Aarskog Syndrome
Aarskog Syndrome is an extremely rare genetic disorder marked by distinctive structural abnormalities. Major symptoms may include stunted growth, broad facial features, short broad hands and feet, genital abnormalities, and mild mental retardation
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Baryta Carbonica | Specially indicated in infancy and old age Suits scrofulous children, especially if they are backward mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do not grow and develop, have scrofulous ophthalmia, swollen abdomen, take cold easily, and then always have swollen tonsils. Very averse to meeting strangers Loss of memory, mental weakness Irresolute Lost confidence in himself Confusion Bashful Childish; grief over trifles Diminished desire and premature impotence Enlarged prostate Testicles indurated Before menses, pain in stomach and small of back Menses scanty Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot Twitching during sleep |
After warm food While thinking of symptoms From washing Lying on painful side
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Walking in open air |
| Calcarea Phosphorica | Anæmic children who are peevish, flabby, have
cold extremities and feeble digestion Numbness and crawling Tendency to perspiration and glandular enlargement Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation Always wants to go somewhere Craving for bacon, ham, salted or smoked meats Much flatulence Great hunger with thirst flatulence temporarily relieved by sour eructations Heartburn Menses too early, excessive, and bright in girls; if late, blood is dark; sometimes, first bright, then dark, with violent backache Leucorrhœa, like white of egg |
Exposure to damp, cold weather Melting snow From any change of weather |
In summer Warm, dry atmosphere |
| Sulphur | Feebleness of tone characterizes Ebullitions of heat, dislike of water, dry and hard hair and skin, red orifices, sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am, and cat-nap sleep Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections Aversion to being washed General offensive character of discharge and exhalations Very red lips and face, flushing easily Very forgetful Difficult thinking Delusions; thinks rags beautiful things-that he is immensely wealthy Busy all the time Childish peevishness in grown people Irritable Affections vitiated; very selfish, no regard for others Averse to business; loafs-too lazy to arouse himself Imagining giving wrong things to people, causing their death Nearly always irritable, depressed, thin and weak, even with good appetite Complete loss of, or excessive appetite Putrid eructation Food tastes too salty Drinks much, eats little Milk disagrees Great desire for sweets Great acidity, sour eructation Very weak and faint about 11 am; must have something to eat Water fills the patient up Frequent micturition, especially at night. Must hurry, sudden call to urinate Great quantities of colorless urine Involuntary emissions Organs cold, relaxed and powerless Pudenda itches Vagina burns Much offensive perspiration Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore Menses preceded by headache or suddenly stopped Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating Nipples cracked; smart and burn Cannot walk erect; stoop-shouldered Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep Vivid dreams Wakes up singing Wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly Catnaps; slightest noise awakens Cannot sleep between 2 an 5 am |
At rest When standing Warmth in bed Washing Bathing In morning 11 am Night From alcoholic stimulants Periodically |
Dry, warm weather Lying on right side From drawing up affected limbs |
| Baryta Muriaticum | Dwarfish, both mentally and physically Increased tension of pulse Icy coldness of body, with paralysis Voluntary muscular power gone but perfectly sensible General feeling of lassitude in the morning, especially weakness of the legs, with muscular stiffness Children who go around with their mouth open and who talk through the nose Stupid-appearing, hard of hearing Great increase in uric acid, diminution of chlorides |
