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Abies nigra
Abies nigra
Identification: Black spruce. Tincture of gum. Available in all potencies between first through thirtieth.
This can cover such conditions as: belching, constipation, cough, depression, fever and hemorrhage. A specific condition would be ache.
History: Traditionally used in many diseases, involving stomach symptoms.
Method of Action: Acts upon the stomach.
Symptoms:
Indications: Ache. Classically a sensation of something (a hard-boiled egg) stuck, or knotted up, in the esophagus (just above the pit of the stomach).
Confirmation: Large appetite, tendency to overeat at noon or at night. No appetite in the morning. Belching, insomnia. Absence of menstruation.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Dull during day, unable to think.
Influences:
Difficulty breathing, worse lying down.
Aceticum acidum
Aceticum acidum
Identification: Acetic acid (vinegar). Distilled water is used for potencies I X and I C; very dilute spirit for 3 X up to 4 C; rectified spirit for 5 C and higher.
History: Antidote to anesthesia. Digestive aid. A good anemia remedy.
Method of Action: Acts upon digestive and respiratory systems,
Symptoms:
Indications: Anemia, cystic fibrosis, diabetes mellitus and edema.
Confirmation: Backache, frequent urination.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Anxiety attacks, confusion, grieving.
Influences:
Back pain relieved only by lying on stomach.
Acidum nitricum
Acidum nitricum
Identification: Nitric acid. Aqua Fortis.
History: Warts.
Method of Action: Marked affinity for the margins of the outlets, especially of the throat, anus and mouth. It also affects glands: liver, prostate, salivary.
Symptoms:
Indications: Anus (e.g. hemorrhoids), bad breath, herpes, spine (see under: backache, sciatica and scoliosis), wart.
Confirmation: Profuse sweats (see under perspiration) e.g. soles of hands and feet (see also athlete's foot).
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Dark complexion.
Influences:
Better from gliding motion, mild weather.
Worse form touch, cold air, hot weather.
Interactions:
Antidoted by: Calcarea, Hepar sulphuris calcareum, Mercurius, Mezereum.
It antidotes: Calcarea, Digitalis, Mercurius.
Aconitum Napellus tinct.
Aconitum Napellus
Identification: Common Names Monkshood, Wolfsbane
Family Ranunculaceae. Aconite, is a perennial herb common in wet, hilly areas. It grows from two to six feet in height and has bluish violet hooded flowers. The tincture is prepared from the whole plant and root, gathered at the beginning of flowering.
History: Mentioned by the classical Greek writers, aconite was used as a poison. It was introduced into medicine by Anton von Stoerck, who in 1762 reported using aconite internally for various conditions and concluded that it worked by promoting evacuations. Other physicians took up its use but there was a feeling that it was too dangerous for internal use, although it was still used topically. Hahnemann published his provings of Aconite in 1805, and it rapidly became one of the most widely used remedies in homeopathy, particularly in diseases characterized by fever and inflammation. It became the homeopathic substitute for bloodletting, being nicknamed the "homeopathic lancet."
Method of Action: The active principle in Aconite is the alkaloid aconitine, a deadly poison, sometimes producing death through inhibition of breathing before the heart fails.
Symptoms:
Indications: Aconite is used in complaints that come on suddenly and with great intensity, including the intense heat of summer.
It is a major remedy, recommended for a host of conditions:
| Anxiety | Bites & Stings |
| Bronchitis | Cold |
| Cough | Earache |
| Fever | Headache |
| Influenza | Lyme disease |
| Menstruation | Motion sickness |
| Mouth ulcers | Rash |
| Sore throat | Tonsillitis |
| Urethritis | Vaginitis |
Characteristics: The Aconite patient is generally a vigorous, plethoric individual whose complaints are brought on shortly after exposure to-cold, dry air. Aconite conditions are associated with dryness and redness. The aconite patient is very thirsty, craving large quantities of cold water. The mental symptoms are of prime importance. There is intense anxiety, restlessness, nervous irritation, and excitement. Fear shows on the face.
Influences:
Worse: warm room; evening and night; lying on affected side; music; tobacco smoke; dry, cold winds. Better: open air, after sweating, rest.
Interactions
Sulfur often completes aconite cases. Arnica and Belladonna also follow Aconite well.
Adrenalinum
Adrenalinum.
Identification: Adrenal gland, hence a sarcode.
History: Potencies 2 X to 6 X.
Method of Action: A chemical messenger acting upon the sympathetic nervous system, contracting arteries and muscles.
Symptoms:
Indications: Adrenal disorders (e.g. Addison’s disease), asthma, back ache, Grave’s disease (thyroid disorders), heart disorders (e.g. tachycardia).
Confirmation: Pain on left side, ache in left ear, pain in right eye.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Despondent, nervous, unable to concentrate.
Aethusa cynapium
Aethusa cynapium
Identification: Fool’s parsley.
History: A medicine for "Fool’s" weak minded and in body.
Method of Action: Affects the brain and nervous system.
Symptoms:
Indications: Anguish and crying (weeping) especially in children, even vomiting.
Confirmation: Occipital pain, better lying down. Hair feels pulled. Exhaustion after vomiting, awakens hungry. Pearly white upper lip.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology):
Influences:
Better in open air and with company.
Worse from milk.
Interactions:
It antidotes Opium.
It is antidoted by vegetable acids.
Agaricus muscarius
Agaricus muscarius
Identification: Amanita, or Fly Agaric, a fungus or mushroom.
History: Sensitivity to cold and damp.
Method of Action: Acts upon the central; nervous system.
Symptoms:
Indications: Epilepsy, frostbite, Muscular dystrophy, Parkinson's disease, rheumatism, tics, twitching and vertigo.
Confirmation: Double vision, words float on the page. Pressure on thoracic (dorsal) spine causes delirious laughter. Pain as if touched by icy needles (diagonally on the body i.e. both sides but upper right and left lower, or vice versa).
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): fearless, delirious.
Influences:
Better from moving about slowly.
Worse from cold.
Interactions:
Antidotes include: Absinthium, Camphora and Coffea cruda.
Alfalfa tinct.
