Alumina

1. Dark, spare withered-looking subjects ; disposition gen. mild and cheerful. 2. Attacks of depression. Loss of memory ; time passes slowly. 3. Great dryness of all mucous membranes (except female genitalia) with sense of constriction. 4. Abnormal appetite, craving for indigestible things ; potatoes disagree. 5. Inactivity of the rectum ; no desire and

Anacardium orientale

1. Persons of sedentary habits suffering from brain-fag ; nervous, hysterical women especially during pregnancy. 2. Mentals. Patients distressed by sudden loss of memory ; lacks self-confidence ; fears inability to “get through” (Arg. Nit., Lyc.) ; paradoxical temper laughs at serious matters, serious over laughable things ; great suspicion. Dual personality, as of two

ZINCUM METALLICUM

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

Baryta Carbonica

1. Dwarfish, ill-nourished children or childish old people ; scrofulous subjects especially when fat. 2. Mental and body ; weakness ; semi-imbecility. 3. Great tendency to glandular swellings and indurations, especially of tonsils, acute and chronic ; also fatty tumours. 4. Patient easily catches cold, especially in the throat ; subject to quinsy. 5. Paralysis

Carbo Animalis

1. Diseases of elderly persons with marked venous plethora ; feeble circulation, no vital heat ; want of energy ; dislikes conversation and company. 2. Glands, indurated, swollen, even ulcerated ; with lancinating, burning pains ; tendency to malignancy ; scirrhus, bluish appearance, especially axillary, mammary and inguinal glands. 3. Discharges gen. offensive and always

Cinchona Officinalis

1. Stout, swarthy subjects ; sallow, dingy-yellow complexion. Constitutions greatly debilated by exhausting discharges especially of body fluids. 2. Patient apathetic, taciturn, despondent ; dislikes company, > alone ; irritability, fits of temper shallow (ctr. Nux vom.) ; feels ill-used ; over-sensitive to criticism. 3. Hyperaesthesia of the nervous system especially to touch. 4. Alimentary

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

Digitalis

1. Cardiac diseases with great anxiety ; dyspnoea, sudden sensation as if heart stood still ; pulse feeble, irregular, fluttering, intermittent or extremely slow ; any motion especially rising from bed or chair causes rapid, weak jerky pulse and sometimes cyanosis, even syncope. 2. Patient low-spirited, tearful ; likes consolation ; anxiety even apart from

Ferrum Metallicum

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