Diabetes
A clinical condition characterized by the excessive excretion of urine. The excess may be caused by a deficiency of antidiuretic hormone (ADH), as in Diabetes Insipidus, or it may be the result of the hyperglycemia occurring in Diabetes Mellitus.
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Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Aceticum Acidum | Great debility, frequent fainting Especially indicated in pale, lean persons, with lax, flabby muscles Wasting and debility Salivation Intense burning thirst Cold drinks distress. Stomach feels as if she had taken a lot of vinegar Large quantities of pale urine |
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| Adrenaline | Sensation of thoracic constriction with anguish Slowing of pulse and strengthening of heart beat Depression of respiratory center Contraction of muscular tissue of eye, uterus, vagina Relaxation of muscular tissue of stomach, intestines, bladder |
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| Argentum Metallicum |
Emaciation, a gradual drying up Desire for fresh air Dyspnœa Sensation of expansion Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor Frequent urination Seminal emissions, without sexual excitement |
From touch Toward noon |
In open air Cough at night when lying down |
| Argentum Nitricum | Desire for sweets Sensation as if a part were expanding and other errors of perception Withered up and dried constitutions Pains increase and decrease gradually Flatulent state and prematurely aged look Intolerance of heat Desire for cheese and salt. Urine passes unconsciously, day and night Urine scanty and dark; emission of a few drops after having finished; divided stream Sleepless, from fancies before his imagination; horrible dreams of snakes, and of sexual gratification |
Warmth in any form At night From cold food Sweets After eating At menstrual period From emotions Left side |
From eructation Fresh air Cold Pressure |
| Aristolochia Milhomens | Stitching pains in various parts Pain in heels, burning in anus and frequent irritation Flatulence |
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| Arnica | Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with
impoverished blood Limbs and body ache as if beaten; joints as if sprained Bed feels too hard 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 Longing for vinegar Distaste for milk and meat Canine hunger Urine retained from over-exertion; dark brick-red sediment 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 |
| 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 Great thirst; drinks much, but little at a time. Craves milk, acids and coffee Long-lasting eructations Urine scanty, burning, involuntary Menses too profuse and too soon Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin Sleep disturbed, anxious, restless; must have head raised by pillows Sleeps with hands over head Dreams are full of care and fear |
Wet weather After midnight From cold, cold drinks, or food Seashore Right side |
From heat From head elevated Warm drinks. |
| Arsenicum Iodatum | Great emaciation Intense thirst; water is immediately ejected. |
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| Asclepias Vincetoxicum | Great thirst Profuse urination |
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| Aurum Metallicum | Appetite and thirst increased, with qualmishness Incarcerated flatus Urine turbid, like buttermilk, with thick sediment Sleepless Sobs aloud in sleep Frightful dreams |
In cold weather When getting cold Sunset to sunrise |
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| Aurum Muriaticum | Burning, yellow, acrid leucorrhœa Weariness, aversion to all work |
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| Belladonna | Associated with hot, red skin, flushed face,
glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperæsthesia of all
senses, Dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water Heat, redness, throbbing and burning No thirst, anxiety or fear Violence of attack and suddenness of onset Loss of appetite Averse to meat and milk. Great thirst for cold water Abhorrence of liquids; dead of drinking Frequent and profuse Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse; very offensive and hot Sleep restless, 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 |
| Boric Acid | Pain in region of ureters, with frequent urging to
urinate Coldness Diabetes, tongue dry, red, and cracked Cold saliva Vagina cold, as if packed with ice Frequent urination with burning and tenesmus. |
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| Bovista | Intolerant of tight clothing around waist Menses too early and profuse; worse at night Voluptuous sensation Leucorrhœa acrid, thick, tough, greenish, follows menses Traces of menses between menstruation Sweat in axillæ; onion smell |
