Homeopathy Overview Flashcards

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aconitum napellus

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a sudden fearful trauma
comes on suddenly
fear
trauma/exposure
dilated pupils
tachycardia
PTSD

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allium cepa

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Onion allergies make u Cry, snot, & sneeze in warm rooms
Allergies
Profuse watery discharge from the eyes
Acrid Nasal Discharge
Red nose
Worse in a warm room
Sneezing and coughing

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Anacardium

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Angel and Devil Argue Over Insecurity
Good Cop/Bad Cop/Angel and Demon
Give up their beliefs to be a part of the group
Worse high emotions
Sensation of a plug - keep emotions in and they like it
Better eating/full/
Worse hungry/empty/BM/Urination
Insecurity fear of proving themselves good

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Antimonium tartaricum

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Weak old lady coughing and rocking in a chair
Coughs, thick and rattling
No expectoration
Better sitting upright
Weak
Irritable (worse kids/heat)
Drowsy
Blue lips
Poor circulation
Crave cold water but makes them worse
Better with a fan

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Apis mellifica

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Bee Stings Bring Swollen Red Pain
Bumble bee sting
Red, hot and swollen
Gouty joint
Joint pain that is hot and swollen
They are warm
Better cold application
Kidney issues (urinary issues)
Edema

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Arnica montana

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I’m Fine After Trauma
Head injury
Trauma, bruising, bleeding - Not sore from working out
Everything feels firm to them
They brush things off like they are fine
Trauma emotionally

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Arsenicum album

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Chilly, anxious, and sip warm water slowly
Chilly
Crave warm water that they slowly sip
Adamant about their health
Very anxious about their health
Super compliant patients
Everyone is out to get them
OCD - controlling health, money and others
Desire company
Fastidious, organized
Burning pains, skin conditions
Better heat application (opposite of Sulphur)
Better with heat
Burning diarrhea

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Aurum metallicum

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The perfectionist king falls into depression.
Perfectionist
Going beyond capacity - they can’t quite make it
Depression/Suicide
Better with music
Better at night
Deep pains
Syphilinum - bone cancers, deep seeded pains, depression
The best CEO- something goes wrong they get depressed and suicidal
Duty, worth are very important to them

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Baryta carbonica

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Shy Mr. Magoo with a big head.
Very large head and atrophied body
Delayed development
Lack confidence
Very shy
Need Strong routine
Slow or late in getting out of the house - shy and lack confidence
Swollen tonsils
Hypertrophy of the prostate

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Belladonna

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Scarlet fever strikes with hammering pain.
Sudden onset
High fevers
HA’s (pounding like a hammer on R side)
Dilated Pupils
Head and face are hot
Cold extremities
Worse emotions
Scarlet ohara worse
R sided HA and ear infections
Crave lemonade/lemons
Sensation that they are being led to the gallows- reacting

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Bryonia

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Workaholic dried out and stiff.
Work, Dryness, Better Pressure, Worse Motions
Constipation
Dreams about work
Very hard workers
Appendicitis

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Calcarea carbonica

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The dutiful shell-builder fears the world.
All about duty with job and family
Work themselves to exhaustion
They live in a shell
Don’t read the newspaper
The world is scary and they always have to patch their shells
Great administrators
Detail oriented
Tend to be chilly
Profuse sweat (mainly on head and feet)
Cradle cap for pediatrics
Bone and joint issues (OA and RA)
Crave indigestible things
Fears resolved with work and having people around
Craves eggs

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Cantharis

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Fiery UTI barks for relief so they can have sex.
UTI’s - raw burning, stinging pains, need to urinate, scalding burning pain
Increased libido
Better rubbing, Worse touch from others
Mania and crying with burning UTI (1st and Equisetum 2nd for UTI’s)
Like to Bark
Little urine with voiding

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Carbo vegetabilis

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Collapse, can’t breathe, need air!
Collapsed state, Air-hunger
Have to be sitting up
Apathy and indifference
Irritable
Stagnation
Chilly

