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Swelling,
induration and stony hardness of glands.
Summer complaints > at sea. Asthma in sailors which is aggravated on
leaving the sea.
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FAMILY
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Halogen
group.
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A/F
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| - | Complaints
from becoming over heated.
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| - | Damp, warm weather (of spring, summer, autumn).
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MODALITIES
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| < | From evening until midnight
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| > | Nose bleed (Vertigo, head, chest)
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MIND
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| - | Anxious
apprehensiveness, with great depression of spirits.
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| - | Expects to see things jump around the floor as if someone were behind him. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | Suited
to blue-eyed, fair people, especially children with thin, white, delicate
skin, very light hair and eyebrows. SCROFULOUS CONSTITUTIONS.
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| - | LEFT SIDED REMEDY -breast, throat, ovary, headache, left sided mumps.
(Exception -affection of right lung).
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| - | Tendency to infiltrate GLANDS, become enlarged, hard but seldom suppurate.
Parotid, thyroid, ovaries and mammary glands - swollen and indurated.
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| - | WEAK and EASILY OVERHEATED, THEN SWEATY and SENSITIVE TO DRAFTS.
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| - | Continued yawning and drowsiness with respiratory troubles.
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| - | Respiratory system - Dry CROUPY cough with hoarseness, with rattling of mucus
in larynx.
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| - | LARYNGEAL DIPHTHERIA - membrane formation occurs in larynx, spreading
upwards.
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| - | Colds start in larynx, go upwards (Merc, Sep) and downwards.
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| - | COLD sensation in larynx when inspiring (Rhus-t, Sulph) >AFTER SHAVING
(worse after shaving - Carbo-an).
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| - | Every inspiration provokes cough.
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| - | Asthma, INSPIRATION VERY DIFFICULT (Iod) Chlorum- difficulty in exhaling).
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| - | ASTHMA OF SAILORS GOING ASHORE > when they go to sea again [Clarke ->
at seaside is the rule, case of sailors being exception].
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| - | Nose bleed accompanies many affections, especially of chest.
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| - | Endocrines - Hard GOITRE (Spong).
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| - | Even a small goitre oppresses.
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| - | G.I.T. - PILES -Bleed intensely, painful < application of cold or warm
water > wetting part with saliva.
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| - | Loud emissions of air (noisy flatus) from vagina.
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| - | Extremities - ICY COLDNESS of forearms.
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KEYNOTES
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-
Asthma of sea faring men when they come to land > AT SEA.
- Membranous formation occurs in larynx, then runs upwards to fauces.
- Cold sensation in larynx when inspiring > after shaving.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | Scrofulous children with enlarged glands.
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| - | Laryngeal diphtheria with membrane formation in larynx spreading upwards.
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| - | Weak and easily overheated, then extremely sensitive to cold. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- Left
sided.
- Ascending complaints.
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CLINICAL
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| - | Acne,
Adenopathy, Asthma, Croup, Diphtheria, Glandular indurations, Goitre,
Laryngitis, Laryngospasm, Ovarian cysts, Pharyngitis, Rhinitis, Tonsillitis,
Tumours.
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| - | Hoarseness caused by weeping. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Follows Well: Arg-n, Kali-c
Compare: Iod, Spong
Similar: Ant-t, Apis, Arg-n, Ars, Bell, Bor, Caust, Cina, Cinch, Coff,
Con, Cupr, Fl-ac, Hep, Iod, Lach, Lyc, Merc, Phos, Rhus-t, Sep, Spong, Sulph
Antidoted By: Am-c, Camph, Mag-c, Op
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