Apis LIST OF IMPORTANT HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES Cantharis Carbo

Apis LIST OF IMPORTANT HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES Cantharis Carbo vegetabilis Chamomilla China Colocynthis Gelsemium Hypericum Ipecacuana Ledum Natrum sulfuricum Opium Pulsatilla Ruta Staphisagria

APIS MELIFICA Burning, stinging pains; eyelids; throat; hemorrhoids, ovaries (right one), breasts, skin(urticaria, erysipelas, carbuncles). GREAT OEDEMA; general or local (face, ears, eyelids, especially lower); throat (diphtheria); genitals (scrotum); skin (erysipelas & urticaria); everywhere general anasarca, abdomen. These oedemas are accompanied with the characteristic pains, or no pain at all.

Stupor, with sharp sudden, shrill cries in brain disease. Thirstlessness, especially in dropsies & during heat of intermittents. Suffocative; feels as if every breath would be his last, especially in dropsical conditions or hot stage of intermittents. Skin alternatively dry & perspiring.

Modalities: < after sleep, on sensitive), from touch heat & (very warm room: > cold room, or air, cold applications. Bad effects from suppressed retrocedent exanthemata; measles, scarlatina, urticaria. or Involuntary diarrhoea, with sensation as if anus were wide open.

CANTHARIS VESICATORIA Frequent urging to urinate, with straining & cutting, burning pains. Small quantity passed at a time, or bloody urine. Excessive BURNING pains (eyes, mouth, throat, stomach, intestinal tract; all the mucous surfaces & skin. Stringy, tenacious discharges from the mucus membranes.

Erysipelas, with blebs or large blisters filled with water & burning pain; useful for surface burns. Uncontrollable anguish, furious rage, frenzied delirium; strong sexual desire, both sexes. Disgust for everything; food, tobacco. drink Dysenteric stools, bloody, with tenesmus in rectum& bladder.

Modalities < from touch, or approach, urinating, drinking cold water or coffee. > rubbing.

CARBO VEGETABILIS IMPERFECT OXIDATION is the keynote of this remedy. The typical Carbo patient is sluggish, fat and lazy and has a tendency to chronicity in his complaints. Vital force nearly exhausted; complete collapse. Surface cold & blue. Haemorrhages with indescribable PALENESS of the surface of the body. Weak digestion. Excessive flatulence, pressing upward, stomach & abdomen. Eructations give temporary relief.

Hunger for oxygen, desires fanning. Faints easily. Persons who have never fully recovered from the exhaustive effects of some previous illness or injury; Bad effects from loss of vital fluids; haemorrhage from any brokendown condition of mucous membrane. Looseness of teeth, easily bleeding gums.

Modalities < evening; night and open air; cold; from fat food, butter, coffee, milk, warm damp weather; wine. > from eructation, from fanning, cold.

CHAMOMILLA MATRICARIA Especially adapted to children & nervous, hysterical women. Very irritable mood; snaps & snarls; will not speak or answer civilly; Mad. Exceedingly sensitive to pain, which makes her mad; numbness alternates with, or attends, the pains; sweats with the pains. Excessive uneasiness; anxiety; agonized, tossing about; with only be quieted by carrying the child about. One cheek red & cold. & hot & the other pale

Dentition diarrhoea; green stools, foul odour like rotten eggs, much colicky pain, abdomen bloated. Cough dry < at night, WHEN ASLEEP, from tickling in throat pit; < cold weather & every winter. Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night ; compel him to walk about. Burning of soles at night; puts feet outof bed. Numbness with the pains.

< by heat, anger, open air, wind, night. > from being carried, warm wet weather.

CHINA OFFICINIALIS Debility & other complaints after excessive loss of fluids, bloodletting, etc. Haemorrhages profuse, with faintness, loss of sight & ringing in the ears. Great flatulence, with sensation as if the abdomen were packed full; not > by eructation or passing flatus. Painless diarrhoea (yellow, brownish, undigested). watery, Periodical affections, especially other day. every

Excessive sensitiveness, especially to light touch, draft of air; hard pressure relieves. Dropsy following excessive loss of fluids; great debility, trembling, aversion to exercise; nervous sensitive to touch, to pain, to drafts of air; unrefreshing sleep after 3 a. m. Modalities < from slight touch, least draft of air, every other day. > by hard pressure on painful parts.

COLOCYNTHIS Disinclined to talk, to see friends, impatient, easily offended, anger with indignation; colic or other complaints as a consequence. Colic, terrible; they seek relief by bending double or pressing something hard against the abdomen. Dysentery like diarrhoea; renewed after least food or drink, often with the characteristic colic pains. Frequent urging to urinate, scanty; urine sometimes thick, foetid, viscid, jelly-like.

Crampy pain in sciatic nerve, from hip down to posterior portion of thigh; > from hard pressure & from heat. Tendency to painful cramps, with all pains. Modalities: < evening, > from anger; after eating; coffee; BENDING DOUBLE & HARD PRESSURE.

GELSEMIUM SEMPERVIRES Complete relaxation & prostration of the whole muscular system, with almost or entire motor paralysis. Eyelids droop; muscles refuse to obey the will. Trembling of hands or lower extremities if he attempts to move; must lie still. Mental faculties dull, cannot think; drowsy, with dull red face. Susceptibility to mental disturbance, excitement or emotion; causes diarrhoea. Dull, tired, prostrating headache at the base of brain; wants head high, sometimes > by profuse urination.

