Pulmonary Hypertension
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Sulphur | Oppression and burning sensation in chest Difficult respiration; wants windows open Chest feels heavy; stitches, with heart feeling too large and palpitating pleuritic exudations Stitching pains shooting through to the back, worse lying on back or breathing deeply Oppression, as of a load on chest Dyspnœa in middle of night, relieved by sitting up Pulse more rapid in morning than in evening Ebullitions of heat, dislike of water, dry and hard hair and skin, red orifices, sinking feeling at stomach about 11 am, and cat-nap sleep Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections Aversion to being washed Complaints that relapse General offensive character of discharge and exhalations Often great use in beginning the treatment of chronic cases and in finishing acute ones 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 Frequent micturition, especially at night Must hurry, sudden call to urinate Great quantities of colorless urine Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep Vivid dreams Wakes up singing Wakes frequently, and becomes wide awake suddenly 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 |
| Lycopodium | Dyspnœa Tensive, constrictive, burning pain in chest Especially for ailments gradually developing, functional power weakening, with failures of the digestive powers, where the function of the liver is seriously disturbed Mild temperaments of lymphatic constitution, with catarrhal tendencies; older persons, where the skin shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc; also precocious, weakly children Symptoms characteristically run from right to left, acts especially on right side of body, and are worse from about 4 to 8 pm. 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 Patient is 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 Bad odor from mouth 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 Stool hard, difficult, small, incomplete Polyuria during the night; heavy red sediment No erectile power; impotence; premature emission Menses too late; last too long, too profuse Vagina dry; coition painful 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 |
| Phosphorus | Congestion of lungs Burning pains, heat and oppression of chest Tightness across chest; great weight on chest Sharp stitches in chest; respiration quickened, oppressed Much heat in chest Tall, slender persons, narrow chested, with thin, transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous debility, emaciation, amative tendencies, seem to be under the special influence of Phosphorus Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odors, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms Suddenness of symptoms, sudden prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains Thirst for very cold water 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' Great weakness after stool Lack of 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 meals 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 |
| Silicea | Stitches in chest through to back 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 Discharge of blood between menstrual periods Increased menses, with paroxysms of icy coldness over whole body Night-walking; gets up while asleep 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 |
| Arsenicum Album | Unable to lie down; fears suffocation Air-passages constricted Burning in chest. Darting pain through upper third of right lung Wheezing respiration 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. 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 milk, acids and coffee Heartburn; gulping up of acid and bitter substances which seem to excoriate the throat Long-lasting eructations Stools small, offensive, dark, with much prostration Urine scanty, burning, involuntary; albuminous Menses too profuse and too soon Leucorrhœa, acrid, burning, offensive, thin Swelling of feet 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. |
Wet weather After midnight From cold, cold drinks, or food Seashore Right side |
From heat From head elevated Warm drinks |
| Lachesis | Upper part of windpipe very susceptible to touch Sensation of suffocation and strangulation on lying down, particularly when anything is around throat; compels patient to spring from bed and rush for open window Feels he must take a deep breath Cramp-like distress in præcordial region Breathing almost stops on falling asleep Palpitation, with fainting spells, especially during climacteric Constricted feeling causing palpitation, with anxiety Irregular beats 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 Constipated, offensive stool Menses too short, too feeble; pains all relieved by the flow Intense excitement of sexual organs 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 |
| Nux Vomica | Shallow respiration. Oppressed breathing Typical Nux 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, overstudy, and close application to business, with its cares and anxieties Seeks stimulants, coffee, wine, possibly in excess Takes preferably rich and stimulating food Is pre-eminently a male remedy Zealous fiery temperament Easily chilled, avoid open air, etc Always seems to be out of tune; inharmonious spasmodic action Sour, bitter eructations Desire for stimulants Loves fats and tolerates them well Difficult belching of gas Frequent calls to urinate; little and often Easily excited sexual desire Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular, blood black 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 |
