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. Elderly persons with dark hair, lax fibre, inclined to obesity ; feeble circulation ; anaemic, broken-down constitutions ; tendency to local congestions. 2. Mental slackness and weakness ; disinclined to any exertion ; peevish ; unreasonable apprehensions ; easily frightened ; intolerant of least touch (especially if unexpected) and of pain ; dreads solitude.
1. Tall, lean, dark-complexioned persons ; poorly nourished and subject to bacterial infections ; overgrown girls ; children old-looking and wrinkled ; women at post-climacteric period. 2. Children ill-humoured, peevish, cry for things which they push or throw away on receiving (Staph.). 3. All secretions (especially from mucous surfaces) corrosive, acrid, very offensive, debilitating. Septic
1. Nervous, restless, highly sensitive temperament. 2. Patient forgetful, absent-minded ; drops letters and words in writing ; cannot concentrate ; intense despondency – a chronic “blue” condition ; attacks of rage ; fears solitude, death, insanity, falling down stairs, etc. 3. Symptoms erratic ; change from side to side every few hours or days
1. Dark, phlegmatic subjects ; or women with red hair and freckled complexion, especially at climaxis ; also broken-down constitutions. 2. Extreme alternations, mind and sensorium, (a) Mental activity with almost prophetic perception ; ecstasy ; loquacity with rapid change of subject especially when delirious ; hurry and flurry ; delusion of voices, etc. (b)
1. Rheumatic, gouty diathesis ; old people ; constitutions suffering from abuse of alcohol. 2. Discontent and peevishness. 3. Alternating complaints, e.g. haemoptysis and rheumatism ; also symptoms appearing diagonally especially upper left and lower right (Ant. t., Agar., Stram. ; upper right lower left – Brom., Medorr., Phos., etc.). 4. Contusions especially about the
1. Women with utero-ovarian disorders and ailments incidental thereto. 2. Profound melancholic state especially religious, < consolation fears solitude, insanity, incurability, or some impending disease or calamity ; crazy feeling on vertex. 3. Patient listless yet restless ; must keep busy ; aimless, hurried motion, often to suppress sexual desire. 4. Persistent bearing down in
1. Patients intellectually keen but physically weak ; emaciation upper part of body ; sedentary habit ; mentally absorbed ; complexion often sallow ; prematurely old in appearance. Children precocious, weakly. 2. Mental powers failing ; fatigue and forgetfulness ; uses wrong words, etc. ; hypochondriasis with irritability ; emotionally sensitive ; lachrymose ; apprehensive
1. Subjects of lax fibre especially children ; nervous temperament constitutions worn out by long strain and anxiety. 2. Irritable disposition. 3. Mental and physical sensitiveness. 4. Sour smell of whole body ; all excretions tend to sourness. 5. Neuralgias with lightning-like pains ; of face < left side, < at night ; insupportable during
1. Deep-seated sycotic chronic affections especially after maltreated or suppressed gonorrhoea, when best selected remedy fails to relieve or permanently improve. 2. Patient lachrymose ; cannot speak without weeping ; always anticipating events, even death ; memory weak ; mentally sensitive ; irritable, impatient. 3. Intensely restless and fidgety legs and feet (Zincum metallicum) ;
1. Light-haired subjects of lax fibre ; earthy or dirty yellow, rough complexion. Anti-syphilitic, second stage. 2. Mental slowness but states changeable ; (a) memory and will power deficient ; answers questions slowly ; despondency ; (b) hurry and anxiety ; loquacity, especially in delirium ; time passes slowly. 3. Weakness and weariness in all