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NATRIUM MURIATICUM
Suited to cachectic, anemic persons; old people;
anemic persons with catarrhal troubles. Young people
having the tendncy to grow fat. Malarial cachexia.
Marked diposition to weep; all attempts at consolation
aggravate the state of the mind, that is to say, aggravate
the sadness and tearfulness, and sometimes make her
angry. Wants to be alone to cry. Child is cross when
spoken to; more irritable when consoled. Dreams of
thieves in the house.
Great emaciation, more of body than of face. Emacia-
tion most conspicuous about neck. Losing flesh while living
well Face pale, shining, greasy looking. Upper lip swollen.
Mapped tongue. Violent thirst. While eating sweat on
face. Corners of mouth sore, cracked, crusty. Dryness of
all mucous membranes. Coldness of many parts. Mamm-
ary glands wasted. Lower extremities dropsical. Copious
salivation; saliva salty. Longing for salt. Sensation of hair
on the tongue.
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Great tendency to take cold. Patient is chilly. Gen-
nerally feels better in open air, so far as both mental
and physical complaints are concerned. Takes cold easily
after sweating.
As a rule feels better in open air, if the exertion there
be Moderate. Feels better at sea-side. Feels better when
stomach is empty ; when going without regular meals.
NITRICUM ACIDUM
Suited to lean persons of rigid fibres; nervous. Persons
of dark complexion, black hair, black eyes. Exbausted old
people with diarrh cea. Persons suffering from chronic
diseases who take cold easily and are disposd to diarrhoea.
Tendency to attarks of diarrhoea in a broken down constitu-
tion. It is equally adapted to psoric, syphilitic and sycotic
cases. Also to phthisical cases (phthisis being a strong form
of psora).
Anxiety about recovery, with fear of death. Easily
startled and frightened. Excessive weakness of memory.
Strong-smelling urine. Sticking and pricking pains.
Copper-coloured spots. Swelling of glands. Face pale,
yellow, sunken. Cracking in joints. Deep lines of suffering
are traceable on the Nitric acid face. Drospy of limbs.
Tightness or tension of skin. Loss of breath on walking
or going upstairs. Wheezing respiration, esp. during manual
labour. Putrid smell from mouth ; from nose. Tendency
to bleeding. Easily perspires; then takes cold; offen-
sive sweat. Extreme sensitiveness to touch, lightest jar, or
movement.
NUX VOMICA
Suited to persons who are particular, careful, but in-
clined to get easily excited. Quarrelsome, spiteful, malicious
and zealous. Cannot tolerate noise, music, talking, strong
odours. Leads a sedentary lite. Overexerts the mind.
Debauchees. Drastically drugged.
Even harmless words offend the patient. Time passes
too slowly.
Redness and heat of one cheek, and paleness of the
60 THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRESCRIBER
OPIUM
Persons of lax muscles and want of bodily irritability.
Children and old people. Drinkers. Child with wrinkled
skin; looking like a little dried up old man.
Forgetfulness of sufferings. Dreamy. No will power.
Complete loss of memory. *Placid, complains of nothing
and asks for nothing." "Constitutional liars."
Dark-red, bloated, swollen face. Dull, sluggish, inac-
tive. Hanging down of lower jaw. Voice weak. Eyes
half-open and turned upwards. Very sleepy but cannot go to
sleep. Stool protrudes and recedes. Bowels seem closed.
Pulse full and slow. Urine scanty, retained, or suppressed.
Breathing loud and sterterous. Involuntary stools. Abdomen
hard, distended. Cold sweat on forehead. *Painlessness
with almost all complaints. Hot, sweltering perspiration.
Bathed in hot sweat (ominous), excepting lower limbs.
Cold sweat on forehead (Ver-a.).
When well-indicated remedies fail to have their desired
effect, due to lack of susceptibility to medicinal agents,
Opium often comes into play.
The patient is susceptible to cold air, but feels better
by uncovering head. Bed feels so hot, cannot lie on it.
Fells worse while perspiring.
Desires cool, open air ; wants to be uncovered.
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PHOSPHORUS
Adapted to tall, slender persons of quick and graceful
manners and who are very sensitive, Delicate, waxy,
anemic. Young persons who have grown too rapidly
and are inclined to stoop. Weak from loss of animal
fluids. Phthisical. Hereditary tendency to consumption.
Persons who have hemorrhagic tendency.
Great tendency to start. Apathetic : unwilling to talk ;
at times vehement. Answers slowly ; moves slowly.
Disgust for life. Restless, fidgety.