Alfalfa
Identification: Medicago sativa. Alfalfa, California clover. Fresh leaves and seeds may be used for the tincture.
History: Stimulates appetite and lactation.
Symptoms:
Indications: anorexia (tones up appetite), BPH, diabetes mellitus, fatigue, nervousness and promotes lactation (see under pregnancy).
Confirmation: Thirst. Kidneys inactive. Headache, on left side.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Dull and gloomy. Treatment restores exhilaration.
Allium Cepa
Allium Cepa
Identification: Red onion.
History: Well-known irritation to the eyes durign peeling signifies, homeopathically, a useful remedy for coryza (rhinitis) or runny nose, as in common colds, or hayfever.
Method of Action: Allium Cepa affects the mucous membranes of the nose, eyes, larynx and bowels, causing increased secretions.
Symptoms:
Indications: symptoms of cold, ‘flu.
Confirmation: acrid watery, nasal discharge.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Melancholy.
Influences:
Improved by sweating and sleep.
Worse in a warm room, damp.
Better in open air and in cold room.
Interactions:
Antidoted by Arnica.
Incompatible with Allium sativum.
Allium sativum
Allium sativum
Identification: Garlic.
History: Remedy against diabetes, fevers and worms.
Method of Action: Acts directly on intestinal mucosa. Antibacterial.
Symptoms:
Indications: Respiratory complaints e.g. asthma, bronchitis, catarrh, colitis, cough and hay fever.
Confirmation: Skin reactions e.g. redness of back or breasts. Pale red tongue. Vertigo.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): High living.
Influences:
Better from sitting bent over.
Worse from change of temperature, gluttony.
Interactions:
Antidoted by Allium cepa.
Incompatible with: Allium cepa, Aloe and Scilla.
Alumina
Alumina
Identification: Oxide of aluminum.
Method of Action: Irritates mucous membranes, paralyzes the bowels. Affects cerebro-spinal axis.
Symptoms:
Indications: Conjunctivitis, constipation and leukorrhea.
Confirmation: Squint. Feeling of hot irons through back.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Groaning, moaning, pessimistic. Bad memory.
Influences:
Better: evening, open air and damp.
Worse: warmth, dry air, potatoes as well as full or new moon.
Interactions:
Antidote to Lead.
Antidoted by e.g. Bryonia alba tinct., Chamomilla and Natrum muriaticum.
Ambra grisea
Ambra grisea
Identification: Ambergris.
History: Morbid secretion of the sperm whale. Suited to "thin, scrawny women".
Method of Action: Affects the nerves.
Symptoms:
Indications: Anus, arteriosclerosis, fatigue and female genitalia.
Confirmation: Brain feels loose, falling to side lying upon.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Morbid, loquacious, antisocial. Cannot sleep from worry.
Influences:
Better: slow motion, in open air, lying on painful part, cold drinks.
Worse: music, presence of others.
Interactions:
Antidote to: Staphysagria and Nux Vomica.
Antidoted by: Camphor, Coffea cruda, Nux Vomica etc.
Ambrosia artemisiaefolia
Ambrosia artemisiaefolia
Identification: Ragweed. Tincture of fresh flower heads and young shoots.
History: Associated with Hayfever as early as 1889. Used for nosebleeds.
Method of Action: Respiratory tract and diarrhea.
Symptoms:
Indications: Allergies, hay fever, nosebleed, whooping cough.
Ammonium carbonicum
Ammonium carbonicum
Identification: Carbonate of ammonia, or "sal volatile".
History: Equivalent to smelling salts! A "right side medicine".
Method of Action: Energize.
Symptoms:
Indications: Emphysema, sleepiness (narcolepsy), palpitations.
Confirmation: Gout in great toe, painful heel.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Sad, weepy.
Influences:
Better by warmth.
Worse at night (3 a.m.)
Interactions:
It antidotes Rhus Toxicodendron and insect stings.
It is antidoted by: Arnica, Camphora and Hepar sulphuris calcareum.
Ammonium muriaticum
Ammonium muriaticum
Identification: Ammonium chloride, "Sal Ammoniac".
Method of Action: Affects mucous membranes.
Symptoms:
Indications: Cancer (stomach). loss of appetite and thirst (see appetite disorders), fever, obesity and pains.
Confirmation: Ammonia-smelling urine. Green stools.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Melancholy. Fear of darkness.
Influences:
Better from open air.
Worse: walking erect, at night 2 - 4 a.m.
(mornings) - head and chest;
(afternoons) - abdomen;
(evenings) - skin.
Interactions:
Antidotes: Bitter almonds, Coffea cruda, Nux Vomica.
Antidoted by a hot bath.
Amylenum nitrosum
Amylenum nitrosum
Identification: Amyl nitrite.
History: Originally introduced into medicine as a remedy for angina pectoris.
Method of Action: Dilates blood vessels, acting especially upon the vasomotor nerves.
Symptoms:
Indications: Hot flashes of menopause. Heart disorders and circulation.
Confirmation: Smacking of lips, munching of lower jaw.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Nervous, restless, sensitive.
Interactions:
Antidotes: Cactus grandiflorus, Strychnine tinct.
Anacardium occidentale tinct.
Anacardium occidentale
Identification: cashew nut; the tincture is made from the black juice between outer and inner shell.
History: This nut is kidney-shaped, belying its name.
Method of Action: The nut is a potent skin irritant.
Symptoms:
Indications: Dumping syndrome and skin disorders (dermatitis, eczema, itching and psoriasis).
Confirmation: Imbecility. Drinks run out of mouth.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Imbecility, melancholy.
Anacardium orientale tinct.
Anacardium orientale
Identification: marking nut; malacca bean. The nut is heart-shaped, hence its name and use to counter fear e.g. the stress over examinations. It is prepared from the layer of nut between the shell and kernel by triturition.
History: Useful for hysterical females and hypochondriacs.
Method of Action: Anacardium works on the mind, nerves, muscles and joints as well as skin.
Symptoms:
Indications: Absent mindedness, Alzheimer's, brain "fag", fatigue, nervousness, poison ivy (Allergy), warts on hands. Pressing pain, as if from a plug.
Confirmation: Tendency to curse and blaspheme.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Split personality.
