Brain Tumor
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Apomorphinum | Vertigo Dilated pupils Nausea and vomiting Vomiting is preceded by nausea, lassitude and increased secretion of sweat, saliva, mucus and tears Violent inclination to vomit Hot feeling all over body, especially head |
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| Arnica | Especially suited to cases when any injury, however
remote, seems to have caused the present trouble After traumatic injuries, overuse of any organ, strains Disposed to cerebral congestion Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with impoverished blood, cardiac dropsy with dyspnœa Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained Bed feels too hard. Marked effect on the blood Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots Tendency to hæmorrhage and low-fever states Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not mature Sore, lame, bruised feeling Aversion to tobacco Head hot, with cold body; confused; sensitiveness of brain, with sharp, pinching pains Scalp feels contracted Cold spot on forehead Fetid breath Mouth dry and thirsty Bitter taste Taste as from bad eggs Longing for vinegar Distaste for milk and meat Canine hunger Dark brick-red sediment in urine Sleepless and restless when over tired Comatose drowsiness; awakens with hot head; dreams of death, mutilated bodies, anxious and terrible Horrors in the night. |
Least touch Motion Rest Wine Damp cold |
Lying down, or with head low |
| Baryta Carbonica | Specially indicated in infancy and old age This remedy brings aid to 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 Diseases of old men when degenerative changes begin;-cardiac vascular and cerebral Very sensitive to cold Offensive foot-sweats Very weak and weary, must sit or lie down or lean on something Very averse to meeting strangers Brain feels as if loose Fatty tumors about neck Hungry, but refuses food Worse after warm food Constipation, with hard, knotty stools Diminished desire and premature impotence Menses scanty Talking in sleep; awakens frequently; feels too hot Twitching during sleep |
While thinking of symptoms From washing Lying on painful side |
Walking in open air |
| Belladonna | Active congestion, furious excitement, perverted
special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain Always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state Hyperæsthesia of all senses Convulsive movements Dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water Neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly Heat, redness, throbbing and burning Great children's remedy No thirst, anxiety or fear Stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards Head sensitive to least contact; much throbbing and heat Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing Pain; fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples Sudden outcries Pain in head worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure and semi-erect posture Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side Constant moaning Loss of appetite Averse to meat and milk Great thirst for cold water Desire diminished Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse; menses and lochia very offensive and hot Restless sleep, crying out, gritting of teeth Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels Screams out in sleep Sleeplessness, with drowsiness Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep Sleeps with hands under head |
Touch Jar Noise Draught After noon Lying down |
Semi-erect |
| Calcarea Carbonica | Increased local and general perspiration Gets out of breath easily A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork Abscesses in deep muscles; polypi and exostoses Pituitary and thyroid dysfunction. Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence 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 Sense of weight on top of headHeadache, with cold hands and feet Vertigo on ascending, and when turning head Head feels hot and heavy, with pale face Icy coldness in, and on the head, especially right side Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets Milk disagrees Frequent sour eructations Dislike of fat Loss of appetite when overworked Heartburn and loud belching Ravenous hunger. Repugnance to hot food Thirst; longing for cold drinks Urine dark, brown, sour, fetid, abundant, with white sediment, bloody Frequent seminal emissions Increased sexual 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 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 |
Dry climate and weather Lying on painful side |
| Conium | Difficult gait, trembling, sudden loss of strength