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Causticum

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**Burning pains & slow paralysis; better seattle worse spokane **
Acute:
Raw burning pains on skin and elsewhere
UTI’s if holding urine on long trips
Slow progressive paralysis
MS
Worse in Spokane and better in Seattle
Better Damp Cold
Worse Dry Cold
Group protection (Family, friends)
Intolerance for social injustices
Can lead to apathy if no change is seen
Desire heat on burning pains

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Chamomilla

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The teething tantrum baby
Want to be held but worse with consolation - arch their back
Throw them out the window - frustrating
Irritable
Teething
Worse being carried

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Cina

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Super irritable child with pinworms.
Worse than chamomila
Pinworms
Super irritable - arch their back
Otitis media
Might hit the person trying to console them
Desire attention and will act out to receive it

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Cinchona officinalis (china)

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malaria cycles through painless symptoms.
First used for Malaria
Cyclical nature
Painless diarrhea, fevers, ideas
All cyclical
Slow digestion
HA’s
Fevers
All cyclical
Can be paired with Nat mur - has periodicity

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Colocynthis

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Angry kidney stone needs pressure, giving me sciatica.
Kidney stones
Better bending forward
Better firm pressure - pressing into abdomen
Come on with anger, humiliation, or big emotions
Sciatic pain

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Pulsatila

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Want to be held, sweet, and better with consolation

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Conium

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Stony, paralyzed, and suppressed.
slow progressive ascending paralysis
Prostate cancers
Hard stony glands or lymph nodes
Closed off or fixed people
Worse with suppressed sexuality
High libido

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Drosera

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bending over backwards for everyone has me coughing and suffocating, not fair.
Coughs
Venus fly trap
Feeling suffocated, trapped, suppressed
Act out violently because you feel cheated
Better bending backwards

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Equisetum

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UTI with lots of pee but no relief
UTI’s has a dull pain
Right sided kidney pain
Fullness of bladder and not better with urination
A lot of urine when voiding
Burning/cutting at the end of urination

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Eupatorium perfoliatum

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The flu gives me Bone pain and makes me crave cold drinks.
Influenza - late stage flu
Deep bone and muscle pain
Crave cold drinks
Chilly with the fever

