Saturday, 17 September 2011

Aloe - Gum of Aloe


Indicated  in  intestinal   disorders,   haemorrhoids   and   conditions characterized by portal congestion.
Dull pressing headache above the eyes, with mental apathy.
Abdomen full, heavy, bloated.
Abdominal flatulency, copious, burning, pressing  downward  and  causing more severe colicky pain.
Abdominal colic, relieved from passing (hot) flatus.
Sense of “insecurity” when passing flatus.
Loss of power of sphincter ani: must hurry to the closet.
Even solid stool passes almost unnoticed.
Stool watery, jelly-like, with great amount of flatus.
Severe griping pain before and during stool; stool  followed  by  relief from pain and by great weakness.
Burning in the anus and rectum.
Worse early in the morning, desire for stool driving him out  of bed; from eating and drinking; in hot, dry weather.
Better in the open air; from discharge of flatus; from local use of cold water.

Allium Cepa - Red Onion


Indicated in coryza, with hoarseness, acrid discharge from the nose  and harsh, splitting cough.
Catarrhal headache, chiefly frontal, worse  in  the  warm  room,  toward evening.
Eyes sore, smarting, sensitive to light; lachrymation.
Sneezing when entering a warm room.
Copious, watery and exceedingly acrid nasal discharge.
Tickling in the larynx, with hacking cough upon inspiring cold air.
Tightness in the throat and oppressed breathing.
Violent cough, with the sensation as though the larynx  would  split  to pieces; croupy cough.
Intense pain in the back of the neck.
Derangements of appetite  incidental  to  having  a  cold,  with  strong craving for raw onions.
Worse in a warm room, in the evening.
Better in a cool room; in the open air.

Ailanthus - Chinese Sumach


Indicated in low dynamic states, with great prostration and with  livid, purplish  appearance  of the skin. Has proved very valuable in malignant scarlet fever.
Child stupid, semi-conscious; does not understand;  muttering  delirium; stupor, restlessness.
Head burning hot, with fever and anxiety.
Face hot, dark livid, covered with livid rash.
Tongue dry, parched, cracked.
Eyes congested; pupils dilated.
Enlargement of parotid and cervical glands; sensitiveness of.
Throat swollen, painful, purplish; foul ulcers in the  throat;  frequent hawking of mucus.
Stools watery and offensive.
Skin of face and of entire body covered with livid,  purplish  eruption, disappearing on pressure, returning slowly.


Agaricus - Bug Agaric


Indicated in hysteria, chorea, spinal  irritation  and  neurotic  states generally, with jerking, trembling, itching.
Twitching of the eye-lids.
Twitching in the face, mouth, muscles of neck, abdomen, extremities.
Trembling of the  hands;  general  trembling;  gouty  stiffness  of  the fingers.
Pain in the lumbar region, worse from sitting.
Itching of the toes and feet as though frost-bitten.

Aethusa Cynapium - Fool’s Parsley


Indicated in gastro-intestinal diseases of children, with great  nervous involvement, violence of all the symptoms and intolerance of milk.
Violence of all the symptoms.
Great heat, without thirst.
Profuse sweating; desires to be covered while sweating.
Linea nasalis; face expresses great anguish.
Remarkable intolerance of milk. As soon as swallowed, it is thrown up in heavy curds.
Diarrhoea, thin, yellow, greenish;  stools  contain  masses  of  curdled milk.  Stools preceded by colic; followed by exhaustion and drowsiness.
Vomiting with sweating and great anguish.
Drowsiness after vomiting or stool.
Worse in the middle of the afternoon; in the evening; during hot weather.
Better in the open air; when fussed with.

Aesculus Hippocastanum - Horse chestnut


Indicated in  the  treatment  of  haemorrhoids  associated  with  severe backache;  recommended  for  follicular  inflammation  of  the posterior pharynx.
Despondent, irritable mood.
Heaviness and lameness in the back.
Constant dull backache; can hardly walk, stoop or rise.
Sensation of small sticks in the rectum.
Haemorrhoids, with itching and sens of dryness or fulness in the rectum.
Leucorrhoea, with lameness  across  back  and  hips,  rendering  walking difficult and painful.

Aconitum Napellus - Monks-Hood


Indicated in sthenic (overaction; high fever & strong pulse) conditions, inflammations,  early  effects  of  cold  from draught, getting chilled, suppression of perspiration; effects of fright,  menstrual  suppression, or of intense excitement.
Hot face with cold hands and feet.
Great tension, anxiety, fear.
Fear of a crowd, of the future, of the seriousness of his illness; feels sure he will die.
Aggressive restlessness; tumbles about in bed, cannot lie still;  sudden startings.
Pulse frequent, hard, wiry.
Great sensitiveness to noises of any sort.
Intolerance of pain; pain of a stitching character in various  parts  of the body.
Tingling and numbness in (left) face and in parts affected (neuralgia).
Everything tastes bitter, except water.
Intense thirst, relieved by drinking copiously of cold water.
Coldness and  pressure in abdomen as from a stone.
Stools green, like chopped spinach.
Bruised pain in the back, as though beaten, with stiffness and  numbness extending  into  the legs; the character of the pain makes him fear that his kidneys are affected.
Urine  scanty,  hot,  with  urethral  burning   and   vesical   tenesmus (ineffectual/ painful training).
Coryza: every inhalation of cold air causes a painful sense of  coldness in the brain; pressive pain at root of nose.
Cough, dry, croupy; with labored breathing. Worse from going  from  warm into cold room.
Taste of blood in the mouth when coughing.
Hot feelings in lungs. Hawking, followed by bloody expectoration.
Burning heat in the body.
Heat and dryness of inflamed parts.

Worse in the warm room; in the evening; at night; from lying  on the affected side; from tobacco smoke.
Better in the open air.