Nausea, loathes the smell or sight of food. Cold,
weak, sensitive and restless.
Gout.
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COMMON NAME
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Meadow saffron
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A/F
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Grief, misbehaviour of others, checked perspiration,
night watching and hard study.
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MODALITIES
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< | External impressions, light, noise, strong odours, contact
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< | Any exertion, mental or physical
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> | Warmth, rest, doubling up, sitting. |
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MIND
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- | Very irritable with pains. Troubles seem
intolerable.
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- | Extreme impressions like bright light, strong odours, touch, misbehaviour of
others; make him besides himself. Sensitive to all external impressions.
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- | Mind generally distracted.
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- | Mind befogged but answers correctly.
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- | Cannot tolerate misdeeds of others. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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- | Extreme relaxation of muscular system. Head falls
forewords or backwards when lifted.
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- | Coldness, profuse cold sweat. Sensation of icy coldness in stomach with
prostration.
Tendency to collapse.
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- | Burning sensations. Parts are red, hot, swollen.
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- | All functions mental and bodily are slow - nutrition, digestion, yet patient
doesn't emaciate rapidly.
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- | Sensitive to external impression light noise, odours, contact, bad manners.
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- | Tearing pains < in the evening and at night, from touch, stubbing the toes.
Pains are superficial during warm weather; affect the deeper tissues when the
air is cold.
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- | Tingling in many parts as if frost bitten, when the weather changes.
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- | Adopted to rheumatic gouty diathesis. Persons of robust, vigorous
constitution; diseases of old people.
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- | Smell painfully acute - nausea and faintness from the odour of cooking food,
especially fish, eggs, or fat, meat (Ars, Sep). Nausea at thought of cooking
food. Craving for various things but averse to them when smelling them.
Craves aerated drinks.
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- | Autumnal Dysentery - painful scanty, transparent, jelly like mucus, scraping
of intestines (Canth; Carb-ac). Agonizing pain remain long after stools. Rice
water stools, hippocratic face, coldness, cramps, prostration.
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- | Urine dark scanty or suppressed black, inky. Nephritis with great oedema.
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- | Urine sediment may alternate with the rheumatic or heart complaints.
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- | Shifting rheumatism, pains go from left to right (Lach), inflammation of
great toe, heel. Cannot bear to be touched. Tingling in finger nails. Knees
strike together. Powerlessness with oedematous swelling. |
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KEYNOTES
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- Ailments from grief, misdeeds of others (Staph).
- Smell painfully acute, nausea with faintness from odour of cooking food,
or thought of cooking especially fish eggs, fat, meat (Ars, Sep).
- Meteorism. Trapped gas.
- Dreams of mice.
- Burning or icy coldness of stomach or abdomen.
- Pains are superficial during warm weather; affect the deeper tissues when
the air is cold.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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- | For the gouty rheumatic diathesis patient.
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- | Icy coldness of the parts.
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- | Prostration with powerlessness.
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- | Sensitive to external impressions and restlessness.
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- Nausea and fainting due to smell, sight, even
with the thought of food cooking > lying quietly.
- Gout with painful joints, from left to right < stabbing toe
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CLINICAL
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- | Arthritis, Gout, Gastroenteritis, Nausea of
pregnancy, Nephritis.
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- | It is specific for the type of rumbling distention, very annoying to the
patient and felt below the belt - Dr. J.S. Hepburn |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Followed Well By: Carb-v
Follows Well: Lyc
Compare: Acon, Arn, Bell, Bry, Cimic, Cocc, Merc, Nux-v, Op, Puls,
Rhus-t, Sep, Verat
Antidoted By: Bell, Camph, Cocc, Nux-v, Puls, Spig
It Antidotes: Thuj
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