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Euphrasia
**Opposite of allium cepa; burning eyes, bland nose** Burning, acrid eye discharge Bland nasal discharge Cheeks or eyes are red and irritated Cough, day time
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Ferrum phosphoricum
**First fever, fast nosebleeds.** First sign of onset of fever No other Sx's besides a fever Epistaxis - Bloody nose, quickly and often
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Gelsemium
**droopy, drowsy, dull stage fright.** Dull, drowsy, and droopy Drooping eyelids Everything feels heavy and will lean over in chair Walk around slowly and get things done slowly Everything comes on and recovers slowly Stage freight because they lack confidence Seem calm on the outside but are anxious on the inside Common for the flu
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Glonoinum
**Gunpowder headache bursts in heat.** Gun powder HA - Bursting, pulsating Heat stroke/sun stroke Irritable with HA Worse sun exposure Confusion
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Graphites
**Thick-skinned but thin body & timid.** Skin conditions Thick skin Skin eruptions Can look dirty Skinny people Timid and lack confidence Poor concentration and slow thinking Excitement from small things Laughing or crying Better weeping Like music cause it makes them cry
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Hepar sulphuris
**Cold abscess with fish bone throat.** Coldest remedy we have Calc carb that has been burned Feels like they have icicle in their veins Icy cold pain Abscesses, boils, otitis media Teeth - jaw and dental abscesses Sensation of fish bone stuck in their throat
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Hyoscyamus
**Shockingly crude and loquacious.** Shock Hyper sexual Crude talking/joking Loquacious - looking for shock to see if you push them away Fear of being abandoned or being unloved ADD/ADHD Aggression
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Hypericum
**pain from nerves won’t heal.** Highly nervous ending tissue Concussions - similar to Arnica Whiplash Injuries that aren't healing Strong pain with falling on tail bone Sciatic Shock after injury - similar to Aconite
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ignatia amara
**Grief brings sighs and muscle spasms** Nux, Nat mur all in the same plant family Spasticity Quick ups and downs Over sensative Sighing and deep breaths Lump sensation in their throat Grief - Romantic idealist, things go bad and there's lots of grief Muscle spacity HA's like a nail driven into head
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Ipecacuanha
**Nausea never relieved by vomiting.** Nausea/Vomiting Worse vomiting Bleeding or hemorrhaging issues with N/V Motion sickness and worse with vomiting No relief by vomiting Tobaccum is better vomiting Diarrhea tends to be fermented, fowl, slimy - makes you nauseaous
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Kali bichromicum
**Thick, gluey mucus plugs the nose.** Potassium theme: Routine, duty, family, and feeling let down by family Everything has to be perfect Plug, strong fixity Allergies with pain at bridge of nose Thick, ropey, gluey stuck mucus Chilly Pains that move - Pulsatilla has wondering pains (larger areas Small area
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Kali carbonicum
Rigid sciatica, better upright or forward with family **Wants company, often irritable with loved ones Fear losing control - rigid Pains (Sciatica) Cough Better upright or bending forward **
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Lachesis
**Jealous loquacious lefty.** Who's on top? - one up someone else Jealous Suspicious Better discharge Worse going to sleep and better waking up Better menses Very loquacious Tend to HTN and CV problems Tend to not like heat Violent Don't like things around their neck Left-sided - can begin on the left and move to right Lycopodium is opposite Sore throat/Strep throat/ Pharyngitis (constriction)
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Ledum
**Cold puncture wound needs ice.** Puncture wounds Tetanus Area looks red hot and swollen but feel cold to the person Comes after arnica - helps get fluid back into the tissue Chilly Better cold applications
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Lycopodium
**Bloated but confident at 4pm** Lacking self confidence Want to big and well known again Gas and bloating Worse 4-8pm Right sided Sleep on right side Can have grief and Liver problems Like Gelsimium and silica they struggle with public speaking If they mess up - they will think you don't know as much Kiss butt to upper management and go home and kicked the dog Treat authority better to gain respect Impotence Issue with wife not girlfriend on side
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Magnesia phosphorica
**Crampy orphan student with a hot water bottle** Orphans Might cry themselves to sleep Cramps: muscles, menses Better leaning over Better heat Fears are like Phosphorus Worse at twilight, thunderstorms, feeling unloved
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Medorrhinum
**Night owl with wild cravings and burning pee.** Recurring Cystitis, Worse suppressed Gonorrhea Greenish discharge High libido Nosode for psychotic miasm Go to extremes to cover up a perceived weakness Straight A's or F's Adrenaline junkie because they want to cover up
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Mercurius vivus
**Sweaty, smelly, and suspicious.** Fight not Flight Everyone is attacking me Feels threatened Constantly on guard Business men can be this often Take things personally Stains the linens yellow - sweat Dentition in their tongue Metallic taste in their mouth (mercury) Abscesses and boils on skin (foul stuff trying to get out) Don't like extreme temperatures Ear infections Tonsillitis
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Natrum muriaticum
