HOMOEOPATHIC ALL MEDICINE

Natural History.
      American Aloe. Century plant. N. O. Amaryllidaceae. Tincture of fresh-chopped leaves.


Clinical.

Agave Americana

      Gonorrhea.
      Hydrophobia Scurvy. Stomacace.

Characteristics.
      Agave is an unproved remedy.
      The juice of if fermented is the Mexican intoxicating beverage called "Pulque. " The plant has a local reputation as a remedy for hydrophobia.
      A striking case is quoted by the H. Recorder from El Siglo Medico. A boy developed the classical symptoms of hydrophobia four and a half months after being bitten: Quarrelsomeness,

Agave Americana

excitement, fright, inability to swallow, small frequent pulse, great anxiety.
      Finally swallowing was impossible, restraint had to be used to prevent him biting his nurses in the hospital, when, as a last resource, a piece of Agave was offered to the boy by the doctor in attendance, cut from a hedge of the plant with which the hospital grounds were fenced.
      To the astonishment of all, the boy reached for it and ate it greedily, almost without chewing.
      By evening a decrease in the violence of the nervous attacks was manifest, though they remained as frequent as before.
      The improvement was slow but continued.
      On the fourth day he took some nourishment, but also continued.

      On the fourth day he took some nourishment, but also continued chewing Agave and swallowing the juice.
      On the fifth day he recovered consciousness by still demanded Agave. On the eighth day he said he did not want any more as "it tasted too bitter and caused a burning in the mouth." He had no further symptoms of the disease.
      According to Hansen Agave is indicated in scurvy, stomacace, and painful erections in gonorrhea.

Relations.

      Compare: Lyss., Fagu, Lach., Aloe, and other Liliaceous plants.

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                         Agaricus Phalloides  
Natural History.
      A. bulbosus.
      Amanita bulbosa.
      (A small stinking fungus common in Europe and U. S.) N. O. Fungi. Tincture of fresh fungus.

Agaricus Phalloides

Clinical.
      Cholera.
      Chorea.
      Cramps.
      Diarrhoea.
      Gastritis.
      Trismus.
      Urine, suppression of.
      Vomiting.

Characteristics.
      Symptoms observed in poisoning cases give a complete picture of Asiatic cholera. There is extreme prostration and chilliness, the sweat is cold, the hippocratic face is marked, the tongue is cold, and there is violent thirst.
      Very frequent bilious vomiting.
      Incessant cramps in stomach.
      Hard, tense abdomen.
      Frequent whitish watery stools, or bilious, bloody stools.
      The urine is suppressed, the voice is hoarse.
      Pulse small, intermittent, hardly perceptible.
      The extremities are cold, and there are violent cramps in legs, feet, and calves.
      Convulsions are another prominent feature.
      There is mental excitement, which has in some cases lasted for three days.
      Sometimes there is stupor, at other times consciousness remains till death.
      The effects do not come on till ten or twelve hours after taking the drug (in this it is like Colchicum).
      At times the development of choleraic symptoms saves the patient.

      General cholera symptoms are developed as with A. muscarius.
      Chilliness also predominates.
      Agaric. Phal.
      Is a poison of great intensity and fatality.

Head.
      Vertigo always on rising up.
      Frightful pains in head.

Eyes.
      Pupils much dilated.
      Eyes sunken, weak, and lusterless.

Face.
      Deathlike pallor, face sunken, cyanotic.
      Anxious countenance, hippocratic.
      Nose and mouth dry.
      Tetanic closure of jaws, with at times grating of the teeth.

Mouth.
      Teeth and gums black.
      Cold tongue.
      Breath cold.
      Trismus.
      Speech slow, difficult.
      Stammering.

Throat.
      Dry throat.

Stomach and Abdomen.
      Violent thirst, nausea, vomiting, then diarrhoea.
      Very frequent mucous and bilious vomiting.
      Vomiting of an offensive greenish-colored fluid, of blood.
      Pains in stomach and hypogastrium followed by anxiety and vomiting.
      Incessant cramps of stomach.
      Violent pains in epigastrium, which spread rapidly over the whole abdomen, greatly worse by pressure.
      Abdomen tense, swollen, painful.

      Unendurable pain in hypogastrium and lumbar region.

Stool and Anus.
      Anus inflamed.
      Stools: frequent, bilious, whitish as in Asiatic cholera, frequent, watery, bloody.

Urinary Organs.
      Suppression of urine.

Respiratory Organs.
      Voice hoarse.
      Respirations short.

Heart and Pulse.
      Pulse: small and intermittent, hardly perceptible, slow and somewhat irregular, hard and frequent.
      Pulse full and rapid (later action).

Limbs.
      Cold extremities.
      Skin of extremities lost its elasticity.
      Upper extremities swell and become livid, finger-tips livid.
      Cramps of the legs, of the calves, of the feet with drawing back of the limbs.

