Remedies and Materia Medica Flashcards by Professor Albus Dumbledore

Sxs R to L
Sxs disappear while eating
Numbness externally
Aggravation from ascending stairs
Eczema with excessive itching
Anxiety as if being pursued
Childish behavior
Clairvoyant
Afternoon ameliorates mental sxs
Weeping ameliorates
Objects seem far away
Raw throat after eating
Coldness of the foot while walking in open air
Perspiration from fright
Warts on hand or palm
Desires: milk
- Worse: warm food, cold drinks (except during heat)

Anacardium

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Impulsive - can’t control thoughts or emotions
Tremendous amounts of anxiety
- Health
- People in their life
- Being on time
Tons of fears - disease, hospitals, death, evil, fainting, flying, narrow places, buildings falling on them, heights
Walk to clear their minds
Under-developed psyche - childish behavior
Want company
Oppositional behaviors - irresolute; changing or fluctuating moods
Confusion with coffee

Argentum Nitricum

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Hatred towards those that put them down
Delusions
- Cannot succeed
- Committed a crime
- Has two wills
- Hears (evil) voices
- He’s the devil
Fear insanity
Dream, as if in a dream
Excessive or inappropriate cursing
Cruel, yet can be overly sweet
Skin eruptions, loose dermatitis - poison oak

Anacardium

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Hx of abuse or alcoholism in parents
Hard to accept kindness, they’ve not been given much in life
Anger suppressed - results in violent outbursts
Jealousy/Envy
Lack of moral feeling, unfeeling
Hx of LSD or drug use
Irresolution
Worse mental exertion
Anger from contradiction - takes everything personal

Anacardium

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Left-sided remedy
Four key presentations:
1. Physical neurologic - ataxia, clumsiness, paralysis, ALS
2. Functional neurologic - poor memory, forgetful, mental exhaustion (old people, complaints of)
3. GI - better with vomiting, crave sweets and salt, like strong tastes (cheese, ice cream), aggravation from sweets
4. Abundance of fears and anxieties
Hoarse/raspy voice
- splinter like pain in the throat
Warts or growths on the hand
Vertigo
Loud eructations
High sex drive
- Men often have problems erectile dysfunction (performance anxiety)
- Women can have left ovarian cysts/pain
Generally warm
- Cold ameliorates - windows must be open

Argentum Nitricum

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Delusions
Religious Despair
Not refined, but have expensive tastes
Eccentric
Worse mental exertion
Loquacious
Forgetful/weak memory
Suicidal disposition
OCD - rituals
Undertake nothing from fear of failure
Open and communicative
Really good with people - sales, teachers, preachers, actors
Love praise and affection
Gossip
Gullible

Argentum Nitricum

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Have been put down (physical, emotional)
- Consequently have poor self-esteem; often feel like failures
Poor memory, concentration, and follow-through
Better eating
High sex drive
- Might be more into alternative forms of sex - BDSM
- Sexual fantasies
Feel separate from others in their feelings
- Delusions, separated from the world
- Child is not her child
Plug-like sensations
Band-like sensations around head, chest, or waist

Anacardium

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Emotional abuse during childhood
- Expressed in cunning personality and lewd behavior
- Ailments from disappointed love in childhood
Fears:
- Fear of being betrayed
- Fear of failure
- Fear of being killed
Self-centered, preformance
No scruples or morals- have no problem lying
Low self-esteem
Arrogance used to hide feelings of inadequacy
Jealous
Competitive

Hyoscymas

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Delusions
- Suspicious
- Poisoned
- Wronged
Immodest
- Desire to be naked
  - Masturbation in public
  - Holds genitals
Twitch
Singing or joking
Strange gestures
- Picking at bed clothes
- Grasping at flocks

Hyoscymas

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Involuntary stool
Paralysis, epilepsy, seizures
- Diplopia, aneuresis during convulsions
Violent temper
- Impulse to kill
- Malicious
- Violent physical sxs
ADD/ADHD, hyperactive aggressive kids
Aversion to light, like darkness
Religious fanaticism
Sadness from continence
Sadness from smelling flowers
Mind, spit
Mind, stupefaction
Mind, well, says he is well when he is very sick

Hyoscyamus

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Desire to hide
Like to be observed, but not in a refined way
Fear of water because it’s clear, like darker things
Set a goal, and nothing will stop them from avhieving it
Many singers could be this remedy
- Mind, singing, obscene songs
Convulsions during dentition
Convulsions from worms

