Keloid
|
Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Fluoricum Acidum | Acts especially upon lower
tissues, and indicated in deep, destructive processes, bedsores,
ulcerations, varicose veins, and ulcers
Patient is compelled to move about energetically Complaints of old age, or the prematurely aged, with weak, distended blood vessels Itching of cicatrice Feels as if burning vapor were emitted from pores Itching especially of the orifices, and in spots, worse warmth Profuse, sour, offensive perspiration Sour eructations Averse to coffee, wants fancy dishes Desire for highly seasoned food Craves cold water, hungry Warm drinks produce diarrhœa Sexual passion and desire increased with erections at night, during sleep Urine scanty, dark Menses copious, frequent, too long Copious and excoriating leucorrhœa |
Warmth
Morning Warm drinks |
Cold
While walking |
| Graphites | Especially active in patients
who are rather stout, of fair complexion, with tendency to skin affections
and constipation
Fat, chilly, and costive Delayed menstrual history Take cold easily Tendency to obesity Aids absorption of cicatricial tissue; induration of tissue Early stage of keloid and fibroma Eruptions, oozing out a sticky exudation Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates 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 |
| Nitricum Acidum | Its
special seat of action the outlets of the body where the mucous membrane
and skin meet; these pain as from splinters
Sticking pains Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life Pains appear and disappear quickly All discharges very offensive 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 Urine bloody and albuminous Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with pain in back, hips and thighs Black pores on face, papules worse on forehead |
Evening and night
Cold climate Also hot weather |
While riding in carriage |
| Sabina | Black pores in skin
Heartburn Desire for lemonade Bitter taste Increased sexual desire Menses profuse, bright Leucorrhœa after menses, corrosive, offensive |
From
least motion
Heat Warm air |
In cool fresh air |
| Silicea | Stimulate the organism to
re-absorb fibrotic conditions and scar-tissue
Organic changes; it is deep and slow in action Periodical states; abscesses, quinsy, headaches, spasms, epilepsy, feeling of coldness before an attack Keloid growth Suppurative processes Ripens abscesses since it promotes suppuration 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 Ailments attended with pus formation. 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 Discharge of blood between menstrual periods 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 Scars suddenly become painful |
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 |