Homeopathic Materia Medica
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ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE
Anacardium Occidentale. Cashew Nut. (West Indies.) N. O. Anacardiaceæ. Tincture of the black juice between outer and inner shell. (This nut is kidney-shaped, that of Anac. orient. is heart-shaped.) Clinical Corns. Erysipelas. Imbecility. Itching. Paralysis. Rhus poisoning. Ringworm. Small-pox. Wa...
Aconitum Napellus
Acids, wine and coffee, lemonade, and acid fruits modify its action. Not indicated in malarial and low fevers or hectic and pyæmic conditions, and in inflammations when they localize themselves. Sulphur often follows it. Compare Cham and Coffea in intense pain and sleeplessness. Agrostis acts like Acon in fever and inflammations, also Spiranthes . Complementary: Coffea; Sulph. Sulphur may be considered a chronic Aconite. Often completes a cure begun with Aconite. Compare; Bellad; Cham; Coffea; Ferr, phos. Aconitine.-- (Heavy feeling as of lead; pains in supraorbital nerve; ice-cold sensations creep up; hydrophobia symptoms. Tinnitus aurium 3x). Tingling sensation. Aconitum Lycotonum.-- Great yellow wolfsbane.--(Swelling of glands; Hodgkin's disease. Diarrha after eating pork. Itching of nose, eyes, anus and vulva. Skin of nose cracked; taste of blood). Aconitum Cammarum.-- (Headache with vertigo and tinnitus. Cataleptic symptoms. Formication of tongue, lips and face). Aconitum ferox.-- Indian Aconite.--Rather more violent in its actions than A. napellus . It is more diuretic and less antipyretic. It has proved valuable in cardiac dyspna , neuralgia, and acute gout. Dyspna. Must sit up. Rapid respiration . Anxiety, with suffocation from feeling of paralysis in respiratory muscles. Cheynes-Stokes breathing. Quebracho (cardiac dyspna) ( Achyranthes .--A Mexican drug--very similar to Aconite in fevers, but of larger range, being also adapted to typhoidal states and intermittents. Muscular rheumatism. A great diaphoretic. Use 6x). Eranthis hymnalis --(Winter Aconite--acts on solar plexus and works upwards causing dyspna. Pain in occiput and neck).
Agaricus Muscarius
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.
Allium Cepa
Compare: Gels; Euph; Kali hyd; Aconite; Ipecac . Complementary: Phosphor; Thuja; Puls. Antidotes: Arn; Cham; Verat.
Aloe Socotrina
Complementary: Sulphur; compare: Kali bich; Lycop; Allium sat. Antidotes: Opium; Sulph.
Alumina
Compare: Aluminum chloridum (Pains of loco-motor ataxia. Lower trits in water). Slag Silico-Sulphocalcite of Alumina 3x (anal itching, piles, constipation, flatulent distention); Secale; Lathyr; Plumb. Aluminum acetate solution. Externally a lotion for putrid wounds and skin infections. Arrests hæmorrhage from inertia of uterus. Parenchymatous hæmorrhage from various organs-23 % solution. Hæmorrhage following tonsillectomy is controlled by rinsing out nasopharynx with a 10 % sol. Complementary: Bryonia. Antidotes: Ipecac; Chamom.
Ambra Grisea
Do not confound with Amber -Succinum q v. Moschus frequently follows advantageously. Compare: Oleum succinum (hiccough). Sumbul; Castor; Asaf; Crocus; Lilium.
Ammonium Carbonicum
Inimical to Lachesis . Similar in action. Antidotes: Arnica; Camphor. Compare: Rhus; Muriatic acid; Tartar emet. Of use in poisoning by charcoal fumes.
Ammonium Muriaticum
Antidotes: Coffea; Nux; Caust . Compare: Calcarea; Senega; Caustic.
Angustura Vera
Compare: Nux; Ruta; Mercur; Brucea . -Bark of Nux vomica or angustura falsa (Tetanic spasms with undisturbed consciousness, worse noise, liquids, paralyzed lower extremities, worse least touch, cries for fear of being touched . Painful jerking of legs; cramp-like pain in knees; rigid and lame limbs of paralytics. For pain in the passing of calculus).