Emaciation. Weakness of joints, esp. knees. Tendency
to strain back. Cracked lips ; crack in the middle of
lower lip. Cold or rather icy coldness of hands, feet,
knees even in bed. Ravenous hunger. Bloatedness all
round eyes ; the whole face bloated. Profuse night-
sweats. Sinking gone feeling in stomach ; sometimes
at 11 a.m. like Sulphur. Oppressed for breath. Short naps and
frequent wakings. Trembling of limbs from slight exertions.
The patient catches cold easily and there is a marked
tendency to bronchitis. Nose cold descends.
PSORINUM
Persons who are subject to glandular and skin affec-
tion. Who do not regain health after severe diseases.
Cases with a history of supressed eruptions. Who have
a filthy odour. Who have inherited syphilis, also who are
suffering from tertiary syphilis. It is often required in cases
in which the well-chosen remedy fails to act or acts feebly and
the action is of short duration.
The patient despairs of recovery when sick. Fears he
will die. Nervous, restless, and easily startled. "He takes
no joy in his family ; feels that these things are not
for him". Suicidal thoughts. Slight emotions cause severe
ailments.
1. Filthy smell of body; 2. Unhealthy skin; 3. Carrion-like odour of
excretions; 4. Excessive itching; 5. Great sensitiveness to cold; 6. Hungry
in the middle of night; 7. Dark-brown watery, fetid stool; 8. Profuse sweet.
62 THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRESCRIBER
SECALE CORNUTUM
Suited to women who are thin, scrawny, wrinkled, feeble
and cachectic in appearance. Children of the same type.
Old people with shrivelled skin. Thin, dried up, old women.
Sad; irritable; nervous.
Eyes sunken deep in sockets; blue margins around.
Weakness of sight. Face pale, discoloured. Lips bluish or
deathly pale. Frequently bites tongue. Degeneration
of the pulp of nails; nails are raised. General emaciation.
Sensation of deadness in any part. Unnatrual, ravenous
appetite. Formication under skin. Burning and putridity are
two characteristic notes of Secale. Another characteristic
note is formication, tingling, creeping. Sensation of creeping
or as if ants are crawling (in skin diseases, in haemorrhages).
The patient is worse from heat or warmth in gerneral.
Although objectively cold (skin feels cold to touch), the
patient does not want to be covered (he has aversion to
being covered).
Limbs are cold as ice, yet the patient wants the windows
open, *wants to be uncovered. Feels comfortable in a cold
room, from uncovering ; and from cold breeze blowing on
the patient.
64 THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRESCRIBER
SELENIUM
Suited to presons of light complexion ; to blondes.
Mental labour fatigues. Dreads society. Extreme sad-
ness. Excessive forgetfulness, esp. in matters of business.
Great forgetfulness when awake, but recollects distinctly
when half asleep. Greasy, shiny skin of face.
Perspires too easily ; from least exertion. Great fatigue
from light exertion. Stammering speech. Desires for brandy
and other alcoholic or strong drinks, such as tea, etc.
Sweetish taste. Hungry at night.
The patient is extremely sensitive to sun's heat. Also
sensitive and abnormally averse to draught of air, whether
warm, cold or damp.
Feels comfortable as the sun declines. Strength and energy
are on the increase as the sun sinks down. Strong inclination to
lie down in bed and sleep, esp, during heat of day.
(But, after sleep symptoms are apt to be worse.)
SEPIA
Adapted to women, because of predominance of
symptoms that relate to their conditions. Tall, slim
women with lax fibres and muscles; who are "straight from
the shoulders all the way down." Hysterical.
*Great sadness with tears. Indolent. Excessively nervous.
Easily fatigued. Easily sprained. Easily benumbed.
Easily excited nausea. Easily chilled. Easily faints. Easily
affected by all impressions. Gone feeling in stomach, not
relieved by eating. Skin blotched. Sudden weakness; then
hot flushes and faintness. Hot hands and cold feet and
vice versa. Tongue feels excoriated. Lower lip swollen
and cracked. Eyes are surrounded by dark rings. Glassy
watery eyes, in evening. Fetid breath. Want of animal
heat. Great longing for acids and pickles. Food tastes too
salty. Most symptoms are attended with constipation.
Very sensitive to cold air,-, esp. north wind. Great ten-
dency to take cold.
SILICEA
Adapted to psoric diathesis. Weak, nervous, easily
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STAPHISAGRIA
Suited to persons who are pale, sunken, worn-out and
exhausted as a result of sexual excesses, and esp. self-abuse.
Adapted to psoric, syphilitic and sycotic taint.
66 THE HOMOEOPATHIC PRESCRIBER
STRAMONIUM
Maniacal subjects. Violent manifestation of both mental
and physical symptoms.
