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AZADIRACHTA INDICA   Margosa Bark An afternoon fever and rheumatic pains in various parts are caused by this remedy. Pain in sternum and ribs, in back and shoulders and extremities; heat, pricking and aching in hands, especially palms, fingers, also toes. Head Forgetful; giddy on rising; head aches, scalp sensitive; eyes burn, pain in right eyeball. Fever Slight chill, afternoon fever, glowing heat in face, hands, and feet, copious sweat on upper part of body. Relationship Compare:   Cedron; Natr mur; Arsenic .

AVENA SATIVA   Common Oat Has a selective action on brain and nervous system, favorably influencing their nutritive function. Nervous exhaustion, sexual debility, and the morphine habit call for this remedy in rather material dosage. Best tonic for debility after exhausting diseases. Nerve tremors of the aged; chorea, paralysis agitans, epilepsy. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Rheumatism of heart.   Colds . Acute coryza (20 drop doses in hot water hourly for a few doses). Alcoholism. Sleeplessness, especially of alcoholics. Bad effects of   Morphine   habit. Nervous states of many female troubles. Mind Inability to keep mind on any one subject. Head Nervous headache at menstrual period, with burning at top of head. Occipital headache, with phosphatic urine. Female Amenorrhœa and dysmenorrhœa, with weak circulation. Male Spermatorrhœa; impotency; after too much indulgence. Extremities Numbness of limbs, as if para...

AURUM MURIATICUM NATRONATUM   Sodium Chloroaurate This remedy has a most pronounced effect on the female organs, and most of its clinical application has been based thereon. Has more power over uterine tumors than any other remedy (Burnett). Psoriasis syphilitica. Periosteal swelling on lower jaw. Swelling of testicle. High blood pressure due to disturbed function of nervous mechanism. Arterio-sclerosis Syphilitic ataxia. Tongue Burning; stitches, and induration. Old cases of rheumatism and gouty pains. Hepatic cirrhosis. Interstitial nephritis. Female Indurated cervix. Palpitation of young girls. Coldness in abdomen. Chronic metritis and prolapsus. Uterus fills up whole pelvis. Ulceration of neck of womb and vagina. Leucorrhœa, with spasmodic contraction of vagina. Ovaries indurated. Ovarian dropsy. Sub-involution. Ossified uterus. Dose Second and third trituration.

AURUM METALLICUM   Metallic Gold Given full play, Aurum develops in the organism, by attacking the blood, glands, and bone, conditions bearing striking resemblance to mercurial and syphilitic infections; and it is just for such deteriorations of the bodily fluids and alterations in the tissues, that Aurum assumes great importance as a remedy. Like the victim of syphilis, mental states of great depression are produced by it. Hopeless, despondent, and   great desire to commit suicide . Every opportunity is sought for self-destruction. Exostosis, caries, nightly bone-pains, especially cranial, nasal, and palatine. Glands swollen in scrofulous subjects. Palpitation and congestions. Ascites often in conjunction with heart affections. Frequently indicated in secondary syphilis and effects of mercury. This use of gold as an anti-venereal and anti-scrofulous remedy is very old, but has been well-nigh forgotten by the old school until rediscovered and placed on its scien...

ASTRAGALUS MOLLISSIMUS   Purple or Woolly Loco-weed Affects animals like effects of alcohol, tobacco and morphine in man. First stage, period of hallucination or mania with defective eye sight during which the animal performs all sorts of antics. After acquiring a taste for the plant it refuses every other kind of food. Second stage brings emaciation, sunken eyeballs, lusterless hair and feeble movements-after a few months dies as from starvation (U. S. Dept. Agriculture). Irregularities in gait-paralytic affections. Loss of muscular coordination. Head Fullness in right temple and upper jaw. Pain over left eyebrow. Painful facial bones. Dizzy. Pressive pain in temples. Pain and pressure in maxillæ. Stomach Weakness and emptiness. Burning in œsophagus and stomach. Extremities Purring sensation in right foot outer side from heel to toe. Icy coldness of left calf. Relationship Compare:   Aragallus Lamberti -White Loco-Weed-Rattleweed...