| Pulsatilla | Pressure upon the chest and soreness Pain as from ulcer in middle of chest Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation when lying on left side Smothering sensation on lying down Is pre-eminently a female remedy, especially for mild, gentle, yielding disposition; sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory Seeks the open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly Symptoms ever changing Thirstless, peevish, and chilly When first serious impairment of health is referred to age of puberty Great sensitiveness Wants the head high; feels uncomfortable with only one pillow Lies with hands above head Much sweet saliva Alternations of taste, bitter, bilious, greasy, salty, foul Loss of taste Desire for tonics Averse to fat food, warm food, and drink Eructations; taste of food remains a long time; after ices, fruits, pasty Flatulence Dislikes butter Heartburn No two stools alike; two or three normal stools daily Tardy menses; too late, scanty, thick, dark, clotted, changeable, intermittent Leucorrhœa acrid, burning, creamy Wide awake in the evening; first sleep restless; wakes languid, unrefreshed; irresistible sleepiness in afternoon. Knees swollen, with tearing, drawing pains Feet red, inflamed, swollen. Legs feel heavy and weary |
From heat Rich fat food After eating Towards evening Warm room Lying on left or on painless side When allowing feet to hang down |
Open air Motion Cold applications Cold food and drinks, though not thirsty |
| Bryonia | Frequent desire to take a long breath; must
expand lungs Difficult, quick respiration; worse every movement; caused by stitches in chest Heaviness beneath the sternum extending towards the right shoulder Stitches in cardiac region Cannot sit up; gets faint and sick Hot swelling of feet The general character of the pain here produced is a stitching, tearing; worse by motion, better rest. These characteristic stitching pains, greatly aggravated by any motion, are found everywhere, but especially in the chest; worse pressure Mucous membranes are all dry Patient is irritable; has vertigo from raising the head, pressive headache; dry, parched lips, mouth; excessive thirst, bitter taste, sensitive epigastrium, and feeling of a stone in the stomach; stools large, dry, hard Especially suited for the constitution of a robust, firm fiber and dark complexion, with tendency to leanness and irritability Physical weakness, all-pervading apathy Complaints apt to develop slowly Abnormal hunger, loss of taste Thirst for large draughts 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 |
Right side Evening Open air Warm weather after cold days Warm drinks Warmth Any motion Morning Eating Hot weather Exertion Touch
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Lying on painful side Pressure Rest Cold things |
| Calcarea Carbonica | Extreme dyspnœa Suffocating spells; tightness, burning and soreness in chest; worse going upstairs or slightest ascent, must sit down Sharp pains in chest from before backwards Chest very sensitive to touch, percussion, or pressure Longing for fresh air Swelling of joints, especially knee Increased local and general perspiration Fleeting chest pains Gets out of breath easily A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork 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, the so-called leuco-phlegmatic temperament; affections caused by working in water Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats. Patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour Persistent sour taste Aversion to meat, boiled things; craving for indigestible things-chalk, coal, pencils; also for eggs, salt and sweets Milk disagrees Frequent sour eructations; sour vomiting Dislike of fat Loss of appetite when overworked Heartburn and loud belching Ravenous hunger Repugnance to hot food. Thirst; longing for cold drinks Aggravation while eating Frequent emissions; increased desire; semen emitted too soon Coition followed by weakness and irritability Menses too early, too profuse, too long, with vertigo, toothache and cold, damp feet; the least excitement causes their return Leucorrhœa, milky 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 |
| Natrum Muriaticum | Stitches all over chest Shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs 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 Unquenchable thirst Sweats while eating Craving for salt Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats 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 Sleepless from grief |
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 |
| Sepia | Oppression of chest morning and evening Dyspnœa; worse, after sleep; better, rapid motion Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation, especially in women, upon whose organism it has most pronounced effect Pains extend down to back, chills easily Upward tendency of its symptoms Easy fainting "Ball" sensation in inner parts Sepia acts best on brunettes All pains are from below up Feels cold even in warm room Taste salty, putrid Feeling of goneness; not relieved by eating Nausea at smell or sight of food Everything tastes too salty Longing for vinegar, acids, and pickles Loathes fat Red, adhesive, sand in urine Involuntary urination, during first sleep Bearing-down sensation as if everything would escape through vulva; must cross limbs to prevent protrusion, or press against vulva Leucorrhœa yellow, greenish; with much itching Menses Too late and scanty, irregular; early and profuse; sharp clutching pains |
Forenoons and evenings Washing Laundry-work Dampness Left side After sweat Cold air Before thunder-storm After milk, especially when boiled. |
By exercise Pressure Warmth of bed, hot applications Drawing limbs up Cold bathing After sleep |
