Small Remedies In Homoeopathy.pdf

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GRANATUM (Punica Granatum) Common names: Pomegranate, Le Grenadier. Hindi: Anar Malayalam: Mathala naranga Kannada: Family: Granateae Parts Used: Bark of the root.

Habitat: Asia. Proved By: Dr J O Müller in 1839. Active Principle: Pelletierine Homeobook.com

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DESCRIPTION • Punica is derived from the Latin puniceus = purple and punic. • Purple - colour of the tree's flowers and fruit. •

Punic='faithless,treacherous, deceitful’.

•

Words

such

as

'punish'

[punire] and 'penalty' [poena]

have the same stem as 'punica'.

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• P. Granatum is a shrub or low tree with small deciduous leaves.

• Height: 20m. • Its root is woody, heavy and knotty.

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• The bark of the root is grayish or

yellowish-gray externally,

and

in

color

three

to

four

inches in length. • The bark has but little odor, its taste is somewhat bitter, and when

chewed

it

colors

the

saliva

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• The fruit is shaped like an orange. • The large number of seeds give the fruit its

name [granatum = having many grains]. • The abundance of seeds also made the fruit a symbol of fertility.

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USES •

The Bark of the root, which is preferable in the dry state, has been almost exclusively used in Allopathy as an Anthelmintic ; is said to be more efficacious than turpentine for tape-worm.

• Homoeopathically, Dr. Gray has used it for cramp-like pain in the abdomen, that come on in paroxysms a few minutes apart,

attended by morbid hunger, prostration, abortive efforts at stool in children.

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PREPARATION Mother Tincture ø • Drug Strength - 1/10

• The dried root-bark, coarsely powdered -100 g • Purified Water- 500 ml • Strong Alcohol- 537 ml

Potencies: 2x • One part Mother Tincture • Four parts Purified Water • Five parts Strong Alcohol. Homeobook.com

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CLINICAL • • • • • • •

Ascarides. Gastralgia. Hernia-umbilical; inguinal. Jaw, cracking in. Leucorrhoea. Tapeworm. Toothache. Homeobook.com

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KEY NOTES • As a vermifuge for the expulsion of tapeworm.

• Salivation, with nausea, and vertigo. • Spasm of the glottis.

• Pale blue rings round eyes. • Itching, crawling tickling of nose. Homeobook.com

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• Ravenous hunger; craving for sour or juicy things; fruit; coffee. • Loss of appetite. • Nausea; fermenting in abdomen; griping; dragging in inguinal region as if hernia would protrude. • Itching and tickling in anus frequently during the day. Homeobook.com

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HEAD • Feels empty. • Sunken eyes; pupils dilated; weak sight. • Vertigo very persistent.

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CHEST • Oppressed, with sighing. • Pain between shoulders; even clothing is oppressive.

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STOMACH • Constant hunger. • Poor digestion. • Loses flesh. • Vomiting at night.

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ABDOMEN • Pain in stomach and abdomen; worse about umbilicus [Cocc.; Nux m.; Plumb.]; ineffectual urging. • Itching at anus.

• Dragging in vaginal region, as if hernia would

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Skin • Itching in palms. • Sensation as if pimples would break out. • Jaundiced complexion.

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EXTREMITIES • Pain around shoulders, as if heavy load had been carried. • Pain in all finger-joints. • Tearing in knee-joint. • Convulsive movements. Homeobook.com

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Comparison: a) Pelletierine RelationshipC - An anthelmintica, especially for tapeworm. b) Cina- Grinds teeth during sleep.

c) Kousso- To expel tape- worm. d) Natrum Sulph: Colic with symptoms of worms.

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e) RATANHIA :

• Ascarides with intolerable pruritus ani. F) SABADILLA

• Vomiting of round worms, or nausea and retching, with sensation of a worm in pharynx; or

in case of taenia, burning, boring and whirling in umbilical region; nervous symptoms from worms. Homeobook.com

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G) SPIGELIA • Smarting in nose; sensation of a worm rising in throat; better after eating, or vomiting of all she takes, with sour rising like vinegar from stomach. H) SILICEA

• Worm colic, with constipation or difficult stool, bloody stools; flatulence, much rumbling. Homeobook.com

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I)

SULPHUR:

 Creeping in nose, creeping and biting in rectum, passage of lumbrici, ascarides and taenia; restlessness at night. J) TEREBINTHINAE:  Burning and tingling at the anus, with sensation as if ascarides were crawling about; passes segments of tapeworm; burning in rectum lessened by applying cold water. K)

TEUCRIUM:

 Terrible itching in anus from pinworms. Restlessness at night.

