Materia Medica D–F

Region:

• Muscles.
• Bones.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Cold air.
• Waning moon.
• Evening in bed.

Parts (head, arms, etc.) seem separated from body (Bapt. Psor.). Bruised pain. Fetor. Exhaustion. .................... Sad. Head feels big. Tongue, coated on one side only (Irid. Rhus-t.). Sleepless; from bone aches. Clammy sweat.

Related: Rhus-t.

Region:

• Female organs.
• Nerves.
• Sleep.

Worse:

• Standing.

Increased secretions. .................... A lump rises in throat. Bearing down, with bilious vomiting, < standing on feet. Menses early; of black clots; preceded by blindness. Sensation of milk flowing into mammæ. Cramps from anterior thighs into uterus, before menses. Somnambulism (Pho.). Dreams of piercing bodies of her children together (Pho.).

Related: Pul.

Region:

• Vagus.
• HEART; muscle.
• CIRCULATION: Liver. Lungs. Stomach.
• Occiput.
• Genito-urinary organs.

Worse:

• Raising up.
• Exertion.
• Heat.
• Lying on L. side.
• Motion.
• Smell of food.
• Cold drinks.
• Excesses: Sexual.

Better:

• Rest.
• Cool air.
• Lying flat on back.

WEAKNESS, faint-like; can hardly talk. Heart slow, with indefinite or causeless symptoms. HEART SLOW, weak or irregular; quick, on motion; with liver or sexual symptoms; at puberty. Must walk about, with precordial anxiety; with teasing to urinate. .................... Anxious solicitude. Dizzy. Crashes in head; on dropping to sleep. Spastic hemicrania. Yellow- red conjuctiva. Seething in ears. Face pale; bluish, also lips and tongue. Thick, flabby tongue. Much thirst, little appetite (Sul.), but no fever. Deathly nausea or with faint sinking at pit of stomach. Liver sore, swelled. White, putty-like stools. Dribbling urination. Dropsy. Throbbing in neck of bladder. Early morning erection. Swelled prostate; senile. Atonic night losses. Glans inflamed; gonorrhœa of (Jaca.). Profuse, thick, yellow-white gonorrhœa. Slow breathing. Cough, with pains in shoulders and arms. HEART; weak; feels like stopping; sprains; palpitation. Slow, intermittent pulse. Numb or weak left arm. Drowsy. Dreams of falling; wakes with a shock. Cold skin. Flushes of heat, then great weakness. Cold, clammy sweat.

Related: Glo. Spi.

Region:

• NERVES: Cord. Abdominal. Sciatic.
• Navel.
• Gall-bladder.
• Right side.

Worse:

• Doubling up.
• Lying.
• Tea; eating.

Better:

• Stretching out or bending back.
• Motion; in open air (Mag-c. Pul.).
• Hard pressure.

A remedy of pains, of all kinds. UNBEARABLY SHARP, CUTTING, TWISTING, GRIPING OR GRINDING PAINS; that dart about or radiate; to distant parts, arms, etc.; in paroxysms; cease suddenly, then start in a different place; periodical. Shudderings, from pain, etc. .................... Nervous and easily troubled. Confused, full head. Sensation as if head were crushed down (Dio.). Eructations; with hiccough. Cardialgia. Pains shoot from liver to right nipple. Violent abdominal colic, > motion; pains go into back, chest or arms. Flatulence. Darting, from anus to liver. Piles like a bunch of cherries. Weakening morning diarrhœa, without relief. Erections lasting all night. Cold relaxed sexual organs. Atonic emissions, then weakness; < knees. Violent dysmenorrhœa. Chest or cardiac pains radiate into both arms. Felon. Burning, numb, sciatic (r) pain, < motion. Hamstrings seem too short. Cold, clammy sweat; of strong odor on genitals.

Related: Colo. Mag-c.

Region:

• Blood.
• THROAT.

Worse:

• Lying.
• Cold.
• Milk.

Weak and restless, but without pain, or aching, breaking joint pains, > lying. Wants to be held. Drawing in muscles, then sudden snap. Jerking of single parts. Internal trembling. .................... Sees visions. Carphology. Moisture at edge of hair. Fanning of alæ nasi, with snoring. Yellow, thick nasal discharge. Flushed face; center of cheeks purple. Moist tongue, with red tip or a dark red spot back of tip; red papillæ. Throat dark. Thick, gray membrane; on tonsil (l). Fetor. Wants cold air down throat or craves cold drinks. Diphtheria; prophylactic; painless; relapsing. Post-diphtheric paralysis. Obstinate tonsilitis. Faintness at stomach, > sips of milk. Dry, hot palms; they feel withered. Dry skin. Talks in sleep, with open eyes. Low temperature. Chilly, then hot.