while walking Weakened memory Sexual debility found here Growth of tumors General feeling as if bruised by blows Great debility in the morning in bed Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation Cancerous diathesis Vertigo, when lying down, and when turning over in bed, when turning head sidewise, or turning eyes; worse, shaking head, slight noise or conversation of others, especially towards the left Headache, stupefying, with nausea and vomiting of mucus, with a feeling as of foreign body under the skull Scorched feeling on top Tightness as if both temples were compressed; worse after a meal Bruised, semi lateral pains Dull occipital pain on rising in morning Amelioration from eating and aggravation a few hours after meals; acidity and burning Tremulous weakness after every stool Much difficulty in voiding urine It flows and stops again Desire increased; power decreased Sexual nervousness, with feeble erection Menses delayed and scanty; parts sensitive Leucorrhœa after micturition |
Lying down Turning or rising in bed Celibacy Before and during menses From taking cold Bodily or mental exertion |
While fasting In the dark From letting limbs hang down Motion Pressure |
| Glonoine | Great lassitude, no inclination to work; extreme
irritability, easily excited by the slightest opposition, ending in
congestive head symptoms Gets sick when sitting before an open fire Surging of blood to head and heart Tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation Violent convulsions, associated with cerebral congestion Sensation of pulsation throughout body Pulsating pains Cannot recognize localities Confusion, with dizzinessHead heavy, but cannot lay it on pillow Cannot bear any heat about head Better from uncovering head Throbbing headache Very irritable Vertigo on assuming upright position Cerebral congestion Head feels enormously large, as if skull were too small for brain. Shocks in head, synchronous with pulse Headache in place of menses Abnormal hunger Menses delayed, or sudden cessation with congestion to head |
In sun Exposure to sun-rays, gas, open fire Jar Stooping Having hair cut Peaches Stimulants Lying down From 6 am to noon Left side |
Brandy |
| Graphites | Especially active in patients who are rather stout,
of fair complexion Tendency to skin affections and constipation Fat, chilly, and costive Delayed menstrual history Takes cold easily Impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands Induration of tissue Rush of blood to head with flushed face also with nose bleed and distension and flatulence Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side, with inclination to vomit Sensation of cobweb on forehead Feels numb and pithy Burning on vertex Aversion to meat Sweets nauseate Hot drinks disagree Eructation difficult. Flatulence Urine turbid, with sediment; sour smelling Menses too late, with constipation; pale and scanty, with tearing pain in epigastrium, and itching before Leucorrhœa, pale, thin, profuse, white, excoriating, with great weakness in back Sexual debility, with increased desire; aversion to coition; too early or no ejaculation |
Warmth At night During and after menstruation |
In the dark From wrapping up |
| Hydrastis Canadensis | Thick, yellowish, ropy secretion Especially active in old, easily-tired people, cachectic individuals, with great debility Cerebral effects prominent, feels his wits sharpened, head cleared, facile expression Weak muscular power, poor digestion and obstinate constipation Emaciation and prostration Cancer and cancerous state, before ulceration, when pain is principal symptom Bitter taste Pain as from a hard-cornered substance Cannot eat bread or vegetables Urine smells decomposed Leucorrhœa, worse after menses; acrid and corroding, shreddy, tenacious Sexual excitement |
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| Kali Iodatum | Diffused sensitiveness Symptoms like loss of weight, spitting of blood, etc Pain through sides of head Violent headache Cranium swells up in hard lump Pain intense over eyes and root of nose Brain feels enlarged Hard nodes in head, with severe pain Saliva increased 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 |
| Plumbum Metallicum | Constrictive sensation in internal organs. Delirium, coma and convulsions Excessive and rapid emaciation Contractions and boring pain Pain as if a ball rose from throat to brainUrine albuminous; low specific gravity; scanty Loss of sexual power |
At night Motion |
Rubbing Hard pressure Physical exertion |
| Sepia | Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation Pains extend down to back, chills easily Tendency to abortion Upward tendency of its symptoms Easy fainting "Ball" sensation in inner parts Acts best on brunettes All pains are from below up Feels cold even in warm room Pulsating headache in cerebellum Vertigo, with sensation of something rolling round in head Stinging pain from within outward and upward mostly left, or in forehead, with nausea, vomiting; worse indoors and when lying on painful side Jerking of head backwards and forwards Coldness of vertex Headache in terrible shocks at menstrual nisus, with scanty flow Everything tastes too salty Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles Worse, after milk, especially when boiled Loathes fat Red, adhesive, sand in urine Involuntary urination, during first sleep Leucorrhœa yellow, greenish; with much itching |
Forenoons and evenings Washing Laundry-work Dampness Left side After sweat Cold air Before thunder-storm |
By exercise Pressure Warmth of bed Hot applications Drawing limbs up Cold bathing After sleep |