Generalities.
      Violent convulsions.
      Slight convulsive motions in the legs and arms, which generally extend to the muscles of the trunk and cause irregular distortions of the whole body.
      Constant restlessness.
      Debility, prostration.
      Malaise.
      Staggers as if intoxicated, and with odd gesticulations, labors to express his sufferings but cannot articulate a syllable.

Skin.
      Body covered with livid spots.

Sleep.
      Somnolence.

Fever.

      Marked chilliness.
      Sweat cold.

      Skin cool, afterwards hot.

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                         Agaricus Muscarius  
This fungus contains several toxic compounds, the best known of which is Muscarin. The symptoms of poisoning do not develop at once, usually twelve to fourteen hours elapse before the initial attack. There is no antidote, treatment, entirely symptomatic

Agaricus Muscarius

(Schneider). Agaricus acts as an intoxicant to the brain, producing more vertigo and delirium than alcohol, followed by profound sopor with lowered reflexes.

Jerking, twitching, trembling, and itching are strong indications. Incipient phthisis; is related to the tubercular diathesis, anæmia, chorea, twitching ceases during sleep. Various forms of neuralgia and spasmodic affections, and neurotic skin troubles are pictured in the symptomatology of this remedy. It corresponds to various forms of cerebral excitement rather than congestion. Thus, in delirium of fevers, alcoholism, etc. General paralysis. Sensation as if pierced by needles of ice. Sensitive to pressure and cold air. Violent bearing-down pains. Symptoms appear diagonally as right arm and left leg. Pains are accompanied by sensation of cold, numbness and tingling.

Mind.--Sings, talks, but does not answer. Loquacity. Aversion to work. Indifference. Fearlessness. Delirium characterized by singing, shouting, and muttering; rhymes and prophesies. Begins with paroxysm of yawning.

The provings bring out four phases of cerebral excitement.

1. Slight stimulation-shown by increased cheerfulness, courage, loquacity, exalted fancy.


2. More decided intoxication-great mental excitement and incoherent talking, immoderate gaity alternates with melancholy. Perception of relative size of objects is lost, takes long steps and jumps over small objects as if they were trunks of trees-a small hole appears as a frightful chasm, a spoonful of water an immense lake. Physical strength is increased, can lift heavy loads. With it much twitching.

3. Third stage produces a condition of furious or raging delirium, screaming, raving, wants to injure himself, etc.

4. Fourth stage-mental depression, languor, indifference, confusion, disinclination to work, etc. We do not get the active cerebral congestion of Belladonna, but a general nervous excitement such as is found in delirium tremens, delirium of fevers, etc.

Head.--Vertigo from sunlight, and on walking. Head in constant motion. Falling backward, as if a weight in occiput. Lateral headache, as if from a nail (Coff; Ignat). Dull headache from prolonged desk-work. Icy coldness, like icy needles, or splinters. Neuralgia with icy cold head. Desire to cover head warmly (Silica). Headache with nose-bleed or thick mucous discharge.

Eyes.--Reading difficult, as type seems to move, to swim. Vibrating specters. Double vision (Gels), dim and flickering. Asthenopia from prolonged strain, spasm of accommodation. Twitching of lids and eyeballs (Codein). Margins of lids red; itch and burn and agglutinate. Inner angles very red.

Ears.--Burn and itch, as if frozen. Twitching of muscles about the ear and noises.

Nose.--Nervous nasal disturbances. Itching internally and externally. Spasmodic sneezing after coughing; sensitiveness; watery non-inflammatory discharge. Inner angles very red. Fetid, dark, bloody discharge. Nosebleed in old people. Sensation of soreness in nose and mouth.

Face.--Facial muscles feel stiff; twitch; face itches and burns. Lancinating, tearing pain in cheeks, as of splinters. Neuralgia, as if cold needles ran through nerves or sharp ice touched them.


Mouth.--Burning and smarting on lips. Herpes on lips. Twitching. Taste sweet. Aphthæ on roof of mouth. Splinter like pains in tongue. Thirsty all the time. Tremulous tongue (Lach). Tongue white.

Agaricus Muscarius

Throat.--Stitches along eustachian tube to ear. Feels contracted. Small solid balls of phlegm thrown up. Dryness of pharynx, swallowing difficult. Scratching in throat; cannot sing a note.

Stomach.--Empty eructations, tasting of apples. Nervous disturbances, with spasmodic contractions, hiccough. Unnatural hunger. Flatulent distention of stomach and abdomen. Profuse inodorous flatus. Burning in stomach about three hours after a meal, changing into a dull pressure. Gastric disturbance with sharp pains in liver region.

Abdomen.--Stitching pains in liver, spleen (Ceanothus) and abdomen. Stitches under short ribs, left side. Diarrhœa with much fetid flatus. Fetid stools.

Urinary.--Stitches in urethra. Sudden and violent urging to urinate. Frequent urination.

