Homeopathy

 

 

Mentals
o Jealous
o Ailments from fright
o Grief
o Anger
o Bad news
o anticipation
o Fruitlessly busy
o Undertakes many things
o Achieves nothing
o Does not persevere

Generals
o Warm blooded
o Better for
 cold
 Sitting erect
 expectoration
o Worse for
 Suppressed eruptions
 Closed room
 After sleep
o Mainly in acute allergic reaction
 Angioneurotic oedema
 Swollen lips
 Laryngospasm
 Suppressed

Past history of anaphylaxis
Asthma
o with hives
o brought on by suppressed skin reactions
o Better for going outside
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Worse from dust
(hence the rubric – amelioration at sea –
asthma – sailors as soon as they come ashore.!)
Also diarrhoea from oysters and milk

 
Indolence & irresolution
Low vitality
Craving for fresh air
Worse for warm sultry weather
Never well since
exhausting disease
Loss of blood
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 Allergic crisis
Hay fever with lacrimation
Symptoms better at night
Better for lying down
Daytime cough






 
Leading mental symptoms
Excitement
Restlessness
Has to do and say everything at once
Hurried busy but disorganised
Anxiety at rest
Ritualistic behaviour (to counter restlessness, impulsiveness and anxiety

Very warm- worse for heating better for cold
Better for open air

Ravenous appetite

Allergic asthma
Acrid mucous and post nasal drainage -> triggers spasm
 








 
Constitution
Typical of all Kali salts
o Conservative
o Regular
o Down to earth
o Black and white on all issues
Perfect bureaucrats
o Goes into fine detail
o Goes to great pain to explain something.
o Everything on a regular basis
Keeps regular Hours
Keeps to weekly routine
o Dinner
o Sex
o Fishing
Goes by the book

Asthma –acute Bronchitis
Sticky mucous

Concomitant sinusitis





 Hypochondria
Superstitious
Hyperventilation
Distress worse than to be expected for the symptoms.
Hysteria
Globus 
 





 
Mentals
o Irritable/
o impatient
o Sensitive to stimulants
o Independent
o Quarrelsome
Generals
o Confused cases
o Allopathic
o Homoeopathic treatment
o Chilly
o Loss of sleep
 Coffee to work
 Alcohol to sleep
o Indolence after meals
o Aversion to restrictions
 Clothes
 Laws
 



Allergic asthma
 Following intense work
 Loss of sleep
 Pollens
 Chemical pollutants
 Excess
o alcohol
o stimulants
 digestive complaint
 wornings worse
 cold dry weather
 winter



Pulsatilla

Mentals

o Affectionate
o Mild timid
o Emotional
o Tears/laughter alternating
o Yielding
o Submissive
o Sympathetic
o Gives to receives
 Some just receive- care sponge

Generals
o Everything alternating
o Fair haired
o Fair skin – burns easily
o Tends to perspire on the one side
o Dry mouth but thirstless
o Chilly yet intolerant of any heat
Desires
o Ice cream (but diarrhoea!)
o Sweets
o Cheese
o Eggs
o Peanut butter
o Cream
Aversed
o Fat ( aggr)
o rich food (aggr)
o Butter

Asthma
o Allergic
 Associated with hay fever
 Conjunctivitis
 Itching eyes
 Clear watery discharge from nose and eyes
 Worse
o in evening
o open air (opposite of usual pulsatilla symptoms)
o cats
o pollen
o ragweed
o Acute infections
 Cold with juicy green discharge from chest and nose
 Worse at night
• Exposure to smoke
• Stuffy room
• Summer
• lying
 Better
• Gentle motion
• cool air with A/c (pollen free cool air)
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Sabadilla

o Very imaginative
o Very chilly craves hot things
o Better for heat
o Worse open air
o Issues with dying and withering
o Thinking about symptoms can bring them on
 Eg flowers-> sneezing
o Asthma
 Worse from sneezing
 Itching of nose and palate
 




Sambucus
o Childhood asthma
o Wakes with
 frightening
 suffocation
 blue face
 sweating
 worse 12mn-3am
 repeated night pattern
o worse
 fruit
 milk

 





Sanguinaria
o Generals
 Warm blooded
 General congestion
 Dry mucous membranes
 Desires very spicy foods
 Worse in daytime
 Even worse in the sun
o Allergy
 Summer colds
 Asthma from perfumes
 Reflux oesophagitis
 Pain on R side of chest

 






Spongia tosta


i.e .it is best suited to
blue-eyed,
fair-haired patients
Children with
fair complexion,
o Opposite to Iodum,(where it acts best on brunettes and dark eyes.)
lax fiber,
swollen glands.
scrofulous disorders
often indicated with women of lax tissue
children.

Mind symptoms
Timidity, fear and terror are leading mental symptoms.
Any excitement and thinking of symptoms aggravate.
Anxiety, fear of death from suffocation.
Every excitement increases the cough.
Fear of future, tired of life. Timidity, fear and terror.
Weeps with dreams, whooping cough, fever, sweat.
Despondent about loss of sexual power.
Obstinate and improper behavior.
Irresistible desire to sing with excessive mirth, followed by sadness.

Respiratory Tract
Anxious, gasping breathing.
Feels as if he had to breathe through a dry sponge.

Great dryness of all air-passages
larynx sensitive to touch .
Respiration short, panting, difficult, feeling as if plug in larynx.
Cough abates after eating or drinking, especially warm drinks.
Irrepressible cough from a spot deep in chest, as if raw and sore
Cough leads to asthma
Bronchial catarrh with wheezing,
asthmatic cough, worse cold air with profuse expectoration and suffocation.
Asthma must throw head back, worse full moon.