ACTH Deficiency
ACTH Deficiency is characterized by adrenal insufficiency symptoms such as weight loss, lack of appetite (anorexia), weakness, nausea, vomiting, and low blood pressure (hypotension). The pituitary hormone called "adrenocorticotropic hormone" (ACTH) is decreased or absent, and other cortisol and other steroid hormone levels in the blood are abnormally low.
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Lycopodium | Is adapted more especially to ailments gradually
developing, functional power weakening Atony Older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power Emaciation Debility in morning Pre-senility. Ascites, in liver disease Is thin, withered, full of gas and dry Lacks vital heat; has poor circulation, cold extremities Pains come and go suddenly Sensitive to noise and odors Dyspepsia due to farinaceous and fermentable food, cabbage, beans, etc Excessive hunger Aversion to bread, etc Desire for sweet things Food tastes sour Sour eructations Great weakness of digestion Eating ever so little creates fullness Cannot eat oysters Rolling of flatulence Wakes at night feeling hungry Incomplete burning eructations rise only to pharynx there burn for hours Likes to take food and drink hot Sinking sensation; worse night No erectile power; impotence; premature emission Menses too late; last too long, too profuse Leucorrha, acrid, with burning in vagina Drowsy during day; starting in sleep Dreams of accidents |
Right side From right to left From above downward 4 to 8 pm From heat or warm room, hot air, bed Warm applications, except throat and stomach which are better from warm drinks |
By motion After midnight From warm food and drink On getting cold From being uncovered |
| Veratrum Album | A perfect picture of collapse, with
extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness Cold perspiration on the forehead Vomiting, purging, and cramps in extremities Profuse, violent retching and vomiting Excessive dryness of all mucous surfaces Voracious appetite Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed Averse to warm food. Hiccough Copious vomiting and nausea; aggravated by drinking and least motion Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt Anguish in pit of stomach Great weakness after vomiting Gastric irritability with chronic vomiting of food Pulse irregular, feeble Menses too early; profuse and exhausting |
At night Wet, cold weather |
Walking Warmth |
| Lachesis | Profound prostration During the climacteric and for patients of a melancholic disposition Sensation of tension in various parts Cannot bear anything tight anywhere Craving for alcohol, oysters Any food causes distress Pit of stomach painful to touch Hungry, cannot wait for food Gnawing pressure made better by eating, but returning in a few hours Intense excitement of sexual organs Irregular beats Sudden starting when falling asleep Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep Wide-awake in evening |
After sleep Sleeps into aggravation Left side In the spring Warm bath Pressure or constriction Hot drinks Closing eyes |
Appearance of discharges Warm applications |
| Cactus Grandilflorus | Constrictions; constrictions as of an
iron band; this sensation is found in various places, sophagus, bladder,
etc Sadness, and melancholy Hæmorrhage, constrictions, periodicity, and spasmodic pains Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter Congestions; irregular distribution of blood Favors formation of clots speedily Great periodicity. Pulse less, panting and prostrated Constriction, pulsation, or heaviness in stomach Vomiting of blood Menses early, dark, pitch-like; cease on lying down, with heart symptoms. Pulse feeble, irregular, quick, without strength Low blood pressure Sleepless on account of pulsation in different parts of body Frightful dreams |
About noon Lying on left side Walking Going upstairs 11 am and 11 pm |
Open air |
| Agaricus | Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice Sensitive to pressure and cold air Violent bearing-down pains Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling Empty eructations, tasting of apples Unnatural hunger Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen Profuse inodorous flatus Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure Menses, increased, earlier Sexual excitement Leucorrha, with much itching Pulse intermittent and irregular Paroxysms of yawning On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often Vivid dreams Drowsy in daytime |
Open cold air After eating After coitus In cold weather Before a thunder-storm Pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter |
Moving about slowly |