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Stooped, old look. Unwashed. Chronicity. Burning.
Congestion. Redness. Itch.
Ascending effects. Early morning diarrhoea. Suffocative air hunger. Burning
soles, sticks feet out of bed, at night.
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COMMON NAME
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Brimstone
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SOURCE
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Flowers of Sulphur
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A/F
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MODALITIES
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MIND
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| - | Self-conscious. SELFISH. Egotism.
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| - | Usually self-confident. Domineering. Anger over his mistakes.
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| - | CENSORIOUS, CRITICAL. Chronic constitutional grumbler.
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| - | HAUGHTY, egotism, bragging (Morrison).
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| - | CRITICAL. Thinks himself better. Eventually DISGUST for others.
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| - | Extroverted, boisterous, friendly (Morrison).
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| - | INTELLECTUAL, philosophical, theorizing.
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| - | PHILOSOPHICAL MANIA; wants to know who made this or that how tries to reason
without any hope of discovery or possible answer.
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| - | Imagines himself a great man, though ignorant, despises literary men,
education.
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| - | Thinks rugs are beautiful things, that he is immensely wealthy, the most
ordinary objects seem extraordinary. Admiration.
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| - | Reclusive. Theoretical speculations. Looking for the truth behind things.
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| - | Wants to discover something nobody discovered. Scatter their mind in
investigations.
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| - | Religious melancholy, prays constantly uninterruptedly.
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| - | Religious aversions to opposite sex.
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| - | Love sick with one of her own sex.
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| - | PRACTICAL TYPE, over-enthusiasm. Practical idealist. Gives a lot to others.
Social. Extroverted.
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| - | THEORIZING. Always occupied with his mind.
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| - | LAZY. Procrastinate. Inertia.
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| - | Aversion to DIRT from others. Don't see their own dirt. Indifference for
their environment, for their personal appearance. Their house or office is a
mess.
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| - | Can't keep their clothes clean. INDIFFERENCE TO PERSONAL APPEARANCE, TO
WELFARE OF OTHERS, TO EXTERNAL THINGS, TO PLEASURE.
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| - | Fastidiousness can be seen also.
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| - | Collects anything. 'Rags are like riches'.
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| - | Mechanical thinking; takes things apart. Inquiring mind.
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| - | Obstinate and irritable. VERY SELFISH, no regard for others.
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| - | FEAR OF CONTAMINATION, INFECTION, HIGH PLACES, claustrophobia, of death, of
accidents, for his family, of ghosts at night, of poverty, of robbers, of
starving, of disease, of cancer, of injection, of failure. Fear of heights;
even when others are in a high place.
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| - | Anxiety about family and children, accidents, disease. Anxiety about friends
at home.
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| - | ANXIETY FROM PRESSURE ON CHEST. ANXIETY ON WAKING AT NIGHT.
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| - | CHILDREN - Curious. Investigate. Obstinate. Domineering. Wants to be treated
as grown-ups. Picky. Disgust. Don't eat from the plate someone touched.
Dirty, eat from their nose. Dullness while reading. Dullness in children.
Indisposition to play in children. Extroverted mechanically inclined, bossy
children (Morrison). Religious affections in children. Child looks dried,
like a little old man, big head, big belly, emaciated limbs.
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| - | Averse to business; too lazy to work himself, too unhappy to live.
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| - | Strong impulsive tendency to suicide by drowning or jumping from a window.
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| - | CAUSELESS WEEPING or weeps from slightest provocation < consolation.
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| - | Dislikes anyone near him.
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| - | REFUSES TO ANSWER, repeats question before answering.
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| - | Very forgetful, memory weak especially for names.
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| - | STARTING ON FALLING ASLEEP. Kicks in sleep.
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| - | Restlessness > perspiration. RESTLESSNESS BEFORE MENSES.
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| - | Impatience about trifles. Impatience during headache. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | When carefully selected remedies fail to act
especially in acute diseases it frequently rejuvenates powers of organism (in
chronic disease - Psorinum).
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| - | Complaints that relapse (Psor, Tub).