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| Bryonia | Mucous membranes are all dry The Bryonia patient is irritable Stools large, dry, hard Especially the constitution of a robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability It prefers the right side, the evening, and open air, warm weather after cold days, to manifest its action most markedly. Children dislike to be carried or raised Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy Complaints apt to develop slowly. Abnormal hunger, loss of tasteThirst for large draughts Worse, warm drinks, which are vomited Urine red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot Menses too early, too profuse; worse from motion, with tearing pains in legs; suppressed, with vicarious discharge or splitting headache Drowsy; starting when falling asleep Delirium; busy with business matters and what he had read |
Warmth Any motion Morning Eating Hot weather Exertion Touch Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick |
Lying on painful side Pressure Rest Cold things. |
| Capsicum | Seems to suit especially persons of lax fiber,
weak; diminished vital heat Not much reactive force Fat, indolent, opposed to physical exertion, averse to go outside of their routine, get homesick easily General uncleanliness of body Older people who have exhausted their vitality, especially by mental work, and poor living; blear-eyed appearance; who do not react Fear of slightest draught Intense craving for stimulants Much thirst; but drinking causes shuddering. Thirsty after stool, with shivering Urine frequent, almost ineffectual urging; comes first in drops, then in spurts; neck of bladder spasmodically contracted |
Open air Uncovering Draughts |
While eating From heat |
| Carbolicum Acidum | Stupor, paralysis of sensation and motion, feeble
pulse and depressed breathing Increased olfactory sensibility. Mental and bodily languor, disinclination to study, with headache like a band Appetite lost Desire for stimulants and tobacco Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen Urine almost black Discharges always offensive Irritating leucorrhœa, causing itching and burning |
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| Ceanothus Americanus | Menses profuse, and yellow weakening leucorrhœa Constant urging to urinate Urine green; frothy; contains bile, sugar |
Motion Lying on left side |
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| Chamomilla | Sensitive, irritable, thirsty, hot, and numb Night-sweats Eructations, foul Nausea after coffee Sweats after eating or drinking Aversion to warm drinks Yellow, acrid leucorrhœa Drowsiness with moaning, weeping and wailing during sleep; anxious, frightened dreams, with half-open eyes |
By heat Anger Open air Wind Night |
From being carried Warm wet weather |
| Chelidonium Majus | Constant pain under inferior angle of right
scapula Paralytic drawing and lameness in single parts Great general lethargy and indisposition to make any effort is also marked Bad odor from mouth Prefers hot food and drink Urine profuse, foaming, yellow urine, like beer dark, turbid Menses too late and too profuse |
Right side Motion Touch Change of weather Very early in morning |
After dinner From pressure |
| Chimaphila Umbellata | Women with large breasts Urging to urinate Urine turbid, offensive, containing ropy or bloody mucus, and depositing a copious sediment Burning and scalding during micturition, and straining afterwards; must strain before flow comes Scanty urine. Sugar in urine Unable to urinate without standing with feet wide apart and body inclined forward |
In damp weather From sitting on cold stones or pavements Left side |
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| Chionanthus Virginica | Dry sensation in month, not relieved by water, also
profuse saliva No appetite Urine large amount of high specific gravity; frequent urination; bile and sugar in urine; very dark |
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| Coca | Peppery sensation in mouth Longing for alcoholic liquors and tobacco Great satiety for a long time No appetite but for sweets Diabetes, with impotency Can find no rest anywhere, but sleepy |
Ascending High altitudes |
From wine Riding Quick motion in open air |
| Codeinum | Trembling of whole body. Involuntary twitching of muscles of arms and lower limbs Itching, with feeling of warmth, numbness and prickling Eructations Great thirst, with desire for bitter substances |
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| Colchicum | Great prostration, internal coldness,
and tendency to collapse Shocks as from electricity through one half of body Dreams of mice. Smell of food causes nausea even to fainting, especially fish Profuse salivary secretion. Craving for various things, but is averse to then when smelling them, seized them with nausea Thirst for effervescent, alcoholic beverages Urine dark, scanty or suppressed; bloody, brown, black, inky; contains clots of putrid decomposed blood, albumin, sugar |
Sundown to sunrise Motion Loss of sleep Smell of food In evening Mental exertion |
Stooping. |
| Crotalus Horridus | Hæmorrhagic diathesis Sleeps into his symptoms More right-sided in its action Intolerance of clothing around stomach. Constant nausea and vomiting every month, after menstruation Cannot lie on right side, without vomiting dark-green matte Hungry, craves stimulants, sugar; averse to meat Prolonged menses Dark, bloody urine; casts; albuminous, dark, scanty Dreams of the dead Starting in sleep Yawning Smothering sensation when awaking |
