Correct prescribing is the art of carefully fitting pathogenetic to clinical symptoms, and as such at present requires a special aptness in grasping the essential points of symptom images, great drudgery a mastering a working knowledge of our large Materia Medica or a most skilful use of many books of reference.
It is the aim of this book to simplify and introduce method into this work, so that the truly homœopathic curative remedy may be worked out with greater case and certainty. For this purpose a combination of the analytic and synoptic methods has been thought best.
REGION: Nerves: Eyes. Ears. Vision. Wrists (R). Skin. WORSE: Cloudy weather. Cool air. Music. Puberty. Tension. Nervous activity, then sudden exhaustion. Combined eye, ear and kidney or worm symptoms. ……………….. Pain over brows. Pain l. eye to vertex, < cough. Cramp in eyes. Otorrhœa. Craves meat. Itching at anus. Milky urine. Enuresis. Weight on chest.
REGION: Skin. Scalp. Urinary organs. WORSE: Pressing on opposite side. Suppressed eczema. Cracked, gummy crusts on scalp, exuding profuse, tenacious, yellow fluid, matting hair together; with swelled cervical glands. Milk crust. Eczema. Urine smells like cat’s urine; involuntary in bed. Emissions, with vivid dreams. Related: Rhus-t.
REGION: VEINS. Blood. WORSE: LETTING LIMB HANG DOWN. Cold. Yearly. Touch. Bursting feeling. Hæmorrhagic tendency. ……………….. Epistaxis. Excruciating pain at epigastrium. Enlarged liver. Fulness and unbearable pain, as if limb would burst; must elevate parts; sits with feet high. Cramps in or blue lower limbs. Varicose veins or ulcers. Phlebitis. Goitre. Related: Elap.
REGION: Female sexual organs. Nerves. WORSE: Becoming chilled while hot. Vertigo; persists after epileptic attack. Vertex; sudden throbbings in. Sore about waist. Milky urine. Bronchial asthma. Blood won’t clot and wounds won’t heal. Related: Bufo.
REGION: Nerves. Respiration. Female sexual organs. Left side. WORSE: Sleeping. Dampness. BETTER: Vomiting. Grinding, shooting, radiating pains. Numb l. side. ……………….. Nervousness. Head threatens to fly to pieces. Throat feels like a hollow cavern. Violent, agonizing, grinding dysmenorrhœal pains, not > in any position; pains go into thighs or radiate over whole body, even to
REGION: Ears. Nose. Throat. Left side. WORSE: MOTION. Lying on back. Washing head. Gnawing, grinding ache. Wandering, shock-like pains. Catching stitches, that impede motion. ……………….. Averse to work; can’t bring herself to it. Inward pressing; in spot on bregma. Throbbing temples; behind ears. Wavering vision. Bad odor within nose. Blows quantities of blood, pus and
REGION: Heart. Nerves. Valves. WORSE: Lying on L. side. Heat. Jerkings, startings, etc. Lying on left side causes vertigo, palpitation, floating sensation, etc. ……………….. Nose, obstructed at night; blows thick, yellow chunks from; hot, dry nares. Goitre; presses inwardly. Myocardial exhaustion. Lower limbs feel as if floating. Cramps in calves, in ankles; must press feet
REGION: BRAIN AND NERVES: Occiput. Spine. Orbital region. Root of nose. Blood. Inner canthi. WORSE: EXHAUSTION; mental. Suppressions. Noise. Touch. Wine. After being heated. BETTER: Motion. Hard pressure. Warm open air. FREE DISCHARGES. Fagged, enervated or depressed; can’t throw things off; develop exanthema or discharges, etc. Increasing weakness; < eating; with restlessness. Isolated effects; one
REGION: Nerves. Ovaries. Spine. BETTER: Rubbing. Oversensitive, nervous and sleepless. Spasmodic nervous effects. Yawning. Hiccough. ……………….. Excitable. Ticking over l. ear. Sour taste in A.M. Flatulent cramps; hypogastric. Mucous colitis. Smothers on attempting to eat. Ovarian or dysmenorrhœal pains, down limbs; during and after menses. Achings up back. Chills after mental excitement or exertion. Cold