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| Calcarea Carbonica | Impaired nutrition Increased local and general perspiration Swelling of glands Scrofulous and rachitic conditions Gets out of breath easily A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork Pituitary and thyroid dysfunction. Persons of scrofulous type, who take cold easily, with increased mucous secretions, children who grow fat, are large-bellied, with large head, pale skin, chalky look Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats children crave eggs and eat dirt and other indigestible things; are prone to diarrhœa Patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour Apprehensive; worse towards evening; fears loss of reason, misfortune, contagious diseasesForgetful, confused, low-spirited Anxiety with palpitation Obstinacy; slight mental effort produces hot head Averse to work or exertion Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets Milk disagrees Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting Dislike of fat Loss of appetite when overworked Heartburn and loud belching. Ravenous hunger Repugnance to hot food Thirst; longing for cold drinks Frequent emissions; increased desire; semen emitted too soon Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return Leucorrhœa, milky Increased sexual desire; easy conception Ideas crowding in her mind prevent sleep Horrid visions when opening eyes Starts at every noise; fears that she will go crazy Drowsy in early part of evening Frequent waking at night Same disagreeable idea always arouses from light slumber Night terrors Dreams of the dead |
From exertion, mental or physical Ascending Cold in every form Water Washing Moist air Wet weather During full moon Standing While eating |
Dry climate and weather Lying on painful side |
| Carboneum Sulphuratum | Sensitive patients worse cold, wasted muscles Lack of vital heat Diarrhœa every four to six weeks Sensory difficulties in limbs. Diminished sensibility of arms, hands and feet Irritable, anxious, intolerant; stuporSluggishness of mind Desire lost, parts atrophied Frequent profuse emissions Fingers swollen, insensible, rigid, stiff. Gait unsteady, tottering; worse in dark. Feet insensible Deep morning sleep with anxious, vexatious dreams |
After breakfast Bathing Warm, damp, weather |
In open air |
| Medorrhinum | Children dwarfed and stunted State of collapse and trembling all over Intensity of all sensations Weak memory; loses the thread of conversation Cannot speak without weeping Time passes too slowly Is in a great hurry Hopeless of recovery Difficult concentration Fears going insane Nervous, restless Fear in the dark and of some one behind her Coppery taste and eructations of sulphuretted hydrogen Ravenous hunger soon after eating Very thirsty Cravings for liquor, salt, sweets, etc, warm drinks Menses offensive, profuse, dark, clotted; stains difficult to wash out, urinates frequently at that time Sensitive spot near os uteri Leucorrhœa thin, acrid, excoriating, fishy odor Sycotic warts on genitals Sterility Nocturnal emissions, followed by great weakness Impotence Dreams she is drinking Sleeps in knee-chest position |
When thinking of ailment From daylight to sunset Heat Inland |
At the seashore Lying on stomach Damp weather |
| Oleum Jecoris Aselli | Emaciation Lassitude Atrophy of infants; emaciation with hot hands and head; restless and feverish at night Yellowness Children who cannot take milk |
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| Silicea | Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective
nutrition Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis. Keloid growth Scrofulous, rachitic children, with large head open fontanelles and sutures, distended abdomen, slow in walking Patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, Lack of vital heat Prostration of mind and body Great sensitiveness to taking cold Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants Want of grit, moral or physical Yielding, faint-hearted, anxious Nervous and excitable Sensitive to all impressions Brain-fag Obstinate, headstrong children Abstracted Fixed ideas; thinks only of pins, fears them, searches and counts them Disgust for meat and warm food. Want of appetite; thirst excessive Sour eructations after eating Elephantiasis of scrotum Sexual erethism; nocturnal emissions Hydrocele A milky, acrid leucorrhœa, during urination Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body Night-walking; gets up while asleep Sleeplessness, with great orgasm of blood and heat in head Frequent starts in sleep Anxious dreams Excessive gaping |
New moon In morning From washing During menses Uncovering Lying down Damp Lying on Left side Cold worse in winter |
Warmth Wrapping up head Summer In wet or humid weather |
| Iodum | Rapid metabolism: Loss of
flesh great appetite Hungry with much thirst Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration. Iodum individual is exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin All glandular structures, respiratory organs, circulatory system are especially affected; they atrophy. Tremor Craves cold air. Sluggish vital reaction, hence chronicity in many of its aspects Wasting diseases Is warm, and wants cool surroundings Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs Anxiety when quiet; present anxiety and depression, no reference to the futureSudden impulse to run and do violence Forgetful Must be busy Fear of people, shuns every one Suicidal tendency Ravenous hunger and much thirst Empty eructations, as if every particle of food were turned into gas Anxious and worried if he does not eat Frequent and copious, dark yellow-green, thick, acrid with cuticle on surface Testicles swollen and indurated Hydrocele Loss of sexual power, with atrophied testes Great weakness during menses; menstruation irregular. Dwindling of mammary glands Acrid leucorrhœa, thick, slimy, corroding the linen |