ASTERIAS RUBENS   Red Starfish A remedy for the sycotic diathesis; flabby, lymphatic constitution, flabby with red face. Lancinating pains. Nervous disturbances, neuralgia, chorea, and hysteria come within the range of this remedy. Has been used for cancer of the breast, and has an unquestioned influence over cancer disease. Excitement in both sexes. Head Cannot bear contradiction. Shocks in brain; throbbing;   heat in head, as if surrounded by hot air . Face Red. Pimples on side of nose, chin and mouth.   Disposition to pimples at adolescence . Female Colic and other sufferings cease with appearance of flow. Breasts swell and pain in breasts; worse left. Ulceration with sharp pains, piercing to scapulæ. Pains down left arm to fingers, worse motion. Excitement of sexual instinct with nervous agitation. Nodes and indurations of mammary gland, dull aching, neuralgic pain in this region ( Conium ). Chest Breasts swollen, indur...

ASTACUS FLUVIATILIS   Crawfish (CANCER ASTACUS) Skin symptoms most important.   Urticaria . Skin Nettle-rash over whole body. Itching. Crusta lactea, with enlarged lymphatic glands. Erysipelas, and   liver affections with nettle-rash . Swelling of cervical glands. Jaundice. Fever Inward chilliness; very sensitive to air, worse uncovering; violent fever, with headache. Relationship Compare:   Bombyx -Caterpillar-Itching of whole body (Urticaria).   Apis; Rhus; Nat m; Homar . Dose Third to thirtieth potency.

ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS    Common Garden Asparagus Its marked and immediate action on the urinary secretion is well known. It causes weakness and cardiac depression with dropsy. Rheumatic pains. Especially about left shoulder and heart. Head Confused. Coryza, with profuse, thin fluid. Aching in forehead and root of nose. Migrainious morning headache with scotoma. Throat feels rough, with hawking copious tenacious mucus throat. Urine Frequent, with fine stitches in orifice of urethra; burning; of peculiar odor. Cystitis, with pus, mucus and tenesmus. Lithiasis. Heart Palpitation, with oppression of chest . Pulse intermits, weak, pain about left shoulder and heart, associated with bladder disturbances. Great oppression in breathing. Hydrothorax. Extremities Rheumatic pain in back, especially near shoulder and limbs. Pain at acromion process of left scapula under clavicle and down arm, with feeble pulse. Relationship Antidote: ...

ASIMINA TRILOBA   American Papaw Produces a series of symptoms much like scarlet fever; sore throat, fever, vomiting, scarlet eruption; tonsils and submaxillary glands enlarged, with diarrhœa. Fauces red and swollen, face swollen. Desire for ice-cold things.   Hoarseness . Languid, drowsy irritable. Acne. Itching in evening on undressing. Relationship Compare:   Capsic; Bellad .

ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA   Pleurisy-root Its action on the chest muscles is most marked and has been verified. Sick headache, with flatulence in stomach and bowels. Dyspepsia. Bronchitis and pleurisy come within its range. Catarrhal states from cold and damp weather. Irritation of larynx with huskiness; grip, with pleuritic pain. Respiratory Respiration painful, especially at base of left lung. Dry cough; throat constricted; causes pain in head and abdomen. Pain in chest; shooting downward from left nipple. A general eliminative remedy, acting specially on the sudoriparous glands. Chest pains are relieved by bending forward. Spaces between ribs close to sternum tender. Lancinating pain between shoulders. Catarrh, with frontal headache, and sticky yellow discharge. Stomach Fullness, pressure, weight. Flatulence after meals. Sensitive to tobacco. Rectum Catarrhal dysentery, with rheumatic pains all over . Stools smell like rotten eggs. Extremitie...