Hyoscyamus

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Rubrics
- Mind, fear, something happen, will
- Argues, bread and butter
- Anatagonism with self
- Face, expression, suffering
Controlling and possesive as partners
Rigidity
- Literal
- Cannot bend the rules at all
Inability to stand up for themselves - keep it all inside
Irritable
Desire company, ameliorates –> being alone aggravates
Aggravation between 2-4am
Aggravation after coition

Kali Carbonicum

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Fluid retention
- Swelling bag-like fluids, around eyelids
Obesity
Lungs - bronchitis, ammonia, asthma
- Only way to get relief is to sit and lean far forward
Liver and kidney dz
Suppressed menses
Anemia
Inflammation of the mucosal membranes
Arthritic remedy
Gout
Wandering pains
- Sharp, stabbing, stitching pains
- Worse lying on painful side
Cold/chilly –> worse in cold, wet, or wind
Profuse, stringy discharges
Bleeding hemorrhoids

Kali Carbonicum

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Anxiety felt around the solar plexus
Good workers, hard workers, follow the rules
Want support - religion, politics
Want self-confidence
Consolation aggravates
Psoric remedy
- Startle easily
- Startle when touched
- Persistent thoughts
- Dwell on past occurences
Buys coffin - controlled and planned out
Fears
- Death, disease
Weeping at night
Difficulty swallowing
Worse change
Nursing aggravates

Kali Carbonicum

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Delusions
- Animals
- Ghosts
- Hearing
As if in a dream
Laughing immoderately
Unreal
Impulsive, morbid
Generals
- Numbness
- Mind dancing
- Thoughts intrude and crowd each other
Psychosis
Sexually “liberated”
Silly laughter
Spacing out
Less efficient when using cannibis
Intense exhalation
Nothing usually troubles them but sometimes can be agonizing and full of terror
Dementia, delirium, tremors
Convulsions

Cannibus Indica

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Better walking in open air/being outside
Desire to lie down
Constant fear of becoming insane
Restlessness with anxiety
Uncontrollable laughter
Confusion as to their identity
Clairvoyant
Fainting/losing consciousness
Forgetting words when speaking
Numbness
Epilepsy
Ravenous hunger

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Cannibus Indica

Sleepiness
Talking nonsense
Shouts, leaps in the air
Paranoid delusions
Despairs, fear of being lost forever
Imagining he is christ/blood mary
Highly sexual
Thoughts persistent
Speech nonsensical
Aversion to mental work
Disassociation
Can’t stand conflict or any fighting
Interrupts
Anxiety
Jealous for attention

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Cannibus Indica

Etiology:
- After vaccination
- Gonorrhea
- Suppression of warts
- Societal mistreatment/abused by parents or others
No sense of self
Feel as though if people really knew them, they would not be loved
- Have to hide who they are
- Imitate others to hide self
Secretive; holds things inside
- Closed
- Deceptive
- Vague
- Mumbles
- Holding back information
Feeling separation
Feel that they are genuinely ugly
Degraded self-esteem
Over growths - tumors, warts, moles, cysts -> esp. in the GU tract
- Suppression worsens
Worse in cold, wet weather

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Thuja occidentalis

Joint complaints
Fears intimacy
Delusions something alive in the abdomen
Can be very fastidious
Ailments from vaccination
Left-sided remedy
Agg. around 2-3 AM and PM
- Arthritic pain
  - Cervical pain, hands
Sensitive to touch/aversion to touch
Worse from onions and garlic
Midline deformities
Deformed, split, or thickened nails

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Thuja occidentalis

Greasy or oily hair/face
Change in hair characteristics
GI complaints
- bloating
- gas
Agg. around menses
Pain radiating down the thigh
Chronic urethral discharges
Prostate/testicular problems
Perspiration
- around the genitals
- smells like onions, garlic, honey, or yeast
- Sweat on the uncovered parts
Forked stream of the urine
Hx of gonorrhea
Condyloma hx
Dreams of dead people
Sleeps on the L-side

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Thuja occidentalis

Cycle

Weakness - feeling vulnerable and fragile
- Fragile body and hair growth slows, emotionally sensitive, rapid exhaustion, anxiety about salvation, confusion in the AM, chilliness
Intrusion from the outside
- Vaccination, fear of strangers, bully
Feeling of duality
- Immune system is compromised, confusion to identity, refers to self in 3rd person
Confusion and grief
- Who they are, strange person, as if soul and body are separated, possessed, double, mistakes in writing and talking
Feeling guilty about on of the dualities
- Stitching, tearing pains in gands, avoids people, aversion company, unattractive, spends time perfecting appearance, afraid to reveal themselves, discarges are nasty, oily, aversion to life, mental depression, secretive
- Rigidity of ideas