| Carbo Vegetabilis | Deep, rough voice, failing on slight exertion Hoarseness; worse, evenings, talking; evening oppression of breathing, sore and raw chest Breath cold; must be fanned 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 Patient may be almost lifeless, but the head is hot; 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 Sense of weight, as in the head (occiput), eyes and eyelids, before the ears, in the stomach, and elsewhere in the body; putrid (septic) condition of all its affections, coupled with a burning sensation General venous stasis, bluish skin, limbs cold Rancid, sour, or putrid eructations Digestion slow; food putrefies before it digests Aversion to milk, meat, and fat things The simplest food distresses Cannot bear tight clothing around waist and abdomen 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 |
| Veratrum Album | Hoarse, weak voice Collapse, with extreme coldness, blueness, and weakness Cold perspiration on the forehead, with nearly all complaints Voracious appetite Thirst for cold water, but is vomited as soon as swallowed Averse to warm food. Craves fruit, juicy and cold things, ice, salt Menses too early; profuse and exhausting |
At night Wet, cold weather |
Walking Warmth |
| Carboneum Sulphuratum | Sensitive patients worse cold, wasted muscles, and
skin and mucous membranes anæsthetic. Lack of vital heat Desire lost, parts atrophied; frequent profuse emissions Deep morning sleep with anxious, vexatious dreams |
After breakfast Bathing Warm, damp, weather
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In open air |
| Mercurius | Soreness from fauces to sternum Cannot lie on right side Stitches from lower lobe of right lung to back Dropsical swelling of feet and legs Tremors everywhere Weakness with ebullitions and tremblings from least exertion A human "thermometer"; sensitive to heat and cold Breath, excretions and body smell foul Sweetish metallic taste Salivary secretions greatly increased; bloody and viscid; saliva fetid, coppery speech difficult on account of trembling tongue. Great thirst, with moist mouth Putrid eructations Intense thirst for cold drinks Weak digestion, with continuous hunger Frequent urging to urinate Urine dark, scanty, bloody, albuminous Menses profuse, with abdominal pains Leucorrhœa excoriating, greenish and bloody; sensation of rawness in parts |
At night Wet, damp weather Lying on right side Perspiring Warm room and warm bed Rainy weather |
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| Ammonium Carbonicum | Chest feels tired Much oppression in breathing; worse after any effort, and entering warm room, or ascending even a few steps Slow labored, stertorous breathing; bubbling sound Big toe painful and swollen Often in rather stout women who are always tired and weary, take cold easily, suffer from cholera-like symptoms before menses, lead a sedentary life, have a slow reaction generally, and are disposed to frequent use of the smelling-bottle Fat patients with weak heart, wheezing, feel suffocated Very sensitive to cold air Great aversion to water; cannot bear to touch it Heaviness in all organs Uncleanness in bodily habits Swelling of parts, glands, etc Acid secretions Prostration from trifles Great dryness of mouth and throat Taste sour; metallic Great appetite, but easily satisfied Frequent desire; involuntary at night Erection without desire; seminal emissions Leucorrhœa burning, acrid, watery Aversion to the other sex Menses too frequent, profuse, early, copious, clotted, black; colicky pains, and hard, difficult stool, with fatigue, especially of thighs; yawning and chilliness Sleepiness during the day Starts from sleep strangling |
Evenings From cold, wet weather Wet applications Washing During 3 to 4 am During menses |
Lying on painful side and on stomach In dry weather |
| Conium | Want of breath on taking the least exercise;
oppressed breathing, constriction of chest; pains in chest Trouble at the change of life, old and bachelors General feeling as if bruised by blows Great debility in the morning in bed Weakness of body and mind, trembling, and palpitation Tremulous weakness after every stool Much difficulty in voiding urine; it flows and stops again Desire increased; power decreased 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 |
| Kali Carbonicum | Cutting pain in chest; worse lying on right side Hoarseness and loss of voice Leaning forward relieves chest symptoms Coldness of chest Soft pulse, coldness, general depression, and very characteristic stitches, which may be felt in any part of the body, or in connection with any affection All Kali pains are sharp and cutting; nearly all better by motion. Sensitive to every atmospheric change, and intolerance of cold weather. Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic tendencies Sweat, backache, and weakness Throbbing pains Pains from within out, and of stinging character "Giving-out" sensation Flatulence Desire for sweets Sour eructations Constant feeling as if stomach were full of water. Disgust for food Anxiety felt in stomach Obliged to rise several times at night to urinate Complaints from coition; deficient sexual instinct; excessive emissions, followed by weakness Menses early, profuse or too late, pale and scanty, with soreness about genitals; pains from back pass down through gluteal muscles, with cutting in abdomen White swelling of knee Drowsy after eating Wakes about two o'clock and cannot sleep again |
After coition In cold weather From soup and coffee In morning about three o'clock Lying on left and painful side |
In warm weather, though moist During day While moving about. |
| Nitricum Acidum | Hoarseness Soreness at lower end of sternum Short breath on going upstairs Sticking pains Acts best on the dark complexioned and past middle life Pains appear and disappear quickly 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 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 |