DECACHORDS by A. Gladstone Clarke
Decachords will provide the earnest student with some necessary clues guiding him to a practical acquaintance with the more frequently used remedies.
The book is not a materia medica.
Indications given are only the foundtition upon which by further study and experience a fuller knowledge of homoeopathic drugs is to be built.
1. Old people especially old maids and old bachelors, rigid muscular fibre ; scrofulous or cancerous tendencies. 2. Lively, sanguine disposition yet easily gets out of humour ; moroseness ; inability and disinclination for any mental effort, dreads being alone yet avoids society. 3. Chronic gland troubles ; inflammations rather than growths ; with induration
1. Prostration with nervous trembling particularly as a result of mental strain and loss of sleep. 2. Patient ill-natured, angry, spiteful ; mentally and physically oversensitive. 3. Cramps, convulsions and spasmodic affections generally. Clonic spasms beginning in fingers and toes. Epilepsies without any clear symptoms or where aura begins in knees and ascends. 4. Paralysis
1. Especially adapted to delicate, anaemic women with sanguine temperament ; pseudo-plethora (cheeks flushed or easily flush but mucous membranes pale). 2. Mental and physical irritability ; intolerance of noise and pain ; patient excitable, impulsive, changeable ; solitude preferred. 3. Great debility with breathlessness ; easily fatigued yet must have gentle exercise. 4. Local
1. Neurotic, hysterical subjects especially women and children. Nervous symptoms predominate in all complaints. 2. Mental and bodily lassitude ; dull, drowsy, dizzy ; wishes to be let alone ; may be desire to throw herself from a height ; or desire for expression in speech or writing with sense of increased power especially of
1. Scrofulous subjects especially women with tendency to unhealthy corpulence ; sluggish, “pasty” habit. At Climaxis. 2. Great sadness and despondency with inclination to weep especially at hearing music ; apprehension, mind dwells upon death. Children acute and impudent, laugh at reprimands. 3. Marked debility with anaemic conditions. Sexual debility from abuse. 4. Unhealthy skin
1. Scrofulous subjects, leucophlegmatic, inactive, slow ; systems injured by mercury (first remedy). 2. Intense mental and physical hypersensitiveness ; trifles make him angry ; intolerance of pain, touch and even a draught of air. 3. General sourness and foetidness of all excretions, especially in children. 4. Profuse and easy sweating especially about the chest
1. Nervous, hysterical women ; dark hair and complexion ; pale, wan, drawn appearance ; disposition mild but easily excited ; quick in perception, rapid in execution (ctr. Puls.). 2. Rapid alternation of mental states (Crocus. Puls.) with underlying condition of melancholy ; moodiness ; full of silent grief, sits and sighs ; overdelicate conscience
1. Scrofulous subjects ; dark hair and eyes ; dirty yellow skin ; never fat ; especially children. 2. Patient excitable, restless, impulsive. 3. General sluggishness of patient and symptoms. 4. Great debility and emaciation in spite of voracious appetite ; after shock or emotional strain ; unaccountable sense of weakness and loss of breath
1. The gastric symptoms predominate in nearly all complaints ; violent and persistent nausea not > vomiting. 2. Morose irritability with pale, drawn face and hollow eyes encircled with dark rings. Children readily cry and scream and have vague, indefinite longings. 3. Alimentary disorders ; aversion from all food with vomiting of tenacious, white glairy
1. Scrofulous, fat, fair subjects, disposed to catarrhal troubles. 2. No very characteristic mental symptoms. 3. Catarrhal conditions of any mucous membrane with tough, tenacious, ropy discharges, gen. yellow ; also tough membranes on mucous surfaces. 4. Ulcerations especially of mucous membranes ; solitary, penetrating, punched-out appearance ; usually with foetid, cheesy exudation ; also