Female.--Menses, increased, earlier. Itching and tearing, pressive pains of genitals and back. Spasmodic dysmenorrhœa. Severe bearing-down pains, especially after menopause. Sexual excitement. Nipples itch, burn. Complaints following parturition and coitus. Leucorrhœa, with much itching.

Respiratory Organs.--Violent attacks of coughing that can be suppressed by effort of will, worse eating, pain in head while cough lasts. Spasmodic cough at night after falling asleep, with expectoration of little balls of mucus. Labored, oppressed breathing. Cough ends in a sneeze.

Heart.--Irregular, tumultuous palpitation, after tobacco. Pulse intermittent and irregular. Cardiac region oppressed, as if thorax were narrowed. Palpitation with redness of face.

Back.--Pain, with sensitiveness of spine to touch; worse in dorsal region. Lumbago; worse in open air. Crick in back. Twitching of cervical muscles.

Extremities.--Stiff all over. Pain over hips. Rheumatism better motion. Weakness in loins. Uncertain gait. Trembling. Itching of toes and feet as if frozen. Cramp in soles of feet. Pain in shin-bone. Neuralgia in locomotor ataxia. Paralysis of lower limbs, with spasmodic condition of arms. Numbness of legs on crossing them. Paralytic pain in left arm followed by palpitation. Tearing painful contractions in the calves.

Skin.--Burning, itching, redness, and swelling, as from frostbites. Pimples, hard, like flea-bites. Miliary eruption, with intolerable itching and burning. Chilblains. Angioneurotic œdema; rosacea. Swollen veins with cold skin. Circumscribed erythematous, papular and pustular and œdematous lesions.

Sleep.--Paroxysms of yawning. Restless from violent itching and burning. On falling asleep, starts, twitches, and awakes often. Vivid dreams. Drowsy in daytime. Yawning, followed by involuntary laughter.

Fever.--Very sensitive to cool air. Violent attacks of heat in evening. Copious sweat. Burning spots.

Modalities.--Worse, open cold air, after eating, after coitus. In cold weather, before a thunder-storm. Worse, pressure on dorsal spine, which causes involuntary laughter. Better, moving about slowly.

Relationship.--Compare: Muscarine, the alkaloid of Agaricus (has much power over secretions, increasing lachrymal, salivary, hepatic, etc, but diminishing renal; probably neurotic in origin, stimulating the terminal fibers of the secretory nerves of all these structures, hence salivation, lachrymation and excessive perspiration. Atropin exactly opposes Muscarine. Resembles Pilocarpin in action). Amanita vernus-spring mushroom-a variety of Agar Phalloides-Death cup-active principle is Phallin, active like Muscarine. Amanita phalloides (Death Cup-Deadly Agaric). The poison is a toxalbumin, resembling the poison in the rattle snake and the poison excreted by the cholera and diphtheria germs. It acts on the red blood corpuscles, dissolving them so that blood escapes into the alimentary canal and the whole system is drained. The amount of this toxic principle is small, even handling of specimens and breathing of spores affects some people unpleasantly. The poison is slow in development. Even 12 to 20 hours after taking it the patient feels all right, but vertigo violent choleraic symptoms with rapid loss of strength with death the second or third day, preceded by stupor and spasms. Fatty degeneration of liver, heart and kidneys, hæmorrhages in lungs, pleura and skin (Dr. J. Schier). Vomiting and purging. Continuous urging to stool, but no gastric, abdominal or rectal pain. Intense thirst for cold water, dry skin. Lethargic but mentally clear. Sharp changes from rapid to slow and from slow to rapid breathing, extreme collapse, suppressed urine, but no cold extremities or cramps. Agaric emet (severe vertigo; all symptoms better, cold water; longing for ice-water; gastritis cold sweat, vomiting sensation as if stomach was suspended on a string). Tamus (chilblains and freckles). Cimicif; Cann ind; Hyos; Tarantula.

Antidote: Absinth; Coffea; Camphor.


Dose.--Third to thirtieth and two hundredth potency. In skin affections and brain exhaustions give the lower attenuations.

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                     Agaricus Emeticus
Natural History.
      A small acrid species, found in woods in Europe. N. O. Fungi. Tincture of fresh fungus.

Agaricus Emeticus

Clinical.

      Gastritis.
      Vertigo.

Characteristics.
      The symptoms of Agar-em. resemble those of the other Agarics, but they have this characteristic, that while cold water worse the symptoms of Agar. Mus. it speedily and permanently relieves those of Agar-em. Violent burning pains are caused in the stomach.

      There is sudden and violent longing for ice-cold water (during the worst attacks of anxiety), which causes gradual relief, violent vomiting, with anxious sensation, as if the stomach hung on threads which would be momentarily torn in two, with ice-cold sweat of face, and faintness worse by moving head, worse by smelling vinegar, which is unbearable.
      Most marked is the vertigo, which is so severe one must be carried to bed, is not able to sit or stand.

Relations.
      Anxiety partially better by cold drinks, Acon., Sulph. Worse From vinegar, Ant-c., Ars., Bell., Brom., Ferr., Sep., Sulph.