Influences:
Better from eating.
Interactions:
Antidoted by e.g. : Coffea cruda, Eucalyptus, Grindelia robusta and Rhus Toxicodendron.
Antidote to Rhus Tox.
Anemopsis californica
Anemopsis californica
Identification: yerba mansa, a common household herb. Tincture for internal use as well as a topical spray.
History: Diuretic. Heart disease.
It was introduced into Eclectic use by Dr. W.H. George of California in 1877. The homeopathic school also used it (Boericke 1927).
The chief Eclectic indication was as a mucous membrane remedy, when there is full stuffy sensation in the head and throat, cough with expectoration, or mucous discharges from the bowels or urinary tract.
The eclectic uses of yerba mansa:
| diarrhea | dysentery |
| intestinal tonic | mucous membrane tonic |
| nasal catarrh | respiratory tonic |
| skin ulcers | tuberculosis |
| urinary organ tonic |
Method of Action: Calming.
Symptoms:
Indications: Bruises, catarrh, cuts (wound), heart disorders and sprains.
Anthracinum
Anthracinum
Identification: Anthrax nosode. Prepared from the spleens of infected sheep.
History: Introduced for splenic fever before Pasteur.
Method of Action: Glandular.
Symptoms:
Indications: Acne, boils, carbuncles.
Confirmation: Tinnitus (ringing in the eras), dilation of pupils. Thirst but difficulty swallowing.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Delirium, depression, exhaustion.
Interactions:
Antidoted by e.g. Camphora, Arsenic.
Antimonium crudum
Antimonium crudum
Identification: Black sulphide of antimony.
History: Scrofulous.
Method of Action: Effects of suppressed eruptions.
Symptoms:
Indications: Dermatitis, eczema, gastric symptoms (e.g. heartburn), pneumonia, warts,.
Confirmation: Intolerance of pork, fats, pastries and bread; white coated tongue.
Characteristics: (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Irritability.
Influences:
Improved by rest, warm baths.
Worse from fats, night.
Interactions:
Antidote to stings of insects.
Antidoted by e.g. Calcarea, Hepar sulphuris and Mercurius.
Antipyrinum
Antipyrinum
Identification: Coal tar, Phenazone.
History: Poison.
Method of Action: Causes dilation of skin capillaries.
Symptoms:
Indications: Skin disorders (dermatitis, eczema, erythema, urticaria). Bedwetting, nosebleed.
Confirmation: Tinnitus. Headache and earache. General prostration.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Hallucinations. Coffee drinkers.
Interactions:
Antidoted by Belladonna.
Apis Mellifica
Apis mellifica
Identification: Apis is prepared from live honeybees, the poison sacs having the medicinal value. Only the queen and the worker bees have the poison apparatus, or stinger. The live bees are placed in a bottle; the bottle is shaken to irritate them, and alcohol is added. After ten days, with the bottle shaken twice daily, the tincture is poured off.
History: Folk medicine used bee stings for rheumatism. Apis was proved homeopathically in 1835, and extensively by Hering in 1857. Honeybee antigen is an ingredient in a stinging insect antigen used by allopaths today to desensitize patients to stinging insect reactions.
Symptoms:
Indications: The symptom picture of Apis resembles the effects of a bee sting: edema, redness, and sharp, stinging pains. The mental symptoms include apathy, drowsiness, sadness, tearfulness without cause, suspiciousness, jealousy, irritability.
Conditions include:
| Bites & Stings | Boil |
| Edema | Eye disorders |
| Hives | Hysterectomy |
| Incontinence | Periodontal disease |
| Sick building syndrome | Sore throat |
| Tonsillitis | Urethritis |
| Water retention (bloating) |
Confirmation: There is a disturbance of coordination, awkwardness; the patient drops things readily. The Apis Mellifica patient is thirstless.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): In fever, the patient is worse from heat, even during a chill; kicks off the covers while shivering.
Influences:
Worse: heat, touch, pressure, late in afternoon, right side, closed room.
Better: open air, cold applications, uncovering.
Interactions: Natrum muriaticum is the chronic counterpart of Apis; also Baryta carbonica if the lymphatics are involved.
Apocynum androsaemifolium
Apocynum androsaemifolium
Identification: Spreading dogbane. The tincture comes from the root.
History: Rheumatic gout, kidney stones and parasites.
Symptoms:
Indications: Swollen sensations (profuse menstruation as well as hands and feet). "Flying" pains.
Conditions include:
Arthritis, gout, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis. Endometriosis.
Confirmation: Everything smells and tastes like honey. Profuse clear urine.
Influences:
Better from copious evacuation.
Arbutus andrachne
Arbutus andrachne
Identification: Strawberry tree. The tincture is derived from young shoots.
History: The strawberry tree sheds its bark annually, leading to its use for skin conditions.
Method of Action: Cleansing.
Symptoms:
Indications: Eczema associated with rheumatic symptoms (see under: arthritis, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis). Dark urine.
Confirmation: Lumbago.
Arnica montana tinct.
Arnica montana
Identification: Arnica montana is a perennial herb of the family Compositae that grows in the moist, cool upland meadows or mountains of Europe. The whole plant, or only the root, may be used for the tincture.
History: Experimental studies in animals or in humans have reinforced folk usage of Arnica.
Growing on a mountain it has been linked to falls.
Method of Action: An emollient used to promote wound healing and to reduce inflammations, often from pregnancy, also sports trauma.
Symptoms:
Indications: Traumatic injuries. Severe mental stress, or shock.
A major trauma remedy, it has been recommended for the following conditions:
Confirmation: Cold nose.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Red-faced, prone to motion sickness, sensitive to mechanical injuries.
Influences:
Worse: touch, motion, rest, wine, damp cold.
Better: lying down, or with head low.
Interactions:
Follows aconite well in injuries.
Safety
Should not be applied when abrasions or cuts are present. (Calendula officinalis may be used locally.)
Arsenicum Album
Arsenicum album
Identification: Arsenic trioxide is barely soluble in alcohol but is soluble in water and alkalies.
