Arteritis
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Arsenicum Album | All-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and
restlessness, with nightly aggravation Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion Irritable weakness Burning pains Burning relieved by heat Fear fright and worry Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition Reduced refractive index of blood serum System under the stress of malignancy regardless of location Septic infections and low vitality Cannot bear the sight or smell of food Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time Craves acids, milk and coffee. Long-lasting eructations Stool small, offensive, dark, with much prostration Urine scanty, burning, involuntary; albuminous Menses too profuse and too soon Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin. Palpitation, pain, dyspnœa, faintness Pulse more rapid in morning Dilatation Sleep disturbed, anxious, restless; must have head raised by pillows Suffocative fits during sleep Sleeps with hands over head Dreams are full of care and fear Drowsy, sleeping sickness |
Wet weather After midnight From cold, cold drinks, or food Seashore Right side |
From heat From head elevated Warm drinks |
| Carbo Vegetabilis | Typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and
has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints Blood seems to stagnate in the capillaries, causing blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis; body becomes blue, icy-cold Coldness, breath cool, pulse imperceptible, oppressed and quickened respiration, and must have air, must be fanned hard, must have all the windows open Faints easily, is worn out, and must have fresh air Very debilitated; seems to be too weak to hold out Persons who have never fully recovered from the effects of some previous illness General venous stasis, bluish skin, limbs cold Eructations after eating and drinking; temporary relief from belching; rancid, sour, or putrid eructations Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things The simplest food distresses Premature and too copious menses; pale blood Leucorrhœa before menses, thick, greenish, milky, excoriating |
Evening Night Open air Cold From fat food, butter, coffee, milk Warm damp weather Wine |
From eructation From fanning Cold. |
| Echinacea | Symptoms of blood poisoning, septic conditions
generally Tendency to malignancy in acute and sub-acute disorders Tired feeling. Piles. Pustules Lymphatic inflammation; crushing injuries Foul discharges with emaciation and great debility Sour belching and heartburn Urine albuminous, scanty, frequent, and involuntary Offensive, excoriating leucorrhœa |
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| Kali Iodatum | Acts prominently on fibrous and connective tissues,
producing infiltration, œdema, etc Diffused sensitiveness Loss of weight Saliva increased Faintness at epigastrium Cold food and drink, especially milk, aggravate Much thirst Flatulence Menses late, profuse Corrosive leucorrhœa |
Warm clothing Warm room At night Damp weather |
Motion Open air |
| Lachesis | Septic states When the system is thoroughly poisoned and the prostration is profound 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 Hungry, cannot wait for food Constipated, offensive stool Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow Intense excitement of sexual organs Palpitation, with fainting spells, especially during climacteric Constricted feeling causing palpitation, with anxiety Irregular beats Sleeps into an aggravation Sudden starting when falling asleep Sleepiness, yet cannot sleep Wide-awake in evening |
After sleep Left side In the spring Warm bath Pressure or constriction Hot drinks Closing eyes |
Appearance of discharges Warm applications |
| Natrum Iodatum | Chronic catarrhal affections Arteriosclerosis Vertigo Dyspnœa |
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| Secale Cornutum | Constringent feeling throughout the whole body Coldness, numbness A useful remedy for old people with shriveled skin-thin, scrawny old women All the Secale conditions are better from cold; the whole body is pervaded by a sense of great heat Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite and thirst may be excessive. Raised the blood pressure due to decrease of the flow of pancreatic juice 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 Dyspnœa and oppression, with cramp in diaphragm Palpitation, with contracted and intermittent pulse Sleep profound and long |
Heat Warm covering |
Cold Uncovering Rubbing Stretching out limbs |