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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Comparison of medicines in some common conditions.

RHEUMATISM
Ledum
Kalmia
1. Ascending type of rheumatism.
1. Descending type of rheumatism
2. It affects left shoulder, right hip and knee joint. Rheumatism begins in the feet and ascends upwards.
2. Deltoid rheumatism especially right. Pains from hips to knees and feet.
3. Throbbing pain.
3. Pricking pain.
4. Part feels cold to touch and are better by dipping in cold water
4. Sense of coldness in limbs.
5. Joints swollen and hot but not red.
5. Joints red, hot, swollen.
6. < motion, warmth, covering
> dipping the feet in cold water.
6. < leaning forward, looking down, motion, open air.
Actea Spicata
Ledum
1. Rheumatism affecting small joints, wrist, fingers, ankles and toes.
1. Affect all joints.
2. Tearing tingling pain.
2. Sticking, tearing, throbbing rheumatic pains.
3. No such symptoms.
3. Ascending type of rheumatism.
4. Lameness of right arm.
4. Affect left shoulder and right hip joint.
5. Swelling of joint from slight fatigue.
5. Swelling of feet up to knee, of ankle with unbearable pain when walking, as from sprain or false step, ball of great toe swollen, painful in heel as if bruised.
6. Affected joint swollen and red.
6. Affected joint swollen hot and pale.
7. No such symptoms.
7. Easy spraining of ankle and feet.
8. < Touch, Motion.
8. < At night, and from heat of bed and be covering.
> Cold, putting feet in cold water.
Bryonia
Rhus. Tox
1. The local inflammation is violent; the parts are very hot and dark or pale, red and swollen.
1. Hot, painful swelling of joints.
2. Stitching, tearing pain.
2. Tearing pain in tendons, ligament and fascia.
3. painful stiffness in nape of neck stitches and stiffness in small of back.
3. Rheumatic pain spread over a large surface at nape of neck, loins and extremities surface at nape of neck, loins and extremities.
4. Knee stiff and painful.
4. Tenderness about knee joint.
5. Hot swelling of feet.
5. Tingling in feet.
6. No such symptoms.
6. Paralysis, trembling after exertion.
7. No such symptom.
7. Numbness and formication after over work and exposure.
8. No such symptom.
8. Crawling sensation in the tips of fingers.
9. Constant motion of left arm and left leg.
9. No such symptoms.
10. No such symptom.
10. Pain along ulnar nerves.
11. No such symptoms.
11. Tearing down thighs, sciatica; worse cold, damp weather at night.
12. < Warmth, any motion, morning, eating, hot weather, exertion, touch.
> Lying on painful side, pressure, rest, cold things.
12. < During sleep, cold, wet rainy weather and after rain, at night, during rest, when lying on back or right side.
> Warm, dry weather, motion, walking, change of position, rubbing, warm applications, from stretching out limbs.
ULCER or SEPTICEMIA
Anthracinum
Ars. Alb
1. Malignant ulcer with intolerable burning.
1. Ulcers of cancerous character with elevated edges having great burning.
2. Gangrenous ulcer.
2. Ulcer may become gangrenous.
3. Discharge of ichorous offensive pus.
3. Discharge of thin, watery, and bloody with fetid pus.
4. Malignant pustules black or blue blisters often fatal in 24 or 48 hrs.
4. No such symptom.
5. Suspicious insect stings if the swelling changes color and red streaks from the wound map out the cause of lymphatic.
5. No such symptom.
6. No such symptom.
6. Skin dry scaly cold blue ad wrinkled with cold clammy perspiration.
7. Septic inflammation from absorption of pus or other deleterious substances with burning pain and great prostration.
7. No such symptom
8.
8. < after midnight, cold and scratching, cold drinks or food, right side.
> heat, warm drinks
SKIN
Ant. Crud
Dulcamara
1. Complaints are caused due to cold bathing and overheating.
1. Complaints start every time patient takes cold or is long exposed to cold.
2. Dry skin, disposition to abnormal growth.
2. Skin is delicate, sensitive to cold, liable to eruption especially urticaria.
3. Finger nails do not grow. Rapidly crusted nails grow in splits like warts with horny spots.
3. No such symptoms.
4. Large horny corns on soles of feet. Very sensitive when walking, especially on stone pavements.
4. No such symptom.
5. Nostrils and labial commeasures sore, cracked and crusty.
5. No such symptoms.
6. No such symptoms.
6. Rash before menses.
7. No such symptoms.
7. Urticaria over whole body.
No fever.