History: Arsenic was used by the Greeks and Romans. It was popular as a poisoning agent up to the first quarter of the twentieth century. Hahnemann introduced arsenic into homeopathy and documented the symptoms in Chronic Diseases (1828). The only present allopathic use of arsenical compounds is in the treatment of tropical parasitic diseases. Arsenic is still used in pesticides and is a cause of accidental poisoning in humans.
Method of Action: Arsenic is a deadly poison in crude form. It is believed that trivalent arsenical compounds react with sulfhydryl groups in the cells, inhibiting sulfhydryl enzymes essential to cellular metabolism. It affects the entire digestive tract.
Symptoms:
Indications: Arsenicum album is one of the most frequently used polychrests, since it is capable of affecting every part of the body. It is most commonly used in gastrointestinal complaints and skin rashes.
Featured conditions include:
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): The Arsenic patient is known as the "gold-headed cane patient" because of his fastidiousness and attention to dress.
Influences:
Worse: after midnight (1:00 to 2:00 A.M., 1:00 to 2:00 P.M.), cold, cold drinks or food, right side. Better: heat, head elevated, warm drinks.
Arsenicum bromatum
Arsenicum bromatum
Identification: Bromide of arsenic.
History: Proven a great anti-psoric and anti-syphilitic remedy. Acne and diabetes mellitus.
Fresh air (ozone) is required to reduce the sugar of the blood into carbonic acid and water.
Method of Action:
Acts upon metabolism, possibly even the endocrine system, as well as constitution from the homeopathic viewpoint.
Symptoms:
Indications: Traditionally anti-syphilitic. Contemporary uses include: acne, cancer and diabetes.
Arsenicum iodatum
Arsenicum iodatum
Identification: Iodide of arsenic. Ought to be prepared fresh and protected from light.
History: Parallels TB. Mucosal discharges.
Method of Action: Acts upon mucous membranes.
Symptoms:
Indications: Eczema (especially of beard), hay fever, psoriasis, exfoliation of skin.
Confirmation: Night sweats. Burning sensations (eyes, throat and chest).
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Exhausted, emaciated.
Influences:
Better from open air.
Worse from cold, dry weather, apples and tobacco smoke.
Interactions:
Antidote: Bryonia.
Artemisia Abrotanum
Artemisia Abrotanum
Identification: May also be classified as: "Abrotanum". Southernwood. The tincture is made with fresh leaves and stems.
History: Clarke used it to treat indigestion.
Method of Action: Suited to babies and children, especially boys.
Symptoms:
Indications: Legs are emaciated. Bloated (see under bloating) and distended abdomen.
Confirmation: Pain in joints,. Babies cannot hold their head up.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Baby boys and the elderly.
Arum triphyllum
Arum triphyllum
Identification: "Jack-in-the-Pulpit", Indian turnip. Tincture is usually made from a fresh tuber.
History: The most important of the arums.
Method of Action: Has the irritating properties of Arums generally.
Symptoms:
Indications: Cold, nasal irritation, acrid discharge, picking scabs in nose until they bleed; corners of mouth sore and cracked. Sore throat.
Confirmation: Bores head in pillow.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Delirium.
Influences:
Worse from over-use of voice (public speaking), cold winds (NW). .
Interactions:
Antidoted by butter-milk.
Asarum europaeum
Asarum europaeum
Identification: European snake root, hazelwort. Tinctures are made from both roots and whole fresh plants.
History: Before Hahnemann, used as an emetic.
Method of Action: Produces marked hypersensitivity of the nerves.
Symptoms:
Indications: Hypersensitive, even if imagined ("just the thought of it sends chills / makes me shudder...").
A primary condition is alcoholism.
Confirmation: Craving for alcohol. Chest pain.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Nervous, chilly, literary, sedentary.
Influences:
Better from cold bathing of face, damp weather.
Worse in cold, dry weather.
Interactions:
Antidotes: Camphora, vinegar.
Asclepius tuberosa
Asclepius tuberosa
Identification: Pleurisy root, butterfly weed.
History: Pleurisy!
Method of Action: Verified that it works on the chest muscles.
Symptoms:
Indications: Bronchitis, influenza, pleurisy. Breathing is painful.
Confirmation: Dark, red urine. Peppery breath. Tough yellow coating on tongue.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Hydrogenoid type.
Influences:
Worse in morning on rising, by motion, coughing, from tobacco.
Aurum metallicum
Aurum metallicum
Identification: Metallic gold is extremely unreactive chemically although it is soluble in aqua regia (a combination of nitric and hydrochloric acids). The homeopathic gold, a fine brown powder, is obtained as a precipitate from the chloride. Lower potencies are prepared by trituration, since gold is not soluble in water or alcohol.
History: In 1890 Robert Koch reported that the tubercle bacillus was adversely affected by low concentrations of gold salts. Gold salts were used in tuberculosis and syphilis in allopathic practice. More recently, allopaths have used gold salt injections for arthritis and nondisseminated lupus erythematosus.
Method of Action: Considered medicinally inert in its pure state, gold in its potentized form finds applications in homeopathy in disturbances of the mind and the body tissues in general.
Symptoms:
Indications: Prominent in the symptom picture of Aurum are disorders resembling the symptoms of secondary syphilis and mercury poisoning, affecting the bones, glands, and blood; gouty tendency of joints; cardiac disturbances.
Hence: Arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, hyperhomocysteinemia.
Confirmation: The mental symptoms of Aurum are striking. The affections are deranged; there are marked suicidal tendencies; sits and broods, saying nothing.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Kent has noted that when the affections are deranged in mental. disease, we find disease in the heart; whereas when the intellect is disturbed, the lungs are affected. In Aurum, then, there are prominent heart symptoms. Enlargement of the heart; palpitation. Pulse rapid, feeble, irregular. Veins enlarged, inflamed, friable. Arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure.
Influences:
Worse: cold air, from sunset to sunrise, menta exertion, winter.
Better: warm air, morning, summer.
Aurum muriaticum
Aurum muriaticum
Identification: Chloride of gold
History: This salt has been proved.
Method of Action: Identical with those of the metal but especially the heart and nervous system.
Symptoms:
Indications: Athersoclerosis, cancerous warts, catarrhal and glandular disorders, heart symptoms, infertility and multiple sclerosis.