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                      Aethusa Cynapium
Natural History.
      Aethusa cynapium.
      Fool's Parsley. (Europe.) N. O. Umbellifer.
      Tincture of whole flowering plant.

Clinical.
      Brain-fag.
      Cholera infantum.

      Convulsions.

Aethusa Cynapium

      Cough.
      Delirium.
      Diarrhoea.
      Dyspepsia.
      Ear, discharge from.
      Epilepsy.
      Excoriation.
      Eyes, affections of.
      Glands, affections of.
      Headache.
      Herpes.
      Hiccough.
      Idiocy.
      Infantile paralysis.
      Mind, weakness of.
      Sleeplessness.
      Stomach, disorders of.
      Trismus.
      Vomiting.

Characteristics.
      The symptoms of Aethusa are particularly clearly defined, in fact violence is one of the notes of its action: violent vomiting, violent convulsions, violent pains, violent delirium.
      On the other hand there is prostration and somnolence.
      "Fool's parsley" has not received its name for nothing-it is indeed a medicine for "fools." There is great weakness of mind or body.
      One very characteristic symptom is: Inability to think or fix the attention.
      Guided by this symptom I once gave it to an undergraduate preparing for an examination, with complete success.
      He had been compelled to give up his studies, but was able to resume them, and passed a brilliant examination.
      To a little waif in an orphan home who suffered from severe headaches and inability to fix his attention on his lessons I sent single doses of Aeth. at rare intervals, with very great relief.
      The little boy asked for the medicine himself subsequently on a return of the old symptoms.
      Other mental symptoms are: Idiocy, in some cases alternating with furor.
      Hallucinations.
      Delirium, sees cats and dogs, wants to jump out of bed, or out of the window.
      Irritability, especially in open air.
      Guernsey says: "The mental symptoms peculiar to children, and frequently of adults, are, great anguish and crying.
      As the disease progresses the patient becomes more and more retired in his disposition, and more inclined to weep." Somnolence. Dotage. Another marked characteristic is: Intolerance of milk, vomiting of everything taken, especially milk, which is ejected in yellowish or greenish curds.

Aethusa Cynapium

      There is great weakness and exhaustion after vomiting, the child is so exhausted it falls asleep at once.
      It awakens hungry, eats, and vomits again.
      "Hungry after vomiting" is the keynote here.
      There is also gripping, with diarrhoea, vomiting, crying.
      For adults who complain of regurgitation of food an hour after it has been taken Aeth. says Guernsey, is invaluable.
      Also copious vomiting in adults, with a great feeling of distress, can't tell what the distress is about but still it exists.
      Adults complain of a sensation as though the stomach was turned upside down, accompanied by a burning feeling up to the chest.
      Tearing pains in stomach extending into oesophagus, abdomen tense inflated, sensitive.
      There is a herpetic eruption on tip of nose, Along with the gastric symptoms there is a peculiar expression of great anxiety and pain (Linea nasalis), a surface of pearly whiteness on upper lip bounded by distinct lines from wings of nose to angles of mouth.
      Other symptoms are: Sensation of swelling in head and face on entering a room.
      Sunken cornea.
      Eyeballs convulsed and directed downwards.
      Sleep after attacks.
      Sensation of swelling in hands after walking.
      Convulsions, with cold limbs.
      The pains are lancinating Swelling of mammary or axillary glands, with lancinating pains.
      Prostration, stupid.
      All symptoms worse 3 to four AM..
      Heat causes all eruptions to itch intolerably.
      As with Bov. and Aster. symptoms are worse by coffee, wine, drunkenness, cold water, and warmth of bed, better by a walk in the open air, and by conversation.
      Better In open air (except mental symptoms).
      The remedy is suited to teething-children and choleraic affections in old age.

Relations.
      Compare: Cic., Coni., Oena., Ant.-c. and Calc. (vomiting of milk); Ars., Asar., Cupr., Ip., Op.
      It antitodes Opium, and is antidoted by vegetable acids.
      Teste places Aeth. in the Sulphur group with Cicuta, Con., Aster., Bov., Lob., Merc., Kreos.

Mind.
      Incapacity to think, confused.
      Loss of comprehension, as if a barrier between the senses and external objects.
      Idiocy, in some cases alternating with furor.
      Great anxiety and restlessness, followed by violent pains in head and abdomen.
      Bad humor, irritability.
      Irritability, especially in the afternoon, and in the open air.
      Delirium: sees cats and dogs, tries to jump out of the window.
      Loquacious gaiety.

Head.
      Head confused, brain feels bound up.
      Vertigo, with sleepiness, can't raise the head.
      Headache in whole front part of head.
      Heaviness in the forehead.
      Sensation, as if both sides of the head were in a vice.
      Distressing pains in the occiput, down nape of neck, and spine.
      Heat rises to the head, the body becomes warmer, the face becomes red and the giddiness ceases.
      Stitches and pulsations in the head.
      Can't hold head up, or sit up.
      Sensation as if constantly pulled by the hair.
      The head symptoms are better by expelling flatus.