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| - | WARM BLOODED. Sometimes chilly.
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| - | DISCHARGES OFFENSIVE. Profuse and offensive perspiration. Mucous discharges,
exhalations are ACRID, BLOOD STREAKED, OFFENSIVE, cause itching.
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| - | Periodicity, 7 days, < weekends.
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| - | STANDING IS THE WORST POSITION for these patients, it is always
uncomfortable.
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| - | IRREGULAR DISTRIBUTION OF CIRCULATION, causing LOCAL BURNING, THROBBING OR
CONGESTION, flushes of heat, rush of blood to head, chest, heart. BURNING IN
VERTEX, SOLES.
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| - | REDNESS OF ORIFICES or single parts due to irregular circulation - LIPS,
ears, nose, eyelids, anus, vulva. Subject to venous congestion especially of
portal system.
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| - | Spells of weakness, faintness, frequent during day, after nursing, or night
watching. Great sleepiness.
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| - | Desire:SWEETS, FAT, SPICES, ALCOHOL (BEER, WINE, WHISKY), ice cream, COLD
DRINKS, raw food, HIGHLY SEASONED FOOD, SWEETS BEFORE MENSES, chocolate,
cucumbers, farinaceous food, liquid food, oysters, pickles, sour, vegetables,
warm drinks.
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| - | AVERSION to meat, EGGS, OLIVES, BEER, strong cheese, chicken, fats, rich
food, milk, sweets, tobacco, wine, SOUR, fish, olives.
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| - | Vertigo, high places (Calc, Nat-m). Vertigo while walking in open air, on
looking down, when rising from a seat.
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Burning headache, < vertex <
WEEKEND, PROLONGED SLEEP
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< Heat, Sun < Winter > Cold.
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Eruptions, itching along hair margin.
Dandruff.
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Constant HEAT ON TOP OF HEAD (Cupr-s,
Graph). Desires cold cloth application.
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Sick headache recurring periodically
(every week or every 2 weeks, on every Sunday or every weekend) preceded by
photophobia.
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Headache ascends from nape to vertex.
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Pressive headache, frontal, in temples
in morning, with restlessness.
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Humid, offensive eruptions, with thick
pus and yellow crusts on head, itching, bleeding, burning.
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Scalp dry, falling of hair <
washing.
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| - | Eye - CONJUNCTIVITIS with sensation of "sand in the eyes", or grit in the eyes > cold applications.
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| - | Blepharitis. MARGINS OF LIDS RED, BURNING. Iritis. Irritation of the margin
of lids.
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| - | Purulent discharge. Agglutination in the morning on waking.
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| - | Disturbances of vision before headache.
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| - | Thick, bushy eyebrows (Morrison).
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| - | Aching in the eyeballs in the evening, with loss of vision.
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| - | Dark points and spots before the eyes, fluttering before eyes.
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| - | Amblyopia in youthful girls with great loss of vigour, anorexia,
constipation.
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| - | CANNOT BEAR TO HAVE EYES WASHED.
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| - | Ears - Otitis media. Otorrhea.
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| - | Impaired hearing from catarrh.
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| - | Nose - AVERSION TO ODORS OF OTHERS. LOVES HIS OWN.
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| - | Oversensitive to odours. Though filthy, oversensitive to filthy odours.
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| - | Chronic dry catarrh, dry scabs, bleeding.
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| - | Fluent burning coryza out of doors; stopped indoors.
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| - | Violent fluent coryza, frequent sneezing in morning evening.
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| - | Itching burning in the nostrils, as if sore.
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| - | Fan-like motion of alae nasi in pneumonia with delayed resolution.
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| - | Face - Plethoric. Flushes < menopause.
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| - | RED LIPS. Bright redness of lips as if blood would burst through (Tub).
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| - | Mouth Mouth dry, insipid, sticky in the morning.
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| - | Accumulation of saliva in mouth after eating.
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| - | Stomach - APPETITE INCREASED, < 11 a.m.