Confirmation: Feeble, weary, prone to degenerative diseases.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Restless,
Influences:
Worse: from ascending stairs, warmth.
Better: cold, wet weather.
Interactions:
Antidoted by Belladonna, Cannabis Indica and Mercurius Vivus.
Aurum muriaticum natronatum
Aurum muriaticum natronatum
Identification: Sodium chloroaurate. A double salt of natrum and chloride of gold.
History: Aurum muriaticum natronatum has been proved, chiefly on general gold conditions.
Method of Action: Has a pronounced effect on the female organs, especially uterine tumors (fibroids).
Symptoms:
Indications: Rhinoscleroma, swollen testicle (see under testicular disorders) and uterine tumors.
Confirmation: Cracking in cervical vertebrae on head flexion. Tension left trapezius, worse bending head to right.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Mania, suicidal impulses.
Safety
Toxic doses cause violent gastro-enteritis.
Bacillinum
Bacillinum
Identification: Tuberculosis nosode. Made from tubercular sputum.
History: An important miasmatic remedy, developed by Burnett.
Symptoms:
Indications: Appendicitis, weak lungs of elderly people (see under: pleurisy, pneumonia). Chronic sore throats and coughs. Infection, generally.
Confirmation: Ringworm.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Taciturn, morose, frightened of dogs.
Influences:
Better in dry, sunny climates, mountain areas and pine forests.
Worse from cold air, at night and in the early morning.
Badiaga
Badiaga
Identification: Spongilla fluviatilis, freshwater sponge, gathered in the autumn.
History: A popular Russian folklore remedy.
Symptoms:
Indications: Asthma, soreness (see sore, strained muscle), cough, swollen glands.
Confirmation: Freckles, dandruff. Aching in eyeballs (2 p.m. - 7 p.m.).
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Clear mind in spite of headache.
Influences:
Better in warm room.
Worse from cold air, pressure, touch, stormy afternoon, lying on right side.
Baryta carbonica
Baryta carbonica
Identification: Carbonate of barium.
History: Dwarfish children and overweight, elderly.
Method of Action: A cardio-vascular poison acting on the muscular walls of the heart and blood vessels.
Symptoms:
Indications: Dementia. Fetid foot sweats. Lipomas. Enlarged prostate (BPH).
Featured conditions include:
| Aging | Alzheimer's |
| Atherosclerosis | Autism |
| Baldness | Dyslexia |
| Hyperactivity | Hypercholesterolemia |
| Learning disorders | Schizophrenia |
Confirmation: Chronic torticollis (see under wry neck).
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Bashful.
Influences:
Cough is worse until midnight, lying on left side.
Interactions:
Antidote for poison.
Antidoted by e.g. : Antimonium Tartaricum, Belladonna, Camphora.
Baryta iodata
Baryta iodata
Identification: Iodide of Barium.
History: Used for glandular enlargement and growths.
Method of Action: Acts on lymphatic system.
Symptoms:
Indications: Breast cancer (see also under benign breast disease and chronic cystic mastitis).
Confirmation: Following truama.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology):
Influences:
Better from cold, open air.
Worse from walking.
Baryta muriatica
Baryta muriatica
Identification: Barium chloride.
History: Dwarfish children and overweight, elderly.
Method of Action: Both elements have a strong action on heart and arteries.
Acts on parotid glands and pancreas.
Symptoms:
Indications: Aneurysm, nymphomania. Bronchial disorders in the elderly (see bronchitis).
Conditions include:
| Bronchitis | Cystic fibrosis |
| Multiple sclerosis | Sore throat |
| Tinnitus | Tonsillitis |
Confirmation: Parotid glands hard and swollen, especially right. Icy coldness of body with paralysis.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Idiotic, sexual mania.
Influences:
Earache better by sipping cold water.
Belladonna tinct.
Belladonna
Identification: Atropa belladonna is a large, bushy perennial herb of the family Solanaceae. The tincture is prepared from the whole plant when the plant is beginning to flower.
Method of Action: Belladonna, along with several other plants of the Solanaceae family, contains the potent alkaloids atropine, hyoscyamine, and hyoscine (scopolamine) in all parts of the plant-, with atropine being the principal alkaloid. Atropine is a central nervous system stimulant, with its principal sphere of action in the medulla and higher cortical centers. In small and moderate doses, the effect is one of central excitation; with large doses the stimulation is followed by depression, coma, medullary paralysis, and death.
History: Atropa belladonna derives its name from Atropos, the Fate who cuts the thread of life, its wide usage as a poison. Italian women used it in drops to dilate the pupils of their eyes, and it was used as a wash to remove pimples, hence the name belladonna, or "beautiful lady."
Even before Hahnemann published his provings in 1805, he had been interested in the potential of Belladonn a as a cure for scarlet fever, a commonly fatal children's disease, since the symptoms he had observed in accidental poisonings resembled those of the disease. Eventually, Hahnemann popularized the use of Belladonna not only as a cure, but as a preventative, of scarlet fever. This use passed into allopathy and was common until the end of the century.
The Belladonna alkaloids have many applications in contemporary allopathic practice. As eye drops, they are used to dilate the pupil and paralyze visual accommodation in eye examination and in treating eye diseases. Atropinelike drugs are used in a wide variety of clinical conditions: to inhibit the effects of parasympathetic nervous system activity; in anesthesia; in cold preparations to reduce respiratory secretions; for bronchodilation; after heart attacks; as an antidote in organophosphorous insecticide poisoning and in fast-acting mushroom poisoning.
Symptoms and Uses:
Indications: Symptoms come on suddenly, stay for a while, reach a peak of intensity, and then subside suddenly. Belladonna may therefore be repeated frequently in acute diseases. Heat accompanies all inflammatory complaints; the patient feels very hot to the touch.
Featured conditions include:
| Ache | Appendicitis |
| Bedwetting | Boil |
| Childbirth | Chronic cystic mastitis |
| Fever | Headache |
| Inflammation | Influenza |
| Lymphadenitis | Motion sickness |
| Mumps | Pain |
| Pregnancy | Sore throat |
| Sunburn | Thyroid disorders |
| Tonsillitis | Toothache |
Confirmation: Many symptoms are predominantly right-sided.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): The mental symptoms are marked by irritability of the nerve centers, with oversensitivity of all the senses.