Itching, burns after scratching.
< Warmth
> Cold
8. No such symptom.
8. Thick, brown yellow crust on scalp, face, forehead, temples, chin with reddish borders, bleeding when scratched.
9. No such symptoms.
9. Warts fleshy large, smooth on face or back of hand and fingers.
10. < after eating, cold bath, after heat of sun or fire, extremes of cold or heat.
> In the open air, during rest, after a warm bath.
10. < from cold in general, cold air, cold wet weather, suppressed menstruation, eruption, sweat.
>moving about
Hepar Sulph
Mercurius
Silicea
1. The slightest injury causes suppuration.
1. Injury suppurates easily.
1. Unhealthy skin, every little injury suppurates.
2. The skin is very sensitive to touch, cannot bear even clothes to touch affected parts.
2. No such symptoms.
2. No such symptoms.
3. Sweats day and night without relief.
3. Constantly moist skin. Excessive odorous viscid perspiration worse at night.
3. Profuse head sweat at night. Intolerable offensive foot sweat.
4. Sudden and rapid gland suppuration.
4. Gland swells every time patient takes cold.
4. Slow glandular suppuration also very slow to heal.
5. Skin affections extremely sensitive to touch the pain often causing fainting.
5. No such symptoms.
5. No such symptoms.
6. Putrid ulcers surrounded by little pimples.
6. Ulcers Irregular in shape edges undefined. Pimples around main eruption.
6. No such symptoms.
7. Chapped skin with deep cracks on hand and feet.
7. No such symptoms.
7. Cracks at the end of fingers.
8. No such symptoms.
8. No such symptoms.
8. Crippled nails on fingers.
9. Panaritium, abscesses, herpes, Cincinnatus, acne.
9. Buboes, orchitis.
9. In growing toe nail, Panaritium, blood boils, carbuncles, ulcers of all kind, fistula painful, offensive highly spongy edge, proud flesh in them.
10. No such symptoms.
10. Itching worse at warmth of bed.
10. Eruption itch only at day time and evening.
11. < dry cold wind, cool air, touch, lying on painful side.
> Damp weather, wrapping up head, from warmth, after eating.
11. < at night, wet, damp weather, lying on right side, perspiring
11. < new moon, morning, washing, uncovering, damp, cold.
> Warmth, wrapping up head, summer.
FEVER
Belladonna
Gelsimium
1. Indicated in remittent fever which comes on suddenly and violently.
1. Indicated in remittent, intermittent, bilious and eruptive fever which comes on gradually.
2. No thirst with fever.
2. Thirst less and prostrated.
3. Pulse- hard and bounding.
3. Pulse- slow, full, soft, compressible.
4. Much chilliness followed by much heat with intense burning within and without.
4. Chilliness up and down back. Nervous chills.
5. Indicated in the beginning of disease when there is wild and furious delirium.
5. No such symptoms.
6. No such symptoms.
6. Malaise and muscular weakness, the patient feels sore and bruised all over, as if he had been pounded; the eye lids are heavy, as though they could hardly be lifted.
7. Profuse, sour sweat which gives no relief.
7. Sweat is gradual and moderate, but always gives relief.
8. < from touch, motion, after 3pm, night, after midnight, summer sun, lying down.
> Rest, standing or sitting erect, warm room.
8. < Damp weather, before a thunderstorm, when thinking of is ailments.
> Open air, continued motion.
INJURY
Calendula
Arnica
1. External wounds with or without loss of substance, post surgical operations.
1. Injury of the soft parts. Injuries of muscles from a sprain or from sudden wrench and in hemorrhages of mechanical origin.
2. Torn and jagged looking wounds.
2. After traumatic injuries.
3. No such symptoms.
3. Bruise with well marked echymoses.
4. No such symptoms.
4. Compound fractures and their profuse suppuration.
5. Promote healthy granulations and prevent excessive suppuration and disfiguring scars.
5. Prevent suppuration and septic condition and promotes absorption.
6. Calendula is almost specific for clean surgical cuts or lacerated wounds to prevent excessive suppuration.
6. After injuries with blunt instruments.
7. Traumatic affection: To secure union by first intention and prevent excessive suppuration.
7. After mechanical injury from falls, concussion of brain with involuntary evacuation from bowels and bladder.
8. No such symptoms.
8. Injured parts turn blue and feel sore and bruised.
9. Lacerations during labour, wounds penetrating articulations with loss of synovial fluids.
9. No such symptoms.
10. Trauma with laceration of soft tissue.
10. Trauma without laceration of soft parts.
11. Wounds with sudden pain during febrile heat, constitutional tendency to erysipelas old, neglected, offensive, threatening gangrene.