Vertigo with blurred vision; dilated pupils; double sight; sense of intoxication. Nervous chill, violent shaking with sense of coldness. no Children: fear of falling, seize the nurse, grasp the crib, especially in intermittents. Great heaviness of the eyelids; cannot keep them open. General deep-seated muscular pain with prostration.

< damp weather, fog, before a thunderstorm, emotion, or excitement, bad news, tobacco-smoking, when thinking of his ailments; at 10 a. m. > bending forward, by profuse urination, open air, continued motion, stimulants.

HYPERICUM It is the remedy for wounded or injured nerves; from simple punctures from nails, splinters, pins, rat bites, etc. , to severe concussions of the spine & brain, & especially to parts rich in sentient nerves. Excessive painfulness is a guiding symptom to its use. Injured nerves from bites of animals. Tetanus. Spasms after every injury. Relieves pain after operations.

Neuritis, tingling, burning and numbness. Has an important action on the rectum; haemorrhoids. Coccydynia. < in cold; dampness, in a fog; in close room; least exposure; touch. > bending head backward.

IPECACUANA The chief action is on the ramifications of the pneumogastric nerve, producing spasmodic irritation in chest and stomach. Persistent nausea, that nothing relieves, in many complaints. Headache as if bruised, all through the bones of the head, & nausea. Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining pain so great that it nauseates.

Uterine haemorrhage, profuse, bright with nausea. Dyspnoea; constant constriction in chest. Couth incessant and violent, with every breath. Cough with nausea. Feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Haemorrhage from nose or lungs.

LEDUM PALUSTRE Affects especially the rheumatic diathesis. Rheumatism begins in feet & travels upward. The swellings are pale, sometimes oedematous, & < at night, in the heat of the bed; uncovering or cold water relieves. Painful rheumatic gout. Complaints of people who are cold all the time; lack of animal heat; parts cold to touch, but they cannot stand warmth of bed.

Punctured wounds by sharp-pointed instruments, rat bites, stings of insects, especially mosquitoes. Wounded parts are cold. Black eye.

NATRUM SULFURICUM A liver sycotic remedy. The complaints are aggravated in wet environment (damp houses, basements, cellars). They are worse in rainy weather, water in any form. Feels every change from dry to wet. Always feels best in warm, dry air. Head symptoms from injuries to head. Chronic effects of blows, falls. Spinal meningitis. Diarrhoea, acute or chronic < in the morning, on beginning to move, with much flatulence & rumbling in abdomen, especially in ascending colon.

Loose cough, with great pain in the chest; < in left lower chest. Photophobia. Tendency to warts. affected. Fingers and toes Modalities. < music (produces sadness); lying on left side; damp weather. > dry weather, pressure, changing position.

OPIUM All complaints are characterized by sopor. They are painless, and are accompanied by heavy, stupid sleep, stertorous breath. Sweaty skin. Opium lessens volun movements, contracts pupils, depresses higher intellectual powers, less self-control and power of concentration, judgement; stimulates the imagination, checks all secretions except that of the skin. Retained or involuntary urine, after fright. Loss of power or sensibility of bladder.

Obstinate constipation; no desire to go to stool. Abdomen hard, bloated, tympanitic. Great drowsiness. Falls into a heavy stupid sleep. Breathing stops on going to sleep; must be shaken to start it again. Deep snoring, rattling, deep snoring, rattling, stertorous breathing. Modalities < heat, during and after sleep. > cold things, constant walking.

PULSATILLA PRATENSIS Mild, gentle, yielding disposition; sad & despondent, weeps easily. Changeable remedy, pains travel from one joint to another; haemorrhages flow &stop & flow again, no two stools alike, no two chills alike. The patient seeks the open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly. Mucous membranes are all affected. Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish –green.

Aversion to fat food, warm food and drink. Thirstlesness, with nearly all complaints. Modalities: < in warm room, warm applications, abuse of iron, chilliness with the pains, > by cool open air, walking slowly around, cold food or drink, tying up tightly > the headache.

RUTA GRAVEOLENS Acts upon the periosteum and cartilages, eyes and uterus. Lame sensation all over as after a fall; worse in limbs & joints. Lameness after sprains. Injuries. All parts of the body upon which he lies are painful, as if bruised. > motion < cold wet weather. Pain and stiffness in wrists and hands. Ganglia. Eye-strain from close study. The eyes feel weary & ache as if strained, or they burn like balls of fire.

Prolapsus of the rectum. Frequent, unsuccessful urging to stool. Protrusion of rectum when stooping. Modalities < lying down, from cold, wet weather. > on motion.

STAPHISAGRIA Mechanical injuries from sharpcutting instruments; post-surgical operations; stinging, smarting pains, like the cutting of a knife. Great irritability or inability to express his anger. A constant feeling of being suppressed. Bad effects from sexual abuse; mind dwelling continually on sexual subjects.

Craving for tobacco. Sensation as if the stomach was hanging down relaxed. Sinking sensation in the abdomen; feels as though it would drop, wants to support it with the hands. Colic > bending double. Nice skin remedy. It cures dry & moist eruptions. both