HOMEOPATHY FOR BEGINNERS Part 9

PHOSPHORUS

 

Tall, slender persons, narrow chested, with thin, transparent skin, weakened by loss of animal fluids, with great nervous debility, emaciation, amative tendencies, seem to be under the special influence of Phosphorus. Great susceptibility to external impressions, to light, sound, odours, touch, electrical changes, thunder-storms. Anxious heart palpitations occur from mental excitement, emotions, and after meals. After eating, the blood rushes to the heart and palpitations are violent. Congestive heart failure and hypertension may occur. Other symptoms are yellowish, devitalized skin; thirst for cold water; increased appetite and lack of proper assimilation; a tendency to chest colds and haemorrhages; tingling in the fingertips; and heavy legs that feel like logs of wood.

MIND: The Phosphorus personality is lively and outgoing with the keynotes of great impressionability and sensitivity to other persons' vibrations and expressions. These patients' aura or ethereal field picks up any aggression, threats, or other psychosocial disturbance, and they may suffer deeply in their core from such impact.  They can also develop a low threshold to worries under stress and can exhibit vehement and angry outbursts which are later followed by exhaustion and remorse.

 

MAIN INDICATIONS:

 

Anxiety health, for others.  Fear dark, storms, alone.

Thirsty: for cold.  Sleeps R side (<  on L side).

Desires salt, ice cream, chocolate, sweets, cold.

Burning pains. Hunger, even at night.

Stomach pains > cold drinks (until warm).

< Twilight. > brief sleep.

Numbness, formication tips of fingers.

Bleeding, bruising (menses).  Illness goes to chest.

Cough < laugh, temp change, etc.

Coldness of knees. Vertigo, looking up.

Constipation: long, slender stool. Laryngitis.

 

PULSATILLA

 

Pulsatilla is known for being aggravated on lying down.  Overeating may appeal to these patients in their quest for nourishment and richness of affection. Hormonal fluctuations, such as the mental/emotional imbalance and the menstrual irregularities, determine much of the symptomatology.  Mucus or pus from colds, ears, eyes or wounds is often yellow and thick.  Glandular swellings.  Loss of smell, ringing in the ears.

 

MIND: Pulsatilla need a lot of nurturing and can become excessively overwrought and nervous, especially after a loss in affection or attention. In their effort to keep things together, these patients develop fastidiousness and preoccupation with trifles; problems cannot be shaken off easily and become fixated thinking patterns on going to sleep. Over and over again, the mind repeats the same dilemma; or in better times, it may just be a tune that runs repeatedly through the mind and will not abide. They are often weepy and clingy and are motivated by the desire to be consoled and pampered.  Pulsatilla has a changeable and contradictory nature, seeks emotional closeness with others, is generally gentle and yielding though can get very irritable.

MAIN INDICATIONS:

Weepy > consolation.   Changeable: mood, symptoms.

Fear of insanity, claustrophobia, men, dark, heights.

< Heat, heat of sun, warm room.

< Wetting feet.

> Open air, cold (air, applications).

Thirstless (w/ dry mouth). Desires cold things.

Desire/averse butter. Averse/< fat (stomach).

< Twilight, evening. > walking slowly outside.

Uncovers feet. Hot flushes.

Thick, bland discharges - all mucous membranes.

Menses late, scanty, suppressed (< from).

Wandering arthritis.

Diarrhoea from ice cream.

 

RHUS TOXICODENDRON

 

These people often experience pain and stiffness that is accompanied by an irresistible desire to move or change the position constantly to alleviate the pain. They usually feel worse at night.  They often feel a painful stiffness after resting for a time, on getting up from sleep or when first moving about. Relief is only experienced from continual motion.   If any illness occurs after a drenching by a shower of rain or by getting wet in any way, be it aches and pains, influenza, or any complaint, acute or chronic, this remedy is worth remembering.

 

MIND: They often experience an anxious sadness especially in the early evening and at night, with wish for solitude and inclination to weep.

MAIN INDICATIONS:

Restlessness.

> Change of position.

< Still, first motion.

> Continued motion.

