TEMA 1.FLUJO INTERNO DE FLUIDOS INCOMPRESIBLES Y COMPRESIBLES
10. FLUJO COMPRESIBLE
10.5 Flujo compresible en boquillas convergentes-divergentes
In most respects this remedy corresponds closely to China Officinalis. There are several symptoms which lead to the preference of Chininum Sulphuricum as noted below. Additionally we may prefer Chininum Sulphuricum if the history indicates a triggering of symptoms which resemble China but which began after taking the sulphate of China either for prophylaxis or treatment of malaria, or to induce abortion.
MENTALS
Fear of evil or of misfortune.
Fear of animals.
Anxiety for others; anxiety about finances.
Similar mental symptoms to China.
GENERALS
Periodicity, symptoms at the same hour daily, especially 3 PM.
Recurrent daily fever. Strikingly high temperature. Chills, rigors.
May feel better during the recurrent fevers.
Weakness and debility, especially from fluid loss.
Fever of unknown origin.
Appearance: Thin face with dark circles about eyes. Face has the appearance of chronic suffering.
HEAD
Meniere's syndrome (Cocc, Phos, Sil).
Tinnitus, worse during a chill, worse during vertigo.
Headache comes on during sleep, especially at 3 AM.
Heat in the head during the headache, better cold applications.
Head pain better from hard pressure.
Headache with digestive disturbance.
Dark circles about eyes.
GASTROINTESTINAL
Aching in the liver or spleen, worse during a chill.
MUSCULOSKELETAL
Great sensitivity of spine.
CANNOTLEANBACKINTHECHAIRDUETOSENSITIVITY. Pain in the spine, worse from inspiration, worse touch.
ACUTEARTHRITIS, ESPECIALLYIFASSOCIATEDWITHERYTHEMANODOSUM.
SKIN
Erythema nodosum.
CLINICAL
Arthritis. Erythema Nodosum. Fever. Headache. Lumbago. Meniere's syndrome. Malaria. Migraine.
Neuralgia. Recurring fever.
COMPARISONS
Cedr. Chin. Phos. Sal-Ac.
CHLORALUM
Chloralum is a remedy to be thought of when we see a combination of SKINDISORDERSANDINTENSE
INSOMNIA. Generally thought of in urticarial conditions, worse from wine; burning urticaria.
CHLORUM
Chlorum is a rarely prescribed remedy which is used most often in respiratory conditions, especially laryngospasm. There is a constriction of the glottis which produces stridor and a suffocating sensation; said to be worse during expiration though also on inspiration, worse from sleep.
CICUTA
Cicuta is a remedy for the nervous system. It is indicated in cases of epilepsy and in mental retardation.
The mental state is characterized by childishness and over-excitement. The convulsions of Cicuta are among the most violent found in any remedy and often accompanied by opisthotonos, or bizarre contortions. Often there is unconsciousness, sleeping, or a dull dream-like postictal state following the convulsion continuing for an inordinately long period of time - even a whole day. Sometimes there are multiple convulsions following closely one upon the other.
MENTALS
Childishness; patient feels like a child. Retardation after head injury. Aversion to company.
Delirium. Dementia.
Anxiety and suspicion. Anxious before the convulsion.
NEUROLOGICAL
VIOLENTCONVULSIONS: CONTORTIONS. Opisthotonos.
Convulsions after head injuries (Arn, Nat-S, Hyper).
Shrieking before the convulsion.
Convulsions worse from heat, during sleep, being touched, noises.
Tetanus, eclampsia, meningitis with convulsions.
Petit mal, blank for long periods.
Sudden, strong jerks and spasms. Chorea.
HEAD
Head drawn backward; spasms of the cervical spine.
FRIGHTFULCONTORTIONSOFFACEDURINGCONVULSIONS.
Eruptions on head; pustules which burn and coalesce forming thick yellow scabs on the face or scalp.
Biting of the tongue during convulsions.
Shocks in the head.
Idiotic expression on the face.
Strabismus.
GASTROINTESTINAL
Craving inedible things - dirt or charcoal.
Shocks in the abdomen.
Vomiting during or alternating with convulsion.
MUSCULOSKELETAL
Opisthotonos. Arching of the back.
Spasms and twitches of the extremities.
Shock sensation in the limbs.
CLINICAL
Convulsion. Head injury. Mental retardation. Opisthotonos. Pustule on scalp. Seizure disorder.
Strabismus. Twitches and spasms.
COMPARISONS
Art-V. Cupr. Bar-M. Bufo.
CIMICIFUGA
Actaea Racemosa - as listed in Kent's materia medica - is a remedy affecting mainly the nerves and muscles. Often the patient comes with a main complaint of pain which is not clearly diagnosable and which seems to have characteristics both of a neuralgia and of rheumatism. The location of the pain is usually in the muscles themselves - the neck, back, and uterus being very common sites. The quality of the pains is often sharp or stitching - very reminiscent of the pains of Berberis.
The Cimicifuga patient is excitable, extroverted, and forceful. Usually we find great loquacity and jumping from subject to subject. The emotions are vivid and hysterical in nature. The patient suffers with strong phobias - death, insanity, injury. Also in a later stage which usually follows a set-back of some kind, the patient may become gloomy or even suicidal.
MENTALS
Loquacity; changes from one subject to the next.
Sighing.
Great dullness or fogginess of mind during headache.
Hysteria.
Changeable mood.
