Warts
Benign, viral, warty skin lesions with a rough papillomatous surface. It is caused by the a common contagious papovavirus.
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Remedy |
Characteristics Symptoms |
Patient Worse by |
Patient Better by |
| Antimonium Crudum | Excessive irritability and
fretfulness
Thickly-coated white tongue, are true guiding symptoms to many forms of disease calling for this remedy Cannot bear heat of sun Tendency to grow fat Pappy taste No thirst Loss of appetite Desire for acids, pickles Thirst in evening and night Eructation tasting of the ingesta Constant belching Bloating after eating Before menses, toothache; menses too early and profuse Leucorrhœa watery; acrid, lumpy Horny warts on hands and soles |
In evening
From heat Acids Wine Water Washing Wet poultices Cold bathing |
In open air
During rest Moist warmth |
| Calcarea Carbonica | Increased local and general
perspiration
Gets out of breath easily A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork 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 Great sensitiveness to cold; partial sweats. Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour Takes cold at every change of weather Persistent sour taste; mouth fills with sour water Offensive smell from mouth 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 Frequent seminal 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 Warts on face and hands |
From
exertion, mental or physical
Ascending Cold in every form Water Washing Moist air Wet weather During full moon Standing While eating |
Dry climate and weather
Lying on painful side |
| Causticum | Broken down seniles
Dark-complexioned and rigid-fibered persons Children are slow to walk Dirty white sallow skin, with warts, especially on the face Emaciation due to disease, worry, etc, and of long standing Burning, rawness, and soreness Warts large, jagged, bleeding easily, on tips of fingers and nose Greasy taste Aversion to sweets Feels as if lime were burned in stomach Worse after eating fresh meat; smoked meat agrees Involuntary urination when coughing, sneezing; expelled very slowly, and sometimes retained; involuntary during first sleep at night; also from slightest excitement Loss of sensibility on passing urine Menses cease at night; flow only during day Leucorrhœa at night, with great weakness Menses delay, late Very drowsy; can hardly keep awake Nocturnal sleeplessness, with dry heat, inquietude |
Dry,
cold winds
In clear fine weather Cold air From motion of carriage |
In
damp, wet weather
Warmth Heat of bed |
| Dulcamara | Results from sitting on cold,
damp ground
Icy coldness Patients living or working in damp, cold basements Aversion to food Burning thirst for cold drinks Must urinate when getting chilled Urine has thick, mucous, purulent sediment Warts on hands Warts, large, smooth, on face and palmar surface of hands |
At night
From cold in general Damp, rainy weather |
From moving about
External warmth |
| Ferrum Picricum | Acts best in dark-haired
patients, plethoric, with sensitive livers
Warts and epithelial growths Humming in ears as from telegraph wires Frequent micturition at night, with full feeling and pressure in rectum Hands covered with warts |
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| Magnesium Sulphuricum | Frequent eructations, tasting
like bad eggs
Thick leucorrhœa, as profuse as the menses, with weary pain in the small of the back and thighs, on moving about Some blood from the vagina between the menses Menstruation returned after fourteen days; the discharge was thick, black, and profuse Menses too early, intermit Warts |
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| Natrum Carbonicum | Hungry at 5 am
Very weak digestion, caused by slightest error of diet Averse to milk Depressed after eating Bitter taste Sudden call to stool; escapes with haste and noise; yellow substance like pulp of orange in discharge Menses late, scanty like meat-washings Leucorrhœal discharge, offensive, irritating preceded by colic Wakes too early in morning Amorous dreams Drowsy during day |
Sitting
From music Summer heat Mental exertion Thunderstorm Least draught Changes of weather Sun |
By moving
By boring in ears and nose |
| Nitricum 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 Leucorrhœa brown, flesh-colored, watery, or stringy, offensive Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with pain in back, hips and thighs Warts, large jagged; bleed on washing |
Evening and night
Cold climate Also hot weather |
While riding in carriage |
| Silicea | Imperfect assimilation and
consequent defective nutrition
Ill effects of vaccination Suppurative processes Silica 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 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 |
| Thuja | Pathological vegetations
condylomate, warty excrescences, spongy tumors
Formation of wart-like excrescences upon mucous and cutaneous surfaces-fig-warts and condylomata Ill-effects of vaccination Hydrogenoid constitutions, whose blood is morbidly hydroscopic, so that damp air and water are inimical Complaints from moonlight Rapid exhaustion and emaciation Left-sided and chilly medicine Complete loss of appetite Dislike for fresh meat and potatoes Rancid eructations after fat food Cannot eat onions Warty excrescences on vulva and perineum Profuse leucorrhœa; thick, greenish Menses scanty, retarded Polypi, tubercles, warts epithelioma, nævi, carbuncles; ulcers, especially in ano-genital region |
At night
From heat of bed At 3 am and 3 pm From cold, damp air After breakfast Fat Coffee Vaccination |
Left side
While drawing up a limb |
| Aceticum Acidum | Great debility, frequent
fainting, dyspnœa, weak heart, vomiting, profuse urination and sweat
Especially indicated in pale, lean persons, with lax, flabby muscles Wasting and debility Salivation Intense burning thirst Cold drinks distress Large quantities of pale urine |
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| Ammonium Carbonicum | 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
Too frequent and profuse menses 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 Acid secretions Prostration from trifles Great appetite, but easily satisfied Frequent desire to urinate; 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 |
| Anacardium Occidentale | Warts | ||
| Anagallis | Possesses power of softening flesh and destroying
warts
More or less irritation in urethra, inclining to coition Urine passes in several streams; must press before it passes |
