TEMA 2.IMPULSIÓN DE FLUIDOS
3. IMPULSION DE GASES
3.1 Compresión de gases: potencia y rendimiento de los compresores
Twitches of the muscles, worse in fingers and toes.
Chorea (Caust, Cimic, Mygal, Rhus-T, Zinc, etc.).
CLINICAL
Asthma. Cholera. Chorea. Colic. Cramps. Encephalitis. Gastrointestinal disorders. Headache.
Meningitis. Migraine. Nocturnal myoclonus. Pertussis. Seizure disorder. Tics. Twitches.
COMPLEMENTARY
Calc.
COMBINEDSYMPTOMS
ASTHMAANDSEIZUREDISORDER.
Diarrhea and cramps in the extremities.
COMPARISONS
Cic. Zinc. Bufo. Caust.
CURARE
This neurotoxin has been used medically to induce paralysis in patients during surgery or mechanical ventilation. Homeopathically it is therefore mainly indicated in cases of paralysis or progressive paresis such as multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, etc. Louis Klein of Vancouver, Canada recently reported a brilliant cure of a case of myasthenia gravis with Curare.
MENTALS
Abuse issues. Self-abuse - bites or strikes himself, rips his clothes.
Aversion to company; “shuts herself away”.
Irritable and aggressive.
NEUROLOGICAL
Progressive paresis, especially of extensor muscle groups.
WEAKNESSOFHANDSINPIANOPLAYERS.
DIFFICULTSWALLOWING - MUSTDRINKINORDERTOSWALLOW.
COMPARISONS
Plb. Caust. Con.
CYCLAMEN
Cyclamen is often referred to as “a chilly Pulsatilla” because of the menstrual difficulties and the strong indigestion from fats. The patient often suffers from weakness and anemia and prominent visual symptoms.
We can distinguish Cyclamen from Pulsatilla because it is aggravated by open air, and tends to be thirsty as well. Furthermore the Cyclamen patient rarely has the robust, rosy look of the typical Pulsatilla patient. The Cyclamen patient is often depressed and remorseful; feels she has neglected a duty. There may be a deep, inner sense of grief. Both Cyclamen and Pulsatilla are sympathetic, moody and have a tendency for weepiness.
GENERALS
Generally worse from cold.
General aggravation from suppressed menses.
Weakness and lassitude.
General aggravation from pork and fat.
HEAD
Vertigo, worse menses, worse suppressed menses.
Headache with vertigo or flickering vision.
Migraine.
Pale face with dark circles under eyes.
Allergy.
EYES
FLICKERINGBEFORETHEEYESANDVISUALDISTURBANCES. Dimness of vision. Diplopia. Strabismus.
Swelling around the eyes.
Right-sided ear pain.
GASTROINTESTINAL
Indigestion from fat and pork.
Food and saliva tastes salty.
Craving: Lemonade.
Aversions: Meat. Fat. Pork. Butter.
GENITALIA
Severe dysmenorrhea, labor-like pains.
Menses easily suppressed, worse getting wet, worse exertion.
Amenorrhea.
Menses too early, too profuse. Menses black and clotted.
Prostatitis, worse passing stool or urine, worse sitting or walking.
EXTREMITIES
Sore, painful heels, worse sitting, worse standing but less noticed when walking.
Aching in the ankles.
Writer's cramp telt from forearm to fingers. Contracted fingers.
CLINICAL
Allergy. Anemia. Dysmenorrhea. Gastritis. Headache. Menstrual disturbances. Migraine. Strabismus.
Vaginitis. Vertigo. Visual disturbances. Writer’s cramp.
COMPARISONS
Puls - Menstrual irregularities and easy suppression of menses, blonde, leukophlegmatic constitutions, aversion and aggravation from fats and pork, heel pains, prostatitis.
Chin. Sep. Nat-M.
DIGITALIS
Allopathically Digitalis is used to slow the rapidly fibrillating heart. In homeopathy this plant is often indicated in cases when the pulse rate is abnormally slow. While cardiac symptoms are foremost, this remedy is also indicated in prostatic and other urinary disorders, and in hepatitis, often associated with the characteristic slowing of the pulse.
MENTALS
Fear of death from cardiac symptoms.
Fear of the heart stopping.
Remorse; guilty feelings.
GENERALS
SLOWNESSOFPULSE may accompany any other disorder.
General aggravation from coition (indigestion, angina, etc.).
Faintness and pallor.
Cyanosis.
HEAD
Vertigo with slow pulse.
Yellow or green halo seen around objects.
GASTROINTESTINAL
Hepatitis with tender, hard liver.
Jaundice with pale or whitish stool.
Nausea with deathly sinking sensation in stomach.
