Midterm Flashcards
(33 cards)
Nux Vomica - Sensation (Family: Loganaceae)
Sensation: shocked, shattered, shock paralyzes, feels dumbstruck, excitable/ convulsions or silent grief, speechless, numb, cannot week from the shock.
Nux Vomica - Miasm
Miasm: Typhoid
Nux Vomica - Aspects
Workaholics; irritable and impatient
Chilly:
Curare - Sensation (Family: Loganaceae)
Sensation- Shocked, Shattered, Shock paralyzes/ Feels Dumbstruck, Excitable/ Convulsions or Silent Grief, Speechless, Numb, Cannot Weep from the Shock
Related remedies- Stry., Spig., Gels., Nux-v., Ign., Ho.
Curare - Miasm
Leprosy
Curare - Aspects
Abusive, Cruelty
Biting himself. Mutilating his body. Striking himself. Tearing himself.
Misanthropic. Mind- company- aversion to- sight of people- avoids the- SHUTS HERSELF UP
Delusion- abused/ everything is foul/ is dirty
Head, Drawn backwards. Abdomen-Shocks. Paralysis of lids; Quivering of lids; Liquids come out through nose on attempting to swallow; Face-Lockjaw. Mouth-Paralysis, tongue (3); Throat-Paralysis; Extremities- Paralysis- Hysterical
Stomach-Nausea-retains urine. Eyes- open lids- sleep-during
Abdomen- cirrhosis of liver- accompanied by- vomiting bile*
Female-Gangrene-Uterus
Bryonia Alba - Sensation (Family: violales/cucurbitaceae)
Sensation: vexation, chagrin, irritability, pinching, cutting, stabbing, disturbed, interrupted, disrupted, interfere, bother, perturb, agitate, undisturbed, quiet, constant, smooth, left alone
Bryonia Alba - Miasm
Typhoid
Bryonia Alba - Aspects
Aversion to being DISTURBED, LEAST MOTION
Talks of business
Amel. Lying on painful side
Delirium- wants to go home, delusions- away from home, fear of POVERTY
Holds head with hands during cough (4)
Eyes sore moving eyelids agg.
Stomach vomiting after injury
Dryness of rectum, mucus membranes, and usually moist parts.
Stool clay-like, nausea most of the time, vomiting of mucus and bile in attacks, sour eructations.
Aconite napellus, Ranunculus bulbosus, Staphysagria (Family Ranunculaceae) - Sensation
Sensation: vexed, morbid sensitivity, raw nerves, excessive anger with grief/shock/guilt. Sharp/stitching/stabbing pain with emotion.
Aconite napellus, Ranunculus bulbosus, Staphysagria - Aspects
Passive: numbness, bluntness. Active: nervous tension, tremors with emotion, somatization, many emotions together. Compensation: equanimity. Mind, anger, ailments Mind, anger with silent grief, ailments from Mind, emotions, ailments from Mind, rudeness of others, ailments from Mind, offended easily
Aconite (acute miasm)
Suddenness of Sxs comes from the that fact that it is the acute miasm
Fear and presentiment of death also attributed to the acute miasm
Restlessness come from the anxiety and absolute helplessness of acute miasm
Complaints after fright and shock (miasm)
Complaints after anger due to family
Ailments from fright, accident, sight of
Beside oneself, teeth, from pain in
Mind, fear, subways
Gererals, faintness, numbness, tingling with
Eye, inflammation, foregin bodies/wind, cold.dry
Nose, epistaxis, gushing out
Dreams, prophetic
Chill, internal, coldness, blood vessels, in
Sleeplessness, fright, after
Ranunculus bulbosus (malarial miasm)
Rheumatic complaints, skin and nerve pathology
Mind, joke, connot take a. Too proper.
Complaints of the head on entering a warm room
Herpes zoster ophthalmicus
Hiccoughs after alcoholic drinks
Stitching pain in liver- breathing agg.
Abdomen, pain, side, stitching, inspiration agg.
Pain in ovaries during change of weather
Chest, coldness, sternum
Staphysagria
Ail from sexual abuse, anger with indignation, mortification, RUDENESS of others. Throws things around when angry. Anger after siesta. Ail after sexual excess. Throwing things at person who offends. Head PA after grief, after vexation. Styes. Sensitive wounds, teeth, tumors, scars. Pale face after anger.
Stomach pain after vexation. Bladder pain after coition, after lithotomy.
Affinity- Nerves, teeth, GU, Eyelids, Skin
Rectum- condylomata- SENSITIVE, EXTREMELY** (3 and only Rx)
Male genitalia/sex- condylomata- SENSITIVE (2)
Skin- excrescences- condylomata- pedunculate (2)/ sensitive
Skin- warts- SENSITIVE to touch (3)
Spider themes: Latrodectus mactans, Tarentula
Teach you a lesson; key way spiders describe their revenge
Argue and betting are ways they use to show you up.
This theme of taking revenge and making them suffer slowly is a general spider feeling, the general sadistic feeling
Tarentula
Rubrics
Mind- delusions- voices- hearing
Extremities- restless- lower limbs- NIGHT/Bed in AGG. (3)
Mind- impulsive
Mind- moral feeling- want of
Mind- destructive
Sensation- Impulsive, rhythmic, teach you a lesson, pounce/grab, survival
Related remedies- Tarantula-c., Atrax-r., Lat-m., Lat-h., Mygale
Miasm- Tubercular
Anger when touched. Threatening
Desire to attack others. Breaks things. Destructive of clothing
Hurry in movements, everyone must, walking. Hysteria, music AMEL.
Rage, has to be chained. Vomiting after going to bed. Constipation, stool remains in rectum with no urging and awful anxiety. Yellow leukorrhea after menses. Restlessness of extremities, amel. Music.
