Paralysis of single parts. Expectoration slips back
again. Insensible urethra or rectum. Urine spurts on coughing. Deep burns and
their effects.
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SOURCE
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Hahnemann's Tinctura acris sine Kali.
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A/F
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- | Ulcers maltreated with lead |
- | Exposure to colds, burns scalds and febrile conditions |
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MODALITIES
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< | Extremes of temperature
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< | Taking hold of anything
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< | Bathing in river in summer
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< | Coming from the open air into a warm room
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MIND
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- | Melancholy mood, sad, hopeless from CARE, GRIEF,
SORROW.
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- | Weepy, the least thing makes the child cry.
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- | Intensely SYMPATHETIC, great sympathy for the sufferings of others.
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- | Children slow in learning to walk. Unsteady walking and easy falling of
little children.
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- | Insanity after suppressed skin eruptions.
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- | Anxious forebodings (felt in head) < twilight. Fear that something bad
will happen. Fears dark, dogs or other animals, ghosts.
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- | CANNOT STAND INJUSTICE, sensitive to authority, ANARCHIST, opposition or
idealistic fight for a better world. REBELLIOUS even to the point of violent
political extremism.
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- | Suspicious, mistrustful absentminded, looks on the dark side. Lacks control
of balance. Compulsive neurosis, checks and rechecks for dangerous mental
lapses.
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- | Serious, intense, idealistic and sensitive.
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- | Stammering, especially when excited.
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- | Hurriedness, eats fast, rushes in tasks.
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- | History of sexual abuse or violence in the family. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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- | Appearance - lean, dark and intense; may be very
refined.
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- | It acts mainly upon nerves, motor and sensory and on muscles, voluntary and
involuntary; of bladder, larynx and limbs.
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- | Weakness, progressive loss of muscular strength causing increasing
uncertainity of control over the muscles, finally ending in paralysis of
single organs or parts.
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- | PARALYSIS from exposure to cold. Post diphtheritic paralysis from lead.
Local paralysis of vocal cords, muscles of deglutition, of tongue, face,
bladder and extremities.
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- | Trembling, convulsions, chorea in nervous girls < during menses.
Sympathetic jerking, twitching, startings and restlessness are other
characteristic symptoms.
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- | Pains are tearing, drawing, burning of the parts grasped by hand.
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- | Pain in muscular and fibrous tissues, with deformities about the joints. Progressive
loss of muscular strength. Tendinous contractures.
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- | Rawness or soreness of scalp, throat, respiratory tract, rectum, anus,
urethra, vagina, uterus.
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- | Periodicity, paroxysmal attacks (convulsions, epilepsy). Attacks twice a day
or every two, three or four weeks.
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- | General and local aggravation from DRAFTS.
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- | Tendency to CRACKS, FISSURES. Fissures in anus and piles pulsate and burn
like fire. Nipples get sore and cracked.
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- | Emaciation due to disease, worry etc., and of long standing.
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- | Never have been well since the BURN.
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- | In catarrhal affections of the air passages, and seems to choose preferably
dark complexioned and rigid fibred persons.
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- | Eyes - Drooping of eyelids, cannot keep them open, intense photophobia.
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- | Flickering sparks and black spots before the eyes.
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- | Face - Right sided prosopalgia > cold water
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- | Facial paralysis < opening mouth.
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- | Eruptions on face, especially the tip of the nose.
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- | Right sided Bell's Palsy.
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- | R.S. - Aphonia or HOARSENESS in mornings of speakers < stooping >
talking
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- | Cough with rawness and soreness in chest with inability to expectorate,
sputa must be swallowed > swallowing COLD water, on expiration, with pain
in hips remaining after pertussis, with expectoration, chiefly at night >
drinking cold water < warmth of bed.
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- | Expectoration scanty, greasy, ropy, like soap suds, must be swallowed.
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- | Cannot cough deep enough for relief.
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- | G.I.T. - Patient sits down to the table hungry, but thought, sight, smell of
food takes away the appetite.
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- | Constipation: frequent, ineffectual desire, stool passes better when person
is standing. Impeded by haemorrhoids. Tough and shining like grease in
children with nocturnal eneuresis.
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- | Desires - salt, bacon and smoked meats, cheese and eggs. Aversion - sweets.
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- | Urinary System - Urine involuntary, when coughing, sneezing, blowing the
nose.
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- | Involuntary during first sleep at night, also from sightest excitement.
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- | Retention after surgical operations. Retention of urine after labour.
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- | Loss of sensibility on passing urine.
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- | Extremities - Left sided sciatica with numbness.
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- | Unsteadiness of muscles of forearm and hand.
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- | Rheumatic tearing in limbs, > warmth, especially heat of bed.
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- | Stiffness of the joints.
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- | Arthritis of hands and fingers; ulnar deviation.
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- | CONTRACTURES of muscles and tendons. Hard, indurated tendons.
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- | Female - Menses cease at night, flow only during day.
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- | Leucorrhoea at night with great weakness.
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- | Uterine inertia during labour.
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- | Loss of sexual pleasure even if orgasm occurs in men or women.
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- | Epilepsy, runs in a circle, then falls down, at puberty. When attack occurs
during sleep, urine escapes involuntarily.
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- | In fever, sweat after chill without intervening heat.
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- | Sensation as if empty space between bone of skull and brain > by warmth.
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- | Skin - Dirty white, sallow, with warts especially on the face.
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- | Warts large, jagged, bleeding easily, on TIPS of fingers and nose, often
pedunculated, exuding moisture, small all over body.
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- | Old burns that do not get well. Cicatrices freshen up. |
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KEYNOTES
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- < Clear fine weather > damp wet weather.
- Rawness, soreness and burning are features of Causticum.
- Children slow in learning to walk.
- Constipation, stool passes only when standing.
- Great sympathy for the sufferings of others.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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- | Adapted to dark haired persons of rigid fibre with
yellow, sallow, complexion.
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- | Conditions have a slow progress, gradual insidious onset.
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- | Timid, nervous, anxious, full of fearful fancies, especially in the
evening.
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- | Paralytic weakness, paralysis of single parts.
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- | Contraction of tendons.
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- | < clear fine weather > damp wet weather. |
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- Never well since that bad effects of burns and
scalds.
- Rawness, soreness and burning.
- Paralysis of single parts.
- Urine involuntary when coughing, sneezing, blowing nose, etc.
- < Clear fine weather > damp wet weather.
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CLINICAL
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- | Routine remedy for retention of urine after
operation (Dr. Foubister).
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- | In nursing women, when overexertion or loss of sleep threatens their supply
of milk (Dr. E.A.Farrington).
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- | In menstrual colic, Causticum will cure after the failure of Colocynth (Dr.
Burnett).
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- | If I could have one remedy for the prostate, it would be Causticum (Dr. T.
K. Moore).
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- | This drug has the mental confusion associated with a cerebral incident in
the circle of Willis (Dr. Gordon Ross).
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- | Bell's Palsy. Carpal tunnel syndrome. Contractures. Eneuresis. Fibrositis.
Multiple Sclerosis. Neurodegenerative disorders. Parkinson's Disease.
Sciatica. Seizure Disorder. Tendinitis. Torticollis. Tremor. Urinary
incontinence. Warts. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Complementary: Merc-c, Petros
Inimical: Acids, Coff, Phos
Compare: Calc, Nit-ac, Phos
Antidoted By: Asaf, Coff, Coloc, Dulc, Guaj, Nit-s-d, Nux-v
It Antidotes: Asaf, Chin, Coloc, Euphr, Plb
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