Related: Carb-ac.

Region:

• RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
• Bones: Long (Stil.). Joints.
• Larynx.
• Chest.
• Lungs.
• Glands.

Worse:

• After midnight.
• On lying down.
• Warmth.
• Talking.
• Cold foods.
• Laughing.
• After measles.

Better:

• Pressure.

Spasmodic, catarrhal and hæmorrhagic effects. Tuberculosis; of bones. .................... Easily angered. Desire to drown himself. Sensitive to sour odors. Painful sneezing. Putrid taste. PROLONGED, PERIODICAL FITS OF RAPID, INCESSANT, DEEP BARKING OR CHOKING COUGH; as if from abdomen; taking away the breath; compel holding the sides and ending in retching, vomiting (first of ingesta, then of mucus), nosebleed or cold sweat; followed by loquacity. Typical whooping cough. Tickling like a feather or crumb in larynx. Bloody, purulent expectoration. Hoarse, toneless voice. Constriction of chest. Stitches below axillæ. Writers' cramp. Complementary: Sul.

Related: Coc-c. Cor-r.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: Bronchi. Bladder. Eyes.
• BACK: Muscles. LOINS.
• SKIN.
• Umbilicus.
• Lymphatics.

Worse:

• BEING CHILLED: WHILE HOT. Sudden change of temperature. Uncovering. COLD WET; feet, ground, cellars, beds, etc.
• Suppressed discharges, sweat, eruptions, etc.
• Autumn.
• Night.
• Rest.
• Injuries.
• Mercury.
• Before storms.

Excessive secretion of mucus. Catarrhal-rheumatic-herpetic tendency. Stiff, numb, achy and sore from every exposure to damp cold. Tearing. Paralytic effects. Griping in bowels, testes, etc. .................... Confusion. Depression. Scolding. Difficult speech. Easily becomes delirious. Occiput feels large. Ringworm of scalp. Aching in nose. Coryza; stuffed; summer colds, with diarrhœa. Nose obstructed by the least fresh air. Nosebleed; replaces menses. Thick, brown- yellow crusts on face. Swelled tongue. Tenacious, soapy saliva. Cutting at navel; then painful, green, slimy stools. Sour, watery stools, < night. Every cold settles in eyes, throat or affects bladder (Pul.), bowels or respiration (Sul.). Frequent urination. Cloudy, slimy or foul urine. Cystitis. Dropsy. Enlarged testes, with griping pains. Watery menses. Cough: caused by tickling in back of throat; in prolonged fits; with much loose, easy expectoration. Eruptions; scaly, thick, crusty, moist, bleeding or herpetic; < before menses. Urticaria. Pruritus. Large, smooth, fleshy, flat warts. Coldness; in occiput; lumbar region; in bowels; icy, of paralyzed part. Chilliness starts from back; not > warmth; < evening. Chill with urging to stool and urinate. Foul sweat. Complementary: Bar-c. Nat-s.

Related: Rhus-t.

Region:

• Blood.
• Circulation.
• Gums.
• Lymphatics.
• Left side.

Worse:

• Eating.
• Injury.
• Operations.

Better:

• Rest.

Weak, tired and achy. Slow speech, gait, replies, etc. Weakness, in stomach; in bowels; of heart; in knees; with vertigo. Sepsis. Lymphangitis. Rheumatism. .................... Depressed or cross and out of sorts. Can't exert mind. Sharp pain deep in brain; it seems too large. Throbbing through temples. Hot, burning forehead. Twitching brows. Bluish face. Teeth sensitive to drafts of air. Mucus, frothy in mouth; hawks from throat. Tongue numb. Peppery taste. Aphthæ. Nauseated and chilly. Sour, bloody vomitus; like coffee grounds. As of a load in posterior liver. Blood follows stool. Seminal emissions. As of a lump under sternum. Burning under l. scapula. Hands, numb alternately or restless; on awaking. Dreams of difficulties; laborious or quarrelsome. Irregular chills, heats and sweats. Chill in l. occiput. Sweat on upper parts; on forehead. Increasing, but variable pulse.

Related: Arn. Pyro. Rhus-t.

Region:

• Blood.
• Nose.
• Ears.
• Throat.
• Right side.

Worse:

• Approach of storms.
• Cold; drink or food.
• Dampness.
• Night.
• In room.

