Lyme Disease
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Aconitum Napellus | Fear, anxiety; anguish of mind and body
Physical and mental restlessness Acute, sudden and violent invasion with fever Does not want to be touched Sudden and great sinking of strength Burning in parts Tingling, coldness and numbness Tension in arteries Fullness in head with heavy, pulsating, hot, bursting, burning, undulating sensation Burning headache, as if brain were moved by boiling water Tongue coated white Thirst for cold water Bitter taste for every things except water Urine scanty, red, hot, painful Menses too profuse, too protracted , late Rheumatic inflammation of joints; worse at night; red shining swelling, very sensitive Hip joint and thigh feel lame, esp after lying Knees unsteady; disposition of foot to turn Weak and lax ligaments of all joints Painless cracking of all joints Bright red hypothenar eminences on both hands Skin red, hot, swollen, dry, burning Cold wave passes through him Thirst and restlessness always present during fever Sweats drenching on parts lain on, relieving all symptoms Anxious dreams |
Dry, cold weather
Draught of cold air Checked perspiration Very hot weather In warm room In evening and night Lying on affected side From music From tobacco smoke |
In open air |
| Arbutus Andrachne | Inflammation of large joints
Clearer urine Vesicle symptoms on skin Symptoms shift from skin to joints |
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| Argentum Metallicum | Emaciation
A gradual drying up Desire for fresh air Difficult respiration Sensation of expansion Left sided pains Acts on joints and their components, bones, cartilages and ligaments Dull paroxysmal neuralgia over left side of head, gradually increasing and ceasing suddenly Head feels empty, hollow Urine profuse, turbid, sweet odor Rheumatic affections of joints, esp elbow and knee Legs weak and trembling, worse descending stairs Swelling of ankles Leucorrhoea foul and excoriating |
From touch
Towards noon |
Open air
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| Asclepias Syriaca | Acute rheumatic inflammation of large joints
Feels as if a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple Constriction across forehead Increased urine with increase of specific gravity |
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| Bryonia | Stitching, tearing pains; worse by motion, better
rest
Dry mucus membranes Irritable Pressive headache; bursting, slitting headache, as if everything would be pressed out; as if hit by a hammer from within; worse motion, stooping, opening eyes Headache becomes seated in occiput Headache; worse motion, even of eye balls Frontal headache, frontal; sinuses involved Dry, parched lips and mouth Excessive thirst; thirst for large draughts Bitter taste Sensitive epigastrium with a feeling of stone in stomach Stools large, dry and hard Rheumatic pains and swellings Indicated esp for patients with constitution of robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness Physical weakness, all pervading apathy Slowly developing complaints Urine red, brown, like beer; scanty, hot Menses too early, too profuse Knees stiff and painful Joints red, swollen, hot with stitches and tearing; worse on least motion Every spot is painful on pressure Skin yellow; pale, swollen, dropsical; hot and painful Easy, profuse and sour perspiration during fever |
Right side
Evening Open air Warm weather after cold days Warm drinks Warmth Any motion Morning Eating Exertion Touch |
Lying on painful side
Pressure Rest Cold things |
| Drosera |
Pains about hip joints Coldness of left half of face, with stinging pains and dry heat of right half Aversion to acids Paralytic pains in the coxo-femoral joint and thighs Stiffness in joints of feet All limbs feel lame Bed feels too hard Internal chilliness; shivering, with hot face, cold hands, no thirst |
After midnight
Lying down On getting warm in bed Drinking Singing Laughing |
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| Mercurius | Rheumatic pains around joints
Tremors everywhere Weakness with ebullitions Sensitive to heat and cold Breath, excretion and body smell foul Band feeling about head One sided tearing headaches Great thirst with moist mouth Intense thirst for cold drinks Menses profuse Leucorrhoea excoriating, bloody and greenish lacerating pain in joints Skin almost constantly moist Creeping chilliness; worse in the evening and into night Profuse perspiration without relief during fever |
At night
From warmth of bed From damp, cold, rainy weather During perspiration Rest Lying on right side Warm room Warm bed |
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| Mimosa Humilis | Lancinations in back and limbs
Swelling and redness of left ankle with tension and lancinations Sensation as if head is enlarged Whizzing in ears |
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| Rhus Tox | Rheumatic pains; tearing asunder pains; rheumatism
in cold season
Typhoid type of fever Affects fibrous tissues markedly- joints, tendons, sheaths Stiffness Motion always limbers up and feels better for a time from change of position Feels as if a board were strapped on the forehead Heavy head Brain feels loose and as if struck against skull on walking or rising Headache in occiput; painful to touch Pain in forehead and proceeds thence backwards Pain in maxillary joint Desire for milk Great thirst with dry mouth and thirst Drowsy after eating Dark, turbid, high colored, scanty urine with white sediments Menses early, profuse, prolonged and acrid Hot, painful swelling of joints Tearing pains in tendons, ligaments and fascioe Limbs stiff, paralyzed Cold fresh air is not tolerated; it makes the skin painful Pain along ulnar nerve Tearing down thighs Tenderness about knee joints Skin red, swollen; itching intense Dreams of great exertion |
During sleep
Cold Wet, rainy weather After rain At night During rest Drenching When lying on back or right side |
Warm, dry weather
Motion Walking Change of position Rubbing Warm applications From stretching limbs |
| Sticta | General feeling of dullness and malaise, as
when a cold is coming
Dull heavy pressure in forehead Rheumatic stiffness of neck Rheumatic pain in right shoulder joint, deltoid and biceps Swelling, heat, redness of joints Spot of inflammation and redness over affected joint Pain severe and drawing Shooting pains in knees |
Sudden change of temperature | |
| Veratrum Viride | Esp adapted to full blooded, plethoric person
Great prostration Rheumatism of heart Bloated livid face Zig zag temperature Low blood pressure Pain from nape of neck in head; can not hold head up Tongue white or yellow, with red streak down the middle Thirsty Urine scanty with cloudy sediment Severe pain in joints and muscles Acute rheumatism with fever Erythema of skin Hot sweating |