Eyes.
      Looking up worse headache and vertigo.
      Dilated pupils.
      Pupils dilated but sensitive to light.
      Eyes brilliant and prominent.
      Cornea sunken.
      Pustules on cornea.
      Scrofulous ophthalmia, edges of lids inflamed and agglutinated at night, swelling of Meibomian glands. Chronic photophobia.

Ears.
      Stitches in the ears, especially in the right ear, as if something hot were streaming from it.
      Yellow discharge from right ear, with stitching pains.
      There is great better by inserting the finger and drawing the parts asunder.

Nose.
      Herpetic eruption at tip.

Face.
      A drawn condition beginning at the ale nasi, and extending to the angles of the mouth, giving the face an expression of great anxiety and pain.
      Tearing in the face, in the malar bones.
      Jaws spasmodically fixed.
      Face pale, puffed, and spotted red.
      Chin and corners of mouth feel cold.

Mouth.
      Sticking and tearing in gums.
      Taste: bitter, like cheese, like onions, sweetish in morning when awaking.
      Tongue: moist, white coat, black, feels too long.
      Speech slow, embarrassed.
      Aphthæ in mouth and throat.
      Copious salivation which better poisoning symptoms.

Throat.
      Sensation of constriction, preventing deglutition.
      Stinging in the throat, between the acts of deglutition.
      Soft palate red, swollen.
      Pungent heat in mouth and throat.
      While eating, sudden heaviness in forehead.
      Spasmodic hiccough.


Stomach.
      Intolerance of milk, it is forcibly ejected almost as soon as swallowed, then weakness causes drowsiness, in nursing children.
      Violent vomiting of curdled milk and cheesy matter.
      Violent vomiting of a frothy matter, white as milk.
      This we may find in men, children, or pregnant women.
      Violent vomiting of green mucus.
      Violent vomiting, with diarrhoea, of green mucus, or (in children) bloody substances.
      After vomiting, cold and clammy.

Abdomen.
      Coldness of the abdomen and lower limbs, especially left, with aching in bowels, better by warm wet applications.
      Sensation of coldness in the abdomen.
      Swollen and tense abdomen.
      Cutting, with distension.
      Cutting, with violent vomiting.
      Black-bluish swelling of the abdomen.
      Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness.

Stool.
      Diarrhoea: stools bright yellow, or greenish, watery, and slimy, with violent tenesmus.
      Undigested stool or partly so.
      Loose stools, preceded by cutting in the abdomen, with tenesmus in the morning, after rising.
      Diarrhoea: discharges green, thin, bilious, with violent tenesmus.
      Bloody stools.
      Most obstinate constipation, with feeling as if all action of the bowels had been lost.

Respiratory Organs.
      Sufferings of patient render him almost speechless.
      Respiration very difficult and short.
      Sensation as if chest were encircled by a band, causing difficult breathing.
      Stitches in left side of chest.
      Cough, producing stunning pain in head.

Heart and Pulse.
      Violent palpitation of the heart, with headache.
      Pulse full and rapid, hard, small, and rapid, small and frequent, irregular, imperceptible.

Neck and Back.
      Distressing pain in occiput and nape of neck, extending down the spine, better by friction with hot whisky.
      Swelling of glands round neck like a string of beads.
      Sensation as if the small of the back were in a vice.
      A feeling as if pain in back could be better by straightening out and bending stiffly backward.

Limbs.
      Eruption round the joints, especially knee, elbow, and ankle.
      Axillary glands swollen.
      Stiffness of elbow joints.
      Swelling of forearms and hands.
      Thumb and fingers bent inwards.
      Excoriations of thighs from walking.
      Paralytic pains in lower extremities, formication in feet.

Generalities.
      Epileptiform spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downward, dilated, staring, immovable pupils, foam at the mouth, teeth set, pulse small, hard, accelerated.
      Spasms, with stupor and delirium.
      Cold limbs and body convulsed.
      Great weakness, children cannot stand, cannot hold up their heads.

Skin.
      Tettery eruptions, which bleed easily.
      Black and blue spots, sometimes like ecchymoses all over body.
      The whole body may be of bluish-black color.
      Anasarca.

Sleep.
      Dozing of child after vomiting spells, or after the stool.
      On falling asleep, rolling of the eyes, or slight convulsions.
      Sleepiness all day, sometimes better in open air.
      Sleep prevented by pains in limbs.

Fever.
      Complete absence of thirst, though there is great heat.
      Cannot bear to be uncovered during the sweat.
      Fever, especially in morning, with shuddering,, weariness in extremities, internal coldness with hot and flushed face, malaise, disposition to delirium during cold stage, sweat, after the breaking out of which the previous symptoms disappear.
      Sweat on least exertion.