Right side Open air Evening and morning In spring Coming on of warm weather Yearly On awaking Damp and wet Jar |
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| Cuprum Arsenicosum | Tongue thickly coated, dirty brown, white, metallic
taste; thirst Dry mouth Urine of high specific gravity; increased, acetones and diacetic acid; Garlicky odor Cold, clammy perspiration of an intermittent nature |
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| Curare | Reflex action diminished Menses too early, during menses, colic, headache, kidney pain Leucorrhœa, thick, purulent, offensive |
Dampness Cold weather Cold wind 2 am Right side |
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| Eupatorium Purpureum | Chills and pains run upwards Impotency and sterility Homesickness Insufficient flow; milky Constant desire to urinate; bladder feels dull |
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| Fel Tauri | Eructations, gurgling in stomach and epigastric
region Violent peristaltic movements Tendency to sleep after eating. |
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| Ferrum Iodatum | Body emaciated Debility following drain upon vital forces Fullness, even after a little food; stuffed feeling, as if she could not lean forward Urine dark; sweet smelling Crawling sensation in urethra and rectum Sensation as if urine were stopped at fossa navicularis Difficulty in retaining urine Leucorrhœa like boiled starch. Menses suppressed or scanty |
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| Ferrum Muriaticum | Pain in right shoulder, right elbow Marked tendency to cramps Round red spots on cheeks Bright crystals in urine |
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| Fluoricum Acidum | Compelled to move about energetically Sour eructations Averse to coffee, wants fancy dishes Desire for highly seasoned food Craves cold water, hungry Urine scanty, dark Menses copious, frequent, too long Copious and excoriating leucorrhœa |
Warmth Morning Warm drinks |
Cold While walking |
| Glycerinum | Profuse and frequent urination. Increased specific
gravity and sugar Profuse, long-lasting menstrual flow with bearing down heaviness in uterus General sense of exhaustion |
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| Glonoinum | Great lassitude, no inclination to work Extreme irritability, easily excited by the slightest opposition Sensation of pulsation throughout body Pulsating pains 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 |
| Grindelia | Smothering after falling asleep Sugar in urine Stops breathing when falling asleep; wakes with a start, and gasps for breath; must sit up to breathe; cannot breathe when lying down |
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| Helleborus | Sensorial depression Sees, hears, tastes imperfectly, and general muscular weakness Sinking sensation Horrible smell from mouth Urine suppressed; scanty, dark; coffee-grounds sediment; frequent urging |
From evening until morning From uncovering from 4 to 8 pm |
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| Helonias | Tired, backachy females Patient must be doing something to engage the mind For women with prolapsus from atony, enervated by indolence and luxury (better when attention is engaged-hence when the doctor comes), or for those worn out with hard work; tired, strained muscles burn and ache; sleepless Menses too frequent, too profuse Urine albuminous, phosphatic; profuse and clear, saccharine |
Motion Touch |
When doing something (mental diversion) |
| Iodum | Rapid metabolism: Loss of flesh great
appetite Great debility, the slightest effort induces perspiration Individual is exceedingly thin, dark complexioned, with enlarged lymphatic glands, has voracious appetite but gets thin. Tremor. Iodine craves cold air Weakness and loss of breath going upstairs Offensive odor from mouth. 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 Loss flesh, yet hungry and eating well Urine frequent and copious, dark yellow-green, thick, acrid with cuticle on surface Menstruation irregular Acrid leucorrhœa, thick, slimy, corroding the linen |
When quiet In warm room Right side After eating |
Walking about In open air |
| Iris Versicolor | Profuse flow of saliva; ropy Deficient appetite |
In evening and at night From rest |
From continued motion. |
| Kali Aceticum | Alkaline urine, very much increased in quantity | ||
| Kali Bromatum | Failure of mental power, loss of memory Sensibility of urethra diminished Urine profuse, with thirst Exaggerated sexual desire Night terrors; grinding teeth in sleep; horrible dreams |
When occupied mentally or physically | |