DOSE - First to third potency. Homeobook.com

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GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS  Botanical name: Gratiola officinalis Linn.  Common names: Hedge hyssop, or "Herb of Grace“.  Family: Scrophulariacea  Part used: Whole plant.  Habitat: Europe.  Proved By: Nenning

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Description: • A perennial deciduous herb up to 30 cm in height with a creeping, scaly rhizome. • Leaves opposite, sessile, three nerved, lanceolate,

serrate, smooth, pale green. • Flowers whitish or reddish, solitary, axillary, tubular, corolla two lipped with yellow hairs in the tube. • Odourless; taste acrid bitter.

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Preparation: Mother Tincture ø • Drug Strength 1/10 • Gratiola Officinalis in coarse powder-100 g • Purified Water- 635 ml Potencies: 2x • One part Mother Tincture. • Three parts Purified Water. • Six parts Strong Alcohol. Homeobook.com

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USES • The root and the flowering herb are cardiac, diuretic, violently purgative and vermifuge. • The plant has been used in the treatment of liver problems, enlargement of the spleen,

dropsy, jaundice, intestinal worms. • In excess the plant causes abortion, kidney damage and bowel haemorrhage.

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SPHERE OF ACTION • Gastro-Intestinal Tract. • Mind. • Sexual Organs. Physiological action • This agent is an emetic, diuretic, cathartic, and in toxic doses is an active poison.

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KEY NOTES • Acts especially on gastro-intestinal tract. • Chronic catarrhal conditions, leucorrhoea and gonorrhoea. • Obstinate ulcers. • Useful in mental troubles from overweening pride. • Especially useful in females. • Nux symptoms in females often met by Gratiola. Homeobook.com

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Head • Sick headache. • Rush of blood with vanishing of sight. • Sensation as if brain was contracting and head became smaller. • Tightness in forehead, with wrinkles in skin. • Eyes dry, burn. • Myopia.

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STOMACH • Vertigo during and after meals; hunger and feeling of emptiness after meals. • Dyspepsia, with much distention of the stomach.

• Cramps and colic after supper and during night, with swelling of abdomen and constipation.

• Dysphagia for liquids. • A peculiar cold feeling in the abdomen. Homeobook.com

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STOOL • Diarrhoea; green, frothy water, followed by anal burning, forcibly without pain.

• Constipation, with gouty acidity. • Haemorrhoids, with hypochondriasis.

• Rectum constricted.

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FEMALE • Nymphomania. • Menses too profuse, premature, and too long. • Leucorrhoea. SLEEP • Insomnia Modalities • Worse, drinking too much water. Homeobook.com

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Relationship

• Compare : Dig.; Euph.; Tab.; Cham.; Ammon. pic.; Nux vom.

Dose • Second to third potency.

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COMPARISON NUX VOMICA

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The stools are papescent or watery, and are scanty,

accompanied by urging. EUPHORBIA COROLLATA

• Watery Diarrhoea associated with colic, tenesmus, flatulence,

burning, nausea and vomiting. CHAMOMILLA

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Diarrhoea of infants and children, with hot, yellowish green stools, looking like chopped eggs, and often mixed with bile, causing soreness at anus. Homeobook.com

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GRINDELIA

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• Botanical Name: Grindelia camporum Green. • Synonyms: Grindelia robusta Nutt. • Common names. - Gum plant. Rosinweed. Wild sunflower. • Family: Compositae • Part used: Leaves and flowering tops • Habitat: Pacific coast of North America. • Proved by: Bundy and Hale. Homeobook.com

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DESCRIPTION

• Description: It is a coastal scrub bush Perennial herb with stout, smooth, pale stem. • Leaves rigid, broadly cordateoblong.