Influences:
Worse: touch, jar, noise, draft, after 3:00 P.m., lying down.
Better: semierect.
Interactions:
Calcarea is complementary, especially in chronic and constitutional diseases.
Bellis perennis
Bellis perennis
Identification: (Garden daisy) Besides tinctures, 2 teaspoons of the mother tincture may be diluted in half a liter of water, for compresses.
History: Old name of "wound- or bruise-wort" is apt, as the daisy is always "downtrodden" but comes up again smiling, afterwards. Burnett regarded it as a "princely remedy for old laborers, especially gardeners." It combats unsteadiness, giddiness (cerebral stasis).
Method of Action: Acts upon the muscular fibers of the blood vessels.
Symptoms:
Indications: Boil, bruises and strains (parallel to Arnica). Insomnia (3 a.m. to 5 a.m.). ["waking up too early and cannot get back to sleep again".] Following surgical trauma. Varicose veins (with bruised feeling).
Confirmation: Sore, bruised pelvic region (possibly prolapsed uterus). Stitches in spleen. Inability to walk during pregnancy.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology):
Influences:
Worse from cold drinks when overheated.
Safety
Should not be given near bedtime, as it may cause sleeplessness.
Berberis aquifolium
Berberis aquifolium
Identification: Mahonia tincture. Oregon grape or Barberry. The tincture is prepared from the fresh root and stem.
History: Skin diseases, especially as a tea in the Rocky Mountain regions.
Method of Action: Stimulates glands and metabolism: "makes a new man out of an old one"!
Symptoms:
Indications: Intense, pulsating headache in the forehead. Pains in the bladder. Nausea and vomiting.
Featured conditions include:
| Acne | Adrenal disorders |
| Eczema | Kidney stones |
Confirmation: Pain in thoracic vertebrae and sacrum.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Disinclined to move or do anything.
Influences:
Better from cold water.
Worse in the evening and at night.
Bryonia alba tinct.
Bryonia alba
Identification: Bryonia alba is a perennial climbing vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, growing wild in European vine-yards and woods and cultivated in the United States. It has a long, branched spindle-shaped root with a disagreeable taste and odor that disappear on drying. The flowers are small and greenish yellow, the berries black and globular. The tincture is prepared from the fresh root before flowering.
History: Bryonia was mentioned by Dioscorides and was used in ancient times for dropsy.
Hahnemann introduced Bryonia into homeopathy through his proving in 1816; after which it was used for: cholera, typhus, typhoid, and other conditions, including pneumonia and rheumatic problems, headaches and neuralgias. Eventually nineteenth century allopathic physicians used Bryonia as a specific for the same conditions.
Method of Action: Bryonia contains a glucoside, bryonin, and a resin called bryoresin. The activity of the plant is in its resin. It has produced serious, even fatal poisoning.
It acts especially on the fibrous tissues, also the serous membranes, ligaments and aponeuroses, and it congests the coatings of nerves.
Symptoms:
Indications: Bryonia is a polychrest with deep-seated, slow action. Acute complaints susceptible to Bryonia develop slowly, increasing to violent proportions. Bryonia is therefore suitable to continued fevers, rheumatic complaints of gradually increasing severity. Many complaints are worse on the right side.
Featured conditions include:
Confirmation: Great thirst for cold water. Dark brown urine.
Characteristics: The Bryonia patient is of a venous, sluggish, plethoric constitution, with poor circulation. The mental state ischaracterized by irritability and dullness of mind. The patient doesn't want to answer questions or to talk.
Influences:
Worse: any motion, exertion, touch, warmth, warm food.
Better: lying, especially on painful side; pressure; rest; cold; cold foods.
Interactions:
Antidotes: Aconitum, Chamomila, Nux vomica.
Antidoted by: Aconitum, Alumen, Chamomila, Nux vomica.
Cactus grandiflorus
Cactus grandiflorus
Identification: Night blooming Cereus. Tinctures are made from the youngest, most tender stems and flowers, gathered during the summer.
History: Given as a heart tonic. Many symptoms are worse at night.
Method of Action: Powerful affect on the entire organism, especially the heart and circulation.
Symptoms:
Indications: Heart disorders (constricting pains in the heart, feels bound, aneurysm, palpitations, suffocation). Hemorrhage.
Featured conditions include:
| Blood clot | Coronary heart disease |
| Cramp | Heart disorders |
| Hypotension | Insufficient blood circulation |
| Menstruation | PMS |
| Thrombosis |
Confirmation: Swelling of left hand. Weakness, coldness in limbs.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Anxious, loves solitude.
Influences:
Better from open air.
Worse from lying down on left side, from 11 a.m. or 11 p.m.; walking, going upstairs; direct sunlight (heat); after eating.
Interactions:
Antidoted by e.g. :Aconitum, Camphora, China officinalis.
The German Commission E status of the herb, Night blooming Cereus, is "null" or neutral i.e. while it is not approved, there is no documented risk. There may also be some concern over the claims made by manufacturers i.e. they are unproven.
References:
Blumenthal, M (Ed.): The Complete German Commission E Monographs: Therapeutic Guide to Herbal Medicines. American Botanical Council. Austin, TX. 1998.
Calcarea carbonica
Calcarea carbonica
Identification: Calcarea carbonica is an impure calcium carbonate that was first prepared by Hahnemann from oyster shells. The pure white portion of the shell between the interior and exterior surfaces is washed, dried, and reduced to fine powder. The lower potencies must be prepared by trituration.
History: Hahnemann introduced Calcarea into homeopathic practice and described its symptom picture in Chronic Diseases. Presently, calcium carbonate is a common allopathic antacid, but it has the drawback of producing acid rebound in the stomach.
Method of Action: Calcium has a major function in the body structure and in maintaining the structural integrity of cells in multicellular membranes. It plays a role in regulating the permeability of cell membranes to sodium and potassium. Abnormal blood calcium levels are associated with changes in the threshold of excitability of nervous and muscle tissue; decreased calcium levels, for example, are associated with decreased threshold to seizure activity.