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| Antimonium Tartaricum | Much drowsiness, debility
and sweat
Sensation of coldness in blood-vessels Trembling of whole body, great prostration and faintnessWarts on glans penis. Thirst for cold water, little and often Desire for apples, fruits, and acids generally Warts Great drowsiness On falling asleep electric-like shocks Irresistible inclination to sleep with nearly all complaints |
In evening
From lying down at night From warmth In damp cold weather From all sour things and milk |
From sitting erect
From eructation and expectoration |
| Arsenicum Bromatum | Syphilitic excrescences | ||
| Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum | Leucorrhœa, with spasmodic contraction of vagina
Sub-involution High blood pressure due to disturbed function of nervous mechanism |
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| Baryta Carbonicum | Specially indicated in infancy
and old age
Scrofulous children, especially if they are backward mentally and physically, are dwarfish, do not grow and develop Take cold easily, and then always have swollen tonsils 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 Hungry, but refuses food 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 After warm food |
Walking in open air |
| Castoreum | Day-blindness; cannot endure the light. Nervous
women who do not recover fully, but are continually irritable, and suffer
from debilitating sweats. Spasmodic affections after debilitating
diseases. Constant yawning. Restless sleep with frightful dreams and
starts
Rounded elevation size of a pea in center of the tongue, with drawing sensation from center to hyoid bone |
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| Castor Equi | Warts on forehead
Warts on breast |
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| Chromium Oxy | |||
| Cinnabaris | Sleepless during night
Prepuce swollen; warts on it which bleed easily |
Lying on right side (feels as if contents of body were being dragged over to that side) | |
| Kali Muriaticum | White or gray coating of
base of tongue
Expectoration of thick, white phlegm Fatty or rich food causes indigestion Flatulence Leucorrhœa; discharge of milky-white mucus, thick, non-irritating, bland |
Rich food
Fats Motion |
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| Kali Permanganatum | Dysmenorrhœa
Septic conditions; tissues infiltrated with tendency to sloughing Fetor of breath |
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| Lycopodium | Older persons, where the skin
shows yellowish spots, earthy complexion, uric acid diathesis, etc
Precocious, weakly children 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 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 Great weakness of digestion 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 Polyuria during the night; heavy red sediment No erectile power; impotence; premature emission Menses too late; last too long, too profuse. 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 |
| Natrum Muriaticum | 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 Hungry, yet loose flesh Heartburn, with palpitation Unquenchable thirst Sweats while eating Craving for salt Aversion to bread, to anything slimy, like oysters, fats Pain just after urinating ; increased, involuntary when walking, coughing, etc; has to wait a long time for it to pass if others are present Emission, even after coitus Menses irregular; usually profuse Leucorrhœa acrid, watery Sleepy in forenoon Nervous jerking during sleep Dreams of robbers Warts on palms of hands |
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 | Feels every change from
dry to wet; cannot even eat plants
growing near water, nor fish
Always feels best in warm, dry air Tendency to warts Thirst for something cold Great size of the fecal mass Urine loaded with bile; brisk-dust sediment excessive secretion Sycotic excrescences; wart-like red lumps all over body |
Music (makes her sad)
Lying on left side Dampness of basement Damp weather |
Dry weather
Pressure Changing position |
| Ranunculus Bulbosus | Shocks throughout the whole body
Sensitive to air and touch Hard excrescences on skin |
Open air
Motion Contact Atmospheric changes Wet, stormy weather Evening Cold air |
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| Sempervivum | Warts and corns | ||
| Sepia | Weakness, yellow complexion,
bearing-down sensation, especially in women, upon whose organism it has
most pronounced effect
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 Taste salty, putrid 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 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 |
By
exercise
Pressure Warmth of bed Hot applications Drawing limbs up Cold bathing After sleep |
| Staphysagria | Sexual sins and excesses
Very sensitive Desire for stimulants Craving for tobacco Canine hunger, even when stomach is full Sensation as if a drop of urine were rolling continuously along the channel Fig-warts pedunculated |
Anger
Indignation Grief Mortification Loss of fluids Onanism Sexual excesses Tobacco Least touch on affected parts |
After breakfast
Warmth Rest at night |
| Sulphur | Heat
and burning, with itching; made worse by heat of bed
Inertia and relaxation of fiber; hence feebleness of tone c Ebullitions of heat, dislike of water, dry and hard hair and skin, red orifices Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections Aversion to being washed Complaints that relapse General offensive character of discharge and exhalations Very red lips and face, flushing easily 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. Water fills the patient up Must hurry, sudden call to urinate Great quantities of colorless urine Menses too late, short, scanty, and difficult; thick, black, acrid, making parts sore; menses preceded by headache or suddenly stopped Leucorrhœa, burning, excoriating Talks, jerks, and twitches during sleep Vivid dreams Wakes up singing 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 |
| Sulphuricum Acidum | Tremor and weakness;
everything must be done in a hurry
Hot flushes, followed by perspiration, with trembling Craving for alcohol; water causes coldness of stomach; must be mixed with liquors Averse to smell of coffee Desire for fresh food Menstruation early and profuse Acrid, burning leucorrhœa, often of bloody mucus |
From excess of heat or cold
In forenoon and evening |
From warmth
Lying on affected side |
| X Ray | Sterility
Lewd dreams Sexual desire lost Warty growths |
In bed
Afternoon Evening and night Open air |