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             Aethiops Mercurialis Mineralis 
(Sulph. and Quicksilver, or Black Sulphide Mercury) This preparation is of use in SCROFULOUS affections, ophthalmia,

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otorrhoea, paintul, irritating, scabby eruptions, hereditary syphilis.

Skin
Eruptions. Favus-like, scrofulous, herpetic and eczematous.

Dose
The lower triturations, especially the second decimal.

Relationship

ASLHIOPS ANTIMONALIS - (Hydrargyrum stibiato sulfuratum.)-(often more effective than the above in scrofulous eruptions, glandular swellings, otorrhoea and SCROFULOUS EYE AFFECTIONS, corneal ulcers. Third trituration.) Compare: CALC.; SIL; PSORIN.

                    Aethiops Antimonialis 
Natural History.
      Made by triturating two parts of sulfuret of antimony with one of quicksilver.
      (Berliner, Zeit, f. Hom. Aerzte., vol. ii. Hom. Recorder, 1894, p. 28.) Trituration.

Clinical.
      Ophthalmia.
      Otorrhoea, Scrofula. Skin, affections of.

      Syphilis.

Characteristics.
      This remedy has not been proved, but it has been used with signal success in scrofulous, herpetic, eczematous eruptions and discharges.
      Favus-like eruptions.
      Eruptions from fright.
      Painful, irritating, scabby eruptions of face.
      Scrofulous ophthalmia.
      Scrofulous otorrhoea, offensive.
      Hereditary syphilis.
      It seems to combine the powers of its various components.

      I have confirmed its utility in many aggravated skin affections.


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                     Aesculus Hippocastanum
Natural History.
      Hippocastanum vulgaris.
      Horse-chestnut. (Northern India and North America.) N. O.
 Sapindaceae. Tincture of ripe kernel, trituration of dry kernel.

      Tincture of fruit with capsule (according to Hering, this is the best).

Aesculus Hippocastanum

Clinical.
      Anus, affections of.
      Back, affections of.
      Constipation.
      Cough. hemorrhoids.
      Headache.
      Hernia.
      Intermittents.
      Jaundice.
      Liver, affections of.
      Lumbago.
      Prostate gland, affections of.
      Sacrum, pain in.
      Taste, altered.
      Throat, affections of.
      Tongue, affections of.
      Uterus, prolapse of.

Characteristics.
      Aesc. is a great pile remedy.
      In some districts it is a popular custom to carry a chestnut in the pocket as a preventive.
      It produces many symptoms of disordered liver: Malaise, dulness of head and mind, fullness at root of nose.
      Follicular pharyngitis with dryness, burning, roughness, contraction in throat, as in follicular pharyngitis.
      There is soreness and fullness in liver region, the abdomen is sore to touch.
      There is jaundice with bileless stools.
      Throbbing in abdomen, especially hypogastrium.
      The most intense action is on the lower bowel and pelvic organs.
      There are hemorrhoids, blind or bleeding, if they bleed it gives relief.
      Feeling of dryness in rectum as if little sticks or splinters were pricking the folds of mucous membrane, with weak feeling in sacroiliac joints, as if legs would gave way.
      (Arg-n. has also pain in sacroiliac joints and sensation as if the bones were loose.) Constipation, stools large, hard, followed by feeling of prolapse of rectum.
      General aching in lumbar and sacral regions, with stiffness in the back, almost impossible to walk.
      Tearing in the small of the back and hips.
      Poisoning with the green rind of horse-chestnut has produced the following symptoms in a boy: Pupils widely dilated in bright light.
      Face flushed, pulse full.
      Drowsy and apparently slept, but the sleep was interrupted at short intervals by sudden awakenings and screams.
      Great terror as from a dreadful dream, or apparition on opening his eyes.
      Questioning failed to elicit the cause of his terror.
      Aesc. patients are, as a rule, despondent and irritable.
      Walking greatly worse all symptoms.
      Cold air and cold seasons worse, nose and throat very sensitive when inhaling, worse after washing.
      Better Summer, worse winter (hemorrhoids).

Relations.
      Compare: Aesc-g., Aloe, Coll., Merc., Nux-v., Podo., Sulph. 
      Nux-v. antidotes the pile symptoms.
      It follows well: Coll., Nux-v., Sulph.
      Compare also: Kali-bi. (throat, but Aesc. h. has not the stringy mucus); Phyt. (follicular pharyngitis).

Mind.
      Depressed, gloomy, low-spirited, irritable.

Aesculus Hippocastanum

      Loses temper easily, regains in slowly.
      Unable to fix his attention.

Head.
      Dull pressure in forehead, slight nausea in stomach, followed at once by stitches in right hypochondrium.
      Severe lancinating headache at base of brain, as if too full, tympany, tongue white.
      Confused feeling, with giddiness, worse rising from a seat.
      Frequent flying pains through the temples.
      Flushes of heat over the occiput, neck, and shoulders.
      Head too heavy to hold up without balancing, all head symptoms accompanied by hemorrhoidal, rectal, or sacral symptoms.