**Salted tears for the introverted loner.** Fear rejection Hiding who they are Huge fear of robbers - also Arsenicum (they'll take what I have) Going to find out who they ae Raw emotion Everything they talk about seems like it is fresh Crave salt Silent grief/Hiding who they are Worse sun Classic migraines HA's feel like tiny hammer Dry lips - cracked in the middle Awesome caregiver's Going to cry at the movies but not at a funeral Don't want to be seen having emotions MS Malaria Bashful kidneys - try not to use a public restroom
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Nux vomica
**Hungover workaholic snaps at everything.** Type-A Super driven EtOH Only sympathetics are working Parasympathetics are Not working well Constipated - straining with stools Stressed about the day Feel threatened - going to extremes so gathering resources to protect themselves Worse draft GERD GI complaints Punctual Prim/Proper business oriented
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Natrum sulphuricum
**The head-hit hero, green and dutiful, but hot and heavy.** Head injuries that change their personality Can be depressed after the head injury Suicide - won't do it because duty prevents them Green discharge form sinus Hot
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Nitricum acidum
**The anxious fighter doesn’t trust but stays sympathetic.** Very sympathetic Extremely anxious Fighting against someone they've been harmed by They don't trust well Feel dependent but they want space Prostatitis after gonorrhea Medorrhinum Thuja Emissions from a little bit of excitement
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Phosphorus
**Bright, bubbly, and bleeding easily** Burning pains Chilly but crave cold - until they warm up and vomit it out Bleed easily - Bright read blood Nose, gums, rectal, vaginal Extroverted Never feel loved so they need others They crave deep friendship but only surface level They're anxious because they took on others energy Take on other peoples energy Golden Retriever Worse twilight Worse thunderstorms
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Phytolacca
Hard swellings Mastitis Sensation of a burning hot ball Throat or rectum Dark red throat Huge for Lymph issues
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Platina (Queen)
Feel haughty and superior Dislike kids High libido Using it to get what they want Impulse to kill husband if there is one Can feel isolated - not involved, stand off Kardashians They think everything everyone is smaller than them
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Podophyllum
Diffuse, exhaustive, painless, coating the bowl diarrhea
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Psorinum
Has to struggle to succeed Doubt their own ability Hopeful Failure is not the end of the road Optimistic (most optimistic remedy) The original miasm
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Pulsatilla
Thirstless Shy and sweet They fear forsaken and fear for survival Malleable and change opinions easily Can be flirty - makes them feel safe Sx's are always changing Cycle problems - late or early Lots of UTI's Otitis media Teething Yellow or green discharge Crave cheese, ice cream, sweets
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Pyrogenium
Septic and rotten - states Very sick Very conscious of their heart Everything feels hard Offensive odor discharges Pulse and temperature don’t match
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Rhus toxicodendron
**Rusty gate feels stiff but better with motion.** Rusty gait Worse first motion Better movement Stiffness Restless legs at night Red tip of tongue Poison oak/ivy Hardworking Rhus tox (Joints) - Ruta (tendons)
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Sepia
**Mom's burnt out and says 'Leave me alone!** Laxity of muscles Prolapse - rectal, vaginal, uterine Heaviness of the stomach and pelvic region Love extreme workouts - exacerbates laxity Menses dysregulation Chilly Worse 3-5pm Irritated by family Fight between dependence and independence Soccer mom's
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Rumex crispus
Coughs Worse on inspiration Worse change of temperature Hair triggered cough Worse touch Better drinking
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Ruta graveolens
Tendon issues Sprained ankle Eye strain Overuse injuries Worse cold or getting wet
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Sanguinaria
HA's/Migraines - redness and burning of cheeks (not seen in Bryonia) Right sided Start on occiput and radiate forward to the eye Worse movement Better pressure
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Silicea
**Shy perfectionist feels cold and pus-filled.** Chilly Worse cold Very yielding but as soon as you go away they stick to their opinion Lack grit in self-esteem The hide a weakness (hide behind their public image) Bashful stool Hair and nail issues/pathologies Worse suppression of sweat on their feet
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Spongia tosta
**Croupy cough sounds like a saw.** Coughs- dry barking cough Croup Dry Increased thirst Plug in the larynx
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Staphysagria
**Lords and Ladies are Quietly furious after humiliation.** Everything looks really good on the outside All about honor and respect Keeping up appearances Suppressed anger - until they release with aggression Not going to leave an abusive relationship because people will Honeymoon cystitis Recurrent UTI after sex Recurrent yeast infections They feel every drop of urine Worse insertion Sexual or Surgery
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Sulphur