< Cold, wet.

> Warmth, dry air, hot applications.

> Lying on hard floor (backache).

< Lifting, straining, getting wet when perspiring.

< Uncovering single part: cough - hand out of covers.

Dry coated tongue w/ red tip.

Hives during fever.

Vesicular rash (erysipelas, eczema): burns, itches.

Stiffness w/ desire to stretch.     Neck < cold draft.

Desires milk.

Laborious dreams.

L sciatica.

Pain between shoulders, swallowing.

 

RUTA

 

Pains worse from exertion and cold, damp weather. There is also a tendency to panic disorders and fear of death, coming on especially from becoming overheated and during fever. This remedy is the main first-aid remedy for sprains and strains and any injury to tendons or the periosteum. Likewise, in a chronic case, the physical pathology centres around a general stiffness, arthritic pains, fibrosis and tendonitis, chronic back pains, eye strain, as well as rigidity and anxious tightness on mental/emotional planes.

 

MIND: Ruta is the remedy for suspicious, quarrelsome people who also have a tendency to become remorseful and may try to take a firm hold of themselves. They are inclined to become easily fatigued.

MAIN INDICATIONS:

SPRAINS

Sensation of soreness or as from a contusion, bruise or fall or from a blow, especially in the limbs and joints.

Sensation of soreness of the parts on which one lies.

Lameness after sprains, especially the wrists and ankles.

- bones, broken, bruised - pain, deep

Dislocations

<cold worsens

< damp worsens

> exercise improves

<rest worsens

>warmth improves

 

SEPIA

Acts specially on the portal system, with venous congestion. Patients are inclined to feel weary and over taxed by family or work.  Weakness, yellow complexion, bearing-down sensation, especially in women, upon whose organism it has most pronounced effect. Pains extend down to back, chills easily. Tendency to abortion. Hot flashes at menopause with weakness and perspiration. Upward tendency of its symptoms. Anxieties appear to intensify toward the evening and are highlighted on going to sleep. There can be a state of overexcitement in mind and body; many ailments intensify during the night, such as toothache, colic, cough, heat, and surges of blood. The patient wakes frequently without apparent cause. Sleep is restless, with frightful dreams and the vivid impression of being called by name. There may be talking and crying during sleep. Further Sepia symptoms are a bearing-down sensation in the pelvic area; a longing for acids, such as vinegar and pickles; heart palpitations with beating in all arteries; restless limbs; aggravation from cold and damp; and amelioration from exercise.

MIND: The person needing Sepia feels overtaxed, is easily vexed and irritated; there develops a strong dislike for chores, duties, and for serving others. The turning away from fruitful interaction with others leaves the patient dissatisfied, easily offended, and self-pitying. There may also be anxious preoccupation with money and health.  Sepia is characterized by indifference and a tendency to retreat from those loved best, the family especially is causing great irritability. Yet, Sepia also needs closeness and dreads to be alone, and the retreating may be caused by self-pity, while the urge to be attended to is present as well.

MAIN INDICATIONS:

 

Likes to be Alone (yet may dread it).

> Exertion/occupation.

< Before, during menses.

< Pregnancy, after abortion.

> Evening.

< Sea.

< Tight clothing (throat).

Averse sex (no desire).

Leucorrhoea.

Violent stitches upward in vagina.

Hot flushes with perspiration (climacteric).

Left Headaches.

Stomach empty not > eating.

Desires vinegar, sour.

Vomits milky fluid.

Constipation with "lump" in rectum.

Weakness, pelvis: prolapse > crossing legs.

 

SILICA

Diseases of bones, caries and necrosis. Silicea can stimulate the organism to re-absorb fibrotic conditions and scar-tissue. Abscesses, headaches, spasms, epilepsy, feeling of coldness before an attack. Keloid growth.  Ill effects of vaccination. Ripens abscesses since it promotes suppuration. Silica patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, wants plenty warm clothing, hates drafts, hands and feet cold, worse in winter. Lack of vital heat. Prostration of mind and body. Great sensitiveness to taking cold. Intolerance of alcoholic stimulants. Ailments attended with Pus formation.