Desires to eat sand
Lactodectus mactans
Mind- Death- AGONY before death
Mind- Death- sensation of
Mind- Fear- Death, of- ANGINA PECTORIS- during
Mind- MALICIOUS- hurting other people’s feelings
Mind- MOCKING- sarcasm- weakness- with great intuition concerning other people’s
Mind- rolling floor- on the- pain- from
Mind- shrieking- dying- thinks she will be
Head- pain- constant, continued- fixed, lasts for weeks, months, even years, with rare intermission
Complaints of HEART- accompanied by- upper limb- LEFT- NUMBNESS/PAIN
Pain- HEART- extending to LEFT AXILLA
Pain- HEART- Region of- TEARING pain (3)
Power play, ego, male/female
Sexual domination, sadistic enjoyment
Intense anger, clenched fists and teeth, kill
Wait for the right time and hurt them where it hurts most
Cold blooded,control
black
Snake themes: Naja
Very sensitive neck, defenseless if their neck is not free
Tend to hold back their revenge or retaliation b/c it makes them feel dirty or guilty
Deadly instinct is camouflaged in shy, secretive, attempts to please or highly moral behavior
Clairvoyant
Jealousy, cunning, scheming, planning
Like other animals they attempt to get attention through music/dancing, sex, nice clothes/cars, money
Alcohol,smoking
Fear of or Hx of sexual abuse
Aversion/fear of cats, ghosts
When provocation is too much they often express their anger as insanity/madness
Naja proving
Known for their intimidating behavior and deadly bite
Felt some strong duty to perform
Increased perception of what I ought to do and uncontrollable inclination not to do it
Morality is tinged with spirituality
If they feel revenge, they feel tremendous guilt & will be punished by higher power
The conflict of naja comes from the fact that their delusional situation is one where they feel wronged, harmed, tortured, and harassed by people towards whom they also feel they have a moral responsibility and duty, or need, to protect them.
The prover was then in a conflict between her duty and responsibility as a doctor which prompted her to go to the aid of her landlady, and her impulse to neglect her and make her suffer for the wrong that she had done to her. She woke up from this dream, feeling this “split” in her mind.
Mind- sadness- wrong way, as if having done everything in the
Complaints of LEFT OVERY- extending to HEART
Oppression of HEART- LYING- LEFT side- AGG.
Chest- pain- HEART- extending to- throat
Palpitations- SPEAK- UNABLE TO **
Palpitations- TALKING AGG., WINE AGG.
Pain- occiput- BLOW- as from a (3)
Cough- HEART affections- with (3)
Chest- murmurs- cardiac- valvular
Chest- weakness- HEART- about the heart- sensation of weakness
Reptiles
Hidden, planned, conspiracy, disguise, calculative, scheming
Competitive/ one-upmanship, superior and inferior, manipulative
Ambush, poison, deceit, vantage point, agile
Constrictors- squeezing, crushing
Cench, Crot-h, Crot-c, Naja, Elaps, Heloderma, Anaconda
Mammal themes: Moschus, Lac leoninum, Ambra grisea
Connections with immediate family, submission/dominance, connections with community or group
Conflict regarding sexuality, self vs. the group, agg. Menses
Dirty feeling, most in sycotic miasm
Taking care of others, offspring, family members
Fight for supremacy within group or with a partner. The mechanism is about exerting one’s self to stop from feeling dominated or to dominate another, or how it is to be dominated when submissive, not about killing or eradicating completely. Not lethal
Fears of being alone, ostracized, kicked out, left out of the group/pack/herd/family/pride
Moschus
Emotionally excitable/ HYSTERICAL FAINTING. HYSTERIA WITH RESPIRATORY COMPLAINTS Scolds until lips are blue, eyes staring, and then FAINTS* Feigns sickness in children Laughing alternating with WEEPING HYSTERICAL Headaches Face- lips- blue- from SCOLDING Spasms of the Larynx Asthma- HYSTERICAL/ SUDDEN ATTACKS AWKWARDNESS FROM HURRY/ DROPS THINGS
Ambra grisea
Introversion and shyness can be attributed to the secretive nature of the Sperm Whale (one of the deepest diving whales and rarely seen near the surface)
The keynote symptom of inhibition about passing stool or urinating when others are present, or even in the house is due to the disgust and distain of the Leprosy miasm
Emotional, sentimental people who suffer from inhibition.
Impossible to express himself, communicate, agg. company of strangers- AGG.
Cough- Strangers- presence of- AGG.
Must make tremendous effort to keep conversation going.
Cannot let go. Aversion to seeing or hearing others laughing.
Extremely conscious of what people will think about them.
Ailments from failure, being put down/insulted,
embarrassment in their work
lose confidence, become
bashful, avoid people
Mind- anxiety- crowd (3)
Head- confusion- occiput(3)
Empty eructations- cough- AFTER
Sleepless- conversation- after
Pain in hands- squeezed- as if
Big Cats
Looking at the pictures of them they generate the feeling of Power, Control, Strength, Ego.
They say I am the Best.
I call the shots.
Here where the jungle law prevails I have won the battle, aggressively proved my strength, my guts.
If I lose the battle or become weak or disabled it means death
In the patient with this delusional state – we see Egotism, Authoritativeness, Strength.
They express their aggression & need to win in competitive sports like squash & tennis, a liking for action movies.
They like to push their limits but hate being pushed.
They fear failure, degeneration, incapacity where they are dependent, weak & their survival is at stake
Committed & responsible, they have a strong sense of right & wrong.
They hate injustice and cheats.
This proud , arrogant species fears nothing