Calcarea is a great constitutional remedy, one of the deepest-acting antipsorics.
Symptoms:
Indications: The mental symptoms are marked by passivity, immobility, standstill, an ingoing state. The Calcarea patient shows a childlike vulnerability. Inability to sustain mental effort. He feels his weakness of mind and fears others are able to observe it. Broods over little things, little ideas, engages in petty activities.
A general tonic, used for colds, sore throats, bronchitis, as well as late teething or walking in babies.
Featured conditions include:
| Anxiety | Appetite disorders |
| Dental caries | Earache |
| Fatigue | Hypoglycemia |
| Lactose intolerance | Menstruation |
| Obesity | Osteoporosis |
| PMS | Thrush |
| Thyroid disorders |
Confirmation: The Calcarea patient when healthy is a slow, conscientious worker; works well on his own, does not like to be given directions by others. When under stress from overwork in his business, he may give it up and sit at home. Indolence. The withdrawn mental state may lead to stubbornness, obstinacy.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): The Calcarea patient is usually unable to assimilate calcium from their food, becoming fat and flabby.
Weak spine; cannot sit upright, slides back in chair. Curvature of the spine. Sour odor of whole body. Profuse. perspiration upper part of body.
Influences:
Worse: exertion, mental or physical, cold in every form, washing, moist air, wet weather, during full moon.
Better: dry climate and weather, lying on painful side.
Interactions:
Complementary: Belladonna, Rhus tox., Lycopodium, Silicea. Sulfur should not be given after Calcarea; Calcarea may follow sulfur.
Calendula officinalis
Calendula officinalis
Identification: Pot Marigold. The tincture is made from leaves and flowers. Calendula Succus is made from the fresh plant juice.
History: Aqua Calendula was a great healing agent. Used heavily during the American Civil War. It is also useful as a hot compress (1 oz. to a pint).
The flowers close when a dark cloud passes over.
Method of Action: Anti-septic.
In Germany it is regarded as a cancer cure.
Symptoms:
Indications: Burn, lacerating, suppurating wounds (including episiotomy - see under childbirth - and also cervical warts).
Confirmation: Painful right scapula.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Irritable.
Influences:
Better from walking, or lying still.
Worse in damp, heavy, cloudy weather.
Interactions:
Antidote: Chelidonium.
Antidoted by: Arnica. 
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Calotropis gigantea
Calotropis gigantea
Identification: Madar bark. Tinctures are made from the milky juice.
History: Valued in the East as a skin remedy, notably syphilis.
Method of Action: Increases the circulation of the skin.
Symptoms:
Indications: Syphilis, primary anemia of syphilis (see venereal disease), lupus.
Confirmation: Heat in stomach.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology):
Candida albicans tinct.
Candida albicans
Identification: Candida albicans, a common fungus.
History: Produced by some homeopathic companies. A modern development.
Method of Action: Nosode.
Symptoms:
Indications: Classic infections: candida albicans: thrush, yeast.
Cantharis
Cantharis
Identification: Cantharis is derived from the bronze-green beetle Cantharis vesicatoria, commonly known as Spanish fly. The medicine is usually extracted with ether, using the whole insect.
Method of Action: A blistering action on the skin and mucous membranes due to cantharidin.
History: For centuries, Spanish fly has been known as an aphrodisiac, deriving its reputation from its ability to irritate the mucous membranes, particularly of the urinary tract and sex organs. Its dangers are equally well known and many deaths have been reported.
From the early eighteenth century on it was used as a diuretic and as a remedy for blockage or retention of urine. Homeopaths extended this use of Cantharis to include kidney diseases as well. During the era of "heroic medicine," the substance was used as an external application to produce blistering. Contemporary allopathic preparations containing cantharidin are used topically for warts.
Symptoms: All its symptoms appear with great intensity and progress rapidly. Complaints are attended by a burning sensation. The mental state is marked by frenzy.
Indications:
Featured conditions include:
| Bladder infection | Burn |
| Kidney disease | Pleurisy |
| Sunburn | Urethritis |
| Vaginitis |
Influences:
Worse from drinking coffee and cold water, which increases pain in the bladder and is vomited.
Better: from rubbing.
Capsicum annuum
Capsicum
Identification: Cayenne pepper. A member of the Solanum family (potatoes, tomatoes etc.)
The tincture is made from dried pods. It can also be mixed, equal parts tincture with glycerine, for a liniment to treat rheumatism.
Method of Action: The well-known burning effects of red pepper indicate its action.
Symptoms:
Indications: Herpes, obesity, shingles, sore throat of drinkers and smokers. ,
Confirmation: Red but cold face (especially nose). Motion causes headache as if skull would split.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Laxity e.g. homesickness.
Influences:
Better from continued motion, heat, while eating.
Worse from draught, cold air, damp.
Interactions:
Antidoted by e.g.: Caladium, Camphora, China and Cina.
It antidotes: alcohol, coffee, opium or quinine.
Carbo vegetabilis
Carbo vegetabilis
Identification: Vegetable charcoal.
History: Noted for its deodorant and disinfectant properties. The tincture is more potent than the crude form. Can also be mixed with vaseline to produce an effective hemorrhoid ointment.
Method of Action: Itself a product of imperfect oxidation. It acts upon the venous circulation and capillaries.
Symptoms:
Indications: Decay, putrefaction (e.g. gum and vulval disease). Lumps in breast (see under benign breast disease). Numbness of limbs. Burning pains. Moist perineum.
Featured conditions include:
| Bloating | Colitis |
| Dental caries | Diarrhea |
| Heartburn | Irritable bowel syndrome |
| Periodontal disease | Pneumonia |
| Pregnancy | Stress |
| Toothache | Ulcerative colitis |
Confirmation: Fainting spells. Blue skin color, icy-cold.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Fat, sluggish, lazy.
Influences:
Better from belching, cool air, elevating feet.
Worse from high living, rich or decayed food, icy drinks.
Interactions:
Antidoted by e.g.: Arsenicum, Ambra and Camphora.
It antidotes: effects of putrid meats.