Dread of darkness and solitude. Disposed to talk con-
tinually ; talking is incoherent. Lasciviousness. Praying
mood.
*Face hot, red and bloated ; hands and feet cold. No desire
for water, although mouth is dry. Copious salivation ;
dribbling of glairy saliva from mouth. Head perspires
more than usual. Chewing motion of mouth. Bores head
into pillow. Suppression of both stool and urine. Swal-
lowing difficult. Lifting of head frequently from pillow
when lying down.
The patient cannot bear to be alone or in dark. Worse
after sleep.
Desires light. Also desires company.
SULPHUR
Especially adapted to persons who are lean, stoop-
shouldered ; with whom standing is the most uncomfortable
position; who are quick-motioned, quick-tempered, active;
who are averse to be washed; who are always worse after
a bath; who are averse to heat ; who have in their body an
offensive smell, despite frequent bathing ; whose sweat, esp.
in the armpits is bad-smelling ; who are suffering from
chronic diseases caused by suppressed eruptions; who are
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SULPHURIC ACID
Suited to old people, esp. women. after menopause.
Patients in whom some deep-seated dyscrasia is acting all
the time as undercurrent. Sour-smelling babies.
One feels as if one is in great hurry, everything must
be done in a hurry.
Paleness of face. Dry, shrivelled spots on face. Lips
are cracked and exfoliate. Swelling and easy bleeding of
gums. Breath very offensive. Profuse salivation. Sour
eructations. Sour body odour. Weakness with internal
trembling. Craving for alcohol. Teeth decay early. Hair
turns grey and falls off. Blue-black spots on skin. Weak,
exhausted. Weakness is out of all proportion to the disease
and* is often associated with a sensation of internal trembling.
The patient feels worse in open air.
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SYPHILINUM
Suited to affections based on syphilitic taint. Rheumatic
affections in syphilitic constitutions. Dwarfed, shrivelled-up,
old-looking babies and children.
Loss of memory. Absent-minded. Despair of recovery.
*Fears the night and the suffering from exhaustion, both mental
and physical which the night produces. *Terrible
night, when symptoms get aggravated. dread of
Eyes dull ; face pale ; earthy complexion. Upper lids
swollen. Two deep cracks running lengthwise on tongue, one
on each side of the median line. Fetid breath. Offen-
sive body odour. Aversion to meat. Frequent urging to
urinate at night. Night-sweats and great weakness. Biting
sensation in different parts of the body, as if bitten by
bugs, at night only. Great restlessness at night, it being
impossible to keep leg in one position. Absolute sleepless-
ness. *Hair falls off. Distorted nails. Teeth decay at
edge. Persistent pains. Wandering pains,
The patient feels worse at night ; from sundown to
sunrise. Cannot tolerate extreme cold or extreme heat.
Damp weather or warm damp weather tells upon a
Syphilinum patient. Feels worse at sea-side.
Likes the mountains, where he feels comfortable.
THUJA
The patient is extremely sensitive to dampness,
bathing, getting wet, to food that increases water in the
system, residence near river, lake, etc.
Fixed ideas: as if a strange person were at his side;
as if a living animal were in abdomen ; as if the limbs
were made of glass and would break easily. Hurried and
impatient. Talks hurriedly. His movements are un-
naturally active and hurried.
Greasy skin of face. Craves salt. Appetite for cold drinks
and food. Speedy satiety when eating. Aversion to
fresh meat and potato. Hasty and frequent urging to
urinate. Cracking in joints on stretching them. Oedema
DRUG PICTURES IN SILHOUETTE 69
TUBERCULINUM
Persons of tall stature, of' slim figure ; of fat and
narrow chest. Averse to all labour, esp. mental. Persons
who are physically weak, esp. in limbs after dinner.
Sad, despondent ; disposed to whine and complain.
Sensitive to music. Fear dogs.
**Symptoms change all the time, affecting one organ
after another. Symptoms appear and disappear sud-
denly. Offensive sweat in armpits. Bronchitic sounds
in both lungs. Feeling of fatigue. Great weakness in
lower extremities, esp. from kness down to feet. Great
emaciation with incredible rapidity. Loses flesh while eating
well. Inclination to sleep in mornings. Cold feet in bed.
Profuse sweat after light exertion or a little walk. Sensation
of freezing on back in evening. All-gone, hungry sensation
in stomach.
The patient cannot tolerate a closed room. *Air hunger.
*Longing for open air ; wants doors and windows open.
Although chilly, craves fresh air. Clothes feel damp.
Sweats from least exertion. Takes cold readily without
knowing how and where. *Not satisfed to remain in one
place for a long time ; wants to travel. Desire for cold milk
or sweets. Aversion to meat.
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