Black discharges; hæmorrhages, etc. Internal coldness; in chest; < drinking. Adynamic sepsis. Oscillatory motions. Twisting spasm, then paralysis; œsophageal. Right side feels paralyzed, weak or insensible. Wrinkled mucous membranes (Ars.). .................... Fear causes chattering teeth and trembling. Fears rain. Black rings before l. eye. Deafness; at night. Stuffed feeling in naso-pharynx. Green-yellow crusts in nose. Ozœna. Nosebleed. Red spots on face. Drinks feel like ice in stomach. Stools of black, frothy blood. Air hunger. Painful cough. Pain at apex of r. lung. Weak arms. Peeling palms and fingertips. Rushes of blood to head. Icy cold feet. General cold sweat. Antidote: Cedron.

Related: Crot-h. Helod.

Region:

• Nerves.
• Stomach.
• Liver.

Worse:

• Fatigue; nervous; of shopping.
• Eyestrain.

Better:

• Sleep.

Confusion. Like fingertips pressing into temples. Compressive (r.) headache, going backward; < until 4 P.M. then >; with spitting of viscid saliva and nausea. Weekly headaches. Neurasthenia. Tartar on teeth.

Related: Ign. Iris.

Region:

• GENITO-URINARY TRACT.

Worse:

• At close of urination.
• Pressure.

Aching, full, tender bladder. Cystitis. Prickling, burning, or cutting in urethra. Dysuria. NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; with irritable bladder. Dribbling urine. Mucus in urine. Complementary: Sil.

Related: Canth.

Region:

• Genito-urinary tract.
• Joints.

Worse:

• Rainy weather.

Hæmorrhage; bright, gushing; vomits and purges pure blood. Congestion. Smarting- burning. Hard aching. .................... Burning in stomach and abdomen (Ars.). Tympanites. Anus seems torn. Vesico-rectal tenesmus (Canth. Merc-c.). Aching in bladder. Retained urine. Dysuria. Sticky sweat on genitals. Ecchymoses.

Related: Canth. Terb.

Region:

• Mucous membranes.
• Blood.
• Muscles.
• Respiration.

Worse:

• Periodically.
• Night.

Aching, stiff and weary, as from taking cold. Grippe. Malaria. Migraine. Sticking, jerking pain at night. Profuse catarrhal discharges; acrid; foul. Rheumatic-hydrogenoid constitution. Exhausted, toxæmic and hæmorrhagic. .................... Mental exhilaration. Burning eyes. Tinnitus. Tension across nose. Watery coryza. Pasty tongue. Throbbing in stomach. Weight in bowels. Slow digestion, with putrid gas. Diarrhœa; dysenteric; typhoid. Diuresis. Cough of influenza. Bronchial asthma. Bronchorrhœa; senile. Limbs prickle, then ache. Chill, then nausea and vomiting. Fever with aching. Vertigo in all stages. Old malarias.

Related: Chin. Dul. Echin.

Region:

• BONES.
• Stomach.
• Liver.
• Occiput.
• Bronchiæ.
• Muscles: Chest. Back. Limbs.

Worse:

• COLD AIR.
• Motion.
• PERIODICALLY: 7-9 A.M. 3rd. or 7th. day.
• Lying on part.
• Coughing.
• Smell or sight of food.

Better:

• Vomiting bile.
• Sweating.
• Lying on face.

VIOLENT, ACHING, BONE-BREAKING PAINS (Coccl. Pyro. Rut.). Bruised, sore ache, < back. Restless, chilly and nauseated. Colds. Grippe; and catarrhal sequelæ. Bilious effects; yellow eyes, face, vomit, etc. Weakness. .................... Vertigo; sways to left; < lying on r. side; > vomiting. Sore throbbing head pains, < occiput; alternating with gouty pains. Sensation as of a metal cap on head. Migraine. Vomits bile at height of head pains, then >. Sore, aching eye-balls. Sneezing. Thirst, but drinks excite bitter vomiting or chill. Whitish stools. Urine now profuse, now scanty. Hoarse in A.M. Painful cough, from a laryngeal tickle; it hurts head; must hold chest. Raw, hot, sore chest and bronchi. Intense backache; as if beaten; ascending. Aching lower limbs. Bruised pain in calves. Dropsy of legs. Painful, gouty nodes. Thirst or nausea, then violent shaking chill; begins in small of back. Bitter vomiting, after chill or during heat. Burning heat. Scanty sweat. Malaria. Catarrhal fevers. Complementary: Nat-m. Sep.