Gloomy, morose. Everything seems wrong in her life.
Fears: Insanity. Death. Murder.
GENERALS
Chorea, worse menses, worse from pressure, worse on side being lain upon, associated with rheumatism.
General aggravation from menses.
General aggravation from cold or drafts.
General aggravation after injury to the spine.
HEAD
Severe headaches, especially in the vertex or radiating to or from the cervical region.
SEVEREHEADACHEANDDULLNESSOFMINDASSOCIATEDWITHEXTREMECERVICALSTIFFNESS. Pressing outward from the vertex, or a fullness sensation.
Headache as if the top of the head would open up or “fly off”.
Headache with pain in the eyes, worse motion of the eyes.
Stitching pains in the eyes.
GASTROINTESTINAL
Sinking sensation in the epigastrium.
GENITALIA
Severe dysmenorrhea, worse as the flow increases.
Cramping, shooting pains across pelvis or into thighs during labor, after delivery; changeable pains.
Failure to progress in labor. Retained placenta.
Menses irregular and may be suppressed by emotions or stress.
Neuralgic pains in the ovaries.
BACK
Severe cervical pain, almost a neuralgia; stiffness and drawing in the neck. Neck spasms.
Fibrositis. Spasms of the paraspinal muscles.
Sciatica.
Injuries to the spine.
EXTREMITIES
Rheumatism affecting especially the muscles.
Chorea.
Stitching pains, darting about, worse cold damp weather.
Arthritic pains, worse cold.
Muscle twitches.
CLINICAL
Anxiety. Arthritis. Cervical stiffness. Chorea. Depression. Dysmenorrhea. Fibrositis. Hysteria. Labor.
Migraine. Neuralgia. Phobic disorder. Rheumatism. Sciatica. Twitches.
COMBINEDSYMPTOMS
RHEUMATISMANDLOQUACITY. RHEUMATISMANDDYSMENORRHEA. Hysteria and back or neck spasm.
COMPARISONS
Caul. Lach. Ign. Calc-P. Phos. Arg-N. Lac-C.
CINA
Although the routine use of remedies is not recommended, it is easy to understand the enthusiasm some older homeopaths had for Cina in the treatment of worms, especially pinworms. On observing a child with pin-worms one sees a great restlessness and an almost frantic state of mind, also marked irritability, and a tremendous urge for scratching and boring occur. Such are the characteristics of Cina, and thus the strong association of this remedy in the treatment of these parasites.
Cina is mainly a remedy needed during childhood. The typical child is irritable in the extreme, perhaps even more so than Chamomilla. He cannot stand to be touched or even looked at or held. He cannot be quieted and is very capricious. He may even strike or more often pinch or scratch the parents when frustrated. The anger can lead to tantrums and even to convulsions. The child may be precocious and hard;
he cannot be reprimanded and will not tolerate parental authority.
Convulsions are a strong part of this remedy. The nervous system is irritated which may lead to meningitis or epilepsy. Spasms of all parts of the body occur.
MENTALS
Angry, striking, pinching children (Cham).
Aversion to being touched (and yet may demand to be carried).
CONVULSIONSFROMBEINGSCOLDEDORDISCIPLINED. Shrieking.
NEUROLOGICAL
CONVULSIONSASSOCIATEDINANYWAYWITHWORMS.
Convulsions or spasms from being touched, from being scolded.
HEAD
PALEORBLUISHDISCOLORATIONAROUNDTHEMOUTH.
Face pale with fine, almost translucent skin which shows the veins.
Pale face even during fever.
Hot flush and redness of face.
Sees colors before the eyes.
Many authors emphasize a tendency for yawning.
IRRESISTIBLEURGETOBOREINTHENOSEWITHTHEFINGERS. Grinds teeth in sleep.
GASTROINTESTINAL
Gurgling in the esophagus from cough or when swallowing.
Cramping and diarrhea; wants to lie in the knee-chest position or over the mother's shoulder; better pressure.
Many cravings and yet insatiable.
Averse to mother's milk.
WORMSINTHESTOOL; PINWORMS. ITCHINGRECTUM.
CHEST
Gagging from the cough; violent cough with spasms of the limbs. Pertussis.
EXTREMITIES
Spasms of the hands and feet. Warts.
CLINICAL
Behavior disorders. Bruxism. Colic. Diarrhea. Fever. Otitis media. Pertussis. Seizure disorders.
Worms, especially pinworms.
COMPARISONS
Cham. Arum-T. Med.
CINNABARIS
Mercury sulphide is by tradition listed under the name Cinnabaris. The majority of the symptoms of this remedy are very closely allied to Mercurius Solubulis. We especially think of Cinnaharis in cases which demonstrate the typical Mercury symptoms but in which there is a predominance of the genital or rectal lesions so typical of Cinnabaris.
HEAD
Fullness and congestion, especially in the vertex and forehead.
Pains radiating from the area of the inner canthus to the forehead.
Sinusitis of ethmoid and frontal sinuses.
GENITALIA
RECTALCONDYLOMATA. Genital condylomata.
Condyloma of the foreskin. Balanitis. Pus under the foreskin.
Ulcers of the penis.
Swollen inguinal glands.
SKIN
Condyloma shaped like a fan; bleed easily.
CLINICAL
Balanitis. Condylomata. Phimosis. Sinusitis.
COMPARISONS
Nit-Ac. Thuj. Nat-S. Merc.