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Suicidal. Discharges yellow green. Flatulence and
rumbling. Spluttering, noisy stools. Chilly.
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COMMON NAME
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Glauber's Salt
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SOURCE
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Sulphate of sodium.
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A/F
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| - | Ill effects of O.C. pills |
| - | Ill effects of diuretics, anti-diabetic, anti-hypertensives, cortisones. |
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MODALITIES
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| < | Damp weather [Arn, Ars-i, Dulc]
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| < | Every spring [Lach, Rhus-t, Psor]
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| < | Music [Acon, Dig, Graph, Kreos]
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| < | Lying long in one position
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| < | Warm, wet weather [Lach, Carb-v, Sil]
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MIND
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| - | Mental changes from injuries to the head.
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| - | Suicidal tendency but restrains himself because of his duties to his family.
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| - | Wants to commit suicide by shooting or hanging.
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| - | Closed, serious or overly responsible patients.
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| - | Sadness < music or mellow light, sitting near a stained glass window.
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| - | Mental exertion exaggerates.
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| - | Fear from noise at night.
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| - | Averse to being spoken to.
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| - | Objective; realistic, always adheres to matter of fact.
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| - | Dreams of fighting [All-c, Ferr, Nat-m, Ran, Staph]. |
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | Hydrogenoid constitution, feels every change from
dry to wet.
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| - | PERIODICITY of complaints - 4 to 5 a.m.
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| - | Piercing pains; at short ribs left, in left hip < rising < sitting
down.
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| - | Worse - Warm, wet weather
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| - | Discharges - thick, mucoid, frothy, initially white later on green or
greenish yellow.
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| - | Dirty brown or greenish yellow, thick, pasty tongue especially at base, tip
feels burnt.
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| - | PHOTOPHOBIA [Graph] on waking in morning, often during headache.
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| - | Toothache < warmth > cold water, cool air [Bism and Bry, Coff, Puls].
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| - | Thirst for something cold, desire for ICE or COLD WATER.
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| - | Desire for salty fish, beer, COLD DRINKS, ICE. Desire for or aversion to
yogurt.
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| - | Aversion to meat and bread which she was fond of.
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| - | Starchy food, milk and potatoes aggravate.
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| - | G.I.T. - Flatulence, incarcerated, painful wind colic, in ascending colon,
wakes her at 2 a.m. < before breakfast > eating.
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| - | Rumbling, gurgling in bowels more in right ileo-caecal region, then sudden,
noisy, spluttering stools, after rising in the morning (9 a.m.) or drives out
of bed.
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| - | Loose stools < after spell of wet weather.
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| - | Great size of faecal mass.
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| - | Diarrhoea from vegetables, farinaceous, fat food. Comes on regularly every
morning and returns quite regularly each day. Diarrhoea with flatus.
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| - | Pain in the liver region. Desire to lie on right side with legs curled up.
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| - | Colic > rubbing abdomen > lying on sides.
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| - | Female genitalia - Leucorrhoea yellowish green following gonorrhoea.
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| - | Respiratory system - Asthma in children, asthma after grief < early
morning (4-5 a.m.) < damp < exertion.
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| - | Dry cough < morning after rising < night, on lying down > sitting
up and holding chest with both hands [Bry].
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| - | Cough thick, ropy, greenish expectoration, chest feels all gone.
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| - | Sycotic pneumonia, pain through lower left chest.
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| - | Extremities - Arthritis of left hip < stooping < motion < rising
from a seat [Willard Pierce].
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| - | Skin - Warts on hands, head, trunk, about anus, plantar warts. |
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KEYNOTES
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- < Dampness of weather, damp houses, cellars,
wet weather.
- Lively music makes her sad.
- Mental traumatism: mental effects from injuries to head.
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- < Damp weather.
- Greenish yellow discharge and thick discharges.
- Dirty, greenish - gray or brown coating on tongue.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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| - | Corresponding to the hydrogenoid
constitution |
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damp weather, sea air, damp cellars, fruits that thrive near water, Schuessler's
remedy for elimination of water from the body.
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| - | Sycotic dyscrasia - asthma, acute or chronic diarrhoea, spinal meningitis,
etc.
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| - | Effects of chronic gonorrhoea. |
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CLINICAL
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| - | Asthma, Colitis, Colorectal polyps or malignancies,
Depression, Diabetes, Head injury, Hepatitis.
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| - | Acute appendicitis with extreme pain in caecal region; apparently it is a
retrocaecal appendix - Dr. D. M. Borland.
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| - | Leukemia - Dr. Bellokossy.
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| - | Intense occipital pains due to emotional states - Dr. J. W. Waffensmith.
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| - | Acute hip joint disease, particularly right hip - Dr. D. M. Borland. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Complementary: Ars, Bell, Ferr-p, Nat-m, Thuj
Compare: Aran, Bry, Carl, Caust, Cham, Coff, Graph, Hep, Lach, Lyc,
Maland, Merc, Nat-c, Nat-m, Nicc, Nit-ac, Nux-v, Puls, Rhus-t, Sabin, Sil,
Sulph, Thuj, Vac, Valer, Vario
Similar: Bry, Coff, Graph, Lyc, Merc, Nat-m, Puls, Rhus, Sil, Sulph,
Thuj
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