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Weakness, depletion, exhaustion with respiratory
disorders, especially felt in the chest, worse slight exertion.
Copious, sweet or salty expectoration.
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A/F
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MODALITIES
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| < | USING THE VOICE (speaking, singing, laughing)
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MIND
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| - | SAD, despondent, hopelessness, FEELS LIKE CRYING
ALL THE TIME, but crying makes her worse (Nat-m, Puls, Sep).
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| - | Very sensitive to what others say about her.
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| - | Anxious, nervous, sad < before menses > flow.
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| - | Disinclination to talk. Cannot answer questions because of weakness.
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| - | Sweat, undemanding. Can go along well with people.
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| - | Get an aversion to people because of weakness.
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| - | No hope, feels so weak, they know they will die soon.
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| - | Difficult concentration because of mental weakness, thoughts go from one
subject to another. Begin one task and get off into another without finishing
any.
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GUIDING INDICATIONS
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| - | Skinny, pale and exhausted patients.
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| - | Extreme EXHAUSTION of mind and body. Weakness felt most DESCENDING.
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| - | Weakness, sinking, empty all gone sensation especially FELT IN CHEST,
throat, stomach, upper arms, thighs.
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| - | WEAKNESS, as if flowing through the veins.
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| - | While dressing in the morning, has to sit down several times to rest.
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| - | Dizziness and weakness when descending, faints especially when going down
stairs, can go up well enough.
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| - | So weak she DROPS into a chair, instead of sitting down. Limbs suddenly give
out when attempting to sit down.
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| - | Great WEAKNESS in chest < TALKING, laughing, reading. WEAK, unable to
talk.
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| - | Pains appear and disappear GRADUALLY, coming and going with the sun.
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| - | Pressive drawing pains, compressive and cramp-like spasmodic pains.
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| - | YELLOWNESS of secretions, tongue, sputum, leucorrhoea.
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| - | Attacks of epilepsy with clenching thumbs, in teething children.
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Headache - forehead, temples
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Pain - increases and decreases gradually <
motion, jar, as if constricted by a band, < between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.,
gradually increasing and decreasing with the Sun
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| - | Eye - Burning from weakness.
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| - | Respiratory system - CAN HARDLY TALK FROM WEAKNESS IN CHEST.
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| - | Much mucus, difficult to detach.
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| - | Cough deep, hollow, strangling, in paroxysms of three, dry in bed. Must hold
chest when coughing.
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| - | Dry cough at night, with sweet or salty expectoration in the daytime.
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| - | Cough < using voice, lying on right side, evening until midnight,
exertion.
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| - | EMPTY sensation in chest.
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| - | Expectoration - Profuse, putrid, like white of an egg, SWEETISH, salty,
sour, putrid, yellowish green, offensive.
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| - | Asthma. Bronchitis. Pneumonia. Tuberculosis.
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| - | Stitching pain in left side of chest, < stooping, inspiration, expectoration,
lying on left side.
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| - | G.I.T. - Cutting, pinching colic with hunger > hard pressure > lying
on crossed knee or shoulder.
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| - | Sensation of emptiness in stomach.
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| - | Prolapse of rectum during stool.
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| - | Nausea and vomiting in the morning, from the odour of cooking food (Ars.,
Colch.).
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| - | Prolapsus < during stool.
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| - | Diarrhoea which exhausts.
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| - | Sensation of emptiness in stomach.
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| - | Constipation - dry, hard, knotty, insufficient and green stools.
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| - | Monday constipation i.e. after day of rest.
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| - | Female genitalia - Sexual desire is increased.
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| - | SCRATCHING of distant parts (of arms) produce an intolerable sensation of
pleasure in genital organs producing ORGASM.
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| - | Menses - early and profuse, with sadness before menses.
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| - | Leucorrhoea - gushing, yellow white, with great weakness, alternating with
neuralgias.
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| - | Prolapse of uterus and vagina with weak, sinking feeling in stomach (Sep)
< stool.
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| - | Leucorrhea with weakness.
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| - | Extremities - WEAKNESS. Drops things. Legs give out.
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| - | Deltoid pains and weakness.
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| - | Jerks and spasms. Cramps.
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| - | Weakness and pain in deltoid and arm < using voice.
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| - | Skin - Discoloration: yellowish copper.
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| - | Exhausting night-sweats (Tub) < towards morning.
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| - | Sleep – Position - one leg drawn up, the other stretched out.
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| - | Exhausting night sweats, burning palms and soles. |
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KEYNOTES
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- SADNESS, feels like crying all time.
- Fainting < descending.
- Sensation of weakness especially in chest < talking.
- Expectoration - SWEETISH, mucopurulent. Cough - dry, deep, in paroxysms of
three.
- Pains increases and decreases gradually.
- Lies one leg stretched out, (extended) the other drawn up.
- Monday constipation, constipation occuring in days following rest-day.
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NUCLEUS OF REMEDY
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Debility, especially of chronic bronchial and
pulmonary conditions, characterised by profuse, mucopurulent discharge, upon
tuberculosis basis, with the chest being the centre of all affections.
Weakness especially in the chest.
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CONFIRMATORY SYMPTOMS
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- Sensation of weakness in chest < using voice
> coughing > expectorating.
- Expectoration - sweetish.
- Pain increases and decreases gradually.
- H/O Chronic chest affections especially tuberculosis.
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CLINICAL
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| - | Asthma, Bronchitis, Chronic fatigue syndrome,
Pneumocystis, Pneumonia, Recurring fever, Respiratory infection,
Tuberculosis, Uterine prolapse.
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| - | Do not forget Stannum in frontal sinusits where the pain gradually rises to
a peak and falls gradually - Dr. Woodbury. |
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REMEDY RELATIONSHIPS
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Complementary: Puls
Followed Well By: Bac, Calc, Phos, Sel, Sulph
Follows Well: Caust, Cina
Compare: Ars, Bals-p, Bell, Bor, Calc, Chel, Cocc, Colch, Coloc, Cycl,
Erio, Illec, Myos, Nat-m, Ph-ac, Phos, Pix, Plat, Plb, Podo, Puls, Seneg,
Sep, Sil, Staph, Stront-c, Sulph, Teucr-s, Valer, Verat
Antidoted By: Puls
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