When quiet In warm room Right side |
Walking about In open air After eating |
| Lycopodium | Adapted more especially to ailments gradually
developing, functional power weakening, with failures of the digestive
powers, where the function of the liver is seriously disturbed Atony Malnutrition Older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; also precocious, weakly children Intolerant of cold drinks; craves everything warm Best adapted to persons intellectually keen, but of weak, muscular power Deep-seated, progressive, chronic diseases Emaciation Debility in morning Pre-senility Patient 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 Little things annoy, Extremely sensitive Averse to undertaking new things Loss of self-confidence Hurried when eating Constant fear of breaking down under stress Apprehensive Weak memory, confused thoughts; spells or writes wrong words and syllables Failing brain-power Cannot bear to see anything new Cannot read what he writes Sadness in morning on awaking Grayish-yellow color of face, with blue circles around eyes Withered, shriveled, and emaciated; copper-colored eruption 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 Polyuria during the night; heavy red sediment in urine No erectile power; impotence; premature emission Menses too late; last too long, too profuse Coition painful Leucorrhœa, 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 |
| Mercurius | Decrepit, inflamed and necrotic wrecks Tremors everywhere Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion Complaints increase with the sweat and rest; all associated with a great deal of weariness, prostration, and trembling A human "thermometer"; sensitive to heat and cold Breath, excretions and body smell foul Tendency to formation of pus, which is thin, greenish, putrid; streaked with thin blood Slow in answering questions Memory weakened, and loss of will-power Weary of life. Mistrustful Thinks he is losing his reason Putrid eructations Intense thirst for cold drinks Weak digestion, with continuous hunger Cold genitals Nocturnal emissions, stained with blood Menses profuse, with abdominal pains Leucorrhœa excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts |
At night Wet, damp weather Lying on right side Perspiring Warm room and warm bed From damp, cold, rainy weather |
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| Secale | Constringent feeling throughout the whole body An anæmic condition, coldness, numbness, petechiæ, mortification, gangrene For old people with shriveled skin-thin, scrawny old women. Whole body is pervaded by a sense of great heat Hæmorrhages; continued oozing; thin, fetid, watery black blood Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite and thirst may be excessive Facial and abdominal muscles twitch Face pale, pinched, sunken Unnatural ravenous appetite; craves acids Thirst unquenchable Eructations of bad odor Brownish, offensive leucorrhœa Menses irregular, copious, dark; continuous oozing of watery blood until next period Sleep profound and long Trembling, staggering gait Fingers and feet bluish, shriveled, spread apart or bent backwards, numb |
Heat Warm covering |
Cold Uncovering Rubbing Stretching out limbs |
| Zincum | Cerebral depression The word "fag" covers a large part of zinc action Tissues are worn out faster than they are repaired Defective vitality Weak memory Very sensitive to noise Averse to work, to talk Child repeats everything said to it Fears arrest on account of a supposed crime Lethargic, stupid Cannot stand smallest quantity of wine Ravenous hunger about 11 am Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough Can only void urine when sitting bent backwards Involuntary urination when walking, coughing or sneezing Testicles swelled, drawn up Erections violent Menses too late, suppressed; menses flow more at night Feet in continued motion; cannot keep still Large varicose veins on legs Cries out during sleep; body jerks; wakes frightened, stared Nervous motion of feet when asleep Loud screaming out at night in sleep without being aware of it |
At menstrual period From touch Between 5 to 7 pm After dinner From wine |
While eating Discharges Appearance of eruptions During menstrual flow |