| Kreosotum | Pulsations all over the body Excoriating, burning, and offensive discharges Overgrown, poorly developed children Urine offensive Can urinate only when lying; cannot get out of bed quick enough during first sleep Dreams of urinating Must hurry when desire comes to urinate Leucorrhœa, yellow, acrid; odor of green corn; worse between periods. Menses too early, prolonged; menstrual flow intermits; ceases on sitting or walking; reappears on lying down Anxious dreams of pursuit, fire, erections, etc |
In open air Cold Rest When lying After menstruation |
From warmth, motion Warm diet |
| Lachesis | Hæmorrhagic tendency is marked When the system is thoroughly poisoned and the prostration is profound Very important 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 Hungry, cannot wait for food Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow Intense excitement of sexual organs 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 |
| Lactic Acidum | Thirst; voracious hunger Large quantities of urine passed, frequently; contains Saccharine Trembling of whole body while walking Limbs feel chilly Hot, acrid eructation |
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| Lecithinum | Mental exhaustion and impotency Tired, weak, short breath, loss of flesh; symptoms of general break-down Sexually weak Loss of appetite Thirsty Craves wine and coffee; bloated, sore pain in stomach rising toward throat Scanty urine, with phosphates, sugar or albumen |
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| Lyocpersicum | Frequent urination and profuse watery diarrhœa. Urine Constant dribbling in open air. Must rise at night to urinate |
Right side Open air Continued motion Jars Noises |
Warm room Tobacco |
| Lycopodium | Adapted more especially to ailments gradually
developing, functional power weakening, with failures of the digestive
powers, Atony Malnutrition Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with catarrhal tendencies; older persons, Earthy complexion Uric acid diathesis Red sand in urine, backache, in renal region; worse before urination 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 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 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 Pain in back before urinating; ceases after flow; slow in coming, must strain Polyuria during the night Heavy red sediment in urine No erectile power; impotence; premature emission Menses too late; last too long, too profuse 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 |
| Lyssinum | Desire for stool on hearing or seeing running water Constant desire to urinate on seeing running water Froths at mouth Lascivious; priapism, with frequent emissions No emission during coition |
Sight or sound of running water or pouring water, or
even thinking of fluids Dazzling or reflected light Heat of sun Stooping. |
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| Morphinum | Thirst Loss of appetite, with aversion to meat Slow and difficult urination Sore feeling all over Bed feels too hard |
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| Moschus | Great sensitiveness to air; the open air is felt
very, very cold..
Much nervous trembling and frequent fainting Great flatulence Coldness Tension in muscles, skin and mind Desire for black coffee, stimulants Aversion to food Everything tastes flat Impotence, associated with diabetes Menses too early, too profuse, with disposition to faint Sexual desire, with intolerable titillation in parts Drawing and pushing in the direction of the genitals; sensation as if menses appear Profuse urination |
Cold | In open air Rubbing |
| Murex | Especially adapted to nervous, lively, affectionate
women. Patient weak and run down. Hungry, must eat Conscious of a womb Sexual desire easily excited Least contact of parts causes violent sexual excitement. Menses irregular, profuse, frequent, large clots Leucorrhœa green or bloody, alternate with mental symptoms and aching in sacrum Urine frequent at night; smells like Valerian constant urging |
Least touch. | |
| Natrum Mur | Great debility; most weakness felt in the morning
in bed Coldness Emaciation most notable in neck Great liability to take cold Dry mucous membranes Constrictive sensation throughout the body Great weakness and weariness Oversensitive to all sorts of influences Immoderate thirst Hungry, yet loose flesh Heartburn, with palpitation Sweats while eating Craving for salt Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats Pain just after urinating Increased urination, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc; has to wait a long time for it to pass if others are present Menses irregular; usually profuse Leucorrhœa acrid, watery Sleepy in forenoon Nervous jerking during sleep Dreams of robbers |
Noise Music Warm room Lying down About 10 a m At seashore Mental exertion Consolation Heat Talking. |
Open air Cold bathing Going without regular meals Lying on right side Pressure against back Tight clothing |
| Natrum Sulphuricum | Especially indicated for the so-called hydrogenoid
constitution, where the complaints are such as are due to living in damp
houses, basements, cellars Feels every change from dry to wet; cannot even eat plants growing near water, nor fish Always feels best in warm, dry air Thirst for something cold Urine loaded with bile; brisk-dust sediment; excessive secretion. Menses acrid and profuse |