ASCLEPIAS CORNUTI   Silk-weed (ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA) Seems to act especially on nervous system and urinary organs. A remedy for dropsy, hepatic, renal or cardiac and post-scarlatinal; causes diaphoresis and augments the urinary secretion. Acute rheumatic inflammation of large joints. Intermittent, pressing-down uterine pains. Head Feels as if   a sharp instrument were thrust through from temple to temple . Constriction across forehead. Nervous headache, after suppressed perspiration, followed by   increased urine, with increase of specific gravity . Headache from retention of effete matters in system. Relationship Compare:   Asclepias Vincetoxicum .--Swallow-wart.-- Cynanchum --(A gastro-intestinal irritant, producing vomiting and purgation).--(Useful in dropsy, diabetes, great thirst, profuse urination). Dose Tincture.

ASARUM EUROPAEUM   European Snake-root (ASARUM EUROPUM) A remedy for nervous affections, loss of energy, with excessive   erethism. Scratching on silk or linen or paper unbearable . Pains and spasmodic muscular actions. Nervous deafness and asthenopia. Cold shivers from any emotion. Feels as if parts were pressed together. Tension and contractive sensations.   Always feels cold . Mind Thoughts vanish, with drawing pressure in forehead.   Sensibility increased, even from mere imagination . Head Compressive pain. Tension of scalp; hair painful ( China ). Coryza, with sneezing. Eyes Feel stiff; burn; feel cold. Better, in cold air or water; worse, sunlight and wind. Darting pains in eyes after operations. Asthenopia. Ears Sensation as if plugged up. Catarrh with deafness. Heat of external ear. Noises. Stomach Loss of appetite, flatulence, eructation, and vomiting.   Desire for alcoholic drinks . Smoking tobacco...

ASA FOETIDA   Gum of the Stinkasand (ASAFOETIDA) The flatulence and spasmodic contraction of stomach and œsophagus with reverse peristalsis are the most marked symptoms. In its selection, its relation to the hysterical and hypochondriacal patients, must be borne in mind. Besides these superficial symptoms, it has been found to affect favorably deep ulcerations, caries of bones, especially in the syphilitic organism; here the   extreme sensitiveness   and terrible throbbing, nightly pains, guiding to its use. Head Irritable; complains of her troubles; sensitive. Boring above eyebrows.   Pressive pain from within outward . Eyes Orbital neuralgia; better, pressure and rest. Iritis and intraocular inflammations, with boring, throbbing pains at night. Stitches under left frontal eminences. Boring pains in and around eyes. Syphilitic iritis. Superficial corneal ulcer with digging pains; worse at night. Ears Offensive otorrhœa, with bo...

ARUNDO MAURITANICA   Reed (ARUNDO) A remedy for catarrhal states. Hay-fever. Head Itching; falling off of hair; roots of hair painful. Pustules. Pain in occiput, extends to right ciliary region. Deep seated pain in sides of head. Ears Burning and itching in auditory canals. Eczema behind ears. Nose Hay-fever begins with burning and   itching of palate   and conjunctiva.   Annoying itching in the nostrils and roof of the mouth   ( Wyethia ). Coryza; loss of smell ( Nat mur ). Sneezing,   itching of nostrils . Mouth Burning and itching; bleeding of gums. Ulcers and exfoliations in the commissures. Fissures in tongue. Stomach Coldness in stomach. Longing for acids. Abdomen Movement as from something alive. Flatulence pain at pubic region. Stool Greenish. Burning at anus. Diarrhœa of nursing children ( Cham; Calc phos ). Urine Burning. Red sediment ( Lyc ). Male Pain in sperm...

ARUM TRIPHYLLUM   Jack-in-the-Pulpit Arum maculatum, Italicum, Dracontium, have the same action as the Triphyllum. They all contain an irritant poison, causing inflammation of mucous surfaces and destruction of tissue.   Acridity   is the keynote of the kind of action characteristic of Arum. Head Bores head in pillow. Headache from too warm clothing, from hot coffee. Eyes Quivering of upper eyelids, especially left. Nose Soreness of nostrils.   Acrid, excoriating discharge , producing raw sores.   Nose obstructed; must breathe through mouth. Boring in the nose . Coryza; discharge blood-streaked, watery. Nose completely stopped, with fluent, acrid discharge. Hay-fever, with pain over root of nose. Large scabs high up on right side of nose. Face feels chapped, as if from cold wind; feels hot.   Constant picking at nose until it bleeds . Mouth Raw feeling at roof and palate . Lips and soft palate sore and burning....