Nausea worse from odor of food (Colch, Cocc, Sep, Ars).
UROGENITAL
Prostate enlarged and inflamed, especially in elderly patients.
Urinary retention with enlarged prostate.
Seminal or prostatic discharge.
Constant urge for urination at night.
CARDIOVASCULAR
Slow pulse; bradycardia or tachycardia with slow conduction.
Sensation that the heart will stop beating, worse from exertion.
Angina worse from coition, worse excitement, worse exertion.
Angina extends to left arm with numbness and weakness in limb.
Congestive heart failure. Rheumatic heart disease.
PALPITATIONSAFTERGRIEF.
CHEST
Hemoptysis from suppressed menses is considered a keynote.
Dyspnea or even asthma associated with heart disease.
Wakes suddenly from sleep with gasping and fear of suffocation (Lach, Sulph, Op, Grind).
CLINICAL
Angina. Arrhythmia. Congestive heart failure. Hepatitis. Nausea. Prostatitis. Rheumatic heart disease.
COMBINEDSYMPTOMS
Liver and heart problems.
COMPARISONS
Chel. Nux-V. Spong. Lach.
DIOSCOREA
Dioscorea is a remedy for gastrointestinal disorders. The guiding symptom is a tendency to stretch or bend backward to relieve the abdominal pains (opposite Coloc). During the interview, the patient may sit in the chair leaning far backward to keep the abdomen from flexing.
GASTROINTESTINAL
SEVEREABDOMINALCRAMPS, BETTERBYBENDINGBACKWARDS or by sitting upright.
Acute diarrhea, sometimes hemorrhagic.
Paroxysms of cramps, worse bending forward, better eructation.
Colicky infants who arch their backs.
Nausea at the thought of food.
MUSCULOSKELETAL
Low back pain. Sciatica, usually right-sided. Cramps in the fingers and toes duting labor.
CLINICAL
Colic. Gastroenteritis. Kidney stone. Sciatica.
COMPARISONS
Nux-V. Coloc. Bell.
DOLICHOS
Dolichos produces tremendous itching over the entire body with no visible eruption. The itch may be due to intrinsic skin conditions but in most cases results from liver disturbance and jaundice or sometimes from pregnancy or advanced malignancy. The symptoms arc worse at night and often cause despair or even suicidal thoughts.
GASTROINTESTINAL
Hepatitis, with jaundice and pale or white stool.
SKIN
TREMENDOUS, UNBEARABLEITCHINGWITHOUTERUPTION.
Itching, worse at night, worse in pregnancy, better cold bathing.
COMPARISONS
Card-m. Chel. Sulph. Ars.
DROSERA
Drosera is predominantly a cough remedy and is especially famous for its relationship to pertussis.
However we can use Drosera in any respiratory infection, and in coughs resulting from irritation in the larynx. Drosera also has cramping of muscles. It is interesting to note how often our pertussis remedies have neurological symptoms.
THROAT
Dryness and irritation of throat or larynx, provoking cough. Constriction in throat or chest, worse talking, better walking.
COUGH
VIOLENTPAROXYSMOFCOUGHING, SOMETIMESSOSEVERETHEPATIENTCANNOTCATCHHISBREATHORBECOMES CYANOTIC.
Cough, worse after midnight.
COUGHSOSEVEREASTOPRODUCEEPISTAXIS. Cough, worse eating.
Cough worse immediately upon lying at night.
Vomiting from the cough.
Painful cough; the patient must hold his chest when coughing.
Drosera has been used by many authors in cases of tuberculosis.
EXTREMITIES
CRAMPINGOFTHEHANDONGRASPING; UNABLETORELEASEGRIP. Twitches in the shoulder.
CLINICAL
Bronchitis. Croup. Pertussis. Tuberculosis. Writer's cramp.
COMPARISONS
Spong. Rumex. Coc-C. Cupr.
DULCAMARA
Dulcamara is a remedy which is often over-looked. The keynote aggravation from damp weather is so strong, it is understandable how often we misprescribe remedies such as Kali Carbonicum or Calcarea Carbonica when we should think of Dulcamara. Most of the complaints of Dulcamara are related to the mucous or serous membranes. It is an important remedy in allergic and herpetic conditions.
The Dulcamara patient is generally stour, rather uptight and domineering. Often much ol the interview is centered around the patient's concerns and disagreements with his family. It can be very difficult to interrupt the patient in such a discussion to bring the discussion back to the patient's own health problems.
MENTALS
Anxiety about the family.
Domineering about and preoccupied with family matters; spends the entire interview discussing family controversies.
Opinionated and “uptight”.
GENERALS
General aggravation from damp or cold, damp weather.
