| Arnica |
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Cough during flu w/great aching/soreness in body |
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Soreness all over; shies from touch; back pain following blows or injuries |
1-Bruising, soreness and/or swelling from blows; trauma, post-surgical; prains and/or fracture; arthritis; fear to touch; <cold/damp; >allowing the limb to hang down |
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Fever w/heat of head but coldness of body, markedly symmetrical symptoms |
| Arsenicum |
Burning headaches w/chilliness; worse night, from cold; better warm applications |
Watery catarrh; stuffy nose that drips; cough from allergy or infected/irritated air passages; worse night 12-2 am; better warmth and warm drinks |
Food poisoning, w/fear when vomiting; vomiting w/diarrhea, usually w/marked burning pains and acrid vomit; worse midnight to 3 am, from cold drinks, and smell/thought of food; better warm drinks |
Burning stomach/abdominal pain; diarrhea, from food poisong, and/or w/burning, acrid stool, <midnight to 2 am, cold places or cold drinks, >better from heat or hot applications to abdomen |
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Burns w/marked pain, anxiety and restlessness, averse to cold compress; puncture wounds w/anaerobic infections, festering wounds w/burning pains, dissecting wounds w/gangrene |
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Acute and chronic fevers of any severity, heat of face w/chilled body, prolonged chill and/or very chilly, and/or chill at midnight-2 am; <drinking especially cold drinks; >external heat and warm rooms |
| Belladonna |
Most intense headache; throbbing |
Right-sided and/or painful sinusitis, <stooping or bending; forceful coughing episodes w/fever, bright red face; <from deep breath, motion |
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Abdominal pain comes and goes suddenly; <jarring; >lying on abdomen |
Sudden, severe inflammation of joints; joint swollen and red; sudden/severe low back pain or sciatica; burns to the eyes w/photophobia; sunburns w/heat and throbbing; <motion, jarring, misstep, lying on back, long sitting; >pressure and cold applications |
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Sudden, intense fever and inflammation; dry, burning heat w/out chills, and/or one-sided or right-sided heat; <motion, anger; >open air, lying still |
| Natrum Muriaticum |
1-Headaches, migraines; morning, on waking |
Hayfever in intellectual,repressed patients; discharge like egg-white; asthmatic cough from tickling in chest/epigastrium, and/or accompanied by lacrimation, <evening, winter, or entering a warm room |
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Stomach pain from peptic ulcer or gastritis after grief/rejection, w/pain and vomiting, <eating and drinking; diarrhea from Inflammatory Bowel Disease, food intolerance, albuminious stool possibly w/streaks of blood, <daytime only or morning after rising |
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Chronic or recurring sprains |
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1-Main remedy for malaria, begins in fingers or toes, heat mainly at noon or afternoon, intermittent fever and/or chill forenoon, especially 10 or 11 am; <Autumn or after exposure to swamps |
| Nux Vomica |
<from cold, alcohol, stress & overwork |
Terrible morning sneezing, stuffiness, >from warm room; fluent discharge morning/daytime; upper respiratory infections settling in throat, pain extending to ears on swallowing, <coughing/swallowing; dry cough from allergies, asthma, or flu, <morning on waking, from cold air/wind, anger and >warmth/warm drinks or lying on side |
Nausea w/cramps and painful vomiting or ineffectual attempts to vomit; worse from anger or alcohol |
Abdominal pain w/spasms and colic, difficult stool, worse from anger/excitement or alcohol/coffee/spicy food; diarrhea w/spastic colon, from Chrohn's Disease or from food intolerance, w/marked and frequent ineffectual urging, ≶morning and/or from anger, and >heat or warm applications to abdomen |
Sciatica down either leg w/marked sensitivity and anger, <night, morning, the longer in bed, turning in bed, standing, motion, >heat, pressure, lying |
Irritability and impatience after surgery |
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Fever w/violent symptoms of heat and chills; tremendous chills/rigors from the least movement under the covers or from uncovering; high fever, especially 6 pm and night, heat followed by chill; <open air, uncovering, turning in bed; >lying still |
| Phosphorus |