Related: Bry. Nux-v.

Bones-breaking pains. Urinary stream smaller.

Region:

• Mucous membranes.
• Bones.
• Skin.
• Teeth.

Worse:

• Sitting.
• Rest.
• Beginning motion.
• Mercury.

Internal burning; in bones at night. Caries. Much secretion, with a sense of dryness. Paralytic weakness; in joints. Slow inflammation. .................... Much abortive sneezing. Coryza, with swelling. Ozœna; acrid. Mouth feels coated with rancid grease (Iris.). Brittle, crumbling teeth. Stitches from epigastium into sides of chest on coughing. Erysipelas; bullosum; right side, of mucous membranes. High fever.

Related: Nit-ac. Sul.

Region:

• MUCOUS MEMBRANES: EYES. Nose. Chest.

Worse:

• SUNLIGHT.
• WIND.
• Warmth.
• Room.
• Evening.

Better:

• Open air.
• Winking.
• Wiping eyes.

Free, acrid, watery secretions. Acute catarrhs. Acrid pus. .................... WATERY EYES; swimming in tears; as of a hair before them, wants to wipe them. ABUNDANT, ACRID OR HOT, SMARTING TEARS, with bland coryza; < open air, lying or coughing (Chel.); leaving a varnish-like mark. Photophobia; with spasm of lids. Pressive, cutting eye-pains. Sticky eye- gum. Red, burning-itching tarsi. Violent injection. Conjunctivitis; of measles. Thick yellow or acrid discharge from eyes. Chemosis. Chronic sore eyes. Gushes of fluent coryza. Loose cough. Easy expectoration, in day time only, less on lying down at night; (reverse - Thu.).

Related: Cepa.

Region:

• Liver.
• Kidneys.
• Left to right.

Worse:

• Eating.

Crawling; < back. .................... Vertigo; in forehead; as if drawn up and pitched forward (Calc- c.). Pressure over brows; compressing eyes. Engorged liver. Gall-stones. Pain about navel. Profuse stools; varying or of several colors. Albuminuria.

Related: Rhe.

Region:

• Digestive organs.
• Skin.

Worse:

• Scratching.
• Sun-light.

Better:

• Cold bathing.
• Coffee.

Itching; eyes; ears; posterior nares; anus; deep in hands; legs, etc. Pain along lachrymal duct. Scalding, hot, sour eructations. Cardiac pain to shoulder and l. arm; > lying on back. Pruritus vulvæ; with yellow leucorrhœa, < rest. As if neck could not support head. Pains along fingers.

Related: Pul.

Region:

• VASO-MOTORS: CIRCULATION. Blood-vessels.
• Blood.
• Spleen.
• Digestion.
• Left deltoid.

Worse:

• NIGHT.
• Emotions.
• Violent exertion.
• Eating.
• Drinking.
• Vital losses.
• Sweats.
• Quinine.
• Eggs.
• Heat and cold.
• Sudden motions.
• Raising arms.

Better:

• Gentle motion.
• Slight bleeding (Calad. Card-m. Lach.).
• Leaning head on something.

Pale mucous membranes. False erethism or plethora; weak; lies down. Excited, irregular surgings. Wandering orgasms; head, face, chest, etc. Pulsations. Hæmorrhages (bright or with small clots); in rapidly growing youths. Relaxed blood-vessels; dilated veins, < during menses, etc. Red faced old men. Exophthalmos. Pressure on chest, stomach, etc. Nightly pains that compel motion of part. Dry; food seems; vagina, etc. Rapid emaciation. Anæmia. Cachexy. Irritable mind and body. .................... Always in the right; excited by the least opposition. Weeps and laughs immoderately. Sensitive and excitable; < least opposition. Brain-tire. Throbbing, hammering headache, starts in the temples; < cough or stooping; > letting hair down; with vertigo. Pain over l. eye. Blind attacks. Puffy eye-lids. Nose-bleed. Face flushes and pales or reddens from the least thing; florid; feels bloated. Erethistic chlorosis. Toothache, > ice water. Stomach won't tolerate any food. Averse to meat. Spits up his food. Nausea at mid-night. Easy vomiting. Diarrhœa; painless lientery; < while eating; nightly gushing; spluttering; alternating with constipation; < if nervous or tired. Chronic nephritis. Enuresis by day only. Emissions; nightly, with backache; after over-exertion. Raw vagina, < coition. Menses pale; intermit. Leucorrhœa; acrid, milky, watery, at puberty. Changeable voice. Dry, tickling cough. Blood- spitting (streaked). Constriction of or flying stitches in chest. Dyspnœa or palpitation, > motion. Sudden cramps or tearing boring in limbs. Cracking joints. Omodynia. Swelled hands and feet. Heels pain, if lies on back. Sleepless. Chill, with red face and thirst. Heat, with distended veins. Sweats, clammy, yellow, cold, acrid or debilitating. Soft pulse. Complementary: Chin.