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Thuja occidentalis

Religious fanatics
Can be overbearing and dictatorial
Herpetic remedy
Sensation as if cold stream of air is in the eyes
Chronic sinusitis
High sex drive
Asthma
Brown spots on hands and arms
Abused by parents or other kids
Feel distant from people
Related to Medorrhinum
Conformists, not eccentric
Transform who they are to fit in to their environment

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Thuja occidentalis

Acute collapse with copious secretions
Manic conditions
- Many delusions
- Delirium from fever
- Schizophrenic disorders
Profuse, copious discharges
Extreme coldness, with cold perspiration
Voracious thirst for ice cold drinks, crave ice cubes
Sweat on forehead
Pale, bluish shriveled sunken in features

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Veratrum album

Weak voice
Very chilly
Profuse sweats
Loss of bodily fluids causes profuse weakness
Blue, especially the face - cyanosis
Delirium that is intense and violent
Fainting from emotions, exertion, stool, retching, or vomiting
Stomach sxs
- increased appetite
- hunger for: cold food, ice, ice water, ice cream
- Also crave: salt, fruit (sour), acid things
Gastroenteritis with violent vomiting and profuse diarrhea

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Veratrum album

* Dryness * Neuralgic * **Tickling** sensations * Constant activity, turmoil, overactivity * Mistaken identity * Haughtiness * Complaining, scoulding, preaching * May pray or scream and rant at people * Easily frightened * Inconsolable - despair about the future * Loquacious * Delusions and manic state * Etiology: fright, shock, injury, disappointed love

Veratrum album

* Responsible * Depressed * Leading remedy for suicidal tendencies * But probably wont do it because of their responsibilities * Want to be a good provider for the family * More reserved emotionally * Holds grudges * Pragmatic * Serious, closed, proud, dependable * Hate to fail * Emotional changes after a head injury (confusion, mental dullness, sadness)

Nat sulph

* Remorse * Guilt * Sensitive to music * Irritable - especially in the AM * Proper, orderly * Child can feel overburdened * ASTHMA, ASTHMA, ASTHMA * Big effect on the nervous system * Diabetes after a grief * Worse from damp weather * Liver remedy * Dullness in the AM

Nat sulph

* Big effect on the colon - loud rumbling, pain on R side, digestive pain * Early AM diarrhea * Mom with asthma during pregnancy, resulting in childhood diarrhea * Affects the lower lobe of the lung - productive cough with green sputum * Sciatica * Meningitis - esp with irritability and delirium * Photophobia * Slime, mucus in mouth * Bitter taste in mouth * Tongue coated in green

Natrum sulphuricum

* Poverty, foulness, odors, itching * Dire pessimists * Fear of poverty * Recurring illness * Long recovery - low grade fever for weeks * Really chilly, chilly remedy * Think sulphur... but cold * Sleep with hate and tons of covers * Uncovering head aggravates * Sensitive defense mechanism - easily gets sick * Immunological * Emotional

Psorinum

* Rubrics: * Nose, choryza, chronic, long, continue * Delusions, loose his fortune * Fear, something will happen * Thin, eat tons, but can't gain * Sweat, with sour or bad odors * Breath * Genitals * Skin * D/C from ear smells like rotten meat * Bad smelling mucus from sinusitis * Skin * Looks dirty, even when washed * Eruptions that never quite heal * Never looks healed * Itching * scratch until it bleeds * Worse from heat of bed * Ailments from suppressed eruptions

Psorinum

* Just before they get sick, they feel really good * Lack of vitality * Worry and anxiety * Guilt * Irritable - sullen, insolence * Needy and dependent upon others * Restless * Loose sleep from guilt, despair, anxiety, etc * HA are better from eating or keeping head warm * Patch of grey hair * Recurrent otitis media * Loose teeth * Feels like arms are stretched out like a crucifix * Ravenous appetite

Psorinum

* Ravenous appetite * Tend toward diarrhea with awful smelling stool * Night sweats * Worse in winter * Worse bathing * Worse in sun * Averse sex * Prone to miscarriages * Sensitive to barometric pressure changes

Psorinum

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