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Preparation: • Tincture from the leaves and unexpanded flower heads. • Drug Strength- 1/10 • Grindelia robusta, in coarse powder- 100 g

• Purified Water -150 ml • Strong Alcohol -877 ml Homeobook.com

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Medicinal Uses: • Bronchitis • Burns • Eczema • Insect/flea Bites • Rashes

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SPHERE OF ACTION • It acts to relax smooth muscles and heart

muscles. • Because of the relaxing effect on the heart and

pulse rate- reduction in blood pressure. • Anti-spasmodic, expectorant, hypotensive. • It produces paresis of the pneumo-gastric nerve interfering

with

respiration

and

producing

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• • • •

Clinical

Asthma Bronchitis whooping cough. Externally the lotion is used in the dermatitis caused by poison ivy.

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KEY NOTES • Suffocation on falling to sleep or on awakening. •

Asthma and emphysema with dilated heart.

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Rattling breathing.

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Bronchorrhoea with tenacious, whitish expectoration.

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Can not breathe when lying down.

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Cutting sore pain in the region of spleen extending to hips.

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Spleen enlarged.

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Cheyne-Stroke respiration.

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HEAD: • Feels full, as from quinine. • Pain in eyeballs, running back to brain; worse, moving eyes. EYE: • Pupils dilated. • Purulent ophthalmia and iritis. Homeobook.com

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RESPIRATORY • Asthma, with profuse tenacious expectoration, which relieves. • Stops breathing when falling asleep; wakes with a start, and gasps for breath. • Must sit up to breathe. • Cannot breathe when lying down. • Pertussis, with profuse mucous secretion. [Coccus.] • Sibilant rales. • Cheyne-Stokes respiration. Homeobook.com

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SPLEEN • Cutting pain in region of spleen, extending to hips. • Spleen enlarged. [Ceanoth.; Carduus.] Skin • Rash, like roseola, with severe burning and itching. • Vesicular and papular eruptions. • Herpes zoster. • Itching and burning. • Poison oak (locally as a wash). • Ulcers, with swollen, purplish skin.

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Worse • Falling to Sleep.

Relationship It antidotes - Rhus. Compare : Tart-emet, Eriodictyon, Lach, Sanguinar. Dose - Tincture in 1 to 15 drop doses, also lower potencies.

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COMPARISON •

Amm. mur., Ant. t., Kali bi.; Lach. (agg. from sleep; left then right).

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Gels. (agg. from sleep).

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Gels. has waking up feeling the heart has stopped, must keep moving to keep it going.

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Grind. feels respiration has stopped; stram. (fear of the dark).

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Op., Lach., Carb. an. (fears to go to sleep.)

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Dyspnoea on falling asleep : Am. c., Ant. t., Arum t., Badiag., Bry., Cadm. s., Carb. an., Carb. v., Graph., Lach., Nux m., Op., Ran. b., and both the Grindelias

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GUAIACUM

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• DESCRIPTION: This small tree is very slow growing, reaching about 10 m in height. •

The tree is essentially evergreen throughout.

• The leaves are compound, 2.5 to 3 cm in length, and 2 cm wide. •

The blue flowers have five petals.

• The resin obtained from the wood. • Odour aromatic when warmed. • Taste slightly acrid, readily but not always completely soluble in

alcohol. • Obtained by extraction with alcohol or by heating the wood.

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• Botanical Name: Guaiacum officinale Linn.

• Common names: Lignum sanctum, Lignum vitae.

• Natural order: Zygophylleae • Proved By: Dr Sammuel Hahnemann. • Part Used: Gum-resin.

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Preparation: Mother Tincture ø • Drug Strength 1/10 • Guaiacum-100 g • Strong Alcohol in sufficient quantity

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Physiological Action: • Acrid Stimulant -increasing body heat and circulation • Antiseptic -destroying or inhibiting pathogenic or putrefactive bacteria. • Diaphoretic -an agent that promotes perspiration • Diuretic -increases the secretion and expulsion of urine. • Expectorant - promotes the discharge of mucous and secretions from the respiratory passages. • Laxative - promoting evacuation of the bowels, a mild

purgative.