Eyes.
      Weight in the eyes, they feel heavy and dull.
      Eyes feel heavy and hot, balls sore.
      Painful aching over left eye.
      Flickering before the eyes.

Nose.
      Stinging and burning in posterior nares and soft palate.
      Dryness of posterior nares and throat, sneezing, followed by severe coryza.
      Pain in right nasal bone, soreness in left

Face.
      Pale, miserable appearance.
      Flying heat and redness of left side of face.
      Face swells enormously after washing in water.

Mouth.
      Tongue coated white or yellow.
      Thick yellow phlegm in the mouth.
      Taste sweet, bitter, metallic (coppery, with salivation).
      Tongue feels as if it has been scalded.

Throat.
      Prickling, formication, burning and stinging in fauces, shooting in left side.
      Feeling as if something had lodged in fauces causing constant inclination to swallow.
      Feeling of dryness and roughness (or rawness and burning) in throat, as from taking cold.
      Constrictive feeling in fauces.
      Neuralgic pains in fauces.
      Dark congested fauces with a full feeling and irritation.
      Sore throat, chronic, with hemorrhoidal difficulty.

Stomach.
      Belching, nausea, vomiting.
      Violent vomiting, great burning distress in the stomach.
      Heartburn and gulping up of food after eating.
      Pressure as from a stone in pit of stomach.
      Eructations of wind, empty.

Abdomen.
      Tenderness in the right hypochondrium.
      Much distress in liver and epigastrium.
      Fullness in liver and abdomen.
      Constant severe aching from pit of stomach to right lobe of liver.
      Abdomen and liver region tender to touch.
      Sensation of fullness, flatulency, and colicky pains, hemorrhoidal colic.
      Emission of fetid flatus, rumbling in bowels.
      Cutting in right inguinal region (hernia).

Stool and Anus.
      Dry, uncomfortable feeling in rectum, as if it were filled with small sticks.
      Soreness, burning, itching, raw feeling, and fullness at anus.
      Pain like a knife sawing backwards and forwards through anus.
      Hemorrhoids like ground nuts, purple, painful sensation of burning, generally blind, aching and lameness or shooting in the back.
      Hemorrhoids blind and painful, rarely bleeding, worse standing or walking.
      Stool hard, dry, and passed with difficulty.
      Sensation of rigid hardness before stool.
      Stools hard and black, natural consistence and white.
      Backache after a difficult, large, and hard stool.
      Prolapsus ani after stool.
      Several large piles which seem to block up the rectum, little or no bleeding, great suffering, constipation.
      Chronic diarrhoea, with characteristic backache or hemorrhoids.
      Piles develop and become particularly troublesome in climacteric years.

Urinary Organs.
      Pain in region of left kidney.
      Frequent scanty urination.
      Urine dark and muddy, dark-brown sediment, yellow, with thick mucous sediment.
      Urine hot.

Male Sexual Organs.
      Discharge of prostatic fluid at every stool, and at micturition, seminal loss during sleep.
      A variety of suffering about the generative organs.

Female Sexual Organs.
      Inflamed cervix uteri, retroversion, prolapsus, enlargement and induration, when characterized by great tenderness, heat and throbbing.
      Old cases of leucorrhoea, of a dark yellow color, thick and sticky, worse after menstrual period, increased by walking, corrodes the labia, with aching in the sacrum and knees.
      Uterine soreness with throbbing in hypogastrium.
      During pregnancy sacroiliac symphysis gives out while she walks, must sit down, feels best lying.

Respiratory Organs.
      Short cough, increased by swallowing and breathing deeply.
      Hoarseness.

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      Raw feeling in chest.
      Tightness in chest.
      Abundant raising of mucus in morning.
      Cough, with sensation of stiffness in the throat and suffocation in the upper chest.
      Oppression, stitches, soreness and other troubles of chest.
      Catarrhal affections causing hoarseness and cough.

Heart.
      Twitching over region of heart.
      Stitches and neuralgic pains in region of heart, especially apex, and forehead.
      Functional disturbances of the heart from hemorrhoidal complaints.

Back.
      Constant backache affecting the sacrum and hips, very much aggravated by walking and stooping forward, almost impossible to rise after sitting down.
      Back gives out when walking.
      Aching between the shoulders.
      Spine feels weak.
      The sacrum, back, neck, head, chest, heart, and abdomen, all seem in remarkable sympathy with the rectum and its vessels.

Upper Limbs.
      Rheumatic pains in right scapula and right side of chest, worse during inspiration.
      Shooting, drawing, and tearing pains in shoulders, arms, hands, and fingers.
      Paralytic feeling in arms, legs, and spine.

Lower Limbs.
      Legs so weak she can hardly walk.
      Left knee swollen, painful, stiff, cannot bear slightest pressure.
      Tendo Achillis sore.