11. No such symptoms.
HEADACHE
Belladonna
Glonoine
1. Headache from sunstroke.
1. Headache from sunstroke.
2. Throbbing bursting headache with intense pains.
2. Hot flushed face with intolerance of least jar.
3. Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow.
3. No such symptoms.
4. Headache with red eyes, dilated pupils, throbbing of carotid arteries expensive sensation as if head is enlarged.
4. Throbbing headache, head feels enormously large, as if skull were too small for brain.
5. No such symptoms.
5. Headache in place of menses.
6. Headache come on suddenly and violently and even subsides suddenly.
6. No such symptoms.
7. < cold air, uncovering the head getting hair cut.
> wrapping up.
7. < Heat, cannot bear head being wrapped up.
> Cold applications.
COLIC
Dioscorea
Colocynth
1. Gripping, cutting in hypogastric region, with intermittent cutting in stomach and small intestines.
1. Agonizing, cutting pain in abdomen.
2. Pain suddenly shift to different parts, appear in remote localities as fingers and toes.
2. Pains may spread all over the abdomen.
3. No such symptoms.
3. Intestines feel as if they were squeezed between stones and would burst.
4. Pain radiate from abdomen to back, chest and arms.
4. No such symptoms.
5. No such symptoms.
5. Pain continues till the patient is nauseated and vomits.
6. Sharp pains from liver, shooting upward to right nipple.
6. No such symptom.
7. Pain from gall bladder to chest, back and arms.
7. No such symptom.
8. Renal colic, with pain in extremities.
8. No such symptom.
9. < Bending forward and while lying.
> Walking about.
9. <Rest, anger, eating and drinking
> Constant motion, bending double, hard pressure.
URINARY COMPLAINTS
Cantharis
Beriberis
1. Burning pain in kidney region extending to bladder and shooting in various directions.
1. Burning and soreness in region of kidneys.
2. Burning, stabbing, lancinating, cutting pain with violent tenesmus.
2. Stitching, cutting pain from left kidney following course of ureter in to bladder and urethra.
3. Constant urging to urinate before, during and after urination.
3. No such symptom.
4. No such symptom.
4. Bubbling sore sensation in kidneys.
5. Constant urging to urinate, passing but a few drops at a time, which is mixed with blood.
5. Urine is greenish, blood-red with thick, slimy mucus, transparent, reddish or jelly like sediment.
6. Urine burns like fire in bladder and about genitals.
6. No such symptoms.
7. No such symptoms.
7. Renal colic. < left side.
8. No such Symptoms.
8. Numbness, stiffness, lameness with painful pressure in renal and lumbar region.
9. Drinking even small quantity of water increases pain in bladder.
9. No such symptom.
10. < touch or approach, urinating, drinking cold water or coffee.
> Rubbing.
10. < Motion, walking or carriage riding any sudden jarring movement.
PARALYSIS
Plumb. Met.
Causticum.
1. Paralysis of single muscles.
1. Paralysis of single parts.
2. Paralysis from over exertion of the extensor muscles in piano players.
2. No such symptoms.
3. Cannot raise or lift anything with the hand.
3. Unsteadiness of muscle of forearm and hand.
4. Stinging and bearing in limbs.
4. Dull, bearing pain un hands and arms.
5. Cramps in calves.
5. No such symptoms.
6. No such symptoms.
6. Disturbed functional activity of brain and spinal cord, from exhausting diseases or severe mental shock resulting in paralysis.
7. The left limb are almost as much paralyzed as the right.
7. Paralysis generally of right side.
8. Suddenly appearing.
8. Gradually appearing.
9. Pain in muscles of thighs, come in paroxysms.
9. No such symptoms.
10. Hands and feet cold.
10. No such symptoms.
11. Pain atrophied limb alternate with colic.
11. No such symptoms.
12. It has impaired nutrition or atrophy of the affected parts.
12. No such symptoms.
13. No such symptoms.
13. Paralysis caused by deep seated nervous disease.
14. < At night.
>rubbing, hard pressure.
14. < In clear fine weather, cold air especially draft of cold air, on becoming cold, from getting wet or bathing.
> In damp, wet weather, warm air.
