Antimonium Tartaricum

1. Phlegmatic subjects ; hydrogenoid constitutions. 2. Persistent, irreconcilable ill-humour, < consolation ; child fractious, complaining, resents least touch (Ant. crudum). 3. Respiratory troubles with great accumulation of mucus ; coarse rales ; no expulsive power yet if expectorates temporarily ; attacks of suffocative dyspnoea with cyanosis. 4. Prostration with great drowsiness and cold sweat.

XANTHOXYLUM FRAXINEUM

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

Bismuthum

1. Great restlessness with anguish (Arsenicum) ; cannot keep still ; sits then walks, then lies down, never long in one place. 2. Solitude unbearable ; craves company ; child wants to hold mother’s hand continually. 3. Gastric disorders especially gastralgia ; pain severe, burning, pressive, extending to spine ; vomiting ; of water as

Calcarea Phosphorica

1. Thin, spare subjects with dark complexion, and inclined to emaciate. Scrofulous, rachitic children during first and especially second dentition. (Heads sweats not so prominent a symptom as in Calc. carb. and Silicea). Girls at or near puberty. 2. Sunken, flabby abdomen in children with general emaciation and inability to stand. 3. Gastro-intestinal disorders <

Cocculus

1. Fair women and children of weak, nervous temperament with tendency to spasmodic complaints ; sensitive, romantic girls. 2. Patient cannot bear least contradiction ; angry and offended at mere trifles ; times passes too quickly. 3. Great lassitude of the whole body with trembling weakness. 4. Sensation of emptiness or hollowness in various organs

Coffea

1. Tall, lean, stooping, dark-complexioned subjects sanguine, choleric temperament. 2. Generally cheerful disposition but subject to fits of temper though without spitefulness ; variable moods. 3. Hyperaesthesia of the special senses. 4. Oversensitiveness to pain which seems insupportable, driving to despair. 5. III-effects (especially hysteria or insomnia) of sudden mental emotions, especially pleasurable surprises. 6.

Colchicum

1. Rheumatic, gouty diathesis. 2. Patient ill-tempered and peevish ; sufferings seem intolerable. 3. Oversensitiveness to all external impressions especially odours. 4. Intense nausea, vomiting, even faintness from the smell of cooking food (Dig.) ; the sight or thought of food sickens. 5. Great abdominal distension from flatulence. 6. Autumnal complaints from damp, etc., especially

Colocynthis

1. Extreme irritability and impatience especially in rheumatic subjects ; ailments from mental emotions especially anger with indignation. 2. Severe colic > bending double (rev. Dioscorea) or hard pressure ; patient presses hard things against abdomen > stool or passage of flatus ; < cheese ; < 4-9 p.m. 3. Neuralgias especially of larger nerves

Cuprum Metallicum

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

Drosera

1. Spasmodic catarrhal affections of respiratory tract ; especially whooping cough ; violent paroxysms follow one another so rapidly child cannot get breath ; often ends in gagging, vomiting and cold sweat ; sometimes with haemorrhage from nose or mouth. 2. Coughs in general < lying down and after midnight, warmth, drinking, using voice, etc.