Music (makes her sad) Lying on left side Dampness of basement Damp weather |
Dry weather Pressure Changing position |
| Nitric Acidum | Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle
life All discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration Persons who have chronic diseases, and take cold easily and disposed to diarrhœa Excessive physical irritability Great hunger, with sweetish taste Longing for indigestible things-chalk, earth, etc. Loves fat and salt Urine scanty, dark, offensive; smells like horse's urine; cold on passing ; bloody and albuminous Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with pain in back, hips and thighs |
Evening and night Cold climate and also hot weather |
While riding in carriage |
| Nux Vomica | Patient is rather thin, spare, quick, active,
nervous, and irritable; does a good deal of mental work; has mental strains
and leads a sedentary life, found in prolonged office work, over study, and
close application to business, with its cares and anxieties Seeks stimulants, coffee, wine, possibly in excess; Takes preferably rich and stimulating food; wine and women play their part to make him forget the close application of the day. Pre-eminently a male remedy. Zealous fiery temperament Easily chilled, avoid open air, etc Always seems to be out of tune; inharmonious spasmodic action Desire for stimulants Loves fats and tolerates them well Irregular, peristaltic action; hence frequent ineffectual desire, or passing but small quantities at each attempt Frequent calls to urinate; little and often While urinating, itching in urethra and pain in neck of bladder Easily excited desire Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular, blood black with faint spells Cannot sleep after 3 am until towards morning; awakes feeling wretchedly Drowsy after meals, and in early evening Dreams full of bustle and hurry |
Morning Mental exertion After eating Touch Spices Stimulants Narcotics Dry weather Cold |
From a nap, if allowed to finish it In evening While at rest In damp, wet weather Strong pressure |
| Opium | Insensibility of the nervous system, the
depression, drowsy stupor, painlessness, and torpor, the general
sluggishness and lack of vital reaction All complaints are characterized by sopor; they are painless, and are accompanied by heavy, stupid sleep, stertorous breathing Sweaty skin Dark, mahogany-brown face Want of sensitiveness to the action of medicines Contracted pupils Depressed higher intellectual powers, lessened self-control and power of concentration, judgment Hungry; no desire to eat Urine slow to start; feeble stream Great drowsiness; falls into a heavy stupid sleep Loss of breath on falling asleep Distant noise, cocks crowing, etc, keep him awake Child dreams of cats, dogs, black forms Bed feels so hot cannot lie on it Pleasant, fantastic, amorous dreams Hot perspiration over whole body except lower limbs |
heat During and after sleep |
Cold things Constant walking |
| Pancreatinum | Pain an hour or more after eating Lienteric diarrhœa |
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| Phosphoricum Acidum | Nervous exhaustion Mental debility first; later physical In young people who grow rapidly, and who are overtaxed, mentally or physically Whenever the system has been exposed to the ravages of acute disease, excesses, grief, loss of vital fluids Craves juicy things Sour risings Thirst for cold milk Frequent, profuse, watery, milky Frequent urination at night Menses too early and profuse, with pain in liver Itching; yellow leucorrhœa after menses Lascivious dreams with emissions |
Exertion From being talked to Loss of vital fluids Sexual excesses Everything impeding circulation |
From keeping warm |
| Phosphorus | Tall, slender persons, narrow chested, with thin,
transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous
debility, emaciation, amative tendencies Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms Suddenness of symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains, etc Hunger soon after eating Sour taste and sour eructations after every meal Belching large quantities of wind, after eating Very fetid stools and flatus; long, narrow, hard, like a dog's; difficult to expel Great weakness after stool Urine turbid, brown, with red sediment. Lack of sexual power; irresistible desire; involuntary emissions, with lascivious dreams Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long Weeps before menses Leucorrhœa profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses Great drowsiness, especially after meal Vivid dreams of fire; of hæmorrhage Lascivious dreams Goes to sleep late and awakens weak Short naps and frequent wakings |
Touch Physical or mental exertion Twilight Warm food or drink Change of weather From getting wet in hot weather Evening Lying on left or painful side During a thunder-storm Ascending stairs |
In dark Lying on right side Cold food Cold Open air Washing with cold water Sleep. |
| Phloridzin | Fatty degeneration of liver Intermittent fever |