Related: Arn. Mang.

Region:

• Vaso-motors.
• Venous circulation: LUNGS. Ears. Nose (root). Eustachian tube.

Worse:

• Night (4-6 A.M.).
• Motion.
• Noise.
• Jar.
• Cold air.
• Checked sweat.

Better:

• Cold.
• Bleedings.
• Lying down.

Anæmic blondes. FULL, SOFT, FLOWING PULSE. Hyperæmia. Acute exacerbations, phthisis, rheumatism, etc. Passive congestion and weakness. Bloody (streaked or meat water) discharges. Bruised soreness; chest, shoulder, muscles. Inflamed soft parts. Burning rawness. .................... Keeps quiet. Anger. Excited and talkative. Cerebral irritation. Throbbing headaches, with sensitive scalp. Headache; shooting pains, aching from vertex down over sides of head; with earache (Pul.), > nosebleed. Suffused eyes. Violent earache. Acute otitis; media. Colds cause deafness. Tinnitus, < lying. Face pales and reddens alternately. Vomits ingesta. Frequent stools of bloody water. Diarrhœa. Impending hydrocephalus. Nephritis. Enuresis. Urinates after every drink (Sarsa.). Menses early, with heavy pain on vertex. Laryngitis; of singers (Aru-t.). Cough; hacking; < morning and evening. Cough, tormenting, spasmodic. Chest heavy, sore or congested. Omodynia. Jerking limbs. Drowsiness. Chill, with desire to stretch. Heat with sweaty hands. Sweatiness. Fevers; continued; infectious; pneumonia; intercurrent. Measles; hæmorrhagic. Complementary: Kali-m.

Related: Gel.

Region:

• FIBROUS TISSUES: VEINS. Skin.
• Bones.
• Mastoid.

Worse:

• HEAT; of room.
• Night.
• Alcohol.
• Sour foods.

Better:

• COOL BATHING.
• Rapid motion.
• Short sleep.
• Bending head back.
• Eating.

Always too hot; wants to bathe in cold water. Pale, miserable, cachectic, flabby and broken down. Slow deeply destructive effects. Puffy, indurated or fistulous tissues. Palmar abscess. Felon. Caries. Bed-sores. Ulcers. Œdema. Secondary syphilis. Thin, foul, acrid or salty discharges; that cause itching. .................... Necessity to be always in the move. Impulse to walk fast. Melancholy. Lecherousness. Stunning headache; > urinating. Brittle, tousy hair. As of a cold wind in eye. Lachrymal stricture. Deafness, > bending head back. Puffy glabella. Thin enamel. Teeth decay rapidly; < at roots. Fissured tongue. Gnawing hunger; for pungent or cold things. Stale eructations. Itching or burning at anus. Upward drawing in urethra (down-Merc.). Profuse, acrid leucorrhœa. Sexual erethism. Œdema of scrotum. Distorted nails. Varicose veins; varicocele. Dry, harsh, itching or cracked skin; seeming to emit a hot vapor. Scars surrounded by pimples. Keloid. Ebullitions of heat; with pains in bones. Acrid, eroding sweat; excites itching. Oily, pungent sweat on genital. Sweat on hands and feet. Complementary: Sil.

Related: Calc-sul. Pul. Sul-ac.

Region:

• Joints.
• Spine.
• Liver.
• Kidneys.
• Right side.

Worse:

• Cold; wet.
• Motion.
• Before snow-storms.

Better:

• Pressure.

Sudden rheumatic or gouty pains. Takes cold easily. Tuberculosis. Hyper-plasia. .................... Light, foaming stools. Hydrops ovarii. Nervous asthma. Hives, in flat plaques. Profuse sweat, without relief.

Related: Rhus-t. Urt-u.

Region:

• Uterus.
• Nerves.

Worse:

• Injury.
• Sprains.
• Lifting.

Nervous females with enlarged or prolapsed wombs. .................... Must talk. Hot spot or dryness on vertex. Throbbing in occiput. Heavy abdomen with bearing down or falling out sensation. Sensitive left ovary. Profuse menses or leucorrhœa. Cramps in feet. Hot flushes.

Related: Sep. Vib.