**Hot, itchy philosopher avoids bathing.** Psoric Worse heat Burning and sweaty hot Have a lot of body odor Messy appearance Act as if they are crazy Theorizing Diarrhea - driven out of bed 5-6am Egotistical Psoriasis, Eczema Skin conditions that produce heat Better cold application (Opposite of Arsenicum) Craves eggs and can smell like eggs
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Stramonium
Reacting because they feel that they are lost and alone in the woods Fear Feeling abandoned or forsaken Fear of dogs, noises, anything because everything can attack them Nightmares Desire light - Worse light (exposed or attacked) Anxious about salvation(religious) Acute (everything is acute)
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Symphytum
**Broken bones need a swift knitter.** Broken bones - don’t give if the bones are not set Trauma to the orbit of th eye Worse touch, motion, and pressure Better warm application
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Tabacum
**Seasick and pale, better with fresh air.** Sudden onset N/V Better after vomiting Better fresh air Worse smoke Worse motion Better uncovering their abdomen HA - feels as if there is a band around head Stress HA
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Syphilinum
**Slow physical or psychological destruction** Bone pains Neuralgias Depression OCD
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Thuja occidentalis
**Warty perfectionist hides flaws.** They hide things (Secrets, identities) Forked urine stream Feels like they have someone alive inside of them Fear stranger, medicine, water - Everything can hurt them If they are seen they will fall from a social height Legs made of wood or glass Gonorrhea, Warts/Growths
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Tuberculinum
Better fresh air open spaces Feeling trapped and suffocated Affinity for the lungs Better mountains and movement Worse rules (kids/adults) Difficulties in relationships Smoked or cured meats Like to pinch or bite mom - kids act sweet and nice Adrenaline junkie - because they feel stuck
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Urtica urens
Food allergies/Allergies Shell fish Rashes Wheals Burns - scalding hot Burns from the stove
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Veratrum album
Stramonium, Bell, Hyoc combination Religious - hear gods voice (for show or gain) Lost a great social position - do whatever they can to regain their position Desire for ice Fevers/Flus Cruelty Sweating (Calc carb head, silicae feet, veratrum - forehead)
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Acute/Physical dosing:
30c
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Mental/Emotional/Constitutional dosing:
200c, 1M
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Potency: X C M LM
X - 1:10 C - 1:100 M - 1:1000 LM: 1:50,000
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With single dose homeopathy, describe what to do in the following follow up situation: small aggravation, new sx appear
retake case
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With single dose homeopathy, describe what to do in the following follow up situation: small aggravation, old sx appear
ideal, stay on current remedy
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With single dose homeopathy, describe what to do in the following follow up situation: sx healing in wrong order
bad, antidote
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what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation: nausea and vomiting
arsenicum album - fear ipecac - unrelieved by vomiting mag phos sepia - vomit is milky and white tabacum - motion sickness
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what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation: diarrhea
podophyllum - water, profus, explosive with farting veratrum album - gastritis, simultaneous vomiting
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what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation: severe abdominal pain
colocynthis
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what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation: gastritis
nux vomica
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what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation: peptic ulcer
lycopodium - wakes at night and must eat
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what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation: worms
cina
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what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation: hemorrhage
ferrum phos - bright red hemoptysis and epistaxis ipecacuanhua - hemorrhages dushing red blood, blood clots rapidly phosphorus - post surgical bleeding
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what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation: injury
hypericum - nerve injuries, shooting pain ledum - puncture / eye wounds nat sulph - head injury, meningitis
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what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation: shock
aconite - fright/sudden arnice - bruise, trauma carbo veg cinchonia - shock from hemorrhage/fluid loss
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what remedies could you consider in the following pt presentation: urinary sx
cantharis - rapid, burning pains, hemorrhagic cystitis, dribbling after urination equisetum - cystitis, irritable bladder, incontinence nux vomica - cystitis with constant urge for small amts pulsatilla - inc urgency, involuntary urination, burning during and after urinating, bladder pain after