HEART
Naja
Cactus
1. Simple hypertrophy of heart.
1. Heart constriction as from an iron band.
2. Acute and chronic endocarditis.
2. Endocarditis with mitral insufficiency together with violent and rapid action.
3. Irritating, dry, sympathetic cough in acute stage of rheumatic carditis, or chronic organic lesions.
3. Haemoptysis, with convulsive, spasmodic cough.
4. Threatened paralysis of heart, post diphtheritic.
4. No such symptoms.
5. Pulse irregular in force, but regular in rhythm.
5. Pulse feeble, irregular, quick, without strength.
6. Severe stitching pain in region of heart.
6. Very acute pains and stitches in heart.
7. No such symptoms.
7. Heart feels as if clasped and unclasped rapidly by an iron hand, as if  “had no room to beat”.
8. No such symptoms.
8. Palpitation day and night, worse when walking and lying on left side at approach of menses.
9. No such symptoms.
9. Sensation of a cord tightly tied around lower part of chest, marking attachment of diaphragm.
10. Feeling of weight on heart.
10. Oppression of chest, as from great weight; as if an iron band prevented normal motion.
11. No such symptoms.
11. Whole body feels as if caged, each wire being twisted tighter and tighter.
12. < From use of stimulants.
> From walking or riding in open air.
12. < About noon, lying on left side, walking, going upstairs, 11am and 11pm.
> Open air.
FEMALE
Actea
Pulsatilla
1. Ailments from suppressed mental emotion, cold, fever.
1. Ailments from abuse of chamomilla quinine, mercury, tea drinking, sulphur.
2. Menses irregular, exhausting, delayed or suppressed by mental emotion with chorea, hysteria or mania. Increase mental symptoms during menses. Menses profuse, dark, coagulated, offensive with backache; nervousness.
2. Menses suppressed from getting the feet wet, too late, scanty, slimy, painful, irregular, intermittent flow with evening chilliness.
3. Pain in ovarian region.
3. Pain in back.
4. Pain shoots upwards and down, anterior surface of thigh. Pain immediately before menses.
4. Pain drawing tearing, erratic, rapidly shifting from one part to another, accompanied with constant chilliness. Appear suddenly leave gradually.
5. Left sided affection.
5. Right sided affection.
6. False labour like pain. Sharp pain across abdomen. Abortion at third month.
6. Threatened abortion. Pain spasmodic excites suffocation and fainting must have fresh air.
7. During labour “shivers” in first stage. Convulsion from nervous excitement, rigid os. Pain severe, spasmodic, tedious. <least noise.
7. No such symptoms.
8. After pain worse in the groins.
8. No such symptoms.
9. Rheumatic dysmenorrhoea.
9. No such symptoms.
10. No such symptoms.
10. Diarrhea during or after menses.
11. No such symptoms.
11. Thirstless with all complaints.
12. Puerperal mania thinks she is going crazy. Tries to injure herself.
12. No such symptoms.
13. No such symptoms.
13. Weeps easily. Feels better by consolation.
14. < During menstruation more profuse the flow the greater the suffering, morning, cold (except headache).
> Warmth, eating.
14. < Warm close room, evening at twilight, lying on left side.
> In open air, lying on painful side.
LIVER
Lycopodium
Chelidonium
Mercurius
1. Right sided.
1. Right sided.
1. Right sided.
2. Pain- Dull, aching pains.
2. Stitching pains.
3. Stabbing pain with chilliness.
3. Hepatitis, atrophic form of nutmeg liver.
3. Liver enlarged and tender on touch or pressure.
3. Liver enlarged, sore to touch, indurated.
4. Brown spots on abdomen.
4.  No such symptoms.
4. No such symptoms.
5. Jaundice present.
5. Jaundice due to hepatic and gall bladder obstruction.
5. Jaundice, bile secreted deficiently.
6. Pain shooting across lower abdomen from right to left.
6. Pain at inferior angle of right scapula.
6. Boring pain at right groin.
7. Dropsy due to hepatic disease.
7. No such symptoms.
7. No such symptoms.
8. No such symptoms.
8. Gall stones.
8. No such symptoms.
9. < right side, 4-8 pm, from heat or warm room, hot air, bed.
>motion, after midnight from warm food and drinks.
9. < right side, motion, touch, change of weather, very early morning.
> after dinner, from pressure
9. < at night, wet, damp weather, lying on right side, perspiring, warm room, warm bed.
Sreeja L
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