Antimonium Crudum
Compare: Antimonium Chloridum . Butter of Antimony (A remedy for cancer. Mucous membranes destroyed. Abrasions. Skin cold and clammy. Great prostration of strength. Dose-third trituration). Antimon iodat (Uterine hyperplasia; humid asthma. Pneumonia and bronchitis; loss of strength, and appetite, yellowish skin, sweaty, dull and drowsy). In sub-acute and chronic colds in chest which have extended downwards from head and have fastened themselves upon the bronchial tubes in the form of hard, croupy cough with a decided wheeze and inability to raise the sputum, especially in the aged and weak patients (Bacmeister). Stage of resolution of pneumonia slow and delayed. Compare: Kermes mineral-Stibiat sulph rub (Bronchitis). Also Puls, Ipecac, Sulph. Complementary: Sulph. Antidote: Hepar.
Antimonium Tartaricum
Antidotes: Puls; Sepia . Compare: Kali sulph; Ipecac.
Apis Mellifica
Complementary.: Nat mur . The "chronic", Apis ; also Baryta carb , if lymphatics are involved. Inimical. Rhus. Compare: Apium virus (auto-toxæmia, with pus products); Zinc; Canth; Vespa; Lachesis.
Argentum Metallicum
Antidotes: Mercur; Puls . Compare: Selen; Alum; Platina; Stannum; Ampelopsis (Chronic hoarseness in scrofulous patients).
Arnica Montana
Antidotes: Camph . Vitex trifolia.-- Indian Arnica (Sprains and pains, headache in temples, pain in joints; pain in abdomen; pain in testicles). Complementary: Acon; Ipec. Compare: Acon; Bapt; Bellis; Hamam; Rhus; Hyperic.
Arsenicum Album
A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease make its homeopathic employment constant and certain. Its general symptoms often alone lead to its successful application. Among these the all-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation, are most important. Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion. This, with the peculiar irritability of fiber, gives the characteristic irritable weakness. Burning pains. Unquenchable thirst. Burning relieved by heat. Seaside complaints (Nat mur; Aqua Marina). Injurious effects of fruits, especially more watery ones. Gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency. Fear fright and worry. Green discharges. Infantile Kala-azar (Dr. Neatby). Ars
Arsenicum Metallicum
Arouses latent syphilis. Periodicity very marked; symptoms recur every two and three weeks. Weakness. Swollen feeling of parts.
Asa Foetida
Antidotes: China; Mercur . Compare: Moschus; China; Mercur; Aurum.
Asarum Europaeum
Asarum Canadensa -Wild Ginger (Colds, followed by amenorrha and gastro-enteritis. Suppressed colds). Compare: Ipecac , especially in diarrha; Silica; Nux; China .
Aurum Metallicum
Compare: Aur ars (chronic aortitis; lupus, phthisis in syphilitic headaches; also in anæmia and chlorosis. It causes rapid increase of appetite). Aur brom (in headaches with neurasthenia, megrim, night terrors, valvular diseases). Aur mur (Burning, yellow, acrid leucorrha; heart symptoms, glandular affections; warts on tongue and genitals; sclerotic and exudative degeneration of the nervous system. Multiple sclerosis. Morvan's disease. Second trituration. Aur mur is a sycotic remedy, causing suppressed discharges to reappear. Valuable in climacteric hæmorrhages from the womb. Diseases of frontal sinus. Stitching pain in left side of forehead. Weariness, aversion to all work. Drawing feeling in stomach. Cancer, tongue as hard as leather; induration after glossitis). Aur mur kali .--Double chloride of Potassium and gold (In uterine induration and hæmorrhage). Aur iod (Chronic pericarditis, valvular diseases, arterio-sclerosis ozæna, lupus, osteitis, ovarian cysts, myomata uteri, are pathological lesions, that offer favorable ground for the action of this powerful drug. Senile paresis). Aur sulph (Paralysis agitans; constant nodding of the head; affections of mammæ; swelling, pain, cracked nipples with lancinating pains). Also, Asafaet (in caries of bones of ears and nose). Syphilin: Kali iod; Hep; Merc; Mez; Nit ac; Phosph. Antidotes: Bell; Cinch; Cupr; Merc.