Worse from fasting, light; >from sleeping, cold |
Every cold ends in a cough and chest infection; respiratory infections, with rawness of throat, marked hoarseness, and/or swelling of tonsils or uvula, worse cold air/coughing/sneezing, better cold drinks; cough <evening and lying on left side |
Nausea and vomiting w/burning in stomach; craves cold drinks to soothe but vomits the liquid as it becomes warm; <warm drinks, putting hands in warm water; >cold drinks, sleep, lying on right side |
Abdominal pain from colitis, hepatitis, gastroenteritis, or intestinal/liver inflammation, <evening, becoming cold, eating, > lying on or rubbing abdomen; diarrhea from Gastroenteritis or Inflammatory Bowel Disease, w/uncomfortable open sensation, caused even from slight changes in diet, watery w/lumps of white mucous, <lying on left side, pregnancy, spicy/warm food, >sleep, cold drinks or food |
Ankylosing spondylitis and/or paralysis (especially the sacrum) the chest rigid and unmovable; pain, heat, and burning in the spine, <cold, rising from a seat, lying on left side, >heat, lying on right side or on back, rubbing, motion |
Wounds w/hemorrhage, scars which break open and bleed; hemmhorrhage after surgery, w/disorientation, fearfulness, nausea, vomiting, or weakness |
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Fever w/respiratory illness, tremendous thirst; <evening/night, rising from bed, uncovering, after sleep; >drinking |
| Rhus Toxicodendron |
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Sore throat w/vesiculation, <cold, damp weather and straining voice, better warm drinks and swallowing; dry, irritated, productive and/or painful coughs, <bathing or getting wet, >w/warm drinks; red-tipped tongue, like a red triangle |
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Diarrhea w/aching and stiffness; <4 am, cold, wet weather, cold drinks, over-exertion; >warmth, motion |
1-for all forms of rheumatism; <morning on waking, cold and cold damp, sitting still, and first motion; >after rising and moving, continued motion, hot bathing or showers; rheumatoid/degnerative/psoriatic arthritis; sciatica and low back pain, stiffness or injury, <morning on waking, cold/damp weather, getting wet, first motion, after any lifting, >heat, hot bathing, motion |
Sprains with annoying, stiff, painful, restless feeling, <first motion, keeping still, grasping anything, >continued motion, heat |
Advanced cellulitis w/swelling, pitting, vesicles, purplish discoloration, and/or inflamed part which drains pus |
Fever w/horrible aching, stiffness and/or restlessness; heat anterior part of body; heat on left side, chills on right side; <uncovering, cold/damp weather, getting wet; >warmth, continued exertion |
| Sulphur |
Headache of vertex; Like a band; <weekend, winter; >cold applications |
Eyes as if full of sand; red, crusted eyelids; nasal stuffiness, catarrh; persistent sneezing; chronic or acute sinusitis, yellow/white discharge; sore throat or tonsillitis, w/marked burning, rawness, and/or dryness of throat; lingering or neglected cough, disturbs sleep; <winter/indoors, 11 am or night, open air or cold, in bed, lying on back; >open air, from warm drinks |
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Abdominal pain from Colitis, spastic colon, hepatitis, w/painful cramping and urgent/offensive diarrhea, <11 am, drafts of air, eating, motion, pressure, on deep breath >exercise and motion; diarrhea from Colitis, Gastroenteritis, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, urgent stool every morning waking from 5 or 6 am, w/painful burning or soreness, stool like rotten eggs , <from beer, acids, milk |
Rheumatoid arthritis, <heat or from over-heating; >cold applications1-Main remedy for psoriatic arthritis; sciatica and low back pain in sedentary, intellectual people, w/weak back and slumping posture, burning pains in back or sciatica, <evening or night, morning upon rising, motion, stooping, straightening back, standing, >lying on the left side |
Strains and repetitive stress injuries, w/sore and burning pain, <heat, standing, exertion, raising the arm, >lying, ice; wounds w/impending sepsis |
Tremendous itching, burning; psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, w/lesions almost always moist; skin rash w/red, itchy bumps; <night, becoming heated in bed, heat, or perspiration; >scratching the skin raw and bloody for relief; 1-Main remedy for cellulitis, w/lesion or infection feeling warm to touch, often w/serous discharge |
Prolonged fever w/no signs of improvement, ascending chills, and long-lasting heat; <afternoon after lunch, in bed, walking in open air |