Carboneum sulphuratum
Carboneum sulphuratum
Identification: Carbon bisulphide. A base of "Lamp black" i.e. Carbon obtained from the chimney of a coal oil lamp.
History: Brought to notice by its effect upon workers in rubber factories, notably visual disturbances.
Method of Action: Special affinity for the eyes.
Symptoms:
Indications: Alcoholism, impotence, loss of vision, color blindness (see under eye disorders); tinnitus.
Confirmation:
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Broken down. Changeable.
Influences:
Better in open air.
Worse after breakfast, bathing.
Castor equi
Castor equi
Identification: Thumbnail of the horse. The scales, which break-off, are used for triturations.
History: Ancient remedy, proved homeopathically for cracked and ulcerated nipples.
Method of Action: Acts on nipples, nails and bones.
Symptoms:
Indications: Cracked and ulcerated nipples (see under chronic cystic mastitis and lactation); nail disorders and warts.
Confirmation: Pain in right tibia. Weak spine. Pain in coccyx, worse every evening while sitting.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Spontaneous unprovoked laughter.
Interactions:
Thuja may remove warts caused by castor equi.
Caulophyllum thalictroides tinct.
Caulophyllum thalictroides
Identification: Blue Cohosh. [Closely related to Cimicifuga (Black Cohosh).]
History: Proved only once by Burt. Used traditionally in labor.
Method of Action: Acts on the uterus.
Symptoms:
Indications: Childbirth (see also pregnancy), Menstrual cramps (see menstruation), dysmenorrhea (see menstruation); rheumatism (see under: arthritis, osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis).
Confirmation: Spasms.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Apprehensive.
Influences:
Improved after first day of menses.
Worsened by pregnancy, open air, evening, delayed menstruation.
Causticum
Causticum
Identification: Causticum, one of the great polcrest remedies, is prepared according to Hahnemann's instructions. A piece of recently burned lime (calcium oxide) is immersed in distilled water, then allowed to dry; it becomes a powder. This is mixed with bisulfate of potash that has been exposed to a red heat, cooled and pulverized, then dissolved in boiling water. The mixture is heated in a retort and the liquid that distills over contains concentrated causticum, which has an astringent, burning taste on the back of the tongue and which promotes decomposition of animal substances on which it is placed.
History: Causticum is unique to homeopathy; invented by Hahnemann.
Symptoms:
Indications: Causticum is a deep-acting remedy. Suitable for complaints in the infirm, suffering from chronic diseases.
Featured conditions include:
| Ache | Cough |
| Periodontal disease |
Other noteworthy conditions include: hoarseness, incontinence and warts.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Broken-down mental state; brain tired; confusion, weak memory. Hopelessness, anxiety, melancholy.
Influences:
Improved in warm, humid weather; drinking cold water.
Worse from morning, dry, cold winds.
Chamomilla tinct.
Chamomilla
Identification: (German Chamomile, Ground Apple, Whit Plant, Feverfew). Matricaria chamomilla is an annual herb. The tincture is prepared from the fresh, whole plant, when in flower.
History: Chamomile has been in extensive use as a domestic remedy for centuries. In herbal medicine, chamomile is used in small doses as a mild tonic; in large doses it is capable of acting as an emetic. A digestive aid. Flowers are applied externally in the form of a fomentation in cases of irritation or inflammation of the abdominal viscera and as a gentle incitant for ulcers. Hahnemann published the first homeopathic provings of Chamomilla in 1805.
Symptoms:
Indications: The Chamomilla patient is extremely sensitive to pain; pains are better with heat, except for the teeth and jaws, which are better with cold. The pains and sufferings are better with passive motion, especially in children, who must be carried and petted constantly.
Featured conditions include:
| Celiac disease | Down's syndrome |
| Earache | Menstruation |
| Mouth ulcers | Nervousness |
| Pregnancy | Stress |
| Toothache | Ulcerative colitis |
Confirmation: Most complaints are worse from 9:00 P.m. to midnight.
An.especially useful remedy for teething in infants who are peevish, restless, colicky, and must be carried.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): The mental symptoms are prominent, irritability is characteristic and restlessness will be present.
Influences:
Worse: heat, anger, open air, wind, night.
Better: from being carried; warm, wet weather.
Chenopodium anthelminticum
Chenopodium anthelminticum
Identification: Jerusalem Oak. Tinctures are made from the fresh plant. An oil is also produced from the seed.
History: Oil is used for hookworm and roundworm.
Method of Action: Useful in hearing problems.
Symptoms:
Indications: Cerebral (convulsions, epilepsy), tinnitus, vertigo.
Featured conditions include:
| Bruxism | Hyperactivity disorders |
| Parasitism | Tinnitus |
Confirmation: Pain between right scapula and spine on through the chest.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Constant repetition of an action. Convulsions.
Safety
Oil can be poisonous.
Cholesterinum
Cholesterinum
Identification: Cholesterine. Trituration of gallstones.
History: First mentioned by Dr. Wilhelm Ameke of Berlin. Useful for liver diseases, including cancer.
Method of Action: Opposes Lecithin, the balance with which seems to be related to the growth of tumors.
Symptoms:
Indications: Atherosclerosis, cancer (especially of the liver), fibroids, gallstones, jaundice.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Delirium.
Cimicifuga racemosa tinct.
Cimicifuga racemosa
Identification: Black snake root, Black cohosh. The tincture derives from the root.
History: Great female remedy: eases labor, cures morning sickness, prevents the after pains.
Method of Action: Acts upon the cerebrospinal and muscular systems.
Symptoms:
Indications: Muscular cramps, general malaise, pregnancy.
Featured conditions include:
| Benign breast disease | Childbirth |
| Cramp | Depression |
| Headache | Lactation |
| Strained muscle | Whiplash |
| Wry neck |
Confirmation: Over sensitivity to pain. Stiffness and spasm in neck and back.
Characteristics (Patient Profile / Personality / Psychology): Despodnent, suspicious.
Influences:
Improved by warm weather, eating.
Worse from morning cold, skipped periods, during menses.
Cina artemisia
Cina artemisia
Identification: Worm seed.
History: Worm