GENERALAGGRAVATIONFROMCHANGEOFWEATHER especially when warm days are followed by cold evenings (in autumn).
General aggravation from suppressed eruptions.
General aggravation from catching cold (conjunctivitis, diarrhea cystitis, low back pain, etc.).
General aggravation from drafts.
Allergy to cats (Tub, Sulph, Kali-C, Ars, Pub).
HEAD
Headache from suppression of sinusitis or facial eruptions.
Headache, sinusitis: worse cold, damp weather, worse after chill.
Headache better during mucus discharge.
Bell’s palsy with difficult speech.
Facial neuralgia from suppressed facial eruption.
Thick catarrh with yellowish mucus filling sinuses and inner ears.
Ear pain, especially left ear, worse night, worse cold, damp.
Hay fever, especially at the end of summer or in fall.
Nasal obstruction, colds or coryza from cold, damp weather.
Crusty eruptions on head or face.
Herpes about the lips.
Tinea capitis.
Warts on the face.
GASTROINTESTINAL
Diarrhea, worse cold, damp weather or worse cold foods. Abdominal cramps.
UROGENITAL
URGINGFORURINATIONWHENCHILLED.
Eruptions on genitalia, especially between the scrotum and thigh. Genital herpes.
CHEST
Cough or asthma which come on in cold, damp weather.
Bronchitis. Pneumonia.
MUSCULOSKELETAL
Rheumatism.
Low back pain, worse stooping, worse after catching a cold.
Chills beginning in the back (Gels, Eup-Per).
Stiffness and joint pains, worse cold, damp, worse getting wet.
Warts of the hand.
SKIN
FLAT, SMOOTHWARTS.
Urticaria. Tinea corporis. Tinea versicolor. Eczema. Impetigo.
CLINICAL
Allergy. Asthma. Bell’s palsy. Bronchitis. Connective tissue disease. Diarrhea. Headache. Herpes.
Hypertension. Lower back pain. Neuralgia. Otitis. Pneumonia. Rheumatism. Sinusitis. Tinea. Warts.
COMPLEMENTARY
Sulph. Calc.
COMPARISONS
Kali-C. Rhus-T. Calc. Sil.
ELAPS
Elaps is a snake venom and, as expected, it has many symptoms similar to Lachesis. The patient is often suspicious, intense and haughty. Hemorrhagic conditions with dark or black blood are common.
MENTALS
FEAROFRAIN. Fear of stroke.
Fear of snakes.
HEAD
Offensive nasal discharge.
CHEST
Hemoptysis with black blood.
Angina pectoris.
COLDNESSINCHESTORSTOMACH, especially after cold drinks.
GASTROINTESTINAL
Cold sensation in the stomach, worse from cold drinks.
Cravings: Ice. Oranges. SALADS. Yogurt.
Aversion: Banana. Gastritis. Peptic ulcers. Esophageal spasms.
Abdominal pains ameliorated by lying on the abdomen.
Hematemesis, black blood.
GENITALIA
Severe dysmenorrhea, often with the typical black flow.
Premenstrual syndrome.
CLINICAL
Angina. Dysmenorrhea. Esophageal spasm. Hemorrhage. Peptic ulcer. Premenstrual syndrome.
Sinusitis.
COMPARISONS
Lach.
EQUISETUM
Equisetum is a remedy for the urinary tract. It is a useful remedy in simple cystitis although less frequently indicated than Sarsaparilla, Nux Vomica, or Cantharis.
URINARY
MOREURGINGWHENTHEBLADDERISNEARLYEMPTY; LESSURGINGANDLESSDYSURIAWHENTHEREISMORE URINE.
Pain or fullness in the bladder, even after voiding.
Frequent urging for large amounts of urine.
Pain at the end of urination (Sars).
Enuresis.
Constant full sensation in the bladder during pregnancy, not relieved by urinating.
CLINICAL
Cystitis. Enuresis.
COMPARISONS
Sars. Canth. Nux-V.
ERIGERON
Erigeron is a remedy for hemorrhage, primarily but not exclusively ot the uterus. The hemorrhage is nearly always aggravated by motion.
GENERALS
HEMORRHAGEWORSEFROMLEASTMOTION (hematemesis, hematuria, metrorrhagia). Stays in bed to avoid hemorrhage.
HEAD
Epistaxis with flushed face.
UROGENITAL
Spontaneous or threatened abortion.
Uterine bleeding worse from motion or exertion.
Menses or uterine hemorrhage, with bright red blood.
Marked irritation of the bladder and rectum.
Hemorrhage from renal calculi.
CLINICAL
Epistaxis. Hemorrhage. Miscarriage. Peptic ulcer. Renal calculi.
COMPARISONS
Ust. Mill. Sabin. Sec.