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Medicinal Uses Bacterial Conditions • Secondary syphilis Blood Conditions • Blood putrefaction, combined with Sarsaparilla

• Purifies blood Genitourinary Conditions • Gout (relieves pain and inflammations between attacks and can reduce recurrence) Respiratory Tract Conditions

• Tonsillitis.

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KEY NOTES • Chief action on fibrous tissue, and is especially adapted to the arthritic diathesis, rheumatism, and tonsillitis. • Secondary syphilis. • Very valuable in acute rheumatism.

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Free foul secretions. Unclean odor from whole body.

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Promotes suppuration of abscesses.

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Sensitiveness and aggravation from local heat.

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Contraction of limbs, stiffness and immobility.

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Mind • Forgetful; thoughtless; staring. • Slow to comprehend. Head • Gouty and rheumatic pain in head and face, extending to neck. • Tearing pain in skull; worse, cold, wet weather. • Feels swollen, and blood-vessels distended. • Aching in left ear. • Pains often end in a stitch, especially in head. Homeobook.com

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EYES • Pupils dilated.

• Eyelids appear too short. • Pimples around eyes. THROAT • Rheumatic sore throat with weak throat muscles. • Throat dry, burns, swollen, stitches toward ear.

• Acute tonsillitis. • Syphilitic sore throat.

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STOMACH • Tongue furred. • Desire for apples and other fruits. • Aversion to milk. • Burning in stomach. • Constricted epigastric region. ABDOMEN • Intestinal fermentation. • Much wind in bowels. • Diarrhoea, cholera infantum. Homeobook.com

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URINARY • Sharp stitches after urinating. • Constant desire. RESPIRATORY • Feels suffocated. • Dry, tight cough. • Fetid breath after coughing.

• Pleuritic stitches. • Chest pains in articulations of ribs, with shortness of breathing till expectoration sets in. Homeobook.com

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Female • Ovaritis in rheumatic patients, with irregular

menstruation and dysmenorrhoea, and irritable bladder. Back • Pain from head to neck. • Aching in nape. Stiff neck and sore shoulders.

• Stitches between scapulae to occiput. • Contractive pain between scapulae. Homeobook.com

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Extremities • Rheumatic pain in shoulders, arms and hands. • Growing pains. [Phos. ac.] Pricking in nates. • Sciatica and lumbago. • Gouty tearing, with contractions. • Immovable stiffness. • Ankle pain extending up the leg, causing lameness. • Joints swollen, painful, and intolerant of pressure; can bear no heat. • Stinging pain in limbs. • Arthritic lancinations followed by contraction of limbs. • A feeling of heat in the affected limbs. Homeobook.com

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Modalities Aggravation: Amelioration • Motion • External pressure • Heat • Cold wet weather. • Pressure. • Touch. • From 6 p.m. to 4 a.m. Homeobook.com

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Relationship • Guaiacol: In the treatment of gonorrhoeal epididymitis. • Antidote : Nux. • Follows: Sepia. • Compare : Merc.; Caust.; Rhus.; Mezer.; Rhodod. Dose • Tincture, to sixth attenuation.

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Description •

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Hecla or Hekla is the Icelandic word for ‘cloak’, and comes from

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the German word ‘hexe’, which means ‘witch’.

Mount Hekla is 1491 m high located in the south western part of Iceland about 70 miles.

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It is referred to by the natives as the Gate or even Gates of Hell.

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• It is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. • Hekla' s ash is not really ash at all, but tephra, “ a

lightweight material containing silica, like a very small grain of sand containing bubble cavities

which have dissolved acidic salts attached to the surface as a precipitation”.

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PREPARATION • Blackish brown, amorphous powder or porous mass, very light, odourless, tasteless but after some time acidic taste; insoluble in water and alcohol but slightly soluble in hydrochloric acid. Trituration 1x

• Drug strength 1/10 • Hekla Lava 100 g • Saccharum Lactis 900 g Homeobook.com

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Common name: Lava Scoriae from Mount Hekla

Used: The fine ash deposited at a distance from an eruption of Mount Hecla.