ARUM DRACONTIUM   Green Dragon A remedy for Pharyngitis with sore, raw and tender throat. Head Heavy; shooting pain in ears, aching pain behind right ear. Throat Dry, sore, worse swallowing. Raw and tender. Continued disposition to clear throat. Croupy, hoarse cough with sore throat. Urinary Irresistible desire to pass urine, burns and smarts. Respiratory Hoarseness; excess of mucus in larynx. Asthmatic at night. Expectoration thick, heavy. Relationship Arum Italicum   (Brain-fag, with headache in occipital region).   Arum maculatum (inflammation and ulceration of mucous membranes. Nasal irritation with polypus). Dose First potency.

ARTEMISIA VULGARIS   Mugwort Has some reputation as a remedy for epileptic conditions, and convulsive diseases of childhood and girls at puberty. Locally and internally is injurious to eyes.   Petit mal . Epilepsy without aura; after fright and other violent emotions and after masturbation. Several convulsions close together. Somnambulism. Gets up at night and works, remembers nothing in the morning ( Kali phos ). Head Drawn back by spasmodic twitchings. Mouth drawn to left. Congestion of brain. Eyes Colored light produces dizziness . Pain and blurring of vision; better; rubbing; worse, using eyes. Female Profuse menses. Violent uterine contractions. Spasms during menses. Fever Profuse sweat,   smelling like garlic . Relationship Compare:   Absinth; Cina; Cicuta . Dose First to third potency. Said to act better when given with wine.

ARSENICUM SULPHURATUM FLAVUM   Yellow Sulphuret of Arsenic. Orpiment (ARSENIC TRISULPH.) Needle pricks from within outwards in chest; also on forehead, right side. Sticking behind ear. Difficult respiration. Skin chafed about genitals. Leucoderma and squamous syphilides. Sciatica and pain around the knee. Relationship Arsenic sulph rub   (influenza with intense catarrhal symptoms, great prostration and high temperature, purulent discharges, psoriasis, acne,   and sciatica . Chilly even before a fire. Itching in various parts. Pellagra). Dose Third trituration.

ARSENICUM METALLICUM   Metallic Arsenic Arouses latent syphilis. Periodicity very marked; symptoms recur every two and three weeks. Weakness. Swollen feeling of parts. Head Low spirited, memory weak.   Desire to be alone . Annoyed by visions, causing her to cry. Head feels too large. Left-sided headache up to eyes and into ears. Headache worse stooping and lying down. Œdematous swelling of forehead. Face Red, itching, burning and bloated. Eyes swelled and watery, burn with coryza. Eyes weak, day and gas light unpleasant. Mouth The tongue coated white, and shows imprint of the teeth. Mouth sore and ulcerated. Abdomen Sore pain in liver goes through to shoulders and spine. Pain in spleen down to groin. Pain in breast extends to hip and spleen. Diarrhœa, burning watery stools with relief of pain. Dose Sixth potency.

ARSENICUM IODATUM   Iodide of Arsenic Is to be preferred for persistently irritating, corrosive discharges. The discharge irritates the membrane   from   which it flows and   over   which it flows. The discharge may be fetid, watery, and the mucous membrane is always red, angry, swollen; itches and burns. Influenza,   hay-fever , old nasal catarrhs, and catarrh of middle ear. Swelling of tissues within the nose. Hypertrophied condition of eustachian tube and deafness. Senile heart, myocarditis and fatty degeneration. Pulse shotty. Chronic aortitis. Epithelioma of the lip. Cancer of breast after ulceration has set in. It seems probable that in Arsenic iod, we have a remedy most closely allied to manifestations of tuberculosis. In the early stages of tuberculosis, even though there is an afternoon rise in temperature,   Ars jod   is very effective. It will be indicated by a profound prostration, rapid, irritable pulse, recurring fev...