Homeopathic Materia Medica
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AURUM MURIATICUM
Aurum Muriaticum. Chloride of Gold. Na Cl, Au Cl3, 2H2O. Clinical Albuminuria. Amaurosis. Angina pectoris. Anus, fistula of. Asthma. Bubo. Cancer. Caries. Chancre. Condylomata. Dropsy. Eczema. Fistula. Gonorrhœa. Hæmorrhage. Hair falling out. Heart, affections of. Indurations. Liver, affections o...
AURUM MURIATICUM KALINATUM
Aurum Muriaticum Kalinatum. Double Chloride of Potassium and Gold. K. Cl, Au Cl3, 2H2O. Clinical Uterus, hæmorrhage from; induration of. Characteristics An unproved salt, recommended by Dr. Burford and others as the best preparation of gold in cases of uterine induration and hæmorrhage. Relations...
AURUM SULPHURICUM
Aurum Sulphuratum. Auric sulphide. Au2 S3. Clinical Enuresis. Goître. Head, nodding of. Impotence. Jaundice. Mammæ, affections of. Nightmare. Nose, swelling of. Paralysis agitans. Pruritus vulvæ. Staggering. Characteristics This is a valuable gold preparation which I have used with success in Aur...
AVIAIRE
Aviaire. A preparation of chicken-tuberculosis introduced by Dr. Cartier and other homœopaths of Paris. Clinical Bronchitis. Influenza. Measles. Phthisis. Characteristics Dr. Cartier gave an account of this nosode in his paper read at the International Homœopathic Congress, 1896 (Transactions, Pa...
Abies Canadensis - Pinus Canadensis
Mucous membranes are affected by Abies can and gastric symptoms are most marked, and a catarrhal condition of the stomach is produced. There are peculiar cravings and chilly sensations that are very characteristic, especially for women with uterine displacement, probably due to defective nutrition with debility. Respiration and heart action labored. Wants to lie down all the time; skin cold and clammy, hands cold; very faint. Right lung and liver feel small and hard. Gleet.
Abies Nigra
Compare: (Lump in stomach-- China, Bryon, Pulsat ); also other Conifers-- Thuja, Sabina, Cupressus (painful indigestion) also Nux vom, Kali carb .
Abrus Precatorius -- Jequirity
Compare: Jequiritol (in cases of trachoma and pannus to engraft a new purulent inflammation. The proteid poisons contained in Jequirity seeds are almost identical in their physiological and toxic properties with the similar principles found in snake venom).
Absinthium
Compare: Alcohol; Artemisia; Hydrocy acid; Cina; Cicuta .
Acalypha Indica
Compare: Millefol; Phosphor; Acetic acid; Kali nit .
Aceticum Acidum
Acetic acid is antidotal to all anæsthetic vapors. Counteracts sausage poisoning. Compare: Ammon acet (Profuse saccharine urine, patient is bathed in sweat). Benzoin oderiferum--Spice-wood (night sweats). Ars; China; Digitalis; Liatris (General anasarca in heart and kidney disease, dropsy, and chronic diarrha).
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).
Adonis Vernalis
Adonidin is a cardiac tonic and diuretic. Quarter grain daily, or two to five grains of first decimal trit increases arterial pressure and prolongs the diastole, favoring emptying engorged veins. Is an excellent substitute for Digitalis and is not cumulative in action. Compare: Digit; Cratoeg; Conval; Strophanthus.
Adrenalinum
Adrenaline or Epinephrine, the active principle of the medulla of the suprarenal gland, (cortical secretion not as yet isolated), is employed as a chemical messenger in the regulation of the activities of the body; in fact, its presence is essential to the activity of the sympathetic nerve. Adrenaline action on any part is the same as stimulation of the sympathetic nerve endings thereto. Local application (1: 1,000 solution) to mucous membranes promptly induces transient ischemia, seen in a blanching, persisting several hours from conjunctival instillation. Its action is very prompt, efficient, evanescent, owing to rapid oxidation and therefore practically harmless, unless too frequently repeated, when atheroma and heart lesions--myocardial--in animals have been reported. Arteries, heart, supra-renal bodies and vaso-motor system are prominently affected. The main action of Adrenaline is stimulation of the sympathetic endings, notably the splanchnic area, causing constriction of the peripheral arterioles, with resulting rise in blood pressure. This is especially observed in stomach, intestines; less in uterus, skin; nil in brain and lungs. Furthermore, is noticed, slowing of pulse, (medullary vagus stimulation), and strengthening of heart beat (increased myocardial contractility), resembling Digitalis; increased glandular activity, glycosuria; depression of respiratory center; contraction of muscular tissue of eye, uterus, vagina; relaxation of muscular tissue of stomach, intestines, bladder.
Aesculus Hippocastanum
Aesculus glabra -Ohio-Buckeye Proctitis. Very painful, dark purple, external hæmorrhoids, with constipation and vertigo and portal congestion. Speech thick, tickling in throat, impaired vision, paresis. Phytolacca (throat dry, more often in acute cases). Negundium Americanum --Box-elder--(Engorgements of rectum and piles with great pain, ten-drop doses of tincture every two hours). Compare also: Aloe, Collinson. Nux. Sulphur .
Aethiops Mineralis
Aethiops Antimonalis --(Hydrargyrum stibiato sulfuratum).--(often more effective than the above in scrofulous eruptions, glandular swellings, otorrha and scrofulous eye affections , corneal ulcers. Third trituration). Compare: Calc; Sil; Psorin .
Aethusa Cynapium
The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children, during dentition, summer complaint, when, with the diarrha, there is marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation. Symptoms set in with violence.
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.
Agraphis Nutans
Compare: Hydrast; Cepa; Calc phos; Sulph jod; Calc jod .
Ailanthus Glandulosa
Antidotes: Rhus; Nux . Compare: Ammon carb; Bapt; Arn; Mur ac; Lach; Rhus.