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| Physalis | Languor and muscular weakness Urine acrid, foul, retained, abundant; polyuria Sudden inability to hold urine in women |
Cold camp evening After going heated |
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| Picricum Acidum | Brainfag Sexual excitement Muscular debility Heavy tired feeling Sallow complexion Bitter taste Aversion to food Scanty urine; complete anuria Dribbling micturition Urine contains much indican, granular cylinders and fatty degenerated epithelium. Nightly urging to urinate |
Least exertion especially mental After sleep Wet weather Summer or hot weather |
From cold air Cold water Tight pressure |
| Plumbum Iodatum | Indurations of mammary glands, especially when a
tendency to become inflamed appears; sore and painful Indurations of great hardness and associated with a very dry skin |
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| Plumbum Metallicum | Excessive and rapid emaciation Contractions and boring pain Urine frequent, ineffectual tenesmus; albuminous; low specific gravity; scanty.; emission drop by drop Loss of sexual power |
At night Motion |
Rubbing Hard pressure Physical exertion |
| Podophyllum | Thirst for large quantities of cold water especially adapted to persons of bilious temperament
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In early morning In hot weather During dentition |
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| Rhus Aromatica | Pale, albuminous urine Large quantities of urine of low specific gravity |
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| Squilla | Great urging; much watery urine Involuntary spurting of urine when coughing |
Motion | Rest |
| Secale | Constringent feeling throughout the whole body. Coldness Numbness A useful remedy for old people with shriveled skin-thin, scrawny old women Whole body is pervaded by a sense of great heat Debility, anxiety, emaciation, though appetite and thirst may be excessive 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 |
Heat Warm covering |
Cold Uncovering Rubbing Stretching out limbs |
| Silicea | Imperfect assimilation and consequent defective
nutrition Increased susceptibility to nervous stimuli and exaggerated reflexes. Patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter Lack of vital heat Prostration of mind and body Great sensitiveness to taking cold Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants Want of grit, moral or physical Disgust for meat and warm food. Want of appetite; thirst excessive Sour eructations after eating A milky acrid leucorrhœa, during urination. Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body 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 |
Warmth Wrapping up head Summer In wet or humid weather |
| Syzygium | No other remedy causes in so marked degree the
diminution and disappearance of sugar in the urine Prickly heat in upper part of the body; small red pimples itch violently Great thirsts, weakness, emaciation Very large amount of urine, specific gravity high Diabetic ulceration. |
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| Strychninum Arsenicosum | Prostration Urine scanty, high specific gravity, heavily loaded with glucose |
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| Sulphur | Ebullitions of heat Dislike of water Dry and hard hair and skin Red orifices Sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am Cat-nap sleep Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections Aversion to being washed General offensive character of discharge and exhalations 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 Mucus and pus in urine; parts sore over which it passes Must hurry, sudden call to urinate Great quantities of colorless urine Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore; preceded by headache or suddenly stopped Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep Vivid dreams. 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 |
| Taraxacum | Flatulence Bitter taste and eructations Salivation |
Resting Lying down Sitting |
Touch |
| Tarentula Hispanica | Constriction sensations Formication Extreme restlessness; must keep in constant motion even though walking aggravates Intense sexual excitement Profuse menstruation, with frequent erotic spasms |
Motion Contact Noise Seeing others in trouble. |
In open air Music Bright colors Rubbing affected parts |
| Terebenthina | Urine Scanty, suppressed, odor of violets Drowsiness |
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| Uranium Nitricum | Great emaciation, debility and tendency to
ascites and general dropsy Backache and delayed menses Dry mucous membranes and skin Ravenous appetite; eating followed by flatulence Copious urination Incontinence of urine Burning in urethra, with very acid urine Unable to retain urine without pain |
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| Urea Pura | Urine thin and of low specific gravity | ||
| Vanadium | Tremors; vertigo; hysteria and melancholia Anxious pressure on whole chest |