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| - | NUTRITION IS AFFECTED on account of defective assimilation, inspite of
ravenous appetite the patient emaciates (Abrot, Kreos, Iod, Nat-m, Sanic,
Sars, Tub).
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| - | Gastritis. Stomach ulcers. Heartburn.
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| - | BURNING PAINS > COLD DRINKS.
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| - | Drinks much, eats little.
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| - | WEAK EMPTY, GONE OR FAINT FEELING IN THE STOMACH.
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| - | Feeling of fullness in stomach after eating but little.
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| - | Milk < causes sour taste in mouth, sour eructations.
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| - | Sweets < cause nausea, dyspepsia, heartburn.
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| - | Movements in abdomen as of something alive as of a child (Croc, Thuj).
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| - | Griping pains about the navel > emission of flatus.
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| - | Fullness, tension in abdomen as from incarcerated flatulence (Carb-v, Chin,
Lyc).
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| - | Pressive downward sensation in abdomen towards anus.
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| - | Rectum - DIARRHEA, DRIVES HIM OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING, AROUND 5-6 A.M.
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| - | ITCHING, BURNING < NIGHT, HEAT, > COLD.
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| - | Redness. Moist and eruptions around rectum.
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| - | Diarrhoea; after midnight, painless, foul, driving out of bed early in the
morning (Bry, Nat-s, Phos, Podo, Psor, Rumx, Aloe) especially at 5-6 a.m., as
if the bowels were too weak to contain their contents.
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| - | Constipation <-> diarrhoea.
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| - | Constipation; stools hard knotty, dry as if burnt (Bry), LARGE, PAINFUL,
child is afraid to have the stool on account of pain or pain compels the
child to resist on first effort.
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| - | Burning pressure in rectum during stool, burning in anus after stool.
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| - | Haemorrhoids during pregnancy.
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| - | Urine - Passes large quantities of colourless urine.
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| - | Must hurry at sudden call to urinate.
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| - | Male Genitalia - High desire.
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| - | Impotency. Erections incomplete during coition.
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| - | Eruptions extending to perineum.
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| - | Long-lasting burning in urethra after coition.
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| - | BURNING IN URETHRA AFTER COITION OR WHEN SEMEN IS DISCHARGED.
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| - | Seminal discharge too quick, shortly after an erection.
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| - | Female Genitalia - Offensive, burning leucorrhea.
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| - | Itching and burning in vagina
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| - | Menses too late, short, scanty, difficult, thick, black, ACRID, MAKING PARTS
SORE.
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| - | During menses - headache, rush of blood to the head, nosebleed, pressure in
pit of stomach.
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| - | MENORRHAGIA; HAS NOT BEEN WELL SINCE LAST MISCARRIAGE.
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| - | Chest - Respiration difficult, < night, must sit up > open air, wants
windows open. Oppression as of a load on chest, in middle of night >
sitting up.
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| - | Pulse more rapid in morning than in evening.
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| - | Back - WEAKNESS AND PAIN < STANDING. Can't sit straight up or stand erect.
Walks STOOP-SHOULDERED.
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| - | Pain lumbar region WALKS BENT. From pain in back, he can only straighten up
after moving.
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| - | Weak back, slumps in the chair (Morrison).
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| - | Extremities - FEET HOT AND BURNING. UNCOVERS THEM AT NIGHT.
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| - | BURNING SOLES, WANTS THEM UNCOVERED at night; wants to find a cold place for
them (Sang, Sanic), puts them out of bed to cool off (Med) or restlessly
searches for cold spots on the sheets.
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| - | ARTHRITIS, > COLD APPLICATIONS, < HEAT (Fl-ac, Guai, Led, Puls).
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| - | Brittle and distorted nails.
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| - | Lymphangitis < forearms.
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| - | Offensive perspiration of feet.
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| - | Cramps in calves, soles especially at night.
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| - | Sleep - SLEEPLESSNESS. CAT-NAPS. Wakes at 5 a.m.
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| - | Position:LEFT SIDE (Calc, Nat-m).
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| - | NIGHTMARES WHEN SLEEPING ON BACK (Morrison).