Generalities.
      Paralytic feeling in arms, legs, and spine.
      Feels faint, weak, and weary.
      Disposition to stretch and yawn.
      Fullness in various organs, as if they contained too much blood.
      Mucous membranes dry, swollen, burn and feel raw.

Fever.
      Chill at 4 p-m., fever from 7 to 12 p-m.

      During fever no thirst, bursting headache, photophobia, profuse hot sweat, heart beats violently.

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                        Aesculus Glabra
Aesculus glabra, like the Horse-chestnut, has a marked action on the rectum. It produces hard, knotty stools; very painful. Dark

Aesculus Glabra

purple hemorrhoidal tumours, with lame back and lower limbs.

Hale gives the indication: “Very painful external tumours, dark purple, with constipation and vertigo; weakness of sacrum and lower limbs.”

At the same time there is fulness and heaviness of the head without pain; the sight may be dim or lost; eyes fixed and expressionless. The speech is thick and the tongue as if lame. In cattle it produces wry-neck and paresis of hind limbs. There is a cough produced by sudden irritation of throat, sensation as of a feather tickling the throat, causing hawking and raising of mucus finally streaked with blood.

SYMPTOMS.

Confusion, with vertigo, often followed by stupefaction and coma.

Vertigo, with staggering, reeling, unconsciousness.─Vertigo, with full, heavy head, dim sight; thick speech, nausea and vomiting; faintness; towards evening.

Aesculus Glabra

Eyes fixed and dead; expressionless.─Sight dim or lost.

Speech thick, and tongue as if lame.

Nausea, with loathing of food and vomiting.─Distension (in cattle).─Full sensation.─Cramp-like pain.

Hard, knotty stools; constipation.─Very painful, dark purple, hæmorrhoidal tumours, with lame back and lower limbs.

Sudden irritation of the throat; a sensation of a feather tickling the throat causing hacking and raising of mucus, finally streaked with blood.

Wry-neck (cattle).─Great lameness and weakness of back.

Trembling of lower limbs.─Hind limbs lame; paralysis.─Strong tendency to contraction of legs.

Spasms and convulsions, followed by lameness.─Trembling..

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             Aegle Folia & Aegle Marmelos
The two drugs are made from this plant namely Aegle folia from leaves and Aegle marmelos from the pulp of the fruits. They are covered by Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India.1  Because of

Aegle Folia & Aegle Marmelos

difference of phyto-chemical contents of the two they are used differently and have been proved homoeopathically as separate medicines.  The early reports are by Dr. S. C. Ghose based on proving of “Folia” by Dr. Pramada Prasanna Biswas of Pabna  (Bengal). Unripe or half-ripe fruit is astringent, digestive and is used in diarrhoea.  Fruit contains marmalosin. It also contain psoralen, a powerful germination inhibitor; young bark contain coumarin 0.03% alkaloids 0.003% and umbelliferone; old bark contain higher and matured bark of Bihar variety gave 0.3% alkaloids; leaves contains essential oils consisting of α-and β-phellandrene2.  It is found wild in the sub-Himalayan tract, Central and S. India; often planted all India3.   Leaves also yield  y-sitosterol4; Essential oil from leaves had broad spectrum antifungal activity comparable to that of 0.5% hamycin5,6; extract of fruits lowered blood sugar level in normal rabbits significantly but in diabetic rabbits reduction was insignificant7.  Matured leaf is more useful in the preparation of drug than new leaf.

Aegle Folia & Aegle Marmelos

The tinctures have been found to be useful in worried; apathetic; oblivious who makes mistakes in work; headache due to sun and suppression of phlegm, also due to congestion, they catch of cold, tear tricking down the cheek due to cold; dim-sightedness and tumescent eyes (lower eye lid), nose runs; sneezing; bleeding by the suppression of catarrh, reddish gloomy; experience of spasm and neuralgia, swollen tonsil, reddish; sensation as if something is being stuck; difficult to swallow food and pain. The upper stomach, sensitiveness; intended to drink cold water; bleching; hiccough, nausea; flatulence; dropsy; acidity; dyspepsia and anaemia.  Used in spermatorrhoea; frequent noctural emissions; very weak and watery discharge, incapability of cohabitation.  Homoeopathically, it is proved to be a good medicine but it is not an aphrodisiac. In various skin diseases and particularly, in the skin disease of diabetic patients, this medicine must be considered.  In diabetes, higher blood sugar, blood urea, this medicine may be used without hesitation according to Dr. Banerjee8,9. An extensive proving was done by Dr. Jugal Kishore and a 24 year long clinical verification was done by Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy.
Aegel marmelos: Apart from above, when ripe it also contains pectin, sugar, tannins, enzymes and alkaline easily digestible Calcium Phosphate, Vitamin A, B12, C and Iron are present in sufficient quantities.  It is laxative due to existence of mucilage; a stomach refresher; removes wind; checks bowels.

Dose:  Tinctures in water 3 to 4 times a day according to the nature of patient.


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