 Habitat: Iceland Proved By: Dr. Garth Wilkinson of London. Homeobook.com

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CLINICAL

• In caries, osteritis, osteo-sarcoma, periosititis and

exostosis of the nasal, maxillary and facial bones. • Plantar Fasciitis and Calcaneal Spurs.

• There may be neuralgia, toothache, or enlargement and induration of the cervical glands, associated with these changes in the bones. Homeobook.com

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DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURE • A

Hekla

characteristically

eruption

• Action of the drug is

starts

intense over the first few

out with an explosive

phase that usually lasts for a few hours and then proceeds to erupt large

hours then an ongoing letting off of steam for a few weeks.

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KEY NOTES

• Marked action upon the jaws. • Great use in exostosis, gum abscess, difficult teething. • Nodosities, caries of bone, etc. • Osteitis, periostitis, osteosarcoma; rachitis. • Tumors in general. • Bone necrosis. • Necrosis and sinus after mastoid operation. Homeobook.com

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FACE • Ulceration of nasal bones. • Facial neuralgia from carious teeth and after extraction. • Toothache, with swelling about

jaws. • Abscess of gums.

• Enlargement of maxillary bone. • Cervical glands enlarged and indurated. Homeobook.com

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Teeth •

Toothache, esp. if teeth are very sensitive to pressure; with swelling about jaws.

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Neuralgia, from carious tooth.

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Right cuspid of upper jaw very sensitive to slight pressure

on crown; swelling and indurated tumour as large as a pea under right ala nasi, very sensitive to touch.

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Difficult dentition in scrofulous and rachitic children.

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Female sexual organs •

Dries up the milk.

Chest •

Myalgia, esp. of intercostal muscles.

Neck •

Induration and infiltration of cervical glands, studding neck like a row of pearls.

Lower limbs •

Plantar Fasciitis and Calcaneal Spurs

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Hip disease.

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COMPARISON CONCHIOLINUM: Diaphysis of bone affected; parts extremely sensitive to touch. AMPHISBAENA: Great affinity for the jaw bones, worse by air and dampness. SLAG: Great itching of parts.

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STILLINGIA SILVATICA •

Syphilis of the long bones, periostitis and otitis worse at night and in damp weather.

CALCAREA FLUORICA •

Osseous tumors, enlargement of bones with or without caries.

MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS •

Ostitis, violent bone pains, swelling.

NITRICUM ACIDUM •

Mercurial

ostitis,

drawing,

pressive

pains

with

sensitiveness.

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MEZEREUM • Periostitis before the stage of suppuration, worse from touch, nodes, necrosis and nocturnal bone pains. Exostosis of the tarsal bones. ASAFOETIDA • Caries of bones with offensive discharges, intolerable soreness around the ulcers; caries of tibia with great soreness. Pains are dull, drawing and boring, worse from rest. STRONTIUM CARBONICUM

• Caries of long bones with an exhausting diarrhoea. Ostitis discharging bone.

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AURUM METALLICUM • Caries of cranial bones and bones of the palate.

Violent pains at night. There is an offensive odor and discharge of small pieces of bone. Pains in

the bones of the extremities. Given timely it may prevent caries, necrosis and exostosis.

PLATINUM MURIATICUM • Caries especially of the tarsus. Homeobook.com

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PHOSPHORUS

COMPARISON

• Non-syphilitic caries of vertebra and caries of lower

jaw. In hip disease it is useful after Silicea, burning in the spine.

SILICEA • Curvature of bones, rickets; Hip-joint disease. Caries after inflammation, worse from cold. Potts' disease.

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CALCAREA CARBONICA • This remedy is superior to any in caries of the vertebrae. Curvature of spine. Rickets. PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM • Hip disease and caries of spine. Sensation in the bones

as if scraped with a knife. FLUORICUM ACIDUM • Dental fistula; caries of the bone, especially of the long

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CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA • Non-union of fractured bones when due to impaired nutrition. SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE • Injuries of bones where there is an irritability at the point of fracture, nervous in origin. RUTA GRAVEOLENS • Non-union results, because of deficient callus.

SULPHUR Rickets, defective assimilation, great appetite, but poorly nourished. Dosage • - Trituration 2x to 6x, and higher in dilutions Homeobook.com

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