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| - | INSOMNIA, sleeps well for 3-4 hours, then wakes, dozes off the rest of the
night.
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| - | HAPPY DREAMS. Wakes up singing.
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| - | Has to get up at night to eat.
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| - | Skin - ANY TYPE OF ERUPTION; moist, burning and itching.
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| - | ITCHING < HEAT, NIGHT IN BED, WOOL, BATHING > COLD.
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| - | Skin dry, scaly, unhealthy, every little injury suppurates.
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| - | DIRTY, FILTHY PEOPLE prone to skin affections (Psor). Aversion to being
washed.
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| - | Body has a disagreeable odour which is not removed by washing. This odour
proves disgusting to the patient.
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| - | Itching vesicles on back of hand.
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| - | Itching burning < scratching, washing.
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| - | ITCHING < NIGHT, HEAT, HEAT OF BED, BATHING, WOOL.
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| - | Boils. Acne. Boils coming in crops, in various parts of the body, or a
single boil is succeeded by another as soon as first is healed.
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| - | Skin affections that have been healed with medicated soaps and washes. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- Standing is the worst position.
- Weak empty gone feeling. Pain in the stomach at about 11 a.m.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | Lean, stoop-shouldered persons, who walk sit
stooped. Standing is the most uncomfortable position.
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| - | Nervous temperament, quick motioned quick tempered, plethoric skin,
excessively sensitive to atmospheric changes (Hep, Kali-c, Psor).
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| - | Dirty people with greasy skin. Long, straight, matted hair. Prone to skin
affections with history of suppression. Children who cannot bear to be washed
or bathed, emaciated; big-bellied, restless. Hot.
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| - | CONGESTIONS especially of portal system.
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| - | Full blooded persons with great irritability, restlessness.
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| - | People with hot, sweaty palms. "Ragged philosophers" who are
always speculating on religious or philosophical subjects.
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| - | Ebullitions of heat, dislike of water. Dry hard hair.
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| - | Sinking feeling at stomach at 11 a.m.
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CLINICAL
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| - | Menorrhagia, has not been well since the last
miscarriage - A single dose at new moon - LIPPE.
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| - | To facilitate absorption of serous or inflammatory exudates in brain,
pleura, joints, lungs when Bryonia, Kali-m, or the best selected remedy fail.
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| - | Ailments from abuse of mind generally.
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| - | If the patient is sleepless, Sulph may be given in morning when their
complementary action is desired. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Complementary: Acon, Aeth, Aloe, Ant-t, Aster, Bov, Cic, Croto-t,
Ip, Kreos, Lob, Merc, Merc-c, Nux-v, Psor, Puls, Rat, Sil
Follows Well: Calc, Calc-p, Lyc, Merc, Puls, Sars, Sep
Compare: Acon, Adren, Alum, Ambr, Aml-n, Ant-c, Anthr, Apis, Arg-n,
Ars, Aur, Bapt, Bar-c, Bell, Berb, Brom, Bruc, Bry, Calc, Cann-s, Carb-v,
Caul, Cham, Chin-s, Cinch, Clem, Croc, Cupr, Cur, Dios, Dros, Dulc, Gels,
Gins, Glon, Goss, Graph, Ham, Hep, Ign, Kali-bi, Kali-c, Lach, Laur, Led,
Lept, Lil-t, Lyc, Maland, Med, Merc, Mosch, Nat-c, Nat-m, Nat-s, Nit- ac,
Nit-ac, Nux-m, Nux-v, Olnd, Phos, Pic-ac, Podo, Psor, Puls, Ran-b, Rhus-t,
Rumx, Sang, Sanic, Scir, Sec, Selen, Sep, Sil, Spig, Stry, Sul-ac, Sulph,
Thuj, Ust, Valer, Verat, Vib
Antidoted By: Acon, Camph, Cham, Cinch, Merc, Puls, Rhus-t, Sep, Thuj
It Antidotes: Acon, Aloe, Cinch, Iod, Merc, Nit-ac, Olnd, Rhus-t, Sep,
Thuj
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