 

MIND: Mentally Silica is tired, the tiredness of a mind giving out under a long strain. Their senses become hyper-acute, noise worries them, makes them anxious, puts them off their work. They becomes depressed and very irritable if disturbed. They can lose confidence is themselves and become afraid that their work is poor and that they will fail.  They can become over-conscientious about trifles. It requires a great effort for them to concentrate their mind on any thing. They can become gloomy and despondent, inclined to give everything up and to yield to others becoming weary of life. They can also become obstinate and headstrong, yet they may cry when kindly spoken to.

MAIN INDICATIONS:

Chilly.

Fear of failure (dreads a challenge).

< cold, draft. open air, new moon.

> warmth, wrapping head.

< suppressed sweat.

Offensive foot perspiration.

Head sweat, in sleep.

< prolonged mental exertion.

Headache (occiput -frontal) < uncovering head.

< warm food though chilly.

Desires eggs.

Prostration from coitus.

Swollen glands (hard).

Constipation with receding stool.

Suppurations: don't heal.

Frequent URI's, otitis.

Ingrown toenails.

Brittle nails with white spots.

 

SULPHUR

 

The skin tends to be unhealthy, is dry and scaly, suppurates easily, and is subjected to immense itching and burning. The warmth of the bed and any scratching or even washing worsen the condition. In adulthood, chronic psoriasis may appear.  Sulphur patients may appear personally negligent, tending to exhibit faulty eating habits and showing disinterest in wholesome bodily habits. These patients cannot tolerate milk or eggs, but they show a great desire for sweets and alcohol. They suffer from stomach acidity, a weight-like sensation in the stomach, peptic ulcer formation, and diabetes.

 

MIND: Sulphur people are hot, sweaty, fussy, and often thin despite a good appetite. They can often hate bathing. The Sulphur pathology may be deepened by a lack of steady affection.  Sulphur may become ego-centred and lost in delusions of seeing beauty in things that others would term differently. The urge to be overly slim may coincide with an already existing lack of appetite, and anorexia may develop.

MAIN INDICATIONS:

Fear heights.

Disgust with bad odours.

< heat.

Sensations of heat: vertex, feet.

Uncovers feet.

Offensive discharges, perspiration.

Averse< bathing.

< standing.

< night in bed.

Hunger (<11AM).

Desires sweets, fat, alcohol.

Averse eggs, sour.

Thirsty for cold.

Diarrhoea drives from bed, early AM.

Offensive stool.

Rectal itch, night.

"Sand" in eyes (no inflammation.)

Red lips, anus, lid margins.

< oversleeping.

Waking 5 AM.

Snores, nightmares on back.

Sleeps L side.

Catnap sleep.

< winter sun.

 

THUJA

 

Acts on skin, blood, gastro-intestinal tract, kidneys, and brain. Its relation to the production of pathological vegetations condylomata, warty excrescences, spongy tumors is very important. Moist mucous tubercles. Bleeding fungus growths. The main action of Thuja Occidentalis is on the skin and genito-urinary organs.

 

MIND: Thuja is characterised by self-consciousness and excessive self-preoccupation that lead to fixed ideas, scrupulousness in details, and anxious apprehension toward the future. This nervousness and inner disquiet are expressed, among other symptoms, in the constriction of the chest; breathing becomes obstructed and an asthmatic tendency may develop. Thuja is obsessively preoccupied with issues of self-esteem, developing fixed ideas and entertaining worries about appearance, performance, or health.

MAIN INDICATIONS:

Warts, hard tumours, polyps, growths (all kinds).

History suppressed warts, condylomata, gonorrhea.

Forked urinary stream; dribbling urine.

Chronic NSU: watery urethral discharge.

Stomach < onions.

L frontal headaches.

Leukorrhea after gonorrhea.

Unclear case.

Fixed ideas about body: something alive in abdomen, pregnant, legs fragile.

L sided.

< smallpox vaccination.

Sleeps L side.

< 3AM & PM.

Stool recedes.

Hair dry, falls.

Sensation falling during sleep.

Dryness nose.